''Bredon Hill and Other Songs'' is a

song cycle A song cycle (german: Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online'' The songs are either for solo voice ...

for baritone and piano composed by

George Butterworth George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 18855 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll ''The Banks of Green Willow'' and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from '' A Shropshire Lad''. Early ...

(18851916) in 1912. It sets five poems from

A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by pub ...

's 1896 collection ''

A Shropshire Lad ''A Shropshire Lad'' is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers. Composers began setting the ...

''. Butterworth set another six poems from ''A Shropshire Lad'' in '' Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad'' (1911). Nine of the eleven songs were premiered at Oxford on 16 May 1911, by James Campbell McInnes (baritone) and the composer (piano). A performance typically takes 15 minutes. The songs are as follows, with Roman numerals from ''A Shropshire Lad'': # XXI "

Bredon Hill Bredon Hill is a hill in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Evesham in the Vale of Evesham. The summit of the hill is in the parish of Kemerton, and it extends over parts of eight other parishes (listed below). The hill is geologically par ...

" # XX "Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain" # VI "When the Lad for Longing Sighs" # XXXV "On the Idle Hill of Summer" # LIV "With Rue My Heart Is Laden"

References

Song cycles by George Butterworth Classical song cycles in English 1912 compositions Musical settings of poems by A. E. Housman {{classical-composition-stub