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Unaccompanied partsongs

1903 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Op.5 Shakespeare Sonnet 18 (pub 1609) 1982 – Sain Records 1977 SATB
1905 Stars of a summer night Op.1 Longfellow 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAATTBB
1906 Come o’er the sea Moore 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
In a fairy boat [rondel] Weller 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA
Lullaby of an infant chief Scott 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
Soul star Bantock (orig Philip Marston - lost) SATB
Tell me, thou soul of her I love Op.13d/1 Thomson 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
Twilight Op.13d/2 author unknown poss. Longfellow LOST SATB
1908 Fairies’ song Cumberland (orig. Philip Marston - lost) 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA
1910 Daybreak Longfellow 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
?1910s/20s Tell me, where is fancy bred Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA
1914 Clown’s song Shakespeare from Twelfth night (c1600), Act 5, scene 1 ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ partsong
The curate and the mulberry-tree author unknown LOST partsong
A gypsy song Jonson LOST SSAA
He was a rat anon SATB
Hie upon hielands [trad. ballad] trad LOST male voices
The knight’s leap author unknown LOST partsong
Legend of Altenahr author unknown male voices
Love’s remorse author unknown LOST partsong?
Marching along author unknown LOST male voices
Meg Merrilies Keats Old Meg she was a gypsy male voices
The owl author unknown female voices
Sands of Dee [Sands o’ Dee] Kingsley mixed voices
The sweetest dream author unknown LOST partsong
Sympathy author unknown LOST partsong
Will you buy any rope? author unknown LOST partsong
Ye spotted snakes Shakespeare SSAA
1915 O mistress mine Shakespeare partsong
1918 The phantom wooer Beddoes SATB
1919 Absence anon SSAA
Ah! County guy! [serenade] Scott equal voices
Fear no more the heat of the sun Shakespeare 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
It was a lover and his lass Shakespeare SSA
Under the greenwood tree Shakespeare SSA
1924 O happiness, celestial fair [choral canon] Hannah More SATB
Shall I then be spared? [choral canon] Hannah More SATB
Sweet solitude [choral canon] Hannah More SATB
Vital spark of heavenly flame [choral canon] Pope SSAA
1925 Blow, blow thou winter wind Shakespeare from As You Like It 1982 – Sain Records SATB
1937-44 Chorus [from Prometheus unbound Chorus from Act I] Shelley unaccompanied

Accompanied partsongs

1914 And will he not come again? Shakespeare SSAA, piano
The blossom in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano
A child’s prayer Betham-Edwards SA, piano
The chimney sweeper in G major - E flat Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics unison or solo, piano – 3´
The dream Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
The echoing green Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
The fly in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 1´
Goodbye to summer Allingham SA, piano
Grace for a child in C major [‘… a two-part easy school song’ - HB] Herrick Noble numbers (1647) no 95 Another grace for a child 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SA, piano – 1´
If I had but two little wings Coleridge SA, piano
Infant joy Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
The lamb Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
Laughing song Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
The little black boy in A minor - A major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 4´
The little boy found Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SA, piano
The little boy lost Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SA, piano
Little white lily MacDonald SSA, piano
The moon Cumberland SA, piano
The mountain and the squirrel Emerson Fable for children 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 2´
Pastoral: the shepherd Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
Piping down the valleys wild in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics unison or solo, piano – 2´
The river Cumberland SA, piano
Robin redbreast author unknown LOST unison, piano
A song of willow Shakespeare SSA, piano
Spring – sound the flute Blake SA, piano
Spring – sound the flute Blake SSA, piano
Summer has come, little children in D major Cumberland SA, piano – 2´
Violets Herrick SSA, piano
What does little birdie say? Tennyson from Sea dreams (1860) 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 1´
1915 The fairy palace Drayton SSA, piano
1919 Fair pledges of a fruitful tree Herrick 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SA, piano
Pack clouds away Heywood SSA, piano
Spring, the sweet spring Nash SA, piano
To daffodils Herrick SA, piano
A wish author unknown LOST 2 voices, piano
1921 Full fathom five Shakespeare 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA, piano
1925 Come away, death Shakespeare TbarB, piano
Mine be a cot beside the hill Rogers LOST SA, piano
1937-44 Three semichoruses [from Prometheus unbound Act II scene 2] Shelley 1,3 unacc; 2 acc fl, hp – 15´

Solo songs

c.1892 Canadian boat song author unknown LOST voice, piano
?1895-96 I shot an arrow Longfellow LOST voice, piano
Today and tomorrow Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
Wanderer’s night song Goethe trans Morley LOST voice, piano
[title unknown] [song] Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
?1904-06 Sorrow song Op.6 Samuel Daniel 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics alto or bar, pno
The message Op.6 Donne 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics alto or bar, pno
Farewell Op.6 Bishop Heber 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics alto or bar, pno
1906 Soliloquy upon a dead child Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records sop or ten, pno
Little sleeper [from Soliloquy upon a dead child] Op.13a Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene rev 1972 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records sop or ten, pno
Day and night Op.13b Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records tenor, piano
When I lie ill Op.13b Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records tenor, piano
If I could speak Op.13b Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records tenor, piano
[title unknown] [song] author unknown prob. Cumberland LOST tenor, piano
A faery song Op.13c Yeats 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records mezzo, piano
1910 Why dost thou wound and break my heart? Herrick 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics tenor, piano
The mad maid’s song Herrick orch score lost 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records mezzo, pno or orch
The night piece Herrick orch score lost 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records tenor, pno or orch
1914 The blossom in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano
The chimney sweeper in G major - E flat Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics unison or solo, piano – 3´
The fly in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 1´
The little black boy in A minor - A major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 4´
The lost doll Kingsley 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records voice, piano
The mountain and the squirrel Emerson Fable for children 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 2´
Piping down the valleys wild in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics unison or solo, piano – 2´
Robin redbreast author unknown LOST unison, piano
What does little birdie say? Tennyson from Sea dreams (1860) 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 1´
1918 Love is a merry game Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
On parting Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
When the sun goes down Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records voice, piano
1918-19 The defiled sanctuary Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics medium voice, piano
Lady Ellayne Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics medium voice, piano
Renunciation Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics medium voice, piano
1919 The birds Blake 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva alto or bar, pno
Call for the robin redbreast Webster LOST voice, piano
Care-charmer sleep Samuel Daniel 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
Hymn to Diana Jonson LOST voice, piano
The land of dreams Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
Music, when soft voices die Shelley LOST voice, piano
On a poet’s lips I slept Shelley LOST voice, piano
The poet’s dream author unknown LOST voice, piano
Sonnet: my lute Drummond LOST voice, piano
When icicles hang by the wall Shakespeare from Love’s Labours Lost 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
1919-21 Take, O take those lips away Shakespeare from Measure for Measure 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
1920-21 The soul of steel C. M. Masterman 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
c.1922-23 Far from thee Taylor LOST voice, piano
Go, happy rose Herrick LOST voice, piano
I know, and you! Bowles LOST voice, piano
A proposal author unknown LOST voice, piano
Since love is dead Bowles 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
Stars of destiny author unknown LOST voice, piano
The twilight house Bowles LOST voice, piano
Where shadows flee author unknown LOST voice, piano
?1926 At candlelight Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
Song of betrothal Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
Without you Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano