PART-SONGS

 

Part-songs were some of the earliest pieces Shaw wrote; they were published from 1904 onwards. The songs listed here range from Budmouth Dears, a song for double choir, to Shaw's three-part arrangments of traditional airs in Sing Three, which were intended for fireside gatherings.

 

 

A CAPPELLA

 

DOUBLE CHOIR

 

MS Trust crest BUDMOUTH DEARS Hussars Song (Thomas Hardy)

SSCCTTBB       12 pages

When we lay where Budmouth Beach is,
O the girls were fresh as peaches
With their tall and tossing figures and their eyes of blue and brown!
And our hearts would ache with longing
As we paced from our sing-songing
With a smart CLINK! CLINK! up the Esplanade and down. ...

( 3 more verses)

Curwen 61226, 1927

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

FEMALE VOICES

 

MS Trust crest THE ELVES (David Thomson)

SSA       6 pages

Cramer Music, 1948

 

 

MS Trust crest MY BONNY CUCKOO

SSA

Cramer 1948

 

 

MS Trust crest ST CATHARINE (Traditional)
Saint Catharine, lend me thine aid, that I may never die an old maid...

3 pages

Canon in 3 parts for unaccompanied ladies voices

Cramer 1933

 

 

MALE VOICES

MS Trust crest KITTY OF COLERAINE (Old Irish Air)

TTBB       6 pages

Boosey & Hawkes 1948

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT (Thomas Moore)

Tenor solo, TTBB       7 pages

Boosey & Hawkes, 1948

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest PEACEFUL SLUM'BRING ON THE OCEAN (James Cobb)
from the opera 'The Pirates'

Tenor solo, TTBB       3 pages

Curwen 50610, 1923

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MIXED VOICES

 

MS Trust crest COME AWAY DEATH (Shakespeare, from Twelfth Night)

SATB       4 pages

Novello 1938

COPAC

 

 

THREE-PART MIXED VOICES

 

MS Trust crest ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (Trans. E Montgomery Campbell)

SSB       4 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THE ASH GROVE (John Oxenford)

SSB       6 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest AH! BROAD WAS LOUGH ENELL (Eric Crozier)

SSB       4 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest BARBARA ALLEN (Old Scottish Air)

SSB       10 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest CA' THE EWES TO THE KNOWES (Robert Burns)

SSB       2 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest EARLY ONE MORNING (Old English)

SSB       6 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THE LASS OF RICHMOND HILL (Leonard Macnally)

SSB       3 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest NON NOBIS DOMINE (William Byrd)

canon SSB      I page

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest PEACEFUL SLUMB'RING ON THE OCEAN (James Cobb)

SSB       4 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest SIGH NO MORE, LADIES (Shakespeare)

SSB       4 pages

Sing Three: Ten Songs for SAB, Cramer 1952

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

ACCOMPANIED with piano unless otherwise specified

 

HIGH VOICES

MS Trust crest THE BUBBLE SONG (Mabel Dearmer)
arr. Clarence Lucas,

SSA       7 pages

Chappell 1932

 

 

MS Trust crest COUNTY GUY (No. 1 of Four Pastorals)

SA       4 pages

Curwen 71468, 1915

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE FAIRIES' ESCAPE

SS       4 pages

Joseph Williams, 1903; 1953 / Stainer & Bell

COPAC

 

 

 

MS Trust crest I KNOW A BANK (Shakespeare)

Two-part duet or choir: SS/A       3 pages

Cramer, 1924

 

 

MS Trust crest THE JOLLY SHEPHERD

SS       5 pages

Joseph Williams, 1903/ Stainer & Bell

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest LUBIN (No. 2 of Four Pastorals)

SA,       4 pages

Curwen, 71469, 1915

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest MAY MERRY TIME (George Darley)

SS       9 pages

OUP 1926

 

 

MS Trust crest OVER THE MOUNTAINS

Novello 1904

BRITISH LIBRARY

 

 

MS Trust crest SIGH NO MORE, LADIES (Shakespeare)

SS/A       4 pages

Curwen 71503, 1917

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE SONG OF THE CALLICLES (Matthew Arnold)

SSA       8 pages

Joseph Williams 1913/ Stainer & Bell

CONTACT US

 

 

MS Trust crest SYLVIA WAKES George Darley)

two-part vocal waltz, SA       6 pages

Curwen 1915 No. 4 of Four Pastorals

COPAC  

 

 

MS Trust crest SYLVIA SLEEPS (George Darley)

SA       4 pages

Curwen 71470, 1915 No. 3 of Four Pastorals

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE SWEET O' THE YEAR (George Meredith)

SS       7 pages

Oxford Choral Songs, OUP 1954

 

 

MS Trust crest TRIP AND GO (Traditional; 2nd verse Martin Shaw)

SS/A       6 pages

Curwen 71504, 1917

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE (Shakespeare)

SS/A       4 pages

Curwen 71502, 1917

COPAC

 

 

 

MS Trust crest WEEP YOU NO MORE, SAD FOUNTAINS

SS       4 pages

Joseph Williams, 1904/ Stainer & Bell

COPAC

 

 

LOW VOICES

MS Trust crest ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND

TTBB       4pages

Boosey & Co. 1913

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest I CANNOT EAT BUT LITTLE MEAT (from Gammer Gurton’s Needle)

TTBB       8 pages

Curwen 50611, 1923

COPAC

 

 

MIXED VOICES

MS Trust crest CARGOES (John Masefield)

SATB       7 pages

Cramer 1935

 

 

MS Trust crest LAUGH AND BE MERRY (John Masefield, arr. by MS)

SATB       8 pages

Curwen 61407, 1946
original unison setting by G. Shaw, Curwen 72058

COPAC

 

 

CHILDREN'S SONGS

 

MS Trust crest THE FROGGE AND THE MOUSE (Deuteromelia, 1609)

two Trebles       7 pages

Curwen 71518, 1918

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest CROAKLE AND QUACKLE (George Darley)

SS       4 pages

Curwen 1922

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest GLAD HEARTS ADVENTURING (M. McDonald)

2-part song

Cramer 1924

 

 

MS Trust crest SONG OF THE MUSIC MAKERS (Rodney Bennett)

SSA       6 pages

Cramer 1952

 

 

MS Trust crest UP THE AIRY MOUNTAIN (William Allingham)

two treble voices       7 pages

Edward Arnold, 1920

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest YOU SPOTTED SNAKES (Shakespeare)

SA       3 pages

Cramer 1927