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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Head

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Michael (Dewar) Head (1900 - 1976)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Five Songs
    • no. 1. Green rain (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
    • no. 2. The King of China's daughter (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • no. 3. Fallen veils (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
    • no. 4. The singer (Text: Bronnie Taylor)
    • no. 5. The blunder (Text: Joyce Maxtone Graham , as Jan Struther) [x]*
  • More Songs of the Countryside
    • no. 1. Foxgloves (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
    • no. 2. The garden seat (Text: Thomas Hardy)
    • no. 3. Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
    • no. 4. Why have you stolen my delight? (Text: Francis Brett Young) *
  • Nine Cornish Songs
    • no. 1. Mystic melody (Text: John Harris) [x]
    • no. 2. My young man's a Cornishman (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
    • no. 3. Mary, Mary Magdalene (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
    • no. 4. As I went home zig-zag (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
    • no. 5. Gyllyngdune (Text: John Harris)
    • no. 6. The burial (Text: John Harris)
    • no. 7. The lark (Text: John Harris) [x]
    • no. 8. Kynance (Text: Peter Harris) [x]
    • no. 9. Porthleven (Text: James Dryden Hosken ) [x]
  • Over the rim of the moon
    • no. 1. The ships of Arcady (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
    • no. 2. Beloved (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
    • no. 3. A blackbird singing (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
    • no. 4. Nocturne (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
  • Six Poems of Ruth Pitter
    • no. 1. The woodpath in spring (Text: Ruth Pitter) [x]*
    • no. 2. The viper (Text: Ruth Pitter) *
    • no. 3. Holiday in Heaven (Text: Ruth Pitter) *
    • no. 4. The comet (Text: Ruth Pitter) [x]*
    • no. 5. Constancy (Text: Ruth Pitter) [x]*
    • no. 6. The estuary (Text: Ruth Pitter) *
  • Six Sea Songs
    • no. 1. A sea burthen (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
    • no. 2. Limehouse Reach (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
    • no. 3. Back to Hilo (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
    • no. 4. A dog's life (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
    • no. 5. Lavender Pond (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
    • no. 6. Sweethearts and Wives (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
  • Songs of Reminiscence
    • no. 1. A Christmas childhood (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) *
    • no. 2. Memory of my father (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
    • no. 3. If ever you go to Dublin town (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
    • no. 4. My room (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
    • no. 5. The Rowley mile (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
    • no. 6. Plough horses (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
    • no. 7. September morning (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
  • Songs of the Countryside
    • no. 1. When I came forth this morn I saw (Text: William Henry Davies)
    • no. 2. The temper of a maid (Text: William Henry Davies)
    • no. 3. Nature's friend (Text: William Henry Davies)
    • no. 4. Robin Redbreast (Text: William Henry Davies)
    • no. 5. Sweet Chance, that led my steps abroad (Text: William Henry Davies)
    • no. 6. Money, O! (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • Three Cotswold Songs
    • no. 1. Cotswold love (Text: John Drinkwater)
    • no. 2. Mamble (Text: John Drinkwater)
    • no. 3. A vagabond song (Text: John Drinkwater)
  • Three Songs of Fantasy
    • no. 1. The fairies' dance (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
    • no. 2. The little dreams (Text: Eileen M. Reynolds)
    • no. 3. A funny fellow (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
  • Three Songs of Venice
    • no. 1. The gondolier (Text: Nancy Bush) *
    • no. 2. St. Mark's Square (Text: Nancy Bush) *
    • no. 3. Rain storm (Text: Nancy Bush) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A blackbird singing (in Over the rim of the moon) (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
  • A Christmas childhood (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) *
  • A dog's life (in Six Sea Songs) (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
  • A funny fellow (in Three Songs of Fantasy) (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
  • A green cornfield (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  • A love rhapsodie (Text: Martin MacDermott) [x]
  • A piper (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
  • A sea burthen (in Six Sea Songs) (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
  • As I went home zig-zag (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
  • A slumber song of the Madonna (Text: Alfred Noyes)
  • A summer idyll (Text: Richard Le Gallienne)
  • Autumn's breath (Text: Richard Watson Dixon)
  • A vagabond song (in Three Cotswold Songs) (Text: John Drinkwater)
  • Back to Hilo (in Six Sea Songs) (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
  • Beloved (in Over the rim of the moon) (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
  • Bird-song (Text: Marjorie Rayment) *
  • Child on the shore (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
  • Claribel (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
  • Come take your lute (Text: Helen Taylor)
  • Come take your lute (Text: Helen Taylor) [x]
  • Constancy (in Six Poems of Ruth Pitter) (Text: Ruth Pitter) [x]*
  • Cotswold love (in Three Cotswold Songs) (Text: John Drinkwater)
  • Dear delight (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • Elizabeth's Song (Text: Lascelles Abercrombie)
  • Fallen veils (in Five Songs) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
  • Foxgloves (in More Songs of the Countryside) (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
  • Gaiete and Orior (Text: Alastair Miller after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]*
  • Give a man a horse he can ride (Text: James Thomson)
  • Green rain (in Five Songs) (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
  • Gyllyngdune (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: John Harris)
  • Had I a golden pound (Text: Francis Ledwidge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
  • Hail! bounteous May (Text: John Milton)
  • Holiday in Heaven (in Six Poems of Ruth Pitter) (Text: Ruth Pitter) *
  • How sweet the moonlight sleeps (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
  • I arise from dreams of thee (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE FRE GER GER ITA
  • If ever you go to Dublin town (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
  • Kynance (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: Peter Harris) [x]
  • Lavender Pond (in Six Sea Songs) (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
  • Lean out of the window (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI POL
  • Limehouse Reach (in Six Sea Songs) (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
  • Lone dog (Text: Irene Rutherford McLeod)
  • Love not me for comely grace (Text: Anonymous)
  • Love's lament (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  • Ludlow Town (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Mamble (in Three Cotswold Songs) (Text: John Drinkwater)
  • Mary, Mary Magdalene (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
  • Memory of my father (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
  • Money, O! (in Songs of the Countryside) (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • My room (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
  • Mystic melody (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: John Harris) [x]
  • My sword for the King (Text: Helen Taylor)
  • My young man's a Cornishman (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
  • Nature's friend (in Songs of the Countryside) (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • Nocturne (in Over the rim of the moon) (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
  • October valley (Text: Nancy Bush) *
  • Oh, for a March wind (Text: Winifred Williams) *
  • Oh to be in England (Text: Robert Browning)
  • O let no star compare with thee (Text: Henry Vaughan)
  • On a lady singing (Text: Edward Quillinan) [x]
  • On the wings of the wind (Text: Alastair Miller)
  • Plough horses (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
  • Porthleven (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: James Dryden Hosken ) [x]
  • Rain storm (in Three Songs of Venice) (Text: Nancy Bush) *
  • Robin Redbreast (in Songs of the Countryside) (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • September morning (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
  • Small Christmas tree (Text: Mona Gould) *
  • Star candles (Text: Margaret Rose Girdler , as Margaret Rose)
  • St. Mark's Square (in Three Songs of Venice) (Text: Nancy Bush) *
  • Sweet almond blossom (Text: Samuel Waddington)
  • Sweet Chance, that led my steps abroad (in Songs of the Countryside) (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • Sweet day! so cool (Text: George Herbert) FRE GER
  • Sweethearts and Wives (in Six Sea Songs) (Text: Cicely Fox Smith)
  • Tewkesbury Road (Text: John Masefield)
  • The blunder (in Five Songs) (Text: Joyce Maxtone Graham , as Jan Struther) [x]*
  • The burial (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: John Harris)
  • The carol of the field mice (Text: Kenneth Grahame)
  • The comet (in Six Poems of Ruth Pitter) (Text: Ruth Pitter) [x]*
  • The dove (Text: John Keats)
  • The dreaming lake (Text: Elizabeth Evelyn Moore)
  • The estuary (in Six Poems of Ruth Pitter) (Text: Ruth Pitter) *
  • The fairies' dance (in Three Songs of Fantasy) (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
  • The fairy tailor (Text: Rose Amy Fyleman) [x]
  • The garden seat (in More Songs of the Countryside) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • The gondolier (in Three Songs of Venice) (Text: Nancy Bush) *
  • The happy wanderer (Text: Helen Taylor) [x]
  • The homecoming of the sheep (Text: Francis Ledwidge) FRE
  • The King of China's daughter (in Five Songs) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • The lark (in Nine Cornish Songs) (Text: John Harris) [x]
  • The little dreams (in Three Songs of Fantasy) (Text: Eileen M. Reynolds)
  • The little road to Bethlehem (Text: Margaret Rose Girdler , as Margaret Rose)
  • The matron-cat's song (Text: Ruth Pitter) *
  • The plague of love (Text: William Whitehead)
  • The primrose gown (Text: Edward Frederick Lockton , as Edward Teschemacher) [x]
  • There's many will love a maid (Text: Penuel Grant Ross)
  • The robin's carol (Text: Winifred Emma May , as Patience Strong) *
  • The Rowley mile (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Patrick Kavanagh) [x]*
  • The sea gipsy (Text: Richard Hovey)
  • The ships of Arcady (in Over the rim of the moon) (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
  • The singer (in Five Songs) (Text: Bronnie Taylor)
  • The temper of a maid (in Songs of the Countryside) (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • The three mummers (Text: Helen Taylor) [x]
  • The twins (Text: Henry Sambrooke Leigh)
  • The viper (in Six Poems of Ruth Pitter) (Text: Ruth Pitter) *
  • The woodpath in spring (in Six Poems of Ruth Pitter) (Text: Ruth Pitter) [x]*
  • The world is mad (Text: Louis MacNeice) [x]
  • Weathers (in More Songs of the Countryside) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • What Christmas means to me (Text: Joan Lane) [x]*
  • When first my way to fair I took (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When I came forth this morn I saw (in Songs of the Countryside) (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • When I think upon the maidens (Text: Philip Ashbrooke)
  • When sweet Ann sings (Text: Margaret Rose Girdler , as Margaret Rose)
  • Why have you stolen my delight? (in More Songs of the Countryside) (Text: Francis Brett Young) *
  • You cannot dream (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
  • You shall not go a-maying (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) *

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