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: 17^th 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: 18^th 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: 17^th 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: 18^th 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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