| This list includes every known work by Havergal
Brian - from the shortest song to the longest opera - ordered by the author of the text.
Interestingly, there is only one work, the very early Requiem, which takes
its texts from more than one source.
SONGS Title page
Aeschylus
abridged and adapted by the composer from Blackie's Everyman translation
Agamemnon (in English) 6 parts, orchestra [opera] 1957
William Allingham
Goodbye to summer SA, unaccompanied 1914
CR Barber
Two scenas baritone, piano/orchestra, 1918
lost
Helen Bantock
Soul star SATB, unaccompanied 1906
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The phantom wooer SATB, unaccompanied
1918
M Betham-Edwards
A child's prayer SA, piano 1914
William Blake
The birds voice, piano 1919
The blossom voice, piano 1914
The chimney sweeper unison or solo, piano 1914
The defiled sanctuary medium voice, piano
1918-19
The dream SSA, piano 1914
The echoing green SSA, piano 1914
The fly unison or solo, piano 1914
Infant joy SSA, piano 1914
The lamb SSA, piano 1914
The land of dreams voice, piano 1919
Laughing song SSA, piano 1914
The little black boy unison or solo, piano 1914
The little boy found SA, piano 1914
The little boy lost SA, piano 1914
Pastoral: the shepherd SSA, piano 1914
Piping down the valleys wild unison or solo, piano 1914
Spring - sound the flute SSA,
piano 1914
Spring - sound the flute SA, piano 1914
Fred Bowles
Since love is dead song c1922-23
I know, and you! song c1922-23 lost
The twilight house song c1922-23
lost
Havergal Brian
Three illuminations speaker,
piano 1916
The tigers 50 parts, chorus, orchestra [opera] 1917-29
Thomas Campbell
The soldier's dream orchestra; or voices, orchestra,
1908-09 lost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If I had but two little wings SA, piano 1914
Gerald Cumberland [CF Kenyon]
Day and night tenor, piano 1906
Fairies' song SSAA, unaccompanied 1908
If I could speak tenor, piano 1906
The moon SA, piano 1914
The river SA, piano 1914
Soliloquy upon a dead child soprano or tenor,
piano 1906
Summer has come, little children SA, piano 1914
The vision of Cleopatra SMAT soli, choruses, orchestra, 1908 full
score lost
When I lie ill tenor, piano 1906
Samuel Daniel
Sorrow song alto or baritone, piano ?1904-06
Care-charmer sleep voice, piano 1919
John Donne
The message alto or baritone, piano
?1904-06
Lord Alfred Douglas
Wine of summer baritone, orchestra
[Symphony 5] 1937
Michael Drayton
The fairy palace SSA, piano 1915
William Drummond of Hawthornden
Sonnet: my lute voice, piano lost 1919
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mountain and the squirrel unison or solo,
piano 1914
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust (part 1) (abridged HB)
soli, chorus, orchestra [opera] 1955-56
Wanderer's night song trans Morley (in English) ?1895-96 lost
Gunby Hadath
song ?1895-96 lost
At candlelight, song 1926
Song of betrothal, song 1926
Today and tomorrow ?1895-96 lost
Without you, song 1926
Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene
Little sleeper soprano or tenor, piano
1906 rev 1972
Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta
Farewell alto or baritone, piano
?1904-06
Heinrich Heine trans Todhunter
Pilgrimage to Kevlaar ballad,
chorus, orchestra lost
Robert Herrick
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree SA, piano
1919
Go, happy rose SSAA, piano or
orch 1912/c1922-23 lost
Grace for a child SA, piano 1914
The hag SSAA, piano or orch 1912
The mad maid's song mezzo, pno or orch (orch
score lost) 1910
The night piece tenor, pno or orch (orch
score lost) 1910
Requiem for the rose SSAA, piano
or orch 1912
To daffodils SA, piano 1919
Violets SSA, piano 1914
Why dost thou wound and break my heart? tenor,
piano 1910
Thomas Heywood
Pack clouds away SSA, piano 1919
Ben Jonson
A gypsy song SSAA, unaccompanied 1914 lost
Hymn to Diana voice, piano lost 1919
John Keats
Meg Merrilies
male voices, unaccompanied 1914
Charles Kingsley
The lost doll voice, piano 1914
The sands of Dee
mixed voices, unaccompanied 1914
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Carmilhan dramatic
cantata, soli, chorus, orchestra 1906 lost
Daybreak SATB, unaccompanied 1910
I shot an arrow song, ?1895-96 lost
Stars of a summer night SSAATTBB, unaccompanied 1905
George MacDonald
The white lily SSA, piano 1914
CM Masterman
Soul of steel voice, piano 1920-21
Thomas Moore
Come o'er the sea SATB, unaccompanied
1906
Hannah More
O happiness, celestial fair Choral canon, SATB,
unaccompanied 1924
Shall I then be spared? Choral canon, SATB,
unaccompanied 1924
Sweet solitude Choral canon, SATB,
unaccompanied 1924
Thomas Nash
Spring, the sweet spring SA, unaccompanied
1919
Alexander Pope
Vital spark of heavenly flame Choral canon,
SATB, unaccompanied 1924
Samuel Rogers
Mine be a cot beside the hill SA,
piano 1919 lost
Friedrich Schiller
Turandot (abridged by HB) soli, chorus, orchestra, 1950-51
Sir Walter Scott
Ah! County guy! serenade for equal voices,
unaccompanied 1919
Lullaby of an infant chief SATB, unaccompanied
1906
work for chorus and orchestra 1908-09 lost
William Shakespeare
And will he not come again? SSAA, piano 1914
Blow, blow thou winter wind SATB
1925
Clown's song
mixed (?) voices, unaccompanied 1914
Come away, death TbarB, piano 1925
Fear no more the heat of the sun SATB,
unaccompanied 1919
Full fathom five SSAA, piano 1921
It was a lover and his lass SSA,
unaccompanied 1919
O mistress mine unaccompanied 1915
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? SATB chorus, unaccompanied 1903
A song of willow SSA, piano 1914
Take, O take those lips away voice, piano
1919-21
Under the greenwood tree SSA, unaccompanied
1919
When icicles hang by the wall voice, piano 1919
Ye spotted snakes SSAA, unaccompanied 1914
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci (abridged HB) 10 parts, chorus, orchestra [opera],
1952
Music when soft voices die song 1919 lost
On a poet's lips I slept song
1919 lost
Prometheus unbound 25 parts, 4 choruses, orchestra, 1937-44 lost
F Taylor
Far from thee song c1922-23 lost
Temple Keble
Lady Ellayne medium voice, piano 1918-19
Love is a merry game song 1918
On parting song 1918
Renunciation medium voice, piano
1918-19
When the sun goes down song 1918
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What does little birdie say? unison or solo,
piano 1914
James Thomson
Tell me, thou soul of her I love SATB,
unaccompanied 1906
Bernard Weller
In a fairy boat rondel, SSAA, unaccompanied
1906
John Webster
Call for the robin redbreast song 1919 lost
William Butler Yeats
A faery song mezzo, piano 1906
RELIGIOUS SOURCES
excerpts from New Testament and Hymns ancient and modern baritone solo, chorus SATB, orchestra [»Requiem«], 1899 lost
Psalm 23 (from the Book
of Common Prayer, translated Miles Coverdale, 1535)
tenor, chorus SATB, orchestra c1904, reconstructed 1944-45
Psalm 68 (in English)
soli, chorus, orchestra [»Let God arise«], ?1906-07 lost
Psalm 68 (in German) soprano, double chorus SATB,
orchestra [Symphony 4 »Das Siegeslied«], 1932-33
Psalm 137 baritone,
chorus, orchestra [»By the waters of Babylon«], 1905, rev 1909 full score lost
Te Deum (in Latin) SATB soli, child
chorus, 2 double choruses SATB, orchestra [Symphony 1 in D minor »The Gothic«, part 2],
?1919-27
The word 'Amen' chorus [»Introit amen«] 1924 lost
ANONYMOUS OR AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The subtle difference between these two categories is that 'anonymous' has the
usual meaning, whereas 'author unknown' means the author's name has not yet been
identified (it may or may not be anonymous).
Absence (anon) SSAA, unaccompanied 1919
Anthem 1896 lost
Canadian boat song c1892 lost
The curate and the mulberry-tree unaccompanied
1914 lost
He was a rat (anon) SATB, unaccompanied
1914
Hie upon hielands (trad) male voices,
unaccompanied trad ballad 1914 lost
The knight's leap unaccompanied 1914 lost
The legend of Altenahr male voices, unaccompanied 1914
Love's remorse unaccompanied 1914 lost
Marching along male voices, unaccompanied
1914 lost
The owl female
voices, unaccompanied 1914
The poet's dream voice, piano 1919 lost
Prelude soprano, double chorus, 1933 lost
A proposal song c1922-23
lost
Robin redbreast unison or
solo, piano 1914 lost
Stars of destiny song c1922-23
lost
Sympathy unaccompanied
1914 lost
The sweetest dream unaccompanied 1914 lost
Twilight (poss Longfellow) unaccompanied, poss
1906 lost
Where shadows flee song c1922-23 lost
Will you buy any rope? unaccompanied 1914
lost
A wish 2 voices, piano 1919 lost
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