Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Dyson

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Four Songs for Sailors
• The night is calm and cloudless (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• 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)
• Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems
• no. 1. Our birth is but a sleep (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 2. Rise, O my soul [multi-text setting] (Text: Campion, Raleigh, Bible or other Sacred Texts, Heywood) GER ENG
• no. 3. O whither shall my troubled muse incline [multi-text setting] (Text: Lynch, Herrick, Sternhold, Barnes)
• no. 4. Night hath no wings [multi-text setting] (Text: Herrick, Williams)
• no. 5. O timely happy, timely wise [multi-text setting] (Text: Venantius Fortunatus, Keble, Neale) FRE FIN ENG
• no. 6. Dear stream! dear bank, where often... [multi-text setting] (Text: Herbert, Vaughan)
• no. 7. Come to me God ; but do not come [multi-text setting] (Text: Herrick, Vaughan) FRE
• no. 8. Rest (Text: John Henry Newman)
• no. 9. To find the Western path [multi-text setting] (Text: Blake, Palmer, Shelley) ENG RUS
• Three Choral Hymns
• no. 1. Morning and evening (Text: Isaac Watts)
• no. 2. Hymn for a musician (Text: William Austin)
• no. 3. Hymn to the stars (Text: William Habington)
• Three Songs of Courage
• Reveille (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The seekers (Text: John Masefield)
• Three Songs of Praise
• no. 1. Praise (Text: George Herbert)
• no. 2. Lauds (Text: George Gascoigne)
• no. 3. A poet's hymn (Text: Robert Herrick)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A poet's hymn (in Three Songs of Praise) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Boot, saddle, to horse and away! (Text: Robert Browning)
• Come to me God ; but do not come [multi-text setting] (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: Vaughan, Herrick) FRE
• Dear stream! dear bank, where often... [multi-text setting] (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: Vaughan, Herbert)
• Fairy song (Text: John Keats)
• Hymn for a musician (in Three Choral Hymns) (Text: William Austin)
• Hymn to the stars (in Three Choral Hymns) (Text: William Habington)
• La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
• Lauds (in Three Songs of Praise) (Text: George Gascoigne)
• Margaret has a milking-pail (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Morning and evening (in Three Choral Hymns) (Text: Isaac Watts)
• Motherland (Text: William Watson, Sir)
• Night hath no wings [multi-text setting] (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: Williams, Herrick)
• O timely happy, timely wise [multi-text setting] (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: Neale, Venantius Fortunatus, Keble) FIN FRE ENG
• Our birth is but a sleep (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• O whither shall my troubled muse incline [multi-text setting] (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: Barnes, Herrick, Lynch, Sternhold)
• Praise (in Three Songs of Praise) (Text: George Herbert)
• Rest (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: John Henry Newman)
• Reveille (in Three Songs of Courage) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Rise, O my soul [multi-text setting] (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: Campion, Raleigh, Heywood, Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER ENG
• Song for a Festival (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
• The night is calm and cloudless (in Four Songs for Sailors) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The seekers (in Three Songs of Courage) (Text: John Masefield)
• To find the Western path [multi-text setting] (in Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems) (Text: Palmer, Blake, Shelley) RUS ENG
• Valour (Text: John Bunyan)
• Won't you look out of your window? (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Last update: 2024-07-13 23:32:49