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