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Composer: Alan Dudley Bush (1900-1995)

Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered) , op. 86

no. 1. El pueblo (Text: Pablo Neruda) *
no. 2. Nada mas (Text: Pablo Neruda) [x]*
no. 3. El perezoso (Text: Pablo Neruda) *

Songs of the Doomed , op. 14

no. 1. Despair is at heart and hatred for ever (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
no. 2. When daylight's breaking (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
no. 3. Here they lie, not nice to see (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
no. 4. Epilogue - Hush be still you bitter strings (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*

Two Shakespeare Sonnets , op. 92

no. 1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA FRE FIN JPN
no. 2. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FRE GER

Voices of the Prophets , op. 41

no. 1. For behold (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. So at length the spirit of man (Text: John Milton)
no. 3. Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age! (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. Over the years (Text: Peter Blackmore) *

Woman's Life , op. 87

no. 1. Prologue (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
no. 2. Weaving song (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
no. 3. Factory Day (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
no. 4. Epilogue (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

Despair is at heart and hatred for ever, op. 14 no. 1 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
Down by the Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats)
During music (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
El perezoso, op. 86 no. 3 (in De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered)) (Text: Pablo Neruda) *
El pueblo, op. 86 no. 1 (in De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered)) (Text: Pablo Neruda) *
Epilogue, op. 87 no. 4 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
Epilogue - Hush be still you bitter strings, op. 14 no. 4 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
Factory Day, op. 87 no. 3 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
For behold, op. 41 no. 1 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Here they lie, not nice to see, op. 14 no. 3 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, op. 92 no. 2 (in Two Shakespeare Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FRE GER
Nada mas, op. 86 no. 2 (in De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered)) (Text: Pablo Neruda) [x]*
Over the years, op. 41 no. 4 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: Peter Blackmore) *
Prologue, op. 87 no. 1 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age!, op. 41 no. 3 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: William Blake)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day , op. 92 no. 1 (in Two Shakespeare Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA FRE FIN JPN
So at length the spirit of man, op. 41 no. 2 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: John Milton)
Song across the Water [x]
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Text: William Butler Yeats) ITA
Weaving song, op. 87 no. 2 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
When daylight's breaking, op. 14 no. 2 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*