Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Howells

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Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice, op. 2

no. 1. The twilight people (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
no. 2. The Devotee (Text: Thomas Goodwin Keohler) [x]
no. 3. The Waves of Breffny (Text: Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth)
no. 4. The Sorrow of Love (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan) [x]
no. 5. The Call (Text: George Roberts) [x]

A Garland for de la Mare

no. 1. Wanderers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. The Lady Caroline (Lovelocks) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
no. 3. Before Dawn (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 4. The old stone house (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 5. The three cherry trees (Siciliana) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 6. The old soldier (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 7. The song of the secret (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 8. Some one (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 9. A queer story (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 10. Andy Battle (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 11. The old house (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 12. King David (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER SPA
no. 13. Before Dawn (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Four French Chansons, op. 29

no. 1. Sainte Catherine (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 1. Saint Catherine (Text: Edward Agate after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
no. 2. Le marquis de Maine [x]
no. 3. Angele au couvent [x]
no. 4. Le petit couturier [x]

Hymnus Paradisi

no. 1. Preludio
no. 2. Requiem aeternam (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT ENG
no. 3. The Lord is my shepherd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FRE FRE GER GER GER LAT
no. 4. Sanctus - I will lift up mine eyes [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT FIN GER ENG FRE
no. 5. I heard a voice from heaven (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 6. Holy is the true light (Text: George Herbert Palmer after Bible or other Sacred Texts)

In Green Ways, op. 43

no. 1. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
no. 2. The goat paths (Text: James Stephens)
no. 3. Merry Margaret (Text: John Skelton)
no. 4. Wanderer's night song (Text: Herbert Norman Howells after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) AFR CAT CHI CZE DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GRE HUN IRI ITA ITA RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
no. 5. On the Merry First of May (Text: H. Burkitt Parker; Claude Lindsay Clifford Aveling)

Kikirikee [multi-composer]

All the bells were ringing, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Angels at the foot, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Dancing on the hill-tops, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
A diamond or a coal?, composed by Henry George Ley (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Eight o'clock, the postman's knock, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
An emerald is as green as grass, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Hear what the mournful linnets say, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Heartsease in my garden bed, composed by R. T. White (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Hopping frog, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
I am a King, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
I know a baby, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If a mouse could fly, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If all were rain, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If I were a Queen, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If the sun could tell us half, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Lie a-bed, sleepy head, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
A linnet in a gilded cage, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Love me, -- I love you, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Margaret has a milking-pail, composed by George Dyson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Mother shake the cherry-tree, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
O wind, why do you never rest, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Oh, fair to see, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
When a mounting skylark sings, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Pussy has a whiskered face, composed by Hubert S. Middleton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Rushes in a watery place, composed by Alan Palmer (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The days are clear, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
O wind, where have you been, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
There's snow on the fields, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Three plum buns, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Twist me a crown of wind-flowers, composed by Basil Harwood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Wee wee husband, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
When the cows come home, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Your brother has a falcon, composed by Dorothy Wauchope Stewart (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Peacock Pie, op. 33

no. 1. Tired Tim (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. Alas, alack! (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 3. Mrs. MacQueen (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 4. The dunce (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 5. Full moon (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 6. Miss T. (Text: Walter De la Mare)

The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine) FRE

no. 1. Tilly, composed by Ernest John Moeran (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba, composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 3. A flower given to my daughter, composed by Albert Roussel (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon, composed by Herbert Hughes (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 5. Tutto è sciolto, composed by John (Nicholson) Ireland (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 6. On the beach at Fontana, composed by Roger Sessions (Text: James Joyce) CHI FRE GER
no. 7. Simples, composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 8. Flood, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 9. Nightpiece, composed by George Antheil (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 10. Alone, composed by Edgardo Carducci (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, composed by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse, composed by Charles Wilfred Orr (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 13. A Prayer, composed by Bernard van Dieren (Text: James Joyce) FRE

Three Rondeaux, op. 12

no. 1. Roses (Text: Charles Camp Tarelli) [x]
no. 2. A Roundel of Rest (Text: Arthur Symons)
no. 3. Her scuttle hatt [x]

Three Songs

no. 2. An Old Man's Lullaby (Text: Thomas Dekker)
no. 3. Up on their brooms (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Whin: Six Songs, op. 34

no. 1. Old Skinflint (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 2. Pity Me (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 3. Fallowfield Fell (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson) [x]
no. 4. Stow-on-the-Wold (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 5. Blaweary (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 6. The mugger's song (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Alas, alack!, op. 33 no. 2 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A Madrigal, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 2 (Text: Austin Dobson)
Andy Battle (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Angele au couvent, op. 29 no. 3 (in Four French Chansons) [x]
An Old Man's Lullaby (in Three Songs) (Text: Thomas Dekker)
A queer story (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A Roundel of Rest, op. 12 no. 2 (in Three Rondeaux) (Text: Arthur Symons)
A spotless Rose (Text: Catherine Winkworth after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT FRI GER
Before Dawn (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Before Dawn (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Blaweary, op. 34 no. 5 (in Whin: Six Songs) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Bunches of grapes (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Come sing and dance (Text: Anonymous)
Eight o'clock, the postman's knock (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Fallowfield Fell, op. 34 no. 3 (in Whin: Six Songs) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson) [x]
Flood (in The Joyce Book) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
Full moon, op. 33 no. 5 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Gavotte (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir)
Girl's song, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 4 (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Goddess of Night (Text: Frederick William Harvey)
Her scuttle hatt, op. 12 no. 3 (in Three Rondeaux) [x]
Holy is the true light (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: George Herbert Palmer after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
I heard a voice from heaven (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
King David (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER SPA
Le marquis de Maine, op. 29 no. 2 (in Four French Chansons) [x]
Le petit couturier, op. 29 no. 4 (in Four French Chansons) [x]
Lost love (Text: Clifford Bax after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
Merry Margaret, op. 43 no. 3 (in In Green Ways) (Text: John Skelton)
Miss T., op. 33 no. 6 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Mother shake the cherry-tree (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Mrs. MacQueen, op. 33 no. 3 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
My eyes for beauty pine (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Old Meg (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Old Skinflint, op. 34 no. 1 (in Whin: Six Songs) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
O men from the fields (Text: Padraic Colum)
O my deir hert (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
On the Merry First of May, op. 43 no. 5 (in In Green Ways) (Text: H. Burkitt Parker; Claude Lindsay Clifford Aveling)
Pink almond (Text: Katharine Tynan) [x]
Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
Pity Me, op. 34 no. 2 (in Whin: Six Songs) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Preludio (in Hymnus Paradisi)
Requiem aeternam (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT ENG
Roses, op. 12 no. 1 (in Three Rondeaux) (Text: Charles Camp Tarelli) [x]
Saint Catherine, op. 29 no. 1 (in Four French Chansons) (Text: Edward Agate after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
Sainte Catherine, op. 29 no. 1 (in Four French Chansons) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Salve Regina (Text: Anonymous) DUT ENG FRE FRE GER
Sanctus - I will lift up mine eyes [multi-text setting] (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG GER FIN FRE CAT
Some one (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Stow-on-the-Wold, op. 34 no. 4 (in Whin: Six Songs) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
The Call, op. 2 no. 5 (in A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice) (Text: George Roberts) [x]
The days are clear (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The Devotee, op. 2 no. 2 (in A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Thomas Goodwin Keohler) [x]
The dunce, op. 33 no. 4 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The goat paths, op. 43 no. 2 (in In Green Ways) (Text: James Stephens)
The Lady Caroline (Lovelocks) (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
The little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
The Lord is my shepherd (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FRE FRE GER GER GER LAT
The mugger's song, op. 34 no. 6 (in Whin: Six Songs) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
The old house (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The old soldier (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The old stone house (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The pilgrim, op. 11 no. 2 (Text: William Blake)
There was a maiden, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 1 (Text: William Leonard Courtney)
The scribe (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The shepherd, op. 11 no. 1 (Text: William Blake) CAT
The song of the secret (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Sorrow of Love, op. 2 no. 4 (in A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan) [x]
The three cherry trees (Siciliana) (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The twilight people, op. 2 no. 1 (in A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
The Waves of Breffny, op. 2 no. 3 (in A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth)
The widow bird, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 3 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
Tired Tim, op. 33 no. 1 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Under the greenwood tree, op. 43 no. 1 (in In Green Ways) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
Up on their brooms (in Three Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Wanderer's night song, op. 43 no. 4 (in In Green Ways) (Text: Herbert Norman Howells after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) AFR CAT CHI CZE DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GRE HUN IRI ITA ITA RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
Wanderers (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
When the dew is falling (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)

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