Songs
Introduction
The songs on this page are set either for solo Alto/Counter-tenor voice and keyboard, or for SATB/unison voice(s) with piano accompaniment. These latter arrangements are written in a simple two stave format. The vocal sections have words (95% of the pieces) while the wordless sections are for piano alone.
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No. 32 - The Poplar-field
- Counter-tenor/Alto voice and Keyboard, PDF 7 pages.
- Text: William Cowper (1731-1800).
- A lament even more apt today as when originally penned.
No. 33 - The Garden of Sleep
- Piano and SATB choir, PDF 8 pages.
- Text: Clement Scott.
- When the travel writer and journalist Clement Scott arrived at Cromer in August 1883 to reveiw the town, he could find no suitable accommodation, and set out on foot for the nearby village of Overstrand; making his way along the cliffs and down country lanes fringed by blossom filled hedgerows and corn fields speckled red with poppies. There he sought lodging at the house by the mill. He knocked, and the door was opened by the miller's nineteen year old daughter, Marie Louisa Jermy. In that moment Poppyland was born; it would transform the lives of Clement Scott and 'Louie' Jermy as well as the fortunes of an entire region of Norfolk.
No. 37 - Mrs. Jane Barbier
- Counter-tenor/Alto voice and Keyboard, PDF 4 pages.
- Text: John Hughes.
- Jane Barbier (circa 1691-1757) sang for Handel and Arne and was a frequent performer in John Rich's pantomimes.
No. 64 - If I were a Cassowary
- Piano and SATB choir, PDF 5 pages.
- John Colenso a biblical scholar and the first Bishop of Natal in South Africa wrote advocating tolerance for polygamy and against biblical infallibility. Tried for hersey under Archbishop Longley of Canterbury, the Privy Council ruled the charge ultra vires. William Macrorie was installed as Bishop of Marizburg and the church in Natal divided into rival factions.
- Text: Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, et al.
- No. 764 in MIDI format
No. 66 - Poor Beasts!
- Piano and SATB choir, PDF 4 pages.
- A humorous lyric concerning the lives of men and animals.
- Text: Anon.
- No. 766 in MIDI format
No. 67 - Hymn & Lamentation
- Piano and SATB choir, PDF 4 pages.
- A hymn for civil servants printed in the Daily Telegraph many years ago.
- Text: Anon.
- No. 767 in MIDI format