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Composer: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A choral fantasia , op. 51, H. 177

no. 1. Man born of desire (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 2. Organ solo
no. 3. Rejoice, ye dead (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 4. Man born of desire (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 5. Rejoice, ye dead (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Four Songs for Voice and Violin , op. 35

no. 1. Jesu Sweet
no. 2. My soul has nought but fire and ice
no. 3. I sing of a maiden
no. 4. My Leman is so true

Seven Partsongs , op. 44, H. 162

no. 1. Say who is this? (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 2. O Love, I complain (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 3. Angel spirits of sleep (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 4. When first we met we did not guess (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 5. Sorrow and joy (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) [x]*
no. 6. Love on my heart from heaven fell (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Assemble all ye maidens (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Six Songs , op. 16

no. 1. Calm is the morn (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 2. My true love hath my heart (Text: Sir Philip Sidney)
no. 3. Weep you no more (Text: 16^th century) GER
no. 4. Lovely kind, and kindly loving (Text: Nicholas Breton)
no. 5. Cradle song (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. Peace (Text: Alfred Henry Hyatt)

Three Festival Choruses

no. ?. Turn back O man (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
no. ?. A festival chime (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]

Two Songs

no. ?. Full moon (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. ?. Awake, my heart (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Vedic Hymns , op. 24

no. 1. Ushas (Dawn) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 2. Varuna I (Sky) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 3. Maruts (Stormclouds) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 4. Indra (God of Storm and Battle) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 5. Varuna II (The Waters) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 6. Song of the Frogs (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 7. Vac (Speech) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 8. Creation (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 9. Faith (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG

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

A dirge for two veterans (Text: Walt Whitman)
A festival chime (in Three Festival Choruses) (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
A little music, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 4, H. 174 no. 4 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
Airly beacon (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Angel spirits of sleep, op. 44 no. 3, H. 162 no. 3 (in Seven Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Angel spirits of sleep (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Assemble all ye maidens, op. 44 no. 7, H. 162 no. 7 (in Seven Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Awake, my heart (in Two Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Betelgeuse, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 12, H. 174 no. 12 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
Between us Now (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Calm is the morn, op. 16 no. 1 (in Six Songs) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Come to me (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
Cradle song, op. 16 no. 5 (in Six Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Creation, op. 24 no. 8 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Die Spröde (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG FRE
Dream tryst (Text: Francis Thompson)
Envoi, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 7, H. 174 no. 7 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
Epilogue (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]*
Eternal Father (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Faith, op. 24 no. 9 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
First Choral Symphony, op. 41, H. 155 (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) *
Gird on thy sword (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
I come from haunts of coot and hern (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
I love my love (Text: Volkslieder )
I love thee (Text: Thomas Hood)
I scanned her picture, dreaming (Text: Thomas Hardy after Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE FIN SPA
I sing of a maiden, op. 35 no. 3 (in Four Songs for Voice and Violin)
I will not let thee go (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
In a wood (Text: Thomas Hardy)
In the bleak midwinter (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
In the street of lost time, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 10, H. 174 no. 10 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
Indra (God of Storm and Battle), op. 24 no. 4 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Jesu Sweet, op. 35 no. 1 (in Four Songs for Voice and Violin)
Journey's end, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 9, H. 174 no. 9 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt, op. 4 (Four songs) no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Text: Gerald Moultrie after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Love on my heart from heaven fell, op. 44 no. 6, H. 162 no. 6 (in Seven Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Lovely kind, and kindly loving, op. 16 no. 4 (in Six Songs) (Text: Nicholas Breton)
Man born of desire, op. 51 no. 1, H. 177 no. 1 (in A choral fantasia) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Man born of desire, op. 51 no. 4, H. 177 no. 4 (in A choral fantasia) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Man born to toil (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Margrete's cradle song, op. 4 (Four songs) no. 2 (Text: William Archer after Henrik Ibsen) ENG ITA GER
Maruts (Stormclouds), op. 24 no. 3 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
My Leman is so true, op. 35 no. 4 (in Four Songs for Voice and Violin)
My soul has nought but fire and ice, op. 35 no. 2 (in Four Songs for Voice and Violin)
My true love hath my heart, op. 16 no. 2 (in Six Songs) (Text: Sir Philip Sidney)
Now in these fairylands, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 3, H. 174 no. 3 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
O Love, I complain, op. 44 no. 2, H. 162 no. 2 (in Seven Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Text: John Keats)
Organ solo, op. 51 no. 2, H. 177 no. 2 (in A choral fantasia)
Peace, op. 16 no. 6 (in Six Songs) (Text: Alfred Henry Hyatt)
Persephone, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 1, H. 174 no. 1 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
Rejoice, ye dead, op. 51 no. 3, H. 177 no. 3 (in A choral fantasia) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Rejoice, ye dead, op. 51 no. 5, H. 177 no. 5 (in A choral fantasia) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Rhyme, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 11, H. 174 no. 11 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
Roadways (Text: John Masefield)
Say who is this?, op. 44 no. 1, H. 162 no. 1 (in Seven Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Sing Heigh-ho! (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Sing Heigh-ho! (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Soft and gently, op. 4 (Four songs) no. 3 (Text: after Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
Song of the Drovers (Text: John Greenleaf Whittier)
Song of the Frogs, op. 24 no. 6 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Sorrow and joy, op. 44 no. 5, H. 162 no. 5 (in Seven Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) [x]*
Spring it is cheery (Text: Thomas Hood)
The autumn is old (Text: Thomas Hood)
The dream-city, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 8, H. 174 no. 8 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
The floral bandit, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 6, H. 174 no. 12 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
The heart worships (Text: Alice M. Buckton)
The homecoming (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The sergeant's song (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The stars are with the voyager (Text: Thomas Hood)
The stars are with the voyager (Text: Thomas Hood)
The thought, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 5, H. 174 no. 5 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
There is dew for the flow'ret (Text: Thomas Hood)
Things lovelier, op. 48 (Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs) no. 2, H. 174 no. 2 (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
This have I done for my true love, op. 34 no. 1, H. 128 (Text: Volkslieder )
Thou didst delight mine eyes (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Turn back O man (in Three Festival Choruses) (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
Ushas (Dawn), op. 24 no. 1 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Vac (Speech), op. 24 no. 7 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Varuna I (Sky), op. 24 no. 2 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Varuna II (The Waters), op. 24 no. 5 (in Vedic Hymns) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Weep you no more, op. 16 no. 3 (in Six Songs) (Text: 16^th century) GER
When first we met we did not guess, op. 44 no. 4, H. 162 no. 4 (in Seven Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

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* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.