The Comprehensive Britten Song Database
A Guide to the Songs of Benjamin Britten for Singers and Teachers of Singing
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- A Country Dance (From Tennyson’s “Foresters”)
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- Early One Morning
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- Eye Winker, Tom Tinker
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- La belle est au jardin d'amour
- Liebesfreude
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- Lullaby in E
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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
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- Messelina
- Nightmare
- O might those sighes and tears
- O my blacke Soule!
- Oh to vex me
- Parade
- Prologue (O. H. F.)
- Proverb I
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- 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
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- Four Nursery Rhymes
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- 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
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