| Tears, Op 42(1) (Weep you no more, sad fountains) | *1922 |
SATB
Words from John Dowland’s Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, 1603
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, printer’s copy, 2 pages
Curwen 1922 [Choral Handbook No. 1131] [BL: E862]
| A Litany, Op 42(2) (Drop, drop, slow tears) | *1922 |
SATB
Words by Phineas Fletcher
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Ci: ink, printer’s copy, 2 pages
Curwen 1922 [Choral Handbook No. 1132] [BL: E862]
| Cradle Song, Op 42(3) (O my dear heart, young Jesus sweet) | *1922 |
Soprano solo and SATB chorus
Words Anonymous, (Martin Luther, translated by the brothers Wedderburn)
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Ci: ink, printer’s copy, 3 pages
Curwen 1922 [Choral Handbook No. 1130] [BL: E862]; Roberton Publications 1996 [BL: E9252]; Goodmusic 2003
| A Sea Song (To all you ladies now on land) | February 1922 |
TTBB
Words by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 7 pages
Boosey & Co 1922 [Boosey’s Choral Miscellany No. 77 with tonic sol–fa] [BL: F160e]
| Hey Nonny No (Men are fools that wish to die) | *1922 |
Part-song for TTBB
Words: Christchurch MS XVI Century
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, printer’s copy, 2 pages
Curwen 1922 [The Apollo Club No. 589] [BL: F667]
| Come, sleep (Come, sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving) | 1923 |
Part–song for SATB
Words by Beaumont & Fletcher
Edward Arnold 1923 [Arnold’s Choral Music No. 502] [BL: E802a]
| I loved a lass (I loved a lass, a fair one) | 1923 |
Part–song for SATB
Words by George Wither
Edward Arnold 1923 [Arnold’s Choral Music No. 504] [BL: E802a]
| The Old Soldier (There came an Old Soldier to my door) | 1924 |
TTBB
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: ink, printer’s copy, 7 pages,
Curwen 1925 [The Apollo Club No. 620] [BL: F667]
Dedicated to The York Male Voice Choir
| The Silver Penny (Sailorman, I’ll give to you my bright silver penny) | October 1924 |
Chorus for TTBB
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bii: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages (poor condition)
Curwen 1925 [The Apollo Club No. 621] [BL: F667]
| Fol, dol, do (Fol, dol, do, and a south wind blowing) | *1924 |
Chorus for TTBB (from ‘Crossings’)
Words by Walter de la Mare
Curwen 1926 [The Apollo Club No. 630] [BL: F667]
See Stage and Screen p. 43, ‘Crossings’
| New Year’s Eve, Op 57(1) (O Cartmel bells ring soft tonight) | *1926 |
for soprano (or tenor) solo and TTBB chorus
Words by Gordon Bottomley
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: ink, printer’s copy, 8 pages, title page and page of composer’s directions
Curwen 1927 [The Apollo Club No. 645] [BL: F667
| A Song of Soldiers, Op 57(2) (As I sat musing by the frozen dyke) | *1926 |
for soprano (or tenor) solo and TTBB chorus with tenor lead
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bii: ink, printer’s copy, 12 pages and title page
Curwen 1927 [The Apollo Club No. 644] [BL: F667]
| Into Exile (We held his mare at the courtyard gate) (originally ‘Departure at dawn’) | February 1929 |
TTBB chorus
Words by Alan Rae
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages and title page (loose, due to damage)
Curwen 1929 [The Apollo Club No. 659] [BL: F667]
| I may no longer dream (The Garden) | *1929 |
TTBB chorus
Words by Paul England
Curwen 1929 [The Apollo Club No. 665] [BL: F667]
Dedicated to Clifford Bax
| An Old Song Resung (I saw a ship a-sailing) | December 1929 |
TTBB chorus
Words by John Masefield
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 7 pages, in C# major, but note to be printed in C major, with a footnote to say it may be sung in the original key
Curwen 1930 [The Apollo Club No. 672] [BL: F667] Dedicated to Hebden Bridge Male Voice Choir
| The Light of Other Days (Oft in the stilly night) | July 1930 |
Part–song for SATB
Words by Thomas Moore
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages, title page and dedication page
Curwen 1931 [Choral Handbook No. 1258] [BL: E862]
Dedicated to David Yacamini and the Perth Madrigal Society
| Old Age (The seas are quiet when the winds give o’er) | June 1931 |
Solo quartet (or semi–chorus) and SATB chorus
Words by Edmund Waller
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Curwen 1931 [Choral Handbook No. 1271] [BL: E862]
Dedicated to Gavin Kay and the Cecilian Glee Singers
| Tiger, tiger (Tiger, tiger, burning bright) | 1931 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words by William Blake
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 7 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1932 [BL: F163cc37]; tonic solfa edition [BL: D836x9]
| For Music (There be none of beauty’s daughters) | 9-11 December 1931 |
TTBB
Words by Lord Byron
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1948 [BL: F163kk6] with tonic sol–fa
See Part Songs – unaccompanied p. 29 ‘There be none of beauty’s daughters’
| It was a lover and his lass (It was a lover and his lass) | December 1931 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words by Shakespeare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 7 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1932 [BL: F163cc36]
| To Music, to Becalm his Fever (Charm me asleep and melt me so) | December 1931 |
Part–song for SSAA
Words by Robert Herrick
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 7 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1932 [BL: F217e36]
| Andy Battle (Once and there was a young sailor) | *1932 |
Part–song for SATB
Words by Walter de la Mare
Winthrop Rogers 1933 [BL: F585uu36] with tonic sol–fa
| The King’s Men (We be the King’s men, hale and hearty) | 16 January 1933 |
TTBB
Words by Thomas Hardy
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages
Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: F163dd22] with tonic sol–fa
| Adieu (A weary lot is thine, fair maid) | 17 January 1933 |
TTBB
Words by Sir Walter Scott
MS: B–P Archive, Box 1: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages
Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: F163dd21]
| My master hath a garden (My master hath a garden fulfilled with fairest flowers) | 20 January 1933 |
Part–song for SMA
Words Anonymous
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: score. Ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages
Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: F217f4] with tonic sol–fa
| My mistress frowns (My mistress frowns when she should play) | 21 – 23 January 1933 |
Three-part madrigal for SSA
Words anonymous
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: F217f5] with tonic sol–fa
| Now the hungry Lyon rores (Now the hungry Lyon rores) | August 1933 |
SATB
Words by Shakespeare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages and title page
Boosey & Co 1933 [Boosey’s Modern Festival Series No. 458] [BL: F160f] with tonic sol–fa
| Keith of Ravelston (The murmur of the mourning ghost) | September 1933 |
SATB chorus divisi
Words by Sydney Dobell
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 10 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: F585vv14] with tonic sol–fa
| Sledburn Fair (I’ve oft heard tell of this Sledburn Fair) | 1934 |
a. Partsong for TTBB
b. Partsong for SATB
Words anonymous
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: a; ink, dated 13 February, printer’s copy, 6 pages; b: ink, printer’s copy, 6 pages
Boosey & Co 1934, a: [BL: F163ee8], b: [BL F585vv16] with tonic sol–fa
See Solo Songs p. 7
| The Jovial Beggar (There was a jovial beggar) | July 1934 |
TTBB chorus
Words anonymous 17th century
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 7 pages and title page
Winthrop Rogers 1934 [BL: F163ee46] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to The Felling Male Voice Choir
| The Amber Ship | 13 July 1934 |
TTBB, tenor lead
Words by Mordaunt Currie
MS: B–P Archive, Box 1: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Winthrop Rogers 1934 [BL: F163ee43] with tonic sol–fa
| Blow, bugle, blow (Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes ringing) | November 1934 |
TTBB chorus
Words by Alfred Lord Tennyson
MS: B–P Archive, Box 1: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Winthrop Rogers 1935 [BL: F163ee44]
Dedicated to Irving Silverwood and The Holme Valley Male Voice Choir
See Solo Songs p. 9: ‘The Splendour Falls’
| Haunted (Magic of the moon) | 6 November 1934 |
Phantasy for TTBB choir
Words by Mordaunt Currie
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, 7 pages and title page
Winthrop Rogers 1935 [BL: F163ee45] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to Irving Silverwood and The Holme Valley Male Voice Choir
| Dawn shall over Lethe break (Lady, when your lovely head) | 1935 |
Part–song for for SATB divisi
Words by Hilaire Belloc
Winthrop Rogers 1935 [BL: F585xx16] with tonic sol–fa
| Cradle Song (Sleep, sleep, beauty bright) | 12 September 1935 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words by William Blake
MS: B–P Archive, Box 1: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages
Winthrop Rogers 1935 [BL: F163ff25] with tonic sol–fa
| Salathiel Pavy (Weep with me all ye that read) | 1935 |
Part–song for SATB
Words by Ben Jonson
Winthrop Rogers 1935 [BL: F585xx18] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to Sir Hugh Roberton and The Glasgow Orpheus Choir
| Go, lovely rose (Go, lovely rose, tell her that wastes her time and me) | November 30 1935 |
Part song for TTBB
Words by Edmund Waller
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Winthrop Rogers 1936 [BL: F163ff26] with tonic sol–fa
| Hymn To Diana (Queen and huntress, chaste and fair) | 3 April 1936 |
Quartet or chorus TTBB
Words by Ben Jonson
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages and title page
Curwen 1949 [Apollo Club No. 804 with tonic sol–fa] [BL: F667]
| Marston Moor 1644 (Who is on my side, who?) | 3 April 1936 |
for TTBB choir
Words by Mordaunt Currie
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 8 pages and title page
Winthrop Rogers 1936 [BL: F163gg25] with tonic sol–fa
| There be none of beauty’s daughters (There be none of beauty’s daughters) | 16 February 1937 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words by Lord Byron
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages
Winthrop Rogers 1937 [BL: F163gg26] with tonic sol–fa
See Part Songs – unaccompanied p. 27 ‘For Music’
| April (April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter) | November 1937 |
Part–song for SSA
Words by Sir William Watson
MS: B–P Archive, Box 1: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages and title
Winthrop Rogers 1938 [BL: F217h36] with tonic sol–fa
| The Goose (I know an old wife lean and poor) | 27 November 1937 |
Part–song for SSA
Words by Alfred Lord Tennyson
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 11 pages
Winthrop Rogers 1938 [BL: F217h37] with tonic sol–fa
| The Mother’s Lament (Goodman piper, pipe them back) | 16 April 1938 |
Female voice quartet (optional) and chorus
Words by John Drinkwater (from ‘The Pied Piper’)
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1939 [BL: F217i21] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to Tirzah Barnes and Belstead School
| My dear mistress (My dear mistress has a heart) | April 1939 |
Chorus for TTBB
Words by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1939 [BL: F163ii5] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to Colne Valley Male Voice Choir
| Come, sweet lass (Come sweet lass! This bonny weather) | April 1939 |
Chorus for TTBB
Words anonymous (1685)
MS: B–P Archive, Box 1: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 3 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1939 [BL: F163ii4] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to Colne Valley Male Voice Choir
| She is ever for the new (Let her give her hand, her glove) | April 1939 |
Chorus for SATB
Words anonymous (17th century)
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy,
6 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1939 [BL:F1744c14] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to S. L. Riley and his choir
| The Pleasures of Love (How happy the lover) | 26 April 1939 |
Chorus for SATB
Words by John Dryden (1691)
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages
Boosey & Hawkes 1939 [BL: F1744c13]
Dedicated to the Danbury Choral Society
First performance 1939 by Danbury Choral Society
| Old May Song (All in this pleasant evening) | 12 April 1945 |
SATB
Words anonymous
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: score, ink, 8 pages and title page,
Unpublished
| Faery Song (Shed no tear, shed no tear) | 10 October 1945 |
SATB
Words by John Keats
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Bi: ink, dated, 4 pages and title page
Unpublished
| Before Sleeping (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) | February 1946 |
SATB
Words anonymous (17th century)
B–P Library Box 1: MS, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1946 [BL: F1744f31]
Dedicated to my friends of the Danbury Choral Society
First performance 3 March 1947 by Danbury choir
See Solo Song p. 9
| The North Countrie, (After The ’98) (There’s white on the hawthorn and gold on the whin) | 29 June 1947 |
SATB
Words by John Irvine
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages
Boosey & Hawkes 1947 [BL: F1744j8] with tonic sol–fa
First performance 1 March 1948 by Danbury Choral Society
| Mother Carey (As we sailed out of London river) | 30 June 1947 |
SATB
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 4 pages
Boosey & Hawkes 1947 [BL: F1744j7] with tonic sol–fa
First performance 1 March 1948 by Danbury Choral Society
| The Stranger Op 122(1) (In the woods as I did walk) | 4 February 1948 |
SSATBB chorus
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 9 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1948 [BL: F1744j9] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to T B Lawrence and The Fleet Street Choir
See Solo Songs p. 2: No 1 of Five Songs
| Five Eyes, Op 9(3) (In Hans’ old mill his three black cats) | 15 May 1948 |
TTBB, arranged by the composer
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1948 [BL: F163kk5] with tonic sol–fa
See Solo Songs p. 1, other accompaniments p. 12; Part–songs – with Piano p. 34
| Diaphenia (Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly) | 9 June 1948 |
TTBB
Words by Henry Constable
MS: B–P Archive, Box 2: score, ink dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages and title page
Boosey & Hawkes 1948 [BL: F1744j6] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to George Altham and the Nelson Arion Male Voice Choir
| Weep You No More (Weep you no more sad fountains) | *1948 |
TTBB
Words Anonymous, from John Dowland’s ‘Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires’
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: score
Boosey & Hawkes 1948 [BL: F163kk7] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to George Altham and The Nelson Arion Male Voice Choir
| The Listeners (‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller) | June 4-8 1949 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: vocal score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 10 pages and title page
Boosey & Co 1951 [BL: F163bb46] with tonic sol–fa
First performance June 1951 for male choirs in competition at the National Festival
| Three Shakespeare Lyrics No 1: When icicles hang by the wall | 7-8 August 1951 |
TTBB choir
Words by Shakespeare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: ink, dated, 5 pages,
Boosey & Co 1951 [BL: F163kk15] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to T H Mearis and The Felling Male Voice Choir
See Unison Songs p. 42
| Three Shakespeare Lyrics No 2: O mistress mine | 9-10 August 1951 |
TTBB choir
Words by Shakespeare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 5 pages and title page
Boosey & Co 1951 [BL: F163kk14] with tonic sol–fa
Dedicated to T. H. Mearis and The Felling Male Voice Choir
See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 13; Unison songs p. 41
| Three Shakespeare Lyrics No 3: Blow, blow, thou winter wind | 5-6 August 1951 |
TTBB choir
Words by Shakespeare
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: score, ink, dated, printer’s copy, 7 pages and title page
Boosey & Co 1951 [BL: F163kk13]
| She walks in beauty (She walks in beauty, like the night) | *1952 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words by Lord Byron
OUP 1953 [Oxford Choral Songs No. 682] [BL: F1777a]
Dedicated to William Wilde and the Newport (Salop) Male Voice Choir
| What care I? (Shall I, wasting in despair) | *1952 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words by George Wither
OUP 1953 [Oxford Choral Songs No. 683] [BL: F1777a]
| The Glories of Our Blood and State (The glories of our blood and state) | *1952 |
TTBB choir
Words by James Shirley
OUP 1953 [Oxford Choral Songs No 684] [BL: F1777a]
Dedicated to Sankey’s Castle Works Male Voice Choir
| Five Elizabethan Lyrics | *1953 |
Part–songs for SATB
- Devotion; Words Anonymous (Fain would I change that note)
- Fidele; Words by Shakespeare (Fear no more the heat o’ the sun)
- Matin Song; Words by Thomas Heywood (Pack clouds away and welcome day)
- How can the heart forget her? Words Anonymous (How can the heart forget her?)
- A Lover’s Song; Words by William Browne (For her gait, if she be walking)
OUP 1954 [Oxford Choral Songs x 3–7, published separately] [BL: F1777m]
OUP 1994 Nos. 1 and 4 in English Pastoral Partsongs, selected by Paul Spicer
| My sweet sweeting (O my sweeting, my little pretty sweeting) | *1954 |
Part–song for TTBB
Words anonymous (before 1550)
OUP 1955 [Oxford Choral Songs M 4] [BL: F1777m]
Dedicated to Sidney Smith and The Bromley Male Voice Choir
| God be in my head (God be in my head, and in my understanding) (included in ‘The Gift’) | November 1955 |
Words from Pynson’s Horae, 1514; Sarum Primer, 1550
SATB unaccompanied
B–P Library: MS, dated, pencil and ink, 7 pages, Bag C
OUP 1959 [Oxford Choral Songs X 48] [BL: F1777m]
See Part Songs – with piano p. 37; Stage and Screen p. 45 ‘The Gift’
| Tranquility (The moon rides high in silver light) | *1956 |
TTBB
Words by D. A. Chandler
OUP 1957 [Oxford Choral Songs M 6] [BL: F1777m]
Dedicated to Plymouth Clarion Choir