Music at Newhailes House

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



Song Writers, Librettists & Editors – Newhailes House

Monday 6th October 2025

For song writers &c listed separately in the Notes to the Newhailes House collection see the Song Writer Supplement
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Andrews, Miles Peter (1742-1814)English

The friend of my heart: song / Harriett Abrams   NH 38/9

The shade of Henry: song / Harriett Abrams   NH 38/12

A smile and a tear: song / Harriett Abrams   NH 38/10

Anelli, Angelo (1761-1820)Italian

Cesse al fin la tempesta [and] Ma dov'è: recit. & cavatina / N-C Bochsa   NH 40/11

Anon.

The ballad of William and Nancy / Harriett Abrams   NH 38/8

O pescator dell'onda, Fidelin! (Venetian canzonet): 2 voices with piano or harp / Trad.   NH 02

Les Psaumes de David / Anon.   NH 04

Song of the gold-digger's bride / Anon.   NH 77/61

Atterbury, Luffman (1740-1796)English

Lads and lassies hither come: round for 3 voices / Luffman Atterbury   NH 14/5

Aventi, Francesco (1779-1885)Italian

T'abbraccio, ti stringo, mio tenero figlio: cavatina (for high voice & piano) / Gioachino Rossini   NH 63/15

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Ball, William (19th c.)English

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

Bartholomew, William (1793-1867)English

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

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

Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839)English

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

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

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

Beattie, James (1735-1803)Scottish

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

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

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

Berrettoni, Arcangelo (19th c.)Italian

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

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

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

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

Berry, William (19th c.)English

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

Bertati, Giovanni (1735-1815)Italian

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

Bickerstaffe, Isaac (1733-1812?)Irish

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

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

Bidera, Giovanni Emanuele (1784-1858)Italian

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

Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)English

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

Blaze, François-Henri-Joseph ('Castil-Blaze') (1784-1857)French

Du peuple qui t'adore, Seigneur: for 1, 2 or 3 vv. / Gaetano Andreozzi   NH 39/5

Six nocturnes en canon: terzets / Gaetano Andreozzi   NH 39/4

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

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

Bunn, Alfred (1796-1860)English

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

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

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

Burgoyne, John (1722-1792)English

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

Burney, Charles (1726-1814)English

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

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

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

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)Scottish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C

Carpenter, Joseph Edwards (1813-1885)English

Beautiful Venice: duetto / Joseph Philip Knight   NH 42/4

Dream on, young hearts: song / Nathan James Sporle   NH 42/9

Claribel (1830-1869)English

The blue Alsatian mountains: song / Stephen Adams   NH 77/47

Cobb, James (1756-1818)English

The Haunted Tower (comic opera): voc. score / Stephen Storace   NH 10/2

Cole, (Revd Mr) (18th-19th c.)English

Senza di te, Maria fair: song / Joseph Corfe   NH 75/8

Colman, George (the Younger) (1762-1836)English

Mynheer Vandun: glee for 3 voices / Henry Bishop   NH 41/32

Oh the moment was sad (Savourna delish): song / Samuel Arnold   NH 49/1

The overture, songs &c in The Battle of Hexham or Days of Old Op. 32: vocal score / Samuel Arnold   NH 10/1

Cook, Eliza (1818-1889)English

The old armchair: song / Henry Russell   NH 42/27

Cooke, Robert (1768-1814)English

Nine glees and two duets Op. 5 / Benjamin Cooke   NH 14/2

Cory, William Johnson (1823-1892)English

Eton boating song / Algernon Drummond   NH 77/91

Cowper, William (1731-1800)English

The rose had been wash'd: song / J W Hawkins   NH 42/1

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Davis, Eliza (19th c.)English

Ruth: song / Eliza Davis   NH 41/16

Dibdin, Charles Jr (1768-1833)English

Let not hope deceive you: for soprano / Henry Bishop   NH 65/15

Dudley, Sir Henry Bate (1745-1824)English

The Travellers in Switzerland: comic opera / William Shield   NH 14/1

E

Eardley-Wilmot, Dorothy (1883-1970)English

Fairyland : song / Vere Smith   NH 77/87

Eldée, Lilian (1870-1904)English

The swing song: duet / André Messager   NH 77/78

Ã

Étienne, Charles-Guillaume (1778-1845)French

Dans un délire extrème: romance / Nicolas Isouard   NH 40/1

F

Fitzball, Edward (1792-1873)English

The banks of the blue Moselle : ballad / G Herbert Rodwell   NH 40/24

Lo the early beam of morning: quartet / Michael Balfe   NH 41/20

'Twas in that garden beautiful : ballad / Michael Balfe   NH 41/18

When I beheld the anchor weigh'd: ballad / Michael Balfe   NH 41/19

G

Gay, John (1685-1732)English

Acis and Galatea: voc. sc. / George Frideric Handel   NH 43

Gilbert, W. S. (1836-1911)English

H.M.S. Pinafore: piano solo / Arthur Sullivan   NH 77/36

Gilfillan, Robert (1798-1850)Scottish

Oh! Why left I my hame?: song / Richard Shrivall   NH 42/16

Gilm, Hermann von (1812-1864)Austrian

All Souls Day Op. 85 No. 3: [song] / Eduard Lassen   NH 78/13

Giovannini, Pietro (18th c.)Italian

Lungi dal caro bene: aria with harp / Luigi Marchesi   NH 63/16

Giustiniani, Girolamo Ascanio (1697-1749)Italian

Qual'anelante cervo che fugge (Estro poetico-armonico - Psalm 41): voc. duet / Benedetto Marcello   NH 39/15

Goethe, J. W. van (1749-1832)German

The conflict's o'er (Werter to Charlotte): for harpsichord or piano / James Hook   NH 29/12

Why dost thou awake me?: song of Ossian / James Hook   NH 29/11

Goodeve, Mrs. Arthur (1848-1916)English

Together: song / Mrs Arthur Goodeve   NH 77/63

Grafton, Gerald (b.1860)Scottish

I love a lassie (Ma Scotch bluebell): song (low v.) / Harry Lauder   NH 77/75

Gray,William Henry (1825-1908)Scottish

The woodman and the old kirk tree: [song] / John C Grieve   NH 77/65

Greenbank, Percy (1878-1968)English

The swing song: duet / André Messager   NH 77/78

H

Hamilton, Newburgh (1691-1761)Irish

Let the bright seraphim: aria / William Horsley   NH 41/13

Hansell, John (19th c.)English

All round my hat (comic song): for baritone & piano / John Valentine (19th c.)   NH 64/24

Hawkins, Mr (18th-19th c.)English

The maid of Martindale: song / James Hook   NH 75/9

Heber, Reginald (1783-1826) English

The widow of Nain: song / Anon.   NH 42/20

Hemans, Mrs Felicia Dorothea (1793-1835)English

Ave Sanctissima (Evening song to the Virgin): duet / Harriet Browne   NH 40/22

The better land: [for high voice & piano] / Charles Hodgson   NH 41/15

The hour of prayer: song / Sydney Nelson   NH 77/81

Hymn of the Vaudois mountaineers: voc. score / Mrs David Drummond   NH 77/60

The lyre and flower [and] Oh ye voices gone: solo and duet / Lady Helen Forbes   NH 42/25

Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)English

Gaffer Gray: ballad / John Spencer   NH 38/7

Hook, James (1746-1827)English

The conflict's o'er (Werter to Charlotte): for harpsichord or piano / James Hook   NH 29/12

A favourite collection of songs sung at Vauxhall Gardens 1784 / James Hook   NH 29/5

The Poll Booth Op. 34: musical entertainment / James Hook   NH 29/4

A second collection of songs sung at Vauxhall Gardens 1783 / James Hook   NH 29/7

A second collection of songs sung at Vauxhall Gardens 1784 / James Hook   NH 29/6

Why dost thou awake me?: song of Ossian / James Hook   NH 29/11

J

Jannetti, Francesco (1812-1855)Italian

La bella del soldato: duetto romanesco / Unidentified Composers    NH 77/50

Jaxone, H. L. D'Arcy (d. 1915)English

Laddie: song / Ciro Pinsuti   NH 77/84

Jennens, Charles (1700-1773)English

O thou that tellest: recit. & air / William Horsley   NH 42/8

Rejoice greatly: voc. score (low voice) / W H Callcott   NH 77/69

Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)English

From Oberon, in Fairy land: glee for 4 voices / Richard John Samuel Stevens   NH 14/8

Judge, John 'Jack' (1872-1938)English

It's a long, long, way to Tipperary: song / Jack Judge    NH 77/71

L

Lauder, Harry (1870-1950)Scottish

I love a lassie (Ma Scotch bluebell): song (low v.) / Harry Lauder   NH 77/75

Lehmann, Amelia (1830-1908)English

Gates of the West: song / Caroline Lowthian   NH 77/76

Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)English

The orphans' prayer: ballad / Harriett Abrams   NH 38/11

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)American

Footsteps of angels: [song] / Anon.   NH 77/64

Lorenzi, Giambattista (1721-1807)Italian

Il mio ben quando verra: cavatina (for mezzo & piano) / Giovanni Paisiello   NH 63/19

Louis XVI, King of France (1754-1793)French

Resignation: song / Samuel Webbe Sr   NH 52/7

Lover, Samuel (1797-1868)Anglo-Irish

Oh! Native music: ballad / Samuel Lover   NH 42/26

M

Mackay, Charles (1814-1889)Scottish

The ship on fire: scena / Henry Russell   NH 42/24

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea-foam: song / Henry Russell   NH 42/15

Macpherson, James (1736-1796)Scottish

Chief of the windy Morven: glee for 3 vv. with piano duet / J W Callcott   NH 38/1

Malan, César (1787-1864)Swiss

Cantiques chrétiens nos. 25-36: for 2 or 3 vv with organ, piano or harp / César Malan   NH 77/77

Marzials, Theo (1850-1920)English

A creole love song / Mrs Lynedoch Moncrieff   NH 77/80

Merelli, Bartolomeo (1794-1879)Italian

Presso un ruscello limpido: romance / Nicola Vaccai   NH 40/8

Metastasio, Pietro (1698-1782)Italian

Ogni zeffiro che spira: canzoncina / Nicola Vaccai   NH 63/14

Ombre amene, amiche piante: duettino notturno (arietta) / Venanzio Rauzzini   NH 65/13

Titus (La Clemenza di Tito): opera / W A Mozart   NH 08

Milton, John (1608-1674) English

The Morning Hymn: cantata / Philip Hart   NH 27/4

Mold, Charles (19th c.)English

The swallows: song / Franz Abt   NH 77/46

Montgomery, James (1771-1854)Scottish

Meet again!: duet / Henry Bishop   NH 42/5

Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)English

Here's the bower: ballad for (medium) voice & piano / Thomas Moore   NH 61/22

Oh! Fair as the sea flower: ballad / Thomas Welsh   NH 61/20

Oh! Remember the time: Spanish air / Thomas Moore   NH 65/17

They tell me thou'rt the favour'd guest: ballad / Michael Balfe   NH 42/11

The Tyrolese song of liberty, a national air: for (high) voice & piano / Thomas Moore   NH 65/16

Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)English

Blow, gentle gales : glee for 5 voices / Henry Bishop   NH 41/33

N

Nicoll, Robert (1814-1837)Scottish

Bonnie Bessie Lee: song / Trad.   NH 42/19

Norton, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877)English

The blind man's bride: ballad / Augusta Cowell   NH 42/14

They bid me forget thee!: ballad / Helen Blackwood   NH 42/21

O

O'Callaghan, G. (19th c.)

O, Let me hear that voice again: ballad / G O'Callaghan   NH 41/25

O'Hara, Kane (1711/12-1782)Irish

Push about the jorum: song / Kane O'Hara   NH 76/12

O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)Irish

The Wicklow Mountains : comic opera / William Shield   NH 11/2

Onslow (Mrs) (19th c.)English

Josephine to Napoleon: ballad / Mrs Onslow   NH 42/17

P

Palomba, Giuseppe (fl.1765–1825)Italian

Pandolfetto graziosetto: duet / Giovanni Paisiello   NH 52/9

Park, Mungo (1771-1806)Scottish

The white man: ballad / Harriett Abrams   NH 38/3

Pearce, William (18th-19th c.)English

The heaving of the lead: song / William Shield   NH 52/6

Pepoli, Carlo (Count) (1796-1881)Italian

Gran Dio deh rendi: aria / Michael Costa   NH 41/12

Piozzi, Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury aftwds (1741-1821)Welsh

On this world's foundation: glee for 3 voices / Anon.   NH 14/4

Planard, Eugène de (1783-1853)French

Laissez-moi lire dans votre coeur: duo / Ferdinand Hérold   NH 40/2

Planché, James Robinson (1796-1880)English

When time hath bereft thee: song / Thomas Cooke   NH 42/22

Pola, Paolo (1773-1841)Italian

Ah! Per te se I giorni miei: duettino / Saverio Mercadante   NH 40/18

R

Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)Scottish

A second set of Scots songs: for voice & harpsichord / Robert Bremner   NH 29/2

Thirty Scots songs, Bk 1: for voice & harpsichord / Robert Bremner   NH 29/1

Romani, Felice (1788-1865)Italian

Ah, sposo adorabile: aria / Giacomo Meyerbeer   NH 40/4

Come il dí chi i nostri amori: aria / Luigi Ricci   NH 41/10

Di pescatore ignobile: canzone / Gaetano Donizetti   NH 77/59

Rossi, Gaetano (1774-1855)Italian

Ah! Mirate quell sembiante: aria / Filippo Celli   NH 40/13

Padre! oh spavento! [and] Deh! Fermate non t'ascolto: recit. & duet / Giovanni Pacini   NH 40/12

Se il fato barbaro: cavatina (for contralto & piano) / Giacomo Meyerbeer   NH 63/13

Rowe, Charles J. (19th c.)

Sunrise! (adapted to music by Beethoven): song / Ludwig van Beethoven   NH 77/49

S

Salfi, Francesco Saverio (1759-1832)Italian

Ahimè, qual fier comando!: duet / Gaetano Andreozzi   NH 39/3

Du peuple qui t'adore, Seigneur: for 1, 2 or 3 vv. / Gaetano Andreozzi   NH 39/5

Schmidt, Giovanni (c1775-a.1839)Italian

Bell'alme generose: cavatina (for high voice & piano) / Gioachino Rossini   NH 63/17

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)Scottish

County Guy: ballad / Philip Knapton   NH 77/73

The moon's on the lake: Scotch song / George Alexander Lee   NH 39/9

The song of Fitz-Eustace: for voice, piano & SATB chorus / John Clarke-Whitfeld   NH 65/12

Scribe, Augustin Eugène (1791-1861)French

Les Huguenots (opera): voc. score / Giacomo Meyerbeer   NH 23

Sernicola, Carlo (18th c.)Italian

Ah, mentre, audace: recit. & aria / Gaetano Andreozzi   NH 39/1

Seward, Anna (1742-1809)English

My Stella sleeps; Ah Rose! Thou hast fled from a throne: recit. & air for tenor & piano / Venanzio Rauzzini   NH 65/14

Stormy Lannow: glee for 3 voices (ATB) / J W Callcott   NH 52/3

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)English

O happy, happy fair: trio / John Clarke-Whitfeld   NH 40/23

Sharp, Mrs George (ie Mary) (19th c.)English

The deep, deep sea: cavatina / Charles Edward Horn   NH 41/23

Soane, George (1790-1860)English

Come, Love, to me! ('pianoforte romance'): song / Henry Bishop   NH 63/20

The sun is o'er the mountain : song / Henry Bishop   NH 63/21

Solera, Temistocle (1815-1878)Italian

Oh dischiuso è il firmamento!: aria / Giuseppe Verdi   NH 77/90

Sterbini, Cesare (1784-1831)Italian

Dunque io son: duet / Gioachino Rossini   NH 39/8

Tutto eÌ€ silenzio: recit. & cavatina / Gioachino Rossini   NH 39/6

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)Scottish

A collection of reels &c: with a bass for cello or harpsichord / Alexander McGlashan   NH 11/1

Stickney, Sarah (aftwds Mrs Sarah Ellis) (19th c.)English

They bid me to the festive board: ballad / Miss Conroy   NH 41/26

T

Taylor, Charles Henry (1859-1907)English

The church parade: [song] / Herbert E Haines   NH 77/68

Thomson, George (1757-1851)Scottish

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

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

Tottola, Andrea Leone (d.1831)Italian

Ah! Gia trascorse il di: cavatina (for low voice & piano) / Michele Mortellari   NH 63/18

U

Upton, Mr. (18th-19th c.)English

The sweet little angel: song / Charles Thomas Carter   NH 75/10

V

Van Dyk, Harry Stoe (1798-1828)Anglo-Dutch

The spot where I was born: romance / John Barnett   NH 40/26

Various Writers

Arion. Sammlung von Liedern und Gesängen, Bd 10 / Various Composers   NH 01

A second set of twelve ballads adapted to English words / Joseph Haydn   NH 12/1

A select collection of the most admired songs, duets &c, vol. 2: English songs & duets / Domenico Corri   NH 32

A select collection of the most admired songs, duets &c, vol. 3: national airs, etc / Domenico Corri   NH 33

A third set of twelve ballads adapted to English words / Joseph Haydn   NH 12/2

XII sacred songs for the family circle / Anon.   NH 06

W

Wade, Joseph Augustine (1796-1845)Irish

For Love and Beauty's sake: ballad / J A Wade   NH 63/22

Meet me by moonlight: ballad / J A Wade   NH 40/27

'Twere vain to tell thee all I feel: Swiss air / Franz Stockhausen   NH 40/19

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)English

Six serious glees or hymns for three voices Op. 21 / John Ross   NH 57/11

Weatherly, Frederic Edward (1848-1929)English

Darby and Joan: song / J L Molloy   NH 77/79

The tryst: ballad / Joseph L Roeckel   NH 77/85

Webbe, Samuel Sr (1740-1816)English

Tho' mirth our object: epicedium for 4 voices / Samuel Webbe Sr   NH 75/11

Williams, Henry James ('Harry') (1873-1924)English

I'm afraid to come home in the dark: song / Egbert Van Alstyne   NH 77/89

It's a long, long, way to Tipperary: song / Jack Judge    NH 77/71

Williams, William (b.1805)English

The hunting day: song / William Williams   NH 77/93

Wilson, John ('Christopher North') (1785-1854)Scottish

Bonnie Bessie Lee: song / Trad.   NH 42/19

Z

Zeno, Apostolo (1669-1750)Italian

Non reggo a tal contento: rondo / Saverio Mercadante   NH 40/17

Numi che intesi mai! [and] Se m'abbandoni bella speranza: recit. & cavatina / Saverio Mercadante   NH 40/10

192 works by 126 song writers/librettists at Newhailes House