Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Jeffreys

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John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

The Fox

no. 1. Dawn (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
no. 2. Idyll (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
no. 3. Chased (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
no. 4. Death (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
no. 5. Lament (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*

With Words of Love

no. 1. That ever I saw (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 2. My little pretty one (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. My mistress frowns (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. And would you fain the reason know (Text: Philip Rosseter)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A light wind (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]
All night under the moon (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
A Lyke-Wake dirge (Text: 15^th century) CAT FRE NYN SPA
Amaryllis (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT FRI
Ambulance train (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
And would you fain the reason know (in With Words of Love) (Text: Philip Rosseter)
And would you see my mistress' face (Text: Anonymous)
An old desire (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
Aspatia's song (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
A true woman's eye (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Awake thee, my Bessy (Text: Jeremiah Joseph Callanan after Volkslieder ) ⊗
Be you blithe and bonny (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
Black Stitchel (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Brigg Fair (Text: Volkslieder )
Brown is my Love (Text: Anonymous) GER
Candle Gate (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Chased (in The Fox) (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Christ's nativity (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Corpus Christi (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Curlew calling (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Dawn (in The Fox) (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Death (in The Fox) (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Drop, drop, slow tears (Text: Phineas Fletcher) DUT
Fill me O stars (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)
For Jillian of Berry (Text: Anonymous)
From Omiecourt (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Full fathom five (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER IRI ITA ITA NOR SPA SWE
Gather ye rosebuds (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
Golden slumbers (Text: Thomas Dekker)
Gone is my love from the silver stream (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Ha'nacker Mill (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Heraclitus (Text: William Johnson Cory after Callimachus)
Hill song (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Horror follows horror (Text: Ivor Gurney)
How should I your true love know? (Text: Anonymous after Walter Raleigh, Sir) FRE GER GER GER GER ITA POL
I am the gilly of Christ (Text: Joseph Campbell)
Idyll (in The Fox) (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
If it chance your eye offend you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
If there were dreams to sell (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
In a boat (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
In Marley Wood (Text: Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir) [x]*
In pride of May (Text: Anonymous) [x]
In youth is pleasure (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
I saw Love raised upon a tree (Text: Barry Jones) [x]*
It is winter (Text: Walter De la Mare)
It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
I was young and foolish (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
I will go with my father a-ploughing (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)
I will make you brooches (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT GER ITA LIT
Lament (in The Fox) (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Little Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
Long to me thy coming (Text: Patrick Henry Pearse after Patrick Henry Pearse)
Lovely playthings (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Love me not for comely grace (Text: Anonymous)
Lullaby (Text: Thomas Dekker)
Merry eye (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
My Dear Lady (Text: Anonymous)
My lady (Text: Anonymous) [x]
My little pretty one (Text: Anonymous) [x]
My little pretty one (in With Words of Love) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
My Master hath a garden (Text: Anonymous)
My mistress frowns (in With Words of Love) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
My mistress frowns (Text: Anonymous) [x]
My pretty honey one (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Near spring (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Northumberland (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Now wolde (Text: Anonymous) [x]
O good ale (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Omens (Text: James Henry Cousins) [x]
O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
O my dere hert (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
Otterburn (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Passing By (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
Poem for end (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Requiem (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Robin Redbreast (Text: William Henry Davies)
Romance (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT GER ITA LIT
Sally (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Seals of love (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
Season of ice (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Severn Meadows (Text: Ivor Gurney)
She is all so slight (Text: Richard Aldington )
She is ever for the new (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
Sing no sad songs for me (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
Six badgers (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
Sleep (Text: John Fletcher) FRE GER SPA
Snow (Text: Edward Thomas)
Stow-on-the-Wold (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Sweeney the Mad (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
That ever I saw (Text: Anonymous) [x]
That ever I saw (in With Words of Love) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
The appeal (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
The bailey beareth the breath away (Text: Anonymous) [x]
The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The corncrake (Text: James Henry Cousins)
The cuckoo (Text: Anonymous) [x]
The falcon (Text: Anonymous) [x]
The far country (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) ITA
The farewell (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
The hag (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
The heath (Text: Thomas Boyd) [x]
The herons (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
The high hills (Text: Ivor Gurney)
The Little Pretty Nightingale (Text: Anonymous)
The lone bird (Text: Emily Brontë)
The milkmaid (Text: Thomas Nabbes)
The poacher's dog [x] ⊗
The quarry (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
The reaper (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
There is a lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
The shepherd's carol (Text: Anonymous) [x]
The song of love (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
The songs I had (Text: Ivor Gurney)
The whin (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Thirteen pence a day (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
This is the weather (Text: Thomas Hardy)
This night (Text: Thomas MacDonagh after Patrick Henry Pearse) ⊗
Thomas MacDonagh (Text: Francis Ledwidge)
Three roses (Text: John Boyle O'Reilly)
'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
To make my mistress kind (Text: Patrick Hannay)
Tom Collier of Croydon (Text: Volkslieder )
Under the blossom (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER SPA SWE
Under the leaves green (Text: Anonymous) [x]
What evil coil of Fate (Text: Ivor Gurney)
What thing is love? (Text: Anonymous) [x]
When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
When I came last to Ludlow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
When I was young [song cycle] (Text: Anonymous) [x]
When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
When the body might free (Text: Ivor Gurney)
White was the way (Text: Barry Duane Hill) [x]*
Who is at my window? (Text: Anonymous) GER
Wine (Text: Henry Carey) [x]
With rue my heart is laden (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Yet will I love her (Text: Anonymous) [x]

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