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UNISON
Musicologists have praised Shaw for his development of the Unison Song. In the spirit of the age, they were classless: written for everyone to sing, adults and children alike.
Shaw's knowledge of massed singing and the unison song came to the fore as the first Editor of National Anthems of the World.
SACRED
CHRISTMAS
AS I RODE OUT (Old English Carol)
3 pages
Curwen 1928
MAKE WE MERRY - a warning to spoil-sports.
Poem, Old English
4 pages
Make we merry, both more or less,
For now is the time of Chris-te-mas, of Chris-te-mas! ...
Curwen 1926
COPAC
OLD CHRISTMAS (adapted by Sir Walter Scott & Thomas Miller)
4 pages
On Christmas Eve the bells were rung,
On Christmas Eve the Mass was sung...
Curwen 1925
COPAC
MASSED SINGING
AN ANGLICAN FOLK MASS
Founded on native hymn melodies.
CORONATION SONG ( E. Montgomery Campbell)
7 pages piano accompaniment
Cramer 1952
THE KING, O GOD, (Robert Bridges)
6 pages, Unison for Massed Singing
Novello 1936
COPAC
HYMN FOR THE QUEEN(Cobbold)
adopted by the Girl Guide movement
3 verses
Unison with optional SATB for verse 2
Novello 1952
SERVICE (Rudyard Kipling)
3 pages
Cramer 1928
SONG OF THE MUSIC MAKERS (Rodney Bennett)
2 pages for 3 verses
First verse:
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
Cramer 1929
GENERAL
THE BUILDERS (T.S. Eliot)
5 pages piano accomaniment
Cramer 1934
O LORD, HOW MANIFOLD ARE THY WORKS
Psalm 104, vv 24-8, 33 & Psalm 65
v. 14
for Harvest or General use
4 pages
Novello 1954
THE PATH OF DUTY (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
3 pages
Novello, 1944
COPAC
SPRING BURSTS TODAY (Christina Rossetti)
3 pages; Hymn no. 5 in Songs of Praise
Curwen 1931
COPAC
SECULAR
A CHANT FOR ENGLAND (Helen Gray Cone)
4 pages
Cramer 1936
BLOW, BLOW THOU WINTER WIND (Shakespeare)
4 pages
Edward Arnold 1922
COPAC
BREAK FORTH INTO THANKSGIVING (Wordsworth)
6 pages
Novello 1929
COPAC
THE BRIDGEWATER CHARTER DAY SONG (T. Bruce-Dilks)
4 verses, 4 pages
Cramer 1926
THE COCKYOLLY SONG (Mabel Dearmer)
4 pages
Curwen 1922
COPAC WORLDCAT
CUCKOO (Traditional, 2nd verse Martin Shaw)
Curwen 1915 copyright renewed
DAY'S END (Thomas Hood)
Key: G (D - E)
Cramer 1936
COPAC WORLDCAT
GATHER UP YOUR LITTER (Eleanor Farjeon)
6 pages
Cramer 1927 - written in response to the King's plea to take care of the countryside
I KNOW A BANK (Shakespeare)
3 pages
Cramer Music 1946
O LAND OF BRITAIN (from Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1100 A.D.)
5 pages
Cramer 1930
OVER THE HILLS (George Meredith)
6 pages
Cramer Music 1953
PIONEERS (All the past we leave behind – Walt Whitman)
4 verses
from Songs of Praise, OUP 1925
I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY (Cecil Spring-Rice)
2 verses
SPCK 1929
COPAC
ST. GEORGES DAY (Geoffrey Dearmer, from original text)
arr. from original tune by Jeremiah Clarke
4 pages
Cramer Music
SEA ROADS (Harold Boulton)
3 pages 3 verses
Winthrop Rodgers/Boosey & Hawkes, 1929
COPAC
SEA SHANTY (In Liverpool where I was Bred – John Masefield)
5 pages
Cramer 1931
A SONG OF LIFE (Christopher Fry)
5 pages
THE SEA SHORE (Geoffrey Dearmer)
3 pages
Cramer Music 1954
WOOD FIRES (C Congreve)
Unison
Cramer 1931, 1939
WORKING TOGETHER (Percy Dearmer)
originally written for the Boy Scouts, Boy's Brigades and others.
4 pages
Cramer 1930
WOULD IT WERE SO (Elizabeth Wordsworth)
4 pages
Novello, 1936
COPAC
YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM (Lewis Carroll)
6 pages
Cramer Music 1951
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE ALLIES
arrangements Martin Shaw unless shown otherwise
23 pages, 11 anthems
Cramer 1941
COPAC WORLDCAT
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD (with Henry Coleman)
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, it is now in its 11th edition.
See Editorial for more information on Shaws work for this title.
