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) FRE GER ICE
All titles of vocal settings in Opus order
- A Hymn to God the Father (Text: John Donne)
- Little Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
- Psalm 6 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
- Psalm 23 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FRE FRE GER GER GER LAT
- Psalm 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER ICE
- Robin Redbreast (Text: William Henry Davies)
- The Virgin's cradle hymn (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT FRE GER
- op. 2. Two Songs
- no. 1. Easter (Text: George Herbert) CAT
- no. 2. Rosa mundi (Text: Rachel Annand Taylor) [x]
- op. 3. Two Songs
- op. 4. Two Songs
- no. 1. The Mystery (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
- no. 2. Jesukin (Text: Anonymous after St. Ita) [x]
- op. 5. O my deir hert (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
- op. 7. Two Songs with String Quartet
- no. 1. Rejection (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
- no. 2. Entrez-y tous en sureté (Text: Christin Prost, Père)
- op. 8. Four Songs
- no. 1. Cradle song (Text: Padraic Colum)
- no. 2. There is a lady (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
- no. 3. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
- no. 4. Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
- op. 12. La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
- op. 13. Three songs
- no. 1. Out in the dark (Text: Edward Thomas)
- no. 2. A hymn to the Virgin (Text: Anonymous) GER
- no. 3. It was a lover (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
- op. 14. Two Songs
- no. 1. The Night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- no. 2. Slow spring (Text: Katharine Tynan)
- op. 15. Rune of hospitality (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗
- op. 17. Two Songs
- no. 1. A Prayer (Text: Ben Jonson)
- no. 2. Invocation to Spring (Text: James Thomson)
- op. 18. Rhapsody
- op. 20. A Duan of Barra (Text: Murdoch Maclean) [x]
- op. 21. The Soontree (Text: Nora Hopper) [x]
- op. 22. Two Songs
- op. 23. The song of the laverock (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]
- op. 26. The Ballad of Tristram [x]
- op. 28. A widow bird sate mourning (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
- op. 32. Four Medieval Latin Lyrics
- 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
- op. 33. In dark weather (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
- op. 42. Five Sonnets
- 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)
- op. 43. Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series)
- 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)
- op. 54. Nocturne (Text: Anonymous after Alcman) [x] ⊗
- op. 55. The morning watch (Text: Henry Vaughan)
- op. 83. Ode to the Queen
- 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)
- op. 93. Entrez‑y tous en sureté (Text: Christin Prost, Père)
- op. 116. The Jade Mountain
- 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
- op. 122. Inscape
- no. 1. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
- no. 2. God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
- op. 140. Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra"
- 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
Last update: 2025-04-26 05:02:09