Solo Songs

 

Until Shaw managed to persuade Curwen to publish his songs in 1914, English songs were of the shop ballad type, tub-thumpers such as Tie up your troubles, so were not suitable for classical singers.

Using the best of English poetry, both traditional and contemporary, Shaw set about to change this, setting them to music for professional singers –all part of his work to create a renaissance in English music.

Initially he had great trouble getting songs of this type published, but today the lists of many major composers would not be complete without them.

 

SOME REVIEWS of the day:

Welcome additions to our growing store of genuinely English song. –Musical Times

No more delightful gift to singers can be imagined. –Western Mail

Any singer with a taste above the rubbish of the ballad concerts will find great satisfaction in these sturdy native songs, the outstanding element of which is sincerity. –Musical Standard

'The Martin Shaw idiom', if we may call it, is here unmistakable.... It is an idiom which needs some aquaintance for its full appreciation, but to form this aquaintance is worthwhile, as it is likely to deepen into friendship. –Organist and Choirmaster

 

NOTE ON CRAMER SONGS

Titles published by Cramer Music unavailable elsewhere are available from their archive service.

For more information contact: trade@cramermusic.co.uk

 

MS Trust crest 3 HEINE SONGS :

E’en as a Lovely Flower
The Pine Tree
The Wounded Knight

The Page published by Edward Gordon Craig 1901

 

BRITISH LIBRARY see also ARCHIVES

 

 

MS Trust crest THE ACCURSED WOOD (Harold Boulton)

Key: C
4 pages

background information

Cramer 1927

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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE AIRMEN (Margaret Armour)

For Low Voice

Key: A flat (C-D)

background information

Cramer 1941

email: trade@cramermusic.co.uk for archive copies

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COPAC    WORLDCAT
 

 

MS Trust crest ANNABEL LEE in C (Edgar Allen Poe)

6 pages

ANNABEL LEE in F (Edgar Allen Poe)
also in Seven Songs, Stainer & Bell

Cramer 1921

 

 

MS Trust crest AT COLUMBINE'S GRAVE (Bliss Carmen)

Key: A minor (C-E)
4 pages
background information

Cramer 1923

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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest AVONA (D. B. Knox)

Keys:
C, for low voice
F, for high voice
4 pages

Cramer 1927

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest BAB-LOCK-HYTHE (Laurence Binyon)

song for high voice
background information

Curwen 2145, 1919

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MS Trust crest THE BANKS OF ALLAN WATER (Monk Lewis)

Key: A flat; B flat (medium voice); C major
4 pages
background information

Cramer 1924

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COPAC   COLUMBIA 78rpm

 

 

MS Trust crest BATTLE SONG OF THE FLEET AT SEA (Stella Callaghan)
See Singing Shaw

6 pages

Boosey 1914; No. 1 of Six Songs of War

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS (Eugene Field)

Solo song; 2 pages A m. B m. D m.

Cramer 1927

COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest BESS OF BEDLAM (Purcell) edited with accompaniment by Martin Shaw

6 pages

Joseph Williams, 1903/ Stainer & Bell

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest BIRD OR BEAST (Christina Rossetti)

song for medium voice
4 pages
background information

Curwen 2120, 1917

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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest BROOKLAND ROAD (Rudyard Kipling)

song for medium voice
7 pages
background information

Curwen 2134, 1919
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MS Trust crest THE BUBBLE SONG (Mabel Dearmer)
      Key: C sharp minor

THE BUBBLE SONG (Mabel Dearmer)
Key: C minor

5 pages
background information

Chappell [Warner Music] 1919

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COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest CALLED UP (Dudley Clark)

No further information available

Poem first published in War Poems from the Times
a supplement published by The Times on 10th August 1914

Boosey 1914 No. 2 in Six Songs of War

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE CARAVAN (W. B. Rands)

Key: F major (low voice),
Key: A
3 pages

Cramer 1926

COPAC       WORLDCAT [1]       WORLDCAT [2]

 

 

MS Trust crest CARGOES (John Masefield)
also in Seven Songs, Stainer & Bell

Key: D
3 pages

Cramer 1924

 

 

MS Trust crest CARILLONS (Dominique Bonnaud)

6 pages

Boosey, 1914 No. 5 of Six Songs of War

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE CAVALIER'S ESCAPE (Walter Thornbury)
Sung by Robert Radford

6 pages

A gem, vocally and instrumentally. –Musical Standard
Really clever, vividly conceived, and exhilarating. –Daily Telegraph

Curwen 1914

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest CHILD OF THE FLOWING TIDE (Geoffrey Dearmer)

6 pages
background information

Chappell [Warner Music] 1919
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MS Trust crest CLARE'S BRIGADE marching song for the Irish Division

5 pages

Boosey 1915 No. 6 in Six Songs of War, 2nd edition

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest COME AWAY DEATH ( Shakespeare)
one of Two Songs from Shakespeare

Key: G minor (compass: E flat - E flat)
3 pages

background information

Cramer 1929
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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MSTrust logo THE CONJURATION (after the Chinese of Hung-so-fan),

Key: A flat (low voice), B flat
3 pages
background information

Cramer 1925
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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest CUCKOO (Traditional, 2nd verse Martin Shaw)
in Seven Songs, Stainer & Bell

Key B flat for High Voice
Key G for low or medium voice
3 pages
background information

Curwen 1915, 1920

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MS Trust crest THE DIP (Judge Parry)

Key: D
5 pages
background information

Cramer 1924

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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS (WB Yeats)
in Seven Songs, Stainer & Bell

song for medium voice
4 pages

Curwen 2133, 1919

 

 

MS Trust crest EASTER CAROL (Christina Rossetti)

song for medium voice
4 pages

Curwen 2121, 1917

 

 

MS Trust crest THE EGGSHELL (Rudyard Kipling)

song for medium voice
6 pages
background information

Curwen 2135, 1919

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MS Trust crest EMPTY POCKETS (Christina Rossetti)

song for medium voice

Curwen 2142, 1920 ; published with THE FERRYMAN (see below)

 

 

MS Trust crest ENGLAND FOR FLANDERS

4 pages

Boosey, 1914 No. 3 in Six Songs of War

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND (W. E. Henley)

Key: E flat
9 pages

Boosey & Co. 1913

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest ERIN UNITED (C.W. Brodribb)

3 pages

Boosey, 1914 No. 4 of Six Songs of War

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest AN EVENING HYMN (Dr. Wm. Fuller) Purcell arr. Martin Shaw

6 pages
No 1: E flat ; No. 2: G

Cramer 1927

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE FERRYMAN ; EMPTY POCKETS (Christina Rossetti)

song for medium voice
3 pages

Curwen 2142, 1920

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest FULL FATHOM FIVE (Shakespeare)

Key: C, for Low voice
3 pages
background information

Cramer 1922
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MS Trust crest GLAD HEARTS ADVENTURING (M. A. Macdonald)

Set in the Key of G, for medium voice

Cramer 1924

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

silhouette of a girl guide in the woods holding a flag in one hand, part of the title above her head

 

 

MS Trust crest HEFFLE CUCKOO FAIR (Rudyard Kipling)

song for medium voice
4 pages
background information

Curwen 2130, 1919
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MS Trust crest THE HERALD (Geoffrey Dearmer)

Key: E major
4 pages

from TWO SONGS OF SPRING: Boosey & Hawkes, [H. 10686] 1922

 

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest HYMN TO DIANA

 

Novello 1904; Currently details of this song are lost

 

 

MS Trust crest I KNOW A BANK (Shakespeare)

for high voice - in the Key of F

 

I KNOW A BANK (Shakespeare)

in the Key of B flat

 

I KNOW A BANK (Shakespeare)

in the Key of G

background information

Cramer 1922

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MS Trust crest INVICTUS (W E Henley)

Key: in F major
4 pages
background information

Curwen 2166 , 1920
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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest JACK OVERDUE (John Pudney)

Key: B
4 pages
background information

Cramer 1942

email: trade@cramermusic.co.uk for archive copies

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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest KNIGHT'S SONG (PHB Lyon)

 

Enoch, 1920

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest A LAMENT (Johnny of Braidislee) from ‘Ionica’

Key: D minor
4 pages

Cramer 1927

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE (WB Yeats)

song for medium voice
background information

Curwen 2122, 1903, 1917
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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THE LITTLE VAGABOND (William Blake)

Key: Gm., G, B
5 pages

Cramer 1923

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE LITTLE WAVES OF BREFFNY (Eva Gore-Booth)

for high voice
7 pages
background information

Cramer 1924
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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest LONDON TOWN (John Masefield)

Key: G
8 pages
available in Braille

Cramer 1923

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest LOVE PAGAN (Arthur Shearly Cripps)

song for medium voice
5 pages

Curwen 2132, 1919

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest LULLABY ; LOVE ME –I LOVE YOU (Christina Rossetti, from ‘A Nursery Sing-Song)

Songs for medium voice
3 pages

Curwen 2140, 1917

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THE MELODIES YOU SING (Clifford Bax)

Key: F
2 pages
background information

Cramer 1933
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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest THE MERRY WANDERER (Shakespeare)

background information

Curwen 1922
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COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest NINE SELECTED SONGS (Martin Shaw)
published by Cramer (no date given)

Set 1:

1. At Columbine's grave (A min)
2. Glad hearts adventuring (G)
3. I know a bank (G = Medium)
4. The little waves of Breffny (C)
5. The melodies you sing (F)
6. The Rivulet (G = Low)
7. Ships of Yule (G = Medium)
8. Song of the Palanquin bearers (E = High)
9. Wood magic (C sharp min = Low).

 

Set 2:

1. Annabel Lee (C = Low)
2. Banks of Allan Water (B♭ = Medium);
3. Bells of Christmas (B min. = Medium);
4. The Caravan (F = Low)
5. Cargoes (D); 6. Full fathom five (C)
7. No (E min)
8. Old clothes & fine clothes (B♭ = Low)
9. Ye banks & braes (F = Low)

 

Set 3:

1. Avona (C =Low)
2. The Conjuration (A♭ = Low)
3. A Lament (Johnny of Braidislee (D min);
4. Perilous ways (G minorish)
5. Tides (C)
6. Trees (G = Medium)
7. 2 Songs from Shakespeare
8. The wind & the sea, (E♭)
9. The World's delight (G).

 

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest NO (Thomas Hood)
in Seven Songs, Stainer & Bell

Key: G
3 pages

Cramer 1931

COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest O FALMOUTH IS A FINE TOWN (W. E. Henley)

Key: A major, medium voice
6 pages

Curwen 2165, 1920

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest OLD CLOTHES AND FINE CLOTHES (John Pride)

Key: B flat (B - D) for low voice; C for high voice
5 pages
also available in Braille

background information

Cramer 1922
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MS Trust crest OLD MOTHER LAIDINWOOL (Rudyard Kipling)

song for medium voice
6 pages

Curwen 2136

COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest ORANGE AND GREEN (Alfred Perceval Graves)
the tune is Shaw's arrangement of 'Lillibulero'

C sharp to E

Curwen 2126, 1917

BRITISH LIBRARY

 

 

MS Trust crest OVER THE SEA (Christina Rossetti)

song for high voice
3 pages
background information

Curwen 2123
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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest OVER THE SEA WITH A SOLDIER (Harold Boulton)

Key: G
4 pages
background information

Cramer 1925
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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest PERILOUS WAYS (Mordaunt Currie)

Key: E flat major
4 pages

Cramer 1932

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest PITY POOR FIGHTING MEN (Rudyard Kipling)

song for medium voice
3 pages
background information

Curwen 2131, 1919
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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest REFRAIN (of one in a far country) (Arthur Shearley Cripps)

for medium voice
4 pages

Winthrop Rogers, 1919;
Curwen 2155, 1919

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest RIVULET (Lucy Larcom)

in the Key of G and A
background information

Cramer 1924

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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest SERENADE (Diana Gardener)

song for high voice
4 pages

Curwen 2128, 1918
first published as Berceuse in The Dome, 1898

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest SHIPS OF YULE (Eugene Field)

Keys: F, G, A
6 pages

Cramer 1923

COPAC    WORLDCAT [1]    WORLDCAT [2]

 

 

MS Trust crest SEVEN SONGS by MARTIN SHAW

Seven Songs by Martin Shaw:
Annabel Lee
Cargoes
Cuckoo
Down by the Salley Gardens
No
Song of the Palanquin Bearers
When Daisies Pied.

Stainer & Bell

 

 

MS Trust crest SONG OF THE PALANQUIN BEARERS (Sarojini Naidu)
in Seven Songs, Stainer & Bell

Key: E for high voice
Key: B flat for low voice
5 pages

Curwen 2124, 1917

Also published as Lied der Sänftenträger (tr. R.S. Hoffmann)

Key: E
3 pages,

Universal, 1917/1923

BRITISH LIBRARY     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest A STAVE OF ROVING TIM (George Meredith)

song for medium voice
5 pages

Curwen 2137, 1919

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest SUMMER (Christina Rossetti)

Song for high voice
G major
7 pages

Curwen 2125, 1917

COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THROUGH SOFTLY FALLING RAIN (Sybil M. Ruegg)

Key: A major
2 pages

from TWO SONGS OF SPRING: Boosey & Hawkes, [H. 10686] 1922

 

COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest TIDES (John Pride)

Key: C
4 pages
background information

Cramer 1923
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COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest TO SEA! (Thomas Lovell Beddoes)

Song for medium voice
Key: G
5 pages

Cramer 1930

COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest TREES (E Nesbit)

Keys: F, G, B
5 pages

Cramer 1926

COPAC     WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest VENIZEL (Captain FW Short)

3 pages
background information

musicological article

Boosey, 1914 No. 6 of Six Songs of War, 1st edition

AIRMEN CD   iTunes  

COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crestWHEN DAISIES PIED (Shakespeare)
in Seven Songs by Martin Shaw, Stainer & Bell

song for high voice
4 pages
background information

Curwen, 1921

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MS Trust crest WHEN THAT I WAS AND A LITTLE TINY BOY
(2nd of 2 songs from Shakespeare)

Keys: E flat (D - E flat)
4 pages

Cramer 1929

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest THE WIND AND THE SEA from Philomel (Clifford Bax)

Key: E flat major   
4 pages

Cramer 1933

COPAC       WORLDCAT

 

 

MS Trust crest WOOD MAGIC set in the 9th Century (John Buchan)

Keys: C minor, E minor   
6 pages
background information

Cramer 1924

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MS Trust crest THE WORLD'S DELIGHT Christmas Song (Hermon Ould)

Key: G   
6 pages
background information

Cramer 1930

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COPAC

 

 

MS Trust crest YE BANKS AND YE BRAES (Robert Burns) trad., arr. MS

Keys: F, G, A,    
3 pages

Cramer 1925

COPAC    WORLDCAT

 

 

UNPUBLISHED

 

MS Trust crest ORNULF'S SONG (Ibsen, from the Vikings)

Unpublished
manuscript 1903, with the British Library

Contact the Curator of Music Manuscripts Nicolas Bell: BL