Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by I. Holst

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Imogen Clare Holst (1907 - 1984)

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Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs

no. 1. Pretty Caroline (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 2. Now the winter is gone (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. The seeds of love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. A bunch of green holly and ivy (Text: Volkslieder )

Four Somerset Folk Songs

no. 1. Hares on the mountains: If all those young men (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. It's a rosebud in June (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Sweet Kitty: As he was a-riding (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. The Crabfish (Text: Volkslieder )

Four Songs

no. 1. Brittle Beauty (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
no. 2. Why fearest thou thy outward foe?
no. 3. Shall I thus ever long (Text: Thomas Heywood; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
no. 4. As lawrell leaves (Text: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)

Three Songs

no. 1. Leans now the fair willow, dreaming (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. The Fool’s Song (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. Exile (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Three Songs

no. 1. As freezing fountains, when the sun
no. 2. In Vain does Nature’s Bounteous Hand Supply
no. 3. A Lover I’m Born

Welcome joy and welcome sorrow

no. ?. Shed no tear (Text: John Keats)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A bunch of green holly and ivy (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Advice to a Friend in Love (Text: Henry Carey)
A Lover I’m Born (in Three Songs)
As freezing fountains, when the sun (in Three Songs)
As lawrell leaves (in Four Songs) (Text: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
Brittle Beauty (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
Exile (in Three Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Farewell to Rod (Text: Imogen Clare Holst) [x]*
Fly away over the sea (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
Hares on the mountains: If all those young men (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Homage to William Morris (Text: William Morris) [x]
In Vain does Nature’s Bounteous Hand Supply (in Three Songs)
It's a rosebud in June (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Justification for Loving (Text: Henry Carey)
Lady Daffadowndilly (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Leans now the fair willow, dreaming (in Three Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Little Thinkest Thou, Poore Flower (Text: John Donne)
Now the winter is gone (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Polly’s birthday (Text: Henry Carey)
Pretty Caroline (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
Shall I thus ever long (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas Heywood; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
Shed no tear (in Welcome joy and welcome sorrow) (Text: John Keats)
Sweet Kitty: As he was a-riding (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
The beau’s lament for the loss of Farinelli (Text: Henry Carey)
The Crabfish (in Four Somerset Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
The Fool’s Song (in Three Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter de la Mare)
The seeds of love (in Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Why fearest thou thy outward foe? (in Four Songs)

Last update: 2023-05-11 11:25:21