Songs

All holograph manuscript are in the Cambridge Universtiy Library, except where noted. Full details may be found in the online catalogues LibrarySearch and Newton.

Some of the orchestral and ensemble songs are available for hire from Edition Peters.

Title, lyricist, contents	Medium	Date	Material	Notes

As I was a'wand'ring one morning in spring (Burns)
	V, pf	1934	holograph	Not for performance or publication

Chinese songs, Three (translated by Arthur Waley)
Tell me now (Wang Chi, circa A.D. 700) Plucking the rushes (Anon., 4th century) The little card (Ch'ēn Tzŭ-Lung, born 1607)
	V, pf	1943	holograph	Original in the Fitzwilliam Museum. CUL has photocopy of a different holograph manuscript (location unknown)
	V, pf	1947	printed	Published by: OUP
	V, pf	1984	printed	Published by: Anglo American

Cogie of ale, A
	V, pf	1960?	holograph	Words and melody from Johnson's The Scots musical museum

Come sleep (John Fletcher)
	V, pf	1933	holograph	Originally with string quartet

Cupid enchained : for Peter Pears
	T (unacc.)	1955?	holograph	Another holograph copy is in the Britten Pears Library (photocopy in CUL)

December stillness (Siegfried Sassoon)
	V, pf	1937	holograph	Various copies, in three different transpositions: ending on F, G, and A.

Fairy-led (Mary Webb)
	V, pf	1930 or 1931, revised 1936	holograph	Not for performance or publication

Fear (Walter de la Mare)
	V, ob, bn, strings	1928	holograph	Score. Not for performance or publication

From the book of Philip Sparrow (John Skelton)
	MezzoS, strings	1969	holograph	Score. Material availble for hire from Edition Peters.
	MezzoS, pf	1969	holograph	Vocal score
	MezzoS, strings	1969	copyist	Parts.

Good Friday hymn, A
	MezzoS, 2vla, vlc	1938	holograph

Hebridean songs, Two
I-mo-chree (Iona) Saint Colomba's home-sailing & Alleluia
	V, pf	1929	holograph

Hot cake (Shu Hai)
	V, pf	1947	holograph	Score and sketches

I love the jocund dance (Blake)
	V, pf	1930/1939	holograph	Not for performance or publication

In valleys green and still (Housman) see A soldier’s life

Journeys and places (Edwin Muir)
	MezzoS, strings	1971	holograph	Score, vocal score, sketches. Material availble for hire from Edition Peters.

Kimmers o'Cungate, The (Sydney Goodsir Smith)
	V, pf	1968?	holograph	Dated 1955 in Orr’s “Record of compositions”, but the only holograph is on paper from 1968.
	V, pf	1969	printed	Published by: Southside. In ‘Fifteen poems and a play / Syndey Goodsir Smith’

Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats)
	V, pf	1929	holograph	Not for performance or publication

Latin psalms, Three
Jubilate Deo (Psalm 97, v. 7 to end) Miserecordia (Psalm 100 vv.1 and 2, Psalm 136 vv. 1 to 6) In convertendo (Psalm 125, vv. 1 to 6)
	V, str 4tet	1938	holograph	Score & vocal score
	V, str 4tet	1939?	copyist.	String parts (two sets)

Leezie Lindsay (Burns)
	V, pf	?	holograph	Old Scots ballad tune; accompaniment by R.O.

Liebeslied (Rilke)
	V, org	1972	holograph
	V, pf	1986	printed	Published by: Anglo American (facsimile)

Lyrics from the Chinese, Three (translated by Helen Waddell)
Lament (Ah, let it drift) Philosophy [missing] Drinking song (The dew is heavy on the grass)
	V, pf	1945	holograph	Lament, dated “23-7-45”
	V, pf	1945	holograph	Drinking song, dated “25-6-45”
	V, str 4tet	1952	holograph	Drinking song. Score, vocal score & 4 parts

Merry Margaret (John Skelton)
	V, pf	1940	holograph

My true-love hath my heart (Sir Philip Sidney)
	MezzoS, str 4tet	1952	holograph

Pastorals, Three (Mary Webb)
Green rain A summer day The happy life
	S, fl, vla, pf	1951	holograph	Score & vocal score. Material availble for hire from Edition Peters.
	S, rec, vla, pf	1996	holograph	Fl part arr for recorder (descant & bass)
	S, rec, vla, pf	1996	printed	Computer set by John Turner

Rainbow, The (Walter de la Mare)
	V, pf	1928, revised 1936	holograph

Romantic songs, Four (from 'Medieval Latin lyrics' Helen Waddell)
Winter) Down from the branches fall the leaves (Spring) Comes now the spring Now the fields are laughing (Summer) While summer on is stealing
	T, ob, strings	1949, revised 1960	holograph	Full score. Original in the Britten-Pears Library; CUL has photocopy. Material available for hire from Edition Peters.
	T, pf	1960	holograph	Vocal score

Scots songs, Seven
Low down in the broom Saw ye Johnnie comin? Willie's gan in Melville Castle O can ye sew cushions Jenny come down to Jock Bessie Bell & Mary Grey Hoolie & fairly
	V/unison, pf	1954	holograph	MISSING
	V/unison, pf	1956	printed	Published by Oxford University Press

Sleep – see Come sleep

Snowdrop time (Mary Webb)
	V, fl, ob, str.	1930	holograph	Score & vocal score (revised 1933). Not for performance or publication

Soldier's life (In the valley green and still) (A.E. Housman)
	V, pf	1943	holograph

Songs of innocence (Blake)
Infant joy The lamb The shepherd
	V, str 4tet	1929, revised 1932	holograph	Original score and vocal score are in the National Library of Scotland; CUL has a photocopy of both, and also of a different holograph vocal score (location unknown)
	V, str 4tet	1932	holograph	String parts, copied 1932.

Spiritual exercise, A (Stephen Spender)
	V, pf	1937	holograph

Traditional Scots songs, Seven (published in the series: The Kelvin series of Scots songs)
3. An thou were my ain thing 5. Ay wakin O 7. The blythsome bridal 8. The bonny Earl of Murray 17. My daddy's a delver of dykes 21. Our gudemer cam' hame at e'en 26. There's nae luck
	V, pf	1965	printed	Published by: Bayley & Ferguson

Turn ye to me (Christopher North)
	V, pf	194-?	holograph	Old Scots tune; accompaniment by R.O.

Versus from Ogden Nash
Who did which Pastoral The seagull and the Ea-gull
	V, str 4tet	1978	holograph	Score and vocal score, and sketches
	V, str 4tet	1978	photocopy	Score and parts of version for string orchestra
	V, pf	1985	printed	Vocal score published by: Anglo American

Word in my ear, A
	V, pf	1976	holograph	“Adapted from Michael Flanders [and] Donald Swan and performed by R.O. and Hugh Sykes Davies at a dinner in St. John's on our retirement, 1976.”

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