Two Songs, 1916

For other works by John Ireland called 'Two Songs', see Two Songs (1917-18), Two Songs (1920), and Two Songs (1928).

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]

"Blind"
"The Cost" ^[4]

References

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

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John Ireland

Piano

Piano Concerto (1930)

Solo

First Rhapsody (1905?/1906?)
Decorations (1913)
The Holy Boy (1913)
The Almond Tree (1913)
Preludes for Piano (1913–1915)
Rhapsody (1915)
London Pieces (1917–1920)
The Towing Path
Leaves from a Child's Sketchbook (1918)
The Darkened Valley (1920)
Two Pieces for Piano (1921)
Prelude in E-flat major (1924)
Two Pieces for Piano (1925)
Sonatina (1926–1927)
Ballad (1929)
Two Pieces for Piano (1929–1930)
Ballade of London Nights (1930)
Month's Mind (1935)
Green Ways (1937)
Sarnia: An Island Sequence (1940–1941)
Three Pastels (1941)

Vocal and choral

"Love Unknown" (1925)

Song cycles	Songs of a Wayfarer (1911) Two Songs (1916) Two Songs (1918) Mother and Child (1918) Three Songs to Poems by Arthur Symons (1919) Two Songs (1920) The Land of Lost Content (1921) Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy (1925) Three Songs (1926) Two Songs (1928) We'll to the Woods No More (1928) Songs Sacred and Profane (1931) Five Sixteenth-Century Poems (1938)