| † Five Dream Songs, Op 9 | 1917 |
Soprano and string quartet
Words by Walter de la Mare
- Dream Song
See Solo Songs p. 2 - The Little Green Orchard
See Solo Songs p. 1; Part Songs – with piano p. 35 - Five Eyes
See Solo songs p. 1; Part Songs – unaccompanied p. 31; Part Songs – with piano p. 34 - The Bees’ Song
See Part Songs – with piano p. 34 - 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Unpublished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Unpublished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’, (pic- colo, 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?
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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Unpublished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
- A Child’s Grace (Here a little child I stand)
- A Child’s Epitaph (Here she lies a pretty bud)
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, 2 pages and title page
Unpublished
See Unison Songs p. 40
| 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
MS: B–P Archive, 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: 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
MS: B–P Archive: 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
MS: B–P Archive: 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
| 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