Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by F. Scott

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Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958)

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35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems

no. 1. The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 2. Lourd on my Hert (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 3. To a Lady (Text: William Dunbar)
no. 4. The Wee Man (Text: Wilhelmina Johnston Muir , as Willa Muir) *
no. 5. On receiving news of the death of Charles I (Text: James Graham, Marquis of Montrose)
no. 6. Hungry Waters (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 7. Whistle, whistle, auld wife
no. 8. Edward (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) GER GER RUS
no. 10. First Love (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 11. An Admonition to Young Lassies (Text: Alexander Montgomerie)
no. 12. I wha aince in Heaven's Heicht (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 13. The Sea Hounds (Text: Dora Sigerson Shorter)
no. 14. The Tryst (Text: William Soutar) ENG GER
no. 15. O, wert thou in the cauld blast (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER GER HUN RUS SWE
no. 16. Sunny Gale (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 17. Robin shure in hairst (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
no. 18. O steer her up (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 19. Glances (Text: James Pittendrigh MacGillivray)
no. 20. There's news, lasses, news (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 21. The Man in the Moon (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 23. The Innumerable Christ (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) *
no. 24. Landlady, count the lawin' (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 25. Alba (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
no. 26. Country Life (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) *
no. 27. Love of Alba (Text: Maurice Lindsay) *
no. 28. Florine (Text: Thomas Campbell)
no. 29. The Deil o' Bogie (Text: Alexander Gray after Volkslieder )
no. 30. Im Tiroler Wirtshaus (Text: Georg Britting) * ENG
no. 31. Verlasst mich hier (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
no. 32. Deingedenken (Text: Will Vesper) ENG
no. 33. La belle est au jardin d'amour (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
no. 34. Je descendis dans mon jardin (Text: Amy Sylvel) ENG
no. 35. Au miroir de ma mère (Text: Amy Sylvel) ENG

Scottish Lyrics, Book 1

no. 1. The carles of Dysart (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. We'll hap and row (Text: William Creech)
no. 3. I'll gar our gudeman trow
no. 4. Ay waukin, O (Text: Robert Burns) GER
no. 5. Last May a braw wooer (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
no. 6. The wren's nest (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 7. The lovely lass o' Inverness (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER ITA POL
no. 8. Hey, the dusty miller (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FIN

Scottish Lyrics, Book 2

no. 1. Wha will buy my troggin? (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. Weel I lo'e Mary (Text: John Imlah)
no. 3. My wife shall ha'e her will
no. 4. O merry hae I been teething a heckle (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 5. Mary Morison (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER HUN
no. 6. The weary pund o' tow (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 7. Crowdie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 8. O were my love yon lilac fair (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER GER SPA
no. 9. Gruel (Text: Allan Cunningham)

Scottish Lyrics, Book 3

no. 1. Twist ye, twine ye (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
no. 2. The auld man's mear's dead (Text: Patrick Birnie)
no. 3. Rorate caeli desuper (Of the Nativity of Christ) (Text: William Dunbar)
no. 4. Wheesht, wheesht (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) * ENG
no. 5. The eemis stane (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 6. Crowdieknowe (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 7. Moonstruck (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 8. St. Brendan's graveyard: Isle of Barra (Text: Jean Lang)
no. 9. Love (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) *
no. 10. Cupid and Venus (Text: Mark Alexander Boyd)
no. 11. Milkwort and Bog-cotton (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 12. An Apprentice Angel (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *

Scottish Lyrics, Book 4

no. 1. The tailor fell thro' the bed (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. Of a' the airts the wind can blaw (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
no. 3. My wife's a wanton wee thing (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 4. O, were I on Parnassus' hill (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
no. 5. The twa kimmers (Text: William Dunbar)
no. 6. Phillis (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
no. 7. When I think on the happy days (Text: Anonymous)
no. 8. O dear minny, what shall I do? (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 9. Fare ye weel, my auld wife
no. 10. Of ane Blackamoor (Text: William Dunbar) ENG
no. 11. Scroggam (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 12. My luve is like a red, red rose (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
no. 13. Amang the trees (Text: Robert Burns)

Scottish Lyrics, Book 5

no. 1. I hae laid a herring in saut (Text: James Tytler)
no. 2. Since all thy vows, false maid (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Wee Willie Gray (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
no. 4. The discreet hint (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 5. O, wha my babie-clouts will buy? (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 6. Wha is that at my bower-door? (Text: Robert Burns) CZE GER GER HUN RUS SWE SWG
no. 7. Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (Text: Robert Burns) GER
no. 8. To a Loch Fyne Fisherman who keeps the Old Ways (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
no. 9. The Love-sick Lass (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) * ENG
no. 10. Empty Vessel (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 11. The Watergaw (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 12. Ane his ain enemy (Text: William Dunbar)
no. 13. Scots, wha hae (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE POL

Seven songs

no. 1. The Old Fisherman (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
no. 2. Gane is the day (Text: Robert Burns) CZE RUS
no. 3. Reid-E'en (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
no. 4. In time of tumult (Text: William Soutar)
no. 5. The Kerry Shore - Loch Fyne (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
no. 6. The Cameronian Cat
no. 7. Macpherson's farewell (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE RUS

Three short songs

no. 1. All night under the moon (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 2. Tremulous grey of dusk (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
no. 3. The Laverock (Text: Walter Wingate) [x]

Three Songs for Children's Voices

no. 1. The Piper (Text: James Stephens)
no. 2. The Secret (Text: James Stephens)
no. 3. The Wood of Flowers (Text: James Stephens)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A bowl of roses (Text: William Ernest Henley)
A Dedication (Text: C. K. Scott-Moncrieff ) [x]
Admiral Benbow (Text: A. S. Jinn) [x]
A Fairy Lullaby (Text: Lachlan Macbean after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
Alba (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
All night under the moon (in Three short songs) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
A Lost Eden (Text: Marie Browne) [x]
Amang the trees (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns)
Amends to the tailors and soutars (Text: William Dunbar)
An Admonition to Young Lassies (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Alexander Montgomerie)
An Apprentice Angel (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Ane his ain enemy (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: William Dunbar)
Angels (Text: Olive Custance , as Lady Olive Douglas) [x]
An unco sang (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) [x]*
As I came o'er the Cairney Mount (Text: Robert Burns)
At The Ham and Haddie Tavern (Text: Harold Stewart) [x]
At the mid hour of night (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder ) FRE
At the window (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) [x]*
Au miroir de ma mère (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Amy Sylvel) ENG
A Waif (Text: John Banister Tabb) [x]
A wind from the south (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan) [x]
Ay waukin, O (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1) (Text: Robert Burns) GER
Begrüssung (Text: Stefan George after Wacław Rolicz-Lieder)
Bess and her spinning wheel (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE
Beware o' bonnie Ann (Text: Robert Burns)
Beware! (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Volkslieder ) CAT DUT FRE
Blind Man's Luck (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) [x]*
Brüder (Text: Heinrich Lersch) [x]
Come rede me, dame (Text: Robert Burns)
Corbie sang (Text: William Soutar)
Country Life (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) *
Crowdieknowe (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Crowdie (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: Robert Burns)
Cupid and Venus (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Mark Alexander Boyd)
Deingedenken (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Will Vesper) ENG
Du rote Fahn' (Text: Stuart Hood) [x]*
Edward (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) GER GER RUS
Empty Vessel (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
En lavant sous le saule (Text: Amy Sylvel) [x]
Epitaph on an army of mercenaries (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Eyes can no falsehood tell (Text: Vivian Locke-Ellis)
Farewell to a' our Scottish Fame (Text: Robert Burns)
Fare ye weel, my auld wife (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4)
First Love (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Florine (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Thomas Campbell)
Forgettin' (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill) [x]
Gane is the day (in Seven songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE RUS
Glances (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: James Pittendrigh MacGillivray)
Going westward (Text: John Masefield)
Gray sand is churnin' in my lugs (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) [x]*
Gruel (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: Allan Cunningham)
Her Jewels (Text: William Henry Ogilvie) [x]
Hey, the dusty miller (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FIN
Hornpipe (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) *
Hungry Waters (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Ichabod [x]
Idyll (Text: Oscar Wilde)
I hae laid a herring in saut (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: James Tytler)
I halt in Auldama (Text: George Reston Malloch) [x]
I'll gar our gudeman trow (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1)
Im Tiroler Wirtshaus (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Georg Britting) * ENG
In Mysie's Bed (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) [x]*
In Normandy (Text: Lillias M. Scott) [x]
In time of tumult (in Seven songs) (Text: William Soutar)
I remember, I remember (Text: Thomas Hood)
I wha aince in Heaven's Heicht (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
January afternoon (Text: George Reston Malloch) [x]
Je descendis dans mon jardin (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Amy Sylvel) ENG
La belle est au jardin d'amour (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Landlady, count the lawin' (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Robert Burns)
Last May a braw wooer (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
Lourd on my Hert (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Love of Alba (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Maurice Lindsay) *
Love (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) *
Macpherson's farewell (in Seven songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE RUS
Mädchen mit dem roten Mündchen (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE ITA POL SPA
Madgie cam to my Bedstock (Text: Robert Burns)
Màiri Laghach (Text: John Macdonald) [x]
Mary Morison (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER HUN
Memory (Text: Arthur Symons)
Merlin (Text: Edwin Muir)
Milkwort and Bog-cotton (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Moonstruck (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Musing on the roaring ocean (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER GER
My daddie is a cankered carle (Text: Anonymous)
My luve is like a red, red rose (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
My wife's a wanton wee thing (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns)
My wife shall ha'e her will (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2)
Now is the calm of eve (Text: Richard Barham Middleton) [x]
O dear minny, what shall I do? (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns)
Ode to the Cuckoo (Text: Michael Bruce)
Of ane Blackamoor (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: William Dunbar) ENG
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
Of the false fire of Purgatorie (Text: Anonymous)
O merry hae I been teething a heckle (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: Robert Burns)
On leaving Brolas (Text: Francis George Scott) [x]
On receiving news of the death of Charles I (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: James Graham, Marquis of Montrose)
Oor bonnie Border toon (Text: Robert Hunter) [x]
O steer her up (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Robert Burns)
O wat ye what my minnie did (Text: Robert Burns)
O, were I on Parnassus' hill (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
O were my love yon lilac fair (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER GER SPA
O, wert thou in the cauld blast (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER GER HUN RUS SWE
O, wha my babie-clouts will buy? (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Robert Burns)
Phillis (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Robert Burns) GER
Rebellion (Text: George Reston Malloch) [x]
Reid-E'en (in Seven songs) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Robin shure in hairst (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
Rorate caeli desuper (Of the Nativity of Christ) (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: William Dunbar)
Sabine (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) [x]*
Samson (Text: William Soutar) [x]
Scotland (Text: Lillias M. Scott) [x]
Scots, wha hae (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE POL
Scroggam (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns)
Since all thy vows, false maid (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Volkslieder )
Sixteen dead men (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Snaw thochts (Text: Douglas Young) [x]*
Sonnet (Text: Edwin Muir)
Spring (Text: William Blake) GER
St. Brendan's graveyard: Isle of Barra (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Jean Lang)
Sunny Gale (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
Swift pigeon (Text: A. F. B.) [x]
The auld man's mear's dead (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Patrick Birnie)
The Ballad of Kynd Kittock (Text: William Dunbar)
The Blades of Harden (Text: William Henry Ogilvie) [x]
The blossom (Text: William Blake)
The Cameronian Cat (in Seven songs)
The carles of Dysart (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1) (Text: Robert Burns)
The Deil o' Bogie (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Alexander Gray after Volkslieder )
The discreet hint (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Robert Burns)
The eemis stane (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
The Enchanted (Text: George Reston Malloch) [x]
The gowk (Text: William Soutar)
The Innumerable Christ (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) *
The Kerry Shore - Loch Fyne (in Seven songs) (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
The Laverock (in Three short songs) (Text: Walter Wingate) [x]
The lovely lass o' Inverness (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER ITA POL
The Love-sick Lass (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) * ENG
The Man in the Moon (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
The Old Fisherman (in Seven songs) (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
The Piper (in Three Songs for Children's Voices) (Text: James Stephens)
There is not ane wench (Text: Alexander Scott) [x]
There's news, lasses, news (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Robert Burns)
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
The Sea Hounds (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Dora Sigerson Shorter)
The Secret (in Three Songs for Children's Voices) (Text: James Stephens)
The skull (Text: Henry de Vere Stacpoole) [x]
The smoky smirr o' rain (Text: George Campbell Hay) [x]*
The tailor fell thro' the bed (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Robert Burns)
The Tryst (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: William Soutar) ENG GER
The twa kimmers (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: William Dunbar)
The two neighbours (Text: George Campbell Hay) [x]*
The Warning (Text: F. W. Anderson) [x]
The Watergaw (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
The weary pund o' tow (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: Robert Burns)
The Wee Man (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Wilhelmina Johnston Muir , as Willa Muir) *
The wife who would a wanton be [x]
The Wood of Flowers (in Three Songs for Children's Voices) (Text: James Stephens)
The wren's nest (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1) (Text: Robert Burns)
To a Lady (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: William Dunbar)
To a Loch Fyne Fisherman who keeps the Old Ways (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: George Campbell Hay) *
To G--- (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
To live unluvit (Text: Alexander Scott)
Tremulous grey of dusk (in Three short songs) (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
Twist ye, twine ye (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
Two ways of love (Text: A. C. S.) [x]
Verlasst mich hier (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Weel I lo'e Mary (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: John Imlah)
Wee Willie Gray (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
We'll hap and row (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 1) (Text: William Creech)
Weltende (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG FRE
Wha is that at my bower-door? (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 5) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE GER GER HUN RUS SWE SWG
Wha will buy my troggin? (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 2) (Text: Robert Burns)
Wheesht, wheesht (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 3) (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) * ENG
When I am dead, my dearest (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER ITA
When I think on the happy days (in Scottish Lyrics, Book 4) (Text: Anonymous)
Whistle, whistle, auld wife (in 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems)
Willie's rare and Willie's fair [x]

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