Windy nights

Whenever the moon and the stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.

Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?
Whenever the trees are crying aloud,
And ships are tossed at sea,

By, on the highway, low and loud,
By at the gallop goes he.
By at the gallop he goes, and then
By he comes back at the gallop again.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Windy nights", from A Child's Garden of Verses, published 1885

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

by Herbert Kennedy Andrews (1904-1965) , "The night rider", published 195-? [canon for treble voices a cappella]
by Mark Andrews (1875-1939) , "Windy nights", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse", no. ?
by Armand Balendonck , "Windy nights", published <<1940.
by Margaret Peddle Bodde , "Windy nights", published 1916-9 [voice and piano], from The Progressive Music Series: Teachers' Manual, Book 1
by (Robert) Houston Bright (1916-1970) , "Windy nights", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from From "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Harry Brook (1893-?) , "Windy nights", published 1939. [unison voices and strings]
by Ethel Crowningshield , "Windy nights", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Windy nights", published 1951 [voice and piano], from Stevensonia, no. ?
by Edward Falk , "Windy nights", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939) , "Phantom horseman (Windy nights)", published 1975. [baritone and piano]
by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (?-1940) , "Windy nights", published 1902 [voice and piano], from Child-Land, no. ?
by Norman Gilbert (1912-) , "Windy nights", published 1955. [canon for equal voices and piano]
by George Alfred Grant-Schaefer (1872-1939) , "Windy nights", published 1927 [two-part chorus a cappella], from Music Education Series: Two-Part Music
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) , "Windy nights", from Five Little Songs, no. 2.
by Colin Hand (1929-) , "Windy nights", published 1956. [unison voices and piano]
by Derek Holman , "Windy nights", published 1960. [unison voices and piano]
by Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) , "Windy nights", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Five Children's Songs, no. ?
by Jan Masseus , "Windy nights", op. 47a no. 5 (1974), from My kingdom, no. 5.
by Marvin Radnor , "Windy nights", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Harold William Rhodes (1889-1956) , "Windy nights", published <<1951. [unison voices and piano]
by Teresa del Riego (c1876-1968) , "Windy nights", published 1909 [voice and piano], from Children's pictures, no. ?
by John Rutter (1945-) , "Windy nights", published 1974 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Five Childhood Lyrics, no. ?
by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "Windy nights", published 1935 [unaccompanied voice], from New Universal School Music Series: Art songs and Part songs
by Eleanor Smith , "Windy nights", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Song Pictures, no. ?
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Windy nights", op. 30 no. 4, published 1892 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 4.

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