Songs
Voice and piano
Angels of the mind |
1969 |
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| Worry about money -- Lenten flowers -- Harvest -- Seed -- In the beck -- Storm -- Nocturne | ||
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 17 mins | |
| Range: 1.B,-Aflat' 2.D-F' 3.E-A' 4.D-Aflat' 5.D-G' 6.C#-Aflat' 7.D-G' | Text: Kathleen Raine | |
At the window |
1925 |
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| Publisher: Manuscript | Duration: 45 secs | |
| Range: D-A' | Text: Alfred Lord Tennyson | |
Auvergnat |
1943 |
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| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 1 min | |
| Range: Medium voice: E-G#' | Text: Hilaire Belloc | |
The Ballads of the Four Seasons |
1923 |
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| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 7:26 mins | |
| Range: 1.C-F' 2.C#-C#' 3.Bflat,-A' 4.D-A' | Text: Li-Po: trans. Shigeyoshi Obata | |
A Child's prayer |
1926 |
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| Publisher: Curwen/Schirmer | Duration: unknown | |
| Range: F-F' | Text: Siegfried Sassoon | |
The fallow deer at the lonely house |
1924 |
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| Publisher: Curwen/Schirmer | Duration: 2:30 mins | |
| Range: E-G#' | Text: Thomas Hardy | |
The Hammers |
1915 |
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| Publisher: Manuscript | Duration: 2 mins | |
| Range: C,-G' | Text: Ralph Hodgson | |
Rich or Poor |
1925 |
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| Publisher: Curwen/Schirmer | Duration: 2:15 mins | |
| Range: E-F' | Text: W.H.Davies | |
Sailing or Flying |
1970 |
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| Publisher: Manuscipt | Duration: 1:30 mins | |
| Range: D-E' | Text: Winifred Williams | |
Seven American Poems |
1940 |
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| 1. Gone, gone again is summer (E. St. Vincent Millay) -- 2. Siege (E. St. Vincent Millay) -- 3. Feast (E. St. Vincent Millay) -- 4. Little elegy (E. Wylie) -- 5. Rain comes down (E. St. Vincent Millay) -- 6. Fair Annet's song (E. Wylie) -- 7. Being young and green (E. St. Vincent Millay) | ||
| Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes | Duration: 9:35 mins | |
| Range: 1.Bflat-Eflat' 2.C-G' 3.A,-D' 4.C-F' 5.B#,-F#' 6.B,-Eflat' 7.B,-E' | Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1,2,3,5,7); Elinor Wylie (4,6) | |
Simples |
1932 |
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| Publisher: OUP | Duration: 2:45 mins | |
| Range: Eflat-F' | Text: James Joyce | |
Three Jolly Gentlemen |
1923 |
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| Publisher: Composers Music Corp. | Duration: 50 secs | |
| Range: Eflat-G' | Text: Walter de la Mare | |
Three Romantic Songs |
1921 |
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| 1. The hare -- 2. Love locks -- 3. The buckle. | ||
| Publisher: Curwen/Schirmer | Duration: 4:30 mins | |
| Range: 1.D-G' 2.D-F' 3.B,-F' | Text: Walter de la Mare | |
Three songs |
1923 (rev. 1972) |
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| 1. Thunderstorms -- 2. This night -- 3. Leisure | ||
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 6:45 mins | |
| Range: 1.D-F#' 2.C-G' 3.G-G' | Text: W.H. Davies | |
Tis time I think by Wenlock Town |
1914 |
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| Publisher: Manuscript | Duration: 1:58 mins | |
| Range: Eflat-G' | Text: A.E. Housman | |
The Tramps |
1916 |
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| Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes | Duration: 1:30 min | |
| Range: Eflat-G' | Text: Robert Service (from Songs of a Sourdough) | |
Tulips |
1970 |
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| Publisher: Manuscript | Duration: 1:05 mins | |
| Range: G-E' (piano or gtr acc.) | Text: Winifred Williams | |
Two American Poems |
1940 |
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| 1. Humoresque. - 2. The return from town | ||
| Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes | Duration: 2:55 mins | |
| Range: 1.E-G#' 2.E-F#' | Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay | |
When I was one and twenty |
1923 |
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| Publisher: G. Ricordi, New York | Duration: unknown | |
| Range: published high and low editions: 1.F-G' 2.D-E' | Text: A.E. Housman | |
Voice and Ensemble
The Buckle (no. 3 of Three Romantic Songs) |
1921 |
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| Publisher: Manuscript | Duration: unknown | |
| Range: B,-F' | Text: Walter de la Mare | |
| Instrumentation: Mezzo Soprano, string 4tet | ||
| Elegaic Sonnet | 1954 | |
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 8 mins | |
| Range: F#-A' | Text: Cecil Day Lewis | |
| Instrumentation: Tenor, piano, string 4tet | ||
| A Knot of Riddles | 1963 | |
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 17 mins | |
| Range: Aflat,-G | Text: trans: Kevin Crossley-Holland from the Old English of 'The Exeter Book' | |
| Instrumentation: Baritone, 1d1 1 1 1, 0 0 0 0, hp, string 4tet, db (if desired) | ||
| Madam Noy | 1918 | |
| Publisher: J. W. Chester | Duration: 3:30 mins | |
| Range: B,-G' | Text: E.H.W Meyerstein | |
| Instrumentation: Soprano, 1 0 1 1, 0 0 0 0, harp, vla, db | ||
| Rhapsody | 1919 | |
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 6:44-7 mins | |
| Range: Soprano: C-A#'; Tenor: G-A# | Text: Vocalise on 'ah' | |
| Instrumentation: Soprano, tenor, fl, Cor Ang, perc (glock, sd), hp, string 4tet | ||
| Rout (original version) | 1920 | |
| Publisher: Manuscript lost | Duration: unknown | |
| Range: C#-A' | Text: Arthur Bliss: 'A Medley of made up words' | |
| Instrumentation: Soprano, fl, cl, perc (glock, sd), hp, string 4tet, db | ||
| For orchestral version click here | ||
| Two Nursery Rhymes | 1920 | |
| The ragwort : for soprano, clarinet, and piano -- The dandelion : for soprano and clarinet | ||
| Publisher: J&W. Chester | Duration: 2:17 mins | |
| Range: 1.F#-F#' 2.E-G' | Text: Frances Cornford | |
| Instrumentation: Soprano, clarinet (or viola), piano | ||
| The Women of Yueh | 1923 | |
| Five songs to the words of Li Po | ||
| Publisher: J.&W. Chester | Duration: 7:25 mins | |
| Range: 1.F-F#' 2.G-F#' 3.D-F#' 4.D-F' 5.D-G' | Text: Li-Po, translated by Shigeyoshi Obata | |
| Instrumentation: Voice, 1 1 1 1, 0 0 0 0 , perc (sd, tri, glock), string 4tet, db | ||
Voice and orchestra
| The Enchantress | 1951 | |
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 15:30-17 mins | |
| Range: G,-G' | Text: adapted by Sir Henry Wood from the Second Idyll of Theocritus | |
| Instrumentation: Contralto, 2d1 1+1 0 0, 4 2 3 0, timp, cym, hp, strings | ||
| Four Songs | 1927 | |
| 1. A Christmas carol / Arthur Cripps -- 2. Sea love / Charlotte Mew -- 3. Vocalise -- 4. The mad woman of Punnet's Town / L.A.G. Strong. | ||
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 1:10 ; 1:15 ; 2:00 ; 1:00 mins | |
| Range: 1. E-F' 2. C-F' 3. F#'-Bflat 4. F-A' | Text: Arthur Cripps, Charlotte Mew, L.A.G. Strong | |
| Instrumentation: Voice, vln, piano | ||
| Rout (orchestral version) | 1920 | |
| Publisher: Curwen/Faber | Duration: 7 mins | |
| Range: C#-A' | ||
| Instrumentation: 2d1 1 2 2, 4 2 0 0, timp, perc (sd, glock, sl. bells), hp, strings | ||
| For original version click here | ||
| The Tempest | 1921 | |
| Publisher: Novello | Duration: 5-6 mins | |
| Range: Tenor: G-A'; Bass: C,-Eflat | Text: unspecified text | |
| Instrumentation: Tenor, Bass, tpt, trb, 4 timp (4 players), 3 or 4 perc (sd, td, db, cym, gong, clapper), piano | ||
| Two Love Songs (from Serenade) | 1929 | |
| 1. Fair is my love : Sonnet: LXXXI Amoretti / Edmund Spenser -- 2. In praise of his Daphnis : "Tune on my pipe the praise of my love" / Sir John Wotton | ||
| Publisher: OUP | Duration: no.2: 4:30 mins; no.4: 5 mins | |
| Range: no.2: C,-F'; no.4: C,-F#' | Text: no.2: Edmund Spenser; no.4: Sir J.Wooton | |
| Instrumentation: Baritone, 2d1 1 2 2, 2 2 1 0, timp, perc(cast, tamb, glock), hp, strings | ||
| Two songs from the film The Beggar's Opera : for men's voices (nos. 17 and 18) | 1952 | |
| 1. Let us take the road / words varied by Christopher Fry ; melody from the march in Rinaldo by Handel -- 2. Fill ev'ry glass : (to the melody of "Quelle est cette odeur agréable") | ||
| Publisher: Novello (vocal score) | Duration: 2:25 mins | |
| Instrumentation: male voices, 2+1 2 2 2, 2 2 3 1, timp, perc (sd, xyl, cym), strings [doubling unchecked]: (or male voices, piano) | ||
| Two songs from the film The Beggar's Opera : for women's voices (nos. 20 and 34) | 1952 | |
| 1. Youth's the season made for love -- 2. The modes of the court so common are grown : (Lillibullero) | ||
| Publisher: Novello (vocal score) | Duration: 2:25 mins | |
| Instrumentation: 20) female voices, 1 0 0 0, 0 0 0 0, hp, strings (or female voices, piano) 34) female voices, 2+1 2 2 2, 0 0 0 0, timp, 2 perc (td, tamb, glock), strings [doubling unchecked]: (or female voices, piano) | ||
| For film score visit Music for film and radio: For theatre/concert score visit Music for opera/theatre | ||