English Songs 1800-1860
£106.00
Edited by Geoffrey Bush & Nicholas Temperley
First published in 1979
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 16
Weight: 0.981kg
A representative survey of the best of English art songs dating from the Georgian and early Victorian period. The anthology contains neglected material by Attwood, Balfe, Barnett, Hatton, Loder, Pierson, Pinto, Samuel and S S Wesley and others.
Any individual work from this volume is available in printed or digital (PDF) format on request (archive@stainer.co.uk).
CONTENTS
| Composer | Title | Range |
|---|---|---|
| ATTWOOD, Thomas | Coronach: He is gone on the mountain | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (D-F) |
| ATTWOOD, Thomas | Go, lovely rose | Tenor (E-F) |
| ATTWOOD, Thomas | The cold wave my love lies under | Soprano/Tenor (D-G) |
| BALFE, Michael William | Come into the garden, Maud | Tenor (F sharp-G) |
| BALFE, Michael William | The sands of Dee (Oh! Mary go and call the cattle home) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (D-E) |
| BARNETT, John | I arise from dreams of thee | Soprano/Tenor (C-G) |
| BARNETT, John | Ossian’s Glen (In this still place, remote from men) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (C-F) |
| BENNETT, William Sterndale | Gentle zephyr | Baritone (F-E flat) |
| BENNETT, William Sterndale | Indian love (Tell me not that thou dost love me) | Mezzosoprano (F sharp-E) |
| BENNETT, William Sterndale | The past (Wilt thou forget the happy hours) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (E flat-E flat) |
| BENNETT, William Sterndale | To Chloe in sickness (Long, long is the night) | Baritone (F sharp-E) |
| BISHOP, Henry Rowley | By the simplicity of Venus’ doves | Soprano/Tenor (E flat-G) |
| BISHOP, Henry Rowley | Come live with me and be my love | Soprano/Tenor (D-G) |
| BISHOP, Henry Rowley | Take, O take those lips away | Soprano/Tenor (D-F) |
| CLARKE-WHITFELD, John | Here’s the vow she falsely swore | Tenor (F sharp-A) |
| CLARKE-WHITFELD, John | One struggle more, and I am free | Baritone (C-F) |
| CLARKE-WHITFELD, John | What voice is this? | Soprano/Tenor (D sharp-G) |
| HATTON, John Liptrot | The Hag | Soprano/Tenor (C sharp-A) |
| HATTON, John Liptrot | To Anthea, who may command him anything (Bid me to love) | Baritone (D sharp-E) |
| LODER, Edward James | Dirge: Rough wind that moaneth loud | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (D-D) |
| LODER, Edward James | I heard a brooklet gushing | Soprano/Tenor (E flat-G) |
| LODER, Edward James | Invocation to the deep (What hid’st thou in thy treasure caves and cells) | Soprano/Tenor (D-G) |
| LODER, Edward James | The Lamentations (The beauty of Israel is slain upon high) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (B sharp-F sharp) |
| LODER, Edward James | Wake, my love, all life is stirring | Tenor (G flat-B flat) |
| MACFARREN, George A. | Separation | Mezzosoprano (C sharp-G flat) |
| MACFARREN, George A. | The widow bird (A widow bird sat mourning for her love) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (F sharp-G) |
| PIERSON, Henry Hugo | All my heart’s thine own | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (C-F sharp) |
| PIERSON, Henry Hugo | Fear no more the heat of the sun | Alto/Bass (G-D) |
| PIERSON, Henry Hugo | John Anderson, my jo | Mezzosoprano (C sharp-F sharp) |
| PIERSON, Henry Hugo | Love and grief (Take, oh take those lips away) | Tenor (F-A) |
| PIERSON, Henry Hugo | The White Owl (When cats run home and light is come) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (C-E) |
| PIERSON, Henry Hugo | Those evening bells | Soprano/Tenor (E flat-A flat) |
| PINTO, George Frederick | Eloisa to Abelard (Soon as the letters trembling I unclose) | Mezzosoprano (D-G) |
| PINTO, George Frederick | From thee, Eliza, I must go | Baritone (D-F) |
| PINTO, George Frederick | Invocation to Nature (Nature! sweet mistress of the pensive mind) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (D-F) |
| WALLACE, William Vincent | Cradle Song (Sweet and low) | Alto (A-C sharp) |
| WESLEY, Samuel | Might I in thy sight appear | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (D-F) |
| WESLEY, Samuel | What shaft of fate’s relentless power | Soprano/Tenor (A-A) |
| WESLEY, Samuel Sebastian | By the rivers of Babylon (We sat down and wept by the waters) | Mezzosoprano/Baritone (D-F sharp) |
| WESLEY, Samuel Sebastian | Collect for the Third Sunday in Advent (Lord Jesus Christ) | Baritone/Bass (G-B flat) |