Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Phillips

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Space Trilogy
• no. 1. Andromeda (Text: Judith Nicholls) *
• no. 2. The moon (Text: Judith Nicholls) [x]*
• no. 3. Ballad (Text: Judith Nicholls) [x]*
• Bird rounds
• no. 1. Linnet (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 1. O lilie fair (Text: Elizabeth Melville)
• no. 2. Skylark (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA SPA
• no. 3. Sparrow (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) GER
• no. 4. Eagle (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• Images
• no. 1. The purity of the moonlight freezes the water ENG
• no. 2. The flowers whirl away like snow (Text: Saionji Kintsune) ENG
• no. 3. The waves merge with the sky (Text: Fujiwara no Tadamichi) ENG
• Niño
• no. 1. Agua ¿Donde Vas? (Text: Federico García Lorca)
• no. 2. Canción Tonta (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
• no. 3. De Casa En Casa (Text: Federico García Lorca)
• Sad-Sweet
• no. 2. In sweet dream (Text: Martyn Herbert)
• Sea Pieces
• no. 1. My River Runs To Thee (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
• no. 2. As If The Sea Should Part (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 3. Exultation (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Songs of Love and Longing
• no. 1. The moon (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 2. It’s like the light (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 3. Winter afternoons (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 4. I went to heaven (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• no. 5. Wild nights (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
• Two Settings of Anna Akhmatova
• no. 1. Where nothing is needed (Text: Lyn Coffin after Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) *
• no. 2. Music (Text: Lyn Coffin after Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) *
• Un Petit Psaultier = A Little Psalter
• no. 1. Au Lecteur = To the Reader (Text: Esther Inglis)
• no. 2. Parmi les Pseaumes (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 3. Prière à Dieu (Text: Esther Inglis)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Agua ¿Donde Vas? (in Niño) (Text: Federico García Lorca)
• Amo ergo sum (Text: Kathleen Raine) [x]*
• Andromeda (in A Space Trilogy) (Text: Judith Nicholls) *
• As If The Sea Should Part (in Sea Pieces) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Au Lecteur = To the Reader (in Un Petit Psaultier = A Little Psalter) (Text: Esther Inglis)
• Bad hair day (Text: Sheena Phillips) *
• Ballad (in A Space Trilogy) (Text: Judith Nicholls) [x]*
• Blest be the love (Text: Charles Wesley)
• Canción Tonta (in Niño) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
• Chinese crane song (Text: Edwina Towson) *
• Christmas Morning (Text: John Milton)
• Christ will rise (Text: Phillips Brooks, Rev.)
• De Casa En Casa (in Niño) (Text: Federico García Lorca)
• Eagle (in Bird rounds) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• Easter Carol (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Evening Prayer (Text: Thomas Ken)
• Exultation (in Sea Pieces) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• In sweet dream (in Sad-Sweet) (Text: Martyn Herbert)
• It’s like the light (in Songs of Love and Longing) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• I went to heaven (in Songs of Love and Longing) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Linnet (in Bird rounds) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Little Elegy (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• Moongazing (Text: Nigel Phillips) *
• Music for a While (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• Music (in Two Settings of Anna Akhmatova) (Text: Lyn Coffin after Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) *
• My River Runs To Thee (in Sea Pieces) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
• My true love hath my heart (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
• O lilie fair (in Bird rounds) (Text: Elizabeth Melville)
• Parmi les Pseaumes (in Un Petit Psaultier = A Little Psalter) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Prière à Dieu (in Un Petit Psaultier = A Little Psalter) (Text: Esther Inglis)
• Queer Faith Haiku (Text: Pat Deeney) *
• Sang (Text: William Soutar)
• Skylark (in Bird rounds) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA SPA
• Song of praise
• Sparrow (in Bird rounds) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) GER
• Sweet sleep (Text: William Blake)
• Tàladh Chrìosda (Text: Volkslieder )
• The flowers whirl away like snow (in Images) (Text: Saionji Kintsune) ENG
• The moon (in Songs of Love and Longing) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• The moon (in A Space Trilogy) (Text: Judith Nicholls) [x]*
• The purity of the moonlight freezes the water (in Images) ENG
• The Riverman (Text: Elizabeth Bishop)
• The Sweet o' the Year (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
• The waves merge with the sky (in Images) (Text: Fujiwara no Tadamichi) ENG
• Where nothing is needed (in Two Settings of Anna Akhmatova) (Text: Lyn Coffin after Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) *
• Why Dorothy Wordsworth Is Not As Famous As Her Brother (Text: Lynn Peters) [x]*
• Wild nights (in Songs of Love and Longing) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
• Winter afternoons (in Songs of Love and Longing) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

Last update: 2026-07-10 22:49:10