Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Sea Symphony

no. 1. To-day a rude brief recitative (Walt Whitman)
no. 2. On the beach at night alone (Walt Whitman)
no. 3. Scherzo - The Waves (Walt Whitman)
no. 4. O vast Rondure, swimming in space (Walt Whitman)
no. 5. O we can wait no longer (Walt Whitman)
no. 6. Passage to more than India! (Walt Whitman)

Along the Field

no. 1. Along the field (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 2. We'll to the Woods no more (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 3. The half-moon westers low (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 4. In the morning, in the morning (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 5. The sigh that heaves the grasses (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 6. Good-bye (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 7. Fancy's knell (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 8. With rue my heart is laden (Alfred Edward Housman)

Dona nobis pacem

no. 1. Agnus Dei (Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG ITA
no. 2. Beat! beat! drums! (Walt Whitman) GER
no. 3. Reconciliation (Walt Whitman)
no. 4. Dirge for two veterans (Walt Whitman)
no. 5. The Angel of Death

Five Mystical Songs

no. 1. Easter (George Herbert)
no. 2. I got me flowers (George Herbert)
no. 3. Love bade me welcome (George Herbert)
no. 4. The Call (George Herbert)
no. 5. Antiphon (George Herbert)

Four English Folk Songs

no. 1. The dark-eyed sailor (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 2. The spring time of the year (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 3. Just as the tide was flowing (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 4. The lover's ghost (Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Four Hymns for tenor, viola and piano

no. 1. Lord! come away! (Bishop Jeremiah Taylor)
no. 2. Who is this fair one? (Isaac Watts)
no. 3. Come Love, come Lord (Richard Crashaw)
no. 4. Evening Hymn (Robert Seymour Bridges after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * ENG

Four Last Songs

no. 1. Procris (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *
no. 2. Tired (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *
no. 3. Hands, eyes, and heart (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *
no. 4. Menelaus (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *

Four Poems by Fredegond Shove

no. 1. Motion and Stillness (Fredegond Shove)
no. 2. Four Nights (Fredegond Shove)
no. 3. The New Ghost (Fredegond Shove)
no. 4. The Water Mill (Fredegond Shove)

Hodie

no. 1. Prologue (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. Narration (1) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 3. Song: It was the winter wild (John Milton)
no. 4. Narration (2) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 5. Choral: Kyrieleison (Miles Coverdale after Martin Luther) ENG
no. 6. Narration (3) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 7. The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Narration (4) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 9. Pastoral (George Herbert)
no. 10. Narration (5) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 11. Lullaby
no. 12. Hymn (William Drummond of Hawthornden)
no. 13. Narration (6) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 14. March of the Three Kings (Ursula Vaughan Williams) [x]*
no. 15. Choral: No sad thought
no. 16. Epilogue (John Milton)

Merciless Beauty

no. 1. Your eyën two (Geoffrey Chaucer)
no. 2. So hath your beauty (Geoffrey Chaucer)
no. 3. Since I from love (Geoffrey Chaucer)

On Wenlock Edge

no. 1. On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 2. From far, from eve and morning (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 3. Is my team ploughing? (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 4. Oh, when I was in love with you (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 5. Bredon Hill (Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 6. Clun (Alfred Edward Housman)

Pilgrim's Progress

no. 1. Watchful's Song (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. The Song of the Pilgrims (John Bunyan)
no. 3. The Pilgrim's Psalm (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. The Song of the Leaves of Life and the Water of Life (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 5. The Song of Vanity Fair (Ursula Wood) *
no. 6. The Woodcutter's Song (John Bunyan)
no. 7. The Bird's Song (Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT GER

Six choral songs to be sung in time of war

no. 1. A song of courage (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 2. A song of liberty (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 3. A song of healing (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 4. A song of victory (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 5. A song of pity, peace, and love (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 6. A song of the new age (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Songs of Travel

no. 1. The Vagabond (Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
no. 2. Let Beauty awake (Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 3. The Roadside Fire (Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 4. Youth and Love (Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 5. In Dreams (Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 6. The infinite shining heavens (Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 7. Whither Must I Wander? (Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 8. Bright is the ring of words (Robert Louis Stevenson) HUN
no. 9. I have trod the upward and the downward slope (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ten Blake Songs

no. 1. Infant Joy (William Blake) RUS
no. 2. A poison tree (William Blake)
no. 3. The piper (William Blake) RUS
no. 4. London (William Blake)
no. 5. The lamb (William Blake) RUS
no. 6. The shepherd (William Blake)
no. 7. Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time (William Blake)
no. 8. Cruelty has a human heart (William Blake)
no. 9. The divine image (William Blake) RUS
no. 10. Eternity (William Blake)

The House of Life

no. 1. Lovesight (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 2. Silent noon (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 3. Love's minstrels (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 4. Heart's haven (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 5. Death-in-Love (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 6. Love's last gift (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Three Poems by Walt Whitman

no. 1. Nocturne (Walt Whitman)
no. 2. A clear midnight (Walt Whitman) FRE
no. 3. Joy, shipmate, joy (Walt Whitman)

Three Shakespeare Songs

no. 1. Full fathom five (William Shakespeare) DUT NOR
no. 2. The cloud-capp'd towers (William Shakespeare) ITA
no. 3. Over hill, over dale (William Shakespeare)

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

A clear midnight (Walt Whitman) FRE
A poison tree (William Blake)
A song of courage (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A song of healing (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A song of liberty (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A song of pity, peace, and love (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A song of the new age (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A song of victory (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Agnus Dei (Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG ITA
Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time (William Blake)
Alister McAlpine's Lament (Robert Allan)
Along the field (Alfred Edward Housman)
An acre of land (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
An Oxford Elegy (Matthew Arnold)
Antiphon (George Herbert)
Beat! beat! drums! (Walt Whitman) GER
Bredon Hill (Alfred Edward Housman)
Bright is the ring of words (Robert Louis Stevenson) HUN
Buonaparty (Thomas Hardy)
Bushes and briars (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Ca' the yowes (Robert Burns)
Choral: Kyrieleison (Miles Coverdale after Martin Luther) ENG
Choral: No sad thought
Clun (Alfred Edward Housman)
Come away, death (William Shakespeare) SWE FRE GER
Come Love, come Lord (Richard Crashaw)
Cruelty has a human heart (William Blake)
Darest thou now, O soul (Walt Whitman) FRE
Death-in-Love (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Dirge for two veterans (Walt Whitman)
Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold)
Down among the dead men (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Dreamland (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Easter (George Herbert)
Epilogue (John Milton)
Eternity (William Blake)
Evening Hymn (Robert Seymour Bridges after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * ENG
Fancy's knell (Alfred Edward Housman)
Fear no more the heat o' the sun (William Shakespeare) GER
Four Nights (Fredegond Shove)
From far, from eve and morning (Alfred Edward Housman)
Full fathom five (William Shakespeare) DUT NOR
Good-bye (Alfred Edward Housman)
Greensleeves (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Hands, eyes, and heart (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *
Heart's haven (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Heart's music (Thomas Campion)
Hugh's Song of the Road (Harold Hannyngton Child) *
Hymn (William Drummond of Hawthornden)
I got me flowers (George Herbert)
I have trod the upward and the downward slope (Robert Louis Stevenson)
If I were a Queen (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
In Dreams (Robert Louis Stevenson)
In Linden Lea (William Barnes)
In the morning, in the morning (Alfred Edward Housman)
Infant Joy (William Blake) RUS
Into the woods my master went (Sidney Lanier)
Is my team ploughing? (Alfred Edward Housman)
Joy, shipmate, joy (Walt Whitman)
Just as the tide was flowing (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
L'amour de moi (15^th century)
Let Beauty awake (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Linden Lea (William Barnes)
Loch Lomond (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
London (William Blake)
Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Lord! come away! (Bishop Jeremiah Taylor)
Love bade me welcome (George Herbert)
Lovesight (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Love's last gift (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Love's minstrels (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Lullaby
Mannin Veen (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
March of the Three Kings (Ursula Vaughan Williams) [x]*
Menelaus (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *
Motion and Stillness (Fredegond Shove)
Narration (1) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Narration (2) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Narration (3) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Narration (4) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Narration (5) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Narration (6) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Nocturne (Walt Whitman)
O mistress mine (William Shakespeare) GER
O vast Rondure, swimming in space (Walt Whitman)
O we can wait no longer (Walt Whitman)
Oh, when I was in love with you (Alfred Edward Housman)
On the beach at night alone (Walt Whitman)
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble (Alfred Edward Housman)
Orpheus with his lute (William Shakespeare) FRE GER
Over hill, over dale (William Shakespeare)
Passage to more than India! (Walt Whitman)
Pastoral (George Herbert)
Procris (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *
Prologue (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Reconciliation (Walt Whitman)
Rest (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Scherzo - The Waves (Walt Whitman)
Searching for Lambs (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Serenade to music (William Shakespeare)
Silence and music (Ursula Wood) *
Silent noon (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Since I from love (Geoffrey Chaucer)
So hath your beauty (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Song: It was the winter wild (John Milton)
Sweet day (George Herbert)
The Angel of Death [multi-text setting]
The Bird's Song (Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT GER
The Call (George Herbert)
The cloud-capp'd towers (William Shakespeare) ITA
The dark-eyed sailor (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The divine image (William Blake) RUS
The half-moon westers low (Alfred Edward Housman)
The infinite shining heavens (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The lamb (William Blake) RUS
The lover's ghost (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The New Ghost (Fredegond Shove)
The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)
The Pilgrim's Psalm (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
The piper (William Blake) RUS
The Roadside Fire (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The seeds of love (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The shepherd (William Blake)
The sigh that heaves the grasses (Alfred Edward Housman)
The sky above the roof (Mabel (White) Dearmer after Paul Verlaine) [x] ENG FRE GER
The Song of the Leaves of Life and the Water of Life (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
The Song of the Pilgrims (John Bunyan)
The Song of Vanity Fair (Ursula Wood) *
The spring time of the year (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The turtle dove (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The Vagabond (Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
The Water Mill (Fredegond Shove)
The willow song (William Shakespeare after Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG GER
The winter is gone (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The Woodcutter's Song (John Bunyan)
Tired (Ursula Vaughan Williams) *
To-day a rude brief recitative (Walt Whitman)
Toward the Unknown Region (Walt Whitman) FRE
Wassail song (Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Watchful's Song (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
We'll to the Woods no more (Alfred Edward Housman)
When I am dead, my dearest (Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER WEL
Whither Must I Wander? (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Whitsunday Hymn (Miles Coverdale)
Who is this fair one? (Isaac Watts)
Winter (William Shakespeare) GER
With rue my heart is laden (Alfred Edward Housman)
Your eyën two (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Youth and Love (Robert Louis Stevenson)

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