Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by B. Roe

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Betty Roe (b. 1930)

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Compliments of the Season

no. 1. The walk (Text: John Mole) [x]*
no. 2. Musical Chairs (Text: John Mole) [x]*
no. 3. After Supper (Text: John Mole) [x]*

Delight

no. 1. Delight is as the flight (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 2. Answer July (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. I taste a liquor (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

Four Shakespeare Songs

no. 1. Sigh no more (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
no. 2. Come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
no. 3. The willow song (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder ) FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
no. 4. Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE

Jazz Songs

no. 1. Euphonium Dance (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*
no. 2. Madam and the Minister (Text: Langston Hughes)

London Fantasies

no. 1. Thames -- a tempo (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*
no. 2. Legato Leicester Square (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*
no. 3. Pizzicato Piccadilly (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*

Man Without Myth

no. 1. The quarry (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) [x]*
no. 2. Man without myth (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) [x]*
no. 3. Once upon a time (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) [x]*

Noble Numbers

no. 1. To His Saviour, a Child; A Present, by a Child (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. To God; An Anthem sung in the Chappell at Whitehall (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. To God (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. To His Angrie God (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 5. To his sweet saviour (Text: Robert Herrick)

Satires of Circumstance

no. 1. At a Watering Place (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Outside the Window (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. In the Restaurant (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. By her Aunt's Grave (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. At the Altar-rail (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. In the Moonlight (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano [multi-composer]

no. 1. Here we come a-piping, composed by Nicholas Marshall (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Cradle Song, composed by Geoffrey Bush (Text: Anonymous) WEL
no. 2. Cradle Song, composed by Geoffrey Bush (Text: Nerys Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 3. The lamb that e’er the world began (Now carol we), composed by Inglis Gundry (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. To Musick, composed by John Golland (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 5. Song at evening, composed by Geoffrey Kimpton (Text: Audrey Duggan) *
no. 6. In the still air, composed by David Campbell Dorward (Text: Horatius Bonar)
no. 7. I know a bank, composed by Betty Roe (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

The Musical Box

no. 1. The Street Musician (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
no. 2. The Musical Box (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
no. 3. My Singing Aunt (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *

These Growing Years

no. 1. Triolet (Text: Diana Carroll) [x]*
no. 2. In the Fall (Text: Diana Carroll) [x]*
no. 3. Beeches (Text: Diana Carroll) [x]*

The Silver Hound

no. 1. Prologue (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
no. 2. Lullaby (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
no. 3. The schoolboy (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
no. 4. The soldier (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
no. 5. The lover (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
no. 6. The statesman (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
no. 7. The old man (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
no. 8. Epitaph (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *

Three Dedications

no. 1. His last sonnet (Text: John Keats) GER ITA
no. 2. Beeny Cliff (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The music tree (Text: Peter Thorogood) [x]*

Three Eccentrics

no. 1. Mr Tom Narrow (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
no. 2. Mr Kartoffel (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
no. 3. Zackary Zed (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *

Three Hardy Conversations

no. 1. A Wife Waits (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Farmer Dunman's Funeral (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The Orphaned Old Maid (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Three Madam Songs

no. 1. Madam's Calling Cards (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 2. Madam and the Fortune Teller (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 3. Madam and her Might-Have-Been (Text: Langston Hughes)

Three Songs

no. 1. Spring flowers (Text: Rita Ford) [x]*
no. 2. Snow drops (Text: Rita Ford) [x]*
no. 3. Daffodils (Text: Rita Ford) [x]*

Two Duets

no. 1. To Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
no. 2. Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS

Verities for Soprano and clarinet

no. 1. I am the Great Sun (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
no. 2. Now (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
no. 3. Grave by the sea (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

After Supper (in Compliments of the Season) (Text: John Mole) [x]*
All in the golden afternoon (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE FRE
Answer July (in Delight) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
As the holly groweth green (Text: Henry Tudor , as Henry VIII, King of England)
At a Watering Place (in Satires of Circumstance) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At the Altar-rail (in Satires of Circumstance) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
A Wife Waits (in Three Hardy Conversations) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Beeches (in These Growing Years) (Text: Diana Carroll) [x]*
Beeny Cliff (in Three Dedications) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
By her Aunt's Grave (in Satires of Circumstance) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Circe beguiled (Text: Marian Alice Lines, née Berry-Hart) [x]*
Come away, death (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
Daffodils (in Three Songs) (Text: Rita Ford) [x]*
Delight is as the flight (in Delight) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Distances (Text: Edward Storey) [x]*
Diva's lament (Text: Jacqueline Froom) *
Epitaph (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
Euphonium Dance (in Jazz Songs) (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*
Farmer Dunman's Funeral (in Three Hardy Conversations) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Gertrude's Prayer (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Grave by the sea (in Verities for Soprano and clarinet) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
Harp Song of the Dane Women (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
His last sonnet (in Three Dedications) (Text: John Keats) GER ITA
Hot sun, cool fire (Text: George Peele)
I am the Great Sun (in Verities for Soprano and clarinet) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
I know a bank (in Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Infant song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
In the Fall (in These Growing Years) (Text: Diana Carroll) [x]*
In the Moonlight (in Satires of Circumstance) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
In the Restaurant (in Satires of Circumstance) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
I taste a liquor (in Delight) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
Legato Leicester Square (in London Fantasies) (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*
Legend of Rosemary (Text: Reginald Arkell)
Lullaby for a baby toad (Text: Stella Dorothea Gibbons) [x]*
Lullaby (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
Lullaby (Text: Harriet E. Kennedy; Zofia Uminska after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗
Madam and her Might-Have-Been (in Three Madam Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Madam and the Fortune Teller (in Three Madam Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Madam and the Minister (in Jazz Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Madam's Calling Cards (in Three Madam Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Man without myth (in Man Without Myth) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) [x]*
Morning and Afternoon (Text: Leonard Clark) [x]*
Mr Kartoffel (in Three Eccentrics) (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
Mr Tom Narrow (in Three Eccentrics) (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
Musical Chairs (in Compliments of the Season) (Text: John Mole) [x]*
Music, when soft voices die (in Two Duets) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
My Boy Jack (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
My garden (Text: T. E. Brown)
My Singing Aunt (in The Musical Box) (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
Now (in Verities for Soprano and clarinet) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
Once upon a time (in Man Without Myth) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) [x]*
Orpheus with his lute (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
Outside the Window (in Satires of Circumstance) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Pizzicato Piccadilly (in London Fantasies) (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*
Prologue (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
Shadwell Stair (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Sigh no more (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
Snow drops (in Three Songs) (Text: Rita Ford) [x]*
Spring flowers (in Three Songs) (Text: Rita Ford) [x]*
St. George and the Dragon [x]
Stop all the clocks (Text: W. H. Auden)
Thames -- a tempo (in London Fantasies) (Text: Jacqueline Froom) [x]*
The bakery (Text: Peter Hyun after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗
The fair singer (Text: Andrew Marvell)
The lover (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
The Musical Box (in The Musical Box) (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
The music tree (in Three Dedications) (Text: Peter Thorogood) [x]*
The old man (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
The Orphaned Old Maid (in Three Hardy Conversations) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The quarry (in Man Without Myth) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) [x]*
The schoolboy (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
The soldier (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
The statesman (in The Silver Hound) (Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock) *
The Street Musician (in The Musical Box) (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *
The walk (in Compliments of the Season) (Text: John Mole) [x]*
The willow song (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder ) FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
This Enders Night (Text: 15^th century)
To God; An Anthem sung in the Chappell at Whitehall (in Noble Numbers) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To God (in Noble Numbers) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To His Angrie God (in Noble Numbers) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To His Saviour, a Child; A Present, by a Child (in Noble Numbers) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To his sweet saviour (in Noble Numbers) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To Virgins, to Make Much of Time (in Two Duets) (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
Triolet (in These Growing Years) (Text: Diana Carroll) [x]*
Two Gardens (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Zackary Zed (in Three Eccentrics) (Text: John Reeves , as James Reeves) *

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