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Composer: Andrew Downes (1950-)

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

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Casterbridge Fair, op. 1

no. 1. The Ballad Singer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Former beauties (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. A Wife Waits (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. After the Club Dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. After the Fair (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Five Holy Songs, op. 11

no. 1. I sing the progress of a deathless soul (Text: John Donne)
no. 2. Spit in my face, ye Jews (Text: John Donne)
no. 3. The virgins (Text: John Donne)
no. 4. When senses, which thy soldiers are (Text: John Donne)
no. 5. Hear us, O Hear us, Lord (Text: John Donne)

Lost Love, op. 15

no. 1. The Walk (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Lost Love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. A Night in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. Last Love Word (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Old Love's Domain, op. 29

no. 1. The Division (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Something Tapped (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Where the picnic was (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. At Castle Boterel (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The curtains now are drawn (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Songs from Spoon River

no. 1. Ollie McGee (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
no. 2. Russian Sonia (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
no. 3. Rebecca Wasson (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
no. 4. Dora Williams (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
no. 5. Sarah Brown (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)

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

A Night in November, op. 15 no. 3 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
A Wife Waits, op. 1 no. 3 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
After the Club Dance, op. 1 no. 4 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
After the Fair, op. 1 no. 5 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At Castle Boterel, op. 29 no. 4 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Dora Williams (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
Dreamland, op. 42 (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
Former beauties, op. 1 no. 2 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Hear us, O Hear us, Lord, op. 11 no. 5 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
I sing the progress of a deathless soul, op. 11 no. 1 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
Last Love Word, op. 15 no. 4 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Lost Love, op. 15 no. 2 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Ollie McGee (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
Rebecca Wasson (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
Russian Sonia (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
Sarah Brown (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
Something Tapped, op. 29 no. 2 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Spit in my face, ye Jews, op. 11 no. 2 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
The Ballad Singer, op. 1 no. 1 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The curtains now are drawn, op. 29 no. 5 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Division, op. 29 no. 1 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The virgins, op. 11 no. 3 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
The Walk, op. 15 no. 1 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
When senses, which thy soldiers are, op. 11 no. 4 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
Where the picnic was, op. 29 no. 3 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)