Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by C. Gibbs

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Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A voice in the dusk, op. 91

no. 1. Spring (Text: John Irvine) [x]
no. 2. In the faery hills (Text: John Irvine) [x]
no. 3. The wind comes softly (Text: John Irvine) [x]
no. 4. Moon magic (Text: John Irvine)

Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie

no. 1. The barber's (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. Miss T. (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 3. Old Shellover (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 4. Hide and seek (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 5. Then (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Five Songs

no. 1. The stranger (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. The linnet (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 3. The mountains (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 4. Love in the almond bough (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
no. 5. The Bells (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play", op. 20

no. 1. Ann's Cradle Song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. Araby (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 3. Beggar's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 4. Candlestickmaker's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Gray and gold

no. 1. The miracle (Text: Helen Taylor)
no. 2. The wind in your hair (Text: Helen Taylor)
no. 3. Requiescat (Text: Helen Taylor)
no. 4. I shall remember (Text: Helen Taylor)
no. 5. April's hour (Text: Helen Taylor)

Henry Brocken Song Cycle, op. 88

no. 1. Lorelei's Song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. Jane Eyre's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 3. The doctor's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)

In a Dream's Beguiling

Melmillo (Text: Walter De la Mare)
King David (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER SPA
The horn (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Changeling (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Off the ground (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The night song (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Joan of Arc, op. 102

no. 1. Revelation (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
no. 2. Victory (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]
no. 3. Crowning (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
no. 4. Defeat (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
no. 5. Mors Janua Vitae (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*

Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers

no. 1. I saw a little bird [x]
no. 2. Who's above [x]
no. 3. The fox [x]
no. 4. I love little pussy [x]
no. 5. I love sixpence [x]
no. 6. Lullaby [x]

Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs

no. 1. When Arthur first in Court began (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. Pious Celinda goes to prayers (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
no. 3. If music be the food of love (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
no. 4. 'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires (Text: Roger Boyle) [x]

Pastoral Suite

Clock-a-clay (Text: John Clare)

Peacock Pie

The huntsmen (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Songs of Childhood

The sleeping beauty (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Down-adown-derry (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Reverie (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Captain Lean (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Songs of the Mad Sea Captain, op. 111

no. 1. Hidden Treasure (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
no. 2. Abel Wright (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
no. 3. Toll the Bell (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
no. 4. The Golden Ray (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *

Songs with Piano

no. 1. As I lay in the early sun (Text: Edward Shanks)
no. 2. The fields are full (Text: Edward Shanks)
no. 3. For remembrance (Text: Edward Shanks)

"There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)

There was an old man of the Isles (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
Homage (Text: Edward Lear)
There was an Old Man with a gong (Text: Edward Lear)

Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, op. 131

no. 1. The Lamb and the Dove (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 2. A birthday (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 3. Gone were but the winter (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Two Old English Lyrics, op. 116

no. 1. Chloris in the snow (Text: William Strode)
no. 2. Amaryllis (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT FRI

Two Pastorals

no. 1. In the spring the runnels flow (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
no. 2. Upon the grass (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]

Two Songs

no. 1. Down in yonder meadow (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Lily bright and shine-a (Text: Volkslieder )

Two Songs

no. 1. The summer palace (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
no. 2. Summertime (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*

Willow leaves, op. 126

no. 1. To Yuan (Text: John Irvine) [x]
no. 2. The dancing girl (Text: John Irvine) [x]
no. 3. Meeting with friends (Text: John Irvine) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A--Apple Pie (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
A ballad maker (Text: Padraic Colum)
Abel Wright, op. 111 no. 2 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
A birthday, op. 131 no. 2 (in Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
A greeting (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Amaryllis, op. 116 no. 2 (in Two Old English Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT FRI
Andy Battle (Text: Walter De la Mare)
An English carol of the XIVth century (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
Ann's Cradle Song, op. 20 no. 1 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
April's hour (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
Araby, op. 20 no. 2 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Arrogant Poppies, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 2 (Text: Clifford Bax)
As I lay in the early sun (in Songs with Piano) (Text: Edward Shanks)
As Lucy went a-walking (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A song of shadows, op. 15 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A song of soldiers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A-Tishoo (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Before daybreak, op. 100 (Text: Gordon Bottomley) [x]
Before sleeping [x]
Beggar's song, op. 20 no. 3 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Bluebells, op. 17 (Two Songs, from "Songs of Childhood") no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Bunches of grapes, op. 17 (Two Songs, from "Songs of Childhood") no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
By a Bier-Side (Text: John Masefield)
Candlestickmaker's song, op. 20 no. 4 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Captain Lean (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Chloris in the snow, op. 116 no. 1 (in Two Old English Lyrics) (Text: William Strode)
Clock-a-clay (in Pastoral Suite) (Text: John Clare)
Covent Garden (Text: Eileen Carfrae)
Cradle song (Text: William Blake) GER
Crowning, op. 102 no. 3 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Dame Hickory (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Danger (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) *
Defeat, op. 102 no. 4 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Devotion (Text: Anonymous)
Down-adown-derry (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Down in yonder meadow (in Two Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Dream-Pedlary (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Dream-song (Text: Walter De la Mare) CHI
Dusk (Text: Anonymous)
Eeka, Neeka (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Evening in summer (Text: John Fletcher)
Every little child (Text: W. H. Draper) [x]*
February (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Five Eyes (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Five eyes, op. 15 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Fol dol do (Text: Walter De la Mare)
For Music (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
For remembrance (in Songs with Piano) (Text: Edward Shanks)
Fulfilment, op. 83 no. 3 (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Gipsies (Text: Henry Howarth Bashford, Sir) [x]
Gone is my love (Text: Edith Harrhy) [x]*
Gone were but the winter, op. 131 no. 3 (in Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Grace (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Grade A (Text: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs) [x]
Hidden Treasure, op. 111 no. 1 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
Hide and seek (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Homage (in "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)) (Text: Edward Lear)
How can the heart forget her?
Hypochondriacus (Text: Charles Lamb)
If music be the food of love (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
I love little pussy (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
I love sixpence (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
Immortality (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Impromptu (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
In the faery hills, op. 91 no. 2 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
In the highlands, op. 9 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
In the spring the runnels flow (in Two Pastorals) (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
In the woods in June (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
In youth is pleasure, op. 44 (Two Elizabethan Songs) no. 2 (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
I saw a little bird (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
I shall remember (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
Jane Eyre's song, op. 88 no. 2 (in Henry Brocken Song Cycle) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Jenny Jones (Text: Doris Rowley)
John Mouldy, op. 30 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Juliet Anne (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
King David (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER SPA
La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
Lament for Robin Hood (Text: Anthony Munday)
Lily bright and shine-a (in Two Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Lorelei's Song, op. 88 no. 1 (in Henry Brocken Song Cycle) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Love in the almond bough, op. 19 (Two Songs) no. 1 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Love is a sickness, op. 44 (Two Elizabethan Songs) no. 1 (Text: Samuel Daniel; Thomas Maske) GER
Love's prisoner (Text: William Blake)
Love's wisdom (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Lullaby (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
Lullaby (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Lullaby, op. 3 (Text: William Blake) GER
Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Maritime invocation (Text: A. C. Boyd) [x]*
Meeting with friends, op. 126 no. 3 (in Willow leaves) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
Melmillo (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Midnight (Text: Jeffery Lang)
Miss T. (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Mistletoe (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER
Moon magic, op. 91 no. 4 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine)
Mors Janua Vitae, op. 102 no. 5 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Mother Carey (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Mummer's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Neglected Moon!, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 1 (Text: Clifford Bax)
Nightfall (Text: Harry Dawson)
Night, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN
Nod, op. 12 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
Off the ground (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Oh, nightingale upon my tree (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Old Shellover (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
On Duncton Hill (Text: Gwen Grant) [x]*
Padraic the Fidiler (Text: Padraic Gregory)
Philomela, op. 13 (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
Philomel (Text: Richard Barnfield) FRE
Pious Celinda goes to prayers (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
Prayer before sleep (Text: L. E. Eeman) [x]*
Proud Maisie (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
Quiet conscience
Requiescat (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
Resting (Text: Gwen Grant) [x]*
Rest in the Lord (Text: Edmund Beale Sargant) [x]
Revelation, op. 102 no. 1 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Reverie (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Sailing homeward (Text: Arthur Waley after Chan Fang-Sheng)
She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
Silver, op. 30 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
Sledburn Fair (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Slow, horses, slow (Text: Thomas Westwood)
Spring, op. 91 no. 1 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
Summer Night (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock)
Summertime (in Two Songs) (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
Sussex ways (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Sweet sounds, begone, op. 14 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Take heed, young heart (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Ballad of Semmerwater (Text: William Watson, Sir)
The barber's (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The bees' song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Bells, op. 14 (Two Songs) no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The birch tree (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock , as Georgina Mase) CHI
The chains of love, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 3 (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
The Changeling (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The cherry tree (Text: Margaret Rose Girdler , as Margaret Rose) [x]
The dancing girl, op. 126 no. 2 (in Willow leaves) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
The doctor's song, op. 88 no. 3 (in Henry Brocken Song Cycle) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The exile (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The fields are full (in Songs with Piano) (Text: Edward Shanks)
The flooded stream (Text: Margaret Cropper) *
The fox (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
The galliass (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Golden Ray, op. 111 no. 4 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
The goose (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
The hawthorn tree (Text: Hilda Maude) [x]*
The highwayman (Text: Alfred Noyes)
The horn (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The huntsmen (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Jumblies (Text: Edward Lear)
The king's men (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Lady of Shalott [multi-text setting] (Text: Tennyson) FRE
The Lamb and the Dove, op. 131 no. 1 (in Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The light of other days (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER GER
The linnet, op. 21 (Two Songs) no. 1 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Listeners (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The little green orchard, op. 15 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The little salamander (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The mad prince (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The market (Text: James Stephens)
The miracle (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
The mountains, op. 19 (Two Songs) no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The nightingale, op. 13 (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
The night song (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Then (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The old house (Text: Gray Hayward Kirkus) [x]*
The old soldier (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The orchard sings to the child (Text: Margaret Cropper) *
The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The poet's song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
The rainy day, op. 4 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) FRE GER GER SPA
There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
The rejected lover, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 4 (Text: Clifford Bax)
There was an old man of the Isles (in "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)) (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
There was an Old Man with a gong (in "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)) (Text: Edward Lear)
The ride-by-nights (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The scarecrow, op. 12 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The ship of Rio (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
The silver penny (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The sleeping beauty (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The sleeping beauty (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The splendour falls (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
The stranger, op. 21 (Two Songs) no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The summer palace (in Two Songs) (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
The sunken garden (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Tiger-Lily (Text: Dorothy Pleydell-Bouverie)
The Wanderer (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The wind comes softly, op. 91 no. 3 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
The wind in your hair (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
The witch (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Three men of Gotham (Text: Thomas Love Peacock)
Tiger, tiger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: Roger Boyle) [x]
Titania (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) *
To Anise (Text: Nathaniel Downes) [x]
Toll the Bell, op. 111 no. 3 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
Tom o' Bedlam (Text: Anonymous)
To one who passed whistling through the night (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock)
To Yuan, op. 126 no. 1 (in Willow leaves) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
Upon the grass (in Two Pastorals) (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
Victory, op. 102 no. 2 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]
When Arthur first in Court began (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
When the lamp is shattered, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
Where (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
White (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Who's above (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
Why do I love? (Text: Ephelia)
Why? (Text: Walter De la Mare)

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