Works with William Shakespeare as librettist
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Creators | View on IMSLP | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Code |
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| La tempête | Arthur Honegger (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) |  |
H.48 | 1923 | voices and orchestra |  |
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| The Tempest | Jean Sibelius (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.109 | 1925 | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Twelfth Night, Op. 60 | Jean Sibelius (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.60 | 1909 | voice and piano voice and guitar |
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| Orpheus with His Lute (Song) | Martin Grayson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2007 | voice and lute voice and guitar |
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| The Tempest | Anton Arensky (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.75 | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Chansons de Shakespeare | Ernest Chausson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.28 | 1890 | voice and piano female chorus and piano |
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| Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind | Kelly Crandell (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
soprano, alto, tenor and bass | |
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| La tempête | Ernest Chausson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.18 | 1888 | voices and orchestra | |
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| Macbeth | Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Ariels Songs in the Play call´d The Tempest | John Banister (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and lute voice and viol voice and continuo |
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| Orpheus with His Lute, a Song | Maurice Greene (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
B flat major | voice and continuo | |
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| Musik zu W. Shakespeares "Was ihr wollt" | Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
orchestra | |
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| The Tempest | Bart Dunn (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2007 | orchestra | |
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| 3 Shakespeare Choruses | Amy Marcy Beach (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.39 | 1897 | female chorus | |
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| Sea Change | Peter Dyson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1982 | 2 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| 2 Songs from Shakespeare, Op. 9 | Benjamin Dale (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.9 | voice, viola and piano | |
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| As You Like It | Thomas Augustine Arne (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and cittern voice, flute and continuo |
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| Take O Take Those Lips Away | Robert Lucas Pearsall (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
A major | Op.6 | 2 sopranos, 2 tenors and bass | |
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| Macbeth, Op. 13 | Wilhelm Heinefetter (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Overture: C minor | Op.13 | 1861 | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
| Komm herbei, Tod | Peter Cornelius (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1847 | 2 sopranos and piano soprano and alto soprano, bass and piano |
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| A Shakespeare Winter, Op. 38 | Ernest John Robertson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.38 | 1999 | mixed chorus and piano | |
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| 5 Shakespeare Songs | Roger Quilter (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.23 | voice and piano | |
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| Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind | Arthur Battelle Whiting (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mixed chorus and piano | |
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| Midsummer Night's Dream | George Alexander Macfarren (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
C major | mixed chorus | |
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| When Icicles Hang by the Wall | Arthur Foote (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
D minor | voice and piano | |
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| When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain? | Samuel Webbe (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
C minor | 3 basses | |
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| Hark! Hark! The Lark | Harvey Worthington Loomis (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
F major | voice and piano | |
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| Pretty Ring Time | Peter Dyson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1981 | mixed chorus, 6 percussions and piano | |
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| The Lovely April | Francesco Milita (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mixed chorus | |
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| The Witches | Matthew Peter King (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
C major | 3 voices | |
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| Hark, Hark, the Lark | Benjamin Cooke (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
B flat major | soprano, alto, tenor and bass soprano, 2 tenors and bass 4 voices and harpsichord 4 voices, violin and harpsichord voice and harpsichord voice, violin and harpsichord voice and harpsichord 4 hands |
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| Take, O take those lips away | Peter Warlock (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
F sharp minor | 1918 | voice and piano | |
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| Mockery | Peter Warlock (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1927 | voice and piano | |
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| The Waves | Frederic Rzewski (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1988 | narrator | |
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| Fortune | Frederic Rzewski (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2005 | 4 violas | |
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| The Willow Song | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G minor | 1912 | voice and piano | |
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| Serenade to Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
D major | 1938 | 4 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses and orchestra | |
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| From Fairest Creatures | Michel Rondeau (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2008 | soprano and piano | |
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| Look in the Glass | Michel Rondeau (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2008 | soprano, recorder and piano | |
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| Unthrifty Lovliness | Michel Rondeau (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2008 | soprano, 2 recorders and harpsichord | |
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| When Forty Winters | Michel Rondeau (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2008 | soprano, recorder and harpsichord | |
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| The Music to Shakespeare's Hamlet | George Henschel (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.50 | mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Sigh No More, Ladies | Arthur Foote (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
A minor | 2 sopranos and alto | |
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| Take, oh! take those Lips away | William Jackson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E flat major | Op.9 No.7 | 2 voices and continuo | |
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| Blow, blow, thou winter wind | Thomas Augustine Arne (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and continuo | |
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| 3 Songs | Frederick Ayres (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.3 | voice and piano | |
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| It was a lover and his lass, Op. 19 | Henry Clough-Leighter (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | voice and piano | |
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| The First Booke of Ayres | Thomas Morley (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
RISM A/I: M 3711 | voice, lute and viol | |
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| The Tempest | Arthur Sullivan (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.1? | 1861 | 3 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Three Shakespeare Songs | Roger Quilter (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.6 | voice and piano | |
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| Full Fathom Five | John Ireland (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| O Mistress Mine | Mark Andrews (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
C major | mixed chorus and piano | |
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| All the World's a Stage | Jake Muffett (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2012 | soprano, alto, tenor and bass | |
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| Songs from 'As You Like It' | Robert G. Patterson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
GRM-01027 | 1979 | tenor, flute, horn and piano | |
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| 5 Shakespeare Songs | Bryceson Treharne (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Henry VIII de Shakespeare | Charles Bordes (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E major | 1895 | soprano, alto, tenor and bass | |
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| Songs | Peter Warlock (composer) and George Peele (librettist) and Thomas Ford (librettist) and William Shakespeare (librettist) and Thomas Dekker (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Six Shakespeare Songs | Geoffrey Turton Shaw (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mixed chorus and piano female chorus and piano male chorus and piano |
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| I Know a Bank | Martin Shaw (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | voice and piano | |
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| Let Me the Canakin Clink | John Blackwood McEwen (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
C major | mixed chorus | |
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| How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps | D. Emlyn Evans (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E flat major | mixed chorus | |
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| Who Is Sylvia | Edward German (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | mixed chorus | |
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| The Passionate Pilgrim | John Mucci (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2004 | soprano and double bass | |
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| The Cloud Cap't Towers | Richard John Samuel Stevens (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1795 | 2 altos, 2 tenors and 2 basses | |
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| What Shall He Have that Killed the Deer | Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
alto, 2 tenors, bass and piano | |
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| Songs from Shakespeare | Frederick Bridge (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| As You Like It | Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Comedy of Errors | Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices, male chorus and orchestra | |
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| Fancy | Francis Poulenc (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | FP 174 | 1959 | voice and piano | |
| Ye Spotted Snakes | Richard John Samuel Stevens (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
A major | soprano, alto, tenor and bass | |
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| Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs | William Linley (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano 2 voices and piano voice, mixed chorus and piano |
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| from "Macbeth" | Gary Bachlund (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2010 | voice and piano | |
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| Five Sonnets | Gary Bachlund (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2000 | voice and piano | |
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| Three Shakespeare Songs | Gerard Barton (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Lieder des Narren | Karl Nowotny (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Shakespeares Sonett Nr.66 | Hanns Eisler (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1939 | voice and piano | |
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| Horatios Monologue | Hanns Eisler (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1942 | voice and piano | |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Cecil Sharp (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Shakespeare Songs | Arthur Sullivan (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Sonnet XVIII | William Arthur Aikin (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| It Was a Lover and His Lass | Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E minor | 2 voices and piano | |
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| A Collection of the Vocal Music in Shakespeare's Plays | Various (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano voices and piano voices mixed chorus |
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| Komm herbei, komm herbei, Tod! | Carl Loewe (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Under the Greenwood Tree | Shuwen Zhang (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
D major/E major | 2015 | voice and orchestra | |
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| Farewell to the Little Good | Tamás Beischer-Matyó (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2011 | mixed chorus | |
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| Madrigals of Passion and Wisdom | Tamás Beischer-Matyó (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2011 | soprano and mixed chorus | |
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| Sonnet LXV | Malcolm Hill (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mj349 | 2005 | soprano and piano | |
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| Ophelia's Story | Malcolm Hill (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mj269 | 2005 | soprano and piano | |
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| Take, O Take Those Lips Away | Claude Ernest Cover (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
F major | 4 voices mixed chorus |
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| Shakespeare's Sonnet 104 | Carlotta Ferrari (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mixed chorus | |
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| O Gentle Sleep | Malcolm Hill (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mj352 | 2016 | 3 sopranos and female chorus | |
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| Let Us Garlands Bring | Gerald Finzi (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.18 | voice and piano | |
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| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices and orchestra | |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices and orchestra | |
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| Der Kaufmann von Venedig | Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Sonnet 90 | Alexander Strugov (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2016 | voice and piano | |
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| Shakespear's Duel and Loadstars | William Shield (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano 3 voices |
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| It Was a Lover and His Lass | Richard Henry Walthew (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2 voices and piano | |
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| Musik zu Shakespeare's 'Der Sturm', Op. 65 | Felix Weingartner (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.65 | 1918 | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| She never told her love | Joseph Haydn (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
A flat major | Hob.XXVIa:34n1135 XXVIa:34 | 1794 | voice and piano | |
| Richmond's Prayer | Max Heinrich (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
D flat major | voice and piano | |
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| 4 Lieder nach Shakespeare | Erich Wolfgang Korngold (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.31 | 1937 | voice and piano | |
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| Orpheus | Ernest John Robertson (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.64 | 2015 | soprano, baritone, male chorus and orchestra | |
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| Music for The Tempest | Thomas Linley Jr. (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1776 | voice, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Sleep Thou | Elaine Fine (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2018 | soprano and flute | |
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| It Was a Lover and His Lass | Thomas Morley (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | 1600 | soprano, lute and viol | |
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| Song of the Pedlar | Charles Lee Williams (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
soprano, alto, tenor, bass and piano mixed chorus and piano |
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| 4 Old English Songs | Eric Coates (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Who is Silvia? | George Ingraham (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
C minor | 1883 | voice and piano | |
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| An History of English Literature | Marshall Tuttle (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) and Van Leeuven Shelly (librettist) | |
2003 | mixed chorus | |
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| The Willow Song | Charles Vincent (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
C minor | voice and piano | |
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| O Mistress Mine | John Ebenezer West (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | 2 voices and piano piano |
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| I Know a Bank | Charles Edward Horn (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E flat major | 2 sopranos and piano female chorus and piano |
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| Orpheus with his Lute | John Liptrot Hatton (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E flat major | soprano, alto and piano | |
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| Under the Greenwood Tree | Arthur Henry Linton (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
D flat major | piano | |
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| To Dream Again | Anthony Wilkes (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1999 | voice and piano | |
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| 7 Shakespeare Songs | George Alexander Macfarren (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mixed chorus | |
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| Lullaby | Walford Davies (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E major | soprano, female chorus and piano | |
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| Trip Away | Charles Edward Horn (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1823 | soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| O Happy Fair | William Shield (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
A major | soprano, alto and bass mixed chorus |
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| Sonettino No. 4 for Viola Solo | Marshall Tuttle (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
D minor | 2020 | viola | |
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| Sonettino no.6 for Solo Viola | Marshall Tuttle (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2020 | viola | |
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| Titania's Cradle | Liza Lehmann (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Come Away, Death | Ernest John Moeran (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
R39 | 1925 | voice and piano | |
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| 4 Shakespeare Songs | Ernest John Moeran (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
R76 | 1940 | voice and piano | |
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| The Sweet o' the Year | Ernest John Moeran (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
R61 | 1931 | voice and piano | |
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| Limes (CM 2017) | Carmelo Mantione (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.15 | 2016 | soprano, oboe, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, percussion, guitar, violin, cello and piano | |
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| 3 Shakespeare Songs | Amy Marcy Beach (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.37 | voice and piano | |
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| W młodości, ach! Czemu wiek ten zgasł? | Jan Karol Gall (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
D minor | voice and piano | |
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| Let me not to the marriage of true minds | Stephen Potter (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
B flat major | 2014 | voice and piano | |
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| Three Shakespeare Songs | James Walker (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1997 | voice and oboe voice and flute |
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| Sonnet 71 | Prokhor Protasoff (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
2020 | voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano | |
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| The Lover and his Lass | Ernest John Moeran (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E flat major | soprano, alto and piano | |
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| 50 Shakespeare Songs | Charles Vincent (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Melologo Op. 30 | Francesco Mencarini (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.30 | 2019 | narrator, soprano and piano | |
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| Should He Upbraid | Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | voice and piano | |
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| Romeo and Juliet | Thomas Augustine Arne (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices and orchestra | |
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| The Merchant of Venice | Thomas Shaw (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
voices and orchestra | |
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| Irrungen | Karl Adolf Lorenz (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.40 | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Prologue from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida | James Walker (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1998 | voice and piano | |
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| Tempest Songs for SATB a cappella | James Walker (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
1985 | mixed chorus | |
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| The Pedlar's Song | Walford Davies (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | 1916 | 2 sopranos, alto and piano | |
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| Orpheus With His Lute | Edward German (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
F major | |
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| Julius Caesar | Mark Alburger (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.329 | 2019 | voices and orchestra | |
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| Macbeth | Mark Alburger (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.328 | 2019 | voices and orchestra | |
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| Fairy Glee | John Percy (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E flat major | 4 voices | |
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| The Garden Scene from Romeo and Juliet | John Percy (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
Op.2 | voice, 2 violins and harpsichord voice, 2 violins and piano 2 voices, 2 violins and piano 2 voices, 2 violins and harpsichord |
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| 3 Songs from William Shakespeare, K081 | Igor Stravinsky (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
K081 | 1953 | |
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| O Mistress Mine! | William Alexander Campbell Cruickshank (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
E flat major | male chorus alto, 2 tenors and bass |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Alexander Mekaev (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
op.142 | narrator, voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Two Sonnets | Richard McIntyre (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
A minor | 1996 | |
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| Jak może mojej muzie braknąć treści | Stanisław Duniecki (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | voice and piano | |
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| Cicha śmierci zejdź | Jan Karol Gall (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
A flat major | voice and piano | |
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| Lied der Pagen | Jan Karol Gall (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
G major | Op.2 | 2 voices and piano | |
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| Under the Greenwood Tree | Douglas Moore (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
F major | voice and piano | |
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| No longer mourn for me | Arthur Somervell (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
B flat major | soprano, alto, tenor and bass | |
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| Shall I compare thee | Dominik Giesen (composer) and William Shakespeare (librettist) | |
mixed chorus | |
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