Parlour Songs

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The Musical Soirée: Rational Amusement in the Home

Parlour Songs

"Annabelle Lee": a Victorian setting of Poe's poem (music by music by Henry Leslie).

"Home, Sweet Home!"

Lyrics by John Howard Payne, music by Henry Rowley Bishop. From "Clari; or, The Maid of Milan"

"Woodman, Spare That Tree!"
Lyrics by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell.

"Three Fishers Went Sailing"
Lyrics by by Charles Kingsley, music by John Hullah.

"The Lost Chord"
Lyrics by Adelaide Anne Procter, music by Arthur Sullivan.

"Oh Mother! Take the Wheel Away"
Lyrics and music by Claribel.

"The Old Arm Chair"
Lyrics by Eliza Cook, music by Henry Russell.

"Come into the Garden, Maud"
Lyrics by Alfred Lord Tennyson, music by Michael Balfe.

"The Volunteer Organist"
Lyrics by W. B. Glenroy [pseudonym of William Gray], music by Henry Lamb [pseudonym of Henry Spaulding].

"Throw Out the Life-line!"
Lyrics and music by the Rev. Edwin Ufford.

"I Come from the Beautiful Rhine"
Lyrics by Charles Mackay, music by Frank Mori.

"Anchored"
Lyrics by Samuel K. Cowan, music by Michael Watson.

"The Village Blacksmith"
Lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by Willoughby Hunter Weiss.

"On the Road to Mandalay"
Lyrics by Rudyard Kipling, music by Oley Speaks.

"Somewhere a Voice Is Calling", 1911
Lyrics by Eileen Newton, music by Arthur F. Tate.

"Tatters"
Lyrics and music by Gerald M. Lane

"Ben Bolt"
Lyrics by Thomas Dunn English, music by Nelson Kneass.

"The Children's Home"
Lyrics by Frederic E. Weatherly, music by Frederic Cowen.
 
"Kathleen Mavourneen"
Lyrics by Julia Crawford, music by Frederick Nicholls Crouch.

"The Bridge"
Lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by Maria Lindsay.

"The Madman"
Lyrics and music by Henry Russell.

"The Last Link is Broken"
Music by William Clifton.

"Mr. and Mrs. Brown"
Lyrics and music by Stephen Forster

"The Little Hero"
Lyrics by Arthur Matthison and music by Stephen Adams.

"Ora Pro Nobis"
Lyrics by A. Horspool, music by M. Piccolomini.

"Leonore (Thy voice is music to mine ear)."

"Love’s Old Sweet Song"
Lyrics by G.C. Bingham, music by James Molloy, 1884.

"It Was a Dream"
Lyrics by R. Francillon, music by Frederick Cowen.

"Goodbye"
Lyrics by George J. Whyte-Melville, music by Paulo Tosti.

Piano Pieces
Fairy Wedding Waltz (music by Joseph W. Turner)
The Battle March of Delhi (music by John Pridham)

Bibliography

Boosey, William. 1931. Fifty Years of Music. London: Ernest Benn.

Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair. 1898. Stories of Famous Songs. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898), 201-2;

Parlor Songs: Popular Sheet Music from the 1800s to the 1920s. Web. 13 December 2011. [Chiefly American.]

Russell, Henry. 1895. Cheer, Boys, Cheer! London: John Macqueen.

Scott, Derek B. The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour. 2nd ed. Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

Stephen Collins Foster. Web. 13 December 2011. [Chiefly American.]

Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1974.
The Parlour Song Book: A Casquet of Vocal Gems. London: Pan.

Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1975.
Just a Song at Twilight: The Second Parlour Song Book. London: Michael Joseph.

Willeby, Charles. 1893. Masters of Contemporary Music. Osgood & McIlvaine: London.