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Author: Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Bucolic Comedies
Façade
Rustic Elegies
The Canticle of the Rose
Troy Park

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics

A man from a far country (Rose and Alice) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Across the thick and the pastel snow (from Façade) *
W. Walton: By the lake

Ass-Face (Ass-Face drank) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Ass-Face drank (from Façade)
W. Walton: Ass-Face

Aubade (Jane, Jane, tall as a crane ) (from Façade) - G. Bachlund
Aubade - Jane, Jane (Jane, Jane, tall as a crane ) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Bank Holiday (Seas are roaring like a lion; with their ) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Baskets of ripe fruit in air (from Façade)
W. Walton: Gardinir Janus

Black Mrs. Behemoth (In a room of the palace ) (from Troy Park) - W. Walton *
By the blue wooden sea (from Façade)
W. Walton: Switchback

By the lake (Across the thick and the pastel snow ) (from Façade) - W. Walton *
Came the great Popinjay (Came the great Popinjay) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Came the great Popinjay (from Façade)
W. Walton: Came the great Popinjay

Canticle III (Still falls the Rain) (Still falls the Rain) (from The Canticle of the Rose) - B. Britten *
Castles of crystal (from Façade)
W. Walton: Trams

Centaurs and Centauresses (We bear velvet cream ) (from Rustic Elegies) *
W. Walton: Jodelling song

Country dance (That hobnailed goblin ) (from Bucolic Comedies) - W. Walton *
Cried the navy-blue ghost
W. Walton: Four in the morning

Daisy and Lily (from Façade)
W. Walton: Valse

Dame Souris Trotte (Madam Mouse trots ) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Daphne (When green as a river was the barley ) - W. Walton, W. Walton *
Do not take a bath in Jordan (from Façade)
W. Walton: Scotch rhapsody

En famille (In the early springtime after their tea ) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Four in the morning (Cried the navy-blue ghost ) - W. Walton
Fox Trot (Old Sir Faulk, tall as a stork ) (from Bucolic Comedies) *
W. Walton, W. Walton: Old Sir Faulk

Gardinir Janus (Baskets of ripe fruit in air) (from Façade) - W. Walton
God Pluto is a kindly man (from Façade)
W. Walton: Mazurka

Gone the saturnalia sighing, dying (from Façade)
W. Walton: The last gallop

Green wooden leaves clap fight away (from Façade)
W. Walton: Springing Jack

Hornpipe (Sailors come) (from Façade) - W. Walton
I do like to be beside the seaside (When Don Pasquito arrived at the seaside ) (from Troy Park) *
W. Walton: Tango - Pasodoble

In a room of the palace (from Troy Park) *
W. Walton: Black Mrs. Behemoth

In the early springtime after their tea (from Façade)
W. Walton: En famille

Jane, Jane, tall as a crane (from Façade)
W. Walton: Aubade - Jane, Jane
G. Bachlund: Aubade

Jodelling song (We bear velvet cream ) (from Rustic Elegies) - W. Walton *
Jumbo asleep (from Façade)
W. Walton: Jumbo's lullaby

Jumbo's lullaby (Jumbo asleep) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Lily O'Grady
W. Walton: Popular Song

Long Steel Grass (Long steel grass) (from Façade)
W. Walton: Long steel grass (Noche Espagnola)

Long steel grass (from Façade)
W. Walton: Long steel grass (Noche Espagnola)

Long steel grass (Noche Espagnola) (Long steel grass) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Madam Mouse trots (Madam Mouse trots ) (from Façade) - M. Dawney
Madam Mouse trots (from Façade)
M. Dawney: Madam Mouse trots
W. Walton: Dame Souris Trotte

March (Ratatantan, ratatantan, ratatantan) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Mariner man (What are you staring at, mariner man) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Mazurka (God Pluto is a kindly man) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Metallic waves of people jar
G. Bachlund: Portrait of a Barmaid

Old Sir Faulk (Old Sir Faulk, tall as a stork ) (from Bucolic Comedies) - W. Walton, W. Walton *
Old Sir Faulk, tall as a stork (from Bucolic Comedies) *
W. Walton, W. Walton: Old Sir Faulk

Polka (Tra la la la la la la la) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Popular Song (Lily O'Grady) - W. Walton
Portrait of a Barmaid (Metallic waves of people jar ) - G. Bachlund
Ratatantan, ratatantan, ratatantan (from Façade)
W. Walton: March

Rose and Alice (from Façade)
W. Walton: A man from a far country

Rose Castles (Rose Castles) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Rose Castles (from Façade)
W. Walton: Rose Castles

Said King Pompey (Said King Pompey) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Said King Pompey (from Façade)
W. Walton: Said King Pompey

Sailors come (from Façade)
W. Walton: Hornpipe

Scotch rhapsody (Do not take a bath in Jordan) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Seas are roaring like a lion; with their (from Façade)
W. Walton: Bank Holiday

Small talk (Upon the noon Cassandra died ) - W. Walton
Something lies beyond the scene (Something lies beyond the scene ) (from Troy Park) - W. Walton *
Something lies beyond the scene (from Troy Park) *
W. Walton: Something lies beyond the scene

Springing Jack (Green wooden leaves clap fight away) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Still falls the rain (Still falls the Rain) (from The Canticle of the Rose) - G. Baxter *
Still falls the Rain (from The Canticle of the Rose) *
B. Britten: Canticle III (Still falls the Rain)
G. Baxter: Still falls the rain

Switchback (By the blue wooden sea) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Tango - Pasodoble (When Don Pasquito arrived at the seaside ) (from Troy Park) - W. Walton *
Tarantella (Where the satyrs are chattering) (from Façade) - W. Walton
That hobnailed goblin (from Bucolic Comedies) *
W. Walton: Country dance

The currants moonwhite (from Façade)
W. Walton: The white owl

The gold-armoured ghost from the Roman road *
N. Rorem: The youth with the red-gold hair

The houses on a seesaw rush (from Façade)
W. Walton: Bank Holiday

The last gallop (Gone the saturnalia sighing, dying) (from Façade) - W. Walton
The octogenarian (The octogenarian leaned from his window) (from Façade) - W. Walton
The octogenarian leaned from his window (from Façade)
W. Walton: The octogenarian

The white owl (The currants moonwhite) (from Façade) - W. Walton
The wind's bastinado (The wind's bastinado) (from Façade) - W. Walton
The wind's bastinado (from Façade)
W. Walton: The wind's bastinado

The youth with the red-gold hair (The gold-armoured ghost from the Roman road) - N. Rorem *
Through gilded trellises (Through gilded trellises ) (from Façade) - W. Walton, W. Walton, R. Meale
Through gilded trellises (from Façade)
W. Walton, W. Walton, R. Meale: Through gilded trellises

Tra la la la la la la la (from Façade)
W. Walton: Polka

Trams (Castles of crystal) (from Façade) - W. Walton
Upon the noon Cassandra died
W. Walton: Small talk

Valse (Daisy and Lily) (from Façade) - W. Walton
We bear velvet cream (from Rustic Elegies) *
W. Walton: Jodelling song

What are you staring at, mariner man (from Façade)
W. Walton: Mariner man

When Don Pasquito arrived at the seaside (from Troy Park) *
W. Walton: Tango - Pasodoble

When green as a river was the barley *
W. Walton, W. Walton: Daphne

When Sir Beelzebub (When Sir Beelzebub called for his syllabub) (from Façade) - W. Walton
When Sir Beelzebub called for his syllabub (from Façade)
W. Walton: When Sir Beelzebub

Where the satyrs are chattering (from Façade)
W. Walton: Tarantella

You, the Young Rainbow - N. Rorem [x] *

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