ARMSTRONG GIBBS

SOLO SONGS with piano accompaniment

Near and Far (Dear, when you are far away) Christmas 1909

Words by A. R. Ropes

CUL: MS Add. 6590

Dedicated to C(harles) S(ayle)

Unpublished

The Knight’s Song (With a good grey charger under me) March 1910

Words by J. L. Crommelin–Brown

Cambridge University, Kings College, Rowe Music Library: MS, C minor [b@-e’’]

Unpublished.

An English Carol of the XIV Century (I sing of a maiden) 7 April 1911

Words Anonymous

B–P Library, Bag Ci: MS CAG, ink, dated; 2 pages and title page

Unpublished

Two Songs, Op 2 *1912

Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley

1. Night (Swiftly walk o’er the western wave)

2. When the lamp is shattered (When the lamp is shattered)

Unpublished

Lullaby, Op 3 (Sleep, sleep, beauty bright) *1914

Words by William Blake

Stainer & Bell 1914, cr, [BL: H1793h24], F [d’-e’’]

Philomela or The Nightingale, Op 13 (The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth) May 1914

Words by Sir Philip Sidney

B–P Library, Box 6: Copyist’s MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page, ‘Philomela’,

Bag A: Copyist’s MS, ink, fair copy, dated by CAG, 4 pages, ‘The Nightingale’

Winthrop Rogers 1937 [BL: G1177a5], E@ [b@–e’’@]

Dedicated to Mrs A. T. Kemble

First performance 24 April 1918 at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

The Rainy Day, Op 4 (The day is cold and dark and dreary). 9 September 1914

Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, 2 pages and title page

Unpublished

Dedicated to Mrs A. T. Kemble

The Little Green Orchard, Op 15(1) [originally Op 9(2)] (Someone is always sitting there) *1917

Words by Walter de la Mare

B-P Library, Box 5: Copyist’s MS, ink, printer’s copy, 6 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1932 [BL: G117728], F [e’@–f’’]

First performance 8 May 1918 at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 12; Part Songs – with piano p. 35

Five Eyes, Op 15(2) [originally Op 9(3)] (In Hans’ old mill his three black cats) September 1917

Words by Walter de la Mare

Winthrop Rogers 1922 [BL: G1275e5], G minor [d’–d’’], B@ minor [f’–f’’]; Classical Three Songs, B@ minor

Dedicated to John Coates

First performance 8 May 1918 at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 12; Part–songs – unaccompanied p. 31; Part Songs – with piano p. 34

A Song of Shadows, Op 15(3) [originally Op 9(5] (Sweep thy faint strings, Musician) September 1917

Words by Walter de la Mare

Winthrop Rogers 1922 [BL: G1275e12], E@ [e’@–g’’@], Thames Century 1

Dedicated to Mary Mitchell

First performance 8 May 1918 at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 12; Part Songs – with piano p. 34; Part Songs – other accompaniments p. 40

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Dream Song [originally Op 9(1)] (Sunlight, moonlight, twilight, starlight) 17 September 1917

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, 4 pages

Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117735], A@ [d’–f’’]

Dedicated to Rachel Bennett

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 12

In the highlands, Op 9 [originally Op 11] (In the highlands, in the country places) *1918

Words by Robert Louis Stevenson

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 3 pages, smaller loose sheet and title page

Curwen 1928 [BL: G117718], E@ [e’@–a’’@], Novello Album 2

First performance 11 March 1918 at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

Nod, Op 12(1) (Softly along the road of evening) 1918

Words by Walter de la Mare

B-P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, 4 pages, ‘Op 10 No 1’

Winthrop Rogers 1921 [BL: G1275e10], D [d’-f’’#], B&H Heritage 3, Chester Celebrated 1

First performance 11 March 1918 at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

One of 4 songs in The Monthly Chapbook Vol.1 No.6, 1919, published by The Poetry Bookshop [BL: PP5193be]

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 12

The Scarecrow, Op 12(2) (All winter thro’ I bow my head). 1918

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, 8 pages

Curwen 1931 [BL: G117725], B minor [a–f’’], Novello Album 1

Dedicated to Adrian C. Boult

First performance 11 March at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 12

Sweet sounds, begone, Op 14(1) (Sweet sounds, begone) de la Mare’s title – ‘Music Unheard’ February 1918

Words by Walter de la Mare

B-P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1932 [BL: G117733)], B@ minor [d’@-f’’#]

First performance 24 April 1918 at Wigmore Hall (Gladys Moger)

Dedicated to Constance Wrigley

Two Songs, from ‘Songs of Childhood’, Op 17 1918

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. Bluebells (Where the bluebells and the wind are), G [d’-g’’]

B-P Library, Bag B: MS, ink, dated 20 August 1918

2. Bunches of grapes (Bunches of grapes, says Timothy), F [c’-f’’]

Stainer and Bell 1921, cr, [BL: H1846ii18]

Dedicated to My Wife

See Part-Songs – other accompaniments p. 40, ‘Songs of Childhood’

Five Songs

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. The Stranger, Op 21(2) (In the woods as I did walk), D@ [d’-g’’@] See Part Songs – unaccompanied p.31 July 1919

2. The Linnet, Op 21(1) (Upon this leafy bush), G [g’-g’’] July 1919

3. The Mountains, Op 19(2) (Still and blanched and cold and lone), G minor, c’#-e’’] February 1918

4. Love in the almond bough, Op 19(1) (Love in the almond bough), F [e’-g’’@] December 1918

5. The Bells, Op 14(2) (Shadow and light both strove to be), E@ [c’@-g’’] March 1918

No. 1 dedicated to Adrian Boult, No. 2 to H. P. Allen, No. 3 to W. de la Mare,

No. 4 to Edward J. Dent and No. 5 to R. Vaughan Williams

Stainer & Bell 1920, cr, [BL: G426k8]; Goodmusic 2007

Four Songs from Children’s Play ‘Crossings’, Op 20 1919

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. Ann’s Cradle Song (Now silent falls the clacking mill),# C minor [d’@–e’’@], Novello Album 1

2. Araby (Dark-browed Sailor, tell me now), F [e’–f’’], Novello Album 1,

3. Beggar’s Song (Now all the roads to London Town), E minor [b–e’’], Novello Album 1

4. Candlestick Maker’s Song (Listen, I who love thee well), D minor [c’-f’’@#], Novello Album 2

Curwen 1924

First performance 21 June 1919 at The Wick School, Brighton with Adrian Boult conductor and Edward J. Dent producer

See Stage and Screen p. 43; Orchestral Music p. 46; piano and strings p. 48

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

As I lay in the early sun (As I lay in the early sun) January 1920

Words by Edward Shanks

Winthrop Rogers 1920 [BL: G426l16], F [d’–f’’]

The fields are full (The fields are full of summer still) January 1920

Words by Edward Shanks

MS BBC Music Library

Winthrop Rogers 1920 [BL: G426l16], E@ minor [d’@-g’’@], B&H Heritage 4, Thames 10 Songs

For Remembrance (Let us remember how we came) 1920

Words by Edward Shanks

Winthrop Rogers 1920 [BL: G426l16], D [d’–g’’] (the three Shanks settings grouped as ‘Songs with piano’, BL)

John Mouldy, Op 30(1) (I spied John Mouldy in his cellar) March 1920

Words by Walter de la Mare

Winthrop Rogers 1922 [BL: G1275e7], C minor [c’–e’’@]

Dedicated to J. B. Trend

Silver, Op 30(2) (Slowly, silently, now the moon) March 1920

Words by Walter de la Mare

Winthrop Rogers 1922 [BL: G1275e11], E minor [b–e’’], F# minor [c’#-f’’#]; B&H Heritage 4, F# minor

Classical Three Songs

Dedicated to Mrs. A. T. Kemble

See Solo Song – other accompaniments p. 12

Lyonesse (When I set out for Lyonesse) 1920

Words by Thomas Hardy

B-P Library, Box 5: Copyist’s MS, ink, dated, 3 pages

Boosey & Co 1921 [BL: G1270c23], C minor [c’–a’’@], A minor [a–f’’]; Thames Hardy, Classical, A minor

Two Pastorals *1920

Words by H. T. Wade–Grey

1. In the Spring the runnels flow (In the Spring the runnels flow)
2. Upon the grass (Upon the grass as I did sit)

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, 4 pages and title page

Unpublished

The Mad Prince (Who said Peacock Pie?) 26 February 1921

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, ‘Who said Peacock Pie’, 2 pages

Curwen 1922 [BL: G1275e8], E minor [c’–e’’], Novello Album 1

See Solo Song – other accompaniments p. 12

When I was one and twenty (When I was one and twenty) April 1921

Words by A. E. Housman

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page

Curwen 1924 [BL: G117712], G [d’–f’’], Novello Album 2

The Tiger–Lily (At night in black Gethsemane) 1921

Words by Dorothy Pleydell Bouverie

Curwen 1924 [BL: G117711], C [c’–e’’], Novello Album 1

Summer Night (Moonshine, calling faint light from sea-deeps unknown) 13 May 1921

Words by Margery Agrell

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, in E major but no key signature, also copyist’s MS, ink, E major with key signature,

dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages each and title pages,

Curwen 1921 [BL: G1275e13], C# minor [f’–g’’], Novello Album 2

Dedicated to Ursula Greville

To One Who Passed Whistling Through the Night (Something has called me, called me from far dreams) *1921

Words by Margery Agrell

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 3 pages

Curwen 1921 [BL: G1275e14], C [f’–g’’], Novello Album 2, Classical Three Songs, Schirmer Art Song

Dedicated to Anne Thursfield

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Mistletoe (Sitting under the mistletoe) April 1922

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page

Curwen 1922 [BL: G1275e9], F minor [e’@–a’’@], Novello Album 2

Dedicated to John Coates

See Solo Song – other accompaniments p. 13

Two Elizabethan Songs, Op 44 1922

Words by Samuel Daniel

1. Love is a sickness (Love is a sickness, full of woes)

Elkin 1922 [BL: G1270c22], G [d’–e’’], B@ [f’–g’’], F [c’–d’’]; Classical, F

Words by Robert Wever

2. In Youth is Pleasure (In an arbour green asleep whereas I lay)

Elkin 1922 [BL: G1270c22], E [b–e’’], G [d’–g’’]

The Sleeping Beauty (The scent of bramble fills the air) June 1922

Words by Walter de la Mare

B-P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Curwen 1924 [BL: G11779], [e’@–f’’], Novello Album 1, F

See Chorus and orchestra p. 15; Part Songs – with piano p. 36: Songs Of Childhood Op 76

The Exile (Had the gods lov’d me, I had lain) October 1922

Words by Walter de la Mare

F & B Goodwin/Chester 1923 [BL: H1846ii17], A minor [c’–e’’]

Dedicated to Anne Thursfield

Gray And Gold *1922

Words by Helen Taylor

1. The Miracle (The fields lay brown on either hand), C [a–e’’]
2. The wind in your hair (I love you), C [e’–e’’]
3. Requiescat (Now all the world in peaceful slumber lies), C minor [c’–d’’]
4. I shall remember (Sigh of wind on a moonless night), C [c’–e’’@]
5. April’s Hour (There’s a fairy sleeping in every folded flower), D [d’–e’’@]

Enoch 1922, low [BL: G1275e6, given above] and high

Covent Garden (I know a place in London) *1922

Words by Eileen Carfrae

Enoch 1923 [BL: G1270c21], C [c’–e’’(g’’)], D [d’–f’’], E [e’–g’’], Roberton 1992, Goodmusic 2003

See Part Songs – with piano p. 38

The Little Salamander (When I go free) June 1923

Words by Walter de la Mare

Curwen 1924 [BL: G11773], G minor [g’@–f’’], Novello Album 2

First performance 5 July 1923 at RCM (Anne Thursfield)

Lullaby (Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul) June 1923

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Curwen 1924 [BL: G11774], G minor [e’–f’’], Novello Album 1

Dedicated to Anne Thursfield

First performance 5 July 1923 at RCM (Anne Thursfield)

Four Songs From Musical Play ‘Midsummer Madness’, Op 51

Words by Clifford Bax

1. Neglected moon (Neglected moon, romance and you), E@ [e’@–a’’@], Novello Album 2

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 13 June 1924

2. Arrogant Poppies (Though people more wise), E minor [g’–g’’], Novello Album 2 June 1924
3. The Chains of Love (O woman, fair shape!), B@ [b@–e’’@] July 1924
4. The Rejected Lover (Hear me, you hollyhocks), G [d’–g’’], Novello Album 2 1924

Curwen 1924, separately [BL: G11775-8].

Dedications: 1 Marie Tempest, 2. Marjorie Leaster Dixon, 3. Frederick Ranalow

First performance June 1924 at Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith

See Stage and Screen p. 44

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

The Galliass (Tell me, tell me, unknown stranger) *1924

Words by Walter de la Mare

Curwen 1924 [BL: G11772], G [f’-f’’], Novello Album 1

Dedicated to Marjorie Leaster Dixon

Slow, horses, slow (Slow, horses, slow) *1924

Words by Thomas Westwood

OUP 1924 [BL: G117710], C minor [f’–g’’], Roberton 1996 [BL: F1058cc(1)], Goodmusic 2003

See Unison Songs p. 40

By a Bier–side (This is a sacred city built of marvellous earth). 1924

Words by John Masefield

Curwen 1924 [BL: G11771], C# minor [c’#-e’’], Novello Album 1

The Wanderer (Will he ever be weary of wandering) 1925

Words by Walter de la Mare

B-P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, 3 pages, ‘Will He Ever Be Weary of wandering’

RCM 4576: MS, dated, 2 pages, ‘Will He Ever?’

Curwen 1926 [BL: G117716], B@ minor [d’@–f’’], Thames 10 Songs, Novello Album 1

Take heed, young heart (Take heed, young heart, to time) December 1925

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page

Curwen 1926 [BL: G117715], E minor [e’–g’’], Novello Album 2

The Market (A man came to me at the fair) January 1926

Words by James Stephens

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page

Curwen 1926 [BL: G117714], [a–e’’], Novello Album 1

Proud Maisie (Proud Maisie is in the wood) *1926

Words by Sir Walter Scott

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page (in poor condition)

Curwen 1926 [BL: G117713], C [d’–e’’]

The Birch Tree (Green glimmering, silver shimmering) 27 August 1926

Words by Georgina Mase

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages

Curwen 1927 [BL: G117717], A minor [a’–a’’], Novello Album 2

Dedicated to Ursula Greville

Jenny Jones (Jenny Jones, Oh, Jenny Jones) *1926

Words by Doris Rowley

Curwen 1927 [BL: G117719]; B minor [a–e’’]

On Duncton Hill (The grey sheep glide across the downs) *1927

Words by Gwen Grant

B-P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 2 pages

Curwen 1928 [BL: G117720], F# minor [f’#-f’’#], Novello Album 2

Resting (As a shadow goes over the hill) 1927

Words by Gwen Grant

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 2 pages

Curwen 1928 [BL: G117721]; C [d’@–e’’]

(later arranged as the slow movement of the cello sonata, Op 132, 1951)

Every little child *1929

Words by W. H. Draper

Curwen ? 1929

The Ballad of Semmerwater (Deep asleep, deep asleep, deep asleep it lies) January 1930

Words by William Watson

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages

Curwen 1930 [BL: G117722], G minor [g@–e’’@], Thames Century 4

Dedicated to Keith Falkner

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Danger (You shall not go a-maying when the thorn is white once more) *1930

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 4 pages

Curwen 1931 [BL: G117723], [c’–d’’], Novello Album 1

Impromptu (O long ago and long ago, and when my heart was young) *1930

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 3 pages

Curwen 1931 [BL: G117724], F minor [c’–e’’@]

The Orchard Sings to the Child (Dancing ground for your feet) *1931

Words by Margaret Cropper

Curwen 1931 [BL: G117730], A [e’– f’’#], Novello Album 2

See Unison Songs p. 41

Padraic the Fidiler (Padraic sits in the garden) *1931

Words by Padraic Gregory

Curwen 1931 [BL: G117731], [e’–f’’], Novello Album 1

See Solo Songs – other accompaniment p. 13; Unison Songs p. 40

The Flooded Stream (I was quiet and the road was quiet) *1931

Words by Margaret Cropper

Curwen 1932 [BL: G117726], B minor [d’–f’’#], Novello Album 2

See Unison Songs p. 41

Oh, nightingale upon my tree (Oh nightingale upon my tree) 26 December 1931

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 5: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages

Boosey & Hawkes 1932 [BL: G117729], B@ [c’–e’’@]

Dedicated to Keith Falkner

Sussex Ways (Though I might build the world again) 2 January 1932

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages

Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117741], E@ [c’–e’’@]

Juliet Anne (Juliet Anne, Juliette Anne, long ago when the world began) 5 – 6 January 1932

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B-P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page

Boosey & Co 1932 [BL: G117727], D [b–d’’]; A [f’#-a’’]

Dedicated to B(enjamin) J. Dale

In the woods in June (In the woods in June, peace-haunted) 1932

Words by Mordaunt Currie

Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117737], A [e’–a’’]

Dedicated to Isobel Baillie

Two Songs 1932

Old Rhymes, Words Anonymous

1. Down in Yonder Meadow (Here comes a lusty wooer), D minor [c’–f’’] dated 15-16 February 1932
2. Lily–Bright and shine–a (Lily-bright and shine-a) E minor [e’–g’’] dated 1931-32

B–P Library, Box 7: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 1: 2 pages and title page; 2: 3 pages

Boosey & Hawkes 1932 [BL: G117732]

Dedications : 1. Ann Gibbs, 2. David Gibbs

The Ship of Rio (There was a ship of Rio) 1932

Words by Walter de la Mare

Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117740], E@ [a@–e’’@], B&H Heritage 3

Dedicated to Stuart Robertson

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Five Children’s Songs From Peacock Pie *1932

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. The Barber’s (Gold locks, and black locks), D[d’–e’’]
2. Miss T (It’s a very odd thing), G minor [e’@–e’’@]
3. Old Shellover (‘Come’, said Old Shellover), D minor [d’–e’’]
4. Hide and Seek (Hide and seek, says the wind), E minor [d’–e’’]
5. Then (Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty), C minor [c’–e’’@]

B-P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 8 pages, (with Songs of Childhood Op 76)

Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117734]

Love’s Prisoner (How sweet I roamed from field to field) January 1933

Words by William Blake

B–P Library, Box 5: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Winthrop Rogers 1933 [BL: G117738], B@ [b–f’’], D [d’–a’’]

Dedicated to Muriel Brunskill

See Part Songs – with piano p. 36

February (There’s a fire at my heart) February 1933

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages

Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117736], A minor [c’–e’’]

Old Wine in New Bottles April 1933

Four Restoration Songs

1. When Arthur first in Court began, Words Anonymous, C minor [a–e’’] dated 14 April
2. Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Words by William Congreve, G minor [d’–d’’] dated 15 April
3. If music be the food of love, Words Anonymous, (Henry Heveningham), G@ [a@–e’’@] dated 16-17 April
4. 'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love’s fires, Words Anonymous, (Roger Boyle), C [g–e’’] dated 17-18 April

B-P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 15 pages, ‘Four Songs’ (2. in A minor, 3. in A@, with note to transpose these)

Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117739]

Dedicated to Keith Falkner

First performance August 1933 at the Three Choirs Festival, Hereford (Keith Falkner)

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 13

The Love Talker 1933

See Solo Songs – Other Accompaniments, p. 13

Titania (In quiet woods) *1934

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 7: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Co/Winthrop Rogers 1934 [BL: G117748], E@ [b@–f’’], Thames 10 Songs

See Part Songs – with piano p. 35

Tom O’Bedlam (The moon’s my constant mistress) 4 January 1934

Words Anonymous

B–P Library, Box 7: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Co/Winthrop Rogers 1934 [BL: G117745], A minor [g–e’’@], Thames 10 Songs 1989

Sledburn Fair (I’ve oft heard tell of the Sledburn Fair) 6 January 1934

Words Anonymous

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages

Boosey & Co 1934 [BL: G117744], B@ [c’–e’’@]

See Part Songs – unaccompanied p. 28

Sailing Homeward (Cliffs that rise a thousand feet) 13 March 1934

Words translated from the Chinese of Chan Fang Sheng, 4^th century ad, by Arthur Waley,

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page, both keys

Boosey & Co/Winthrop Rogers 1934 [BL: G117743], B minor [d’–g’’#], G minor [b@–e’’] (Music has B@, D, in error)

Dedicated to Bruce Flegg

Midnight (Light not one taper yet) 16 April 1934

Words by Jeffery Lang

B–P Library, Box 5: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages

Boosey & Co/Winthrop Rogers 1934 [BL: G117746], B@ minor [c’–f’’]

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Love’s Wisdom (Wise is he, ah, wise is he) 1 August 1934

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 5: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Co 1934 [BL: G117742], A minor [e’–a’’], B@ minor [f’–b’’@], D minor [a–d’’]

Dedicated to Victoria Hopper, and sung by her in ‘Lorna Doone’

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 13; Stage and Screen p. 44

Maritime Invocation (Lady, will you go with me) 31 December 1934

Words by A. C. Boyd

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page (‘Invocation’, with ‘Maritime’ added in pencil)

Winthrop Rogers 1935 [BL: G117747], C minor [b-f’’], D minor [c’#-g’’], E@ minor [d’-a’’@]

A Ballad Maker (Once I loved a maiden fair) 16 July 1935

Words by Padraic Colum

B–P Library, Box 1: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page

Winthrop Rogers 1936 [BL: G1177a1], C minor [c’–e’’@], E@ minor [e’@–g’’@], (Gibbs suggested C minor and E minor)

Fulfilment, Op 83(3) (Oh, Song of Songs!) *1935

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 4 pages and title page

Winthrop Rogers 1935 [BL: G1177a2], D [d’–a’’], Thames 10 Songs

See Stage and Screen p. 44 ‘Twelfth Night’

Immortality (Pale Death! Content thee) January 1936

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, dated, 3 pages and title page

Winthrop Rogers 1936 [BL: G1177a3], A minor [e’–a’’]

The Hawthorn Tree (The hawthorn tree was gnarled in limb) 1 – 2 June 1936

Words by Hilda Maude

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1945 [BL: G1177a13], E minor [b–g’’]

To Anise (Her little white feet) August 1936

Words by Nathaniel Downes (1594), (arranged Mordaunt Currie)

B–P Library, Box 7: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Winthrop Rogers 1937 [BL: G1177a6], D [a–d’’]

Henry Brocken Song Cycle, Op 88 1937

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. Lorelei’s Song (Pilgrim, forget) (No. 10, 3 pages)
2. Jane Eyre’s Song (You take my heart with tears) (No. 7, 2 pages)
3. The Doctor's Song (The good man said ‘Tis time for bed) (No. 15, 4 pages)

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, 9 pages and title page

Unpublished

See Stage and Screen p. 44; Chamber Music p. 53

Why do I love? (Why do I love! Go ask the glorious sun) 19 – 21 January 1937

Words by “Ephelia”

B–P Library, Box 7: MS, ink, dated, 5 pages and title page

Winthrop Rogers 1937 [BL: G1177a7]; B&H New Imperial 1, [c’-a’’@(g’’@)]

Dedicated to Mabel Ritchie

The Witch (Tib had a cat that spoke and said) December 1937

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 7: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages

Winthrop Rogers 1938 [BL: G1177a9], E minor [d’–g’’], Thames 10 Songs

Dedicated to Mrs. Gregory Nicholson (not on MS)

A Voice In The Dusk, Op 91, Four Lyrics by John Irvine 1938

Words by John Irvine

1. Spring (She comes all so gently), B@ [f’–g’’] (originally in G)
2. In the Faery Hills (A horn in the distance calling), E@ [d’–g’’]
3. The wind comes softly (The wind comes softly), F [e’–f’’]
4. Moon Magic (A young man comes with silver feet), [e’–g’’]

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 8 pages and title page

Winthrop Rogers 1938 [BL: G1177a8]

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Rest in the Lord (Rest in the Lord, and thou shalt prove) February 1939

Words by Edmund Beale Sargant

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, pencil, dated, B major, 2 pages, D@ major (‘not to be published’), 3 pages,

typescript of text

Winthrop Rogers 1939 [BL: G1177a11], G minor [b–e’’@]

Dedicated to Astra Desmond

Grade A (Drink more milk! Drink more milk!) 1939

Words by Armstrong Gibbs (for David Gibbs’ 21st birthday)

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, voice part only, 1 page

Unpublished

Joan Of Arc, Op 102 1942

Song Cycle – Five songs for soprano

Words by Mordaunt Currie

1. Revelation (Deep woods grown dim), D@ [c’–g’’] dated 13 August
2. Victory (Who rides? Who rides? Who hears my call)# C minor [e’–g’’]
3. Crowning (The earth is filled with flowers), A [c’#-a’’] dated 15 August
4. Defeat (Fail me not now, O bruised and thwarted heart), A minor [d’–f’’] dated 17 August
5. Mors Janua Vitae (I am come to be changed), [c’–b’’@] dated 25 August

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 14 pages and title page; pencil draft 15 pages

Boosey & Co 1947 [BL: G1177a18]

First performance 13 May 1943 at Westmorland Festival

The splendour falls (The splendour falls on castle walls) 31 December 1943

Words by Alfred Lord Tennyson

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages

Boosey & Hawkes 1944 [BL: G1177a12], C minor [a@–e’’], Thames 10 Songs

Dedicated to Keith Falkner

See Part Songs, unaccompanied p. 29 ‘Blow, bugle, blow’

Before Sleeping January 1944

Words Anonymous

Unpublished

Dedicated to Keith Falkner

See Part Songs – unaccompanied p. 30

Quiet Conscience (Close now thine eyes and rest secure) 6 January 1944

Words attributed to King Charles I in error — actually by Francis Quarles

Unpublished

Songs Of The Mad Sea–Captain, Op 111 January 1946

Four songs for bass–baritone

Words by Bernard Martin, from ‘Red Treasure’

1. Hidden Treasure (There were rubies red from Pegu), G minor [g (b@)–d’’]
2. Abel Wright (Abel Wright was a joiner’s mate), C [a@–d’’#]
3. Toll the Bell (A ship went down in the Bay of Bengal), D minor [a–d’’]
4. The Golden Ray (O hark, ye lubbers, in a far-off sea), D [b–d’’]

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 9 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1946 [BL: G1177a14]

See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 13

Two Old English Lyrics, Op 116 *1948

1. Chloris in the Snow (I saw fair Chloris walk alone), A minor [d–e’’@], C minor [f’–g’’]

Words Anonymous XVII century, (William Strode, in Parnassus Biceps, 1656)

2. Amaryllis (I care not for those ladies), A [e’–f’’(a’’], F [c’–d’’(f’’)]

Words Anonymous, ca. 1600, (Thomas Campion, from Philip Rosseter’s ‘A Booke of Ayres’ 1601)

Chappell 1949 [BL: G1177a20]

Dedicated to Hervey Alan

The Old House (The Old House is drowsy) June 1949

Words by Gray Hayward Kirkus

B-P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, 3 pages

Unpublished

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Willow Leaves, Op 126 1949

for tenor voice

Words by John Irvine

Three songs after the Chinese manner

1. To Yuan (To the south four provinces away)
2. The Dancing Girl (In early dusk I saw her pass alone)
3. Meeting With Friends (Through the darkness many lamps are burning)

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, 13 pages and title page

Unpublished

Nightfall (Dusk from her store spreads veils) *1949

Words by Harry Dawson

Curwen/Schirmer 1949 [BL: G1177a19], C [d’–g’’], Novello Album 2

Hypochondriacus (By myself walking) *1949

Words by Charles Lamb

Curwen/Schirmer 1949 [BL: G1177a17], [b@–e’’], Thames 10 Songs

(Bass solo test piece in 1951 National Competitive Festival)

The Cherry Tree (The cherry’s a-bloom in the North-land) *1949

Words by Margaret Rose

Curwen/Schirmer 1949 [BL: G1177a15], B minor [b–e’’], Novello Album 1, Schirmer 1st Mezzo

Dusk (Velvet the sky) 1949

Words Anonymous

B–P Library, Box 2: Copyist’s MS, ink, 3 pages, voice part, typescript of text

Boosey & Hawkes 1949 [BL: G1177a16], F [c’–e’’@], B&H Easy Song 2000

(New lyric: ‘Picture Me Love’ by Westlake & Ridley, Boosey & Hawkes 1980)

Adapted from the Valse (Fancy Dress iii) by the composer.

See Solo Songs – other accompaniment p. 14; Orchestral Music – Full orchestra p. 46, Small orchestra p. 47,

Strings and piano p. 49; Chamber Music p. 54; Piano p. 57; Other instrumental p. 58

The Oxen (‘Now they are all on their knees’) 24 December 1951

Words by Thomas Hardy

B–P Library, Box 5: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1952 [BL: G1177a21], Thames 10 1989, F minor [d’@–f’’]

Dedicated to Elsie Suddaby

See Solo Songs – other accompaniment p. 14

The Summer Palace (Swallows gather beneath the eaves) 24 January 1952

Words by Benedict Ellis

B–P Library, Box 6: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1952 [BL: G1177a22], E@ [e’–a’’@]

Dedicated to Ivy Frances Klein

Summertime (The meadow-sweet has thrown her scent) 26 January 1952

Words by Benedict Ellis

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1952 [BL: G1177a23], B@ [d’@–g’’]

Dedicated to Honor Mary Gibbs

Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti Op 131 *1952

Words by Christina Rossetti

1. The Lamb and The Dove (Did any bird come flying), E minor [e’–a’’@], Thames Century 7
2. A Birthday (My heart is like a singing bird), C [e’–a’’]
3. Gone were but the winter (Gone were but the winter), G [d’–g’’]

OUP 1953 [BL: G1177a24] (Banks)

Prayer Before Sleep (Our father, whose kingdom is within each one of us) *1955

Words by L. E. Eeman

Elkin 1955 [BL: G1177a25], [c’–c’’]

See Unison Songs p. 42

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment

Philomel (As it fell upon a day) *1955

Words by Richard Barnfield

OUP 1956 [BL: G1177a28] (Banks); Thames 10 Songs, B minor [e’@–g’’]

Dedicated to Joan Hammond

Lament for Robin Hood (Weep, all ye woodmen! Wail) *1956

Words by Anthony Munday

OUP 1956 [BL: G1177a27] (Banks), F minor [medium]

Gipsies (Where do the gypsies come from) *1956

Words by Henry H. Bashford

OUP 1956 [BL: G1177a26] (Banks), E minor [e’–a’’], C minor [c’–f’’]

See Unison songs p. 41

Evening in Summer (Shepherds all, and maidens fair) 16 November 1959

Words by John Fletcher

B–P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages

OUP 1960 [BL: G1271e32] (Banks), D@ [d’@–f’’]

Gone is my love (Departed the day when all was fair in summertime) *1959

Words by Edith Harrhy

B–P Library, Bag A: MS (Harrhy?), ink, 3 pages, title page and letter from E. Harrhy, dated 1959

Box 4: MS (Harrhy?), ink,;

Boosey & Hawkes 1961 [BL: G1276v15], G [d’–g’’] as ‘Gone is my love’

(adapted by Edith Harrhy from Lento cantabile in C.A.G.’s Concertino for piano and strings Op 103, p. 48)

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment – ARRANGEMENTS

Four Songs by Edward Miller (1735–1807) arranged by C.A.G. 1937

1. The Happy Pair (At dewy dawn, so o’er the lawn), Words by Francis Pilkington, D [d’–g’’]

2. The Despairing Shepherd (One night, when all the village slept), Words by Sir Carr Scroope, Em [d’–e’’]

3. I prithee send me back my heart (I prithee, send me back my heart), Words by Sir John Suckling, G [d’–g’’]

4. To Althea, from Prison (When love with unconfined wings), Words by Richard Lovelace, somewhat bowdlerized, noted by CAG. C [e’–g’’]

B-P Library Box 4: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 9 pages and title page, typed notes on source

Boosey & Co 1937 [BL: G1275uu14]

Dedicated to Mrs. George Bramwell

Two Songs arranged from ‘Elizabeth Rogers Hir Virginal Booke’ (Feb. 27 1656) [BL: Add MS 10337] 1938

1. Lye still, my dear (Lie still my dear, why dost thou rise?) Am [g’#-f’’]

Words anonymous, printed in the 1669 edition of John Donne’s poems, beginning ‘Stay O sweet and do not rise’, and included in Quiller-Couch’s Oxford Book of English Verse, but considered inauthentic by modern editors. For another edition of this same song see Arnold Dolmetsch Select English Songs and Dialogues, Book 2.

2. Fyer, fyer, (Fyer, fyer, loe here I burn in such desire) G [d’–e’’]

Words anonymous, but actually by Thomas Campion, from his Third Book of Ayres, 1618, though this is not his tune

Words Anon

B–P Library, Box 7: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 4 pages, title page and text sheet

Winthrop Rogers 1938 [BL: G1177a10]

Dedicated to P.W.

Three Irish Airs

Words by Thomas Moore 1940

1. Let Erin remember (Let Erin remember the days of old), D [a-d’’]

2. I’d mourn the hopes (I’d mourn the hopes that leave me), G [b-e’’]

3. Avenging and bright (Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of Erin), A minor [c’-e’’]

MS EAR

Unpublished, but Gibbs Society holds a newly printed score

Dedicated to Keith Falkner

Solo Songs with piano accompaniment – arrangements

Canadian Folk Song Cycle March 1959

Arrangements of

1. My Canadian Bride (Here’s to my dear Canadian bride) (Vive la Canadienne)

(French Canadian, English words by CAG)

2. The Morning Dew (The pink, the lily and the flaming rose) (Newfoundland, collected by Maud Karpeles)

3. I'se the b’y that builds the boat (I'se the b’y that builds the boat (Newfoundland, from the Peacock Collection)

4. The Stormy Scenes of Winter (The stormy scenes of winter) (Nova Scotia, collected by Helen Creighton)

5. Bonavist’ Harbour (Oh! There’s lots of fish in Bonavist’ harbour) (Newfoundland, from the Peacock Collection)

B-P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, dated, 11 pages (3 separate MSS – 1 + 3, 2 + 5, 4)

OUP 1960 [BL: F1771gg10]

Dedicated to Robert Ivan Foster

See Unison Songs p. 42

Solo Songs – OTHER ACCOMPANIMENTS

Five Dream Songs, Op 9 1917

Soprano and string quartet

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. Dream Song

See Solo Songs p. 2

2. The Little Green Orchard

See Solo Songs p. 1; Part Songs – with piano p. 35

3. Five Eyes

See Solo songs p. 1; Part Songs – unaccompanied p. 31; Part Songs – with piano p. 34

4. The Bees’ Song

See Part Songs – with piano p. 34

5. A Song of Shadows

See Solo Songs p. 1; Part Songs – with piano p. 34; Part Songs – other accompaniments p 40

Unpublished

Nod, Op 10(1) (Softly along the road of evening) 1918

Voice and string quartet

Words Walter de la Mare

RCM 5355r: MS, string parts only for string quartet accompaniment

Unpublished

See Solo Songs p. 2

The Scarecrow, Op 10(2) (All winter thro’ I bow my head) 1918

Voice and piano quintet or orchestra

Words by Walter de la Mare

RCM 4849a: MS, ink, bound by Curwen, tenor and orchestra, (D minor), ‘Molto energico ma non troppo vivace’, (piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings) ‘Op 10 No 2’

RCM 4849b: MS, ink, string quartet and piano, (D minor), ‘Op 10 No 1’, The Wick, Jan-Feb 1918.

RCM 4849c: bass-baritone and orchestra (in B minor) ‘Allegro con fuoco’, (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons,

4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, harp, strings), conductor’s score ‘To Adrian C. Boult’

Curwen No 2506, 1918?

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, voice, string quartet and piano, B minor, 10 pages, ‘Op 10 No 1’;

Bag Bii: MS, ink, voice, string quartet and piano, score, D minor, 10 pages, title page and parts;

transposed version, score, C minor, 9 pages, title page; piano reduction in B minor

See Solo Songs p. 2

The Mad Prince, (Who said Peacock Pie?) * 1922

Voice and string quartet and piano or harp

Words Walter de la Mare

RCM 4845: MS, ink, score

Unpublished

See Solo Songs p. 3

Two Short Songs *1923

Voice and string quartet

Words by Robert Herrick

1. A Child’s Grace (Here a little child I stand)

2. A Child’s Epitaph (Here she lies a pretty bud)

B-P Library, Bag A: MS, ink, 2 pages and title page

Unpublished

See Unison Songs p. 40

Solo Songs – Other Accompaniments

Neglected Moon (Neglected moon, romance and you) 1924

Arranged by Percy E. Fletcher for voice and salon orchestra:

violin solo, violin obbligato, cello, bass, harmonium (or organ), piano conductor

Words by Clifford Bax

B-P Library, Bag Diii: MS (Fletcher?), 4 pages (with score of ‘Midsummer Madness’)

Curwen 1924 [BL: h3210h214], parts

See Solo Songs p. 4: Four Songs from ‘Midsummer Madness’

Silver, Op 30(2) (Slowly, silently, now the moon) 1925

Words by Walter de la Mare

Low voice and orchestra

Boosey & Co 1935

See Solo Songs p. 3

Padraic the Fidiler (Padraic sits in the garden) *1931

Voice, piano and violin

Words by Padraic Gregory

Curwen 1931 [BL: G117731]; Novello Album 1, [e’–f’’]

See Solo Songs p. 6; Unison Songs p. 40

Old Wine in New Bottles 1932

Four Restoration Songs for baritone and orchestra

Unpublished

See Solo Songs for details p. 7

The Love Talker, Op 75 (I met the Love Talker one eve) June 29 1933

Mezzo–soprano and full orchestra.

Words by Ethna Carbery

B–P Library Box 5: MS, full score, ink, 24 pages and title page; MS, vocal score (‘piano reduction’),

ink, dated, 9 pages and title page

RCM 6279: MS, ink, page 1 of vocal score (includes dedication)

Dedicated to Muriel Brunskill ‘a humble tribute to a great artist’

Unpublished

First performance 1933 at Three Choirs Festival, Hereford

Mistletoe (Sitting under the mistletoe) 1933

Voice and string quartet

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library: MS, ink, score 2 pages, parts and title page, Bag A

Unpublished

See Solo Songs p. 4 and below

Mistletoe (Sitting under the mistletoe) 28 April 1933

Voice, string quartet and muted string orchestra

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library: MS, ink, dated, score 4 pages, 19 pages of parts and title page, Bag A

Unpublished

See Solo Songs p. 4 and above

Love’s Wisdom *1934

Voice, strings and harp

Words by Mordaunt Currie

Dedicated to Victoria Hopper, and sung by her in ‘Lorna Doone’

Unpublished

See Solo Songs p. 8; Stage and Screen p. 44

O mistress mine *1936

Medium voice and strings

Words by Shakespeare

Unpublished

See Part Songs – unaccompanied p. 31; Unison Songs p. 41

Songs of the Mad Sea–Captain, Op 111 January 1946

Bass–baritone and orchestra

Unpublished

See Solo Songs for details p. 9

Solo Songs – Other Accompaniments

Dusk (Velvet the sky) 1949

Arranged by Don Bowden for voice and small orchestra: 2 E@ alto saxophones, 2 B@ tenor, E@ baritone,

3 trumpets, 2 trombones, drums, cymbals, guitar, violins 1, 2 and 3, piano

Words Anonymous

Hawkes & Son 1949 [BL: E1500b17], piano conductor and orchestral parts

See Solo Songs p. 10; Orchestral Music – Full orchestra p. 46, Small orchestra p. 47, Strings and piano p. 49;

Chamber Music p. 54; Piano p. 57; Other instrumental p. 58

Lyric Intermezzo 1949

Voice and orchestra

Words by Ben Jonson

First performance 2 August 1949 at Cambridge University

Unpublished

The Oxen (Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock) *1993

Arranged for voice and organ by Charles MacDonald

Words by Thomas Hardy

Kevin Mayhew ‘Holy Night’ Anthology, F minor [d’–f’’]

See Solo Songs p. 10

CHORUS and ORCHESTRA

Before Dawn, Op 46 (Dim-berried is the mistletoe) April 1922

Mixed chorus, string orchestra and organ (or piano)

Words by Walter de la Mare

B–P Library, Box 1: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 10 pages and title page

Duration: 10’

Boosey & Co 1922 vocal score [BL: F585ii30], string parts [BL: h3210h175]

Songs of Enchantment, Op 53 April – July 1925

Soprano solo, chorus of mixed voices and small orchestra:

Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, strings (3 3 2 2 1)

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. Arabia (Far are the shades of Arabia)

2. Sleepyhead (As I lay awake in the white moonlight)

3. The Prince of Sleep (I met at eve the prince of sleep)

RCM 4857: MS, score.

B–P Library, Bag Bii: MS, ink, full score Op 53, dated April – July 1925, 16 pages and title page;

vocal score Op 55, dated April – June 1925, printer’s copy, 27 pages and title page

Curwen 1925 vocal score [BL: F585kk30]

La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Op 64 (O what can ail thee, knight at arms) September – October 1928

Chorus of mixed voices and orchestra

Words by John Keats

B–P Library, Bag Bi: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, vocal score 25 pages and title page

Curwen 1929 vocal score [BL: E1592jj3], string parts [BL: g1797d8] (‘parts available on hire’)

(Re–Orchestrated by W. Llewellyn in 1999)

Dedicated to E. C. Bairstow

First performance 27 November 1929 at Leeds Town Hall (Leeds Symphony Orchestra)

The Birth of Christ, Op 66 September – November 1929

Cantata for soprano (Mary), tenor (Narrator) and baritone (Angel) soli, chorus and orchestra: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, cor anglais,

2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, harp, celeste, strings

Text from the Authorised Version

RCM 4847: MS, full score,

B–P Library, Bag Ci: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, vocal score 69 pages and title page

Curwen 1930 vocal score [BL: F1269pp2], ) string parts [BL: g1797d9]

First performance September 1930 at Three Choirs Festival, Hereford

(Elsie Suddaby, Steuart Wilson and Keith Falkner)

The Highwayman, Op 72 (The wind was a torrent of darkness) March – April 1932

Chorus (SATB) and full orchestra or small orchestra: woodwind, 1 trumpet, 2 horns, strings, piano, or strings, piano, drums

Words by Alfred Noyes

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, ink, vocal score, ink, printer’s copy, 60 pages and title page

Bag Bi: MS, vocal score, dated, 44 pages and title page, ‘first draft’

Duration: 25’

Boosey & Hawkes 1932 vocal score [BL: E1592pp3] (‘all parts available on hire’)

Dedicated to George Dyson

First performance 2 March 1933 at Winchester College Music School

(Winchester City Festival Choir & String Orchestra)

May in the Greenwood (In somer when the shawes be sheyre) January 1932

For SA or TB or ST/AB chorus and string orchestra

Words Anonymous 15^th century

RCM 4858: MS, dated

See Part Songs – with piano p. 35, No 2 of ‘Three Festival Choruses

Songs of Childhood op 76 1933

SATB strings and piano

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. Down–adown–derry (Down a down derry)

2. Reverie (When slim Sophia mounts her horse)

3. Captain Lean (Out of the East a hurricane)

4. The Sleeping Beauty (The scent of bramble fills the air), See Solo Songs p. 4

B-P Library, Box 8: MS, full score, ink, 21 pages and title page

See Part Songs – with piano, page 36

Unpublished

Chorus and Orchestra

The Ballad of Gil Morrice, Op 78 (Gil Morrice was a great earl’s son) February – March – April 1934

Mixed chorus and orchestra; 2 flutes (piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 1 trumpet,

1 trombone, cymbals, triangle, harp (or piano), strings or strings and piano

Words adapted into modern English by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Box 8: MS, full score, bound, ink, 54 pages, title page and instrument list, dated May 1934, ‘Op 77’;

MS, full score of version for strings and piano, dated June 1934, 28 pages and title page, ‘Op 77’

Box 1: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 35 pages and title page,

Duration: 30’

Winthrop Rogers 1934 vocal score [BL: F1267m4]

Dedicated to Sir Hugh P. Allen

The Starlighters (When I was out in the evening light) January 1936

Unison voices and string orchestra

Words by Ann Gibbs

B–P Library, Bag Bii: MS, score, dated, title page, set of copyist’s parts

See Unison Songs p. 41

Unpublished

Deborah and Barak, Op 88 August – September – October 1936

Cantata for contralto and baritone soli, mixed chorus and orchestra

Words by Mordaunt Currie (adapted from the book of Judges)

B–P Library, Box 2: MS, vocal score, 46 pages and title page

Duration: 23’

Winthrop Rogers 1937 vocal score [BL: F1269ww4] (‘parts available on hire’)

First performance (?)12 November 1937 by Huddersfield Choral Society (Malcolm Sargent)

Odysseus, Op 90 December 1937 – November 1938

Symphony in 4 movements for soprano and baritone soli, mixed chorus and orchestra:

2 flutes (piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba,

timpani, bass drum, side drum, triangle, cymbals, piano, strings

Words by Mordaunt Currie

1. Escape from Calypso

2. Circe

3. Cyclops

4. The Return

B–P Library, Box 5: MS, vocal score, ink, printer’s copy, 136 pages and title page, and text transcript

Duration: 60’

Boosey & Hawkes 1939 vocal score [BL: F1267u3]

Dedicated to My Wife (Honor)

First performance 3 April 1946 at Newcastle City Hall (Newcastle & Gateshead Choral Union)

Forest Idyll, Op 91 August – October 1939

Cantata for SSA, strings and piano

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Bag Bi: MSS, ink, dated, full score 29 pages and title page, vocal score 31 pages and title page

Duration: about 15’

Unpublished

Before Daybreak, Op 100 (Listen to us, who threatens our purpose?) July – August 1941

Contralto solo, women’s choir, string quartet, strings and piano

Words by Gordon Bottomley

B–P Library, Box 1: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 46 pages, title page, and notes on performance, ‘Op. 101’

MS, pencil, dated, condensed score (voices and string quartet) 37 pages and title page, Bag Bi

Duration: 27’- 28’

Boosey & Hawkes 1941 vocal score [BL: E1592tt6]

Dedicated to H.M.The Queen (in honour of Britain's women in wartime)

First performance May 1942 at Westmorland Music Festival, Kendal

Chorus and Orchestra

A Song of Youth (Beating heart of England, mainspring of our race) March 1942

Unison voices and salon orchestra: flute, oboe, clarinet, timpani, piano, violins 1-3, cello, bass

Words by Mordaunt Currie

B–P Library, Bag Bii: MS, ink, dated, full score 8 pages, copyist’s MS parts and pencil piano version

(with letter from BBC)

Unpublished

Dedicated to The National Association of Boys Clubs

See Unison Songs, p. 41, ‘Heart of Britain’.

The New Jerusalem, Op 119 (Hierusalem, my happy home) 17 January 1948

Female chorus, strings and piano

Words anonymous, from F.P.B, ca. 1580, based on St Augustine

B–P Library, Bag Ci: MS, ink, dated, full score, 18 pages and parts

Duration: 11’

Boosey & Hawkes 1948 vocal score [BL: F217n9]

First performance 1948 at Mothers Union Centenary

See Part Songs – with piano p. 37

Pastoral Suite, Op 123 November/December 1948 – January 1949

Baritone solo, chorus and orchestra

1. Prelude

2. Clock–a–Clay (In the cowslip pips I lie), Words by John Clare, 1857, SSAA

3. Molly Green O’Maldon (Sweet Molly Green of Maldon Town), Words by L. Cranmer Byng, Baritone solo

4. Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay (Waken lords and ladies gay), Words by Joseph Strutt, 1808, SATB

5. Essex (I go through the fields of blue water), Words by Arthur Shirley Cripps, 1906, Baritone solo and SATB

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 41 pages and title page

Duration: 21’

Boosey & Co 1949 vocal score, with tonic sol–fa [BL: F1267x5]

‘This work, specially written for the Colchester Festival of 1951, makes use of poems written in and about Essex

and the music is an expression of the composer’s love for his native county.’

First performance 5 July 1951 at Colchester Festival (Hervey Alan)

In A Dream’s Beguiling, Op 130 1949 - 50

Suite of songs for mezzo–soprano solo (or semi–chorus), women’s choir (SSA), string orchestra and piano

Words by Walter de la Mare

1. The Night Swans (‘Tis silence on the enchanted lake) (printed title page has ‘The Night Song’, in error)

2. The Horn (Hark! Is that a horn I hear)

3. King David (Kind David was a sorrowful man)

4. Melmillo (Three and thirty birds there stood)

5. The Changeling (‘Ahoy! And ahoy!’)

6. Off The Ground (Three jolly farmers once bet a pound)

B–P Library, Box 8: MS, full score, ink, 53 pages and title page

Box 4: MS, vocal score, ink, printer’s copy, 59 pages and title page, text transcript,

Duration: 25’

Boosey & Co 1951 vocal score [BL: E1592zz2]

A Saviour Born, Op 133 December 1952

Christmas cantata for mezzo–soprano solo, SSA chorus, string orchestra and piano or 2 pianos or organ

Words by Benedict Ellis

B–P Library, Bag Cii: MS, ink, dated, vocal score 36 pages and title page

Duration: 24’

OUP 1953 vocal score [BL: F1195d7), Goodmusic 2004 vocal score, full score and instrumental parts

for all versions available on hire

See Stage and Screen, p. 45, ‘The Promised One’

O praise God in his holiness (A Psalm for Coronation Year), Psalm 150 1953

Two, three or four part chorus SA or TB or SAB or SATB, with full orchestra or medium orchestra

or strings and piano

OUP 1953 vocal score (‘orchestral material available on hire’ for all three versions)

‘Specially written for the 1953 Festival of the Federation of Essex Women’s Institutes in honour of the

Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.’

See Church Music p. 22

Chorus and Orchestra

The High Adventure, Op 136 April 1953

Cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets,

3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, piano, strings

Words by Benedict Ellis

1. The Golden Hind (Which of the Kings of this land before Her Majesty), SATB

2.Pastoral (England, her very name is home and anchorage), SSA

OUP 1954 vocal score (strings and piano, optional timpani) [BL: F217n37] See Part Songs – with piano p. 38

3. The Battles of Britain (1588-1940) (Who wants the Rose must have the Thorn), TB & SATB

4. Finale (Chorale) (How good to be alive), SATB See Part Songs – with piano p. 39 ‘This Great Hour’

B–P Library, Bag Bi: MS, ink, dated, 81 pages, printed text, title pages

Duration: about 33’

OUP 1955 vocal score and chorus parts [BL: F1267kk3], Goodmusic 2004 vocal score,

full score and parts available on hire

First performance 6 May 1956 at Albert Hall for National Festival of Schools Music

Behold the Man 1954

Cantata for Passiontide, for tenor and baritone soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets,

2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings or strings and organ (or piano).

Words compiled by Benedict Ellis

Duration: about 55’

OUP 1955 vocal score [BL: E541nn2], and chorus parts [BL: E541nn3], Goodmusic 2004 vocal score,

full score and parts for both versions available on hire

First performance (?)3 April 1955 at St. George's, Hanover Square

See Church Music p. 22

The Fairy Thorn – A Ballad, Op 148 (Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning-wheel) September-October 1956

Female voices, string orchestra and piano

Words by Sir Samuel Ferguson, based on an old Scots legend

B–P Library, Bag Bi: MS, ink, dated, full score 18 pages and title page, voice parts 20 pages and title page (2 copies)

Duration: 11’

Unpublished

The Turning Year *1958

Cantata for mixed voices and orchestra: flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, trumpet, trombone,

Percussion (2 players), strings, piano or strings and piano or piano

Words by Benedict Ellis

1. High Summer

2. In Autumn

3. Fell Winter

4. Spring Song

MS ROB

Duration about 25’

OUP 1958 vocal score [BL: F1267zz2]; Goodmusic 2004 vocal score,

full score and parts for both versions available on hire

Dedicated to the Secondary Schools of the City of Carlisle

First performance 14 May 1958 for Carlisle Schools Music Association

See Part Songs – with Piano, p. 39

Suite Of Songs from the British Isles 1959

1. The Gentle Maiden (Irish, Harold Boulton); baritone solo

2. Men of Harlech (Welsh traditional); TTBB chorus

3. Charlie is my darling (Scottish traditional); junior choirs

4. Loch Lomond (Scottish traditional), SSA chorus

5. King Arthur (English traditional); baritone solo, junior and mixed choirs with orchestra

B-P Library, Bag Bii: MS, pencil, 46 pages; titles from text

See below and Part Songs – with piano – arrangements p. 39

Unpublished

Chorus and Orchestra

Suite Of Songs from the British Isles February 1959

Baritone solo, junior choirs, mixed chorus, orchestra: 2 flutes (piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons,

4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings or strings and piano

1. The Gentle Maiden (Irish, Harold Boulton); baritone solo

2. Charlie is my darling (Scottish traditional); junior choirs

3. Men of Harlech (Welsh traditional); adult male choirs

4. The oak and the ash (English traditional); adult female choirs

5. King Arthur (English traditional); baritone solo, junior and adult choirs

B-P Library, Bag Bii: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, vocal score, 31 pages and title page

Duration: 11’ –12’

Dedicated to Stanford Robinson

First performance 20 June 1959 at BBC Light Music Festival (Owen Brannigan)

OUP 1960, Goodmusic 2004, material for full orchestra or strings and piano available on hire

See above, below and Part Songs – with piano – arrangements p. 39

Suite Of Songs from the British Isles 1959

Baritone solo or semi-chorus, chorus, orchestra: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets,

3 trombones, timpani, percussion, strings; or strings and piano

1. Men of Harlech (Wales), (Hark, I hear the foe advancing); SATB chorus

2. The Gentle Maiden (Ireland, Harold Boulton), (There’s one that is pure as an angel);

baritone solo or small semi–chorus

3. Charlie is my darling (Scotland), (Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling); SATB chorus

4. The oak and the ash (England), (A north country maid up to London once strayed); SSA chorus

5. King Arthur (England), (King Arthur ruled this land); baritone solo or semi–chorus, SATB chorus

B–P Library Bag Bii: MS, ink, condensed orchestral score 31 pages and title page

OUP 1960 vocal score [BL: F1771qq12]; Goodmusic 2004 vocal score,

full score and parts available on hire

See above and Part Songs – with piano – arrangements p. 39

CHURCH MUSIC

Kyrie

No. 1 of Four Settings of the Kyrie *1905

Vincent Music Co 1905 [BL: l600c26]

All Creatures of our God and King, Op 32 (All creatures of our God and King) *1921

Motet for double chorus in 8 parts unaccompanied

Words St Francis of Assisi (translated by Rev. W. H. Draper)

F&B Goodwin [BL: F231jj21]/Curwen 1923 [Church Choralist No. 633] [BL: E1330]

Easter (Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day) *1926

Anthem for SATB unaccompanied

Words by Edmund Spenser

OUP 1926 [Oxford Series of Modern Anthems No. 3] [BL: F1776]; Anglo–American Music 1983 [BL: E9251]

See Church Music p. 23

Thee Will I Love (Thee will I love, my God and King) *1930

Unison with organ

Words by Robert Bridges (paraphrase of Psalm 138)

B–P Library, Bag Cii: MS, ink, printer’s copy, B major, 3 pages, and 2 leaf sheet of transposed organ parts in B@ major

Curwen 1930 [Church Choralist No. 673] [BL: E1330]

See Church Music 1956 pp. 22, 23; Church Music – Hymn Tunes p. 25

Judge Eternal (Judge eternal, throned in splendour) *1930

SATB, tenor lead, with organ

Words by Henry Scott Holland (from The English Hymnal)

B–P Library, Bag Ci: MS, ink, 2 pages (in very poor condition)

Curwen 1930 [Church Choralist No. 674] [BL: E1330]

O God of earth and altar (O God of earth and altar) 1930

SATB, unison lead, with organ

Words by G. K. Chesterton

B–P Library, Bag Cii: MS, ink, printer’s copy, 4 pages (in poor condition)

Curwen 1930 [Church Choralist No. 675] [BL: E1330]

The strife is o’er (The strife is o’er, the battle done) *1931

Words Anonymous, ‘Finita iam sunt praelia’ c. 1695 (translated by Francis Pott)

Anthem for SATB with organ

OUP 1931 [Oxford Easy Anthems S.8] [BL: F4001]; OUP 1957 in The Oxford Easy Anthem Book

Bless the Lord O my soul 1934

Two–part harvest anthem for SA or TB or ST/AB, with organ

Words taken from Psalm 104

OUP 1934 [Oxford Easy Anthems 14] [BL: F1776] OUP 1957 in The Oxford Easy Anthem Book,

See Church Music 1951 p. 21

Now Israel may say, and that truly Op 84 11 February 1936

SATB unaccompanied

Words from The Scottish Psalter, 1650

B–P Library, Box 5: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 11 pages and title page, typescript of text

Boosey & Co 1936 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 8] [BL: F1147]

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F minor 1939

SATB unaccompanied

OUP 1939 [Oxford Church Music No. 491] [BL: F1777e]

Psalm 90, Op 104(1) (Lord, thou hast been our refuge) 30 March 1943

Motet for unaccompanied SATB chorus with optional bass solo,

B-P Library, Box 5: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 11 pages and title page

Duration: about 6’.

Boosey & Co 1943 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 21] [BL: F1147] with tonic sol–fa

Dedicated to Leslie Woodgate

Church Music

Psalm 23, Op 104(2) (The Lord is my shepherd) 2 April 1943

Motet for unaccompanied SATB chorus

B-P Library, Box 5: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, 6 pages and title page

Duration: about 3’30’’

Boosey & Co 1943 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 22] [BL: F1147] with tonic sol–fa

Dedicated to Leslie Woodgate

Psalm 42, Op 104(3) (Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks) 12 April 1943

Motet for unaccompanied SATB chorus

B-P Library, Box 5: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 10 pages and title page,

Boosey & Co 1943 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 23] [BL: F 1147] with tonic sol–fa

Dedicated to Leslie Woodgate

Evening Service In C, Op 107 January – February 1944

SATB with organ

Words – Cantate Domino, Psalm 98 and Deus Misereatur, Psalm 67

B–P Library, Box 3: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 10 pages and title page

Boosey & Co 1945 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 27] [BL: F1147?]

Dedicated to T. Herbert Dobie

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, Op 108 February 1944

Anthem for SATB choir and organ

Words from Ephesians 4 and 5

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages and title page

Boosey & Co 1945 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 26] [BL: F1147] with tonic solfa

A Hymn of Thanksgiving for Victory (Not unto us, most mighty Lord) 23 August 1944

SATB choir, unaccompanied

Words Anonymous

B–P Library, Box 4: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, 8 pages and title page, (‘Paris liberated’)

Boosey & Co 1944 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 25] [BL: F1147] with tonic sol–fa

The Passion according to St. Luke 4 May 1945

Soloists, choir and piano or organ

B–P Library, Bag Cii: MS, vocal score, pencil, dated, 66 pages and title page

Unpublished

Psalm 15 (Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle) 1950

SATB unaccompanied

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, vocal score, ink, 5 pages

Boosey & Co 1950 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 31] [BL: F1147] with tonic sol–fa

Dedicated to William Bush

First performance 29 October 1950 at St. Peter's Church, Chelmsford (Jubilee of William Bush, organist)

A Prayer for Courage (Through all the strivings of this troubled world) 1950

for massed unison singing

Words anonymous

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page

Boosey & Hawkes 1952 with tonic sol–fa [BL: E1830e62]

Bless the Lord O my soul 1951

Harvest anthem for SATB with organ

Words taken from Psalm 104

OUP 1951 [Oxford Series of Modern Anthems No. 129] [BL: F1776]

See Church Music 1934 p. 20

Psalm 121 (I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills) May 1951

Mixed voice choir unaccompanied

B–P Library, Box 6: MS, vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 8 pages,

Boosey & Co 1951 [Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series No. 33] [BL: F1147] with tonic sol–fa

Dedicated to Alfred Higson and The Sale & District Choral Society

Church Music

To God on high September 1951

TTBB

B-P Library, Bag Cii: Copy printed by Morris Motors Male Voice Choir dated 27 September 1953,

2 pages and title page with choir signatures

Unpublished

Dedicated to Morris Motors Male Voice Choir

Except the Lord build the house *1952

Three part song for female voices unaccompanied

Words from Psalm 127

Edward Arnold 1952 [Singing Class Music No. 225] [BL: E802]

O praise God in his holiness (A Psalm for Coronation Year) Psalm 150 1953

Two–part chorus for SA or TB with piano

OUP 1953 [Oxford Choral Songs No. 2230] [BL: F177a]

SA or TB or SAB or SATB with organ [BL: E442w32]

OUP 1957 in The Oxford Easy Anthem Book

Written for The Federation of Women's Institutes for 1953 Festival

See Chorus and Orchestra p. 17

The Lord’s Prayer