The Comprehensive Britten Song Database
A Guide to the Songs of Benjamin Britten for Singers and Teachers of Singing
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Moderately Easy
A Country Dance (From Tennyson’s “Foresters”)
A Dirge
Beware!
Beware!
Bunnies
Chamber Music (V)
Early One Morning
Evening
Eye Winker, Tom Tinker
Greensleeves
I Will Give My Love an Apple
If I'd As Much Money As I Could Spend
Independence
La belle est au jardin d'amour
Liebesfreude
Little Sir William
Lullaby in E
Morning
O Waly, Waly
Of A'the Airts the Wind Can Blow
Oh Why Did E'er My Thoughts Aspire
Oliver Cromwell
Pray Goody
Prithee?
Prometheus or, The Poet's Forethought
Routertitout
Sailor Boy
Sweet Polly Oliver
The Angel's Call
The Birds
The Brisk Young Widow
The Deaf Woman's Courtship
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
The Joy of Grief
The Road-Song of the Bandar-Log (Here we go off in a flung festoon)
The Soldier and the Sailor
The Song of England
The World's Wanderers
There Was a Crooked Man
There's none to soothe
To…(To Barbara)
Virtue in Deeds Not Words
Wandering Willie
Moderate
3a Phrase
A Cradle Song
A Laddie's Song
A Poison Tree
A Riddle (The Earth)
A Song of Enchantment
A Widow Bird
As it is, Plenty
At the Mid Hour of Night
Autumn
Avenging and Bright
Birthday Song
Birthday Song for Erwin
Bonny at Morn (E. F. A.)
Bonny at Morn (F. V. 6)
Ca the Yowes
Come You Not From Newcastle?
Cradle Song
David of the White Rock
Dear Harp of My Country
Départ
Diaphenia
Eho! Eho!
Elegy
Epitaph: The Clerk
Fanfare
Farfield
Fileuse
Funeral Blues
Fuzzy-Wuzzy
How Sweet the Answer
I Was Lonely and Forlorn
I wonder as I wander
Il est quelqu'un sur terre
Interlude (to E.M.*)
L'Enfance
La Noël passée
Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse
Les Nuits de Juin
Lilian
Lord! I Married me a Wife
Lucy
Master Kilby
Night
Not Even Summer Yet
Nurse's Song
O can ye sew cushions?
O That I Had Ne'er Been Married
O That I Had Ne'er Been Married
O The Sight Entrancing
Oft in the stilly night
Quand j’étais chez mon père
Rich and Rare
Riddle (The Child You Were)
Royauté
Sagesse
Sail On, Sail On
Salley In Our Alley
She's Like the Swallow
Silver
Sonetto XXXVIII (Rendete agli occhi miei)
Supper
Take, o Take These Lips Away
Tell me the truth about love
The Ash Grove
The Auld Aik
The Autumn Wind
The Bonny Earl o'Moray
The Brook (Slow Glides the Stream, Slow Droops the Boat)
The Crocodile
The False Knight upon the Road
The Highland Balou
The Holly and the Ivy
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Miller of Dee
The Minstrel Boy
The Owl
The Plough Boy
The Queen of Hearts
The Salley Gardens
The Shooting of His Dear
The Trees They Grow So High
The Waning Moon
The Winter
Tit for Tat
To lie flat on the back
Tom Bowling
Vigil
Voici le printemps
Wee Willie
When you're feeling like expressing your affection
Witches Song
Moderately Difficult
3b Antique
A Charm
An Afternoon in February
Afton Water
Angel
At Day Close in November
At the round earth's imagined corners
Before Life and After
Being Beauteous
Bird Scarer's Song
Black Day
Calypso
Chansons d'Automne
Choirmaster's Burial (The Tenor Man's Song)
Dance Song
Death be not proud
Depression
Die Heimat
Die Jugend
Die Linien des Lebens
Dink's Song
Dirge
Elizabeth Ann
Epigram
Epilogue
Every Night and Every Morn
Fish in the unruffled lakes
Hymn
If thou will't ease thine heart
Johnny
Leezie Lindsay
Lemady
Let the Florid Music Praise
Menschenbeifall
Midnight on the Great Western
My Early Walk
My Heart
My Hoggie
Night covers up the rigid land
Nocturne
Nocturne
Now the Leaves are Falling Fast
Pastoral
Prologue
Proud Songsters
Proverb III
Proverb IV
Proverb V
Proverb VI
Proverb VII
Seascape
Sephestia's Lullaby
Sokrates und Alcibiades
Sonetto XVI (Si come nella penna)
Sonetto XXIV (Spirto ben nato)
Sonetto XXX (Veggio co' bei vostri occhi)
Sonetto XXXI (A che più debbio)
Sonetto XXXII (S'un casto amor)
Sonetto LV (Tu sa, ch'io so)
Song
Sonnet
The Big Chariot
The Fly
The Herd Boy
The Larky Lad
The Last Rose of Summer
The Little Old Table
The Old Lute
The red cockatoo
The Sailor's Consolation
The Stream in the Valley
The sun shines down
Um Mitternacht
Underneath the abject willow
Villes
Wagtail and Baby
What's in your mind?
Who are These Children?
Difficult
A Poison Tree
Ah, Sun-Flower
At the Railway Station, Upway
Batter my heart
Bed-time
Canticle I
Canticle III
Canticle V
Dance of Death
Echo
Epilogue and Funeral March
Hälfte des Lebens
Lines Written During a Sleepless Night
London
Marine
Messelina
Nightmare
O might those sighes and tears
O my blacke Soule!
Oh to vex me
Parade
Prologue (O. H. F.)
Proverb I
Proverb II
Rats Away!
Since she whom I loved
Slaughter
The Children
The Chimney Sweeper
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Tyger
Thou hast made me
What if this present
By Poet
Matthew Arnold
Herbert Asquith
Wystan Hugh Auden
Phillip James Bailey
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Hillaire Belloc
William Blake
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Robert Burns
Peter Burra
Henry Carey
Po Chü-i
Henry Constable
Charles Cotton
C. Dacam
John Donne
John Drinkwater
Ronald Duncan
Thomas Stearns Elliott
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Robert Greene
Thomas Hardy
Friedrich Hölderlin
Victor Hugo
Ben Johnson
G. F. Joy (Chanticleer)
James Joyce
John Keats
Rudyard Kipling
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Lydgate
Louise MacNeice
Walter de la Mare
Ernest John Moeran
Thomas Moore
John Jacob Niles
Alfred Noyes
Kane O'Hara
John Philip
William Pitt
Alexander Pushkin
Thomas Ravenscroft
Charles Reade
Arthur Rimbaud
Francis Quarles
Sackville
Sir Walter Scott
Cecil Sharp
William Shakespeare
Percy Shelley
Edith Sitwell
William Soutar
Sir John Suckling
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Paul Verlaine
Arthur Waley
William Wordsworth
Wu-ti
William Butler Yeats
Lu Yu
By Cycle/Collection
A Birthday Hansel
A Charm of Lullabies
Cabaret Songs
Eight Folk Song Arrangements
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
Folksongs Volume 1: British Isles
Folksongs Volume 2: France
Folksongs Volume 3: British Isles
Folksongs Volume 4: Moore's Irish Melodies
Folksongs Volume 5: British Isles
Folksongs Volume 6: England
Four Nursery Rhymes
Les Illuminations
On This Island
Our Hunting Fathers
Quatre Chansons Françaises
Sechs Hölderin Fragmente
Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Six Songs
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
Songs from the Chinese
The Heart of the Matter
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
The Poet's Echo
The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs
Three Early Songs
Three Songs from This Way to the Tomb
Tit for Tat
Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements
Twelve Songs for the Mezzo Soprano and Contralto Voice
Who are These Children?
Winter Words
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The Autumn Wind
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