Songs and Choruses

I especially want to thank Emily Ezust for the song texts she had already typed out and catalogued on her Lied and Song Texts Page 

Categories

• Songs with pianoforte
• Choruses, Cantatas

Songs

L.7.1-3
Three songs by Chadwick

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1881
Movements/Components:

• So far away
• Good night : The moon is sinking fast my love
• Across the hills (P.W.Lyall)

Dedicated to Mrs. G. M. Cummings (nos. 1 and 3) and Jennie M. Noyes (no. 2)

L.7.4
The Millers daughter

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1881
Movements/Components:

• It is the Millers daughter

Dedicated to Ida May Chadwick

L.7.5 -7
Three love Songs (A.Bates)
Op.8

Soprano or Tenor, pianoforte
Year Written: 1882
Movements/Components:

• Rose Guerdon : I kiss the rosebud which you wore
• Serenade : While stars above thee glow
• Before the Dawn : In the hush of the morn

L.7.8 - 10
Three little songs
Op.11

Dedicated to Henry W. Dunham
Soprano or Tenor, pianoforte
Year Written: 1883, 1876 (Request)
Movements/Components:

• Request : Is my lover on the see? (B.Cornwall)
• Gay little dandelion
• Thou art so like a flower ("Du bist wie eine Blume") (Heine)

L.7.11-16
Six songs
Op.14

Dedicated to Jules Jordan, Edward Bowditch, Lizzie Barton Hall, "Adelaide", Olivia Bowditch and Agnes Dana Dyer
Soprano or Tenor, pianoforte
Year Written: 1885
Movements/Components:

• The Danza : If you have never danced the Danza (A.Bates)
• He loves me : Over and over with ceaseless motion (N.MacIntosh)
• In Bygone Days (J.L.Breck)
• I know two eyes
• Sweet wind that blows (O.Leighton)
• Lullaby : lullaby, baby

I know two eyes was revised in 1914

L.7.17
King Death

Dedicated to Gardner S. Lamson
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1885
Movements/Components:

• King Death was a rare old fellow

L.7.18
The Sea King (B. Cornwall)

Dedicated to Gardner S. Lamson
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1885

• Come sing of the great Sea King

L.7.19,20
two songs (T.B.Aldrich)

Dedicated to William J. Winch
Soprano or Tenor, pianoforte
Year Written: 1886
Movements/Components:

• Nocturne : Up to her chamber window
• Song from the Persian : O sad are they who know not love

L.7.21
The Mill (Miss Mulock)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1886

• Winding and grinding

L.7.147_149
Sacred Songs

Dedicated to Adelaide Bothamly
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written : 1887
Movements/Components:

• When Our Heads Are Bowed with Woe (H. H. Milman)
• O Mother Dear, Jerusalem (Francis Baker)
• Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled (biblical)

L.7.22
Allah (Longfellow)

Dedicated to Gardner S. Lamson
Soprano or Tenor, pianoforte
Year Written: 1887

• Allah gives light in darkness

L.7.23
The Lament (Egyptian song from "Ben Hur")

Dedicated to James Means
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1887

• I sigh as I sing of the story land

L.7.24
The Lily (A.Salvini, trans: T.R.Sullivan)

Dedicated to James H. Ricketson
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1887

• Far up the steep a Lily grows

L.7.25_36
Baby's Lullaby Book (C.S.Pratt)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1888
Movements/Components:

• January : The Snowflakes Float down from the Skies
• February : The Snowbirds That Chirped in the Sun
• March : Hark, and Hear the March Wind Blowing
• April : On the Roof the Rain is Dropping
• May : This Sweet May Day
• June : On the Red Rose Tree is a Bud
• July : If I Were a Lily
• August : In the Hammock We Swing
• September : O Moon, Round Moon
• October : Through the Day the Heavenly Father
• November : Summer Birds Have Taken Wing
• December : Long Years Ago in the Eastern Heaven

L.7.37
Green Grows the Willow (H.Aïde)

Dedicated to Arthur Gordon Weld
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1888

• O I love my love the best

L.7.38
Sorais' Song (H.Ridder Haggard)

Dedicated to Clarence Hay
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1888

• As a desolate bird that through the darkness

L.7.39_41
3 ballads

Dedicated to Eleanor Everest, Annie P. Vinton and "Lutie"
Soprano or Tenor, pianoforte
Year Written: 1889
Movements/Components:

• A Bonny Curl (A. Rives) : I have a curl, a bright brown curl
• The Maiden and the Butterfly : there wandered once a maiden
• A Warning (E Brick) : A gentle innocent she was

L.7.42
Bedouin love song (B. Taylor)

Dedicated to J. F. Winch
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1890

• Form the desert I come to thee

L.7.43_54
12 songs of Brittany (A. Bates)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1890
Movements/Components:

• Loud trumpets blow
• Proudly, Childe Haslin
• How flowers Fade
• The autumn winds are chill
• A summer wind
• Love is fleeting
• My sweetheart gave a crimson blossom
• How youth with passion plays
• The lark that sang when morning broke
• Proudly at morn the hunter rode
• The trumpet sounds and calls away
• The distaff willed

L.7.55-66
A flower Cycle (Arlo Bates)

Dedicated to Arlo Bates
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1892
Movements/Components:

• The Crocus
• The Trilliums
• The Water Lilly
• The Cyclamen
• The Wild Briar
• The Columbine
• The Foxglove
• The Cardinal Flower
• The Lupine
• The Meadow Rue
• The Jasmine
• The Jacqueminot Rose

L.67,68
Two folk Songs

Dedicated to Mrs. G. H. Stoddard
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1892
Movements/Components:

• O love and joy
• The Northern Days (C.Rossetti)

L.7.132
Hail, all hail the glorious morn (I.S.Taylor)

Voice, Pianoforte
Year Written: 1892

L.7.133
He marketh wars to cease

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1892

L.7.134
There is a river

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written : 1892

L.7.140?
The brook (H. Monroe)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written : 1893

This song is incorrectly attributed to J. W. Chadwick.

L.7.141?
Child's American hymn (J. W. Howe)

L.7.142?
The soft-shell Crab (E. J. Cooley)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written : 1893

This song is incorrectly attributed to J. W. Chadwick.

L.1.3/L.7.139?
Bolero (From Tabasco) (R. A. Barnet)

L.4.1
Lochinvar (W. Scott)

Dedicated to Max Heinrich
Baritone, pianoforte
Year Written : 1896 also orchestrated

L.7.69,70
Two songs (E. Field)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1896
Movements/Components:

• Armenian Lullaby : If thou wilt close thy drowsy eyes
• Kissing Time : 'Tis when the lark goes soaring

L.7.71_82
Lyrics from "Told in the Gate" (A. Bates)

Dedicated to Max Heinrich (nos. 1, 7, and 10), Mrs. James C. Little (2), Harriet P. Sawyer (3), Mrs. Halsey C. Ives (4), G. Campanari (5), I. M. C. [Ida May Chadwick] (6), "To Eoline" (8), Perry Averill (9), Gertrude Edmands (11), William Lincoln Cosby (12)
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1897
Movements/Components

• Sweetheart, thy lips are touched with flame
• Sings the nightingale to the rose
• The rose leans over the pool
• Love's like a summer rose
• As in waves without number
• Dear love, when in thine arms I lie
• Was I not thine
• In mead where roses bloom
• Sister fairest, why are thou sighing?
• Oh, let night speak of me
• I said to the Wind of the South
• Were I a Prince Egyptian

L.7.83_86
Four Songs (R.L.Stevenson, W.M.Chauvenet)

Dedicated to Mrs. Gerrit Smith (Since my love)
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1898
Movements/Components

• Farewell to the Farm (R.L.Stevenson) : The coach is at the door at last
• I have not forgotten (W.M.Chauvenet)
• The Land of Counterpane (R.L.Stevenson) : When I was sick and lay abed
• Since my love's eyes (W.M.Chauvenet)

L.7. 87
A Ballad of trees and the Master (S. Lanier)

Dedicated to D. Frangcon-Davies
Voice, Pianoforte
Year Written: 1899

• Into the woods my master went

L.7.135
Faith

Voice, Pianoforte
Year Written: 1899

• My faith is mighty as the tide

L.7.136
The Good Samaritan

Voice, Pianoforte or organ, violin obbl
Year Written: 1900

• A good wayfaring man of grief

L.7.88_92
Six Songs (A. Macy, W.H.Chauvenet)

Mezzo Soprano and Baritone, pianoforte
Year Written: 1902
Movements/Components

• Euthanasia : O drop your eyelids down, my lady
• Aureole : Oh, love is like an Aureole
• Adversity : A soft eyes drooping lid
• Honeysuckle : Fair stream, whose arms from snow above
• Stranger-man : 'Twas a tender little honeysuckle vine
• The Wishing Stream (W.H.Chauvenet) : Now what is this, my daughter dear?

L.7.93_96
Three Songs (A. Macy, W.H.Chauvenet)

Dedicated to Ida May Chadwick (the brink of night, in my beloved's eyes)
Mezzo Soprano or Baritone, pianoforte
Year Written: 1902
Movements/Components

• In my beloved's eyes (W.H.Chauvenet) : I looked into the midnight deep
• The Brink Night (W.H.Chauvenet) : Upon the brink of night I stand
• Thou art to me (A.Macy)

L.7.97
Saint Botolph (A Macy)

Dedicated in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Saint Botolph Club, BostonVoice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1902

• Saint Botolph flourished in the olden time

L.7.137
Hark! hark, my soul (W.F.Faber)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1903

L.7.98_101
Four Irish song

Dedicated to F. Morse Wemple, David Bispham (nos. 2 and 3) and Herbert Witherspoon
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1910
Movements/Components

• Larry O'Toole (W.M.Thackerey) : You've all heard of Larry O'Toole
• The Lady of Leith (W.Maggin) : There was a lady lived in Leith
• Nora McNally (A.Moor) : I met here in thundercut alley
• The Recruit (R.W.Chambers) : Sez Corporal Madden to Private McFadden

L.7.102_106
Five Songs

Dedicated to Ernestine Schumann-Heink (no. 2) and Ida May Chadwick (nos. 4 and 5)
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1910
Movements/Components

• When stars are in the quiet skies (B.Lytton)
• Love's Image (J.Thomson) : My love is o'er the water
• Gifts (J.Thomson) : Give a man a horse he can ride
• When I am dead (C.Rossetti)
• O love stay by and sing (T.R.Sullivan)

L.3.11 /L.7.143_146
Four christmas songs (from Noel)

Dedicated to Carl Stoeckel
Soprano (No.1), Alto (No.2), Tenor (No.3), Bass (No.4), pianoforte or organ
Year written : 1912

• A Voice from Yonder Manger (Paul Gerhardt)
• O Long and Darksome Was the Night (Ray Palmer)
• O Holy Child, Thy Manger Streams (Danish traditional)
• I Was a Foe to God (Gerhardt Tersteegen)

L.7.107_111
Five songs (D. Stevens)

Dedicated to Louise Homer (no. 1), Geraldine Farrar (nos. 2-4) and Mrs. Richard Stevens (no. 5)
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1914
Movements/Components

• The voice of Philomel : with melody the air is thrilling
• The Bobolink : The violet and the Iris were in flower
• Roses : Sylvia stood by the trellis below
• When she gave me her hand
• When Phillis looks

L.7.112
The Curfew (Longfellow)

Dedicated to Marianne Kneisel
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1914

• Solemnly, Mournfully, dealing its dole

L.7.113
The Daughter of Mendoza (Serenade) (M.B.Lamar)

Dedicated to Edmont Clement
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1914

• O lend to me sweet nightingale

L.7.114_117
Four Songs (D. Stevens)

Dedicated to Alma Gluck (No.2), Even Williams (No.3) and Ernestine Schumann-Heink (No.4)
Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1914
Movements/Components:

• Fulfillment : 'Twas beneath the autumn sky
• Periwinkle Bay : Her starry eyes, like summer skies
• That Golden Hour
• Yesterday : Comes the morning

L.7.118
The Fighting Men (M.A. Dewolfe-Howe)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1918

• Away to the front, in France or Flanders

L.7.119
Joshua (R. D. Ware) (From Jericho March)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1919

• Joshua was the son of Nun

L.7.120-122
Three Nautical songs

Dedicated to Reinald Werrenrath (no. 1) and Charles Bennett (nos. 2 and 3)
Baritone, pianoforte
Year Written: 1917?
Movements/Components:

• The Admirals (R.D.Ware) : Sat there the queen
• Drakes Drum (H. Newbolt) : Drake, he's in his hammock
• Pirate Song (A. Conan Doyle) : A trader sailed from Stepney town

L.7.123
A Christmas Limerick (?Chadwick)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1927

• A boy had a chum

L.7.124
If I were you (Hirsh)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1927

This work is only known from a recording

L.7.125
Ladybird (Southey)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1927?

This work is only known from a recording

L.7.126
The Morning Glory (Foresman)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1927?

This work is only known from a recording

L.7.127
Time Enough (Braley)

Voice, pianoforte
Year Written: 1927

This work is only known from a recording

Choruses

L.6.1
Margarita (V. von Scheffel)

TTBB
Year Written: 1881

L.6.2
Reiterlied

TTBB
Year Written: 1881

L.6.3
The song of the Viking (Mrs. Graigin)

Dedicated to Benjamin L. Knapp
TTBB, Pianoforte
Year Written: 1882
orchestrated in 1914

L.6.4
Spring Song
Op.9

Dedicated to Ross Sterling Turner
SSAA, Pianoforte
Year Written: 1882

L.6.5_8
Four Partsongs

Dedicated to David Loring
TTBB
Year Written: 1886
Movements/Components:

• The Boy and the Owl (J.L.Breck)
• Serenade (J.L.Breck)
• Drinking Song (Bates)
• When love was young (Bates)

L.6.9
Jabberwocky (L.Carroll)

Dedicated to "Our Society"
TTBB
Year Written: 1886

L.6.74
Abide with me

Dedicated to O. B. Brown
SAT, Organ
Year Written: 1888

L.6.75
Brightest and best (R. Heber)

SATB
Year Written : 1888

L.6.76
O cease, my wandering soul

Dedicated to O. B. Brown
SAB, Organ
Year Written : 1888

L.6.77
O day of rest

Dedicated to O. B. Brown
ATB, Organ
Year Written : 1888

L.6.78
There were shepherds

Dedication to S. A. Ellis
SATB
Year Written: 1888

L.6.10
Lullaby

SSA, Pianoforte, also orchestrated
Year Written: 1889

L.6.79
Thou sendest sun and rain

A, SATB
Year Written: 1889

L.6.11_14
Four Songs of Brittany (A.Bates)

SSA, pianoforte
Year Written: 1890
Movements/Components:

• The autumn winds are chill
• Love is fleeting as the wind
• My sweetheart gave a crimson blossom
• The lark that sang when morning broke

L.6.103
The Pilgrims (F. D. B. Hemans)

L.6.80
Art thou wary?

SATB
Year Written: 1890

L.6.81
God be merciful

Dedicated to Rev. George J. Prescott
SATB, Organ
Year Written :1890

L.6.82_85
Four sacred partsongs

SATB
Year Written : 1891
Movements/Components:

• Behold the works of the Lord
• Come hither, ye faithful
• Saviour, like shepherds
• While thee I seek
  • Organ accompaniment

L.6.86
Awake up my glory

SATB
Year Written: 1895

L.6.92
Thou, who art divine! (adapted : O.B.Brown)

Tenor, SATB
Year Written : 1895

L.6.93
Welcome happy morn

SATB
Year Written : 1895

L.6.94
When the Lord of love was here

SATB
Year Written : 1895

L.6.96
Shout, ye heavens (Plaudite coeli, trans. J.L.Hayes)

Dedicated to the choir of the Trinity Church, Boston
SATB, Organ
Year Written : 1897

L.6.97
While shepherds watched

SATB
Year Written : 1899

L.6.15
Stormy evening (R.L.Stevenson)

Children's voices
Year Written : 1901

L.6.16,17
Two four-part choruses

Dedicated to the Thursday Morning Musical Club (Boston)
SSAA
Year Written : 1901
Movements/Components:

• Stabat Mater speciosa (G.da Todi)
• Thistle Down (A.Macy)

L.6.18,19
Two four-part choruses

Dedicated to the Thursday Morning Musical Club (Boston)
SSAA
Year Written : 1903
Movements/Components:

• Rondel (Canon) (J.C.Grant)
• Behind the lattice (S.M.Peck)

L.6.100
Teach me, o Lord

SATB
Year Written : 1903

L.6.20,22
Three Choruses (Meleager)

Dedicated to the Tuesday Morning Singing Club (New York) and Victor Harris, cond.
SSA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1904
Movements/Components:

• To heliodora
• At the bride's gate
• Dorcas

L.6.23_25
Three Partsongs

TTBB
Year Written : 1910
Movements/Components:

• Darest thou now, O soul (Whitman)
• Credo (W.M. Thackerey)
• Pack, clouds, away (T.Heywood)
  • (Pianoforte Ad libitum)

L.6.26
Elfin Song (Drake)

Dedicated to S. L. Herrmann and the Treble Clef Club of Philadelphia
SSAA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1910
Orchrestrated in 1913

L.6.27
In China Shop (G.C.Hellman)

Dedicated to "the Three C's of Boston"
SSAA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1910

L.6.28_31
Four Choruses

Dedicated to S. L. Herrmann and the Treble Clef Club of Philadelphia
SATB / TTBB / SSAA / SSA / Pianoforte (ad libitum)
Year Written : 1910
Movements/Components:

• Inconstancy (Shakespeare) : Sigh no more, Ladies
  • (SATB or SSAA or TTBB, pianoforte ad lib)
• It was a lover and his lass (Shakespeare)
  • (SSA, pianoforte or TTBB, pianoforte ad lib)
• Mary's lullaby (C.A.Matson Dolson)
  • (SSAA, Pianoforte ad libitum)
• Miss Nancy's gown (Minuet) (Z.Cooke)
  • (SSA, Pianoforte)

L.6.32
The spring Beauties (H.G.Cone)

Dedicated to the Eurydice Club of Philadelphia
SSA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1911

L.6.33
Busy lark (Chauser)

Children's voices
Year Written : 1912

L.6.34
Noble's tradition (R.W.Rivers)

Children's voices, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1913

L.6.35
Hail us doctor's of song (J.Koren)

TTBB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1914

L.6.37
The lamb (A.Bates)

Children's voices
Year Written : 1914

L.6.37
Sons of Herman (J.L.Sanford)

Children's voices
Year Written : 1914

L.6.39
The Bluebells of New England (T.B.Aldrich)

Dedicated to St. Cecilia Club of New York, Victor Harris, cond
SSA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1917

L.6.40
Dolly (A.Dobson)

SSA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1917

L.6.41
The Fighting Men
Libretto : (M.A. Dewolfe-Howe)

Unisone voices, pianoforte (and orchestrated)
Year Written : 1918

• Away to the front, in France or Flanders

L.6.42
Here comes the flag (A.Macy)

Dedicated "To All American Children Who Love Their Flag"
Children's voices
Year Written : 1918

L.6.43
June (J.H.Smith)

SSA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1918

L.6.44
These to the front
Libretto : M.A. Dewolfe-Howe

TTBB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1918
Also orchestrated

L.6.46
Buie Annajohn (B.Carman)

SATB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923

L.6.47
Caravan Song (A.H.Hyatt)

SATB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923

L.6.48
Chorus of Pilgrim Women (J.P.Peabody)

SSAA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923

L.6.49
Deep in the soul of a rose (A.H.Hyatt)

SSA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923

L.6.50
The Immortal (Spring Song) (C.Y.Rise)

SATB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923

L.6.51
Little Lac Grenier (W.H.Drummond)

SSATTB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923

L.6.52
Mexican Serenade
Libretto : A. Guiterman

SATB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923, also orchestrated

L.6.53
Mister Moon (B.Carman)

SATB, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1923

L.6.54
A christmas Greeting

SATB, Pianoforte ad Libitum
Year Written : 1925

L.6.55
A Madrigal for Christmas (?Chadwick)

SATB
Year Written : 1926

L.6.56
A Ballad of trees and the Master (S. Lanier)

SATB, Pianoforte / Organ
Year Written : 1927

• Into the woods my master went

L.6.57_66
Holiday Songs

SATB, Pianoforte (ad.libitum)/ SATTBB, Pianoforte ad.libitum /SSA, Pianoforte
Year Written : 1928
Movements/Components:

• Angel of Peace (O.W.Holmes)
  • SATB, Pianoforte
• Concord Hymn (R.W.Emerson)
  • SATB, Pianoforte
• Evening (S.Baring-Gould)
  • SATTBB, Pianoforte ad Libitum
• In the hammock we swing ("For Mother's Day")(C.S.Pratt)
  • SSA, Pianoforte
• A may Carrol (F.D.Sherman)
  • SATB, Pianoforte
• The Mistletou Bough
  • SATB, Pianoforte
• New Year's Song (G.E.Troutlock)
  • SATB, Pianoforte
• The runaway (C.Y.Rice)
  • SATB, Pianoforte
• A Valentine (M.B.Edwards)
  • SATB, Pianoforte
• What say? (G.F.Norton)
  • SATB, Pianoforte

L.6.67
Saint Botolph

TTBB, pianoforte
Year Written: 1929

• Saint Botolph flourished in the olden time

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