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Unpublished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Unpublished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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag Ci: MS CAG, ink, dated; 2 pages and title page
Unpublished
Two Songs, Op 2 | *1912 |
Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Night (Swiftly walk o’er the western wave)
- 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Unpublished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
MS: B–P Archive, 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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Unpublished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
MS: B–P Archive, 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
Dream Song [originally Op 9(1)] (Sunlight, moonlight, twilight, starlight) | 17 September 1917 |
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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
- Bluebells (Where the bluebells and the wind are), G [d′-g″] MS: B–P Archive, Bag B: ink, dated 20 August 1918
- 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
-
The Stranger, Op 21(2) (In the woods as I did walk), D♭ [d′-g″♭] July 1919 -
The Linnet Op 21 (1) (Upon this leafy bush), G July 1919 -
The Mountains, Op 19 (2) (Still and blanched and cold and lone), G minor February 1918 -
Love in the almond bough, Op 19 (1) (Love in the almond bough), F December 1918 -
The Bells, Op 14 (2) (Shadow and light both strove to be), E♭ March 1918
No. 1 dedicated to Adrian Boult, No, 2 to H.P. Allen, No. 3 to Walter 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
- Ann’s Cradle Song (Now silent falls the clacking mill), C minor′[d♭–e″♭], Novello Album 1
- Araby (Dark-browed Sailor, tell me now), F [e′–f″], Novello Album 1
- Beggar’s Song (Now all the roads to London Town), E minor [b–e″], Novello Album 1
- 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
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
MS: B–P Archive, 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
- In the Spring the runnels flow (In the Spring the runnels flow)
- Upon the grass (Upon the grass as I did sit)
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, 4 pages and title page
Unpublished
The Mad Prince (Who said Peacock Pie?) | 26 February 1921 |
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
Mistletoe (Sitting under the mistletoe) | April 1922 |
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
- 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 - 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
- The Miracle (The fields lay brown on either hand), C [a–e″]
- The wind in your hair (I love you), C [e′–e″]
- Requiescat (Now all the world in peaceful slumber lies), C minor [c′–d″]
- I shall remember (Sigh of wind on a moonless night), C [c′–e″♭]
- 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
-
Neglected moon (Neglected moon, romance and you), E♭nd’, [e′♭–a″♭], Novello Album 2
See Solo Songs – other accompaniments p. 13June 1924 -
Arrogant Poppies (Though people more wise), E minor [g′–g″], Novello Album 2 June 1924 -
The Chains of Love (O woman, fair shape!), B♭ [b♭–e″♭] July 1924 -
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
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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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) | Dec 1925 |
Words by Walter de la Mare
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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) | Jan 1926 |
Words by James Stephens
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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) Words by Gwen Grant | 1927 |
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 6 pages
Curwen 1930 [BL: G117722], G minor [g♭ – e″♭], Thames Century 4
Dedicated to Keith Falkner
Danger (You shall not go a-maying when the thorn is white once more) | 1930 |
Words by Mordaunt Currie
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, printer’s copy, 3 pages
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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: 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
- Down in Yonder Meadow (Here comes a lusty wooer), D minor [c′–f″] dated 15-16 February 1932
- Lily–Bright and shine–a (Lily-bright and shine-a) E minor [e′–g″] dated 1931-32
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: 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
Five Children’s Songs From Peacock Pie | *1932 |
- The Barber’s (Gold locks, and black locks), D[d′–e″]
- Miss T (It’s a very odd thing), G minor [e′♭–e″♭]
- Old Shellover (‘Come’, said Old Shellover), D minor [d′–e″]
- Hide and Seek (Hide and seek, says the wind), E minor [d′–e″]
- Then (Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty), C minor [c′–e″♭]
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: ink, printer’s copy, 8 pages, (with Songs of Childhood Op 76)
Boosey & Hawkes 1933 [BL: G117734]
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
Love’s Prisoner (How sweet I roamed from field to field) | January 1933 |
Words by William Blake
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: 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
- When Arthur first in Court began, Words Anonymous, C minor [a–e″] dated 14 April
- Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Words by William Congreve, G minor [d′–d″] dated 15 April
- If music be the food of love, Words Anonymous, (Henry Heveningham), G♭ [a♭–e″♭] dated 16-17 April
- ‘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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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, 4th century AD, by Arthur Waley
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 2 pages
Boosey & Co/Winthrop Rogers 1934 [BL: G117746], B♭ minor′–f″[c]
Love’s Wisdom (Wise is he, ah, wise is he) | 1 August 1934 |
Words by Mordaunt Currie
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 1: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: 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)
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: 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
- Lorelei’s Song (Pilgrim, forget) (No. 10, 3 pages)
- Jane Eyre’s Song (You take my heart with tears) (No. 7, 2 pages)
- The Doctor’s Song (The good man said ‘Tis time for bed) (No. 15, 4 pages)
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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”
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 7: 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
- Spring (She comes all so gently), B♭ [f′–g″] (originally in G)
- In the Faery Hills (A horn in the distance calling), E♭ [d′–g″]
- The wind comes softly (The wind comes softly), F [e′–f″]
- Moon Magic (A young man comes with silver feet), [e′–g″]
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: ink, dated, printer’s copy, 8 pages and title page
Winthrop Rogers 1938 [BL: G1177a8]
Rest in the Lord (Rest in the Lord, and thou shalt prove) | February 1939 |
Words by Edmund Beale Sargant
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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)
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, voice part only, 1 page
Unpublished
Joan Of Arc, Op 102 | 1942 |
Song Cycle – Five songs for soprano
Words by Mordaunt Currie
- Revelation (Deep woods grown dim), D♭ [c′–g″] dated 13 August
- Victory (Who rides? Who rides? Who hears my call) C minor′–[eg″]
- Crowning (The earth is filled with flowers), A [c′♯-a″] dated 15 August
- Defeat (Fail me not now, O bruised and thwarted heart), A minor [d′–f″] dated 17 August
- Mors Janua Vitae (I am come to be changed), [c′–b″♭] dated 25 August
MS: B–P Archive, Box 4: 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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’
Hidden Treasure (There were rubies red from Pegu), G minor [g (b♭)–d″]Abel Wright (Abel Wright was a joiner’s mate), C [a♭–d″♯]Toll the Bell (A ship went down in the Bay of Bengal), D minor [a–d″]The Golden Ray (O hark, ye lubbers, in a far-off sea), D [b–d″]
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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 |
- 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)
- 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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: ink, dated, 3 pages
Unpublished
Willow Leaves, Op 126 | 1949 |
for tenor voice
Words by John Irvine
Three songs after the Chinese manner
- To Yuan (To the south four provinces away)
- The Dancing Girl (In early dusk I saw her pass alone)
- Meeting With Friends (Through the darkness many lamps are burning)
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 5: 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
MS: B–P Archive, 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
MS: B–P Archive, Box 6: 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
- The Lamb and The Dove (Did any bird come flying), E minor [e′–a♭″], Thames Century 7
- A Birthday (My heart is like a singing bird), C [e′–a″]
- 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
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
MS: B–P Archive, Bag A: 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
MS: B–P Archive, 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. 4)