Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by I. Holst
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs
- no. 1. Pretty Caroline (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
- no. 2. Now the winter is gone (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 3. The seeds of love (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 4. A bunch of green holly and ivy (Text: Volkslieder )
- Four Somerset Folk Songs
- no. 1. Hares on the mountains: If all those young men (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 2. It's a rosebud in June (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 3. Sweet Kitty: As he was a-riding (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 4. The Crabfish (Text: Volkslieder )
- Four Songs
- no. 1. Brittle Beauty (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
- no. 2. Why fearest thou thy outward foe?
- no. 3. Shall I thus ever long (Text: Thomas Heywood; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
- no. 4. As lawrell leaves (Text: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
- Three Songs
- no. 1. Leans now the fair willow, dreaming (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- no. 2. The Fool’s Song (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter de la Mare)
- no. 3. Exile (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Three Songs
- no. 1. As freezing fountains, when the sun
- no. 2. In Vain does Nature’s Bounteous Hand Supply
- no. 3. A Lover I’m Born
- Welcome joy and welcome sorrow
- Shed no tear (Text: John Keats)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A bunch of green holly and ivy (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
- Advice to a Friend in Love (Text: Henry Carey)
- A Hymne to Christ (Text: John Donne)
- A Lover I’m Born (in Three Songs)
- As freezing fountains, when the sun (in Three Songs)
- As lawrell leaves (in Four Songs) (Text: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
- Brittle Beauty (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
- Exile (in Three Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Farewell to Rod (Text: Imogen Clare Holst) [x]*
- Father in Thine Almighty Hand (Text: Eleanor Spensley) [x]
- Fly away over the sea (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- Hares on the mountains: If all those young men (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
- Homage to William Morris (Text: William Morris) [x]
- In Vain does Nature’s Bounteous Hand Supply (in Three Songs)
- It's a rosebud in June (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
- Justification for Loving (Text: Henry Carey)
- Lady Daffadowndilly (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Leans now the fair willow, dreaming (in Three Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Little Thinkest Thou, Poore Flower (Text: John Donne)
- My Bairn, Sleep Softly Now [x]
- Now the winter is gone (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
- Now Will I Weave White Violets (Text: William Money Hardinge after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
- Polly’s birthday (Text: Henry Carey)
- Pretty Caroline (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
- Shall I thus ever long (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas Heywood; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
- Shed no tear (in Welcome joy and welcome sorrow) (Text: John Keats)
- Sweet Kitty: As he was a-riding (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
- The beau’s lament for the loss of Farinelli (Text: Henry Carey)
- The Crabfish (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
- The Fool’s Song (in Three Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter de la Mare)
- The seeds of love (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
- Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Why fearest thou thy outward foe? (in Four Songs)
Last update: 2025-03-29 17:58:59