List of songs based on poems

This is a list of some poems that have been subsequently set to music. In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an art song. A poem set to music in the German language is called a lied, or in the French language, a Mélodie. A group of poems, usually by the same poet, which are set to music to form a single work, is called a song cycle.

  • Set to music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach:
    • "For me the jasmine buds unfold". Op. 19, no. 1. For sop. or tenor and piano. 1 score (7 p.). Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1892)
    • "Go not too far". Op. 56, no. 2. High and low voice. Words also printed as text. Caption title. 1 score (5 p.); 35 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1904)
    • "I know not how to find the spring". Op. 56, no. 3. For medium voice and piano. Caption title. Words also printed as text on p. 2. 1 score (5 p.); 36 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1904)
    • "Give me not love". Op. 61. Duet for soprano and tenor. Caption title. 1 score (7 p.); 34 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1905)
    • "After". Op. 68. High and low voice. Words also printed as text. Caption title. 1 score (7 p.); 35 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1909)
  • Set to music by Clayton Johns:
    • "I love, and the world is mine". To Miss Lena Little. Sop. or tenor in G. Song [with piano acc.]; score (5p.) 35 cm. New York, G. Schirmer. (1891)
    • "I love, and the world is mine". To Miss Lena Little. Medium in F. Song [with piano acc.]; score (4p.) 35 cm. New York, G. Schirmer. (1891)
    • "When Phyllis comes" (1892)
    • "If love were not". 4 p. of music; 35 cm. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co. (1904)
    • "So is my love to me" (1908)
  • See also:
    • Works by Florence Earle Coates set to music by various composers  – via Wikisource.

Also done by Loreena McKennitt.

When I Am Dead My Dearest was recorded by the Kruger Brothers on their album Between the Notes

  • "An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song.
  • The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers.
  • The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death".
  • "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" and "Before the World Was Made" are both performed by Carla Bruni on the album "No Promises".
  • "Song Of Wandering Aengus" was performed by Donovan, Judy Collins, Chris Thompson and many more.
  • Loreena McKennitt has set two Yeats poems to music:
    • "Stolen Child" (Also set to music by The Waterboys, although mostly spoken)
    • "The Two Trees"
  • "The Song of a Wandering Aengus" is set to music by Caroline Herring.
  • '5 Songs on Poems by W.B.Yeats' composed by Dutch composer Carolien Devilee (A Faery Song, He wishes for the clothes of heaven, The lake isle of Innisfree, To his heart, bidding it have no fear & The everlasting voices)
  • "Tread Softly" by Tiny Ruins, uses the words of "The Cloths of Heaven" by Yeats.
  • "He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven" by North Sea Radio Orchestra sets Yeats' poem of the same title to music.
  • The album "Branduardi Canta Yeats" features the works of Yeats performed by Angelo Branduardi in Italian
  • "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is set to music by composer Muriel Herbert.

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References

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  1. ^ Gordon, Ricky Ian; Dickinson, Emily (2009-01-01). Too few the mornings be eleven songs for soprano and piano. New York, NY: Carl Fischer. ISBN 9780825868696.
  2. ^ Geraghty, Des (1994). Luke Kelly: A Memoir. Dublin: Basement Press. pp. 38, 39. ISBN 1-85594-090-6.
  3. ^ "Singers perform poetry in 'Matchbook'". The Merciad. March 29, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2018.