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Composer: Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (1878-1958)

Evan Meredith [pseudonym]

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

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Homage to E. A. Poe

no. ?. To Zante (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
no. ?. The City in the Sea (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)

Six Romantic Songs , op. 30

no. 1. A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
no. 2. To a cold beauty (Text: Thomas Hood)
no. 3. Come not, when I am dead (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 4. To my wife (Text: Thomas Hood)
no. 5. A farewell (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) WEL
no. 6. The stars (Text: Thomas Hood)

Songs of Innocence , op. 130

no. 1. Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 2. Echoing green (Text: William Blake) DUT
no. 3. The lamb (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FIN
no. 4. The shepherd (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 6. The blackboy (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) RUS WEL
no. 8. Spring (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 9. Cradle song (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 11. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
no. 12. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake)
no. 14. The divine image (Text: William Blake) RUS GER
no. 15. Night (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 16. A dream (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 17. Little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 18. Another's sorrow (Text: William Blake)

Twelve Drinking Songs

no. ?. Labour in vain (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*

Two Byron songs

no. 1. Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS ITA GER FRE GER
no. 2. Oh, lovely Haidee (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) [x]

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

A dream, op. 130 no. 16 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
A farewell, op. 30 no. 5 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) WEL
A lake and a fairy boat, op. 30 no. 1 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
Annabel Lee, op. 41b (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE GER
Another's sorrow, op. 130 no. 18 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Beauty's daughters (in Two Byron songs) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS ITA GER FRE GER
Byron! how sweetly sad thy melody! (Text: John Keats)
Choral: Laugh and be merry (Text: John Masefield)
Come not, when I am dead, op. 30 no. 3 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Cradle song, op. 130 no. 9 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Echoing green, op. 130 no. 2 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) DUT
Hear the Bard, from "Blake" (Text: William Blake)
Holy Thursday, op. 130 no. 11 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Hymn, op. 48 (Homage to E. A. Poe) no. 2 (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) GER
I will woo the rose, op. 9 no. ? (Text: Thomas Hood) GER GER
In sunshine clad, op. 15 (Songs) no. 1 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
Infant Joy, op. 130 no. 5 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Labour in vain (in Twelve Drinking Songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
Laughing song, op. 130 no. 7 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS WEL
Little boy lost, op. 130 no. 17 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Night, op. 130 no. 15 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) GER
Nurse's song, op. 130 no. 10 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees, op. 29 no. 4 (Text: Herbert Trench)
Oh, lovely Haidee (in Two Byron songs) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) [x]
Piping down the valleys wild, op. 130 no. 1 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Salutation, op. 77 no. 1 (Text: Ezra Pound)
She's up and gone, op. 9 no. ? (Text: Thomas Hood)
Spring, op. 130 no. 8 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) WEL
Spring is cheery (Text: Thomas Hood)
Tame Cat, op. 77 no. 5 (Text: Ezra Pound)
The Bells [multi-text setting] RUS FRE, op. 50a
The blackboy, op. 130 no. 6 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The blossom, op. 130 no. 12 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The chimney sweeper, op. 130 no. 13 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The City in the Sea (in Homage to E. A. Poe) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
The divine image, op. 130 no. 14 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER
The Garret, op. 77 no. 2 (Text: Ezra Pound)
The haunted place, op. 48 (Homage to E. A. Poe) no. 1 (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
The lamb, op. 130 no. 3 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FIN
The requital (Text: Herbert Trench)
The sea hath its pearls, op. 15 (Songs) no. 2 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Heinrich Heine) FRE ITA FRE
The shepherd, op. 130 no. 4 (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The stars, op. 30 no. 6 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
The Tea-Shop Girl, op. 77 no. 4 (Text: Ezra Pound)
To a cold beauty, op. 30 no. 2 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
To my wife, op. 30 no. 4 (in Six Romantic Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
To Zante (in Homage to E. A. Poe) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
Where be you going, op. 54 (Five Songs) no. ? (Text: John Keats)

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