Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by B. Holmes

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Brian Holmes (b. 1946)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Amherst Requiem (Amherst Requiem, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER

no. 1. What inn is this (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 2. Safe in their alabaster chambers (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 3. I heard a fly buzz when I died (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 4. Abraham to kill him (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
no. 5. What is -- "Paradise" (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 6. Ample make this bed (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
no. 7. Behind Me -- dips Eternity (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 8. I shall keep singing! (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 9. Tie the strings to my life, my Lord (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

Death's Jest-Book

no. 1. Dirge (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
no. 2. Dream-pedlary (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
no. 3. Old Adam, the Carrion Crow (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
no. 4. The Phantom-Wooer (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)

Emily's Day

no. 1. Will there really be a morning? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
no. 2. The robin is the one (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 3. I'm nobody! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
no. 4. A narrow fellow in the grass (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 5. Some keep the Sabbath going to church (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 6. The crickets sang (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

Six Ayres

no. 1. I care not for these Ladies (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT FRI
no. 2. When to her lute Corrina sings (Text: Thomas Campion)
no. 3. There is a garden in her face (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
no. 4. Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air (Text: Thomas Campion)
no. 5. Come, O come, my life's delight (Text: Thomas Campion) FRE
no. 6. Now winter nights enlarge (Text: Thomas Campion)

Six Lullabies

no. 1. Chipmunk, chipmunk (Text: Mark van Doren)
no. 2. Down dip the branches (Text: Mark van Doren)
no. 3. Where did he run to? (Text: Mark van Doren)
no. 4. Old Ben Golliday (Text: Mark van Doren)
no. 5. Sleep, grandmother (Text: Mark van Doren)
no. 6. He cut one finger (Text: Mark van Doren)

The Trumpet and other Songs

no. 1. The trumpet (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
no. 2. Fife tune (Text: John Streeter Manifold) [x]*
no. 3. Variations for two pianos (Text: Donald Justice) [x]*
no. 4. Allie (Text: Robert Graves)
no. 5. To Musique, to becalme his Fever (Text: Robert Herrick)

Three Hunting Songs

no. 1. Hunting Song (Text: Walter Scott, Sir) GER GER GER
no. 2. Ballad of the Foxhunter (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 3. All in green went my love riding (Text: E. E. Cummings)

Updike's Science

no. 1. Thermodynamics (Text: John Updike) *
no. 2. Particle physics (Text: John Updike) *
no. 3. Chemistry (Text: John Updike) *
no. 4. Hydrodynamics (Text: John Updike) *
no. 5. Meteorology (Text: John Updike) *
no. 6. Biology (Text: John Updike) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Abraham to kill him (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
Allie (in The Trumpet and other Songs) (Text: Robert Graves)
All in green went my love riding (in Three Hunting Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
Ample make this bed (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
A narrow fellow in the grass (in Emily's Day) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Ballad of the Foxhunter (in Three Hunting Songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Behind Me -- dips Eternity (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Biology (in Updike's Science) (Text: John Updike) *
Chemistry (in Updike's Science) (Text: John Updike) *
Chipmunk, chipmunk (in Six Lullabies) (Text: Mark van Doren)
Come, O come, my life's delight (in Six Ayres) (Text: Thomas Campion) FRE
Dirge (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (in Death's Jest-Book) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Down dip the branches (in Six Lullabies) (Text: Mark van Doren)
Dream-pedlary (in Death's Jest-Book) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Fife tune (in The Trumpet and other Songs) (Text: John Streeter Manifold) [x]*
He cut one finger (in Six Lullabies) (Text: Mark van Doren)
Hunting Song (in Three Hunting Songs) (Text: Walter Scott, Sir) GER GER GER
Hydrodynamics (in Updike's Science) (Text: John Updike) *
I care not for these Ladies (in Six Ayres) (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT FRI
I heard a fly buzz when I died (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
I'm nobody! (in Emily's Day) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
I shall keep singing! (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Meteorology (in Updike's Science) (Text: John Updike) *
Now winter nights enlarge (in Six Ayres) (Text: Thomas Campion)
Old Adam, the Carrion Crow (in Death's Jest-Book) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Old Ben Golliday (in Six Lullabies) (Text: Mark van Doren)
Particle physics (in Updike's Science) (Text: John Updike) *
Safe in their alabaster chambers (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Sleep, grandmother (in Six Lullabies) (Text: Mark van Doren)
Some keep the Sabbath going to church (in Emily's Day) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The crickets sang (in Emily's Day) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
The Phantom-Wooer (in Death's Jest-Book) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
There is a garden in her face (in Six Ayres) (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
Thermodynamics (in Updike's Science) (Text: John Updike) *
The robin is the one (in Emily's Day) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
The trumpet (in The Trumpet and other Songs) (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air (in Six Ayres) (Text: Thomas Campion)
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
To Musique, to becalme his Fever (in The Trumpet and other Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Variations for two pianos (in The Trumpet and other Songs) (Text: Donald Justice) [x]*
What inn is this (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
What is -- "Paradise" (in Amherst Requiem) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
When to her lute Corrina sings (in Six Ayres) (Text: Thomas Campion)
Where did he run to? (in Six Lullabies) (Text: Mark van Doren)
Will there really be a morning? (in Emily's Day) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

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