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Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell

no. 1. In Memory of W.B. Yeats I (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 2. In Memory of W.B. Yeats II (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 3. It's no go (Text: Louis MacNeice) *

4 Miniatures

no. 1. Light the lamps up, lamplighter (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
no. 2. For snow (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
no. 3. The night will never stay (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
no. 4. For a mocking voice (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*

Creatures

no. 1. The hen and the carp (Text: Ian Serraillier)
no. 2. The snail (Text: John Reeves) *
no. 3. Rendez-vous with a beetle (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) [x]*
no. 4. Tiger! Tiger! (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
no. 4. Cat's funeral (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) [x]*
no. 6. The dove and the wren (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 7. Cat! (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*

Four Shakespeare Songs

no. 1. O take those lips away DUT GER FRE FIN GER POL
no. 2. The wind and the rain (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN
no. 3. Come away Death (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR DUT SWE ITA FRE GER FIN GER
no. 3. King Stephen (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder )

Nocturnal

no. 1. Come! (Text: William Barnes) [x]
no. 2. Will you come? (Text: Edward Thomas)
no. 3. In the night (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) GER

Sun, Moon and Stars

no. 1. Sun, moon and stars (Text: Thomas Traherne)
no. 2. The hill (Text: Thomas Traherne)
no. 3. Solitude (Text: Thomas Traherne)
no. 4. Clothed with the stars (Text: Thomas Traherne)

Three Songs for Voice and Harp

no. 1. A widow-bird sate mourning (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA
no. 2. So, we'll go no more a roving (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) GER GER
no. 3. The knot there's no untying (Text: Thomas Campbell)

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

A Hymn to God the Father (Text: John Donne)
A Hymne to Christ (Text: John Donne)
A meditation for his mistress (Text: Robert Herrick)
A widow-bird sate mourning (in Three Songs for Voice and Harp) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA
All the flowers [x]
Butterflies (Text: John Ray)
Cat! (in Creatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
Cat's funeral (in Creatures) (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) [x]*
Clothed with the stars (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
Come! (in Nocturnal) (Text: William Barnes) [x]
Come away Death (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR DUT SWE ITA FRE GER FIN GER
For a mocking voice (in 4 Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
For snow (in 4 Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
Harp Song of the Dane Women (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Have you seen but a bright lily grow? (Text: Ben Jonson)
Héloïse and Abelard [cantata] [x]
How Samson bore away the Gates of Gaza (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
I made another song (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
In Fountain Court (Text: Arthur Symons)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats I (in 3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
In Memory of W.B. Yeats II (in 3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
In the night (in Nocturnal) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) GER
It's no go (in 3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell) (Text: Louis MacNeice) *
King Stephen (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder )
Light the lamps up, lamplighter (in 4 Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
Martin said to this man [x]
My sweet sweeting [x]
O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FRE FIN GER
O take those lips away (in Four Shakespeare Songs) DUT GER FRE FIN GER POL
Ophelia's song ITA GER FRE
Peace (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Prayer before birth (Text: Louis MacNeice) [x]*
Rendez-vous with a beetle (in Creatures) (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) [x]*
Sailor's song of the two balconies (Text: Sheila Wingfield) [x]*
Sleep brings no joy to me (Text: Emily Brontë)
So, we'll go no more a roving (in Three Songs for Voice and Harp) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) GER GER
Solitude (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
Sun, moon and stars (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
The Arab (Text: George Meredith)
The call [x]
The disillusion (Text: Sheila Wingfield) [x]*
The dove and the wren (in Creatures) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
The exequy (Text: Henry King)
The garland: variations on a theme (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x]*
The hen and the carp (in Creatures) (Text: Ian Serraillier)
The hill (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
The knot there's no untying (in Three Songs for Voice and Harp) (Text: Thomas Campbell)
The night will never stay (in 4 Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]*
The snail (in Creatures) (Text: John Reeves) *
The sun rising (Text: John Donne)
The thrush (Text: John Keats)
The wind and the rain (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN
The Winkle Woman (Text: E. Clifford) [x]
The woodspurge (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
There is a lady sweet and kind
Tiger! Tiger! (in Creatures) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
Will you come? (in Nocturnal) (Text: Edward Thomas)

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