Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS

Song Writers, Editors and Librettists – All Collections

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Bagnal, (Rev.) E. (19th c.) English

The Tyrolese evening hymn  / Harriet Browne  > Fraser L40/22

Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851) Scottish

The chouch & crow to roost are gone: glee for 3 vv  / Henry Bishop  > Fyvie FLC-26/24

Ball, William (19th c.) English

The daughter's song to her mother  / Thomas Cooke  > Drum Dr 28/22

The goatherd's boy: song  / Franz Stockhausen  > Newhailes NH 40/21

The merry mountain boy: ballad  / Ignaz Moscheles  > Drum Dr 29/5

Le retour des fiancés ('Ouvrez! Ouvrez!'): Andalusian bolero [sung]  / Josef Dessauer  > Drum Dr 42/26

The Swiss boy: ballad  / Ignaz Moscheles  > Drum Dr 29/11

Balòcchi, Giuseppe Luigi (1766-1832) Italian

Thy fears dispel: duet  / Gioachino Rossini  > Fraser G12/20

Barateau, Émile (1792?-1870) French

Deux langages: chansonnette  / Paul Henrion  > Fraser L04/3

Le retour des promis: sung bolero  / Josef Dessauer  > Drum Dr 41/1

Barnett, Morris (1800-1856) English

My beautiful Rhine: ballad  / Herr Helstig  > Drum Dr 25/19

Bartholomew, William (1793-1867) English

Arise, Elijah [and] O rest in the Lord: recit. & aria  / Felix Mendelssohn  > Drum Dr 38/1

Home, far away (by Mendelssohn): voc. duet  / William Bartholomew  > Newhailes NH 42/7

Tears of love: duet  / F Otto  > Newhailes NH 42/6

Bayley, Frederick William Naylor (1808-1853) English

He never said he loved: ballad  / G A Hodson  > Drum Dr 34/15

I stood amid the glittering throng: ballad  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 29/32

Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839) English

Come dwell with me: duet  / G A Hodson  > Drum Dr 22/27

The Grecian daughter: ballad  / Joseph Philip Knight  > Drum Dr 28/13

I'd be a butterfly!: ballad  / Thomas Haynes Bayly  > Drum Dr 21/18

In happier hours!: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 21/19

Isabel!: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 32/17

Isabel!: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 29/3

Isle of beauty, fare thee well!: ballad  / Thomas A Rawlings  > Newhailes NH 77/92

Isle of beauty, fare thee well!: song  / Charles Shapland Whitmore  > Drum Dr 21/20

It is not on the battle field: song  / Thomas A Rawlings  > Drum Dr 21/21

The last green leaf: ballad  / B G H Gibson  > Drum Dr 21/22

Long, long ago!: ballad  / Thomas Haynes Bayly  > Drum Dr 45/17

The missletoe bough: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 29/22

O leave me to my sorrow: ballad  / John Stevenson  > Drum Dr 32/24

Of what is the old man thinking: ballad  / Joseph Philip Knight  > Newhailes NH 42/12

Oh! No, we never mention her, 3rd ed.: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 21/28

Oh! No, we never mention her: song  / Henry Bishop  > Newhailes NH 39/10

The Old house at home: ballad  / Edward Loder  > Fraser L21/2

The old house at home: ballad  / Edward Loder  > Drum Dr 28/15

Round my own pretty rose: ballad  / George Alexander Lee  > Drum Dr 26/33

She never blamed him, never!: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 21/29

She wore a wreath of roses: ballad  / Joseph Philip Knight  > Drum Dr 26/28

The soldier's tear: ballad  / George Alexander Lee  > Drum Dr 29/13

Teach me to forget: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 34/35

Up! March away: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 21/43

We met!: ballad  / Thomas Haynes Bayly  > Drum Dr 29/17

Welcome me home: ballad  / Thomas Haynes Bayly  > Drum Dr 29/2

Beattie, James (1735-1803) Scottish

Ah, why thus abandon'd? : Scotch song  / Tommaso Giordani  > Newhailes NH 76/7

Beauplan, Amédée de (1790-1853) French

Dormez, dormez, chères amours: nocturne for 1 or 2 vv  / Amédée de Beauplan  > Fyvie FLC-16/2

Beddome, Benjamin (1718-1795) English

Adeste fideles: [duet?]  / Anon.  > Fyvie FLC-10/8

Bellamy, William Henry (1800-1866) English

The exile's lament: [song]  / William Henry Bellamy  > Drum Dr 38/7

Quando miro quel bel ciglio (Though I watch the light that dances): [canzonetta]  / W A Mozart  > Fraser G11/32

Say, what shall my song be tonight!: ballad  / Joseph Philip Knight  > Drum Dr 37/12

Bellchambers, E. L. (or E. N.) (19th c.) English

The soldier's last sigh: ballad  / G A Hodson  > Fyvie FLC-17/10

Bellchambers, Juliet (19th c.) English

The spell is broken - we must part: ballad  / Juliet Bellchambers  > Drum Dr 26/35

Bennati, Francesco (1798-1834) Italian

Mia cara, mio bene: duettino  / Francesco Bennati  > Fyvie FLC-16/10

Bennett, Alfred William (1805-1830) English

'Mozart's' "Vergiss mein nicht" (Forget me not): song with piano  / A W Bennett  > Drum Dr 29/26

Bennett, James (19th c.) English

A practical Introduction to part and sight singing, Pt 1  / James Bennett  > Fraser L16/1

Béranger, Pierre-Jean de (1780-1857) French

Eh! Vogue ma nacelle: barcarolle  / Auguste Panseron  > Newhailes NH 40/3

Berio di Salsa, Francesco Maria (1765-1820) Italian

Sarà l'alma delusa: voc. trio  / Gioachino Rossini  > Fyvie FLC-16/19

Ti parli l'amore: terzet  / Michele Mortellari  > Fraser G10/7

Bernard, Joseph Carl (c1781-1850) Austrian

Faust: libretto  / Louis Spohr  > Fraser N/6

Berrettoni, Arcangelo (19th c.) Italian

All'idea che reo non sono: aria  / Marco Aurelio Marliani  > Newhailes NH 41/7

Il contrabbandiere: duetto  / Vincenzo Gabussi  > Drum Dr 26/11

Il gondolier tranquillo: barcarole  / Marco Aurelio Marliani  > Newhailes NH 41/9

Quando il di fra l'ombre incerto: preghiera  / Marco Aurelio Marliani  > Newhailes NH 41/6

Reo di colpe ognum me vuole: tyrolienne (for tenor & piano)  / Marco Aurelio Marliani  > Newhailes NH 41/8

Rizzio, Rizzio: duettino  / Vincenzo Gabussi  > Drum Dr 41/9

La ronda: duet for sop. & contr.  / Vincenzo Gabussi  > Drum Dr 26/9

Berry, William (19th c.) English

When all we have lov'd: duet  / Joseph Philip Knight  > Newhailes NH 41/27

Bertati, Giovanni (1735-1815) Italian

Deh! ti conforta o cara!: duet  / Domenico Cimarosa  > Fraser G10/16

Le faccio un inchino: terzetto  / Domenico Cimarosa  > Drum Dr 42/25

Le faccio un inchino: terzet  / Domenico Cimarosa  > Fraser G10/15

No, non credo : duetto  / Domenico Cimarosa  > Fyvie FLC-16/7

Occhietto furbetto che cosa mi hai detto: duet  / Vicente Martín y Soler  > Newhailes NH 75/6

Bertola, G. B. (19th c.) Italian

La mammola : romanzetta  / Aristide Verri  > Fyvie FLC-17/39

Betham, Mary Matilda (1776-1852) English

I ponder many a silent hour: song  / William Walsh  > Drum Dr 03/32

Bétourné, A (19th c.) French

Les souvenirs du pays: tyrolienne  / Amédée de Beauplan  > Drum Dr 34/23

Bickerstaffe, Isaac (1733-1812?) Irish

The airs in the comic opera of Love in a Village: set for guitar  / Thomas Arne  > Brodie Br 04/4

Come live with me and be my Love: song  / Thomas Arne  > Fraser C08/8

Dear charmer when the harp I strung: polonaise  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 05/14

Love in a village: comic opera  / Thomas Arne  > Newhailes NH 16/1

The Maid of the Mill (comic opera): for voice, harpsichord or violin  / Samuel Arnold  > Brodie Br 02/1

The Maid of the Mill (comic opera): for guitar  / Samuel Arnold  > Brodie Br 04/6

The songs in the comic opera of The Padlock:: for guitar  / Charles Dibdin  > Brodie Br 05/1

When thou art absent, charming maid: song  / William Shield  > Newhailes NH 52/8

Bidera, Giovanni Emanuele (1784-1858) Italian

Ecco il pegno ch'io le porsi: aria  / Gaetano Donizetti  > Drum Dr 39/5

Or che in Cielo: barcarole  / Gaetano Donizetti  > Fraser G11/28

Or che in Cielo: barcarole  / Gaetano Donizetti  > Newhailes NH 77/58

Billington, Elizabeth (c1768-1818) Anglo-German

Ah, will no change of clime: song  / Giovanni Paisiello  > Brodie Br 17/11

Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855) English

And has she then fail'd in her truth: rondo  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 05/26

The blind minstrel: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 03/37

He is all the world to me: song  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 03/27

Loch na Garr: air with piano or harp  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 03/40

My dark-eyed maid : ballad  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 05/21

A soldier's gratitude: air  / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 05/18

Blackwood, Helen Selina (Lady Dufferin) (1807-1867) Anglo-Irish

The Irish emigrant: song  / George Barker  > Drum Dr 37/29

Katey's letter: Irish song  / Helen Blackwood  > Fraser L08/12

Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794) English

The siller crown: song   / Henry Bishop  > Newhailes NH 76/14

The waefu' heart: song  / Anon.  > Fraser C04/15

Blanchard, Edward Litt Leman (1820-1889) English

A norrible tale of the suicidial family: song  / Unidentified Composers   > Fraser L39/26

Bland, John (1750-1840) English

The Ladies Collection of Catches, Glees, Canons, &c no. 48  / Various Composers  > Brodie Br 28/2

Blizard, Sir William (1743-1835) English

Trafalgar, an heroic song  / Charles Frederick Horn  > Fraser C17/5

Boddington, Mrs (d. c1868) English

The lover's warning: duet  / Hamilton Aidé  > Fraser L40/23

Bourdillon, P.W. (19th c.) Unknown

The night has a thousand eyes: song  / Frank Lambert  > Newhailes NH 77/74

Braham, John (1774-1856) English

The bewildered maid: ballad  / John Braham  > Drum Dr 03/30

Is there a heart that never lov'd : ballad  / John Braham  > Leith Hall LHM 08/14

Rest, weary traveller: duet  / John Braham  > Leith Hall LHM 08/24

Brandling, Miss (19th c.) English

A sister's smile: ballad  / Miss Brandling  > Drum Dr 37/4

Brandon, Isaac (19th c.) Irish

The bewildered maid: ballad  / John Braham  > Leith Hall LHM 08/11

Sad, sad is my breast: song  / William Reeve  > Drum Dr 03/39

Brough, William (1826-1870) English

A norrible tale of the suicidial family: song  / Unidentified Composers   > Fraser L39/26

Broughton, Thomas (1704-1774) English

Hercules: oratorio in score  / George Frideric Handel  > Brodie Br 08/1

Brown, Thomas (18th-19th c.) English

Why, o'er thy pale cheek?: ballad   / R Tevendale  > Drum Dr 03/18

Browne, Edward Noyce (19th c.) English

Blame not the heart: ballad  / Violetta (pseud.)  > Fraser L40/11

Bruce, Charles Lennox Cumming (1790-1875) Scottish

My own romantic land: song  / Zeta (pseud.)  > Drum Dr 45/25

Bunn, Alfred (1796-1860) English

At Morn upon the beach I stood: ballad  / Julius Benedict  > Drum Dr 41/14

By the sad sea waves: ballad  / Julius Benedict  > Newhailes NH 42/10

By the sad sea waves: ballad  / Julius Benedict  > Drum Dr 41/22

Gone is the calmness from my heart: ballad  / Vincent Wallace  > Fraser L04/25

I am thine, only thine!: song  / Julius Benedict  > Drum Dr 37/23

The light of other days: ballad  / Michael Balfe  > Newhailes NH 41/22

The light of other days: ballad  / Michael Balfe  > Fyvie FLC-17/12

The light of other days: ballad  / Michael Balfe  > Drum Dr 35/23

Oh weep not, fair maid: duet   / Michael Balfe  > Newhailes NH 41/21

Then you'll remember me: ballad  / Michael Balfe  > Fraser L04/24

Then you'll remember me: ballad  / Michael Balfe  > Drum Dr 41/13

We may be happy yet: ballad  / Michael Balfe  > Drum Dr 41/19

Buonaiuti, Serafino (19th c.) Italian

Papà, the favourite canzonetta: for harp or piano  / Jean Elouis  > Fraser C18/12

Papà: canzonetta  / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari  > Drum Dr 10/21

Tralle foreste: cavatina  / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari  > Fraser C01/10

Tristarella tu non m'Intendi: duet  / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari  > Fraser C01/8

Vieni, o sonno: terzet  / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari  > Fraser G05/5

Burgoyne, John (1722-1792) English

The Lord of the Manor Op. 12: comic opera  / William Jackson  > Newhailes NH 29/16

Burney, Charles (1726-1814) English

Theoretical and practical study for the pianoforte, nos. 1-5,7  / Johann Bernhard Logier  > Newhailes NH 58/5

Burney, F.H. (fl.1829-1852) English

The Musical Bijou for 1830: an album of music, poetry and prose  / Various Composers  > Newhailes NH 26/1

Burns, Robert (1759-1796) Scottish

Afton water: Scottish song (solo)  / Alexander Hume  > Fraser L39/2

Auld lang syne  / Trad.  > Fyvie FLC-26/17

Ay waking O!: song  / James Dewar  > Drum Dr 29/15

The birks of Aberfeldy: ballad  / Mrs Philip Millard  > Drum Dr 29/9

Bonnie wee thing: for piano  / Finlay Dun  > Drum Dr 26/19

Kenmure's on and awa': Scottish ballad  / Miss Scott  > Newhailes NH 65/18

Klein Anna Kathrin Op. 23 no. 2: Gesang (Sop.)  / Franz von Holstein  > Newhailes NH 77/70

Logan Water : song with piano  / Finlay Dun  > Drum Dr 25/6

My Fanny dear: song  / John Whitaker  > Drum Dr 03/15

My heart is sair for somebody: for piano  / Finlay Dun  > Drum Dr 26/15

O this is no my ain lassie: Scotch song  / Anon.  > Fyvie FLC-10/21

O wert thou in the cauld blast: Volkslied  / Felix Mendelssohn  > Fraser G12/1

Of a' the airts: song  / Finlay Dun  > Drum Dr 28/6

Phillis the Fair: song  / William Knyvett  > Fraser C17/7

The Scots musical museum vol. 3: Scottish songs  / Various Composers  > Brodie Br 25/1

A select collection of original Scottish airs, 2nd set  / Leopold Kozeluch  > Drum Dr 13/2

A select collection of original Scottish airs, 3rd set  / Leopold Kozeluch  > Drum Dr 11/1

A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 1  / Ignaz Pleyel  > Leith Hall LHM 01-4/1

A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 1-2  / Ignaz Pleyel  > Newhailes NH 36/1

A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 2  / Ignaz Pleyel  > Leith Hall LHM 01-4/2

A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 3  / Joseph Haydn  > Leith Hall LHM 01-4/3

A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 3-4  / Joseph Haydn  > Newhailes NH 37/1

A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 4  / Joseph Haydn  > Leith Hall LHM 01-4/4

The songs of Burns with symphonies and accompaniments  / J Kenyon Lees  > Drum Dr 48/1

Butturini, Mattia (1752-1817) Italian

Con quel'occhietto languido: duet  / Peter Winter  > Fraser C17/13

Oppressa mi sento: scena & rondo  / Sebastiano Nasolini   > Fraser E03/13

Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824) Anglo-Scottish

Farewell if ever fondest prayer: song  / André Schulz  > Newhailes NH 41/28

One struggle more: ballad  / Mrs Robert Arkwright  > Newhailes NH 41/24

One struggle more: ballad  / Mrs Robert Arkwright  > Drum Dr 35/6

The secret: song  / Annie J F Harrison  > Fraser L40/21

There be none of beauty's daughters: song  / Philip Knapton  > Drum Dr 45/29

There be none of Beauty's daughters: song  / T M Mudie  > Fraser L04/21

Byron, Henry James (1835-1884) English

The Continong: [song]  / W M Lutz  > Fraser L39/14

164 works from All Collections by 55 song writers/librettists with surname beginning 'B'