title: Bredon Hill and Other Songs
text: # Bredon Hill and Other Songs
  
  Bredon Hill and Other Songs is a song cycle for baritone and piano composed by George Butterworth (1885–1916) in 1912. It sets five poems from A. E. Housman's 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad.
  
  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"
  * 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"
  