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Composer: Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901-1986)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Inscape

no. ?. God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. ?. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN

Ode to the Queen , op. 83

no. 1. Sound forth celestial organs (Text: Richard Crashaw)
no. 2. Fair as unshaded light (Text: Sir William D'Avenant)
no. 3. Yet once again, let us our measures move (Text: Thomas Campion)

The Jade Mountain , op. 116

no. 1. A night thought on Terrace Tower (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Zhuang) * GER
no. 2. On hearing her play the harp (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Duan) * GER
no. 3. An autumn night message (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Ying-Wu) * GER
no. 4. A song of the Southern River (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Yi) * GER
no. 5. Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist priest bound homeward (Text: Witter Bynner after Qian Qi) * GER

Three Bird Songs

no. ?. Little Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
no. ?. Robin Redbreast (Text: William Henry Davies)

Three Psalms

no. 1. Psalm 6 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE
no. 2. Psalm 23 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE LAT
no. 3. Psalm 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER ICE

Two songs

no. ?. The night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. ?. Slow spring (Text: Katharine Tynan)

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

A Hymn to God the Father (Text: John Donne)
A night thought on Terrace Tower, op. 116 no. 1 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Zhuang) * GER
A song of the Southern River, op. 116 no. 4 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Yi) * GER
An autumn night message, op. 116 no. 3 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Wei Ying-Wu) * GER
Cradle song (Text: Padraic Colum)
Crux fidelis, op. 140 (Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") no. 2 (Text: Venantius Fortunatus, Saint) DUT FRE GER
Fair as unshaded light, op. 83 no. 2 (in Ode to the Queen) (Text: Sir William D'Avenant)
Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist priest bound homeward, op. 116 no. 5 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Qian Qi) * GER
God's Grandeur (in Inscape) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
La belle dame sans merci, op. 12 (Text: John Keats) ITA GER FRE
Little Trotty Wagtail (in Three Bird Songs) (Text: John Clare)
On hearing her play the harp, op. 116 no. 2 (in The Jade Mountain) (Text: Witter Bynner after Li Duan) * GER
Pied Beauty (in Inscape) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
Psalm 6 (in Three Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE
Psalm 23 (in Three Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE LAT
Psalm 150 (in Three Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER ICE
Regina caeli, laetare, op. 140 (Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") no. 6 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT SPA ENG GER FRE FIN
Resurrexi, et adhunc, op. 140 (Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") no. 4
Robin Redbreast (in Three Bird Songs) (Text: William Henry Davies)
Slow spring (in Two songs) (Text: Katharine Tynan)
Sound forth celestial organs, op. 83 no. 1 (in Ode to the Queen) (Text: Richard Crashaw)
Take, o take those lips away, op. 22 no. 1 DUT GER FRE FIN GER POL
The morning watch, op. 55 (Text: Henry Vaughan)
The night (in Two songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The Virgin's cradle hymn (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT FRE GER
Viri Galilaei, op. 140 (Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia Sacra") no. 10
Yet once again, let us our measures move, op. 83 no. 3 (in Ode to the Queen) (Text: Thomas Campion)