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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Walton

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William Walton (1902 - 1983)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Anon. in Love
    • no. 1. Fain would I change that note (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 2. Stay, sweet love (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 3. Lady, when I behold the roses
    • no. 4. My Love in her attire (Text: 17th century)
    • no. 5. I gave her cakes and I gave her ale
    • no. 6. To couple is a custom
  • A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table
    • no. 1. The Lord Mayor's Table (Text: Thomas Jordan)
    • no. 2. Glide gently (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 3. Wapping Old Stairs (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 4. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 5. The contrast (Text: Charles Morris)
    • no. 6. Rhyme (Text: 18th century)
  • Christopher Columbus Suite
    • no. 1. Fiesta (Text: Louis MacNeice)
    • no. 2. Beatriz's song (Text: Louis MacNeice)
    • no. 3. Gloria (Text: Louis MacNeice)
  • Façade
    • Ass-Face (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Tango - Pasodoble (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Something lies beyond the scene (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Through gilded trellises (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Scotch rhapsody (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Small talk (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • The wind's bastinado (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Rose Castles (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • When Sir Beelzebub (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Black Mrs. Behemoth (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • A man from a far country (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Country dance (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Daphne (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • En famille (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Old Sir Faulk (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • The last gallop (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Long steel grass (Noche Espagnola) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Bank Holiday (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Hornpipe (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Springing Jack (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Aubade - Jane, Jane (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Gardinir Janus (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Came the great Popinjay (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Jodelling song (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Jumbo's lullaby (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • By the lake (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • March (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Mariner man (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Mazurka (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Four in the morning (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Dame Souris Trotte (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • The octogenarian (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • The white owl (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Polka (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Said King Pompey (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Popular Song (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Switchback (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Tarantella (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Trams (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • Valse (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Four Early Songs
    • Song (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne) HUN
  • Three songs
    • no. 1. Daphne (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • no. 2. Through gilded trellises (Text: Edith Sitwell)
    • no. 3. Old Sir Faulk (Text: Edith Sitwell)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • All this time (Text: Anonymous)
  • A man from a far country (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Ass-Face (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Aubade - Jane, Jane (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Bank Holiday (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Beatriz's song (in Christopher Columbus Suite) (Text: Louis MacNeice)
  • Belshazzar's Feast (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Black Mrs. Behemoth (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • By the lake (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Came the great Popinjay (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Country dance (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Dame Souris Trotte (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Daphne (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Daphne (in Three songs) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • En famille (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Fain would I change that note (in Anon. in Love) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Fiesta (in Christopher Columbus Suite) (Text: Louis MacNeice)
  • Four in the morning (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Gardinir Janus (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Glide gently (in A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • Gloria (in Christopher Columbus Suite) (Text: Louis MacNeice)
  • Holy Thursday (in A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table) (Text: William Blake)
  • Hornpipe (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • I gave her cakes and I gave her ale (in Anon. in Love)
  • Jodelling song (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Jumbo's lullaby (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • King Herod and the cock (Text: Anonymous)
  • Lady, when I behold the roses (in Anon. in Love)
  • Long steel grass (Noche Espagnola) (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Make we joy now in this fest (Text: Anonymous)
  • March (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Mariner man (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Mazurka (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • My Love in her attire (in Anon. in Love) (Text: 17th century)
  • Old Sir Faulk (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Old Sir Faulk (in Three songs) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Polka (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Popular Song (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Rhyme (in A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table) (Text: 18th century)
  • Rose Castles (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Said King Pompey (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Scotch rhapsody (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Set me as a seal upon thine heart (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE
  • Small talk (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Something lies beyond the scene (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Song (in Four Early Songs) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne) HUN
  • Springing Jack (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Stay, sweet love (in Anon. in Love) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Switchback (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Tango - Pasodoble (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Tarantella (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Tell me where is Fancy bred (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
  • The contrast (in A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table) (Text: Charles Morris)
  • The last gallop (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • The Lord Mayor's Table (in A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table) (Text: Thomas Jordan)
  • The octogenarian (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • The Twelve (Text: W. H. Auden)
  • The white owl (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • The wind's bastinado (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • The Winds (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
  • Through gilded trellises (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Through gilded trellises (in Three songs) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • To couple is a custom (in Anon. in Love)
  • Trams (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Tritons (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
  • Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
  • Valse (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Wapping Old Stairs (in A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table) (Text: Anonymous)
  • What cheer? (Text: Anonymous)
  • When Sir Beelzebub (in Façade) (Text: Edith Sitwell)

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