Other author/creator | Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953, author. |
Other author/creator | Blake, William, 1757-1827, author. |
Other author/creator | Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, author. |
Other author/creator | Greene, Robert, 1558-1592, author. |
Other author/creator | Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635, author. |
Other author/creator | Philip, John, author. |
Other author/creator | Duncan, Ronald, 1914-1982, author. |
Other author/creator | Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 author. |
Other author/creator | Donne, John, 1572-1631, author. |
Other author/creator | Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843, author. |
Other author/creator | Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, author. |
Other author/creator | Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964 author. |
Other author/creator | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928, author. |
Other author/creator | Slater, Montagu, 1902-1956, author. |
Other author/creator | Walters, Richard editor, arranger of music. |
Other author/creator | Pears, Peter, 1910-1986, translator. |
Other author/creator | Mayer, Elizabeth, translator. |
Other author/creator | Waley, Arthur, translator. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Birds. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Charm of lullabies. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. This way to the tomb. Evening. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. This way to the tomb. Morning. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. This way to the tomb. Night. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. To lie flat on the back. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Night covers up the rigid land. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Sun shines down. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Fish in the unruffled lakes. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. What's in your mind? |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Underneath the abject willow, voice, piano. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Holy sonnets of John Donne. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. On this island. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Hölderlin Fragmente. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Hölderlin Fragmente. English. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Sonnets of Michelangelo. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Songs from the Chinese; arranged. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Heart of the matter. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Winter words. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. If it's ever spring again. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Children and Sir Nameless. |
Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Ballads, voices (2), piano. |
Uniform title | Vocal music. Selections |
Contents |
Historical notes on the songs -- The birds / Hilaire Belloc -- A charm of lullabies: opus 41. A cradle song / William Blake ; The highland balou / Robert Burns ; Sephestia's lullaby / Robert Greene ; A charm / Thomas Randolph ; The nurse's song / John Philip -- Three songs from This way to the tomb. Evening ; Morning ; Night / Ronald Duncan -- Fish in the unruffled lakes. To lie flat on the back ; Night covers up the rigid land ; The sun shines down ; Fish in the unruffled lakes ; What's in your mind ; Underneath the abject willow / W.H. Auden -- The holy sonnets of John Donne: opus 35. Oh, my blacke soule! ; Batter my heart ; O might those sighes and teares ; Oh, to vex me ; What if this present ; Since she whom I loved ; At the round earth's imagined corners ; Thou hast made me ; Death, be not proud / John Donne -- On this island: opus 11. Let the florid music praise! ; Now the leaves are falling fast ; Seascape ; Nocturne ; As it is, plenty / W.H. Auden -- Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente: opus 61. Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens / Friedrich Hölderlin ; English translation by Elizabeth Mayer and Peter Pears -- Seven sonnets of Michaelangelo: opus 22. Sonetto XVI: Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro ; Sonetto XXXI: A che più debb 'io mai l'intensa voglia ; Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume ; Sonetto LV: Tu sa' chi 'io so, signior mie, che tu sai ; Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume ; Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna ; Sonetto XXVI: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede / Michaelangelo -- Songs from the Chinese: opus 58. The big chariot ; The old lute ; The autumn wind ; The herd-boy ; Depression ; Dance song / translated by Arthur Waley ; transcribed for piano by Richard Walters -- Three songs from The heart of the matter. Prologue: ("Where are the seeds of the universal fire") ; Song: ("We are the darkness in the heat of the day") ; Epilogue: ("So, out of the dark") / Edith Sitwell -- Winter words: opus 52. At day-close in November ; Midnight on the great western ; Wagtail and baby ; The little old table ; The choirmaster's burial ; Proud songsters ; At the railway station, upway ; Before life and after / Thomas Hardy -- Cut from Winter words. If it's ever spring again ; The children and Sir Nameless / Thomas Hardy -- Two ballads (duet). Mother comfort / Montagu Slater ; Underneath the abject willow / W.H. Auden. |
General note | Principally for voice and piano; 3 songs from The heart of the matter for horn and piano (horn part printed following score); Songs from the Chinese originally for voice and guitar, accompaniment arranged for piano; and Two ballads for 2 voices and piano. |
Bibliography note | Includes historical notes on the songs, bibliographical references, and alphabetical song index; historical notes include an English translation by Peter Pears and Elizabeth Mayer of Seven sonnets of Michaelangelo. |
Language | English, German, and Italian words; German and English words to Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente also printed separately as text. |
LCCN | 2014445043 |
ISBN | 1423429753 |
ISBN | 9781423429753 |
UPC |
884088135874 |
Standard identifier# |
9781423429753 52999 |
Standard identifier# |
9790051933976 |
ISMN |
M051933976 |
Publisher number | HL48019418 Hal Leonard Corporation |