Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy

Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy is a set of songs for voice and piano composed in 1925 by John Ireland (1879–1962). It consists of settings of three poems by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928).[1]

For other works by Ireland with a similar title, see Three Songs to Poems by Arthur Symons and Three Songs (Ireland) (1926).

A performance of all three songs takes around 7 minutes.[2] The songs are:[3]

  1. "Summer Schemes" (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses (1922))
  2. "Her Song" (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
  3. "Weathers"

References
  1. "List of works – T to Y". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  2. John Ireland: Songs (3) to Poems by Thomas Hardy, for voice & piano at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  3. "Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: Song Cycle by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879–1962)". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 30 April 2015.


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