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One work that is bigger in construction, sound and intent than its 20-odd minutes duration, is the [[cantata]] commissioned as a coronation [[anthem]] in 1937 - "''These Things Shall Be''". As well as this now somewhat controversial work, his popularity today relies on certain shorter pieces:  

One work that is bigger in construction, sound and intent than its 20-odd minutes duration, is the [[cantata]] commissioned as a coronation [[anthem]] in 1937 - "''These Things Shall Be''". As well as this now somewhat controversial work, his popularity today relies on certain shorter pieces:  

:The hymn, “''My Song is Love Unknown''” [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMart4wXsI0]]

:The hymn, “''My Song is Love Unknown''” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMart4wXsI0]

:The anthem, “''Greater Love hath no Man''” [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDZv6j-Ts8]]

:The anthem, “''Greater Love hath no Man''” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDZv6j-Ts8]

:The Piano Prelude, “''The Holy Boy''” that would later appear as a part song (carol: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDlk9W_91yA]]) and in settings as different as for full orchestra [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_cpgBitJU]], violin and piano, flute and piano,and string quartet.

:The Piano Prelude, “''The Holy Boy''” that would later appear as a part song (carol: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDlk9W_91yA]) and in settings as different as for full orchestra [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_cpgBitJU], violin and piano, flute and piano,and string quartet.

:Songs: Ireland believed that to write a song like [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]]’s “''The Man I Love''” was of greater value than a concerto or symphony”. He himself wrote about 90 songs, beautifully crafted and appropriate settings of poets from the 16th century to his own time. One of them, his setting of John Masefield’s “''Sea Fever''”, is to the treasury of the English art-song, what “''The Man I Love''” is to the “Great American Songbook”.

:Songs: Ireland believed that to write a song like [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]]’s “''The Man I Love''” was of greater value than a concerto or symphony”. He himself wrote about 90 songs, beautifully crafted and appropriate settings of poets from the 16th century to his own time. One of them, his setting of John Masefield’s “''Sea Fever''”, is to the treasury of the English art-song, what “''The Man I Love''” is to the “Great American Songbook”.

[[Category:Composers]]

[[Category:Composers]]

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