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A. F. (19th-20th c.) English

Hasten to me = Nell' attesa: song / Angelo Mascheroni | Ital. by Francesco Barcella; Eng. by A. F. {Robert Cocks} 17/388-1 : No. 3 in Eb (orig.)

Abeniacar, Carlo (18th-19th c.) Italian

Luna nova: canzone marinaresca / P Mario Costa | versi di Salvatore di Giacomo; Ital. by Carlo Abeniacar {Soc. Mus. Neapolitana} 10/045-5 [22] - Neap+Ita : No. 1 in F

Ablett, Norman Victor(?) (d.1963) English

You never saw my garden: song / Norman Ablett {Cramer} 17/002 : [No. 2 in] Eb

Abt, Franz (1819-1885) German

The wanderer's dream = Du bist die Welt: song / Franz Abt | composed by Franz Abt {Duff, Stewart} 16/050-3 [19] : [No. 2] in Ab

Acworth, Harry Arbuthnot (1849-1933) English

Caractatus Op. 35: cantata [for STBarB soli & chor.] / Edward Elgar 01/037-6

Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf: for STB soli, chor. & orch. [p.red.] / Edward Elgar | words by H.W. Longfellow & H.A. Acworth {Novello} 01/037-5 a-c

Adam, Helen Douglas (1909-1993) Scottish

The little green house / Aleksandr Grechaninov {solo v. Curwen} 17/232-3

Adams, H.M. (20th c.) English

The St Matthew Passion / Heinrich Schütz | ed. & Eng. text H.M. Adams {OUP} 02/107-2 - Eng

Adams, Joseph H. (1863-1938) English

Galilee / Joseph Adams {solo v. Newnes} 16/040 [7/10]

Adams, Katharine

Christ went up into the hills: song / Richard Hageman {Carl Fischer} 17/241-1 : high v.

Adams, Lee (Leopold) Richard (1924- American

Bye Bye Birdie: musical comedy / Charles Strouse {Edwin Morris} 07/035.3

Adams, Sarah Flower (1805-1848) English

Nearer, my God, to Thee: sacred song / Lewis Carey {Boosey} 17/113.2 a-b : a: F | b: G [med.]

Nearer, my God, to Thee: [for solo v. & SATB chor.] / John Gardner {OUP} 02/046(3)

Adcock, Almey St John (1894-1986) English

The Dorothy Perkins rose: song / Molly Carew {Chappell} 17/113-2 : No. 2 in F

Early in the morning Op. 46 no.4: song / Montague Phillips {Chappell} 17/448-12 a-b : a: D | b: G

Love the jester Op. 46 no.1: song / Montague Phillips {Chappell} 17/448-11 : No. 2 in G min

Adler, Richard (1921-2012) American

Heart {from Damn Yankees} / Richard Adler | words by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross {solo v. Chappell} 17/005-2

I'm not at all in love {from The Pajama Game} / Richard Adler | words by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross {solo v. Frank} 17/005-1

The Pajama Game: musical comedy / Richard Adler | music & lyrics by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross {Frank} 07/001 a-b

Adrian, Walter

Bird of Spring: song / John Dumayne {Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew} 17/169.3

Agate, Edward (1880-1940) English

Chanson provençale = A song of Provence / Eva Dell'Acqua | Fre. by F. van der Elst; Eng. version Edward Agate {Edwin Ashdown} 17/161-2 : No. 1 in C [low]

The mirror song {from Tales of Hoffmann}: aria: As jewels divine / Jacques Offenbach | Fre. by Jules Barbier; Eng. by Edward Agate {Cramer} 17/435-3 - Eng+Fre : [No. 3 in] F

Agee, James (1909-1955) American

Sure on this shining night Op. 13 no.3: song / Samuel Barber {Schirmer} 17/027.8

Agrell, Margery Georgina (1890-1967) English

To one who passed whistling through the night / Armstrong Gibbs {solo v. Curwen} 17/219-2

Aiken, Conrad (1889-1973) American

Music I heard with you / Richard Hageman {low v. Elkin} 17/241-3 : low v.

Alexander, Archibald ('Archie') (c1901-1989) English

Did Santa have a daddy just like mine? / Archie Alexander | w&m Archie Alexander {solo v. John Fields} 17/007.2

Alexander, Howard (20th c.) English

A bird's clear note: song / Billy Mayerl {Keith, Prowse} 17/390.3 : [No. 1 in] Eb

Deep in the quiet forest / Peter J Henley {solo v. Cramer} 17/280 : [No. 2 in] Ab

Resting: song / Billy Mayerl {Keith, Prowse} 17/391-1

Alexander, Cecil Frances (Mrs) (1818-1895) Irish

There is a green hill far away: sacred song / Charles Gounod {Novello} 17/226-5 a-c : a: E | b: D | c: F

Allen, Andrew (19th-20th c.) English

Sally (You brought the sunshine to our alley): song / Wynn Stanley | written & composed by Wynn Stanley & Andrew Allen {Lawrence Wright} 17/530.2

Allen, Harvey

One song is in my heart: song / Henry Krips {Boosey} 17/142.6

Allmers, Hermann (1821-1902) German

In summer fields = Feldeinsamkeit / Solitude champêtre Op. 86 no. 2 / Johannes Brahms | words by H. Almers; Eng. trans. Paul England {solo v. Alfred Lengnick} 17/099-9(2) - Ger+Eng+Fre : No. 2 [in Ab]

Alnwick, H.

Drat 'em! (The shepherd's song) / Arabella Tulloch {Chappell} 17/553.8

Ambient, Mark [= Harold Harley] (1860-1937) English

Chorus, gentlemen!: song / Hermann Löhr {Chappell} 17/352-1 : No. 1 in F

Amoore, May

Just a ray of sunlight: song / W H Squire {Boosey} 17/527-4 : No. 1 in Ab

Ancey, Michel (20th c.) French

The music master = Il maestro di cappella / Le maître de chapelle: burlesque intermezzo for bass-baritone / Domenico Cimarosa | Eng. version Maria Pinazzi, Fr. Michel Ancey | [rev. Maffeo Zanon?] {Symphonia} 14/028 - Eng+Fre

Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875) Danish

The little tin soldier: [song] / J L Molloy | [words] by F. E. Weatherly (after Hans Andersen) {Chappell} 16/050-5 [7]

Anderson, Arthur

Joggin' along the highway: song / Harold Samuel {Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew} 17/486.8

Just for a while = Nur eine Nacht Op. 52: song / Oscar Geiger {Keith, Prowse} 17/213 a - Eng : No. 3 in Eb

Poëm (In your eyes): voc. valse, w. violin & cello obbl. / Zdeněk Fibich {Keith, Prowse} 28/020 a

Anderson, F W (Frederick William?) (20th c.)

The warning: song / Francis George Scott {Bayley & Ferguson} 17/501.5

Anderson, L.

The crookit bawbee: old ballad / Margaret Anderson | addl. words by L. Anderson {voc. duet Bayley & Ferguson} 18/005

Anderson, Lady (Muriel)

A dog to walk with me / Haydn Wood {solo v. Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew} 17/590-7

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959) American

September song {from Knickerbocker Holiday} / Kurt Weill {solo v. Chappell} 17/568-2

Appelbaum, Stanley (20th-21st c.) American

Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Rückert Lieder: [29 songs] / Gustav Mahler | Eng. trans. Stanley Appelbaum, John Bernhoff, Addie Funk {Dover} 09/117-3 - Ger+Eng

Arale, David & Eugene

Always with my heart: song / Lilian Ray | words by David & Eugene Arale {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-1 a-b : a: C | b: Eb (orig.)

God keep you is my prayer: song / Lilian Ray {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-2 a-b : a: F | b: C

Arale, Eugene

Always with my heart: song / Lilian Ray | words by David & Eugene Arale {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-1 a-b : a: C | b: Eb (orig.)

Archer, William (1856-1924) Scottish

Margrete's cradle song / Gustav Holst | Henrik Ibsen; Eng. words William Archer {Bosworth} 17/287-2 a-b - Eng+Nor

Margrete's cradle song / Gustav Holst | by Henrik Ibsen; Eng. words William Archer {Laudy} 17/287-2(2) - Eng+Nor

Arcy, Burgh d'

Vale (Farewell): song / Kennedy Russell {Edwin Ashdown} 17/484-2 a-b : No. 3 in Ab

Arkell, Reginald (1882-1959) English

Farewell, my love, farewell {from Frasquita} / Franz Lehár {solo v. Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew} 16/020(4) [2]

Arkwright, Godfrey Edward Pellew (1864-1944) English

The song of Momus to Mars: from Dryden's 'Secular masque' / William Boyce | ed. G. E. P. Arkwright | p. arr. Elizabeth Poston {solo v. OUP} 17/094-5 a-c

Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710-1778) English

The jolly miller {from Old English Popular Songs} / arr. Roger Quilter | words from Love in a Village [by Thomas Arne] {Winthrop Rogers} 17/462-22 : low v. [in Bb]

Arnold, A. S.

The singing lesson: celebrated duet by Fioravante / Charles Edward Horn {sop. & bass Bayley & Ferguson} 18/075-2

Arnold, W. F. (19th-20th c.) English

Lullaby = Wiegenlied [Op. 49 no. 4] / Johannes Brahms | Eng. trans. W. F. Arnold {Walsh, Holmes} 17/098-5 d : No. 2 in F

Arthurs, George (1875-1944) English

The beautiful lady: [concerted song] / Cuthbert Clarke {Reynolds} 17/121.5 a-b

Asaf, George [= George Henry Powell] (1880-1951) Welsh

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag: [song] / Felix Powell | [arr. Dudley E. Bayford?] {Francis, Day & Hunter} 07/060 [7]

Asche, Oscar (1871-1936) Australian

Chu Chin Chow (libr.): musical tale of the East / Frederic Norton {Samuel French} 03/095

Chu Chin Chow: musical tale of the East / Frederic Norton {Keith, Prowse} 07/023.5

The Cobbler's song {from Chu Chin Chow} / Frederic Norton {Keith, Prowse} 17/430

Ashley, Walter

A windy day: song / Cyril Hyland {Bayley} 17/293.7

Atkins, Ivor (1869-1953) Welsh

Requiem Op. 45: for sop. & bar. soli, chor. & orch. [p.red.] / Johannes Brahms | ed. John E. West; Eng. version Ivor Atkins {Novello} 02/022 a-c - Eng

Te Deum: [for mixed chor., orch. & org.] / Joseph Haydn | organ arr. & Eng adapt. by Ivor Atkins {OUP} 02/054-5 a - Lat+Eng

Atkinson, Geoffrey (1943- Scottish

Aignish (fantasy on a Hebridean folk song): for SATB chor. w. opt. sop. & alto soli, vn, vc & hpd (or pf) / arr. Geoffrey Atkinson | arr. & transl. fr. Gaelic by Geoffrey Atkinson {Bardic Edition} 18/008

Atkinson, J. Dean

An idyll (Morning, noon and night): song cycle / Dorothy Atkinson 17/019 : low v.

Auber, Harriet (1773-1862) English

Our blest Redeemer: sacred song / E Charlwood Dunkley {Collard Moutrie } 17/170.8 : No. 1 in D

Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973) Anglo-American

The Bassarids (libr.): opera seria / Hans Werner Henze | by W. H. Auden & Chester Kallman {Schott} 03/065 - Eng

Fish in the unruffed lakes / Benjamin Britten {solo v. Boosey & Hawkes} 17/103-4 : F#

Hymn to St Cecilia Op. 27: unaccomp. chor. / Benjamin Britten {Boosey & Hawkes} 01/023-3 a-b

The Rake's Progress = Der Wüstling: opera / Igor Stravinsky | fable by W.H Auden and Chester Kallman; Ger. trans. Fritz Schroder | voc. sc. Leopold Spinner {Boosey & Hawkes} 06/057

Audigier, Georges (1863-1925) French

Les anges pleurent!: rondel [sop./ten.] / Hermann Bemberg {Rouart, Lerolle} 17/056-1 : No. 1

Austin, Frederic (1872-1952) English

The Beggar's Opera [by John Gay] / Johann Christoph Pepusch | rev. with additional music by Frederic Austin {Boosey & Hawkes} 07/012-1 a-c

Austin, John (1613-1669) English

Benedicite: cantata [for sop. & chor.] / Ralph Vaughan-Williams | words from 'The Song of the Three Holy Children' & a poem by J. Austin (1613-1669) {OUP} 01/076-1 a-h - Eng also at 01/038 [2] a-c

Austin, William (1627/8-bef.1677) English

All this night shrill chanticleer (W. Austin) / Peter Inness {SATB choir} Spec Coll

Aveling, Claude (1869-1943) English

Come back to Sorrento = Torna a Surriento / Ernesto de Curtis | words by G. B. De Curtis; Eng. version Claude Aveling {solo v. Bideri} 17/144 a-d : a-b: E | c-d: C

Connais-tu le pays? = Knowest thou that dear land? {from Mignon}: romance / Ambroise Thomas | Eng. version Claude Aveling | ed. [& arr. ] Albert Visetti {solo v. Augener} 17/551.5 a - Eng+Fre : No. 2 in Eb

Connais-tu le pays? = Knowest thou that dear land? {from Mignon}: romance / Ambroise Thomas | Eng. version Claude Aveling | ed. [& arr. ] Albert Visetti {solo v. Schott} 17/551.5 b-c - Eng+Fre : No. 1 in Db

Cradle song = Wiegenlied / Johannes Brahms | Eng. version Claude Aveling {Augener} 17/098-5 a-b : a: F | b: Eb

La donna è mobile = Woman's a fickle jade {from Rigoletto}: Duke of Mantua's canzone / Giuseppe Verdi | Eng. version Claude Aveling {ten. Ricordi} 17/556-7 a-b : a: B | b: Ab

The kiss = Der Kuss Op. 19 no. 1 / Johannes Brahms | Hölty; Eng. version Claude Aveling {solo v. Augener} 17/098-6

Lend me your aid = Inspirez-moi {from La Reine de Saba}: [tenor aria] / Charles Gounod | Eng. version Claude Aveling; ed. Alberto Randegger {Metzler} 17/225-4.7

Operatic album: baritone: [6 arias, by Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Ponchielli, Rossini] / Var. Comp. | Eng. versions by Claude Aveling et al. {Ricordi} 14/011-2 - Ita+Eng

 

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