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Composer: Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921-1976)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Secrets

no. ?. Love, like a drop of dew (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
no. ?. Pleasure and joy (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
no. ?. See where Young Love (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]

Six Folksongs from Prince Edward arranged by Robert Fleming [collection]

no. 1. Bonnie Lyndale (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Bud Jones (Text: Lawrence Doyle)
no. 3. Kitardine (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. The crooked rib (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. Coatman's Saloon (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 6. My seventy-six geared wheel (Text: Mary Fleming)

The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)

no. 1. O my boy: Jesus my first and only son (Text: Owen Dobson)
no. 2. Don't pay attention to the old men in the temple (Text: Owen Dobson)
no. 3. Jesus, did you know that Lazarus is back? (Text: Owen Dobson)
no. 4. There's a supper in Jerusalem tonight and I wish that I (Text: Owen Dobson)
no. 5. Cold and icy in my bed: laid on the ground of Jerusalem (Text: Owen Dobson)
no. 6. Bring me those needles, Martha, I believe I'll knit Jesus a scarf (Text: Owen Dobson)
no. 7. Everything is black, air, water, sun, moon, all light, dirt is black (Text: Owen Dobson)
no. 8. O my boy: Jesus my first and only son (Text: Owen Dobson)

Three duets

no. 1. The lark in the clear air (Text: Sir Samuel Ferguson)
no. 2. The night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. 3. A great big sea

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

A great big sea (in Three duets)
Auvergnat (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Away (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]*
Bonnie Lyndale (in Six Folksongs from Prince Edward arranged by Robert Fleming) (Text: Volkslieder )
Bring me those needles, Martha, I believe I'll knit Jesus a scarf (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)
Bud Jones (in Six Folksongs from Prince Edward arranged by Robert Fleming) (Text: Lawrence Doyle)
Coatman's Saloon (in Six Folksongs from Prince Edward arranged by Robert Fleming) (Text: Volkslieder )
Cold and icy in my bed: laid on the ground of Jerusalem (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)
Courage (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]*
Cradle song (Text: Padraic Colum)
Cradle song (Text: William Blake) WEL
Don't pay attention to the old men in the temple (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)
Everything is black, air, water, sun, moon, all light, dirt is black (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)
He is so sweet and small (Text: Gerald William Bullett) *
Jesus, did you know that Lazarus is back? (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)
Kitardine (in Six Folksongs from Prince Edward arranged by Robert Fleming) (Text: Volkslieder )
Love, like a drop of dew (in Secrets) (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
My seventy-six geared wheel (in Six Folksongs from Prince Edward arranged by Robert Fleming) (Text: Mary Fleming)
O my boy: Jesus my first and only son (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)
O my boy: Jesus my first and only son (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)
Pleasure and joy (in Secrets) (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
Quack (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]*
See where Young Love (in Secrets) (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
The crooked rib (in Six Folksongs from Prince Edward arranged by Robert Fleming) (Text: Volkslieder )
The lark in the clear air (in Three duets) (Text: Sir Samuel Ferguson)
The little serving maid (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The mocking bird (Text: Volkslieder )
The night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The night (in Three duets) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
There's a supper in Jerusalem tonight and I wish that I (in The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary)) (Text: Owen Dobson)

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