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Composer: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

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Listing of musical settings by opus [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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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 Old English Carols, op. 20b, H. 82

no. 3. Jesu, thou the Virgin-born

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 (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
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)
no. 6. Love on my heart from heaven fell (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Assemble all ye maidens (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Six Choral Folksongs, op. 36b, H. 136

no. 1. I sow'd the seeds of love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. There was a tree (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Matthew, Mark and Luke and John (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. The song of the blacksmith (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. I love my love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 6. Swansea Town (Text: Volkslieder )

Six Choruses for male voices and string orchestra, op. 52, H. 186

no. 1. Good Friday (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Peter Abelard) *
no. 2. Intercession (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Sedulius Scottus) *
no. 3. How mighty are the Sabbaths (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Peter Abelard) *
no. 4. A love song (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 5. Drinking song (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 6. Before sleep (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) *

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)

Songs from The Princess, op. 20a, H. 80

no. 1. Sweet and low (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 2. The splendour falls (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN FRE
no. 3. Tears, idle tears (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 4. O swallow, swallow (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 5. Home they brought her warrior dead (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 6. Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Three Festival Choruses, op. 36a

no. 1. Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Text: Gerald Moultrie after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. Turn back O man (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]*
no. 3. A festival chime (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]

Twelve Welsh Folk Songs, H. 183

no. 9. Mae 'nghariad i'n Fenws (Text: Dora Herbert-Jones) ENG

Two Carols, H. 91

no. 1. A welcome song
no. 2. Terly, terlow

Two Eastern Pictures, H. 112

no. 1. Spring (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) DUT
no. 2. Summer (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) DUT

Vedic Hymns, op. 24

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

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in opus order (without opus first, alphabetic)

A dirge for two veterans (Text: Walt Whitman)
A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
A welcome song, H. 91 no. 1 (in Two Carols)
Airly beacon (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Angel spirits of sleep (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Clear and cool (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Come to me (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
Die Spröde (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG ITA FRE ENG
Dirge and Hymeneal (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Diverus and Lazarus, H. 137
Dream tryst (Text: Francis Thompson)
Epilogue (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
Eternal Father (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 thee (Text: Thomas Hood)
I scanned her picture, dreaming (Text: Thomas Hardy after Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT SPA KOR RUS ITA FRE FIN
In the bleak midwinter (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
In youth is pleasure, H. 76
Light leaves whisper, H. 20 (Text: Fritz Bennicke Hart) [x]
Mae 'nghariad i'n Fenws, H. 183 no. 9 (in Twelve Welsh Folk Songs) (Text: Dora Herbert-Jones) ENG
Man born to toil (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Nunc dimittis [multi-text setting] DUT SPA ENG FRE LAT GER FIN, H. 127
O spiritual pilgrim, H. 188 (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Text: John Keats)
Roadways (Text: John Masefield)
Sing Heigh-ho! (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Sing Heigh-ho! (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Song of the Drovers (Text: John Greenleaf Whittier)
Spring, H. 112 no. 1 (in Two Eastern Pictures) (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) DUT
Spring it is cheery (Text: Thomas Hood)
Summer, H. 112 no. 2 (in Two Eastern Pictures) (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) DUT
Terly, terlow, H. 91 no. 2 (in Two Carols)
The autumn is old (Text: Thomas Hood)
The heart worships (Text: Alice M. Buckton)
The homecoming (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The stars are with the voyager (Text: Thomas Hood)
The stars are with the voyager (Text: Thomas Hood)
The swallow leaves her nest (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
There is dew for the flow'ret (Text: Thomas Hood)
Thou didst delight mine eyes (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

op. 4. Four songs
no. 1. Margrete's cradle song (Text: William Archer after Henrik Ibsen) ITA GER
no. 2. Slumber song (Text: Charles Kingsley)
no. 3. Soft and gently (Text: after Heinrich Heine) ITA FRE NOR DUT SWE ROM ITA GER
no. 3. Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE NOR DUT SWE ENG ROM ITA
no. 4. Awake, my heart (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

op. 9b. Ave Maria (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT SPA ENG ITA FRE
op. 15. Six Songs
no. 3. The sergeant's song (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. In a wood (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. Between us now (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. I will not let thee go (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

op. 16. Six Songs
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)

op. 20a. Songs from The Princess
no. 1. Sweet and low (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 2. The splendour falls (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN FRE
no. 3. Tears, idle tears (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 4. O swallow, swallow (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 5. Home they brought her warrior dead (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 6. Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)

op. 20b. Four Old English Carols
no. 3. Jesu, thou the Virgin-born

op. 24. Vedic Hymns
no. 1. Ushas (Dawn) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. Varuna I (Sky) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 3. Maruts (Stormclouds) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. Indra (God of Storm and Battle) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 5. Varuna II (The Waters) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 6. Song of the Frogs (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 7. Vac (Speech) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 8. Creation (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 9. Faith (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)

op. 34.
no. 1. This have I done for my true love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Lullay my liking
no. 3. Of one that is so fair and bright
no. 4. Bring us in good ale

op. 35. Four Songs for Voice and Violin
no. 1. Jesu Sweet
no. 2. My soul has nought but fire and ice
no. 3. I sing of a maiden (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
no. 4. My Leman is so true

op. 36a. Three Festival Choruses
no. 1. Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Text: Gerald Moultrie after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. Turn back O man (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]*
no. 3. A festival chime (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]

op. 36b. Six Choral Folksongs
no. 1. I sow'd the seeds of love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. There was a tree (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Matthew, Mark and Luke and John (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. The song of the blacksmith (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. I love my love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 6. Swansea Town (Text: Volkslieder )

op. 41. First Choral Symphony (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
op. 43.
no. 1. The evening watch (Text: Henry Vaughan)

op. 44. Seven Partsongs
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)
no. 6. Love on my heart from heaven fell (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Assemble all ye maidens (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

op. 48. Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs
no. 1. Persephone (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 2. Things lovelier (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 3. Now in these fairylands (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 4. A little music (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 5. The thought (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 6. The floral bandit (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 7. Envoi (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 8. The dream-city (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 9. Journey's end (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 10. In the street of lost time (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 11. Rhyme (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 12. Betelgeuse (Text: Humbert Wolfe)

op. 51. A choral fantasia
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)

op. 52. Six Choruses for male voices and string orchestra
no. 1. Good Friday (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Peter Abelard) *
no. 2. Intercession (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Sedulius Scottus) *
no. 3. How mighty are the Sabbaths (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Peter Abelard) *
no. 4. A love song (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 5. Drinking song (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 6. Before sleep (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) *

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.