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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Dyson

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George Dyson (1883 - 1964)

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

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: Raleigh, Heywood, Campion, Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER ENG
    • no. 3. O whither shall my troubled muse incline [multi-text setting] (Text: Barnes, Sternhold, Lynch, Herrick)
    • no. 4. Night hath no wings [multi-text setting] (Text: Herrick, Williams)
    • no. 5. O timely happy, timely wise [multi-text setting] (Text: Keble, Venantius Fortunatus, Neale) ENG FIN FRE
    • no. 6. Dear stream! dear bank, where often... [multi-text setting] (Text: Vaughan, Herbert)
    • 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: Shelley, Palmer, Blake) RUS ENG
  • 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: Herrick, Vaughan) 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: Keble, Venantius Fortunatus, Neale) ENG FIN FRE
  • 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: Herrick, Lynch, Barnes, 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: Raleigh, Heywood, Campion, 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, Shelley, Blake) RUS ENG
  • Valour (Text: John Bunyan)
  • Won't you look out of your window? (Text: Walter De la Mare)

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