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Collected songs : 63 songs

Title

Collected songs : 63 songs / Benjamin Britten ; edited by Richard Walters.

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976

Publication

[New York, New York] : Boosey & Hawkes, [2013]
Milwaukee, WI : distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation.
©2013

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Description

1 score (xxviii, 287 pages); 31 cm

Uniform Title

Vocal music. Selections

Alternative Title

Vocal music.

Subject

Genre/Form

Song cycles.
Songs.
Scores.
Musical settings.

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.
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 (note)

English, German, and Italian words; German and English words to Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente also printed separately as text.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JMG 15-493

ISBN

1423429753
9781423429753

LCCN

2014445043
884088135874
9790051933976
M051933976
9781423429753

OCLC

869843662

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer.

Title

Collected songs : 63 songs / Benjamin Britten ; edited by Richard Walters.

Publisher

[New York, New York] : Boosey & Hawkes, [2013]

Distributor

Milwaukee, WI : distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation.

Copyright Date

Edition

High voice.

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

English, German, and Italian words; German and English words to Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente also printed separately as text.

Staff notation.

Added Author

Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953, author.

Blake, William, 1757-1827, author.

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, author.

Greene, Robert, 1558-1592, author.

Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635, author.

Philip, John, author.

Duncan, Ronald, 1914-1982, author.

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973, author.

Donne, John, 1572-1631, author.

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843, author.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, author.

Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964, author.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928, author.

Slater, Montagu, 1902-1956, author.

Walters, Richard, editor, arranger of music.

Pears, Peter, 1910-1986, translator.

Mayer, Elizabeth, translator.

Waley, Arthur, translator.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Birds.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Charm of lullabies.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. This way to the tomb. Evening.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. This way to the tomb. Morning.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. This way to the tomb. Night.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. To lie flat on the back.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Night covers up the rigid land.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Sun shines down.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Fish in the unruffled lakes.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. What's in your mind?

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Underneath the abject willow, voice, piano.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Holy sonnets of John Donne.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. On this island.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Hölderlin Fragmente.

Container of (expression): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Hölderlin Fragmente. English.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Sonnets of Michelangelo.

Container of (expression): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Songs from the Chinese; arranged.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Heart of the matter.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Winter words.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. If it's ever spring again.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Children and Sir Nameless.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Ballads, voices (2), piano.

Other Standard Identifier

884088135874

9790051933976

M051933976

9781423429753 52999

Publisher No.

HL48019418 Hal Leonard Corporation

Research Call Number

JMG 15-493

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