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Author: Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Goethe's Faust

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Bagpipe Music (It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw ) *
E. Maconchy: It's no go

Beatriz's song (When will he return) - W. Walton *
Cradle song (Sleep, sleep, sleep, my darling sleep) - B. Britten *
Epilogue (Oh, heavenly Poesy ) (from Goethe's Faust) - M. Seiber [x] *
Fiesta (Granada has fallen! Granada has fallen) - W. Walton *
Gloria (Glory, glory to God) - W. Walton *
Glory, glory to God *
W. Walton: Gloria

Granada has fallen! Granada has fallen *
W. Walton: Fiesta

Invocation (Oh, heavenly Poesy ) (from Goethe's Faust) - M. Seiber [x] *
It's no go (It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw ) - E. Maconchy *
It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw *
E. Maconchy: It's no go

Night club - K. Schoonenbeek [x] *
Oh, heavenly Poesy (from Goethe's Faust) [x] *
M. Seiber, M. Seiber: Invocation

Prayer before birth - E. Maconchy [x] *
Sleep, sleep, sleep, my darling sleep *
B. Britten: Cradle song

The world is mad - M. Head [x] *
When will he return *
W. Walton: Beatriz's song