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Composer: Gordon Crosse (1937-)

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

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle , op. 17

no. 1. Sancte Thomas ora pro nobis [x]
no. 2. Prayer: The night is come (Text: Thomas Browne, Sir)
no. 3. Prayer: God be in my head, and in my understanding (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. Prayer: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. Nurse's Song: When voices of children are heard on the green (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. Bellman's Song: Along the dark and silent night (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 7. Epitaph: O mortal folk, you may behold and see (Text: Stephen Hawes)
no. 8. Round: Hey nonny no!
no. 9. Wake all the dead (Text: Sir William D'Avenant)
no. 10. Like to the lightning from the sky [x]
no. 11. The Door of Death (Text: William Blake)
no. 12. A New Year Carol [x]

Four songs

no. ?. Allie (Text: Robert Graves)
no. ?. The cool web (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
no. ?. The frog prince (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
no. ?. Vanity (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*

Meet My Folks

no. 1. Dedication (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
no. 2. Sister Jane (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
no. 3. My Grandpa (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
no. 4. My Grandma (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
no. 5. Brother Bert (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
no. 6. My Aunt (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
no. 7. My Father (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*

The New World

no. 1. It is not long (Text: Ted Hughes) *
no. 2. When the star was on her brow (Text: Ted Hughes) *
no. 3. A star stands on her forehead (Text: Ted Hughes) *
no. 4. I said goodbye to Earth (Text: Ted Hughes) *
no. 5. The street was empty (Text: Ted Hughes) *
no. 6. Where did we go? (Text: Ted Hughes) *

Voices from the Tomb , op. 36a

no. 1. A soul earthbound by the grievance of never having been important (Text: Stevie Smith)
no. 2. The Blue from Heaven (A Legend of King Arthur of Britain) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
no. 3. Poor soul, poor girl! (A Debutante) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
no. 4. I trod a foreign path (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
no. 5. Avondall (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
no. 6. I died for lack of company (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
no. 7. The frog prince (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*

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

A New Year Carol, op. 17 no. 12 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) [x]
A soul earthbound by the grievance of never having been important, op. 36a no. 1 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith)
A star stands on her forehead (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
Allie (in Four songs) (Text: Robert Graves)
Avondall, op. 36a no. 5 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
Bellman's Song: Along the dark and silent night, op. 17 no. 6 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Brother Bert (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
Dedication (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
Epitaph: O mortal folk, you may behold and see, op. 17 no. 7 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Stephen Hawes)
I died for lack of company, op. 36a no. 6 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
I said goodbye to Earth (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
I trod a foreign path, op. 36a no. 4 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
It is not long (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
Like to the lightning from the sky, op. 17 no. 10 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) [x]
My Aunt (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
My Father (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
My Grandma (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
My Grandpa (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
Nurse's Song: When voices of children are heard on the green, op. 17 no. 5 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: William Blake)
Poor soul, poor girl! (A Debutante), op. 36a no. 3 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
Prayer: God be in my head, and in my understanding, op. 17 no. 3 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Prayer: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, op. 17 no. 4 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Volkslieder )
Prayer: The night is come, op. 17 no. 2 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Thomas Browne, Sir)
Round: Hey nonny no!, op. 17 no. 8 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle)
Sancte Thomas ora pro nobis, op. 17 no. 1 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) [x]
Sister Jane (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
The Blue from Heaven (A Legend of King Arthur of Britain), op. 36a no. 2 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
The cool web (in Four songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
The Demon of Adachigahara (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
The Door of Death, op. 17 no. 11 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: William Blake)
The frog prince (in Four songs) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
The frog prince, op. 36a no. 7 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]*
The history of the flood (Text: John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs) [x]*
The street was empty (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
Vanity (in Four songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
Wake all the dead, op. 17 no. 9 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Sir William D'Avenant)
When the star was on her brow (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
Where did we go? (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.