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Detailed information: all solo songs . all unaccompanied partsongs
. all accompanied partsongs
Authors of all works' texts alphabetically
Ah! County guy!
serenade for equal voices, piano
Scott
1919
And will he not come again?
SSAA, piano
William Shakespeare
1914
The blossom
original title Merry merry sparrow (the first line of the poem)
unison, piano
William Blake - Songs of innocence (1789)
Probably late May 1914
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, Wes t Dulwich, London
Dedication: 'inscribed to Miss Pauline Tatiana Wood' [MS only]
Fast, C major [17 bars] (< 1 min)
MS: autograph, part of British Library Add Mss 54352;
one page of 14 stave paper
1929, Augener Ltd, London, plate 16425, 2pp
First performance not known
A child's prayer
SA, piano
M Betham-Edwards
1914
The chimney sweeper
unison, piano
William Blake - Songs of innocence (1789)
1 May 1914
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, Wes t Dulwich, London
Dedication: 'inscribed to my friend Sir Henry Wood' [MS only]
G major - E flat (c 3 mins)
MS: autograph, part of British Library Add Mss 54352;
pp 4-7 of same 8 page folding of 14 stave paper as Piping down the valleys wild
1929, Augener Ltd, London, plate 16424, 6pp; probably bought May 1914
Rights subsequently passed to Galliard and then Novello
First performance not known
Recorded as a solo by Brian Rayner Cook (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Auracle)
Come away, death
TbarB, piano
William Shakespeare
1925
The dream
SSA, piano
William Blake
1914
The echoing green
SSA, piano
William Blake
1914
Fair pledges of a fruitful
tree
SA, piano
Robert Herrick
1919
Recorded by Stoke-on-Trent
Bedford Singers, conductor May Walley (BMS Environs)
The fairy palace
SSA, piano
Michael Drayton
1915
The fly
unison, piano
William Blake - Songs of innocence (1789)
Probably 6 or 7 June 1914
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, Wes t Dulwich, London
Dedicated to 'Miss Pauline Tatiana Wood' [published copy only]
lightly and delicately, rather fast, C major [27 bars] (c 1
min)
MS: autograph, part of British Library Add Mss 54353;
final 3pp of same 8 page folding as The river
1922, Augener Ltd, London, edition 12514/plate 15737, 4pp
First performance unknown
Full fathom five
SSAA, piano
William Shakespeare
1921
Recorded by Stoke-on-Trent
Bedford Singers, conductor May Walley (BMS Environs)
Go, happy rose
SSAA, piano lost
Robert Herrick
1912
Goodbye to summer
SA, piano
William Allingham
1914
Grace for a child
SA, piano
Robert Herrick - Noble numbers (1647) no 95 Another
grace for a child
almost certainly 2 January 1914
at 8 Lidlington Place, Euston, London
Dedicated to 'Miss Pauline Tatiana Wood'
in moderate time, C major [18 bars] (1 min)
'... a two-part easy school song' - HB
MS: autograph now lost
1914, J Curwen & Sons Ltd, London, edition 71439, 2pp
First performance unknown
Recorded by Stoke-on-Trent Bedford
Singers, conductor May Walley (BMS Environs)
The hag
SSAA, piano
Robert Herrick
1912
If I had but two little
wings
SA, piano
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1914
It was a lover and his
lass
SSAA, piano
Shakespeare
1919
The lamb
SSA, piano
William Blake
1914
Laughing song
SSA, piano
William Blake
1914
The little black boy
unison, piano
William Blake - Songs of innocence (1789)
mid to late May 1914, by 27 May
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, Wes t Dulwich, London
Dedication: 'inscribed to my friend Granvilee Bantock' [MS only]
In moderate time and dreamily, A minor - A major [70 bars]
(c 4 mins)
MS: autograph, part of British Library Add Mss 54352;
6pp of 14 stave paper
1929, Augener Ltd, London, plate 16422, 8pp
Rights subsequently passed to Galliard and then Novello
First performance not known
The little boy found
SA, piano
William Blake
1914
The little boy lost
SA, piano
William Blake
1914
Little white lily
SSA, piano
MacDonald
1914
Mine be a cot beside the
hill
SA, piano lost
Rogers
1919
The moon
SA, piano
Gerald Cumberland
End May 1914
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, West Dulwich
The first song Brian set of a poem by Gerald Cumberland (CF
Kenyon)
MS: British Library cat no 54353
Offered to Curwen's, but rejected
First performance not known
The mountain and the
squirrel
unison, piano
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Fable: The mountain and the squirrel
Probably mid April 1914, by 19 April at the
latest
at 14 Wykham Mansions, Wes t Dulwich,London
No dedication
Rather slow - Fast [49 bars] (c 2 mins)
MS: autograph lost
1914, Curwen & Sons, Ltd, London, edition 71455; also in Tonic solfa
edition
First performance not known
Pack clouds away
SSA, piano
Heywood
1919
Piping down the valleys wild
unison, piano
William Blake - Songs of innocence (1789):
Introduction
Probably late April 1914, by 1 May at the
latest
at 14 Wykham Mansions, Wes t Dulwich, London
Dedication: 'inscribed to Master Raymond Bantock' [MS only]
Cmajor (c 2 mins)
MS: autograph, part of British Library Add Mss 54352;
first 3pp of same 8 page folding of 14 stave paper as The chimney sweep
1929, Augener Ltd, London, plate 16423, 4pp; probably bought May 1914
1937, Tonic solfa edition by WG Glock
Rights subsequently passed to Galliard and then Novello
First performance not known
Recorded as a solo by Brian Rayner Cook (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Auracle)
Arrangement: An orchestration of this song, ascribed
to 'Carruthers', is listed in the BBC Music Library Catalogue as among material of th eold
BBC Northern Dance Orchestra. 2.0.2.1-0.0.0.0-hp-str.
Requiem for the rose
SSAA, piano
Robert Herrick
1912
The river
SA, piano
Gerald Cumberland
6 June 1914
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, Wes t Dulwich, London
MS: autograph, part of British Library Add Mss 54353;
first 5pp of same 8 page folding as The fly
First performance unknown
Robin redbreast
unison, piano (?) - lost
author of text unknown
Probably early February 1914, by 28 February at latest
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, West Dulwich
unpublished, though purchased by Novello & Co Ltd,
London
unperformed . not recorded
A song of willow
SSA, piano
William Shakespeare
1914
Spring - sound the flute
SSA, piano
William Blake
1914
Spring, the sweet spring
SA, piano
Thomas Nash
1919
Summer has come, little
children
SA, piano
Gerald Cumberland
Probably first week of June 1914
at 14 Wykeham Mansions, West Dulwich
Dedication: 'Inscribed to my friend, Leonard Furnivall'
In moderate time, lightly and tenderly, D major [57 bars]
(c 2 mins)
MS: autograph missing
1914, J Curwen & Sons, Ltd, London, edition 71436, 8pp inc title and back
First performance not known
To daffodils
SA, piano
Robert Herrick
1919
Under the greenwood tree
SSA, piano
Shakespeare
1919
Violets
SSA, piano
Robert Herrick
1914
What does little birdie say?
unison, piano
Alfred Lord Tennyson - from Sea dreams (1860)
First half of 1914, probably 15 Janaury 1914
Dedication 'to my daughter Olga'
In moderate time, D major, [10 bars with da capo] (c 1 min)
1914, J Curwen & Sons Ltd, London, edition 71439, 1p;
also in Tonic Solfa edition
1938, reprinted in The troubador song-book, part 2, ed J Eason
First performance not known
not recorded
A wish
2 voices, piano lost
1919
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