Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Healey

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Derek Healey (b. 1936)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Alice: Five Lewis Carroll Songs, op. 136

no. 1. A boat, beneath a sunny sky (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll)
no. 2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Text: Anonymous) FRE
no. 3. How doth the little crocodile (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE
no. 4. You are old, Father William (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE
no. 5. The Lobster Quadrille (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE

An Italian Songbook: 10 songs with texts by Carducci, Pascoli and d'Annunzio

no. 1. Pianto Antico (Text: Giosuè Carducci) [x]
no. 2. San Martino (Text: Giosuè Carducci) [x]
no. 3. Il treno (Text: Giosuè Carducci) [x]
no. 4. Novembre (Text: Giovanni Pascoli) [x]
no. 5. Il gelsomino notturno (Text: Giovanni Pascoli) [x]
no. 6. Orfano (Text: Giovanni Pascoli) ENG
no. 7. L'assiuolo (Text: Giovanni Pascoli)
no. 8. Assisi (Text: Gabriele D'Annunzio) [x]
no. 9. O falce di luna calante (Text: Gabriele D'Annunzio) ENG GER
no. 10. Romanza (Text: Gabriele D'Annunzio) ENG FRE

Bianco's Delight: a bakers dozen cat songs, op. 146

no. 1. Puss came Dancing (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 2. She sights a Bird (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
no. 3. Sonnet to Mrs. Reynolds Cat (Text: John Keats)
no. 4. Kittens (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) [x]
no. 5. Dame Wiggins of Lee (Text: John Ruskin)
no. 6. A Cat's Conscience [x]
no. 7. To a Cat (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
no. 8. A Cat in Distress (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 9. Six little Mice (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 10. Rindle, Randle (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 11. The Cats have left for tea (Text: Catherine "Kate" Greenaway)
no. 12. At the Fireside (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 13. Salmagundi (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]

Bid Time Return, op. 115

no. 1. Cold Dawn (Text: Derek Healey) [x]*
no. 2. Kensington: 1954 (Text: Derek Healey) [x]

Five Edward Thomas Songs, op. 97

no. 1. Sowing (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
no. 2. Tall nettles (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
no. 3. Song (Text: Edward Thomas) [x]
no. 4. Adlestrop (Text: Edward Thomas)
no. 5. The Huxter (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)

Five Edward Thomas Songs: Set 2, op. 126

no. 1. Song - Early One Morning (Text: Edward Thomas)
no. 2. The Pond (Text: Edward Thomas)
no. 3. Women he liked (Text: Edward Thomas)
no. 4. The Trumpet (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
no. 5. Will you come? (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)

Five Thomas Hardy Songs, op. 13

no. 1. The Protean Maiden (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. A Winsome Woman (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Boys then and now (Text: Thomas Hardy) [x]
no. 4. In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
no. 5. Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Golden Apples (Oscar Wilde), op. 114

no. 1. From Spring Days to Winter (Text: Oscar Wilde)
no. 2. Le Jardin (Text: Oscar Wilde) HUN
no. 3. Theocritus (Text: Oscar Wilde)
no. 4. Chanson (Text: Oscar Wilde)
no. 5. Ave Maria Gratia Plena (Text: Oscar Wilde)

Heinelieder, op. 137

no. 1. Weisse Flocken (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 2. Grünen Waldorchester (Text: Heinrich Heine) FRE
no. 3. Schmetterling (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE
no. 4. Lotosblume (Text: Heinrich Heine) BAQ CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE FRE ITA POR RUS RUS RUS SPA
no. 5. Begegnung (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 6. Alter König (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT ENG ENG FRE ITA RUS UKR
no. 7. Fortschrittswelt (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG

Morgenstern Lieder, op. 129

no. 1. Im Tierkostüm (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
no. 2. Das Nasobēm (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FRE
no. 3. Die Tagnachtlampe (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
no. 4. Leise Lieder (Text: Christian Morgenstern) CAT DUT ENG FRE
no. 5. Möwenlied (Text: Christian Morgenstern) FRE
no. 6. Die unmögliche Tatsache (Text: Christian Morgenstern) FRE
no. 7. Winternacht (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
no. 8. Das große Lalula (Text: Christian Morgenstern) FIN
no. 9. Der Traum der Magd (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FRE
no. 10. Fisches Nachtgesang (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG
no. 11. Die beiden Esel (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FRE

Northern Songs, Book 1 & 2, op. 88

no. 1. Butterfly (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 2. Thought (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 3. Moon (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 4. Butterfly II (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 5. Diver (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 6. Wandering (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 7. Butterfly III (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 8. Pine Odour (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 9. Butterfly IV (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]
no. 10. Sun (Text: William Wrightson Eustace Ross) [x]

Seascapes and Shanties, op. 135

no. 1. Surf-smoke (Text: Norman Newton) [x]*
no. 2. You Bunch of Roses (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 3. The World Beneath the Brine (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. The Fishes (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 5. Moon Jelly (Text: Derek Healey) [x]*
no. 6. Passage, Immediate Passage (Text: Walt Whitman)

Six American Songs, op. 14

no. 1. Buffalo Bill (Text: E. E. Cummings)
no. 2. To One in Paradise (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
no. 3. The Purist (Text: Ogden Nash) *
no. 4. Morning at the Window (Text: T. S. Eliot)
no. 5. What the Bullet sang (Text: Bret Harte)
no. 6. New Hampshire (Text: T. S. Eliot) *

Six Greek Fragments, op. 11

no. 1. Inscription: Pan (Text: Anonymous after Plato) [x]
no. 2. Cold Pastoral (Text: Anonymous after Leonidas of Tarentum) [x]
no. 3. Flowers: For Heliodora (Text: Anonymous after Meleager of Gadara) [x] FRE
no. 4. Memphis (Text: Anonymous after Palladas) [x]
no. 5. Modus Vivendi (Text: Anonymous after Palladas) [x]
no. 6. On Troy fallen (Text: Anonymous after Agathias Scholasticus) [x]

Six Irish Songs, op. 16

no. 1. Magdalen Walks (Text: Oscar Wilde)
no. 2. Strings in the earth (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
no. 3. Death may be (Text: Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty) [x]*
no. 4. I hear an army charging (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 5. A Cradle Song (Text: William Butler Yeats) ITA
no. 6. A Drinking Song (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE IRI

The Silvered Lute: a Wang Wei Song Album, op. 107

no. 1. The Ravine (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 2. The Grove of Dark Bamboo (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 3. Green Creek (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 4. Green Willows (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 5. Cold Mountains (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 6. The Autumn Moon (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 7. The Hunt (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 8. Old Home (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]
no. 9. The Empty Mountain (Text: Anonymous after Wang Wei) [x]

Thy Distant Fire: an Edgar Allan Poe Songbook, op. 123

no. 1. Eldorado (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE GER
no. 2. Evening star (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
no. 3. To F: (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE RUS
no. 4. Sancta Maria! (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
no. 5. To the River (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE
no. 6. To Zante (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
no. 7. Serenade (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
no. 8. Lines on Ale (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

op. 11. Six Greek Fragments
op. 13. Five Thomas Hardy Songs
op. 14. Six American Songs
op. 16. Six Irish Songs
op. 88. Northern Songs, Book 1 & 2
op. 97. Five Edward Thomas Songs
op. 107. The Silvered Lute: a Wang Wei Song Album
op. 114. Golden Apples (Oscar Wilde)
op. 115. Bid Time Return
op. 121a.
op. 121b.
op. 121c.
op. 123. Thy Distant Fire: an Edgar Allan Poe Songbook
op. 126. Five Edward Thomas Songs: Set 2
op. 129. Morgenstern Lieder
op. 135. Seascapes and Shanties
op. 136. Alice: Five Lewis Carroll Songs
op. 137. Heinelieder
op. 146. Bianco's Delight: a bakers dozen cat songs

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