editorial work

 

Shaw's scholarship and research were key to the success of Songs of Praise and the Oxford Book of Carols. But he was a prolific editor of all kinds of music, amongst other things part-songs (for Cramer), books of national song, (Songs of Britain, National Anthems of the World) , and songs for the Girl Guides, for whom he composed their anthem Glad Hearts Adventuring –also adopted by a number of schools.

 

Martin Shaw  Trust crest THE ENGLISH HYMNAL (with RVW & Percy Dearmer)

While Shaw's contritbution to the EH was not acknowleged in the original 1906 publication, he is credited as co-music editor in later editions.

It may be that he wanted to keep away from any form of notoriety so soon after the painful end to his engagement with Edy Craig, which occured around this time. (See 'A Strange Eventful History' by Michael Holroyd for more details.)

OUP 1906, 1933 etc.

 

Martin Shaw  Trust crest SONGS OF BRITAIN (Frank and Ethel Kidson)

A collection of 100 English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish national songs

Boosey 1913

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Correspondence with Ethel Kidson is in the Martin Shaw Archive. Contact the British Library via email at : music-collections@bl.uk

 

Martin Shaw  Trust crest THE ENGLISH CAROL BOOK (Percy Dearmer)

"It is a remarkable thing that the Victorian era –which produced, in the ordinary way of business, a book with such beautiful and appropriate wood-cuts as those contained in a popular volume of Carols now lying before me– should have produced no musician willing to arrange the tunes for choral use in a manner corresponding to the sturdy peasant-note which is so characteristic of them ; no musician, indeed, who could even perceive that a folk-tune is a different thing from a sentimental part-song..."

From Shaw's Preface to The English Carol Book

 

70 + pages   32 traditional English carols

A R Mowbray 1913

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest SONG TIME (with Geoffrey Shaw)

111 pages 

Singing games  
Rhyming games  
Nursery rhymes  
Children's songs

1915

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest TENOR TUNE BOOK (with Geoffrey Shaw et al)

39 pages   52 hymn tunes

Faith Press 1917, 1921, 1925

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest THE ENGLISH CAROL BOOK VOL. 2 (Percy Dearmer)

22 carols (first appearance of The Coventry Carol)

A R Mowbray 1919

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest MOTHERLAND SONG BOOK (with Geoffrey Shaw & RVW )

Various volumes with different subjects, the MSBs were published for the League of Arts for National and Civic Ceremony to be used for the celebrations at the end of WW1.

Stainer & Bell 1919

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest LEAGUE OF NATIONS SONG BOOK (Percy Dearmer)

24 pages   17 hymns

Another publication for the League of Arts

Note: William Challenger was a pseudonym used by Martin Shaw

1921

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest CRAMER LIBRARY OF UNISON AND PART-SONGS

270 individual titles

Cramer c.1923 - c.1945

 

 

 

Martin Shaw  Trust crest GIRL GUIDE HYMNS & TUNES

 

1923

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest 28 SELECTED SONGS OF BRITAIN

 

Boosey 1923

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest GIRL GUIDE FESTIVAL BOOK

 

1924

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest SONGS OF PRAISE

The first edition of this popular work, which was later enlarged.

753 pages   470 hymns

OUP 1925

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest CRAMER LIBRARY OF ORGAN MUSIC

Set I

Cramer 1925

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest CRAMER'S LIBRARY OF ORGAN MUSIC BY BRITISH COMPOSERS

Sets 1 to 14, varying number of pieces in each set.

Cramer 1925 - 1962

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest A BRITISH HYMN FESTIVAL BOOK

25 pages   14 hymns

Curwen 1927

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest PRAYERS AND HYMNS FOR USE IN SCHOOLS

 

OUP 1927

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest THE OXFORD BOOK OF CAROLS

Still in print, the OBC is a thesaurus of the genre, with carols for Easter, harvest and autumn as well as for Christmas. Martin Shaw's scholarship and research reached its height in this volume –he and Percy Dearmer (Words Editor) having worked on the English Carol Book in the past.

FURTHER INFORMATION

OUP 1928

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest SONGS OF PRAISE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

152 pages     113 hymns and doxologies

OUP 1929, 1952

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest SONGS OF PRAISE ENLARGED

The immediate success of the first edition of Songs of Praise gave rise to calls for 'More!' This second, enlarged, edition saw the first appearance of Morning has Broken. The book continued in popularity, accompanying generations of school children growing up from the 1930s onwards, selling by the million in the 1950s. It is still in print today.

930 pages     700 plus hymns

OUP 1931 1963

 

See also the companion volume: SONGS OF PRAISE DISCUSSED (Dearmer/Jacob)

A handbook to the best-known hymns and to others recently introduced.

Informative monographs on the hymns, tunes, authors and composers in Songs of Praise.

560 pages

So widely distributed in libraries world-wide it is a pity the information given is not referred to more often by those writing on the subject.

 

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest CRAMER'S LIBRARY OF SCHOOL CLASSICS

 

c. 1932 -1951

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest FOLK CHANT BOOK

33 pages   121 chants of traditional folk melodies

1932

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest CHELMSFORD DIOCESAN CHOIR FESTIVAL BOOK

 

1936

 

Martin Shaw  Trust crest ENGLISH CAROL BOOK VOLS. 1 & 2 (Complete Edition)

108 pages   54 carols

A R Mowbray 1938 [1958]

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE ALLIES
arrangements Martin Shaw unless shown otherwise

23 pages, 11 anthems

List of Anthems, English writers/translators in italics

•   Free France : La Marseillaise tr. Percy Bysse Shelley & Elizabeth Shaw

•   Belgium : La Brabançonne tr. Diccon and Elizabeth Shaw

•   Norway : "Ja, vi elsker dette Landet" tr. Helen Ingeborg Hudson

•   Poland tr. Martin Shaw

•   Netherlands : Wilhelmus van Nassouwe tr. Martin Shaw

•   Czechoslovak : "Kde domov muj?" tr. Martin Shaw

•   Greece tr. Rudyard Kipling

•   Canada : O Canada! Sir Harold Boulton; air arranged by Sir Arthur Somervell

•   Australia : Advance Australia Fair –words & tune: Amicus

•   New Zealand: God Defend New Zealand
words : Thomas Bracken; music : John J. Woods

•   The United Kingdom of the British Commonwealth of Nations :
"God Save the King" origin of both words and melody obscure. Earliest copy of words in Gentlman's Magazine, 1745

Cramer 1941

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest ENGLISH TRADITIONAL CAROLS FOR FEMALE VOICES
(with Ralph Vaughan Williams)

67 pages  

Introduction & 21 Carols from the Oxford Book of Carols

OUP 1954

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Martin Shaw  Trust crest NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD (with Henry Coleman)

Shaw's work on National Anthems of the Allies was expanded to create National Anthems of the World, and was published posthumously by co-editor Henry Coleman.

For the English versification of some anthems, Shaw turned to his journalist daughter, Mary Elizabeth (Elizabeth Montgomery Campbell), and his nephew, the actor Sebastian Shaw, who worked on them during in their free time whilst in the WAAF/RAF during WWII.

 

330 pages   111 National Anthems, list of National Days

 

The first volume of its kind to be published, and still in print, different editors have updated and enlarged the book over the years. The current editor is Michael Jamieson Bristow.

First published 1960, now in its 11th edition.

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