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:


 * 1) XXI "Bredon Hill"
 * 2) XX "Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain"
 * 3) VI "When the Lad for Longing Sighs"
 * 4) XXXV "On the Idle Hill of Summer"
 * 5) LIV "With Rue My Heart Is Laden"