Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Goossens

See Opus Order

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Chamber Music, op. 51
• no. 1. Now, O now, in this brown land (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 2. Gentle lady, do not sing (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• no. 3. Dear heart, why will you use me so? (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
• no. 4. O cool is the valley now (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 5. All day I hear the noise of waters (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
• no. 6. I hear an army charging upon the land (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• Deux proses lyriques / Deux pensées lyriques, op. 16
• no. 1. Hier, dans le jardin ensoleillé (Text: Edwin Evans)
• no. 2. Mon chemin s'était assombri (Text: Edwin Evans)
• Persian Idylls, op. 17b
• no. 1. Breath of ney (Text: Edwin Evans)
• no. 2. Heart of the kalyan (Text: Edwin Evans)
• The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine) FRE
• no. 1. Tilly, composed by Ernest John Moeran (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba, composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 3. A flower given to my daughter, composed by Albert Roussel (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
• no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon, composed by Herbert Hughes (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 5. Tutto è sciolto, composed by John (Nicholson) Ireland (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 6. On the beach at Fontana, composed by Roger Sessions (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 7. Simples, composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 8. Flood, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 9. Nightpiece, composed by George Antheil (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 10. Alone, composed by Edgardo Carducci (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, composed by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse, composed by Charles Wilfred Orr (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 13. A Prayer, composed by Bernard van Dieren (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• Two Scots Folksongs, op. 22c
• no. 1. Behave yoursel' before folk (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. I'm owre young to marry yet (Text: Robert Burns) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A British children's prayer (Text: Merrick Fifield McCarthy) *
• Afternoon, op. 19 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: Anna Sturge after Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry)
• Afternoon, op. 19 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry , as Georges Jean-Aubry) [x] ENG
• All day I hear the noise of waters, op. 51 no. 5 (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
• A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, op. 49 (Two Songs) no. 1 (in The Joyce Book) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• A winter night idyll, op. 53 (Four Songs) no. 2 (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]
• A woodland dell, op. 53 (Four Songs) no. 3 (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]
• Behave yoursel' before folk, op. 22c no. 1 (in Two Scots Folksongs) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Breath of ney, op. 17b no. 1 (in Persian Idylls) (Text: Edwin Evans)
• Chanson de Barberine, op. 9 (Deux Mélodies) no. 2 (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG
• Chanson de Fortunio, op. 9 (Deux Mélodies) no. 1 (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG ENG RUS SWE
• Dear heart, why will you use me so?, op. 51 no. 3 (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
• Épigramme, op. 19 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry , as Georges Jean-Aubry after Edwin Evans) [x]
• Epigram, op. 19 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: Edwin Evans)
• Gentle lady, do not sing, op. 51 no. 2 (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• Heart of the kalyan, op. 17b no. 2 (in Persian Idylls) (Text: Edwin Evans)
• Hier, dans le jardin ensoleillé, op. 16 no. 1 (in Deux proses lyriques / Deux pensées lyriques) (Text: Edwin Evans)
• I hear an army charging upon the land, op. 51 no. 6 (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• I'm owre young to marry yet, op. 22c no. 2 (in Two Scots Folksongs) (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
• Melancholy, op. 26 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: John Fletcher)
• Mon chemin s'était assombri, op. 16 no. 2 (in Deux proses lyriques / Deux pensées lyriques) (Text: Edwin Evans)
• Now, O now, in this brown land, op. 51 no. 1 (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• O cool is the valley now, op. 51 no. 4 (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• Philomel, op. 26 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: Richard Barnfield) FRE
• Searching for Lambs, op. 49 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Volkslieder )
• Seascape, op. 53 (Four Songs) no. 4 (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]
• Silence (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Tea-time, op. 19 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry , as Georges Jean-Aubry) [x]
• The appeal, op. 26 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• The cowl, op. 22a (Text: Herbert Reginald Barbor) [x]
• The curse, op. 22b (Text: Herbert Reginald Barbor) [x]
• The Fan Song (Text: Arnold Bennett)
• Threshold, op. 53 (Four Songs) no. 1 (Text: Babette Holmes) [x]

Last update: 2023-03-07 19:42:37