Three Songs (Ireland, 1926)

For other works by Ireland with a similar title, see Three Songs to Poems by Arthur Symons and Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy.

Three Songs is a set of songs for voice and piano composed in 1926 by John Ireland (1879–1962). It consists of settings of three poems by various poets.[1]

A typical performance of the three songs as a set takes 8 minutes. The poems are:[2][3]

  1. "Love and Friendship" (Emily Brontë (1818–48), from Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey)
  2. "Friendship in Misfortune" (poet not identified)
  3. "The One Hope" (Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82), from Poems (1870))

References

  1. ^ "List of works – T to Y". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  2. ^ John Ireland: Songs (3), for voice & piano (1926) at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Texts to Three Songs: Song Cycle by John Ireland". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 29 April 2015.


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