MARTIN DALBY Catalogue of Works - Vocal Music

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VOCAL MUSIC A Muse of Love (1962) Duration 10 minutes Five Elizabethan Love Lyrics. Songs for tenor and piano, all of them simple and direct in style. What Thing is Love? (George Peele) When to Her Lute Corinna Sings (Thomas Campion) O Gentle Love (George Peele) Cupid and my Campaspe Played (John Lyly) Take O Take Those Lips Away (William Shakespeare) Composer or Scottish Music Information Centre (Sale or Hire) (originally with Boosey and Hawkes) An arrangement of the songs for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp is also available on hire from the Scottish Music Information Centre. (Cupid and My Campaspe is also included in A Heritage of 20th Century British SongVolume 3 published by Boosey and Hawkes) Eight Songs from the Chinese (1963) Duration 14 minutes: baritone and piano Words translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. First performed by Harvey Alan and Frederick Stone, BBC Radio 3, 6 July, 1965. (They can also be successfully performed by Countertenor and Piano.) The Little Cart; Flood; The Pedlar of Spells; Plucking the Rushes; New Corn; A Soldiers Song; The Little Lady of Ch¹ing Hsi; The Herd Boy. Alfred Lengnick & Co (Sale) Catalogue No. 4235 Bairnrhymes (1963) Duration 5 minutes: unison voices and piano Three songs to words in Scots by William Soutar for childrens' voices (or solo soprano or tenor) and piano . The Lanely Müne; The Daft Tree; Sang. Novello & Company Ltd (Sale) Three Songs from Old Rhymes (1964) Duration 5 minutes: unison voices and piano Three songs, written in Rome, to anonymous traditional words, for childrens' voices (or solo soprano or tenor) and piano . I Saw a Peacock; Tarry Œoo; There was a King Novello & Company Ltd (Sale) No. 1: catalogue No. EA 902 No. 2: published separately Cat No 160142 (also EA 903) No. 3: catalogue No. EA904 My Song is in Sighing (1964) Duration 2 minutes: motet for solo or treble voices and organ (or piano) A short and very simply conceived motet to words by Richard Rolle of Hampole (1290 - 1349?) Novello & Company Ltd (Sale) Catalogue No:160144 (also EA 906) also included in: High Praise, a book of anthems for upper-voice choirs, selected and edited by Barry Rose Novello & Company Ltd Nov 032118 - ISBN 0-95360-848-2 Recordings: (Cassette/LP): Linda Darnell, Rejoice Greatly (Shooter) Ds: LD 1 Anne Marie Boylan (soprano), (The Armagh Girl Singers, directed by Nigel McClintock), Ian Keatley (organ) Praise on High,  Lammas Records,  LAMM 117D (CD): The Girl Choristers of Wells Cathedral Director: Malcolm Archer Organ: Rupert Gough Lammas Records LAMM 135 Wanderer (1964) Duration 13 minutes: mezzo-soprano and piano Song-cycle on words translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. Commissioned by the Saltire Society, Edinburgh, and first performed by Constance Kennedy Mullay and Alex Kelly. On board ship; Starting Early; In the North West; Self Abandonment; Crossing the River. Ricordi publication (Sale) Catalogue No: LD 560 Distributed in the UK by Novello & Company Ltd The Fiddler (1967) Duration 10 minutes: soprano (or tenor) and violin Song cycle to words by William Soutar. First performed by Jane Manning and Nella Wissema at Glasgow University on 18 January 1971. The Fiddler; Ae Simmer's Day; The Bubblyjock; Cradle Sang; The Thistle Novello & Company Ltd Four Aspects of Faith (1967) Duration 10 minutes: soprano (or tenor) and piano Written in 1967 for Noelle Barker and David Atherton who gave the first performance at a Music in our Time concert in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London on 20 October 1967. The four songs are settings of 16th and 17th century religious texts. Why dost thou lurk so close? (Francis Quarles); Think and be careful (John Byrom); The Generous Christian (Francis Quarles); Sweet are the Thoughts (Anon (J. Amners Sacred Hymns)). Composer or Scottish Music Information Centre Cantica (1969) Duration 12 minutes: soprano or tenor, clarinet, viola and piano Settings of poems by Tommaso Campanella. Commissioned by the Clifton Ensemble, and first performed by them at the Purcell, Room, London, on 4 June 1969. Novello & Company Ltd (Hire) The Keeper of the Pass (1971) Duration 17 minutes: soprano, clt(Eb), clt(bclt), clt(ten sax), pno, perc. Commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival for Jane Manning and the Matrix Ensemble, who first performed it in Edinburgh on 4 September 1971. Words from the Chinese Book of Changes, Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu), early Christian writings, Mother Julian of Norwich, The Didache and Nietzsche. Novello & Company Ltd (Hire) Antoinette Alone (1980) Duration 20 minutes: mezzo soprano and piano Words from Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Commissioned by Masterconcerts Ltd, Glasgow, and first performed by Linda Hirst and Roger Vignoles for a BBC Radio 3 broadcast on 19 September 1981. Novello & Company Ltd Five Sonnets from Scotland (1985) Duration 12 minutes: soprano, tenor and piano Words by Edwin Morgan. Commissioned by Kathleen and Neil Mackie as a tribute to Sir Peter Pears' 75th birthday, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. First performance on 17 March 1986, at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen. Matthew Paris, Colloquy in Glaschu, The Picts, Caledonian Antiyzygy, The Summons. Novello & Company Ltd Cantata: John Clare's Vision (1993) Duration 29 minutes: Soprano (or tenor) and strings (minimum 33221) Composer or Scottish Music Information Centre (Hire) See also under Orchestral Music Sunbeam for Sheba (2002)  Duration 3 minutes 45 seconds: soprano or  tenor and piano (words by Donna McDonald) Written for Flora Stagg to perform at the Birmingham Competitive Music Festival on 2 November 2002. (She gave an earlier private performance with Stuart Smith (piano) in the Unitarian Church, Warwick, on Friday 11 October 2002.)  Scottish Music Information Centre (Sale) Back to top