English Lyrics by C. H. H. Parry
This is one of a series of posts about books used as source material for Art Song Central.
Book Title: English Lyrics
Composer: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
Publisher: Novello & Co.
Copyright: 1896
Nine volumes of this set are available at the University of Rochester as PDF files. There is one pdf file for each volume. The contents of each are listed below.
Set three is also available via Google Books.
Most of these songs have been transcribed by John Henry Fowler and placed in the Choral Public Domain Library. They can be found via the CPDL page for C.H.H. Parry. The CPDL Parry page also lists three additional sets, one song of which has already been transcribed as of this writing.
First Set Contents:
Second Set Contents:
- O mistress mine @CPDL
- Take, O take those lips away @CPDL
- No longer mourn for me @CPDL
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind @CPDL
- When icicles hang by the wall @CPDL
Third Set Contents:
- To Lucasta on going to the wars @CPDL
- If thou would’st ease thine heart @CPDL
- To Althea from prison @CPDL
- Why so pale and wan @CPDL
- Through the ivory gate @CPDL
- Of all the torments @CPDL
Fourth Set Contents:
- Thine eyes still shined for me @CPDL
- When lovers meet again @CPDL
- When we two parted @CPDL
- Weep you no more @CPDL
- There be none of beauty’s daughters
- Bright star
Fifth Set Contents:
- A Stray nymph of Dian
- Proud Maisie @CPDL
- Crabbed age and youth @CPDL
- Lay a garland on my hearse @CPDL
- Love and laughter
- A girl to her glass
- A Welsh Lullaby @CPDL
Sixth Set Contents:
- When comes my Gwen @CPDL
- And yet I love her till I die @CPDL
- Love is a bable @CPDL
- A lover’s garland
- At the hour the long day ends
- Under the greenwood tree @CPDL
Seventh Set Contents:
- On a time the amorous Silvy @CPDL
- Follow a shadow
- Ye little birds that sit and sing @CPDL
- O never say that I was false of heart
- Julia @CPDL
- Sleep
Eighth Set Contents:
- Whence @CPDL
- Nightfall in winter @CPDL
- Marian @CPDL
- Dirge in woods @CPDL
- Looking backward @CPDL
- Grapes @CPDL
Ninth Set Contents:
- Three Aspects @CPDL
- A Fairy town (St. Andrew’s) @CPDL
- The Witches’ Wood @CPDL
- Whether I live @CPDL
- Armida’s Garden @CPDL
- The Maiden @CPDL
- There @CPDL
Notes:
Song posts will be created as time and discretion allow. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.
I have newly done PDF files, Midi files, and Sibelius source files for 35 of
these songs based on this U of Rochester scan. I would allow your posting of them if you were interested.
- John Henry Fowler
[...] Dame Felicity Lott was one of the first lyric sopranos I ever heard who grasped me with not just her beautiful voice, but also with herability to really communicate a text; I still remember her vividly as Pamina in the video of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and as Anne Truelove in the recording of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. So when I came across her 2004 CD of English Song, entitled “My Own Country,” I knew I had to feature it, especially when combined with a discovery of a vast public domain treasure trove of songs by Parry. [...]