Composer: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

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

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Fire of Turf, op. 139

no. 1. A fire of turf (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 2. The chapel on the hill (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 3. Cowslip time (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 4. Scared (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 5. Blackberry time (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 6. The fair (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 7. The West Wind (Text: Winifred M. Letts)

A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster

no. 1. [No Title] (Text: Winifred M. Letts) [x]
no. 2. [No Title] (Text: Winifred M. Letts) [x]
no. 3. A soft day (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 5. The bold unbiddable child (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
no. 6. Irish skies (Text: Winifred M. Letts)

Bible Songs, op. 113

no. 1. A song of Freedom (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT
no. 2. A song of trust (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT FRE GER
no. 3. A song of Hope (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) HEB ENG LAT FRE
no. 4. A song of Peace (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 5. A song of Battle (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT
no. 6. A song of Wisdom (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)

Die Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar, op. 72

no. 1. Am Fenster stand die Mutter (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 2. Die Mutter Gottes zu Kevlaar (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 3. Der kranke Sohn und die Mutter (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG

Eight songs from "The Spanish Gypsy", op. 1

no. 1. Blue Wings (Text: George Eliot)
no. 2. Day is dying (Text: George Eliot)
no. 3. Sweet Springtime (Text: George Eliot)
no. 4. Spring comes hither (Text: George Eliot)
no. 5. Came a pretty maid (Text: George Eliot)
no. 6. The world is great (Text: George Eliot)
no. 7. Bright, o bright Fedalma (Text: George Eliot)
no. 8. The Radiant Dark (Text: George Eliot)

Six Songs from "The Glens of Antrim", op. 174

no. 1. Denny's Daughter (Text: Moira O'Neill)
no. 2. The Sailor Man (Text: Moira O'Neill)
no. 3. Lookin' Back (Text: Moira O'Neill)
no. 4. At Sea (Text: Moira O'Neill)
no. 5. I mind the day (Text: Moira O'Neill)
no. 6. The Boy from Ballytearim (Text: Moira O'Neill)

Six Songs of Faith, op. 97

no. 4. To the Soul (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
no. 5. Tears! tears! tears (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 6. Joy, shipmate, joy (Text: Walt Whitman)

Songs of the Sea, op. 91

no. 1. Drake's Drum (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
no. 2. Outward Bound (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
no. 3. Devon, O Devon, in wind and rain (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
no. 4. Homeward Bound (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
no. 5. The "Old Superb" (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)

The Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night, op. 65

no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 2. Come away Death (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE FRE GER
no. 3. The rain it raineth every day (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER

Three motets, op. 38

no. 1. Justorum animae ENG
no. 2. Coelos ascendit ENG FRE
no. 3. Beati quorum via (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG FRE

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

[No Title] (Text: Winifred M. Letts) [x]
[No Title] (Text: Winifred M. Letts) [x]
A fire of turf, op. 139 no. 1 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
A soft day, op. 140 no. 3 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
A song of Battle, op. 113 no. 5 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT
A song of Freedom, op. 113 no. 1 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT
A song of Hope, op. 113 no. 3 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) HEB ENG LAT FRE
A song of Peace, op. 113 no. 4 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
A song of trust, op. 113 no. 2 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT FRE GER
A song of Wisdom, op. 113 no. 6 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Am Fenster stand die Mutter, op. 72 no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
An die blaue Himmelsdecke, op. 7 (Six Songs of Heine : Lieder-Album II) no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
At Sea, op. 174 no. 4 (Text: Moira O'Neill)
Beati quorum via, op. 38 no. 3 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG FRE
Blackberry time, op. 139 no. 5 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
Blue Wings, op. 1 no. 1 (Text: George Eliot)
Boot, saddle, to horse and away (Text: Robert Browning)
Bright, o bright Fedalma, op. 1 no. 7 (Text: George Eliot)
Came a pretty maid, op. 1 no. 5 (Text: George Eliot)
Chieftain of Tyrconnell (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
Coelos ascendit, op. 38 no. 2 ENG FRE
Come away Death, op. 65 no. 2 (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE FRE GER
Cowslip time, op. 139 no. 3 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
Cuttin' rushes (Text: Moira O'Neill)
Daß du mich liebst, op. 4 (Six Songs of Heine) no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FIN
Day is dying, op. 1 no. 2 (Text: George Eliot)
Denny's Daughter, op. 174 no. 1 (Text: Moira O'Neill)
Der kranke Sohn und die Mutter, op. 72 no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Der Schmetterling ist in die Rose verliebt, op. 4 (Six Songs of Heine) no. 6 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Der sterbende Almansor, op. 7 (Six Songs of Heine : Lieder-Album II) no. 4 (Text: Heinrich Heine)
Devon, O Devon, in wind and rain, op. 91 no. 3 (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
Die Mutter Gottes zu Kevlaar, op. 72 no. 2 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Drake's Drum, op. 91 no. 1 (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
Drop me a flower (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Ernst ist der Frühling, op. 4 (Six Songs of Heine) no. 5 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ROM ITA
Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
For ever mine (Text: Sir Harold Boulton)
Frühling, op. 4 (Six Songs of Heine) no. 4 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Golden slumbers (Text: Thomas Dekker)
Heraclitus, op. 110 no. 4 (Text: William Johnson Cory after Callimachus) ENG
Homeward Bound, op. 91 no. 4 (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
I mind the day, op. 174 no. 5 (Text: Moira O'Neill)
I praise the tender flower (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
Ich halte ihr die Augen zu, op. 7 (Six Songs of Heine : Lieder-Album II) no. 5 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Ich lieb' eine Blume, op. 7 (Six Songs of Heine : Lieder-Album II) no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
Irish skies, op. 140 no. 6 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
Joy, shipmate, joy, op. 97 no. 6 (Text: Walt Whitman)
Justorum animae, op. 38 no. 1 ENG
La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats) GER FRE
Lookin' Back, op. 174 no. 3 (Text: Moira O'Neill)
Mit deinen blauen Augen, op. 4 (Six Songs of Heine) no. 2 (Text: Heinrich Heine) SWE SPA RUS ENG ITA
My love's an arbutus (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
O mistress mine, op. 65 no. 1 (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
Outward Bound, op. 91 no. 2 (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
Phoebe, op. 125 no. 3 (Text: Thomas Lodge)
Prince Madoc's Farewell (Text: Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans) WEL
Requiescat (Text: Matthew Arnold)
Robin Redbreast (Text: William Allingham)
Scared, op. 139 no. 4 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
Schlummerlied, op. 7 (Six Songs of Heine : Lieder-Album II) no. 6 (Text: Heinrich Heine)
Spring comes hither, op. 1 no. 4 (Text: George Eliot)
Sterne mit den gold'nen Füßchen, op. 4 (Six Songs of Heine) no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ROM ITA
Sweet Springtime, op. 1 no. 3 (Text: George Eliot)
Tears! tears! tears , op. 97 no. 5 (Text: Walt Whitman)
The Aquiline Snub (Text: Edward Lear)
The blue bird (Text: Mary Coleridge) GER FRE
The bold unbiddable child, op. 140 no. 5 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
The Boy from Ballytearim, op. 174 no. 6 (Text: Moira O'Neill)
The chapel on the hill, op. 139 no. 2 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
The Compleat Virtuoso (Text: Edward Lear)
The fair, op. 139 no. 6 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
The Fairy Lough, op. 77 no. 2 (Text: Moira O'Neill)
The Hardy Norse-woman (Text: Edward Lear)
The horses of the sea (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The little red lark (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
The "Old Superb", op. 91 no. 5 (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
The pibroch, op. 157 no. 1 (Text: Murdoch Maclean)
The Radiant Dark, op. 1 no. 8 (Text: George Eliot)
The rain it raineth every day, op. 65 no. 3 (Text: William Shakespeare) SWE DAN GER
The Sailor Man, op. 174 no. 2 (Text: Moira O'Neill)
The tomb (Text: Thomas Stanley)
The West Wind, op. 139 no. 7 (Text: Winifred M. Letts)
The world is great, op. 1 no. 6 (Text: George Eliot)
There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) GER
To the rose, op. 19 no. 3 (Text: Robert Herrick)
To the Soul, op. 97 no. 4 (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
Tom Lemin (Text: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch)
Tragödie [multi-text setting]
Trottin' to the fair (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
When Mary thro' the garden went, op. 127 no. 3 (Text: Mary Coleridge) GER
Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert, op. 7 (Six Songs of Heine : Lieder-Album II) no. 2 (Text: Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG ROM
Windy nights, op. 30 no. 4 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
Wishing (Text: William Allingham)

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