Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Holloway

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Author of Light : Four Jacobean Songs, op. 26
• no. 1. Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? (Text: Francis Quarles)
• Banal Sojourn, op. 15
• no. ?. Gubbinal (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. ?. Banal sojourn (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• Five Little Songs about Death, op. 21
• no. 1. From the Coptic (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 2. Come, death (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 3. Venus when young choosing death (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 4. I rode with my darling (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 5. God and man (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Five Madrigals, op. 22
• no. 1. Ecce puer (Text: James Joyce)
• no. 2. Children's voices (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
• no. 3. Eyes that last I saw in tears (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• no. 4. Voices of birds (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
• no. 5. Red river (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
• From high windows, op. 37
• no. 1. The trees (Text: Philip Larkin) * DUT
• no. 2. Next, please (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• no. 3. The old fools (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• no. 4. Cut Grass (Text: Philip Larkin) *
• no. 5. The explosion (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• no. 6. Epilogue (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• Georgian Songs, op. 19
• no. ?. The sunlit vale (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) [x]*
• no. ?. All soul's night (Text: Frances Cornford)
• no. ?. Fare well (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. ?. The watch (Text: Frances Cornford) [x]
• In the Thirtieth Year, op. 25
• no. 1. Not for charity (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• no. 2. Fear (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• no. 3. Distinctions at dusk (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• no. 4. The solipsist (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• no. 5. In the thirtieth year (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• Lights Out: Four Poems of Edward Thomas for Baritone and Piano, op. 24
• no. ?. Lights out (Text: Edward Thomas)
• Melodrama on Three Poems by Sylvia Plath, op. 9
• no. 1. Lady Lazarus (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• no. 2. Cut (Text: Sylvia Plath) [x]
• no. 3. Elm (Text: Sylvia Plath) [x]
• Moments of Vision
• no. 4. and then, right at the end, one might perhaps be able to write ten lines that were good (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x]
• Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3, op. 33a
• no. 1. Overture and theme-riddles (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 2. Going along (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 3. Dialogue (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 4. Ickle ockle (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 5. Third egg-riddle and answer (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 6. Finale (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Tender Only to One, op. 12
• no. ?. Tender only to one (Text: Stevie Smith)
• no. 4. So to fatness come (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• The Blue Doom of Summer, op. 35 [cantata]
• no. 1. Early sunrise (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 2. Exclamation (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 3. Walk to the lake (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 4. Contrasts (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 5. Arioso (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 6. The blue doom of summer (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 7. A hint of autumn (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 8. Valse des feuilles (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 9. Arietta (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 10. Deepening shadow (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 11. Envois (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• no. 12. Benediction (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• The Consolation of Music
• no. 1. Charm me asleep (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 2. The consolation of music (Text: William Strode)
• The Leaves Cry, op. 27 [cantata]
• no. 1. This vast inelegance (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]*
• no. 2. The course of a particular (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
• no. 3. Hollow-sounding and mysterious (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The noon's repose, op. 39
• no. 1. La figlia che piange (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• no. 2. Another weeping woman (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. 3. On a drop of dew (Text: Andrew Marvell)
• The Wind Shifts: Eight Poems of Wallace Stevens for High Voice and Strings, op. 14
• no. ?. The wind shifts (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• This is just to say, op. 32
• no. 1. Winter (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• no. 2. The bare tree (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• no. 3. Spring storm (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• no. 4. Memory of April (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• no. 5. Love song (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• no. 6. This is just to say (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• no. 7. Perfection (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• no. 8. The wildflower (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• no. 9. My days are burning (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• no. 10. A flowing river (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• no. 11. Approach of winter (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• no. 12. Conquest (Begun) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• no. 13. The marriage of souls (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• no. 14. Conquest (Concluded) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• Wherever we may be, op. 46
• no. 1. Olive tree (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• no. 2. The palm tree (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• no. 3. Robbers' den (Text: Robert Graves) *
• no. 4. Fig tree in leaf (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• no. 5. Wherever we may be (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A flowing river, op. 32 no. 10 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• Ah, fading joy, how quickly art thou past (Text: John Dryden)
• A hint of autumn , op. 35 no. 1g (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• All soul's night, op. 19 no. ? (in Georgian Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• Another weeping woman, op. 39 no. 2 (in The noon's repose) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• Approach of winter, op. 32 no. 11 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• Arietta, op. 35 no. 1i (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Arioso, op. 35 no. 1e (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Banal sojourn, op. 15 no. ? (in Banal Sojourn) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• Benediction, op. 35 no. 1l (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Cantata on the Death of God, op. 20 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Charm me asleep, op. 38 no. 1a (in The Consolation of Music) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Children's voices, op. 22 no. 2 (in Five Madrigals) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
• Come, death, op. 21 no. 2 (in Five Little Songs about Death) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Conquest (Begun), op. 32 no. 12 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• Conquest (Concluded), op. 32 no. 14 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• Contrasts , op. 35 no. 1d (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Cut Grass, op. 37 no. 4 (in From high windows) (Text: Philip Larkin) *
• Cut, op. 9 no. 2 (in Melodrama on Three Poems by Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) [x]
• Deepening shadow , op. 35 no. 1j (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Dialogue, op. 33a no. 3 (in Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Distinctions at dusk, op. 25 no. 3 (in In the Thirtieth Year) (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• Early sunrise, op. 35 no. 1a (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Ecce puer, op. 22 no. 1 (in Five Madrigals) (Text: James Joyce)
• Elm, op. 9 no. 3 (in Melodrama on Three Poems by Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) [x]
• Envois , op. 35 no. 1k (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Epilogue, op. 37 no. 6 (in From high windows) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• Exclamation, op. 35 no. 1b (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Eyes that last I saw in tears, op. 22 no. 3 (in Five Madrigals) (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• Fare well, op. 19 no. ? (in Georgian Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Fear, op. 25 no. 2 (in In the Thirtieth Year) (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• Fig tree in leaf, op. 46 no. 4 (in Wherever we may be) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• Finale, op. 33a no. 6 (in Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Four Housman Fragments [song cycle], op. 7 (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) [x]
• From the Coptic, op. 21 no. 1 (in Five Little Songs about Death) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• God and man, op. 21 no. 5 (in Five Little Songs about Death) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Going along, op. 33a no. 2 (in Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Gubbinal, op. 15 no. ? (in Banal Sojourn) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• He-She-Together, op. 38 no. 2 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Hollow-sounding and mysterious, op. 27 no. 3 (in The Leaves Cry) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Ickle ockle, op. 33a no. 4 (in Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• In the thirtieth year, op. 25 no. 5 (in In the Thirtieth Year) (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• I rode with my darling, op. 21 no. 4 (in Five Little Songs about Death) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Lady Lazarus, op. 9 no. 1 (in Melodrama on Three Poems by Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• La figlia che piange, op. 39 no. 1 (in The noon's repose) (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• Lights out, op. 24 no. ? (in Lights Out: Four Poems of Edward Thomas for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Edward Thomas)
• Love song, op. 32 no. 5 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• Memory of April, op. 32 no. 4 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• My days are burning, op. 32 no. 9 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• Next, please , op. 37 no. 2 (in From high windows) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• Not for charity, op. 25 no. 1 (in In the Thirtieth Year) (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• Olive tree, op. 46 no. 1 (in Wherever we may be) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• On a drop of dew, op. 39 no. 3 (in The noon's repose) (Text: Andrew Marvell)
• and then, right at the end, one might perhaps be able to write ten lines that were good (in Moments of Vision) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x]
• Overture and theme-riddles, op. 33a no. 1 (in Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Perfection, op. 32 no. 7 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• Red river, op. 22 no. 5 (in Five Madrigals) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
• Robbers' den, op. 46 no. 3 (in Wherever we may be) (Text: Robert Graves) *
• Sea surface full of clouds [cantata], op. 28 (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
• Since I believe (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• So to fatness come, op. 12 no. 4 (in Tender Only to One) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Spring storm, op. 32 no. 3 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• Tender only to one, op. 12 no. ? (in Tender Only to One) (Text: Stevie Smith)
• The bare tree, op. 32 no. 2 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• The blue doom of summer , op. 35 no. 1f (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• The consolation of music (Text: William Strode)
• The consolation of music, op. 38 no. 1b (in The Consolation of Music) (Text: William Strode)
• The course of a particular, op. 27 no. 2 (in The Leaves Cry) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
• The explosion , op. 37 no. 5 (in From high windows) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• The feckless dinner-party (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• The marriage of souls, op. 32 no. 13 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• The old fools, op. 37 no. 3 (in From high windows) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• The palm tree, op. 46 no. 2 (in Wherever we may be) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• The solipsist, op. 25 no. 4 (in In the Thirtieth Year) (Text: James Vincent Cunningham) [x]*
• The sunlit vale, op. 19 no. ? (in Georgian Songs) (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) [x]*
• The trees, op. 37 no. 1 (in From high windows) (Text: Philip Larkin) * DUT
• The watch, op. 19 no. ? (in Georgian Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford) [x]
• The wildflower, op. 32 no. 8 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
• The wind shifts, op. 14 no. ? (in The Wind Shifts: Eight Poems of Wallace Stevens for High Voice and Strings) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• Third egg-riddle and answer, op. 33a no. 5 (in Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• This is just to say, op. 32 no. 6 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• This vast inelegance, op. 27 no. 1 (in The Leaves Cry) (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]*
• Three Poems of William Empson [song cycle], op. 3 (Text: William Empson) [x]*
• Valse des feuilles , op. 35 no. 1h (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Venus when young choosing death, op. 21 no. 3 (in Five Little Songs about Death) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Voices of birds , op. 22 no. 4 (in Five Madrigals) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
• Walk to the lake , op. 35 no. 1c (in The Blue Doom of Summer) (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• Wherever we may be, op. 46 no. 5 (in Wherever we may be) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• Why dost thou shade thy lovely face?, op. 26 no. 1 (in Author of Light : Four Jacobean Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
• Winter, op. 32 no. 1 (in This is just to say) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*

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