Composer: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

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Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not exhaustive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

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

Six Songs, op. 16

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

Vedic Hymns, op. 24

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

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

A choral fantasia, op. 51, H. 177 (Robert Seymour Bridges)
A dirge for two veterans (Walt Whitman)
A lake and a fairy boat (Thomas Hood)
A lake and a fairy boat (Thomas Hood)
A little music, op. 48 no. 4, H. 174 no. 4 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Angel spirits of sleep (Robert Seymour Bridges)
Angel spirits of sleep (Robert Seymour Bridges)
Assemble all ye maidens (Robert Seymour Bridges)
Awake, my heart (Robert Seymour Bridges)
Betelgeuse, op. 48 no. 12, H. 174 no. 12 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Between us Now (Thomas Hardy)
Calm is the morn, op. 16 no. 1 (Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Come to me (Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
Cradle song, op. 16 no. 5 (William Blake)
Creation, op. 24 no. 8 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Dream tryst (Francis Thompson)
Envoi, op. 48 no. 7, H. 174 no. 7 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Faith, op. 24 no. 9 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
First Choral Symphony, op. 41, H. 155 (Robert Seymour Bridges) *
I love my love (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
I love thee (Thomas Hood)
I scanned her picture, dreaming (Thomas Hardy after Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT SPA RUS ENG ITA GER FRE
I sing of a maiden, op. 35 no. 3
In a wood (Thomas Hardy)
In the bleak midwinter (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
In the street of lost time, op. 48 no. 10, H. 174 no. 10 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Indra (God of Storm and Battle), op. 24 no. 4 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Jesu Sweet, op. 35 no. 1
Journey's end, op. 48 no. 9, H. 174 no. 9 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt, op. 4 (Four songs) no. 3 (Heinrich Heine) NOR ENG ROM ITA GER
Love on my heart from heaven fell (Robert Seymour Bridges)
Lovely kind, and kindly loving, op. 16 no. 4 (Nicholas Breton)
Margrete's cradle song, op. 4 (Four songs) no. 2 (William Archer after Henrik Ibsen) NOR ENG ITA
Maruts (Stormclouds), op. 24 no. 3 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
My Leman is so true, op. 35 no. 4
My soul has nought but fire and ice, op. 35 no. 2
My true love hath my heart, op. 16 no. 2 (Sir Philip Sidney)
Now in these fairylands, op. 48 no. 3, H. 174 no. 3 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Peace, op. 16 no. 6 (Alfred Henry Hyatt) *
Persephone, op. 48 no. 1, H. 174 no. 1 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Rhyme, op. 48 no. 11, H. 174 no. 11 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Roadways (John Masefield)
Soft and gently, op. 4 (Four songs) no. 3 (after Heinrich Heine) NOR ENG ROM ITA GER
Song of the Frogs, op. 24 no. 6 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Spring it is cheery (Thomas Hood)
The autumn is old (Thomas Hood)
The dream-city, op. 48 no. 8, H. 174 no. 8 (Humbert Wolfe) *
The floral bandit, op. 48 no. 6, H. 174 no. 12 (Humbert Wolfe) *
The heart worships (Alice M. Buckton)
The homecoming (Thomas Hardy)
The sergeant's song (Thomas Hardy)
The stars are with the voyager (Thomas Hood)
The stars are with the voyager (Thomas Hood)
The thought, op. 48 no. 5, H. 174 no. 5 (Humbert Wolfe) *
Things lovelier, op. 48 no. 2, H. 174 no. 2 (Humbert Wolfe) *
This have I done for my true love, op. 34 no. 1, H. 128 (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Thou didst delight mine eyes (Robert Seymour Bridges)
Ushas (Dawn), op. 24 no. 1 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Vac (Speech), op. 24 no. 7 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Varuna I (Sky), op. 24 no. 2 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Varuna II (The Waters), op. 24 no. 5 (Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Weep you no more, op. 16 no. 3 (16^th century) GER

[x] indicates a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text is thought to be copyright and that we have no permission to display it on the website. For some of the texts marked this way, we have incomplete information about their copyright status. They may in fact be public domain.