Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Gardner

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John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A Burns Sequence, op. 213

no. 1. Prayer under the pressure of violent anguish (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
no. 2. Raging fortune (Text: Robert Burns) CZE GER RUS
no. 3. My luve is like a red, red rose (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
no. 4. Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
no. 5. O whistle an'I'll come to you (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 6. Ca' the yowes to the knowes (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
no. 7. Macpherson's farewell (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE RUS
no. 8. Paraphrase of the First Psalm (Text: Robert Burns after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE FRE FRE GER GER

A Shakespeare Sequence, op. 66

no. 1. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
no. 3. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
no. 4. If music be the food of love, play on (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
no. 5. Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
no. 6. Full fathom five (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER IRI ITA ITA NOR SPA SWE
no. 7. Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
no. 8. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER

A Suite of 5 Songs from Palgrave's Golden Treasury

Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE

Five Encounters for Six Voices, op. 118

no. 1. There was a maid a-milking (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. As I sit by my spinning wheel (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. The thankful country lass (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. The new balow (Text: Anonymous)
no. 5. There was a knight and he was young (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Five Part Songs to Poems by Wallace Stevens, op. 142

no. 1. Depression before Spring (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 2. Peter Quince at the Clavier (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 3. Ploughing on Sunday (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 4. Life is motion (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 5. Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges (Text: Wallace Stevens)

Five Philanders, op. 125

no. 1. Rejection (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. Parting (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. Falsehood (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. Contentment (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 5. Fulfilment (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Four Hymn Tunes for Male Voices, op. 101

no. 1. As pants the hart (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
no. 2. Who would true valour see (Text: John Bunyan)
no. 3. The call (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. God of the morning (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Four Partsongs to Lyrics by Robert Burns, op. 246

no. 1. Farewell to Eliza (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE FRE GER HEB ITA
no. 2. Delia (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 3. On Chloris being ill (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 4. To Miss Isabella MacLeod (Text: Robert Burns)

Four Sailor Songs, op. 108

no. 1. In Plymouth town (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 2. As I walked down on Broadway (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. Shenandoah (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. What shall we do with the drunken sailor? (Text: Volkslieder )

Four Songs to poems by Thomas Hardy, op. 235

no. 1. The selfsame song (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. The singing woman (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. First or last (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. A bygone occasion (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Four Wanton Ballads, op. 81

no. 1. Pleasant New Court Song (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. Godly Girzie (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. The Sandgate lass's lamentation (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. The old man and young wife (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Hebdomade, op. 150

no. 1. Sweet Suffolk Owl (Text: Thomas Vautor)
no. 2. Fain would I change that note (Text: Anonymous)
no. 3. Weep you no more, sad fountains (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
no. 4. A Sparrow-Hawk proud did hold in wicked jail (Text: Anonymous)
no. 5. Mother, I will have a husband (Text: Anonymous)
no. 6. Interlude (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 7. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER

Herrick Cantata, op. 49 [cantata]

no. 1. To music, a song (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. To daisies, not to shut too soon (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. A dialogue betwixt himself and Mistress Eliza Wheeler (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. Cherry ripe (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 5. Love: what it is (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 6. To love (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
no. 7. Corinna's gone a-Maying (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 8. To Music, to becalm his fever (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 9. On himself (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
no. 10. To Anthea, who may command him anything (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE

Nine poems from the note-book (1793) of William Blake

no. 1. Day (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 2. I laid me down upon a bank (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. A cradle song (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 4. The wild flower's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. I saw a chapel all of gold (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. I asked a thief (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. To Nobodaddy (Text: William Blake)
no. 8. The fairy (Text: William Blake) CHI CHI
no. 9. Infant sorrow (Text: William Blake)

Octad, op. 177

no. 1. Prelude (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. Paradigma amoris (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. The lover (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. Spring song (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 5. In the garden (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 6. Drinking song (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 7. Nocturne (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 8. Wedding song (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Partsongs to poems by Robert Herrick, op. 196

no. 1. To violets (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
no. 2. On himself (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
no. 3. Another on love (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. A hymn to love (Text: Robert Herrick)

Proverbs of Hell, op. 85

no. 1. In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. I heard an Angel singing (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Epilogue to the Accuser who is God of this World (Text: William Blake)

Recollections of Love, op. 242

no. 1. How warm this woodland wild Recess (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. 2. Eight springs have flown (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. 3. No voice as yet had made the air (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. 4. As when a mother doth explore (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. 5. You stood before me like a thought (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. 6. Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. 7. A slumber did my spirit seal (Text: William Wordsworth)

Seven Poems of Stevie Smith, op. 126

no. 1. Après la politique (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
no. 2. The bereaved swan (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
no. 3. My cats (Text: Stevie Smith)
no. 4. The jungle husband (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
no. 5. The cock and the hen (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
no. 6. Pad, pad (Text: Stevie Smith)
no. 7. Private means is dead (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]

Seven Songs, op. 36

no. 1. Hark, hark! the lark (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA
no. 2. Crabbed age and youth (Text: Anonymous) FRE
no. 3. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
no. 4. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
no. 5. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
no. 6. It is not growing like a tree (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
no. 7. How happy is he born and taught (Text: Henry Wotton, Sir)

Six by Four, op. 181

no. 1. Lawn as white as driven snow (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
no. 3. Over hill, over dale (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
no. 4. Come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
no. 5. When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
no. 6. When that I was a little boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE

Tennyson Trip, op. 122

Claribel, a Melody (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
Crossing the Bar (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI

The Ballad of the White Horse, op. 40

no. 1. The white horse (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
no. 2. The northmen (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
no. 3. The vision of the king (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
no. 4. The gathering of the chiefs (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
no. 5. The harp of Alfred (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
no. 6. The Battle of Ethandune (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
no. 7. The baptism of Guthrum (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
no. 8. The scouring of the horse (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]

The Turning Year, op. 19

no. 1. Spring (Text: Christopher Scaife) [x]*
no. 2. Summer (Text: Christopher Scaife) [x]*
no. 3. Autumn (Text: Christopher Scaife) [x]*
no. 4. Winter (Text: Christopher Scaife) [x]*

Three Amorous Airs, op. 104

no. 1. Waly waly (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. The German flute (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. The Ballad of Nancy Dee (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Three Poems from "A Shropshire Lad", op. 226

no. 1. Into my heart an air that kills (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) ITA
no. 2. Think no more, lad (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
no. 3. With rue my heart is laden (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

Three songs for women's chorus and piano, op. 1

no. 1. Why so pale and wan, fond lover? (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
no. 2. Phyllis and Corydon (Text: Nicholas Breton)
no. 3. The baffled knight (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]

Throwaway Lines, op. 214

no. 1. Hymn to Proust (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. Extravagance (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. British Guiana (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. Short time (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 5. The middle years (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 6. After Heine (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 7. Climacteric (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Triad, op. 165

no. 1. An odd conceit (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. In love's dispraise (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. A proper song (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Waltzsongs, op. 224

no. 1. Love in thy youth, fair maid
no. 2. A birthday (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. Upon Julia's clothes (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. A song (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 5. Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
no. 6. Living (Text: Anonymous) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
The wild flower's song (Text: William Blake)

op. 1. Three songs for women's chorus and piano
op. 4. And when the day of pentecost (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 5. O sing unto my roundelay (Text: Thomas Chatterton)
op. 6. And did those feet (Text: William Blake) GER SPA
op. 9. Fair daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
op. 10. The Argument of his book (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 15. O clap your hands (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 19. The Turning Year
op. 24. Hail the day that sees him rise (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 26. Love came to me one sweet Spring day (Text: Lucy Etheldred Broadwood)
op. 27. A fair maid walking all in her garden (Text: Volkslieder )
op. 31. Salutation for Georg Goetsch (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 33. Tell me where is fancy bred (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
op. 35. Spring, the sweet Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
op. 36. Seven Songs
op. 40. The Ballad of the White Horse
op. 49. Herrick Cantata
op. 66. A Shakespeare Sequence
op. 69. Fifteen million plastic bags (Text: Adrian Mitchell) *
op. 81. Four Wanton Ballads
op. 85. Proverbs of Hell
op. 101. Four Hymn Tunes for Male Voices
op. 104. Three Amorous Airs
op. 108. Four Sailor Songs
op. 118. Five Encounters for Six Voices
op. 121. Entertainment of the Senses (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 122. Tennyson Trip
op. 125. Five Philanders
op. 126. Seven Poems of Stevie Smith
op. 138.
op. 142. Five Part Songs to Poems by Wallace Stevens
op. 150. Hebdomade
op. 165. Triad
op. 177. Octad
op. 181. Six by Four
op. 196. Partsongs to poems by Robert Herrick
op. 200. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
op. 213. A Burns Sequence
op. 214. Throwaway Lines
op. 224. Waltzsongs
op. 226. Three Poems from "A Shropshire Lad"
op. 235. Four Songs to poems by Thomas Hardy
op. 242. Recollections of Love
op. 246. Four Partsongs to Lyrics by Robert Burns

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