Composer: Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930) [pseudonym]

Philip Arnold Heseltine

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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See Catalog Order

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles
• no. 1. How many miles to Babylon?
• no. 2. I won't be my father's Jack
• no. 3. Robin and Richard
• no. 4. O my kitten
• no. 5. Little Tommy Tucker
• no. 6. There was an old man
• no. 7. I had a little pony
• no. 8. Little Jack Jingle
• no. 9. There was a man of Thessaly
• no. 10. Suky, you shall be my wife
• no. 11. There was an old woman
• no. 12. Arthur o' Bower
• Lillygay
• no. 1. The distracted maid (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 2. Johnnie wi' the Tye (Text: Victor Neuberg)
• no. 3. The shoemaker (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 4. Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
• no. 5. Rantum Tantum (Text: Victor Neuberg)
• Peterisms: first set
• no. 1. Chopcherry (Text: George Peele)
• no. 2. A sad song (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
• no. 3. Rutterkin (Text: John Skelton)
• Peterisms: second set
• no. 1. Roister Doister (Text: Nicholas Udall)
• no. 2. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
• no. 3. Lusty Juventus (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
• Saudades
• no. ?. Along the stream (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. ?. Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• no. ?. Heraclitus (Text: William Johnson Cory after Callimachus)
• The Curlew
• no. 1. He reproves the curlew (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
• no. 2. The lover mourns for the loss of love (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
• no. 3. The withering of the boughs (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• no. 4. He hears the cry of the sedge (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• Three Belloc Songs
• no. ?. My own country (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• no. ?. The night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• Two Songs of Arthur Symons
• no. 1. A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (Text: Arthur Symons)
• no. 2. The sick heart (Text: Arthur Symons)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Adam lay ybounden (Text: 15^th century) FRE GER
• After two years (Text: Richard Aldington )
• A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
• Along the stream (in Saudades) (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Li-Tai-Po)
• And wilt thou leave me thus? (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (in Two Songs of Arthur Symons) (Text: Arthur Symons)
• Arthur o' Bower (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• A sad song (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
• As dew in Aprylle (Text: Anonymous) ENG ENG ENG FRE
• As ever I saw (Text: 16^th century)
• Autumn's twilight (Text: Arthur Symons)
• Away to Twiver (Text: Anonymous)
• Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
• Break of day (Text: John Donne)
• Bright is the ring of words (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT HUN ITA
• Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (in Lillygay)
• Captain Stratton's Fancy (Text: John Masefield)
• Carillon, carilla (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• Chanson du Jour de Noël (Text: Clément Marot) ENG
• Chopcherry (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: George Peele)
• Consider (Text: Ford Madox Ford)
• Cradle song (Text: John Phillip)
• Dedication (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
• Eloré Lo (Text: 17^th century)
• Fair and true (Text: Nicholas Breton)
• Good ale (Text: 15^th century)
• Ha'nacker Mill (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• He hears the cry of the sedge (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• Heraclitus (in Saudades) (Text: William Johnson Cory after Callimachus)
• He reproves the curlew (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
• Hey troly loly lo (Text: 16^th century)
• How many miles to Babylon? (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• I asked a thief to steal me a peach (Text: William Blake)
• I had a little pony (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• I have a garden (Text: Thomas Moore)
• I held Love's head (Text: Robert Herrick)
• In an arbour green (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
• I won't be my father's Jack (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• Jadis (Text: Ernest Dowson)
• Jenny Gray
• Jillian of Berry (Text: Anonymous)
• Johnnie wi' the Tye (in Lillygay) (Text: Victor Neuberg)
• Late summer (Text: Edward Shanks)
• Little Jack Jingle (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• Little Tommy Tucker (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• Little Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
• Love for Love
• Lullaby (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• Lusty Juventus (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
• Maltworms, R. 48 (Text: William Stevenson, Sir)
• Milkmaids (Text: James Smith, Dr.)
• Mockery (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER NOR
• Mourn no more (Text: John Fletcher)
• Mr. Belloc's Fancy (Text: John Collings Squire, Sir)
• Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• My gostly fader (Text: Anonymous after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
• My own country (in Three Belloc Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• My sweet little darling (Text: 16^th century)
• O my kitten (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• One more river (Text: Anonymous)
• Passing by (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• Peter Warlock's Fancy (Text: 15^th cent.)
• Piggésnie (Text: 16^th century)
• Play-acting
• Pretty ring time (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• Queen Anne
• Rantum Tantum (in Lillygay) (Text: Victor Neuberg)
• Rest, sweet nymphs (Text: Anonymous)
• Robin and Richard (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• Robin Goodfellow (Text: Anonymous)
• Roister Doister (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: Nicholas Udall)
• Romance (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT GER ITA
• Rutterkin (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: John Skelton)
• Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE ITA ITA POL
• Sleep (Text: John Fletcher) FRE GER SPA
• Sorrow's lullaby (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• Spring (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
• Suky, you shall be my wife (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• Sweet-and-Twenty (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR
• Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• Take, o take those lips away (in Saudades) (Text: Anonymous) DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• The bachelor (Text: 15^th century)
• The Bayly Berith the Bell Away (Text: 15^th century)
• The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• The cloths of heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
• The contented lover (Text: James Mabbe)
• The countryman (Text: John Chalkhill)
• The distracted maid (in Lillygay) (Text: Anonymous)
• The droll lover (Text: 17th century)
• The everlasting voices (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• The first mercy (Text: Bruce Blunt) *
• The fox (Text: Bruce Blunt) *
• The Frostbound Wood (Text: Bruce Blunt)
• The lover mourns for the loss of love (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
• The lover mourns for the loss of love (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
• The lover's maze (Text: Thomas Campion)
• The Magpie (Text: Harry Hunter)
• The night (in Three Belloc Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• The passionate shepherd (Text: Christopher Marlowe)
• There is a lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• There was a man of Thessaly (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• There was an old man (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• There was an old woman (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
• The shoemaker (in Lillygay) (Text: Anonymous)
• The sick heart (in Two Songs of Arthur Symons) (Text: Arthur Symons)
• The singer (Text: Edward Shanks)
• The spring of the year (Text: Allan Cunningham)
• The Toper's Song
• The water lily (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• The wind from the West (Text: Ella Young)
• The withering of the boughs (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• Thou gav'st me leave to kiss (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Tom Tyler (Text: Anonymous)
• To the memory of a great singer (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT HUN ITA
• Twelve Oxen (Text: early 16^th century)
• Tyrley Tyrlow (Text: 16^th century)
• Whenas the rye reach to the chin (Text: George Peele)
• Willow, willow
• Wine comes in at the mouth (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE IRI
• Yarmouth Fair (Text: Hal Collins)
• Youth (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)

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