Lyric Companion
Composer

J. Gardner

55 works in the catalog — read each text with IPA transcriptions and translations.

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LIEDER · 55

Prayer under the pressure of violent anguish

1917·a-burns-sequence
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Raging fortune

1917·a-burns-sequence
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Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?

1917·a-burns-sequence
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O whistle an'I'll come to you

1856·a-burns-sequence
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Macpherson's farewell

1732·a-burns-sequence
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Paraphrase of the First Psalm

1917·a-burns-sequence
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A fair maid walking all in her garden

1882
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If music be the food of love, play on

1917·a-shakespeare-sequence
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Fifteen million plastic bags

1917
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The new balow

1917·five-encounters-for-six-voices
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Depression before Spring

1917·five-part-songs-to-poems-by-wallace-stevens
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Peter Quince at the Clavier

1917·five-part-songs-to-poems-by-wallace-stevens
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Ploughing on Sunday

1917·five-part-songs-to-poems-by-wallace-stevens
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Life is motion

1917·five-part-songs-to-poems-by-wallace-stevens
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Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges

1917·five-part-songs-to-poems-by-wallace-stevens
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As pants the hart

1685·four-hymn-tunes-for-male-voices
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Who would true valour see

1872·four-hymn-tunes-for-male-voices
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Delia

1917·four-partsongs-to-lyrics-by-robert-burns
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On Chloris being ill

1917·four-partsongs-to-lyrics-by-robert-burns
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To Miss Isabella MacLeod

1917·four-partsongs-to-lyrics-by-robert-burns
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What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

1882·four-sailor-songs
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The selfsame song

1917·four-songs-to-poems-by-thomas-hardy
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The singing woman

1917·four-songs-to-poems-by-thomas-hardy
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First or last

1917·four-songs-to-poems-by-thomas-hardy
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A bygone occasion

1916·four-songs-to-poems-by-thomas-hardy
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The Sandgate lass's lamentation

1911·four-wanton-ballads
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A Sparrow-Hawk proud did hold in wicked jail

1576·hebdomade
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Mother, I will have a husband

1590·hebdomade
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To music, a song

1917·herrick-cantata
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A dialogue betwixt himself and Mistress Eliza Wheeler

1917·herrick-cantata
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Cherry ripe

1786·herrick-cantata
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Love: what it is

1917·herrick-cantata
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Corinna's gone a-Maying

1870·herrick-cantata
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Love came to me one sweet Spring day

1917
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Day

1917·nine-poems-from-the-note-book-1793-of-william-blake
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To Nobodaddy

1917·nine-poems-from-the-note-book-1793-of-william-blake
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The fairy

1873·nine-poems-from-the-note-book-1793-of-william-blake
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Another on love

1917·partsongs-to-poems-by-robert-herrick
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy

1917·proverbs-of-hell
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Epilogue to the Accuser who is God of this World

1917·proverbs-of-hell
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How warm this woodland wild Recess

1917·recollections-of-love
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Eight springs have flown

1917·recollections-of-love
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No voice as yet had made the air

1917·recollections-of-love
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As when a mother doth explore

1917·recollections-of-love
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You stood before me like a thought

1917·recollections-of-love
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Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep

1917·recollections-of-love
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A slumber did my spirit seal

1874·recollections-of-love
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Après la politique

1917·seven-poems-of-stevie-smith
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The bereaved swan

1917·seven-poems-of-stevie-smith
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My cats

1917·seven-poems-of-stevie-smith
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Pad, pad

1906·seven-poems-of-stevie-smith
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How happy is he born and taught

1917·seven-songs
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Claribel, a Melody

1816·tennyson-trip
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Waly waly

1732·three-amorous-airs
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Love in thy youth, fair maid

1587·waltzsongs
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Prayer under the pressure of violent anguish

1917·a-burns-sequence
EN

Raging fortune

1917·a-burns-sequence
EN

Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?

1917·a-burns-sequence
EN

O whistle an'I'll come to you

1856·a-burns-sequence
EN

Macpherson's farewell

1732·a-burns-sequence
EN

Paraphrase of the First Psalm

1917·a-burns-sequence
EN

A fair maid walking all in her garden

1882
EN

If music be the food of love, play on

1917·a-shakespeare-sequence
EN