Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Goossens

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Chamber Music, op. 51
• no. 1. Now, O now, in this brown land (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 2. Gentle lady, do not sing (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• no. 3. Dear heart, why will you use me so? (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
• no. 4. O cool is the valley now (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 5. All day I hear the noise of waters (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
• no. 6. I hear an army charging upon the land (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• Deux proses lyriques / Deux pensées lyriques, op. 16
• no. 1. Hier, dans le jardin ensoleillé (Text: Edwin Evans)
• no. 2. Mon chemin s'était assombri (Text: Edwin Evans)
• Persian Idylls, op. 17b
• no. 1. Breath of ney (Text: Edwin Evans)
• no. 2. Heart of the kalyan (Text: Edwin Evans)
• The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine) FRE
• no. 1. Tilly, composed by Ernest John Moeran (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba, composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 3. A flower given to my daughter, composed by Albert Roussel (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
• no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon, composed by Herbert Hughes (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 5. Tutto è sciolto, composed by John (Nicholson) Ireland (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 6. On the beach at Fontana, composed by Roger Sessions (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 7. Simples, composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 8. Flood, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 9. Nightpiece, composed by George Antheil (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 10. Alone, composed by Edgardo Carducci (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, composed by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse, composed by Charles Wilfred Orr (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 13. A Prayer, composed by Bernard van Dieren (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• Two Scots Folksongs, op. 22c
• no. 1. Behave yoursel' before folk (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. I'm owre young to marry yet (Text: Robert Burns) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

• A British children's prayer (Text: Merrick Fifield McCarthy) *
• Silence (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Fan Song (Text: Arnold Bennett)

• op. 9. Deux Mélodies
  • no. 1. Chanson de Fortunio (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG ENG RUS SWE
  • no. 2. Chanson de Barberine (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG
• op. 16. Deux proses lyriques / Deux pensées lyriques
  • no. 1. Hier, dans le jardin ensoleillé (Text: Edwin Evans)
  • no. 2. Mon chemin s'était assombri (Text: Edwin Evans)
• op. 17b. Persian Idylls
  • no. 1. Breath of ney (Text: Edwin Evans)
  • no. 2. Heart of the kalyan (Text: Edwin Evans)
• op. 19. Three Songs
  • no. 1. Afternoon (Text: Anna Sturge after Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry)
  • no. 1. Afternoon (Text: Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry , as Georges Jean-Aubry) [x] ENG
  • no. 2. Epigram (Text: Edwin Evans)
  • no. 2. Épigramme (Text: Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry , as Georges Jean-Aubry after Edwin Evans) [x]
  • no. 3. Tea-time (Text: Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry , as Georges Jean-Aubry) [x]
• op. 22a. The cowl (Text: Herbert Reginald Barbor) [x]
• op. 22b. The curse (Text: Herbert Reginald Barbor) [x]
• op. 22c. Two Scots Folksongs
  • no. 1. Behave yoursel' before folk (Text: Volkslieder )
  • no. 2. I'm owre young to marry yet (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
• op. 26. Three Songs
  • no. 1. The appeal (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
  • no. 2. Melancholy (Text: John Fletcher)
  • no. 3. Philomel (Text: Richard Barnfield) FRE
• op. 49. Two Songs
  • no. 1. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • no. 2. Searching for Lambs (Text: Volkslieder )
• op. 51. Chamber Music
  • no. 1. Now, O now, in this brown land (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • no. 2. Gentle lady, do not sing (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
  • no. 3. Dear heart, why will you use me so? (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
  • no. 4. O cool is the valley now (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • no. 5. All day I hear the noise of waters (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
  • no. 6. I hear an army charging upon the land (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• op. 53. Four Songs
  • no. 1. Threshold (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]
  • no. 2. A winter night idyll (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]
  • no. 3. A woodland dell (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]
  • no. 4. Seascape (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]

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