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Composer: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Shropshire Lad

no. 1. Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 2. Goldcups (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 3. The lent lily (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 4. When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
no. 5. White in the moon the long road lies (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

Beastly! - Seven Songs

no. 1. The vulture (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. 2. I saw a jolly hunter (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
no. 3. The Jesus Affair (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
no. 4. The buttercup song (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
no. 5. You silly donkey (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
no. 6. The Mouse's Waltz (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
no. 7. The whale (Text: Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas) [x]

Black Diamonds I

no. 1. My own dear love (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 2. Bohemia (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 3. Unfortunate coincidence (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*

Black Diamonds II

no. 1. Wail (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 2. Bric à brac (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 3. Convalescent (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*

Dorset Delight

no. 1. In the spring (Text: William Barnes)
no. 2. White and blue (Text: William Barnes) [x]
no. 3. The wife a-lost (Text: William Barnes)
no. 4. Summer's pride (Text: William Barnes) [x]
no. 5. The farmer's eldest daughter (Text: William Barnes)

Fadditties

no. 1. Low fat (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
no. 2. Physical culture (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
no. 3. Monosodium glutamate (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*

Five Burns Songs

no. 1. A red, red rose (Text: Robert Burns) SWG GER SWE CZE GER
no. 2. O whistle and I'll come to you (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 3. My Jean (Text: Robert Burns) DAN FRE GER GER
no. 4. John Anderson, my jo (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER
no. 5. The Winter it is past (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER

Five Sea Songs

no. 1. I am the great sun (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
no. 2. Song of the dying gunner (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
no. 3. Sailor's carol (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
no. 4. Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
no. 5. Elizabethan Sailor's Song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*

Four Shakespeare Duets

no. 1. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN
no. 2. Come unto these yellow sands (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FIN SPA
no. 3. Where the bee sucks (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FIN SPA
no. 4. When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN

Four songs

no. 1. When music sounds (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. Silver (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 3. The linnet (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 4. The holly (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]*

Four songs

no. 1. I saw a jolly hunter (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
no. 2. Innocent's song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
no. 3. Timothy Winters (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
no. 4. Tell me, Sarah Jane (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*

Seven Shakespeare Songs

no. ?. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN GER
no. ?. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT SPA GER FRE FIN
no. ?. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FRE FIN GER
no. ?. Fear no more (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FIN GER
no. ?. Blow, blow! (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FRE FIN SWE GER
no. ?. When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR GER FRE FIN GER
no. ?. When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN

Six Betjeman Songs

no. ?. A subaltern's love-song (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
no. ?. The church's restoration (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
no. ?. Caprice (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
no. ?. In Westminster Abbey (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
no. ?. Westgate-on-Sea (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
no. ?. How to get on in society (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*

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

A child's grace (Text: Robert Herrick)
A Hymn to Love (Text: Robert Herrick)
A red, red rose (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) SWG GER SWE CZE GER
A subaltern's love-song (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
And is it true? (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
Anything that hurts is funny (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
As pants the heart (Text: Ogden Nash) [x]*
Aunt Mary's tree (Text: Robert Stephen Hawker)
Ave verum corpus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG FIN
Battersea (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
Bid me to live (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
Blow, blow! (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FRE FIN SWE GER
Bohemia (in Black Diamonds I) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Bonny lass, if thou were mine (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Bread of the world [x]
Bric à brac (in Black Diamonds II) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Bring me sunshine (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Caprice (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
Carry her over the water (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Charm me asleep (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
Christ who knows all his sheep (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
Clear and gentle stream (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Come unto these yellow sands (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FIN SPA
Convalescent (in Black Diamonds II) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Crossing the Bar (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Darling dog [x]
Dieu, qu'il la fait bon regarder! (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans) ENG ITA
Drop, drop, slow tears (Text: Phineas Fletcher)
Elizabethan Sailor's Song (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
Fear no more (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FIN GER
Gather ye rosebuds (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
Give and take (Text: Carol Rumens) [x]
Goldcups (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Good men and bad (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Him I love (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
How to get on in society (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
I am the great sun (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
I love all beauteous things (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
I saw a jolly hunter (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
I saw a jolly hunter (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
In the spring (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes)
In Westminster Abbey (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
Innocent's song (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
It was a lover and his lass (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN
Jesus, dulcis memoria (Text: St. Bernard of Clairvaux) DUT ENG
John Anderson, my jo (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER
Johnny (Text: W. H. Auden) *
London fields (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
Loveliest of trees (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Low fat (in Fadditties) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Lullaby (Lay your sleeping head, my love) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Monosodium glutamate (in Fadditties) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Most Holy Night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
My delight and thy delight (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
My Jean (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) DAN FRE GER GER
My own dear love (in Black Diamonds I) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Not to be born (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
O mistress mine (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FRE FIN GER
O whistle and I'll come to you (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns)
On himself (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
Orchard Street (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
Parson's Green (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
Physical culture (in Fadditties) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Sailor's carol (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
Saint Martin (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Shepherds, shepherds (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA FRE FIN
Silver (in Four songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
Sister, awake!
Song of the dying gunner (in Five Sea Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
Stop all the clocks (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Summer's pride (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes) [x]
Tell me, Sarah Jane (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
The boy's song (Text: H. C. Beesking, Reverend) [x]*
The buttercup song (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
The church's restoration (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
The colour (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The donkey (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) GER
The farmer's eldest daughter (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes)
The holly (in Four songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]*
The Jesus Affair (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
The lent lily (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
The linnet (in Four songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The Mouse's Waltz (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
The princess and the gypsies (Text: Frances Cornford) [x]*
The Stock Exchange (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
The Strand (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
The Tower of London (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
The vulture (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The waterbeetle (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The Way of the Lord (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*
The whale (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas) [x]
The wife a-lost (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes)
The wind and the rain (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN
The Winter it is past (in Five Burns Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
Timothy Winters (in Four songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
To Anthea (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
To music (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
Under the greenwood tree (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN GER
Unfortunate coincidence (in Black Diamonds I) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Wail (in Black Diamonds II) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Westgate-on-Sea (in Six Betjeman Songs) (Text: Sir John Betjeman) [x]*
When daisies pied (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR GER FRE FIN GER
When I was one-and-twenty (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
When music sounds (in Four songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
When that I was and a little tiny boy (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN
When that I was and a little tiny boy (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN
Where the bee sucks (in Four Shakespeare Duets) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FIN SPA
White and blue (in Dorset Delight) (Text: William Barnes) [x]
White in the moon the long road lies (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Who is Silvia? (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT SPA GER FRE FIN
You silly donkey (in Beastly! - Seven Songs) (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x]*

[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.