Collected songs : 63 songs

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Collected songs : 63 songs

Benjamin Britten ; edited by Richard Walters

Boosey & Hawkes , Distributed by Hal Leonard, c2013

High voice

Printed Music（Full Score）

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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Songs. Selections

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Chiefly for voice and piano; 3 songs from The heart of the matter for horn and piano (horn part printed following score); Songs from the Chinese originally for voice and guitar, accompaniment arranged for piano; and Two ballads for 2 voices and piano

English words (except 7th and 8th work); German words (7th); Italian words (8th)

Prefatory matter in Englisih

Contents of Works

  • The birds
  • A charm of lullabies : op. 41
  • Evening, morning, night : three songs from This way to the tomb
  • Fish in the unruffled lakes
  • The holy sonnets of John Donne : op. 35
  • On this island : op. 11
  • Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente : Op. 61
  • Seven sonnets of Michelangelo : op. 22
  • Songs from the Chinese : op. 58 / transcribed for voice and piano
  • Three songs from The heart of the matter. Prologue : ("Where are the seeds of the universal fire")
  • Song : ("We are the darkness in the heat of the day")
  • Epilogue : ("So, out of the dark")
  • Winter words : op. 52
  • Cut from Winter words. If it's ever spring again
  • The children and sir nameless
  • Two ballads (duet). Mother comfort
  • Underneath the abject willow

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