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Composer: (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

8 Folk Song Arrangements

no. 1. Lord! I married me a wife (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Lemady (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. Bonny at morn (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
no. 6. Dafydd y Garreg Wen (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG
no. 7. The False Knight upon the road (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 8. Bird Scarer's song (Text: Volkslieder )

A Birthday Hansel , op. 92

no. 1. Birthday Song (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. My Early Walk (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 3. Wee Willie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 4. My Hoggie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 5. Afton Water (Text: Robert Burns) GER
no. 6. The Winter (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER
no. 7. Leezie Lindsay (Text: Robert Burns)

A Ceremony of Carols , op. 28

no. 1. Procession (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN
no. 2. Wolcum Yole! (Text: 14^th century)
no. 3. There is no rose
no. 4a. That yongë child (Text: 14^th century)
no. 4b. Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther)
no. 5. As dew in Aprille (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
no. 6. This little babe (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 7. Interlude (Harp Solo)
no. 8. In freezing winter night (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 9. Spring carol (Text: William Cornish)
no. 10. Deo gracias (Text: 15^th century)
no. 11. Recession (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN

A Charm of Lullabies , op. 41

no. 1. A cradle song (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 2. The Highland Balou (Text: Robert Burns) GER FRE
no. 3. Sephestia's Lullaby (Text: Robert Greene)
no. 4. A charm (Text: Thomas Randolph)
no. 5. The Nurse's Song (Text: John Phillip)

Ballad of Heroes , op. 14

no. 1. Funeral march (Text: Randall Swingler) *
no. 2. Scherzo - Dance of Death (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Recitative and Choral [multi-text setting]
no. 4. Epilog (Text: Randall Swingler) *

Cabaret Songs

no. 1. Tell me the truth about love (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Funeral Blues (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Johnny (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 4. Calypso (Text: W. H. Auden) *

`Ekho Po`eta (The Poet's Echo), op. 76

no. 1. `Ekho (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 2. Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 3. Angel (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) GER
no. 4. Solovej i roza (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 5. `Epigramma (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 6. Stikhi, sochinjonnyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)

Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano [collection]

no. 1. To lie flat on the back (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Night covers up the rigid land (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. The sun shines down (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 4. Fish in the unruffled lakes (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 5. What's in your mind? (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 6. Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*

Five Flower Songs

no. 1. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
no. 2. The succession of the four sweet months (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
no. 3. Marsh flowers (Text: George Crabbe) DUT
no. 4. The evening primrose (Text: John Clare) DUT
no. 5. The Ballad of Green Broom DUT

Friday Afternoons , op. 7

no. 1. Begone, dull care! (Text: 17^th cent.)
no. 2. A tragic story (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
no. 3. Cuckoo! (Text: Jane Taylor)
no. 4. Ee-oh!
no. 5. A New Year carol
no. 6. I mun be married on Sunday (Text: Nicholas Udall)
no. 7. There was a man of Newington
no. 8. Fishing song (Text: John Chalkhill)
no. 9. The useful plough
no. 10. Jazz-Man (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) *
no. 11. There was a monkey
no. 12. Old Abram Brown (Text: Volkslieder )

Les Illuminations (Visions) (Les Illuminations), op. 18

no. 1. Fanfare (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 2. Villes (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 3. Antique [multi-text setting] ENG FRE CHI
no. 4. Royauté (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 5. Marine (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 6. Interlude (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 7. Being beauteous (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG GER CHI
no. 8. Parade (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 9. Départ (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI

Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra , op. 60

no. 1. On a poet's lips I slept (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
no. 2. Below the thunders of the upper deep (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) FRE
no. 3. Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) FRE
no. 4. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting (Text: Thomas Middleton) FRE
no. 5. But that night when on my bed I lay (Text: William Wordsworth) FRE
no. 6. She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
no. 7. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Text: John Keats) FRE
no. 8. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

On This Island , op. 11

no. 1. Let the florid music praise! (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Now the leaves are falling fast (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Seascape (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 4. Nocturne (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 5. As it is, plenty (Text: W. H. Auden) *

Our Hunting Fathers , op. 8

no. 1. Prologue (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Rats away
no. 3. Messalina
no. 4. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge) (Text: Thomas Ravenscroft)
no. 5. Epilogue and Funeral March (Text: W. H. Auden) *

Quatre chansons françaises (Four French Songs)

no. 1. Nuits de juin (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
no. 2. Sagesse (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER CHI RUS
no. 3. L'enfance (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
no. 4. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER ENG GER SPA

Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente (Six Hölderlin fragments) (Sis Fragments de Hölderlin), op. 61

no. 1. Menschenbeifall (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 2. Die Heimat (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 3. Sokrates und Alcibiades (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 4. Die Jugend (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 5. Hälfte des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT RUS ENG
no. 6. Die Linien des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (Sérénade pour ténor, cor et cordes), op. 31

no. 1. Pastoral (Text: Charles Cotton) NYN FRE
no. 2. Nocturne (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN FRE
no. 3. Elegy (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS GER FRE FRE GER
no. 4. Dirge (Text: 15^th century) NYN FRE
no. 5. Hymn (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN FRE
no. 6. Sonnet (Text: John Keats) NYN FRE

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo), op. 22

no. 1. Sonetto XVI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG FRE
no. 2. Sonetto XXXI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 3. Sonetto XXX (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
no. 4. Sonetto LV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 5. Sonetto XXXVIII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 6. Sonetto XXXII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
no. 7. Sonetto XXIV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake , op. 74

no. 1. Proverb I (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 2. London (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 3. Proverb II (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 4. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 5. Proverb III (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 6. A poison tree (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 7. Proverb IV (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 8. The tyger (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
no. 9. Proverb V (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 10. The fly (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
no. 11. Proverb VI (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 12. Ah, Sun-flower (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 13. Proverb VII (Text: William Blake) RUS ITA GER FRE
no. 14. Every Night and every Morn [multi-text setting] FRE

Spring Symphony , op. 44

no. 1. Shine out (Text: George Chapman)
no. 2. The merry cuckoo (Text: Edmund Spenser)
no. 3. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 4. The driving boy [multi-text setting]
no. 5. The morning star (Text: John Milton)
no. 6. Welcome, Maids of Honour (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 7. Waters above (Text: Henry Vaughan)
no. 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 9. When will my May come (Text: Richard Barnfield)
no. 10. Fair and fair (Text: George Peele)
no. 11. Sound the Flute! (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 12. Finale [multi-text setting] ENG LAT

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne , op. 35

no. 1. Oh my blacke Soule! (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 2. Batter my heart (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 3. Oh might those sighes and teares (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 4. Oh, to vex me (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 5. What if this present (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 6. Since she whom I lov'd (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 7. At the round earth's imagin'd corners (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 8. Thou hast made me (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 9. Death be not proud (Text: John Donne) ITA FRE

The Way to the Tomb

no. 1. Evening (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 2. Morning (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 3. Night (Text: Ronald Duncan) *

Three Two-Part Songs

no. ?. The rainbow (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. ?. The ride-by-nights (Text: Walter de la Mare)

Tit for tat (Un prêté pour un rendu)

no. 1. A song of enchantment (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 2. Autumn (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 3. Silver (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 4. Vigil (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 5. Tit for tat (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE

Two ballads

no. ?. Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*

Two Part-Songs

no. ?. Lift boy (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*

War Requiem , op. 66

no. 1. Requiem aeternam (Text: Wilfred Owen) GER
no. 2. Dies irae [multi-text setting]
no. 3. Offertorium (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 4. Sanctus (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 5. Agnus Dei (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 6. Libera me (Text: Wilfred Owen)

Who are these children? , op. 84

no. 1. A riddle (The Earth) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 2. A laddie's sang (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 3. Nightmare (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 4. Black day (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 5. Bed-time (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 6. Slaughter (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 7. A riddle (The child you were) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 8. The larky lad (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 9. Who are these children? (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 10. Supper (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 11. The children (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 12. The auld aik (Text: William Soutar) [x]*

Winter words (Mots d'hiver), op. 52

no. 1. At day-close in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Midnight on the Great Western (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Wagtail and Baby (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. The little old table (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The choirmaster's burial (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
no. 7. At the railway station, Upway (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Before life and after (Text: Thomas Hardy)

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

A charm, op. 41 no. 4 (in A Charm of Lullabies) (Text: Thomas Randolph)
A cradle song, op. 41 no. 1 (in A Charm of Lullabies) (Text: William Blake) WEL
A dirge (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA GER
A hymn on divine musick
A hymn to the virgin
A laddie's sang, op. 84 no. 2 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
A New Year carol, op. 7 no. 5 (in Friday Afternoons)
A poison tree, op. 74 no. 6 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
A poison tree (Text: William Blake) FRE
A riddle (The child you were), op. 84 no. 7 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
A riddle (The Earth), op. 84 no. 1 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
A song of enchantment (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
A tragic story, op. 7 no. 2 (in Friday Afternoons) (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
Afton Water, op. 92 no. 5 (in A Birthday Hansel) (Text: Robert Burns) GER
Agnus Dei, op. 66 no. 5 (in War Requiem) (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Ah, Sun-flower, op. 74 no. 12 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
An evening hymn (Text: Dr. William Fuller, Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FRE FIN
Angel, op. 76 no. 3 (in `Ekho Po`eta) (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) GER
Antique [multi-text setting] ENG FRE CHI, op. 18 no. 3 (in Les Illuminations)
As dew in Aprille, op. 28 no. 5 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
As it is, plenty, op. 11 no. 5 (in On This Island) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
At day-close in November, op. 52 no. 1 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At the mid hour of night (Text: Volkslieder )
At the mid hour of night (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder )
At the railway station, Upway, op. 52 no. 7 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At the round earth's imagin'd corners, op. 35 no. 7 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
Autumn (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
Avenging and bright (Text: Thomas Moore)
Balulalow, op. 28 no. 4b (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther)
Batter my heart, op. 35 no. 2 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
Bed-time, op. 84 no. 5 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
Before life and after, op. 52 no. 8 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Begone, dull care!, op. 7 no. 1 (in Friday Afternoons) (Text: 17^th cent.)
Being beauteous, op. 18 no. 7 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG GER CHI
Below the thunders of the upper deep, op. 60 no. 2 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) FRE
Beware! (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Volkslieder ) FRE
Bird Scarer's song (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Birthday Song, op. 92 no. 1 (in A Birthday Hansel) (Text: Robert Burns)
Birthday song for Erwin (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Black day, op. 84 no. 4 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
Bonny at morn (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
But that night when on my bed I lay, op. 60 no. 5 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: William Wordsworth) FRE
Ca' the yowes (Text: Robert Burns)
Calypso (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Canticle I (My beloved is mine), op. 40 (Text: Francis Quarles)
Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac), op. 51
Canticle III (Still falls the Rain), op. 55 (Text: Edith Sitwell) *
Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi), op. 86 (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
Canticle V (The Death of Saint Narcissus), op. 89 (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
Chanson d'automne (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER ENG GER SPA
Choral Dances from Gloriana, op. 53 (Text: William Charles Franklyn Plomer, CBE) *
Chorale after an Old French Carol (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]*
Come you not from Newcastle? (Text: Volkslieder )
Cradle song (Text: Louis MacNeice) *
Cuckoo!, op. 7 no. 3 (in Friday Afternoons) (Text: Jane Taylor)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG
Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge), op. 8 no. 4 (in Our Hunting Fathers) (Text: Thomas Ravenscroft)
Dans les bois (Text: Gérard de Nerval) ENG
Dear Harp of my Country! (Text: Thomas Moore)
Death be not proud, op. 35 no. 9 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) ITA FRE
Deo gracias, op. 28 no. 10 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: 15^th century)
Départ, op. 18 no. 9 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
Die Heimat, op. 61 no. 2 (in Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente) (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
Die Jugend, op. 61 no. 4 (in Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente) (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
Die Linien des Lebens, op. 61 no. 6 (in Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente) (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
Dies irae [multi-text setting], op. 66 no. 2 (in War Requiem)
Dirge, op. 31 no. 4 (in Serenade for tenor, horn and strings) (Text: 15^th century) NYN FRE
Early one morning (Text: Volkslieder ) FIN
Ee-oh!, op. 7 no. 4 (in Friday Afternoons)
Eho! Eho! (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
`Ekho, op. 76 no. 1 (in `Ekho Po`eta) (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Elegy, op. 31 no. 3 (in Serenade for tenor, horn and strings) (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS GER FRE FRE GER
Encinctured with a twine of leaves, op. 60 no. 3 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) FRE
`Epigramma, op. 76 no. 5 (in `Ekho Po`eta) (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Epilog, op. 14 no. 4 (in Ballad of Heroes) (Text: Randall Swingler) *
Epilogue and Funeral March, op. 8 no. 5 (in Our Hunting Fathers) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Epitaph: The Clerk (Text: Herbert Asquith)
Evening (in The Way to the Tomb) (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Every Night and every Morn [multi-text setting] FRE, op. 74 no. 14 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake)
Fair and fair, op. 44 no. 10 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: George Peele)
Fancy (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA FRE
Fanfare, op. 18 no. 1 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
Festival Cantata (Text: Christopher Smart)
Fileuse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Finale [multi-text setting] ENG LAT, op. 44 no. 12 (in Spring Symphony)
Fish in the unruffled lakes (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
Fishing song, op. 7 no. 8 (in Friday Afternoons) (Text: John Chalkhill)
From 'Lucy' (Text: William Wordsworth)
Funeral Blues (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Funeral march, op. 14 no. 1 (in Ballad of Heroes) (Text: Randall Swingler) *
Hälfte des Lebens, op. 61 no. 5 (in Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente) (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT RUS ENG
How sweet the answer (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Hymn, op. 31 no. 5 (in Serenade for tenor, horn and strings) (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN FRE
Hymn to St Cecilia (Text: W. H. Auden) *
I have sinned (Text: Bishop Jeremiah Taylor)
I mun be married on Sunday, op. 7 no. 6 (in Friday Afternoons) (Text: Nicholas Udall)
If thou wilt ease thine heart (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Il est quelqu'un sur terre (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
In freezing winter night, op. 28 no. 8 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: Robert Southwell)
In the black dismal dungeon of despair (Text: Dr. William Fuller, Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
Interlude, op. 18 no. 6 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
Interlude (Harp Solo), op. 28 no. 7 (in A Ceremony of Carols)
Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo, op. 76 no. 2 (in `Ekho Po`eta) (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Jazz-Man, op. 7 no. 10 (in Friday Afternoons) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) *
Johnny (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Jubilate Deo [multi-text setting] DUT ENG LAT FRE GER FIN
Kinderkreuzzug, op. 82 (Text: Bertolt Brecht) * ENG
La belle est au jardin d'amour (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
La noël passée (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Leezie Lindsay, op. 92 no. 7 (in A Birthday Hansel) (Text: Robert Burns)
Lemady (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
L'enfance (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
Let the dreadful engines (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
Let the florid music praise!, op. 11 no. 1 (in On This Island) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Libera me, op. 66 no. 6 (in War Requiem) (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Lift boy (in Two Part-Songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
Lilian (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Little Sir William (Text: Volkslieder )
London, op. 74 no. 2 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Lord! I married me a wife (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Marine, op. 18 no. 5 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
Marsh flowers (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: George Crabbe) DUT
Master Kilby (Text: Volkslieder )
Menschenbeifall, op. 61 no. 1 (in Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente) (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
Messalina, op. 8 no. 3 (in Our Hunting Fathers)
Midnight on the Great Western, op. 52 no. 2 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, op. 60 no. 4 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: Thomas Middleton) FRE
Morning (in The Way to the Tomb) (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
My Early Walk, op. 92 no. 2 (in A Birthday Hansel) (Text: Robert Burns)
My Hoggie, op. 92 no. 4 (in A Birthday Hansel) (Text: Robert Burns)
Night (in The Way to the Tomb) (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Night covers up the rigid land (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Nightmare, op. 84 no. 3 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
Nocturne, op. 11 no. 4 (in On This Island) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Nocturne, op. 31 no. 2 (in Serenade for tenor, horn and strings) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN FRE
Not even summer yet (Text: Peter Burra) *
Now the leaves are falling fast, op. 11 no. 2 (in On This Island) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Nuits de juin (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
O can ye sew cushions? (Text: Volkslieder )
O that I had ne'er been married (Text: Robert Burns)
O Waly, Waly (Text: Volkslieder )
Offertorium, op. 66 no. 3 (in War Requiem) (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Oft in the stilly night (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Oh might those sighes and teares, op. 35 no. 3 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
Oh my blacke Soule!, op. 35 no. 1 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
Oh, to vex me, op. 35 no. 4 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
Old Abram Brown, op. 7 no. 12 (in Friday Afternoons) (Text: Volkslieder )
Oliver Cromwell (Text: Volkslieder )
On a poet's lips I slept, op. 60 no. 1 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
Out on the lawn I lie in bed, op. 44 no. 8 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Parade, op. 18 no. 8 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
Pastoral, op. 31 no. 1 (in Serenade for tenor, horn and strings) (Text: Charles Cotton) NYN FRE
Prithee (Text: Sir John Suckling)
Procession, op. 28 no. 1 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN
Prologue, op. 8 no. 1 (in Our Hunting Fathers) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Proud songsters, op. 52 no. 6 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
Proverb I, op. 74 no. 1 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Proverb II, op. 74 no. 3 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Proverb III, op. 74 no. 5 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Proverb IV, op. 74 no. 7 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Proverb V, op. 74 no. 9 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Proverb VI, op. 74 no. 11 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Proverb VII, op. 74 no. 13 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) RUS ITA GER FRE
Quand j'étais chez mon père (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Rats away, op. 8 no. 2 (in Our Hunting Fathers)
Recession, op. 28 no. 11 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN
Recitative and Choral [multi-text setting], op. 14 no. 3 (in Ballad of Heroes)
Rejoice in the Lamb (Text: Christopher Smart)
Requiem aeternam, op. 66 no. 1 (in War Requiem) (Text: Wilfred Owen) GER
Rich and rare (Text: Thomas Moore) FRE
Ring out the thousand wars of old (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Royauté, op. 18 no. 4 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
Sagesse (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER CHI RUS
Sail on, sail on (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Sailor-Boy (Text: Volkslieder )
Sally in our alley (Text: Henry Carey) GER
Sanctus, op. 66 no. 4 (in War Requiem) (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Scherzo - Dance of Death, op. 14 no. 2 (in Ballad of Heroes) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Seascape, op. 11 no. 3 (in On This Island) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Sephestia's Lullaby, op. 41 no. 3 (in A Charm of Lullabies) (Text: Robert Greene)
She sleeps on soft, last breaths, op. 60 no. 6 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
Shepherd's carol (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
She's like the swallow (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Shine out, op. 44 no. 1 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: George Chapman)
Silver (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
Since she whom I lov'd, op. 35 no. 6 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
Slaughter, op. 84 no. 6 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
Sokrates und Alcibiades, op. 61 no. 3 (in Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente) (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
Solovej i roza, op. 76 no. 4 (in `Ekho Po`eta) (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Sonetto XVI, op. 22 no. 1 (in Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG FRE
Sonetto XXIV, op. 22 no. 7 (in Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
Sonetto XXX, op. 22 no. 3 (in Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
Sonetto XXXI, op. 22 no. 2 (in Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
Sonetto XXXII, op. 22 no. 6 (in Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
Sonetto XXXVIII, op. 22 no. 5 (in Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
Sonetto LV, op. 22 no. 4 (in Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
Sonnet, op. 31 no. 6 (in Serenade for tenor, horn and strings) (Text: John Keats) NYN FRE
Sound the Flute!, op. 44 no. 11 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: William Blake) WEL
Spring carol, op. 28 no. 9 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: William Cornish)
Spring, the sweet spring, op. 44 no. 3 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
Stikhi, sochinjonnyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy, op. 76 no. 6 (in `Ekho Po`eta) (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Supper, op. 84 no. 10 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
Sweet Polly Oliver (Text: Volkslieder )
Sweet was the song
Take, o take those lips away DUT GER FRE FIN GER POL
Tell me the truth about love (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
That yongë child, op. 28 no. 4a (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: 14^th century)
The ash grove (Text: Volkslieder )
The auld aik, op. 84 no. 12 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
The Ballad of Green Broom (in Five Flower Songs) DUT
The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The bonny Earl o' Moray (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
The brisk young widow (Text: Volkslieder )
The children, op. 84 no. 11 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
The chimney sweeper, op. 74 no. 4 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) FRE
The choirmaster's burial, op. 52 no. 5 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The driving boy [multi-text setting], op. 44 no. 4 (in Spring Symphony)
The evening primrose (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: John Clare) DUT
The False Knight upon the road (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
The fly, op. 74 no. 10 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
The foggy, foggy dew (Text: Volkslieder )
The Highland Balou, op. 41 no. 2 (in A Charm of Lullabies) (Text: Robert Burns) GER FRE
The joy of grief (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The king goes hunting (Text: Iris Rogers after Volkslieder )
The larky lad, op. 84 no. 8 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
The last rose of summer (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
The Lincolnshire poacher (Text: Volkslieder )
The little old table, op. 52 no. 4 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The merry cuckoo, op. 44 no. 2 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
The Miller of Dee (Text: Volkslieder )
The Minstrel Boy (Text: Thomas Moore)
The morning star, op. 44 no. 5 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: John Milton)
The Nurse's Song, op. 41 no. 5 (in A Charm of Lullabies) (Text: John Phillip)
The nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The ploughboy (Text: Volkslieder )
The rainbow (in Three Two-Part Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The red cockatoo (Text: Arthur Waley after Bai Juyi)
The Riddle Song (Text: Volkslieder )
The ride-by-nights (in Three Two-Part Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The ship of Rio (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The shooting of his dear (Text: Volkslieder )
The sight entrancing (Text: Volkslieder )
The soldier and the sailor (Text: Volkslieder )
The succession of the four sweet months (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
The sun shines down (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
The trees they grow so high (Text: Volkslieder )
The tyger, op. 74 no. 8 (in Songs and Proverbs of William Blake) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
The useful plough, op. 7 no. 9 (in Friday Afternoons)
The Winter, op. 92 no. 6 (in A Birthday Hansel) (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER
There is no rose, op. 28 no. 3 (in A Ceremony of Carols)
There was a man of Newington, op. 7 no. 7 (in Friday Afternoons)
There was a monkey, op. 7 no. 11 (in Friday Afternoons)
There's none to soothe (Text: Volkslieder )
This little babe, op. 28 no. 6 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: Robert Southwell)
Thou hast made me, op. 35 no. 8 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
Tit for tat (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
To daffodils (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
To lie flat on the back (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Tom Bowling (Text: Charles Dibdin)
Um Mitternacht (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Underneath the abject willow (in Two ballads) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
Underneath the abject willow (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
Vigil (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
Villes, op. 18 no. 2 (in Les Illuminations) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
Virtue in deeds not words (Text: Philip James Bailey)
Voices for Today, op. 75 [x]
Voici le printemps (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Wagtail and Baby, op. 52 no. 3 (in Winter words) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Waters above, op. 44 no. 7 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: Henry Vaughan)
Wee Willie, op. 92 no. 3 (in A Birthday Hansel) (Text: Robert Burns)
Welcome, Maids of Honour, op. 44 no. 6 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: Robert Herrick)
What if this present, op. 35 no. 5 (in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) (Text: John Donne) FRE
What is more gentle than a wind in summer?, op. 60 no. 7 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: John Keats) FRE
What's in your mind? (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, op. 60 no. 8 (in Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
When will my May come, op. 44 no. 9 (in Spring Symphony) (Text: Richard Barnfield)
When you're feeling like expressing your affection *
Who are these children?, op. 84 no. 9 (in Who are these children?) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
Wild with passion (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Wolcum Yole!, op. 28 no. 2 (in A Ceremony of Carols) (Text: 14^th century)

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