Requiem

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie;
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

Here may the winds about me blow,
Here the sea may come and go
Here lies peace  forevermo'
And the heart for aye shall be still.

This be the verse you grave for me:
"Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Requiem", from Underwoods, published 1887

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946) , "Requiem", published <<1952. [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Kathleen Billingham , "Requiem", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Two songs, no. ?
by Keith Warren Bissell (1912-) , "Requiem", published 1967. [SSA chorus a cappella or piano (1971)]
by Lawrance Arthur Collingwood (1887-1982) , "Requiem", published 1928. [SATB or TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Harold Craxton , "A requiem", published 1914. [voice and piano]
by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869-1941) , "Requiem", published 1931 [voice and piano], from Twenty-one songs, no. ?
by Paul N. Edmonds , "Requiem", published 1920. [SSA chorus and piano]
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "Requiem", published 1907. [voice and piano]
by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910-1993) , "Requiem", published 1950. [SSA chorus a cappella]
by Edmund Grinnell , "Requiem", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953) , "Requiem", op. 15 no. 2, published 1904 [voice and piano], from Six Songs from "Underwoods", no. 2.
by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) , "Requiem", published 1935.
by Martin Kalmanoff (1920-) , "Under the wide and starry sky", published 1960. [TTBB chorus and piano]
by Richard Kountz (1896-1950) , "Under the wide and starry sky", published 1949. [unaccompanied voice or TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Cyril Bertram Lander , "Requiem" [high voice and piano], from Flores de mi primavera, no. ?
by Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus , "Requiem", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by T. More , "Requiem", published <<1940.
by Peter Russell Naylor (1933-) , "Requiem" [tenor and piano]
by Clara Osmond , "Requiem", published <<1940.
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878-1937) , "Requiem", published 1903 [voice and piano], from Two songs, no. ?
by Karol Rathaus (1895-1954) , "Requiem", published <<1955. [SATB chorus and piano]
by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857-1940) , "Requiem", published <<1940, from In Memoriam, no. ?
by Ned Rorem (1923-) , "Requiem", published 1950. [medium voice and piano]
by Cyril Meir Scott (1879-1970) , "Requiem", published 1917. [high or medium voice and piano]
by William Shanks , "Requiem", published 1927. [voice and piano]
by Oley Speaks (1874-1948) , "Requiem", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Ronald Stevenson (1928-) , "Requiem", 1964 [medium voice and piano], from Four Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by E. Roy Thompson , "Requiem", published 1920. [voice and piano]
by Ernest Whyte (1858-1922) , "Requiem", op. 71 no. 1.
by Raymond Huntington Woodman (1861-1943) , "Requiem", published 1932 [voice and piano], from Music of Many Lands and Peoples

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