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The Willow Song
(trad.). For voice and pianoforte.

Adieu
German, trans. A. Foxton Ferguson.
Soprano and baritone duet with pianoforte.

Think of Me
German, trans. A. Foxton Ferguson.
Soprano and baritone duet with pianoforte.

Cousin Michael
German, trans. A. Foxton Ferguson.
Soprano and baritone duet with pianoforte.

Réveillez-vous, Picars
French; English adaptation by Paul England.
For voice and pianoforte.

Jean Renaud
French, 15c.; English adaptation by Paul England.
For voice and pianoforte.

L'amour de Moy
French, 15c.; English version by Paul England.
For voice and pianoforte.

Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties
From Essex:
Bushes and Briars (1903),
Tarry Trowsers
(1904)
A Bold Young Farmer
(1904)
The Lost Lady Found
(1904)
As I Walked Out
(1904)
The Lark in the Morning
(1904)

Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties
Collections From Norfolk.

Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties
Collections From Cambridgeshire.

The Jolly Ploughboy
Sussex folk-song.
Arranged for TTBB unaccompanied.
Arranged for unison singing with pianoforte

Down among the Dead Men
(trad.). Arranged for TTBB unaccompanied.

The Spanish Ladies
(trad.). Arranged for voice and pianoforte.

Alister McAlpine's Lament
Scottish air; words by Robert Allan.
Arranged for mixed voices (SATB) unaccompanied.

Folk Songs for Schools
Arranged for unison singing with pianoforte accompaniment.

Folk Songs of England, V. Folk Songs from Sussex
Editor. Cecil J. Sharp. Collected by W. Percy Merrick, with pianoforte accompaniments by RVW and Albert Robins.

Ward the Pirate
Arranged for mixed chorus (SATB) and small orchestra (2.2.2.2., timp., cym., tri., str.).

Tarry Trowsers
Arranged for mixed chorus (SATB) and small orchestra (2.2.2.2., timp., cym., tri., str.).

And All in the Morning (On Christmas Day)
Arranged for mixed chorus (SATB) and small orchestra (2.2.2.2., timp., cym., tri., str.).

The Carter. Orchestra
timp., perc. hp. and str. Unpublished.

The Minehead Hobby-Horse (English folk dance)
Arranged for orchestra (fl., picc., 1.2.2.; 1.1.; tri., b.d.; pf., str.

Phil the Fluter's Dancing
(English folk dance) Arranged for flute and strings.

Mannin Veen ('Dear Mona")
Manx trad.). For mixed chorus (SATB) unaccompanied.

The Dark-eyed Sailor
English folk-song. Unison song with pianoforte accompaniment accompaniment.

Just as the Tide was Flowing
English folk-song. Unison song with pianoforte.

The Lover's Ghost
English folk-song). Arranged voice and pianoforte

Wassail Song
English folk-song). Arranged for unison voices with descant and orchestral accompaniment in the cantata.

Selection of Collected Folk Songs
Arranged for voice and pianoforte by Cecil J. Sharp and RVW.

The Motherland Song Book
published in four volumes by Stainer & Bell Ltd in 1919.

Eight Traditional English Carols
Arranged for voice and pianoforte. An unaccompanied version of each carol for mixed choir.

The Turtle Dove
Arranged for male voices, with pianoforte ad lib. Solo part for tenors and baritones, chorus TBB.

Our love goes out to English skies
Patriotic Song. Harold Child), adapted from Queen Zempoalla's march in Purcell's Indian Queen, for unison or mixed choir

Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire
Collected, edited and arranged for voices with pianoforte accompaniment, or to be sung unaccompanied.

The League of Nations Song Book
Music ed. by Martin Shaw.

The Lass that Loves a Sailor
Words and music by Charles Dibdin). Edited and arranged for unison voices or SATB, with soprano solo, with pianoforte accompaniment.

The Mermaid
Trad. Arranged for SATB with soprano solo, unaccompanied, or unison with pianoforte accompaniment.

Heart of Oak
Attrib. Garrick; melody by William Boyce). Arranged for unison singing with pianoforte accompaniment, for male voices (TTBB) unaccompanied.

The Farmer's Boy
Old English air. Arranged for male voices (TTBB) unaccompanied.

 

Loch Lomond
Scottish air. Arranged for male voices (TTBB) with baritone solo, unaccompanied.

A Farmer's Son So Sweet
Folk-song. Arranged for male voices (T.Bar.B). With pianoforte accompaniment ad lib. Words and melody from Cecil J. Sharp's Folk Songs from Somerset.

Ca the Yowes
Burns. Scottish folk-song arranged for tenor solo and mixed chorus (SATB) unaccompanied.

High Germany
Folk-song. Arranged for male voices, with pianoforte accompaniment ad lib. Solos for tenor and bass. Words and melody from Cecil J. Sharp's Folk Songs of England.

Mr. Isaac's Maggot

English traditional country dance tune). Arranged for clarinet, pianoforte, triangle, and strings.

Old Folks at Home
Melody by Stephen Foster). Arranged for male voices (TTBB) with baritone solo.

The 'Giant' Fugue.
J. S. Bach. Transcribed for strings by RVW and Arnold Foster.

Epithalmium
John G. Brainard, set to an old English air, slightly adapted, for Carl Stoeckel.

The Lawyer
English folk-song, collected by George Butterworth. Arranged by RVW for unaccompanied mixed voices.

Twelve Traditional Country Dances
Collected and described by Maud Karpeles. Pianoforte arrangements by RVW in collaboration with Maud Karpeles.

Choral and Choral Prelude: Ach bleib' bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ ('Now Cheer our Hearts this Eventide')
J. S. Bach, freely arranged for pianoforte by RVW

An Acre of Land
English folk-song). For male voices, (TTBB) with pianoforte accompaniment.

John Dory
English folk-song from William Chappell's Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time, 1879.

I'll never love thee more
Words by James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose; tune from Playford's Dancing Master. Arranged for unaccompanied mixed voices.

The World it went well with me then
Trad., from Chappell's Popular Music). Arranged for male voices (TTBB) unaccompanied.

Tobacco's but an Indian Weed
Trad., from Chappell's Popular Music). Arranged for male voices (TTBB) unaccompanied.

The Ploughman
English folk-song). Arranged for male voices (TTBB) with pianoforte accompaniment ad lib.

Folk Songs from Newfoundland
Collected and arranged by Maud Karpeles, with pianoforte accompaniments by RVW and others. Republished (OUP, 1968) as Fifteen Folks Songs from Newfoundland.

Folk Songs, Volume II.
A Selection of thirty-three less-known folk-songs, arranged by Cecil Sharp, RVW, and others for voice and pianoforte. Compiled by Cyril Winn.

Two English Folk Songs
Arranged for voice and violin.

Six English Folk Songs
Arranged for voice and pianoforte.

My Soul Praise the Lord
(W. Kethe, slightly adapted). Hymn arranged for chorus (SATB) and unison singing with descant, and organ (or strings and organ).

Te Deum
Dvorák). For soprano and bass, mixed chorus (SATB), and orchestra. English adaptation (for the Leith Hill Festival) by RVW.

Benedictus and Agnus Dei in Liturgical Settings of the Holy Communion
Editor J. H. Arnold. All those parts of the service that belong to the congregation are set to traditional melodies.

All Hail the Power
Perronet. To the tune 'Miles Lane' (W. Shrubsole), arranged for unison (congregation), mixed chorus (SATB) with organ or orchestra (2.2.2.2.1.; 4.3.3.1.; timp., perc., org.; str.).

Nine Carols for Male Voices
Unaccompanied.

Three Gaelic Songs
Melodies and Gaelic words published in the Journal of the Folk Song Society in 1911. Arranged in October 1954 for unaccompanied mixed voices

Diabelleries
Variations by various composers for 11 instruments on a theme 'Oh! Where's my little basket gone?' (attrib. Alfred Scott-Gatty).) A composite work by RVW, Howard Ferguson, Alan Bush, Alan Rawsthorne, Elizabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Gerald Finzi, Grace Williams, and Gordon Jacob.

God Bless the Master of this House
from the 'Sussex Mummers' Carol'). Arranged for unaccompanied mixed chorus.

Schmücke Dich, O liebe Seele
J. S. Bach. Arranged for violoncello and strings.

Fen and Flood
Charles Cudworth). Cantata for male chorus (TTBar.B) and orchestra by Patrick Hadley; arranged for soprano and baritone soloists and mixed chorus.

Nine English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
For voice and pianoforte.

Certain unpublished arrangements
The Shooting of his Dear; O Sinner Man; Locks and Bolts; Salisbury Plain (vocal score only), and melody and words only of The Maid Freed from the Gallows; Geordie; The Lady and the Dragoon; The Lowlands of Holland and The Brown Girl are to be found in British Library MS 71491, along with the melody and words (in Maud Karpeles' hand) of Lord Randal, Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, Fair Margaret and Sweet William, Barbara Allen, and The Daemon Lover.

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