New Imperial Edition Contralto Songs (Northcote, Sydney)

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Publisher. Info. New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1950. Plate B. & H. 6892.
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Publisher. Info. London: Winthrop Rogers, 1923.
Reprinted New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1950. Plate B. & H. 6892.
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Work Title New Imperial Edition Alto Songs
Alternative. Title
Composer Northcote, Sydney
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 30 songs
  1. Thomas Campion (1567-1620), arr. Sydney Northcote (1897-1968) - "Oft Have I Sighed"
  2. Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) - "Le violette" ("Dewy Violets")
  3. Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) - "Come raggio di sol" ("As a Sunbeam at Morn")
  4. Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) - "Qual farfalletta amante" ("Like Any Foolish Moth I Fly")
  5. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - "Cara sposa" ("Dearest Consort")
  6. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - "Verdi prati" ("Verdant Meadows")
  7. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - "Cangio d'aspetto" ("How Changed the Vision")
  8. Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) - "O del mio dolce ardor" ("Author of All My Joys")
  9. Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - "Hark! What I Tell to Thee" (The Spirit's Song)
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - "Quando miro quel bel ciglio" ("With a Swanlike Beauty Gliding")
  11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - "Addio" ("Adieu")
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - "Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur" ("The Praise of God")
  13. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - "Litanei" ("Litany")
  14. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - "Der Tod und das Mädchen" ("Death and the Maiden")
  15. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - "An die Musik" ("To Music")
  16. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - "My Soul Is Dark" ("Mein Herz ist schwer")
  17. John Liptrot Hatton (1808-1886) - "The Enchantress"
  18. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - "Bei der Wiege" ("Cradle Song")
  19. Franz Liszt (1811-186) - "Mignons Lied" ("Mignon's Song")
  20. Charles Gounod (1818-1893) - "Quand tu chantes" ("Serenade")
  21. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - "Von ewiger Liebe" ("Love Triumphant")
  22. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - "Die Mainacht" ("A Night in May")
  23. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - "Sapphische Ode" ("Sapphic Ode")
  24. Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" ("Nay, Though My Heart Should Break")
  25. Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) - "The Willow Song"
  26. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - "Where Corals Lie"
  27. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - "How Few the Joys"
  28. Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) - "Sea Wrack"
  29. Herbert Howells (1892-1983) - "O, My Deir Hert" (Cradle Song)
  30. Traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) - "O Can Ye Sew Cushions"
First Publication. 1950
Librettist Various
  1. Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
  2. Adriano Morselli, tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  3. Unknown, tr. Percy Pinkerton (1855–1946)
  4. Unknown, tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  5. Giacomo Rossi, tr. Unknown
  6. Unknown, after Riccardo Broschi (1698–1756) and Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533); tr. Maria Ximena Hayes
  7. Nicola Francesco Haym (1678–1729), tr. Maria Ximena Hayes
  8. Ranieri de' Calzabigi (1714–1795), tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  9. Anne Hunter (1742–1821)
  10. Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782), tr. Mildred Gauntlett (1848–1929)
  11. Unknown, tr. Mildred Gauntlett (1848–1929)
  12. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769), tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  13. Johann Georg Jacobi (1740–1814), tr. May Byron (1861–1936)
  14. Matthias Claudius (1740–1815), tr. Arthur Henry Fox Strangways (1859–1948) and Steuart Wilson (1889–1966)
  15. Franz von Schober (1796–1882), tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  16. George Gordon Byron (1788–1824), tr. Karl Julius Körner (1793–1873)
  17. Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872)
  18. Karl Klingemann (1798–1862), tr. Unknown
  19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  20. Victor Hugo (1802–1885), tr. John Vipon Bridgeman (1819–1889)
  21. Josef Wenzig (1807–1876), tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  22. Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776), tr. Paul England (1863–1932)
  23. Hans Schmidt (1854–1923), tr. Arthur Henry Fox Strangways (1859–1948) and Steuart Wilson (1889–1966)
  24. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), tr. Frederick James Whishaw (1854–1934)
  25. William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
  26. Richard Garnett (1835–1906)
  27. Afanasy Fet (1820–1892), tr. Edward Agate (1880–1940)
  28. Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), as Moira O'Neill
  29. Unknown
  30. Traditional
Language English, German, French, Italian
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation alto, piano