Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Downes

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Casterbridge Fair, op. 1
• no. 1. The Ballad Singer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Former beauties (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. A Wife Waits (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. After the Club Dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. After the Fair (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Five Holy Songs, op. 11
• no. 1. I sing the progress of a deathless soul (Text: John Donne)
• no. 2. Spit in my face, ye Jews (Text: John Donne)
• no. 3. The virgins (Text: John Donne)
• no. 4. When senses, which thy soldiers are (Text: John Donne)
• no. 5. Hear us, O Hear us, Lord (Text: John Donne)
• Lost Love, op. 15
• no. 1. The walk (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Lost love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. A night in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. Last love word (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Old Love's Domain, op. 29
• no. 1. The Division (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Something Tapped (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. Where the picnic was (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. At Castle Boterel (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. The curtains now are drawn (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Songs from Spoon River
• no. 1. Ollie McGee (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 2. Russian Sonia (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 3. Rebecca Wasson (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 4. Dora Williams (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 5. Sarah Brown (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Songs of Persephone, op. 114b
• no. 1. Happy Clouds (Text: Persephone Trippett) *
• no. 2. Rainbows (Text: Persephone Trippett) *
• no. 3. The Majestic Sun (Text: Persephone Trippett) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• After the Club Dance, op. 1 no. 4 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• After the Fair, op. 1 no. 5 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• A night in November, op. 15 no. 3 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• At Castle Boterel, op. 29 no. 4 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• A Wife Waits, op. 1 no. 3 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Dora Williams (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Dreamland, op. 42 (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
• Former beauties, op. 1 no. 2 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Happy Clouds, op. 114b no. 1 (in Songs of Persephone) (Text: Persephone Trippett) *
• Hear us, O Hear us, Lord, op. 11 no. 5 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
• I sing the progress of a deathless soul, op. 11 no. 1 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
• Last love word, op. 15 no. 4 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Lost love, op. 15 no. 2 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Ollie McGee (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Rainbows, op. 114b no. 2 (in Songs of Persephone) (Text: Persephone Trippett) *
• Rebecca Wasson (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Russian Sonia (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Sarah Brown (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Something Tapped, op. 29 no. 2 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Spit in my face, ye Jews, op. 11 no. 2 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
• The Ballad Singer, op. 1 no. 1 (in Casterbridge Fair) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The curtains now are drawn, op. 29 no. 5 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Division, op. 29 no. 1 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Majestic Sun, op. 114b no. 3 (in Songs of Persephone) (Text: Persephone Trippett) *
• The virgins, op. 11 no. 3 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
• The walk, op. 15 no. 1 (in Lost Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• When senses, which thy soldiers are, op. 11 no. 4 (in Five Holy Songs) (Text: John Donne)
• Where the picnic was, op. 29 no. 3 (in Old Love's Domain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)

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