Carry her over the water

Carry her over the water
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by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973) , no title, published <<1945, copyright ©

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 Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) , "Carry her over the water", published 1960 [medium voice and piano], from Five poems, no. ?
by James Myron Cohn (1928-) , "Carry her over the water", 1969 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Three Phases of Love, no. ?
by Peter Dickinson (1934-) , "Carry her over the water", 1956 [high female voices and piano], from Four W. H. Auden Songs, no. 3.
by Geoffrey David Gibbs (1940-) , "Carry her over the water" [medium voice and piano]
by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998) , "Carry her over the water" [voice and piano]
by John Reginald Lang-Hyde (1899-1990) , "Carry her over the water", 1951 [voice and piano], under the pseudonym Lewis Hyde
by Daniel Pinkham (1923-) , "Sing agreeably of love", published 1949 [medium voice and string quartet or orchestra], from Three Lyric Scenes, no. ?
by Richard Swift (1927-) , "Epithalamium" [soprano and piano (or bassoon and violin)]

Date added to the website: 2008-12-05.

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