Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Head

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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) *

Last update: 2025-01-03 04:42:00