Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by C. Wood

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Five Songs for High Voice
• no. 1. The splendour falls (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
• no. 2. Ask me no more (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 3. Fortune and her wheel (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) DUT FRI
• no. 4. At the mid hour of night (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder ) CAT FRE
• no. 5. Echo (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• Four Songs
• no. 1. An Ancient Love Song (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
• no. 2. Song (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
• no. 3. Song (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux)
• no. 4. Song (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• Kikirikee [multi-composer]
• All the bells were ringing, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Angels at the foot, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Dancing on the hill-tops, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A diamond or a coal?, composed by Henry George Ley (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Eight o'clock, the postman's knock, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• An emerald is as green as grass, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Hear what the mournful linnets say, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Heartsease in my garden bed, composed by R. T. White (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Hopping frog, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• I am a King, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• I know a baby, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If a mouse could fly, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If all were rain, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If I were a Queen, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If the sun could tell us half, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Lie a-bed, sleepy head, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A linnet in a gilded cage, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Love me, -- I love you, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Margaret has a milking-pail, composed by George Dyson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Mother shake the cherry-tree, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• O wind, why do you never rest, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Oh, fair to see, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• When a mounting skylark sings, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Pussy has a whiskered face, composed by Hubert S. Middleton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Rushes in a watery place, composed by Alan Palmer (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The days are clear, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• O wind, where have you been, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• There's snow on the fields, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Three plum buns, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Twist me a crown of wind-flowers, composed by Basil Harwood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Wee wee husband, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• When the cows come home, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Your brother has a falcon, composed by Dorothy Wauchope Stewart (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Kookoorookoo and other songs [multi-composer]
• Who has seen the wind?, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Fly away, fly away over the sea, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• Growing in the vale, composed by Alfred Jethro Silver (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The horses of the sea, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If a pig wore a wig, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Ferry me across the water, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• I dug and dug amongst the snow, composed by Walter Galpin Alcock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If hope grew on a bush, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Is the moon tired? she looks so pale, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Kookoorookoo, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Lullaby, oh lullaby!, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Mix a pancake, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A motherless soft lambkin, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Boats sail on the rivers, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Brown and furry, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The peacock has a score of eyes, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A pin has a head but has no hair, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Sing me a song, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• What do the stars do?, composed by Donald Francis Tovey (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A rose has thorns as well as honey, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A white hen sitting, composed by Percy Carter Buck, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Rosy maiden Winifred, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The summer nights are short, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• The wind has such a rainy sound, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• What is pink?, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Ten Songs for Low Voice
• no. 1. Shall I forget? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 2. Denny's Daughter (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• no. 3. The Sailor Man (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• no. 4. Birds (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• no. 5. At Sea (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• no. 6. Darest thou now, O Soul (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
• no. 7. The Rover (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
• no. 8. The Dead at Clonmacnois (Text: Thomas William Rolleston after Aongus Ó Giolláin) ⊗
• no. 9. Cyclops' Song (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• no. 10. Goldthred's Song (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Alas, So Long! (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• All the bells were ringing (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Among the heather (Text: William Allingham)
• An Ancient Love Song (in Four Songs) (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
• An emerald is as green as grass (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Angels at the foot (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Ask me no more (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• As o'er her loom (Text: Thomas Moore after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
• A Summer's Wish (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• At Sea (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• At the mid hour of night (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder ) CAT FRE
• Birds (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• Boats sail on the rivers (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Boys (Text: Winifred Mary Letts) [x]*
• Bright are the skies above me (Text: Benjamin Disraeli)
• By the bivouac's fitful flame (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Cyclops' Song (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• Darest thou now, O Soul (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
• Denny's Daughter (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• Dirge for two veterans (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
• Echo (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• Eden spirits (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Ethiopia saluting the colors (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Fineen the Rover (Text: Robert Dwyer Joyce) [x]
• Fortune and her wheel (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) DUT FRI
• Full fathom five (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER IRI ITA ITA NOR SPA SWE
• God of our Fathers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• Goldthred's Song (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
• Had I a cave (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE
• Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
• Home to Glenties (Text: Patrick Macgill) [x]
• I was wishful he'd stay (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
• Lament of an Irish Mother (Text: Felicia Dorothea Hemans) [x]
• Lie a-bed, sleepy head (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Life's memories (Text: V. Nisbet) [x]
• Little Billee (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray)
• Mix a pancake (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Music: An Ode (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• My dove (Text: John Keats)
• Never weather-beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
• Nights of music (Text: Thomas Moore)
• O Captain! my Captain! (Text: Walt Whitman) GER
• Oh skylark, for thy wing! (Text: Felicia Dorothea Hemans)
• O Lord that seest from yon starry height (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Francisco de Aldana) ⊗
• One morning in May (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
• On the Camp Hill, Hastings (Text: Thomas Campbell) [x]
• Resignation (Text: Adelaide Anne Procter) [x]
• Roll up the map of europe (Text: W. L. Hutchinson) [x]
• See the dawn (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Shall I forget? (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Song of Thekla (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge after Friedrich von Schiller) CAT DAN DUT FRE FRE RUS SWE
• Song (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• Song (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux)
• Song (in Four Songs) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
• The Ballad of Dundee (Text: William Edmondstoune Aytoun)
• The blossom (Text: William Blake)
• The Dead at Clonmacnois (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Thomas William Rolleston after Aongus Ó Giolláin) ⊗
• The Death of Clanronald (Text: Felicia Dorothea Hemans) [x]
• The dream of home (Text: Thomas Moore) GER GER
• The Hour and the Ghost (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The Isle (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE RUS RUS
• The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• The Maid of Neidpath (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
• The Munsters at Mons (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
• The Outlaw of Loch Lene (Text: Jeremiah Joseph Callanan after Volkslieder ) [x] ⊗
• The Potato Song (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
• There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
• There comes a new moon (Text: Charles Dickens)
• The ride of the witch (The hag) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
• The Rover (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
• The Sailor Man (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
• The solitary reaper (Text: William Wordsworth) CZE
• The splendour falls (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
• The starlings (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• The trees in England (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The whispering waves (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
• The Windflower (Text: Harold Boulton, Sir)
• They are all gone into the world of light! (Text: Henry Vaughan)
• Tim, an Irish Terrier (Text: Winifred Mary Letts) [x]
• To welcome in the year (Text: William Blake) GER
• Up-Hill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• What is pink? (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Youth and Age (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Last update: 2025-02-22 05:40:20