Research Catalog

Title

Collected songs : 60 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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Details

Additional Authors

• Walters, Richard
• Pears, Peter, 1910-1986
• Mayer, Elizabeth
• Waley, Arthur

Description

1 score (xxv, 271 pages); 31 cm

Uniform Title

Songs. Selections

Alternative Title

• Songs.
• 60 songs
• Sixty songs

Subject

• Songs (Medium voice) with piano
• Songs (Low voice) with piano
• Song cycles
• Vocal duets with piano

Genre/Form

• Song cycles.
• Songs.
• Scores.

Note

• Translations by Peter Pears and Elizabeth Mayer. Texts by Chinese poets translated by Arthur Waley.
• Principally for voice and piano; Songs from the Chinese originally for voice and guitar, accompaniment arranged for piano; and Two ballads for 2 voices and piano.
• Includes historical and program notes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• English, German, and Italian words; some printed as text preceding score.

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 -- 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 15-492

ISBN

• 1423429761
• 9781423429760

LCCN

• 2014445046
• 884088135881
• M051933983
• 9790051933983

OCLC

869843633

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer.

Title

Collected songs : 60 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

©2013

Edition

Medium/low voice.

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

English, German, and Italian words; some printed as text preceding score.

Staff notation.

Added 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. 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

884088135881

M051933983

9790051933983

Publisher No.

HL48019419 Hal Leonard Corporation

Research Call Number

JMG 15-492