This is one of a series of posts about books used as source material for Art Song Central.
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.
Curiously enough, Google Books now has the Low Voice edition available for download, and I note a second copy there as well.
I’ve compiled the songs of the high voice edition here, and the low voice edition here. Prefatory material can be read here.
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.
