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SONGS FOR SCHOOLS
Shaw's work for schools began in 1916 with The Pedlar –an adaptation of Shakespeare's play A Winter's Tale – and continued to the end of his life - the last title being published in 1961.
Happily many are still available, published by Cramer and OUP's archive publishers.
A number of songs for young children first appeared in Nature Song : a four-volume collaboration between Shaw and his wife Joan Cobbold –details at the end of the list.
Celebration:
Juniors
Seniors
Christmas
Festivals
Day to Day Life:
Juniors
Seniors
History and Culture
Juniors
Seniors
Greeks and Romans
Sea-faring Songs
Hymns
Sacred Songs
Juniors
Seniors
Purcell
ASSOCIATED BOARD EXAM
I KNOW A BANK (Shakespeare)
for high voice
KEY of F : Set as part of the Associated Board Exams Grade 4.
KEY of B flat : Set as part of the Associated Board Exams Grade 4.
Cramer 1922
CELEBRATION
FOR JUNIORS
4 pages Unison
Cramer 1936
SONG OF THE MUSIC MAKERS (Rodney Bennett)
Come, Music Makers, rouse up a song
To set the echos ringing,
A song of truth of the heart of youth,
A song for the joy of singing
2 pages for 3 verses
Unison
Cramer 1929
FOR SENIORS
CORONATION SONG (E Montgomery Campbell)
Unison
Cramer 1952
GLAD HEARTS ADVENTURING (M.A. MacDonald)
Unison
7 pages Voice and Chorus
Cramer 1924
Two-part: SS
OUP 1926
O LAND OF BRITAIN (from Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1100 A.D.)
5 pages Unison
Cramer 1930
OVER THE HILLS (George Meredith)
6 pages Unison
Cramer 1953
THE PATH OF DUTY (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
3 pages Unison
Novello, 1944
COPAC
PIONEERS (Walt Whitman)
Unison
Cramer 1925; OUP 1933
SONG OF THE MUSIC MAKERS (Rodney Bennett)
Come, Music Makers, rouse up a song
To set the echos ringing,
A song of truth of the heart of youth,
A song for the joy of singing
6 pages
Two-part Song (unison with SS/SA division)
Cramer 1952
THE SWEET O' THE YEAR (George Meredith)
2-part song 7 pages
OUP 1954
CHRISTMAS
THE BIRDS (Czech Carol)
Unison
OUP 1928
CAROL OF THE ADVENT (Eleanor Farjeon)
SATB
OUP 1928
sung with original words (not considered worthy by the Editors at the time) from the French by the Choir of New College Oxford:
THE MUMMERS (Eleanor Farjeon)
Unison Song and Mime
6 pages
Cramer c. 1930
OLD CHRISTMAS (Walter Scott & Thomas Miller)
Unison 4 pages
Curwen 1925
COPAC
SONG OF DECEMBER (Christina Rossetti)
2-part song
4 pages
Cramer 1927
FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL HYMNS & CAROLS for smaller choirs
SATB
OUP 1940
DAY TO DAY LIFE
FOR JUNIORS
COOKING (Christopher Fry)
Unison 2 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
GATHER UP YOUR LITTER (Eleanor Farjeon)
Unison 6 pages
Cramer 1927; 1972
HARVEST (Christopher Fry)
Unison 4 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
HOUSEWORK (Christopher Fry)
Unison 3 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
LEAVING SCHOOL (Christopher Fry)
Unison 3 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
MARKETING DAY (Derek McCulloch)
A pony and rider go to market
Unison 4 pages
Novello 1933; Roberton 1975
RUB-A-DUB-DUB (Christopher Fry)
Unison 3 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
PLOUGHING (Christopher Fry)
Unison, 2 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
SOWING (Christopher Fry)
Unison 3 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
WHAT IS A HOUSE (Christopher Fry)
Unison,
2 pages 2 verses
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
FOR SENIORS
THE BUBBLE SONG (Mabel Dearmer) arr. Lucas Clarence
SSA 7 pages
Chappell and Co. Ltd. 1932, 1947
A SONG OF LIFE (Christopher Fry)
Unison 5 pages
fromThursday's Child Cramer 1939
WORKING TOGETHER (Percy Dearmer)
4 pages Unison
Cramer 1930
WOULD IT WERE SO (Elizabeth Wordsworth)
Unison 4 pages
Novello School Songs, 1936
COPAC
HISTORY/CULTURE
FOR JUNIORS
O SOLDIER SOLDIER (Traditional Children’s Rhyme)
Solo Girl, Solo Boy, plus Unison
from ‘Songtime’, Curwen, 1915
CONTACT US
DRAKE'S DRUM (Sir Henry Newbolt)
6 pages Unison
Cramer 1946
SHIPS OF YULE
Unison
Curwen 1923
COPAC WORLDCAT
ST. GEORGES DAY (Geoffrey Dearmer, from original text)
arr. by Martin Shaw from original tune by Jeremiah Clarke
4 pages
Cramer 1927
FOR SENIORS
AGINCOURT SONG (Old English Air, 15th Century)
2 pages
Unison
Boosey & Hawkes, 1913
CONTACT US
THE BRIDGEWATER CHARTER DAY SONG (T. Bruce-Dilks)
4 verses 4 pages
Unison
Cramer 1926
THE FROGGE AND THE MOUSE (Deuteromelia, 1609)
7 pages 2-part,
Curwen 1918
COPAC WORLDCAT
WOOD FIRES (C Congreve)
Unison
Cramer 1931, 1939
THE GREEKS & ROMANS
ARGUS (Eleanor Farjeon)
4 pages Unison
Cramer 1932
CEASAR (Eleanor Farjeon)
4 pages Unison
Cramer 1932
HANNIBAL (Eleanor Farjeon)
4 pages Unison
Cramer 1932
LEONIDAS (Eleanor Farjeon)
6 pages
Two-part song (in canon form)
Cramer 1932
QUEEN DIDO (Eleanor Farjeon)
6 pages
Two-part song (in canon form)
Cramer 1932
ROMULUS AND REMUS (Eleanor Farjeon)
4 pages
Two-part song (in canon form)
Cramer 1932
SEA-FARING SONGS
SEA SHANTY (John Masefield)
from the cantata 'The Sea-port and her Sailors'
Unison 7 pages
Cramer 1931
CARGOES (John Masefield)
Unison
Cramer 1924
DRAKE'S DRUM (Sir Henry Newbolt)
Unison 6 pages
Cramer 1941
HYMNS
ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL (Mrs Alexander) arr. of Old English Tune ‘Royal Oak’
ROYAL OAK was a tune used to celebrate the restoration of the English monarchy under Charles II in 1660. However it was old even then; the tune is also paired with the Wassail Song in the Tudor comedy Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
EASY PIANO MUSIC arr: Randall Hartsell
SONGS OF PRAISE : the famous hymn book; intended for schools, sung in many churches too
Curwen 1915; OUP 1925, 1931
LORD GOD OF EARTH AND SEA AND SKIES Hymn for Airmen (Briggs)
Unison & SATB 3 verses
OUP 1944
COPAC
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN (Cecil Sharp et al)
SS/SA 6 pages
Curwen 1946
NATURE
FOR JUNIORS
THE DAY'S END (Thomas Hood)
Unison 2 + pages
FARMYARD FAMILIES (M Nightingale)
Unison 3 pages
Cramer 1954
THE HEDGEHOG (Edith King)
3 pages
Cramer, Leonard, Gould & Bolttler, 1934
LADYBIRD (Mrs Montgomery)
Unison
Cramer 1927
LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL (John Clare)
Unison 4 pages
Cramer 1927
THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL (R W Emerson)
Unison 4 pages
Cramer 1927
THE RAIN (Percy Byshe Shelley)
Unison 3 pages
Cramer 1951
THE STREAM (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Unison 3 pages
Cramer 1951
THE TIDE (G F Bradby)
Unison
Cramer 1925
THREE CALENDAR SONGS FOR CHILREN
30 Days hath September (Old Rhyme)
The Twelve Months (atr. R.B. Sheridan)
The First of May (Old Rhyme)
Novello 1931; Roberton 1975
TWO CHERRY SONGS (Christina Rossetti)
Unison 2 pages
Cramer 1936
UP TAILS ALL! (Kenneth Graham)
Unison
Cramer 1927
FOR SENIORS
CUCKOO (trad.; 2nd verse Martin Shaw)
Unison
CROACKLE AND QUACKLE (George Darley)
2-part for treble voices 4 pages
Curwen 1922
COPAC
MY BONNY CUCKOO (Frank Kidson)
SSA
THE SEA SHORE (Geoffrey Dearmer)
Unison 3 pages
NONSENSE SONGS
THE GRAND PANJANDRUM (Samuel Foote 1720 - 77)
4 pages Unison
Grade III, (suitable for Higher Divisions)
Novello 1932
COPAC
KATAWUMPUS (Judge Parry)
Unison 3 pages, 3 verses
Cramer 1961
CONTACT US
UP THE AIRY MOUNTAIN (William Allingham)
2-part 7 pages
Edward Arnold Educational 1920
COPAC
THE WHITING AND THE SNAIL (Lewis Carroll)
Solo or Unison
from The Third Book of the School Concert, The Kingsway Series
Evans Bros 1918
WORLDCAT[1] WORLDCAT[2]
WILL YOU WALK A LITTLE FASTER? (Lewis Carroll)
Solo or Unison
from The Third Book of the School Concert, The Kingsway Series
Evans Bros 1918
WORLDCAT[1] WORLDCAT[2]
YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM (Lewis Carroll)
Unison 6 pages
from The Third Book of the School Concert, The Kingsway Series
Evans Bros 1918
republished Cramer 1951
PASTORALS
THE ELVES (David Thompson) arr. MS from an Old Irish Air
SSA or SSS unaccompanied
COUNTY GUY (Sir Walter Scott)
No. 1 of Four Pastorals
4 pages S A Equal Voices
Curwen 1915
COPAC
LUBIN (George Darley)
No. 2 of Four Pastorals
4 pages S A Equal Voices
Curwen 1915
COPAC
SYLVIA SLEEPS (George Darley)
No. 3 of Four Pastorals
2- part Equal Voices
Curwen 1915
COPAC
SYLVIA WAKES (George Darley)
No. 4 of Four Pastorals
4 pages 2-part Vocal Waltz
Curwen 1915
COPAC
TRIP AND GO (Traditional; 2nd v. probably Martin Shaw)
No. 3 of Three two-part songs
6 pages 2-part SS/SA
Curwen 71504, 1917
COPAC
SACRED SONGS
FOR JUNIORS
SPRING BURSTS TODAY (Christina Rossetti)
Not to be confused with Shaw's song: EASTER CAROL Curwen 1917; 1945
Unison song; Key G
3 pages
Spring bursts today,
For Christ is ris'n and all the earth's at play.Flash forth, though sun,
The rain is over and gone, its work is done.Winter is past,
Sweet Spring is come at last, is come at last. ...
Curwen 1930
COPAC
FOR SENIORS
THE BUILDERS (T.S. Eliot)
Unison
GO FORTH WITH GOD!(Barclay Baron)
7 pages
Unison with descant and 2-part verse
GO FORTH WITH GOD! (Barclay Baron)
SATB
A HYMN OF FAITH (Canon Briggs)
SATB
SERVICE (Rudyard Kipling)
Unison
PURCELL arr. by Martin Shaw
2-part song
2-part song
SHAKESPEARE
BLOW, BLOW THOU WINTER WIND
Unison 4 pages
Edward Arnold 1922
COPAC
I KNOW A BANK (Shakespeare)
Oberon's Song from 'Fools and Fairies' Shaw's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
3 pages Unison
SS
Cramer 1922. 1989
JOG ON, JOG ON, THE FOOTPATH WAY (Shakespeare)
from 'The Pedlar', Shaw's adaptation for schools of an episode in A Winter's Tale
2 or 3 pages SS/SA with solo
Cramer 1932
OVER HILL –OVER DALE (Shakespeare)
Fairies' Song from 'Fools and Fairies', Shaw's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
3 pages SS/SA with solo
Cramer 1923
SIGH NO MORE, LADIES (Shakespeare)
No. 2 of Three two-part songs. from Much ado about Nothing
4 pages 2-part: SS/SA
Curwen 1917
COPAC
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE (Shakespeare)
No. 1 of Three two-part songs
4 pages 2-part SS/SA
Curwen 71502, 1917
COPAC
YOU SPOTTED SNAKES (Shakespeare)
Lullaby from 'Fools and Fairies', Shaw's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
SS/SA two solos and chorus
2 - Part; though if desired, the Chorus may, by omitting the 2nd Voice part, be sung in Unison
You spotted snakes with double tongue, thorny hedgehogs, be not seen ;
Newts and blind-worms do no wrong, come not near our fairy queen. ...
Cramer 1928
NATURE SONG
Many of the songs listed above first appeared in this delightful series of song books, now long out of print. Their aim was to meet the need of music teachers (like Joan Cobbold herself) –
"who required something rather more than Nursery Rhymes and rather less than definite school songs to give children."
NATURE SONG Volume I
Seasons The Four Seasons ; Spring ; Birds Nesting ; Summer ; Song of September; Autumn Days ; Cold Days ; Frost
The Months The Months ; Days of the Months
The Heavens The Sun ; Lady Moon ; The Stars Work ; Day and Night ; The Wind's Home ; Winter Rain ; The Rainbow ; Rainbow and Clouds
The Waters By the Sea ; The Tide ; The Rivulet ;
The Earth Country Mornings ; Country Evenings ; The Hay ; Corn ; A Song of Harvest ; The Scarecrow
Animals Sea Horses and Land Horses ; The Faithful Riding Horse ; Horse-shoeing; The Cow ; the Pet Cow ; Lambing Time ; The Pet Pig ; The Pet Hen ; Mother Hen; As the Dog went to Dover ; Pussy and Doggie ; Home Pets ; The Donkey ; The Fox; The Squirrel ; Town and Country Mice ; Frogs and Toads ; Amimal Voices ; New Animal Voices Rhyme
Cramer 1925
COPAC WORLDCAT
NATURE SONG Volume II
Birds Birds' Homes ; Nesting Time ; To Birds ; The Crow ; Ducks ; The Kingfisher; The Owl ; To Robin Redbreast ; The Sparrow's Nest ; The Swallow ; Little Trotty Wagtail ; Wild Birds Trapped
Insects Bees ; The Beetle ; Caterpillar ; The Dragonfly ; Ladybird ; The Silk Worm ; The Wasp ; The Worm ; Insect Friends
Trees The Cherry Tree ; Many Trees ; Holly ; A Riddle ; The Work of Trees ; The Oak
Fishes The Fish ; The Fishing Boat
Cramer 1929
THE BRITISH LIBRARY
NATURE SONG Volume III
Flowers: Catkins, Celandine, Daffodils, Daisies, Flowers, The Snowdrop, Violets, The Work of Flowers
Fruits: Acorns, Apples, Cherries, Peaches
Seeds: Baby Seed Song, Seed Growth
Stones and Minerals: Coal, Coral, Pebbles, Precious Stones
Colours: ColoursMisc.: An Old Fashioned Lesson, Many Things, A New Day, The Day’s End
Cramer 1934
BRITISH LIBRARY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
NATURE SONG Volume IV
Animals: To the Bat; The Hedgehog; Hod-man-dod; Poor old Fox; The Vixen; The Mole.
Birds: The Fowls ; Hark! ; The Robin.
Flowers: Dandelion Down; Summer Evening.
Fruits: Guess if you Can; Nuts.
Insects: The Busy Bee ; Find the Butterflies.
The Heavens: The Zodiac.
Times & Seasons: Jack Frost; Signs of Rain.
Waters: The Sea-shore; The Tide.
Cramer 1946
BRITISH LIBRARY ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC