Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Rubbra

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series), op. 43
• no. 1. Sonnet LXXVIII (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 2. Sonnet LXX (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 3. Sonnet LXXIX (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 4. Sonnet XXXVII (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 5. Sonnet XL (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Five Sonnets, op. 42
• no. 1. Sonnet II (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 2. Sonnet IV (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 3. Sonnet VI (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 4. Sonnet XLIII (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 5. Sonnet LXVIII (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Four Medieval Latin Lyrics, op. 32
• no. 1. Rondel: Tempus est iocundum (Text: Anonymous) ENG ITA SPA
• no. 2. Plaint: Dum estas inchoatur (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. Pastoral: Ecce, chorus virginum (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 4. Lament: Planctus (Text: Peter Abelard) ENG
• Inscape, op. 122
• no. 1. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
• no. 2. God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• Ode to the Queen, op. 83
• no. 1. Sound forth celestial organs (Text: Richard Crashaw)
• no. 2. Fair as unshaded light (Text: William D'Avenant, Sir)
• no. 3. Yet once again, let us our measures move (Text: Thomas Campion)
• Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra", op. 140
• no. 2. Crux fidelis (Text: Venantius Fortunatus, Saint) DUT ENG ENG FRE GER
• no. 4. Resurrexi, et adhunc (Text: Anonymous) DUT
• no. 6. Regina caeli, laetare (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER SPA
• no. 10. Viri Galilaei (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
• The Jade Mountain, op. 116
• no. 1. A night thought on Terrace Tower (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Zhuang) GER
• no. 2. On hearing her play the harp (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Duan) GER
• no. 3. An autumn night message (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Ying-Wu) GER
• no. 4. A song of the Southern River (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Yi) GER
• no. 5. Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist priest bound homeward (Text: Witter Bynner after Qian Qi) GER
• Three Bird Songs
• Little Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
• Robin Redbreast (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Three Psalms
• no. 1. Psalm 6 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
• no. 2. Psalm 23 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FRE FRE GER GER GER LAT
• no. 3. Psalm 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE GER ICE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A Duan of Barra, op. 20 (Text: Murdoch Maclean) [x]
• A Hymn to God the Father (Text: John Donne)
• A hymn to the Virgin, op. 13 (Three songs) no. 2 (Text: Anonymous) GER
• A Litany, op. 3 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Phineas Fletcher) DUT
• An autumn night message, op. 116 no. 3 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Ying-Wu) GER
• A night thought on Terrace Tower, op. 116 no. 1 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Zhuang) GER
• A Prayer, op. 17 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Ben Jonson)
• A song of the Southern River, op. 116 no. 4 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Yi) GER
• A widow bird sate mourning, op. 28 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
• Cradle song, op. 8 (Four Songs) no. 1 (Text: Padraic Colum)
• Crux fidelis, op. 140 no. 2 (in Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") (Text: Venantius Fortunatus, Saint) DUT ENG ENG FRE GER
• Easter, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: George Herbert) CAT
• Entrez‑y tous en sureté, op. 93 (Text: Christin Prost, Père)
• Entrez-y tous en sureté, op. 7 (Two Songs with String Quartet) no. 2 (Text: Christin Prost, Père)
• Fair as unshaded light, op. 83 no. 2 (in Ode to the Queen) (Text: William D'Avenant, Sir)
• Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist priest bound homeward, op. 116 no. 5 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Qian Qi) GER
• God's Grandeur, op. 122 no. 2 (in Inscape) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• In dark weather, op. 33 (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
• Invocation to Spring, op. 17 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: James Thomson)
• It was a lover, op. 13 (Three songs) no. 3 (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• Jesukin, op. 4 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Anonymous after St. Ita) [x]
• La belle dame sans merci, op. 12 (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
• Lament: Planctus, op. 32 no. 4 (in Four Medieval Latin Lyrics) (Text: Peter Abelard) ENG
• Little Trotty Wagtail (in Three Bird Songs) (Text: John Clare)
• Nocturne, op. 54 (Text: Anonymous after Alcman) [x] ⊗
• O my deir hert, op. 5 (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
• On hearing her play the harp, op. 116 no. 2 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Duan) GER
• Orpheus with his lute, op. 8 (Four Songs) no. 4 (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Out in the dark, op. 13 (Three songs) no. 1 (Text: Edward Thomas)
• Pastoral: Ecce, chorus virginum, op. 32 no. 3 (in Four Medieval Latin Lyrics) (Text: Anonymous)
• Pied Beauty, op. 122 no. 1 (in Inscape) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
• Plaint: Dum estas inchoatur, op. 32 no. 2 (in Four Medieval Latin Lyrics) (Text: Anonymous)
• Psalm 6 (in Three Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
• Psalm 23 (in Three Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FRE FRE GER GER GER LAT
• Psalm 150 (in Three Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE GER ICE
• Regina caeli, laetare, op. 140 no. 6 (in Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER SPA
• Rejection, op. 7 (Two Songs with String Quartet) no. 1 (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
• Resurrexi, et adhunc, op. 140 no. 4 (in Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") (Text: Anonymous) DUT
• Rhapsody, op. 18
• Robin Redbreast (in Three Bird Songs) (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Rondel: Tempus est iocundum, op. 32 no. 1 (in Four Medieval Latin Lyrics) (Text: Anonymous) ENG ITA SPA
• Rosa mundi, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Rachel Annand Taylor) [x]
• Rune of hospitality, op. 15 (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗
• Slow spring, op. 14 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Katharine Tynan)
• Sonnet II, op. 42 no. 1 (in Five Sonnets) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet IV, op. 42 no. 2 (in Five Sonnets) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet VI, op. 42 no. 3 (in Five Sonnets) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet XXXVII, op. 43 no. 4 (in Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series)) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet XL, op. 43 no. 5 (in Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series)) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet XLIII, op. 42 no. 4 (in Five Sonnets) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet LXVIII, op. 42 no. 5 (in Five Sonnets) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet LXX, op. 43 no. 2 (in Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series)) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet LXXVIII, op. 43 no. 1 (in Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series)) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sonnet LXXIX, op. 43 no. 3 (in Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series)) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Sound forth celestial organs, op. 83 no. 1 (in Ode to the Queen) (Text: Richard Crashaw)
• Take, o take those lips away, op. 22 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• Tears, op. 3 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• The Ballad of Tristram, op. 26 [x]
• The morning watch, op. 55 (Text: Henry Vaughan)
• The Mystery, op. 4 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
• The Night, op. 14 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• There is a lady, op. 8 (Four Songs) no. 2 (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• The song of the laverock, op. 23 (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]
• The Soontree, op. 21 (Text: Eleanor Jane Hopper , as Nora Hopper) [x]
• The Virgin's cradle hymn (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT FRE GER
• Viri Galilaei, op. 140 no. 10 (in Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
• Who is Silvia?, op. 8 (Four Songs) no. 3 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• Why so pale and wan, op. 22 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
• Yet once again, let us our measures move, op. 83 no. 3 (in Ode to the Queen) (Text: Thomas Campion)

Last update: 2025-07-19 04:29:39