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Composer: Alfred Matthew Hale (1875-1960)

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

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

At Casterbridge Fair , op. 27

no. 1. The Ballad-Singer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Former beauties (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. The Market-Girl (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The inquiry (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. A Wife Waits (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. After the Fair (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Five Songs , op. 29

no. 1. A cradle song (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. Morning (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 3. Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 4. How sweet I roam'd from field to field (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. The school boy (Text: William Blake)

Five War Poems

no. ?. Drummer Hodge (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. ?. The going of the battery (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. ?. Song of the soldiers' wives and sweethearts (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Twelve Songs , op. 16

no. 1. My silks and fine array (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. The shepherd (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. The fly (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
no. 4. Silent, silent Night (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Spring (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 6. The wild flower's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 8. Memory, hither come (Text: William Blake)
no. 9. I love the jocund dance (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. Ah! sun-flower (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 11. The lily (Text: William Blake)
no. 12. My pretty rose tree (Text: William Blake)

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

A cradle song, op. 29 no. 1 (in Five Songs) (Text: William Blake)
A Wife Waits, op. 27 no. 6 (in At Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
After the Fair, op. 27 no. 7 (in At Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Ah! sun-flower, op. 16 no. 10 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Drummer Hodge, op. 39 no. ? (in Five War Poems) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Former beauties, op. 27 no. 2 (in At Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
How sweet I roam'd from field to field, op. 29 no. 4 (in Five Songs) (Text: William Blake)
I love the jocund dance, op. 16 no. 9 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Memory, hither come, op. 16 no. 8 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Morning, op. 29 no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: William Blake) RUS
My pretty rose tree, op. 16 no. 12 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
My silks and fine array, op. 16 no. 1 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Piping down the valleys wild, op. 29 no. 3 (in Five Songs) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Rose-Ann (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Silent, silent Night, op. 16 no. 4 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Song of the soldiers' wives and sweethearts, op. 39 no. ? (in Five War Poems) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Sonnet 116 (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FRE CZE GER
Spring, op. 16 no. 5 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake) WEL
The Ballad-Singer, op. 27 no. 1 (in At Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The blossom, op. 16 no. 7 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
The fly, op. 16 no. 3 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
The going of the battery, op. 49 (in Five War Poems) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The inquiry, op. 27 no. 5 (in At Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The lily, op. 16 no. 11 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
The Market-Girl, op. 27 no. 4 (in At Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The school boy, op. 29 no. 5 (in Five Songs) (Text: William Blake)
The shepherd, op. 16 no. 2 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)
The wild flower's song, op. 16 no. 6 (in Twelve Songs) (Text: William Blake)