Two Songs is a pair of songs for voice and piano composed in 1916 by John Ireland (1879–1962).[1]
A performance of both songs takes around 3 minutes.[2] Both are settings of poems by Eric Thirkell Cooper from Soliloquies of a Subaltern Somewhere in France (1915).[3]
- "Blind"
- "The Cost" [4]
References
edit- ^ "List of works – T to Y". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ John Ireland: Songs of a Great War, songs (2) for voice & piano at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ "Texts to Two Songs: Song Cycle by John Ireland". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ The Cost (Ireland, John): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project