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Composer: Roger Quilter (1877-1953)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Five English Love Lyrics , op. 24

no. 1. There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS ITA GER FRE GER
no. 3. Go, lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller)

Five Lyics of Robert Herrick , op. 7

no. 1. Cupid (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. A dirge (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. Morning song (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
no. 5. To violets (Text: Robert Herrick)

Four songs of Mirza Schaffy , op. 2

no. 1. Neig' schöne Knospe dich zu mir (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) RUS ENG
no. 1. Lean, opening blossom, down towards me (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) RUS GER
no. 2. Und was die Sonne glüht (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) ENG
no. 2. Where'er the sun doth glow (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) GER
no. 3. Ich fühle deinen Odem (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) RUS ENG
no. 3. I feel thy soul's dear presence (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) RUS GER
no. 4. Die helle Sonne leuchtet (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) RUS ENG
no. 4. The dazzling sun is glistening (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) RUS GER

Seven Elizabethan Lyrics , op. 12

no. 1. Weep you no more (Text: 16^th century) GER
no. 2. My life's delight (Text: Thomas Campion)
no. 3. Damask roses
no. 4. The faithless shepherdess FRE
no. 5. Brown is my Love
no. 6. By a fountainside (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 7. Fair house of joy

Songs of Sorrow , op. 10

no. 1. A coronal (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 2. Passing dreams (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 3. A Land Of Silence (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 4. In spring (Text: Ernest Dowson)

Three Blake Songs , op. 20

no. 1. Dream Valley (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. The wild flower's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Daybreak (Text: William Blake) RUS

Three pastoral songs

no. 1. Cherry Valley (Text: Joseph Campbell)
no. 2. I wish and I wish (Text: Joseph Campbell)
no. 3. I will go with my father a-ploughing (Text: Joseph Campbell)

Three Shakespeare Songs , op. 6

no. 1. Come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR DUT SWE ITA FRE GER FIN GER
no. 2. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FRE FIN GER
no. 3. Blow, blow thou winter wind (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FRE FIN SWE GER

Three songs from old English popular songs

no. 1. Drink to me only with thine eyes (Text: Ben Jonson after Lucius Flavius Philostratus) GER
no. 2. Barbara Allen (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Over the mountains (Text: Volkslieder ) GER

To Julia

no. 1. The bracelet (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. The Maiden Blush (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. To Daisies (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. The Night Piece (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 5. Julia's Hair (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 6. Cherry ripe (Text: Robert Herrick)

Two Partsongs

no. 1. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
no. 2. To the virgins (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA

Two September Songs , op. 18

no. ?. Through the sunny garden (Text: Mary Coleridge)
no. ?. The valley and the hill (Text: Mary Coleridge)

Two Shakespeare Songs (4^th set) , op. 32

no. 1. Orpheus with his lute DUT FRE GER FIN SWE GER
no. 2. When icicles hang (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN

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

A coronal, op. 10 no. 1 (in Songs of Sorrow) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
A dirge, op. 7 no. 2 (in Five Lyics of Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick)
A good child, op. 5 (Four child songs) no. 1 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
A Land Of Silence, op. 10 no. 3 (in Songs of Sorrow) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
A last year's rose, op. 14 (Four Songs) no. 3 (Text: William Ernest Henley)
A song at parting (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) ITA GER WEL
April, op. 14 (Four Songs) no. 2 (Text: Sir William Watson)
Arab Love Song, op. 25 no. 4 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
At close of day (Text: Laurence Binyon)
Autumn evening, op. 14 (Four Songs) no. 1 (Text: Arthur Maquarie)
Barbara Allen (in Three songs from old English popular songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Blow, blow thou winter wind, op. 6 no. 3 (in Three Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FRE FIN SWE GER
Brown is my Love, op. 12 no. 5 (in Seven Elizabethan Lyrics)
By a fountainside, op. 12 no. 6 (in Seven Elizabethan Lyrics) (Text: Ben Jonson)
Cherry ripe (in To Julia) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Cherry Valley (in Three pastoral songs) (Text: Joseph Campbell)
Come away, death, op. 6 no. 1 (in Three Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR DUT SWE ITA FRE GER FIN GER
Cupid, op. 7 no. 1 (in Five Lyics of Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Damask roses, op. 12 no. 3 (in Seven Elizabethan Lyrics)
Daybreak, op. 20 no. 3 (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Die helle Sonne leuchtet, op. 2 no. 4 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) RUS ENG
Dream Valley, op. 20 no. 1 (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Drink to me only with thine eyes (in Three songs from old English popular songs) (Text: Ben Jonson after Lucius Flavius Philostratus) GER
Fair house of joy, op. 12 no. 7 (in Seven Elizabethan Lyrics)
Fear no more the heat o' the sun, op. 23 no. 1 (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FIN GER
Fill a glass with golden wine (Text: William Ernest Henley)
Foreign children, op. 5 (Four child songs) no. 4 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
Go, lovely rose, op. 24 no. 3 (in Five English Love Lyrics) (Text: Edmund Waller)
Hark, hark! the lark (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA GER FRE FIN GER
Hey, ho, the wind and the rain, op. 23 no. 5 (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER FRE FIN
How should I your true love know, op. 30 (Four Shakespeare Songs) no. 3 ITA GER FRE
I feel thy soul's dear presence, op. 2 no. 3 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) RUS GER
I will go with my father a-ploughing (in Three pastoral songs) (Text: Joseph Campbell)
I wish and I wish (in Three pastoral songs) (Text: Joseph Campbell)
Ich fühle deinen Odem, op. 2 no. 3 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) RUS ENG
In spring, op. 10 no. 4 (in Songs of Sorrow) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
In the highlands, op. 26 (Two songs) no. 1 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER
In the scented bud of the morning-O (Text: James Stephens) SPA
It was a lover and his lass, op. 23 no. 3 (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN
Julia's Hair (in To Julia) (Text: Robert Herrick)
June (Text: Nora Hopper)
Lead us, heavenly Father (Text: James Edmeston)
Lean, opening blossom, down towards me, op. 2 no. 1 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) RUS GER
Love's philosophy, op. 3 (Three songs) no. 1 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
Morning song, op. 7 no. 3 (in Five Lyics of Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Music, when soft voices die, op. 25 no. 5 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER FRE
My life's delight, op. 12 no. 2 (in Seven Elizabethan Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Campion)
Neig' schöne Knospe dich zu mir, op. 2 no. 1 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) RUS ENG
Non Nobis, Domine! (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Now sleeps the crimson petal, op. 3 (Three songs) no. 2 (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
O mistress mine, op. 6 no. 2 (in Three Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER FRE FIN GER
Orpheus with his lute, op. 32 no. 1 (in Two Shakespeare Songs (4^th set)) DUT FRE GER FIN SWE GER
Over the land is April, op. 26 (Two songs) no. 2 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
Over the mountains (in Three songs from old English popular songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
Passing dreams, op. 10 no. 2 (in Songs of Sorrow) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Sigh no more, ladies, op. 30 (Four Shakespeare Songs) no. 4 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA FRE FIN
Song of the blackbird, op. 14 (Four Songs) no. 4 (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
Spring is at the door, op. 18 no. 4 (Text: Nora Hopper)
Take, o take those lips away, op. 23 no. 4 DUT GER FRE FIN GER POL
The answer (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
The bracelet (in To Julia) (Text: Robert Herrick)
The dazzling sun is glistening, op. 2 no. 4 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) RUS GER
The faithless shepherdess, op. 12 no. 4 (in Seven Elizabethan Lyrics) FRE
The Fuchsia Tree, op. 25 no. 2 (Text: Volkslieder )
The jealous lover, op. 28 no. 1 (Text: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester)
The jocund dance, op. 18 no. 3 (Text: William Blake)
The lamplighter, op. 5 (Four child songs) no. 2 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
The Maiden Blush (in To Julia) (Text: Robert Herrick)
The Night Piece (in To Julia) (Text: Robert Herrick)
The time of roses (Text: Thomas Hood)
The valley and the hill, op. 18 no. 6 (in Two September Songs) (Text: Mary Coleridge)
The wild flower's song, op. 20 no. 2 (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
There be none of Beauty's daughters, op. 24 no. 1 (in Five English Love Lyrics) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS ITA GER FRE GER
Through the sunny garden, op. 18 no. 5 (in Two September Songs) (Text: Mary Coleridge)
To daffodils (in Two Partsongs) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
To Daisies, op. 8 no. 3 (in To Julia) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To Electra, op. 7 no. 4 (in Five Lyics of Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
To the virgins (in Two Partsongs) (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
To violets, op. 7 no. 5 (in Five Lyics of Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To wine and beauty, op. 18 no. 1 (Text: after John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester) FRE
Und was die Sonne glüht, op. 2 no. 2 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) ENG
Under the greenwood tree, op. 23 no. 2 (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN GER
Verses from 'The Rubāiyat of Omar Khayām (Text: E. A. Johnson after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Weep you no more, op. 12 no. 1 (in Seven Elizabethan Lyrics) (Text: 16^th century) GER
When daffodils begin to peer, op. 30 (Four Shakespeare Songs) no. 2 (Text: William Shakespeare)
When icicles hang, op. 32 no. 2 (in Two Shakespeare Songs (4^th set)) (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
Where be you going, op. 18 no. 2 (Text: John Keats)
Where go the boats?, op. 5 (Four child songs) no. 3 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
Where'er the sun doth glow, op. 2 no. 2 (in Four songs of Mirza Schaffy) (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) GER
Who is Silvia?, op. 30 (Four Shakespeare Songs) no. 1 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT SPA GER FRE FIN
Ye banks and braes (Text: Robert Burns)

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