Collected songs
Subtitle: high voice : 63 songs
By: Benjamin Britten ; edited by Richard Walters
Contributors: Walters, Richard; Pears, Peter, 1910-1986; Mayer, Elizabeth; Waley, Arthur
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781423429753
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Song cycles; Songs (High voice) with piano; Vocal duets with piano
Work titles: Songs
Notes: For high voice and piano.

English translation of Italian lyrics printed separately as text; German lyrics and English translation also printed separately as text; translations by Peter Pears and Elizabeth Mayer. Texts by Chinese poets translated by Arthur Waley.

"Historical notes on the songs : chronologically by date of composition": pages v-xxviii.

Includes horn part for Prologue and Epilogue from The heart of the matter (bound-in after the vocal/piano version).

Chiefly English words; Italian words in Seven sonnets of Michaelangelo; German and English words in Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente.

Staff notation.
Table of contents: title: The birds; title: A charm of lullabies, op. 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; title: Three songs from This way to the tomb. Evening ; Morning ; Night / Ronald Duncan; title: 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; title: The holy sonnets of John Donne, op. 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; title: On this island, op. 11. Let the florid music praise! ; Now the leaves are falling fast ; Seascape ; Nocturne ; As it is, plenty / W.H. Auden; title: Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, op. 61. Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens / Friedrich Hölderlin; title: Seven sonnets of Michaelangelo, op. 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; title: Songs from the Chinese, op. 58 (transcribed for voice and piano). The big chariot ; The old lute ; The Autumn wind ; The herd-boy ; Depression ; Dance song; title: Three songs from The heart of the matter. Prologue ("Where are the seeds of the universal fire") (with horn part) ; Song ("We are the darkness in the heat of the day") ; Epilogue ("So, out of the dark") (with horn part); title: Winter words, op. 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; title: Cut from Winter words. If it's ever spring again ; The children and Sir Nameless / Thomas Hardy; title: Two ballads (duet). Mother comfort / Montagu Slater ; Underneath the abject willow / W.H. Auden.