Two Songs, 1916

Two Songs is a pair of songs for voice and piano composed in 1916 by John Ireland (1879–1962).[1]

A performance of both songs takes around 3 minutes.[2] Both are settings of poems by Eric Thirkell Cooper from Soliloquies of a Subaltern Somewhere in France (1915).[3]

  1. "Blind"
  2. "The Cost" [4]

References
  1. "List of works – T to Y". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  2. John Ireland: Songs of a Great War, songs (2) for voice & piano at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  3. "Texts to Two Songs: Song Cycle by John Ireland". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  4. The Cost (Ireland, John): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)


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