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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.)

A. L.

see Amelia Lehmann

A. P.

see A Paladilhe

A. S.

see A. S. Stanton

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] : 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 {misc. v. : OUP} 02/107-2

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 {high v. : Carl Fischer} 17/241-1 : high v.

Adams, Sarah Flower (1805-1848) English

Nearer, my God, to Thee: sacred song / Lewis Carey {Boosey} 17/113.2 : No. 1 in F

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 : No. 1 in D

Early in the morning Op. 46 no. 4: song / Montague Phillips {Chappell} 17/448-12 b : No. 3 in 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

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 : [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, 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, Mrs Cecil Frances (1818-1895) Irish

There is a green hill far away: sacred song / Charles Gounod {Novello} 17/226-5 a : No. 2 in E

There is a green hill far away: sacred song / Charles Gounod {Novello} 17/226-5 b : No. 3 in D

There is a green hill far away: sacred song / Charles Gounod {Novello} 17/226-5 c : No. 1 in 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) : No. 2 [in Ab]

Alma-Tadema, Laurence (1865-1940) Anglo-Belgian

see Laurence Alma Tadema

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

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

Just for a while (Nur eine Nacht) Op. 52: song / Oscar Geiger {Keith, Prowse} 17/213 a : 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

Anon.

As ever I saw / Peter Warlock {low v. : Winthrop Rogers} 10/088 [6] : low: Db

As ever I saw / Peter Warlock {high v. : Winthrop Rogers} 17/563-7 : high: Eb

Away to Twiver / Peter Warlock {solo v. : OUP} 17/563-8

Because I were shy {from Three Northern County Folk Songs} / arr. Lyell Johnston -- words and air Anon.; arr. Lyell Johnston {solo v. : Cramer} 17/300.5(2) a-b

The bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon': Jacobite air / Trad. {solo v.} 16/050-1 [63]

Bonnie Dundee / Anon. {solo v.} 16/050-1 [55]

Brown-haired maiden {from Songs of the North} / arr. Malcolm Lawson {Cramer} 17/331-9

Charlie is my darling / Anon. {solo v.} 16/050-1 [46]

Colin's cattle {from Songs of the North}: milking song / arr. Malcolm Lawson {Cramer} 17/331-8

Come let's be merry / arr. H Lane Wilson -- Old English melody {solo v. : Boosey} 17/581-4

Fair house of joy {from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics} Op. 12 no. 7: song / Roger Quilter {Boosey} 17/462-3 a-b : No. 3 in Db

Fair young Mary {from Songs of the North}: old Highland melody / arr. Malcolm Lawson {Cramer} 17/331-11

The falcon: for high v. & piano / Grayston Ives {Roberton} 17/294.8

The Fayrfax carol: SATB div./optional organ / Thomas Adès {SATB choir : Faber} 18/004

The fuchsia tree Op. 25 no. 2: song / Roger Quilter -- old Manx ballad {low v. : Winthrop Rogers} 17/462-12 a : low in A min

The fuchsia tree Op. 25 no. 2: song / Roger Quilter -- old Manx ballad {high v. : Winthrop Rogers} 17/462-12 b : high in C# min

The Golden Vanity {from English County Songs} / arr. Lucy Broadwood; arr. L. E. B[roadwood] {Cramer} 17/103.5

Had a horse . . . (Hatte einst ein graues Ross): old folk song / Ferencz Korbay {Schott} 17/322-2

Hey, troly loly lo: song / Peter Warlock -- Anon. (16th cent.) {Augener} 10/087 [11]

How can ye gang, lassie? {from Songs of the North}: old Scottish ballad / arr. Malcolm Lawson {Cramer} 17/331-10

Hunting Tower: [sop./ten. duet] / Trad. 16/050-1 [37]

A Hymn to the Virgin Op. 13 no. 2: for voice & harp (or piano). / Edmund Rubbra {Alfred Lengnick} 17/483(2) [1]

A hymn to the Virgin Op. 1 no.1: cantata / Leslie Woodgate {bar.} 01/086 [1]

I cannot help loving thee: song / Clayton Johns {Boosey} 17/299.5 : No. 1 in Bb

I have twelve oxen / John Ireland -- Anon. (Early English) {low v. : Winthrop Rogers} 10/089 [10] : low in F

I have twelve oxen / John Ireland -- Anon. (Early English) {high v. : Boosey & Hawkes} 17/294-3 a : high in G

I have twelve oxen / John Ireland -- Anon. (Early English) {low v. : Boosey & Hawkes} 17/294-3 b : low in F

I have twelve oxen (J'ai douze boeufs) / John Ireland -- Anon. (Early English); version française de Lilian Fearn {solo v. : Boosey & Hawkes} 17/294-3.1 a-b : No. 2 in G

I'm owre young to marry yet / arr. Michael Diack {solo v. : Paterson} 17/162-13 : Db + Eb

An Irish lament / John Barkworth {solo v. : MacDonagh, Capdeville} 17/029-2 a-c

Jack and Jill: new setting of an old rhyme / Michael Diack -- 'with apologies to Handel' {low v. : Paterson} 17/162-11 : [No. 1 in Bb - low v.]

The keys of Heaven {from English County Songs}: duet / Ernest Newton {Cramer} 18/109-1 a-c : [No. 1 in] G

Leezie Lindsay {from Songs of the North}: old Scottish ballad / arr. Malcolm Lawson {Cramer} 17/331-12

Linten lowrin {from Songs of the North}: old Aberdeenshire song / arr. Malcolm Lawson {Cramer} 17/331-7

Little Jack Horner: new setting of an old rhyme / Michael Diack -- 'with apologies to Handel' {solo v. : Paterson} 17/162-12 : No. 2 [in C - high v.]

Love is a bable: song for bar. v. / Hubert Parry {Novello} 17/442-1 a-b

Love lies asleep in the rose: song / Frederic Cowen {Boosey} 10/045-5 [8] : No. 3 in Eb

My jo Janet / arr. Michael Diack {solo v. : Paterson} 17/162-14 : D

Now is the time for Christmas: carol for unison v. / Michael Graham-Dixon -- Anon. (c.1500) {Novello} 17/229.1

Noye's Fludde (libr.): the Chester miracle play / Benjamin Britten {misc. v. : Boosey & Hawkes} 03/025-2

Noye's Fludde (the Chester Miracle Play) Op. 59: Bbar, contr, narrator, children's choir (SATB) & chor. (TrTrTrSSS) w. prof. + children's (or amateur) orch. & org. / Benjamin Britten {Hawkes & Son} Spec Coll

Oh Nancy's hair is yellow like gowd: old Border lilt / arr. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser -- 'poet unknown' arr. M. Kennedy-Fraser {solo v. : Paterson} 17/316-17(2) a-b

Omittamus studia!: SSATB unaccomp. / John Hearne {Longship} 15/039

Peter Warlock's fancy: song / Peter Warlock -- Anon. (16th cent.) {Chappell} 10/089 [5] : No. 1 in Eb

Peter Warlock's fancy: song / Peter Warlock -- Anon. (16th cent.) {Chappell} 17/563-3 : No. 2 in F

Philosophy song: [song] / David Emmel {Lublin} 16/050-5 [31] : [No. 1] in Eb

Piggesnie: song / Peter Warlock -- words Anon. 16th cent. {Augener} 10/087 [12] : No. 1 in E

The Queen's Maries {from The New Scottish Orpheus vol. 1}: song / Michael Diack {Paterson} 17/162-9 : D + Eb

The silver swan: song / Raymond Loughborough {Boosey & Hawkes} 17/356-3

The silver swan / Eric Thiman -- Anon. (c.1600) {solo v. : Novello} 17/551-4 a

The silver swan / Eric Thiman -- Anon. (c.1600) {high v. : Novello} 17/551-4 b : high v. (C min)

The silver swan / Eric Thiman -- Anon. (c.1600) {low v. : Novello} 17/551-4 c : [low] Bb min

Sing a song of sixpence: new setting of an old rhyme / Michael Diack -- 'with apologies to Handel' {low v. : Paterson} 17/162-3 : low v.

Snow-flakes: song / Frederic Cowen {Joseph Williams} 17/140-4 : [No. 2] in E

Snowflakes (Schneeflocken) / Albert Mallinson {solo v. : Frederick Harris} 17/378-2

A soldier - his prayer / Maurice Besley {solo v. : Boosey} 17/075-5

Two Eastern songs / Agnes Mary Lang {Elkin} 09/105 a : No. 1 low v.

Two Eastern songs / Agnes Mary Lang {Elkin} 09/105 b : No. 2 med. v.

The vagrant: unison song / Geoffrey Shaw {Cramer} 17/509-1

Watchman! what of the night?: duet (ten. & bass) / J Sarjeant {Boosey} 18/141 b : No. 2 in G

Watchman! what of the night?: duet (ten. & bass) / J Sarjeant {Boosey} 18/141 c : No. 1 in F

The wee cooper o' Fife: for mixed v. SCTB / Hugh Roberton -- Old Scots ballad {Curwen} 18/129-2

Weep you no more, sad fountains: 2-part choral song / Norman Demuth {OUP} 18/045

When dull care / arr. H Lane Wilson -- Old English melody {solo v. : Boosey} 17/581-5 : No. 1 in F

Willie's gane to Melville Castle / Michael Diack {solo v. : Paterson} 17/162-10 : Bb + C

Yarmouth Fair: Norfolk folk-song / arr. Peter Warlock {low v. : OUP} 17/563-10 : low key

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

Arale, David & Eugene

Always with my heart: song / Lilian Ray -- words by David & Eugene Arale {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-1 a : No. 1 in C

Always with my heart: song / Lilian Ray -- words by David & Eugene Arale {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-1 b : No. 2 in Eb (orig.)

God keep you is my prayer: song / Lilian Ray {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-2 a : No. 3 in F

God keep you is my prayer: song / Lilian Ray {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-2 b : No. 1 in C

Arale, Eugene

Always with my heart: song / Lilian Ray -- words by David & Eugene Arale {Lawrence Wright} 17/466-1 a : No. 1 in C

Angus Macdonald: song / Joseph L Roeckel {Chappell} 17/479-2 b : No. 2 in D

Archer, William (1856-1924) Scottish

Margrete's cradle song / Gustav Holst -- Henrik Ibsen; Eng. words William Archer {Bosworth} 17/287-2 a-b

Margrete's cradle song / Gustav Holst -- by Henrik Ibsen; Eng. words William Archer {Laudy} 17/287-2(2)

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]

Armitage, Reginald Moxon (1898-1954) English

see Noel Gay

Arnold, A. S.

The singing lesson: clebrated 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

Asche, Oscar (1871-1936) Australian

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

Chu Chin Chow: musical tale of the East / Frederic Norton {misc. v. : 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

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

Atkinson, Geoffrey (1944- 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 {low v.} 17/019 : low v.

Attenborough, Florence Gertrude (1867-1958) English

see Chrystabel

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

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 -- a 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 {sop. : 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 {misc. v. : 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 also at 01/038 [2] a-c

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-b : No. 2 in E

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 c-d : No. 1 in C

Connais-tu le pays? (Knowest thou that dear land?) {from Mignon}: romance / Ambroise Thomas -- Eng. version Claude Aveling; ed. Albert Visetti {solo v. : Augener} 17/551.5 a : No. 2 in Eb

Connais-tu le pays? (Knowest thou that dear land?) {from Mignon}: romance / Ambroise Thomas -- Eng. version Claude Aveling; ed. Albert Visetti {solo v. : Schott} 17/551.5 b-c : No. 1 in Db

Cradle song (Wiegenlied) / Johannes Brahms -- Eng. version Claude Aveling {Augener} 17/098-5 a : [No. 2 in] F

Cradle song (Wiegenlied) / Johannes Brahms -- Eng. version Claude Aveling {Augener} 17/098-5 b : [No. 1] in 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 : No. 2 in B

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 b : No. 1 in 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] -- Eng. versions by Claude Aveling et al. {Ricordi} 14/011-2

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