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 Opus order

• Ah, fading joy, how quickly art thou past (Text: John Dryden)
• 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]
• Since I believe (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• The consolation of music (Text: William Strode)
• The feckless dinner-party (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]

• op. 3. Three Poems of William Empson [song cycle] (Text: William Empson) [x]*
• op. 7. Four Housman Fragments [song cycle] (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) [x]
• op. 9. Melodrama on Three Poems by Sylvia Plath
  • no. 1. Lady Lazarus (Text: Sylvia Plath)
  • no. 2. Cut (Text: Sylvia Plath) [x]
  • no. 3. Elm (Text: Sylvia Plath) [x]
• op. 12. Tender Only to One
  • no. ?. Tender only to one (Text: Stevie Smith)
  • no. 4. So to fatness come (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• op. 14. The Wind Shifts: Eight Poems of Wallace Stevens for High Voice and Strings
  • no. ?. The wind shifts (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• op. 15. Banal Sojourn
  • no. ?. Banal sojourn (Text: Wallace Stevens)
  • no. ?. Gubbinal (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• op. 19. Georgian Songs
  • no. ?. The sunlit vale (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) [x]*
  • no. ?. All soul's night (Text: Frances Cornford)
  • no. ?. The watch (Text: Frances Cornford) [x]
  • no. ?. Fare well (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• op. 20. Cantata on the Death of God (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• op. 21. Five Little Songs about Death
  • 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]
• op. 22. Five Madrigals
  • 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) *
• op. 24. Lights Out: Four Poems of Edward Thomas for Baritone and Piano
  • no. ?. Lights out (Text: Edward Thomas)
• op. 25. In the Thirtieth Year
  • 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]*
• op. 26. Author of Light : Four Jacobean Songs
  • no. 1. Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? (Text: Francis Quarles)
• op. 27. The Leaves Cry
  • 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)
• op. 28. Sea surface full of clouds [cantata] (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
• op. 32. This is just to say
  • 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)
• op. 33a. Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No 3
  • 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]
• op. 35. The Blue Doom of Summer
  • no. 1a. Early sunrise (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1b. Exclamation (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1c. Walk to the lake (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1d. Contrasts (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1e. Arioso (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1f. The blue doom of summer (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1g. A hint of autumn (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1h. Valse des feuilles (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1i. Arietta (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1j. Deepening shadow (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1k. Envois (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
  • no. 1l. Benediction (Text: Ronald Firbank) [x]
• op. 37. From high windows
  • 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]*
• op. 38.
  • no. 1a. Charm me asleep (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • no. 1b. The consolation of music (Text: William Strode)
  • no. 2. He-She-Together (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• op. 39. The noon's repose
  • 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)
• op. 46. Wherever we may be
  • 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]*

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