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 Opus order

A--Apple Pie (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
A ballad maker (Text: Padraic Colum)
A greeting (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Andy Battle (Text: Walter De la Mare)
An English carol of the XIVth century (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
April's hour (Text: Helen Taylor)
As I lay in the early sun (Text: Edward Shanks)
As Lucy went a-walking (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A song of soldiers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A-Tishoo (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Before sleeping [x]
By a Bier-Side (Text: John Masefield)
Captain Lean (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Clock-a-clay (Text: John Clare)
Covent Garden (Text: Eileen Carfrae)
Cradle song (Text: William Blake) GER
Dame Hickory (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Danger (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) *
Devotion (Text: Anonymous)
Down-adown-derry (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Down in yonder meadow (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)
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 (Text: Edward Shanks)
Gipsies (Text: Henry Howarth Bashford, Sir) [x]
Gone is my love (Text: Edith Harrhy) [x]*
Grace (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Grade A (Text: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs) [x]
Hide and seek (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Homage (Text: Edward Lear)
How can the heart forget her?
Hypochondriacus (Text: Charles Lamb)
If music be the food of love (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
I love little pussy [x]
I love sixpence [x]
Immortality (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Impromptu (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
In the spring the runnels flow (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
In the woods in June (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
I saw a little bird [x]
I shall remember (Text: Helen Taylor)
Jenny Jones (Text: Doris Rowley)
Juliet Anne (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
King David (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 (Text: Volkslieder )
Love's prisoner (Text: William Blake)
Love's wisdom (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Lullaby [x]
Lullaby (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Maritime invocation (Text: A. C. Boyd) [x]*
Melmillo (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Midnight (Text: Jeffery Lang)
Miss T. (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Mistletoe (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER
Mother Carey (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Mummer's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Nightfall (Text: Harry Dawson)
Off the ground (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Oh, nightingale upon my tree (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Old Shellover (Text: Walter De la Mare)
On Duncton Hill (Text: Gwen Grant) [x]*
Padraic the Fidiler (Text: Padraic Gregory)
Philomel (Text: Richard Barnfield) FRE
Pious Celinda goes to prayers (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
Prayer before sleep (Text: L. E. Eeman) [x]*
Proud Maisie (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
Quiet conscience
Requiescat (Text: Helen Taylor)
Resting (Text: Gwen Grant) [x]*
Rest in the Lord (Text: Edmund Beale Sargant) [x]
Reverie (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Sailing homeward (Text: Arthur Waley after Chan Fang-Sheng)
She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
Sledburn Fair (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Slow, horses, slow (Text: Thomas Westwood)
Summer Night (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock)
Summertime (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
Sussex ways (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
Take heed, young heart (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Ballad of Semmerwater (Text: William Watson, Sir)
The barber's (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The bees' song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The birch tree (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock , as Georgina Mase) CHI
The Changeling (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The cherry tree (Text: Margaret Rose Girdler , as Margaret Rose) [x]
The exile (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The fields are full (Text: Edward Shanks)
The flooded stream (Text: Margaret Cropper) *
The fox [x]
The galliass (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The goose (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
The hawthorn tree (Text: Hilda Maude) [x]*
The highwayman (Text: Alfred Noyes)
The horn (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The huntsmen (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 light of other days (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER GER
The Listeners (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 (Text: Helen Taylor)
The night song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Then (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)
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
There was an old man of the Isles (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
There was an Old Man with a gong (Text: Edward Lear)
The ride-by-nights (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 (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 summer palace (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 in your hair (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 (Text: Roger Boyle) [x]
Titania (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) *
To Anise (Text: Nathaniel Downes) [x]
Tom o' Bedlam (Text: Anonymous)
To one who passed whistling through the night (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock)
Upon the grass (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
When Arthur first in Court began (Text: Anonymous) [x]
When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
Where (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
White (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
Who's above [x]
Why do I love? (Text: Ephelia)
Why? (Text: Walter De la Mare)

op. 2. Two Songs
op. 3. Lullaby (Text: William Blake) GER
op. 4. The rainy day (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) FRE GER GER SPA
op. 9. In the highlands (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
op. 12. Two Songs
op. 13. The nightingale (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
op. 14. Two Songs
op. 15. Three Songs
op. 17. Two Songs, from "Songs of Childhood"
op. 19. Two Songs
op. 20. Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play"
op. 21. Two Songs
op. 30. Two Songs
op. 44. Two Elizabethan Songs
op. 51. Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness"
op. 83.
op. 88. Henry Brocken Song Cycle
op. 91. A voice in the dusk
op. 100. Before daybreak (Text: Gordon Bottomley) [x]
op. 102. Joan of Arc
op. 111. Songs of the Mad Sea Captain
op. 116. Two Old English Lyrics
op. 126. Willow leaves
op. 131. Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti

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