Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Holbrooke

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Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958)

Evan Meredith [pseudonym]

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Dramatic Songs, op. 54

no. 1. An outsong (Text: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden, Baron Seaford , as T. E. Ellis) [x]
no. 2. Killary (Text: Herbert Trench) [x]
no. 3. My Jean (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
no. 4. Where be you going (Text: John Keats) GER
no. 5. Think not of it (Text: John Keats)

Five Bohemian Songs

no. 1. Unto my foe (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
no. 2. Liberty (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
no. 3. Ere your beauty (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
no. 4. The story of a drum (Text: Joseph Holbrooke) [x]
no. 5. A free lance (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]

Homage to E. A. Poe

To Zante (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
The City in the Sea (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)

Lyrical Songs, op. 24

no. 1. Tho' all the stars (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
no. 2. A little fairy (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
no. 3. Love and I (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
no. 4. To Dianeme (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
no. 5. They love indeed (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
no. 6. Night and Day [x]

Six Characteristic Songs, op. 22

no. 1. Sympathy (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
no. 2. Battle song (Text: Ebenezer Elliott) [x]
no. 3. Tag Bobtail (Text: Georges du Maurier) [x]
no. 4. Follow the Gleam (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
no. 5. Come to the west (Text: Samuel Lover) [x]
no. 6. Seawards (Text: Monro Anderson) [x]

Six Landscapes, op. 34

no. 1. Along the path (Text: C. Mulholland) [x]
no. 2. The shadows (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
no. 3. High noon (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
no. 4. Grey evening (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
no. 5. Night (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
no. 6. Stay my love (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]

Six Modern Songs, op. 29

no. 1. Come, let us make love deathless (Text: Herbert Trench)
no. 2. I heard a soldier (Text: Herbert Trench)
no. 3. My own sad love (Text: Herbert Trench)
no. 4. O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees (Text: Herbert Trench)
no. 5. The Requital (Text: Herbert Trench)
no. 6. Dark, dark the seas (Text: Herbert Trench)

Six Romantic Songs, op. 30

no. 1. A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
no. 2. To a cold beauty (Text: Thomas Hood)
no. 3. Come not, when I am dead (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
no. 4. To my wife (Text: Thomas Hood)
no. 5. A farewell (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
no. 6. The stars (Text: Thomas Hood)

Songs of Innocence, op. 130

no. 1. Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 2. Echoing green (Text: William Blake) DUT
no. 3. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
no. 4. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
no. 5. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 6. The blackboy (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
no. 8. Spring (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 9. Cradle song (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 11. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
no. 12. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake)
no. 14. The divine image (Text: William Blake) GER RUS
no. 15. Night (Text: William Blake)
no. 16. A dream (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
no. 17. Little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 18. Another's sorrow (Text: William Blake)

Three Dramatic Songs, op. 69

no. 1. Bronwen's song (Text: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden, Baron Seaford , as T. E. Ellis)
no. 2. The coward's exit (Text: M. Ryan)
no. 3. Come not, when I am dead (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER

Twelve Drinking Songs

Labour in vain (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*

Two Byron songs

no. 1. Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
no. 2. Oh, lovely Haidee (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A dream, op. 130 no. 16 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
A farewell, op. 30 no. 5 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
A free lance, op. 14 no. 5 (in Five Bohemian Songs) (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
A lake and a fairy boat, op. 30 no. 1 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
A little fairy, op. 24 no. 2 (in Lyrical Songs) (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Along the path, op. 34 no. 1 (in Six Landscapes) (Text: C. Mulholland) [x]
A Love Symphony, op. 7 (Six Songs) no. 3 (Text: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy)
Annabel Lee, op. 41b (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE RUS
Another's sorrow, op. 130 no. 18 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
An outsong, op. 54 no. 1 (in Dramatic Songs) (Text: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden, Baron Seaford , as T. E. Ellis) [x]
Autumn, op. 15 (Five Songs) no. 4 (Text: Thomas Hood)
A voice, op. 15 (Five Songs) no. 3 (Text: Gwendolen Lally) [x]
A wild rose, op. 7 (Six Songs) no. 2 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
A winter night, op. 15 (Five Songs) no. 5 (Text: George Barnett Smith , as Guy Roslyn) [x]
Bacchus, op. 68 no. 1 (Text: Thomas Chatterton) [x]
Battle song, op. 22 no. 2 (in Six Characteristic Songs) (Text: Ebenezer Elliott) [x]
Beauty's daughters (in Two Byron songs) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
Bonnie dear, op. 11 (Five Songs) no. 2 (Text: Joseph Holbrooke) [x]
Bronwen's song, op. 69 no. 1 (in Three Dramatic Songs) (Text: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden, Baron Seaford , as T. E. Ellis)
Byron! how sweetly sad thy melody! (Text: John Keats)
Caswallawn, op. 75 (Text: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden, Baron Seaford , as T. E. Ellis) [x]
Choral: Laugh and be merry (Text: John Masefield)
Clown's song, op. 68 no. 2 (Text: H. S. Ryan) [x]
Come, let us make love deathless, op. 29 no. 1 (in Six Modern Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench)
Come not, when I am dead, op. 30 no. 3 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
Come not, when I am dead, op. 69 no. 3 (in Three Dramatic Songs) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
Come to the west, op. 22 no. 5 (in Six Characteristic Songs) (Text: Samuel Lover) [x]
Cradle song, op. 130 no. 9 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Dark, dark the seas, op. 29 no. 6 (in Six Modern Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench)
Dolly, op. 74 no. 3 (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after John Blackwell)
Echoing green, op. 130 no. 2 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) DUT
Ere your beauty, op. 14 no. 3 (in Five Bohemian Songs) (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Fair Phyllis, op. 7 (Six Songs) no. 1 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Follow the Gleam, op. 22 no. 4 (in Six Characteristic Songs) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
Gentle spring, op. 9 (Six part-songs, madrigals, and glees) no. 3 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
Golden daffodils, op. 7 (Six Songs) no. 5 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Gold, op. 97 (Four Songs by Ruth Young) no. 3 (Text: Ruth Young) [x]
Good-morrow, op. 13 (Seven Songs) no. 2 (Text: Charles Kingsley) [x]
Grant us Thy peace (Text: Adelaide Anne Procter) [x]
Grey evening, op. 34 no. 4 (in Six Landscapes) (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
Hear the Bard, from "Blake" (Text: William Blake)
High noon, op. 34 no. 3 (in Six Landscapes) (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
Holy Thursday, op. 130 no. 11 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Homeland, op. 74 no. 4 (Text: Gerald Cumberland) [x]
Honour bright, op. 11 (Five Songs) no. 5 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Hymn, op. 48 (Homage to E. A. Poe) no. 2 (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
I came at morn, op. 13 (Seven Songs) no. 7 [x]
I cannot tell, op. 7 (Six Songs) no. 4 (Text: Charles Kingsley)
If birds can soar, op. 91 no. ? (Text: Ruth Young) [x]
I heard a soldier, op. 29 no. 2 (in Six Modern Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench)
I love the sea (Text: Mackenzie Scott) [x]
In an almond tree, op. 97 (Four Songs by Ruth Young) no. 4 (Text: Ruth Young) [x]
In days of old, op. 57 no. 5[6] (Text: Walter E. Grogan) [x]
Infant Joy, op. 130 no. 5 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
In sunshine clad, op. 15 (Five Songs) no. 1 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
I will woo the rose, op. 9 (Six part-songs, madrigals, and glees) no. 5 (Text: Thomas Hood) GER GER
Killary, op. 54 no. 2 (in Dramatic Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench) [x]
Labour in vain (in Twelve Drinking Songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
Laughing song , op. 130 no. 7 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
Liberty, op. 14 no. 2 (in Five Bohemian Songs) (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Little boy lost, op. 130 no. 17 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Long Ago, op. 79 (Text: Douglas Malloch)
Love and I, op. 24 no. 3 (in Lyrical Songs) (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Love forgone, op. 13 (Seven Songs) no. 3 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Love's answer, op. 13 (Seven Songs) no. 4 [x]
Love the Leveller, op. 97 (Four Songs by Ruth Young) no. 2 (Text: Ruth Young) [x]
Music comes, op. 76 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: John Frederick Freeman)
My Jean, op. 54 no. 3 (in Dramatic Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
My own sad love, op. 29 no. 3 (in Six Modern Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench)
Night and Day, op. 24 no. 6 (in Lyrical Songs) [x]
Night, op. 130 no. 15 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Night, op. 34 no. 5 (in Six Landscapes) (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
Nurse's song, op. 130 no. 10 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees, op. 29 no. 4 (in Six Modern Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench)
Oh, lovely Haidee (in Two Byron songs) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) [x]
Pack, clouds, away, op. 76 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: Thomas Heywood)
Piping down the valleys wild , op. 130 no. 1 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Salutation, op. 77 no. 1 (Text: Ezra Pound)
Seawards, op. 22 no. 6 (in Six Characteristic Songs) (Text: Monro Anderson) [x]
Seed-time and harvest, op. 97 (Four Songs by Ruth Young) no. 1 (Text: Ruth Young) [x]
Sheila, op. 11 (Five Songs) no. 4 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
She's up and gone, op. 9 (Six part-songs, madrigals, and glees) no. 2 (Text: Thomas Hood)
Spring , op. 130 no. 8 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) GER
Spring is cheery, op. 9 (Six part-songs, madrigals, and glees) no. 1 (Text: Thomas Hood)
Stay my love, op. 34 no. 6 (in Six Landscapes) (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
Summer sweet, op. 11 (Five Songs) no. 1 (Text: Katharine Tynan) [x]
Sympathy, op. 22 no. 1 (in Six Characteristic Songs) (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
Tag Bobtail, op. 22 no. 3 (in Six Characteristic Songs) (Text: Georges du Maurier) [x]
Taliessin's song, op. 73 no. 1 (Text: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden, Baron Seaford , as T. E. Ellis) [x]
Tame Cat, op. 77 no. 5 (Text: Ezra Pound)
The Bells of Heaven, op. 76 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
The Bells, op. 50a [multi-text setting] (Text: Poe) RUS FRE
The blackboy, op. 130 no. 6 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The blossom, op. 130 no. 12 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The chimney sweeper, op. 130 no. 13 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The City in the Sea (in Homage to E. A. Poe) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
The coward's exit, op. 69 no. 2 (in Three Dramatic Songs) (Text: M. Ryan)
The divine image, op. 130 no. 14 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) GER RUS
The Garden (Text: Walter E. Grogan) [x]
The Garret, op. 77 no. 2 (Text: Ezra Pound)
The haunted place, op. 48 (Homage to E. A. Poe) no. 1 (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
The lamb , op. 130 no. 3 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
The old school, op. 77a no. 2 (Text: Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) [x]
The price, op. 74 no. 2 (Text: Charlotte Bacon) [x]
The Requital, op. 29 no. 5 (in Six Modern Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench)
There's a garden, op. 7 (Six Songs) no. 6 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
The sailor's bride, op. 13 (Seven Songs) no. 6 [x]
The sea hath its pearls, op. 15 (Five Songs) no. 2 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Heinrich Heine) CAT DAN FRE FRE
The shadows, op. 34 no. 2 (in Six Landscapes) (Text: Althea Gyles) [x]
The shepherd, op. 130 no. 4 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT
The stars, op. 30 no. 6 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
The story of a drum, op. 14 no. 4 (in Five Bohemian Songs) (Text: Joseph Holbrooke) [x]
The Tea-Shop Girl, op. 77 no. 4 (Text: Ezra Pound)
The tulip's wooing, op. 11 (Five Songs) no. 3 (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
The wood-lark, op. 9 (Six part-songs, madrigals, and glees) no. 4 [x]
The World's Fair (Text: Walter E. Grogan) [x]
They love indeed, op. 24 no. 5 (in Lyrical Songs) (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
Think not of it, op. 54 no. 5 (in Dramatic Songs) (Text: John Keats)
Tho' all the stars, op. 24 no. 1 (in Lyrical Songs) (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Thro' groves sequestered, op. 9 (Six part-songs, madrigals, and glees) no. 6 [x]
To a cold beauty, op. 30 no. 2 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
To Dianeme, op. 24 no. 4 (in Lyrical Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
To my wife, op. 30 no. 4 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
To the East Wind, op. 77b no. 1 (Text: Christopher M Masterman) [x]
To Zante (in Homage to E. A. Poe) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
Triolets, op. 91 no. ? (Text: Ruth Young) [x]
Twenty years ago, op. 14 no. 6 (Text: Edward Frederick Lockton , as Edward Teschemacher) [x]
Unto my foe, op. 14 no. 1 (in Five Bohemian Songs) (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
Voices in the Abbey (Text: Mackenzie Scott) [x]
We are violets, op. 13 (Seven Songs) no. 1 (Text: Leigh Hunt) [x]
Where be you going, op. 54 no. 4 (in Dramatic Songs) (Text: John Keats) GER
Where's mother, op. 13 (Seven Songs) no. 5 [x]
You are Love (Text: Walter E. Grogan) [x]

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