This is one of a series of posts about books used as source material for Art Song Central.
Book Title: Songs of the British Isles
Subtitle: A collection of forty popular English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh Songs with Piano Accompaniment
Editor: Max Spicker (1858-1912)
Publisher: G. Schirmer
Copyright: 1909
A complete copy is available via Google Books: Songs of the British Isles
Contents:
- The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
- Down Among the Dead Men
- Drink to Me only with thine Eyes
- Early one morning
- Gaily the troubadour
- Hearts of oak
- Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen
- I will give you the keys of heaven
- John Peel
- My lodging is on the cold ground
- Sally in our alley
- Twankydillo
- The Vicar of Bray
- The girl I left behind me
- The harp that once thro’ tara’s hall
- Kate Kearny
- Kathleen Mavourneen
- Kitty of Coleraine
- The last rose of summer
- The little red lark
- The minstrel-boy
- My love’s an arbutus
- Oft in the stilly night
- Tho’ the last glimpse of Erin
- The Widow Malone
- Annie Laurie
- Auld Lang Syne
- The Blue Bells of Scotland
- The Campbells are Coming
- Comin’ Through the Rye
- The Land o’ the Leal
- Leezie Lindsay
- Loch Lomond
- My heart is sair for somebody
- Robin Adair
- Scots wha hae
- Within a mile of Edinboro Town
- All through the night (Ar hyd y nos)
- Men of Harlech (Rhy felgyrch Gwyr Harlech)
Notes:
Songs from these volumes 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.
