Composer: C. Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A voice in the dusk, op. 91

no. 1. Spring (John Irvine) [x]*
no. 2. In the faery hills (John Irvine) [x]*
no. 3. The wind comes softly (John Irvine) [x]*
no. 4. Moon magic (John Irvine) [x]*

Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie

no. 1. The barber's (Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. Miss T. (Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. Old Shellover (Walter de la Mare)
no. 4. Hide and seek (Walter de la Mare)
no. 5. Then (Walter de la Mare)

Gray and gold

no. 1. The miracle (Helen Taylor) [x]
no. 2. The wind in your hair (Helen Taylor) [x]
no. 3. Requiescat (Helen Taylor) [x]
no. 4. I shall remember (Helen Taylor) [x]
no. 5. April's hour (Helen Taylor) [x]

Henry Brocken Song Cycle, op. 88

no. 1. Lorelei's Song (Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. Jane Eyre's song (Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. The doctor's song (Walter de la Mare)

Joan of Arc, op. 102

no. 1. Revelation (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
no. 2. Victory (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
no. 3. Crowning (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
no. 4. Defeat (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
no. 5. Mors Janua Vitae (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]

Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs

no. 1. When Arthur first in Court began [x]
no. 2. Pious Celinda goes to prayers (William Congreve)
no. 3. If music be the food of love (Colonel Henry Heveningham) ITA
no. 4. 'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires (Roger Boyle) [x]

Songs of the Mad Sea Captain, op. 111

no. 1. Hidden Treasure (Bernard Martin) *
no. 2. Abel Wright (Bernard Martin) *
no. 3. Toll the Bell (Bernard Martin) *
no. 4. The Golden Ray (Bernard Martin) *

Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, op. 131

no. 1. The Lamb and the Dove (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 2. A birthday (Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
no. 3. Gone were but the winter (Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Two Old English Lyrics, op. 116

no. 1. Chloris in the snow (William Strode)
no. 2. Amaryllis (Thomas Campion)

Two Pastorals

no. 1. In the spring the runnels flow (H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
no. 2. Upon the grass (H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]

Two Songs

no. 1. Down in yonder meadow (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 2. Lily bright and shine-a (Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Willow leaves, op. 126

no. 1. To Yuan (John Irvine) [x]*
no. 2. The dancing girl (John Irvine) [x]*
no. 3. Meeting with friends (John Irvine) [x]*

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

A ballad maker (Padraic Colum) [x]*
A birthday, op. 131 no. 2 (Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
A song of soldiers (Walter de la Mare)
A--Apple Pie (Walter de la Mare) [x]*
A-Tishoo (Walter de la Mare)
Abel Wright, op. 111 no. 2 (Bernard Martin) *
Amaryllis, op. 116 no. 2 (Thomas Campion)
Andy Battle (Walter de la Mare)
Ann's Cradle Song, op. 20 (Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
April's hour (Helen Taylor) [x]
Araby, op. 20 (Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
Arrogant Poppies, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 2 (Clifford Bax) *
As I lay in the early sun (Edward Shanks)
As Lucy went a-walking (Walter de la Mare)
Beggar's song, op. 20 (Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") no. 3 (Walter de la Mare) [x]
Bluebells, op. 17 (Two Songs, from "Songs of Childhood") no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
Bunches of grapes, op. 17 (Two Songs, from "Songs of Childhood") no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
By a Bier-Side (John Masefield)
Candlestickmaker's song, op. 20 (Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") no. 4 (Walter de la Mare)
Captain Lean (Walter de la Mare)
Chloris in the snow, op. 116 no. 1 (William Strode)
Clock-a-clay (John Clare)
Covent Garden (Eileen Carfrae)
Crowning, op. 102 no. 3 (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
Dame Hickory (Walter de la Mare)
Danger (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) *
Defeat, op. 102 no. 4 (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
Devotion (Tobias Hume)
Down in yonder meadow (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Down-adown-derry (Walter de la Mare)
Dream-Pedlary (Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Dream-song (Walter de la Mare)
Dusk [x]
Eeka, Neeka (Walter de la Mare) [x]*
Evening in summer (John Fletcher)
Every little child (W. H. Draper) [x]*
February (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
Five Eyes, op. 15 no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
Five Eyes (Walter de la Mare)
Fol dol do (Walter de la Mare) [x]
For Music (George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) GER
For remembrance (Edward Shanks) [x]
Fulfilment, op. 83 no. 3 (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
Gipsies (Sir Henry Howarth Bashford) [x]
Gone is my love (Edith Harrhy) [x]*
Gone were but the winter, op. 131 no. 3 (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Grace (Walter de la Mare) [x]*
Grade A (C. Armstrong Gibbs) [x]
Hidden Treasure, op. 111 no. 1 (Bernard Martin) *
Hide and seek (Walter de la Mare)
How can the heart forget her?
Hypochondriacus (Charles Lamb)
I shall remember (Helen Taylor) [x]
If music be the food of love (Colonel Henry Heveningham) ITA
Immortality (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
Impromptu (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
In the faery hills, op. 91 no. 2 (John Irvine) [x]*
In the highlands, op. 9 (Robert Louis Stevenson)
In the spring the runnels flow (H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
In the woods in June (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
In youth is pleasure, op. 44 (Two Elizabethan Songs) no. 2 (R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
Jane Eyre's song, op. 88 no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
Jenny Jones (Doris Rowley) [x]
John Mouldy, op. 30 no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
Juliet Anne (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
King David (Walter de la Mare)
La belle dame sans merci (John Keats) GER FRE
Lament for Robin Hood (Anthony Munday)
Lily bright and shine-a (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Lorelei's Song, op. 88 no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
Love in the almond bough, op. 19 no. 1 (Walter de la Mare) [x]
Love is a sickness, op. 44 (Two Elizabethan Songs) no. 1 (Samuel Daniel)
Love's prisoner (William Blake)
Love's wisdom (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
Lullaby (Walter de la Mare)
Lullaby, op. 3 (William Blake)
Lyonnesse (Thomas Hardy)
Maritime invocation (A. C. Boyd) [x]*
Meeting with friends, op. 126 no. 3 (John Irvine) [x]*
Melmillo (Walter de la Mare)
Midnight (Jeffery Lang)
Miss T. (Walter de la Mare)
Mistletoe (Walter de la Mare)
Moon magic, op. 91 no. 4 (John Irvine) [x]*
Mors Janua Vitae, op. 102 no. 5 (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
Mother Carey (Walter de la Mare) [x]
Neglected Moon!, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 1 (Clifford Bax) *
Night, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Nightfall (Harry Dawson)
Nod, op. 12 no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
Off the ground (Walter de la Mare)
Oh, nightingale upon my tree (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
Old Shellover (Walter de la Mare)
On Duncton Hill (Gwen Grant) [x]*
Padraic the Fidiler (Padraic Gregory) [x]
Philomel (Richard Barnfield)
Philomela, op. 13 (Sir Philip Sidney)
Pious Celinda goes to prayers (William Congreve)
Prayer before sleep (L. E. Eeman) [x]*
Proud Maisie (Sir Walter Scott)
Requiescat (Helen Taylor) [x]
Rest in the Lord (Edmund Beale Sargant) [x]*
Resting (Gwen Grant) [x]*
Revelation, op. 102 no. 1 (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
Reverie (Walter de la Mare)
Sailing Homeward (Arthur Waley after Chan Fang-Sheng) ENG
Silver, op. 30 no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
Sledburn Fair [x]
Slow, horses, slow (Thomas Westwood)
Spring, op. 91 no. 1 (John Irvine) [x]*
Summer Night (Margery Agrell)
Summertime (Benedict Ellis) [x]*
Sussex ways (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
Sweet sounds, begone, op. 14 no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
Take heed, young heart (Walter de la Mare) *
The Ballad of Semmerwater (Sir William Watson)
The barber's (Walter de la Mare)
The bees' song (Walter de la Mare)
The Bells, op. 14 no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
The Birch Tree (Georgina Mase) *
The chains of love, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 3 (Clifford Bax) [x]*
The changeling (Walter de la Mare)
The cherry tree (Margaret Rose) *
The dancing girl, op. 126 no. 2 (John Irvine) [x]*
The doctor's song, op. 88 no. 3 (Walter de la Mare)
The exile (Walter de la Mare)
The fields are full (Edward Shanks)
The Flooded Stream (Margaret Cropper) *
The galliass (Walter de la Mare) [x]
The Golden Ray, op. 111 no. 4 (Bernard Martin) *
The hawthorn tree (Hilda Maude) [x]*
The horn (Walter de la Mare)
The huntsmen (Walter de la Mare)
The king's men (Thomas Hardy)
The Lamb and the Dove, op. 131 no. 1 (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The light of other days (Thomas Moore) GER
The linnet, op. 21 no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
The listeners (Walter de la Mare)
The little green orchard, op. 15 no. 1 (Walter de la Mare)
The little salamander (Walter de la Mare)
The mad prince (Walter de la Mare)
The market (James Stephens) [x]
The miracle (Helen Taylor) [x]
The mountains, op. 19 no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
The night song (Walter de la Mare)
The nightingale, op. 13 (Sir Philip Sidney)
The old house (Gray Hayward Kirkus) [x]*
The old soldier (Walter de la Mare)
The orchard sings to the child (Margaret Cropper) [x]
The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)
The rainy day, op. 4 (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER
The Rejected Lover, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 4 (Clifford Bax) *
The ride-by-nights (Walter de la Mare)
The scarecrow, op. 12 no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
The ship of Rio (Walter de la Mare)
The silver penny (Walter de la Mare)
The sleeping beauty (Walter de la Mare)
The sleeping beauty (Walter de la Mare)
The song of shadows, op. 15 no. 3 (Walter de la Mare)
The splendour falls (Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN
The stranger, op. 21 no. 2 (Walter de la Mare)
The sunken garden (Walter de la Mare)
The summer place (Benedict Ellis) [x]*
The Tiger-Lily (Dorothy Pleydell-Bouverie)
The Wanderer (Walter de la Mare)
The wind comes softly, op. 91 no. 3 (John Irvine) [x]*
The wind in your hair (Helen Taylor) [x]
The witch (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]*
Then (Walter de la Mare)
There be none of Beauty's daughters (George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) GER
Tiger, Tiger (William Blake) RUS GER
'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires (Roger Boyle) [x]
Titania (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) *
To Anise (Nathaniel Downes) [x]
To one who passed whistling through the night (Margery Agrell)
To Yuan, op. 126 no. 1 (John Irvine) [x]*
Toll the Bell, op. 111 no. 3 (Bernard Martin) *
Tom o' Bedlam
Upon the grass (H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
Victory, op. 102 no. 2 (Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) [x]
When Arthur first in Court began [x]
When I was one-and-twenty (Alfred Edward Housman)
When the lamp is shattered, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Where (Walter de la Mare) [x]*
White (Walter de la Mare) [x]*
Why do I love? (Ephelia)
Why? (Walter de la Mare) [x]*

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