Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Horder

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Shropshire Lad
• no. 1. Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 2. Goldcups (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 3. The lent lily (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 4. When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• no. 5. White in the moon the long road lies (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Beastly! - Seven Songs
• no. 1. The vulture (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• no. 2. I saw a jolly hunter (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• no. 3. The Jesus Affair (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• no. 4. The buttercup song (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• no. 5. You silly donkey (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• no. 6. The Mouse's Waltz (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• no. 7. The Whale (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord) [x]
• Black Diamonds I
• no. 1. My own dear love (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• no. 2. Bohemia (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• no. 3. Unfortunate coincidence (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• Black Diamonds II
• no. 1. Wail (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• no. 2. Bric à brac (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• no. 3. Convalescent (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• Dorset Delight
• no. 1. In the spring (Text: William Barnes)
• no. 2. White and blue (Text: William Barnes) [x]
• no. 3. The wife a-lost (Text: William Barnes)
• no. 4. Summer's pride (Text: William Barnes) [x]
• no. 5. The farmer's eldest daughter (Text: William Barnes)
• Fadditties
• no. 1. Low fat (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• no. 2. Physical culture (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• no. 3. Monosodium glutamate (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Five Burns Songs
• no. 1. A red, red rose (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
• no. 2. O whistle and I'll come to you (Text: Robert Burns)
• no. 3. My Jean (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
• no. 4. John Anderson, my jo (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FIN FRE GER GER GER HUN POL RUS RUS
• no. 5. The Winter it is past (Text: Robert Burns) CHI GER
• Five Sea Songs
• no. 1. I am the great sun (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
• no. 2. Song of the dying gunner (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• no. 3. Sailor's carol (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• no. 4. Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• no. 5. Elizabethan Sailor's Song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• Four Shakespeare Duets
• no. 1. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• no. 2. Come unto these yellow sands (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE FRE FRE SPA SWE
• no. 3. Where the bee sucks (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER SPA SWE
• no. 4. When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• Four songs
• no. 1. When music sounds (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. Silver (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
• no. 3. The linnet (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 4. The holly (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• Four songs
• no. 1. I saw a jolly hunter (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• no. 2. Innocent's song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• no. 3. Timothy Winters (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• no. 4. Tell me, Sarah Jane (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• Seven Shakespeare Songs
• Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
• Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• Fear no more (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
• Blow, blow! (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE
• When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
• When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• Six Betjeman Songs
• A subaltern's love-song (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• The church's restoration (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• Caprice (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• In Westminster Abbey (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• Westgate-on-Sea (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• How to get on in society (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A child's grace (Text: Robert Herrick)
• A Hymn to Love (Text: Robert Herrick)
• And is it true? (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• Anything that hurts is funny (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• A red, red rose (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
• As pants the heart (Text: Ogden Nash) [x]*
• A subaltern's love-song (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• Aunt Mary's tree (Text: Robert Stephen Hawker)
• Ave verum corpus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER
• Battersea (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• Bid me to live (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
• Blow, blow! (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE
• Bohemia (in Black Diamonds I) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• Bonny lass, if thou were mine (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Bread of the world (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Bric à brac (in Black Diamonds II) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• Bring me sunshine (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Caprice (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• Carry her over the water (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Charm me asleep (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Christ who knows all his sheep (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• Clear and gentle stream (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Come unto these yellow sands (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE FRE FRE SPA SWE
• Convalescent (in Black Diamonds II) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• Crossing the Bar (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
• Darling dog [x]
• Dieu, qu'il la fait bon regarder! (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans) ENG ENG FIN ITA
• Drop, drop, slow tears (Text: Phineas Fletcher) DUT
• Elizabethan Sailor's Song (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• Fear no more (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
• Gather ye rosebuds (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
• Give and take (Text: Carol Rumens) [x]
• Goldcups (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Good men and bad (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Him I love (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• How to get on in society (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• I am the great sun (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
• I love all beauteous things (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Innocent's song (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• In the spring (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes)
• In Westminster Abbey (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• I saw a jolly hunter (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• I saw a jolly hunter (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• It was a lover and his lass (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• Jesus, dulcis memoria (Text: St. Bernard of Clairvaux) DUT ENG ENG FRE
• John Anderson, my jo (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FIN FRE GER GER GER HUN POL RUS RUS
• Johnny (Text: W. H. Auden)
• London fields (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• Loveliest of trees (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• Low fat (in Fadditties) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Lullaby (Lay your sleeping head, my love) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Monosodium glutamate (in Fadditties) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Most Holy Night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• My delight and thy delight (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• My Jean (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
• My own dear love (in Black Diamonds I) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• Not to be born (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
• Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• O mistress mine (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• On himself (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
• Orchard Street (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• O whistle and I'll come to you (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns)
• Parson's Green (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• Physical culture (in Fadditties) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Sailor's carol (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• Saint Martin (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Shepherds, shepherds (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
• Silver (in Four songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
• Sister, awake! (Text: Thomas Bateson)
• Song of the dying gunner (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• Stop all the clocks (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Summer's pride (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes) [x]
• Tell me, Sarah Jane (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• The boy's song (Text: H. C. Beesking, Reverend) [x]*
• The buttercup song (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• The church's restoration (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• The colour (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The donkey (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) GER
• The farmer's eldest daughter (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes)
• The holly (in Four songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• The Jesus Affair (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• The lent lily (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The linnet (in Four songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Mouse's Waltz (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• The princess and the gypsies (Text: Frances Darwin Cornford) [x]
• The Stock Exchange (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• The Strand (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• The Tower of London (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• The vulture (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• The waterbeetle (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• The Way of the Lord (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
• The Whale (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord) [x]
• The wife a-lost (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes)
• The wind and the rain (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• The Winter it is past (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CHI GER
• Tiger, tiger, burning bright (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
• Timothy Winters (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• To Anthea (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
• To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
• To music (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Under the greenwood tree (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
• Unfortunate coincidence (in Black Diamonds I) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
• Wail (in Black Diamonds II) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• Westgate-on-Sea (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• When daisies pied (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
• When I was one-and-twenty (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• When music sounds (in Four songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• When that I was and a little tiny boy (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• When that I was and a little tiny boy (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• Where the bee sucks (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER SPA SWE
• White and blue (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes) [x]
• White in the moon the long road lies (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Who is Silvia? (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• You silly donkey (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*

Last update: 2025-06-02 04:49:07