Title: Oh Promise Me (from “Robin Hood”)

Music: Reginald de Koven (1859-1920)

Text: Clement Scott (1841-1904)

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• PDF available at the Internet Archive: Oh Promise Me
• Key: A♭ Major
• Range: E♭4 - F5 (optional A♭5)
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• PDF available at USOpera.com: Oh Promise Me
• Key: G Major
• Range: D4 - E5 (optional G5)
• Transcribed with Finale.

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Oh promise me that some day you and I
will take our love together to some sky,
Where we can be alone and faith renew,
and find the hollows where the flowers grew,
those first sweet violets of early spring
Which come in whispers, thrill us both, and sing
of love unspeakable that is to be;
Oh promise me, Oh promise me!

Oh promise me that you will take my hand,
the most unworthy in this lonely land,
and let me sit beside you, in your eyes
Seeing the vision of our paradise,
Hearing God’s message while the organ rolls,
its mighty music to our very souls,
no love less perfect than a life with thee;
Oh promise me, oh promise me!

• Parlorsongs.com has more information about Oh Promise Me and other “enduring” hit songs from the turn of the century. Click on the sheet music for a link to a scorch version (unprintable) of this song.

Title: Nacht und Träume

Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Author: Matthäus von Collin (1779-1824)

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• Key: B Major (original key)
• Range: D♯4 - E5
• Transcribed using PrintMusic 2006
• PDF file: Nacht und Träume
• Key: A Major
• Range: C♯4 - D5
• Transcribed using PrintMusic 2006

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MIDI:

• Nacht und Träume midi in B major (Original key)
• Nacht und Träume midi in A major

Heil’ge Nacht, du sinkest nieder;
Nieder wallen auch die Träume
Wie dein Mondlicht durch die Räume,
Durch der Menschen stille Brust.
Die belauschen sie mit Lust;
Rufen, wenn der Tag erwacht:
Kehre wieder, heil’ge Nacht!
Holde Träume, kehret wieder!

• Wikipedia has an entry for Nacht und Träume.
• Recmusic.org has text and translations.

Title: Les Rameaux

Music: Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914)

Text: Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914)

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• Transcribed at the Werner Icking Music Archive
• Key: PDF available in B♭ Major
• Range: D4 - F5
• Finale source file also available to edit or transpose.

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MIDI:

• Available at the Werner Icking Music Archive

Sur nos chemins les rameaux et les fleurs
Sont répandus dans ce grand jour de fête,
Jésus s’avance, il vient sécher nos pleurs,
Déjà la foule à l’acclamer s’apprête;
Peuples, chantez, chantez en choeur,
Que votre voix à notre voix réponde.
Hosanna! Gloire au Seigneur!
Béni celui qui vient sauver le monde!

Il a parlé, les peuples à sa voix
Ont recouvré leur liberté perdue;
L’humanité donne à chacun ses droits,
Et la lumière est à chacun rendue;
Peuples, chantez, chantez en choeur,
Que votre voix à notre voix réponde.
Hosanna! Gloire au Seigneur!
Béni celui qui vient sauver le monde!

Réjouis-toi, Sainte Jérusalem,
De tes enfants chante la délivrance;
Par charité le Dieu de Bethléhem
Avec la foi t’apporte l’espérance!
Peuples, chantez, chantez en choeur,
Que votre voix à notre voix réponde.
Hosanna! Gloire au Seigneur!
Béni celui qui vient sauver le monde!

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Title: Do not go, my love

Music: Richard Hageman (1882-1966)

Text: Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

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Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.
I have watched all night, and now my eyes are heavy with sleep;
I fear lest I lose you when I am sleeping.
Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.
I start up and stretch my hands to touch you.
I ask myself, “Is it a dream?”
Could I but entangle your feet with my heart,
And hold them fast to my breast!
Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.

• Recmusic.org has the poem.

Book Title: Twelve Songs
Composer: Claude Debussy
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1913

The Internet Archive has a complete copy of the Low Voice edition.

Contents:

• Mandoline
• Romance
• Beau Soir
• Green
• C’est l’extase langoureuse
• Il pleure dans mon coeur
• L’ombre des arbres
• Les Cloches
• La mort des amants
• Harmonie du soir
• En Sourdine
• La Chevelure

Notes:
Each of the songs in this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

Book Title: Seven songs as unpretentious as the wild rose
Composer: Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946)
Publisher: Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son
Copyright: 1901

The Internet Archive has a complete copy of the High Voice edition.

Contents:

• Shadows
• Parting
• Just a-wearyin’ for you
• De las’ long res’
• I love you truly
• Still unexprest
• Des hold my hands tonight

Notes:
Each of the songs in this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

Series Title: The Musicians Library
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company

The numbering of volumes was inconsistent, so they are presented here in no particular order:

• Fifty Mastersongs Edited by Henry T. Finck
• Johannes Brahms: Forty Songs Edited by James Hunecker
• Frédéric Chopin: Forty Piano Compositions Edited by James Hunecker
• Robert Franz: Fifty Songs Edited by William Foster Apthorp
• Franz Liszt: Twenty Original Piano Compositions Edited by August Spanuth
• Franz Liszt: Twenty Piano Transcriptions Edited by August Spanuth
• Franz Liszt: The Hungarian Rhapsodies Edited by August Spanuth and John Orth
• Robert Schumann: Fifty Songs Edited by W. J. Henderson
• Wagner Lyrics for Soprano Edited by Carl Armbruster
• Wagner Lyrics for Tenor Edited by Carl Armbruster
• Modern French Songs, Vol 1: Bemberg to Franck Edited by Philip Hale
• Modern French Songs, Vol 2: Georges to Widor Edited by Philip Hale
• Songs by Thirty Americans Edited by Rupert Hughes
• Franz Schubert: Fifty Songs Edited by Henry T. Finck
• Selections from the Music Dramas of Richard Wagner Arranged for the piano by Otto Singer
• Robert Schumann: Fifty Piano Compositions Edited by Xaver Scharwenka
• Twenty-Four Negro Melodies Transcribed for the piano by S. Coleridge-Taylor
• Seventy Scottish Songs Edited with accompaniments by Helen Hopekirk
• George Frideric Handel: Vol 1 Songs and Airs for High Voice Edited by Ebenezer Proust
• George Frideric Handel: Vol 2 Songs and Airs for Low Voice Edited by Ebenezer Proust
• Fifty Shakspere Songs Edited by Charles Vincent
• Early Italian Piano Music Edited by M. Esposito
• Anthology of French Piano Music Vol 1, Early Composers Edited by Isidor Philipp
• Anthology of French Piano Music Vol 2, Modern Composers Edited by Isidor Philipp
• Felix Mendelssohn: Thirty Piano Compositions Edited by Percy Goetschius
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twenty Piano Compositions Edited by Carl Reinecke
• Edvard Grieg: Fifty Songs Edited by Henry T. Finck
• Adolf Jensen: Forty Songs Edited by William Foster Apthorp
• Franz Liszt: Thirty Songs Edited by Carl Armbruster
• Richard Strauss: Forty Songs Edited by James Huneker
• P. I. Tchaïkovsky: Forty Songs Edited by James Huneker
• Richard Wagner: Lyrics for Baritone and Bass Edited by Carl Armbruster
• Hugo Wolf: Fifty Songs Edited by Ernest Newman
• One Hundred English Folksongs (Medium Voice) Edited by Cecil J. Sharp
• One Hundred Folksongs of All Nations (Medium Voice) Edited by Granville Bantock
• One Hundred Songs of England Edited by Granville Bantock
• Sixty Irish Songs Edited by William Arms Fisher
• Sixty Patriotic Songs of All Nations (Medium Voice) Edited by Granville Bantock
• Sixty Folksongs of France (Medium Voice) Edited by Julien Tiersot
• Songs from the Operas for Soprano Edited by H. E. Krehbiel
• Songs from the Operas for Mezzo Soprano Edited by H. E. Krehbiel
• Songs from the Operas for Alto Edited by H. E. Krehbiel
• Songs from the Operas for Tenor Edited by H. E. Krehbiel
• Songs from the Operas for Baritone and Bass Edited by H. E. Krehbiel
• Franz Joseph Haydn: Twenty Piano Compositions Edited by Xaver Scharwenka

There are additional volumes in this series for piano, and possibly more for voice.

Publisher’s Note:
All song volumes are issued for both High and Low Voice, except where otherwise stated.

Book Title: My Favorite Folk Songs
Collected by: Marcella Sembrich (1858-1935)
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1918

The Internet Archive has a complete edition available for download: My Favorite Folk Songs

Contents:

• American
• Indian - Laughing Water (Be-thae wa-an)
• Indian - Little Papoose (Wae-ton wa-an)
• Negro - Deep River
• Austrian
• Reassured (Die Beruhigte)
• The Sorrow of Love (Liebeskummer)
• Bohemian
• Lament (Stesk)
• The Treasure (Wšak nám tak, nebude)
• Bosnian
• Why so silent, tell me, birdie (Paun i Kolo)
• Bulgarian
• The Outlaw (Tri godini)
• Canadian
• Gai lon la
• Chinese
• The Jasmin-flower (Moo-lee-hwa)
• English
• Barbara Allen
• Pretty Polly Oliver
• The Three Ravens
• French
• My dear, if we were wandering (La bell’ si nous étiom’ dedans)
• Nightingale sweetly singing (Roussignoulet qui cantos)
• The Three Captains (Les trois capitaines)
• The Parable of the Sinful Rich Man (La parabole du mauvais riche)
• German
• Must I go (Muss i denn)
• My heart and thy heart (Dein Herz und mein Herz)
• The Lanthorn (Die Latern)
• The Mill Wheel (Das Mühlrad)
• The Sandman (Sandmännchen)
• Grecian
• The Musician (O moisikos)
• Hungarian
• See, love, above the stars (Csillag elég ragyog)
• Irish
• The Last Rose of Summer
• Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
• Italian
• La Romanella
• O once mine eyes had seen you (Pill’ ura chi ti vitti)
• Peasant’s Song (Canzonetta di campagnuolo)
• Should you chance on love at play (Se Amor mai da vu se vede)
• The Savoyarde (La Savoyarde)
• Catina, my sweetheart (Catina bellina)
• Wherein have I offended? (Che t’ho fatto?)
• Norwegian
• Dearest maiden (Kau fra Hallingdalen)
• Norwegian Echo Song (Kom Kjyra)
• Polish
• Dearest maiden, hark I pray thee (Krakowiak)
• How shall I, unhappy (Cóź ja niboraczek)
• Oh, hop-vine (Oj chmielu)
• Russian
• Ah! see the old pear-tree (Zéléna grusha)
• By the bridge (Wozli ryczki wozli mosta)
• O’er the distant lonely mountains (Dalekaya i blezkaya)
• Sown with millet was my garden (Siałem proso na zagonie)
• Ruthenian
• My Neighbor (A susida)
• The Dancers (Oy szumyt i hude)
• The Woodland Cabin (Hryc)
• Scottish
• Comin’ through the Rye
• Maxwellton’s braes are bonny
• What’s this dull town to me
• Serbian
• Come, my dearest (Pjesma)
• Swedish
• On a crystal throne (Necken’s Polska)
• Sorrow (Sorgen)
• Vigorous and honest is he (Rasker och redlig ar han)
• When I was seventeen (När jag blef sjutton år)
• Spanish
• May Song (Cancion de Maja)
• Think not thou canst deceive me (Se piensas engañarme)
• Cruel Caramba (Tirana del Caramba y como te quiero)
• Syrian
• Sleep, my child (Aïnte)
• Turkish
• The sun hangs high (Charki hidjas)

Notes:
This book appears to be a quality edition, in keeping with the standards set in other Oliver Ditson publications from this period. It is noteable that original language texts are provided for almost all of these songs, which is a welcome departure from the norm for folk song collections of the time.

Each of the songs from this volume, when appropriate, will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

Book Title: Fifty Shakspere Songs

• (Note: the title is not a typo. This is one of the ways Shakespeare spelled his own name, and was in common usage well into the early 20th century.)

Editor: Charles Vincent (1852-1934)
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1906

The Internet Archive has a downloadable copy of the High Voice edition and I note a second copy in case there are problems with the first.

Contents:

• And let me the canakin clink (Harvey Worthington Loomis)
• Autolycus’ Song (James Greenhill)
• Bid me discourse (Sir Henry Rowley Bishop)
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind (William Arms Fisher)
• Come unto these yellow sands (John Banister)
• Come unto these yellow sands (Henry Purcell)
• Crabbed age and youth (Harvey Worthington Loomis)
• Farewell, dear love (Robert Jones)
• Fear no more the heat o’ the sun (Sir C. Hubert H. Parry)
• Full fathom five thy father lies (Robert Johnson)
• Full fathom five thy father lies (Henry Purcell)
• Green-Sleeves (Unknown)
• Hark, hark! the lark (Franz Schubert)
• Hark, hark! the lark (Karl Friedrich Curschmann)
• Heart’s Ease (Unknown)
• Heigh-ho! for a husband (Unknown)
• If music be the food of love, play on (John Charles Clifton)
• It was a lover and his lass (Thomas Morley)
• It was a lover and his lass (Gerard Barton)
• It was a lover and his lass (H. Clough-Leighter)
• Lawn as white as driven snow (John Wilson or Robert Johnson?)
• Light o’ Love (Unknown)
• No more dams I’ll make for fish (John Christopher Smith)
• Now the hungry lion roars (William Linley)
• O mistress mine (Unknown)
• O mistress mine (S. Coleridge-Taylor)
• Orpheus with his lute (Carl Busch)
• Orpheus with his lute (Charles Fonteyn Manney)
• Over hill, over dale (Thomas Simpson Cook)
• Peg o’ Ramsay (Unknown)
• She never told her love (Franz Joseph Haydn)
• Sigh no more, ladies (R. J. S. Stevens)
• Sigh no more, ladies (Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan)
• Sigh no more, ladies (William Arms Fisher)
• Take, O take those lips away (John Wilson)
• The Willow Song (Unkown)
• The Willow Song (Pelham Humfrey)
• The Willow Song (Gioachino Rossini)
• Three merry men be we (Unknown)
• Under the greenwood tree (Carl Busch)
• When daisies pied and violets blue (Thomas Augustine Arne)
• When icicles hang by the wall (Thomas Augustine Arne)
• When that I was a little tiny boy (Joseph Vernon)
• When that I was a little boy (Robert Schumann)
• Where the bee sucks (Robert Johnson)
• Where the bee sucks (Pelham Humfrey)
• Where the bee sucks (Thomas Augustine Arne)
• Who is Sylvia? (Richard Leveridge)
• Who is Sylvia? (Franz Schubert)
• Who is Sylvia? (Monk Gould)

Notes:
Each of the 50 songs in this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

Book Title: Oratorio Songs from the Standard Oratorios New and Old
Volumes: 4 (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
Publisher: The John Church Company
Copyright: 1900

Indices here will be in the format “aria” (Oratorio) Composer.

Volume 1 (Soprano) Contents:
(Internet Archive has a complete copy of Volume 1 for Soprano available for download.)

• “I will extol Thee, my God, O King” (Abraham) Molique
• “Hast Thou for Me a Look, a Thought?” (Calvary) Spohr
• “When this Scene of Trouble closes” (Calvary) Spohr
• “And God said, Let the earth” (The Creation) Haydn
• “With Verdure Clad” (The Creation) Haydn
• “And God said, Let the waters” (The Creation) Haydn
• “On mighty pens” (The Creation) Haydn
• “Open unto me” (Eli) Costa
• “I will extol Thee” (Eli) Costa
• “Hear ye, Israel” (Elijah) Mendelssohn
• “Dear Child of Bondage” (The Fall of Babylon) Spohr
• “These are They which came” (The Holy City) Gaul
• “Farewell, ye limpid springs” (Jephtha) Handel
• “What’s sweeter than a new-blown rose? (Joseph) Handel
• “Oh had I Jubal’s lyre!” (Joshua) Handel
• “Hark! ’tis the linnet” (Joshua) Handel
• “From mighty kings” (Judas Maccabeus) Handel
• “Where have they laid him” (The Light of the World) Sullivan
• “Lord, why hidest Thou Thy face” (The Light of the World) Sullivan
• “I know that my Redeemer liveth” (Messiah) Handel
• “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion” (Messiah) Handel
• “‘Tis in vain” (Mary Magdalen) Massenet
• “Confounded be” (Naaman) Costa
• “But oh! what art can teach (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day) Handel
• “Song of an Angel” (Paradise Lost) Rubinstein
• “I follow Thee also” (The St. John Passion) Bach
• “Only bleed, tender heart (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “Lover and friend” (The Rose of Sharon) Mackenzie
• “Be of good comfort” (Ruth) Cowen
• “Let the bright Seraphim” (Samson) Handel
• “My heart to hear thy voice” (Samson and Delilah) Saint-Saëns
• “Oh god-like youth!” (Saul) Handel
• “O welcome now” (The Seasons) Haydn
• “O how pleasing to the senses” (The Seasons) Haydn
• “Elizabeth” (St. Elizabeth) Liszt
• “O grant me in the dust to fall” (St. Ludmila) Dvořák
• “Jerusalem, thou that killest the Prophets (St. Paul) Mendelssohn
• “I will sing of Thy great mercies” (St. Paul) Mendelssohn
• “I mourn as a dove” (St. Peter) Benedict
• “Angels, ever bright and fair” (Theodora) Handel
• “I will love Thee, O Lord” (The Woman of Samaria) Bennett

Volume 2 (Mezzo-Soprano/Alto) Contents:
(Internet Archive has a complete copy of Volume 2 for Alto available for download)

• “And the Lord looked down from Heaven” (Abraham) Molique
• “They kept not the law” (Abraham) Molique
• “See now the bridegroom” (Christmas Oratorio) Bach
• “Prepare thyself, Zion” (Christmas Oratorio) Bach
• “Slumber, beloved” (Christmas Oratorio) Bach
• “He was oppressed” (Christus) Kiel
• “In the battle, fame pursuing” (Deborah) Handel
• “Woe unto them who forsake Him” (Elijah) Mendelssohn
• “O rest in the Lord” (Elijah) Mendelssohn
• “The morning prayer” (Eli) Costa
• “It is a good thing” (Eli) Costa
• “The evening prayer” (Eli) Costa
• “Eye hath not seen” (The Holy City) Gaul
• “Come, ye blessed” (The Holy City) Gaul
• “Thou shalt bring them in” (Israel in Egypt) Handel
• “‘Twill be a painful separation” (Jephtha) Handel
• “In gentle murmurs will I mourn” (Jephtha) Handel
• “The peasant tastes the sweets” (Joseph) Handel
• “The Lord is risen” (The Light of the World) Sullivan
• “O ye that love the Lord” (The Lord is King) Barnby
• “Behold! A virgin shall conceive” (Messiah) Handel
• “O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion” (Messiah) Handel
• “He was despised” (Messiah) Handel
• “I dreamt I was in heaven” (Naaman) Costa
• “It is finished” (The St. John Passion) Bach
• “If Thy disciples” (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “Penitence” (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “Lord, can it be?” (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “All my tears” (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “We will open our mouth in a parable” (The Rose of Sharon) Mackenzie
• “Like as a father” (Ruth) Cowen
• “Return, oh God of Hosts” (Samson) Handel
• “Dear love! thine aid” (Samson and Delilah) Saint-Saëns
• “Within what gloomy depths” (Saint Ludmila) Dvořák
• “But the Lord is mindful of his own” (St. Paul) Mendelssohn
• “O thou afflicted” (St. Peter) Benedict
• “Lord, Thy glory fills the Heaven” (Stabat Mater) Rossini
• “Lord to Thee, each night and day” (Theodora) Handel
• “O Lord, Thou has searched me out” (The Woman of Samaria) Bennett

Volume 3 (Tenor) Contents:

• TBD

Volume 4 (Bass) Contents:
(Internet Archive has a complete copy of Volume 4 for Bass available for download)

• “Lead me, O Lord” (Abraham) Molique
• “Tears of Sorrow, shame and anguish” (Calvary) Spohr
• “And God said, let the waters” (Creation) Haydn
• “Rolling in foaming billows” (Creation) Haydn
• “Mighty Lord, and King all glorious” (Christmas Oratorio) Bach
• “My sons, my sons!” (Eli) Costa
• “If Thou should’st mark iniquities” (Eli) Costa
• “Although my house be not with God” (Eli) Costa
• “Draw near, all ye people” (Elijah) Mendelssohn
• “It is enough” (Elijah) Mendelssohn
• “Almighty God of Israel” (Fall of Babylon) Spohr
• “O what is man” (Fall of Babylon) Spohr
• “Arm, arm, ye brave” (Judas Maccabeus) Handel
• “With pious hearts” (Judas Maccabeus) Handel
• “When the son of man” (The Light of the World) Sullivan
• “Judas” (Mary Magdalen) Massenet
• “Thus saith the Lord” (Messiah) Handel
• “But who may abide the day of his coming” (Messiah) Handel
• “Why do the nations so furiously rage together?” (Messiah) Handel
• “Arise, O Lord” (Naaman) Costa
• “His sceptre is the rod of righteousness” (Occasional Oratorio) Handel
• “From my soul’s depths” (Paradise Lost) Rubinstein
• “Consider, O my soul” (The St. John Passion) Bach
• “Before the Father our Redeemer falling” (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “Bring me cross and cup” (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “Give me Jesus, I implore you” (The St. Matthew Passion) Bach
• “O Lord God” (Rebekah) Barnby
• “The daughters of the city (Rebekah) Barnby
• “Unto my charger” (The Rose of Sharon) Mackenzie
• “From the accursed” (Requiem) Verdi
• “Honor and arms” (Samson) Handel
• “I was not deceived” (Saint Ludmila) Dvořák
• “At last the bounteous sun” (The Seasons) Haydn
• “With joy the impatient husbandman” (The Seasons) Haydn
• “Behold, along the dewy grass” (The Seasons) Haydn
• “Through the mist of the valley” (St. Elizabeth) Liszt
• “O God, have mercy” (St. Paul) Mendelssohn
• “How great, O Lord” (St. Peter) Benedict
• “Lord preserve me uncomplaining” (Stabat Mater) Rossini
• “Jesus answered” (Woman of Samaria) Bennett
• “Whosoever drinketh” (Woman of Samaria) Bennett

Notes:
Each of the arias in this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.