Songs

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Ad Domnulam Suam
op. 1, no. 2
  • (op.3 , no.2)
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • Oxton: The Author, 1900
  • Later published: London: Metzler, 1903
    as Little Lady of My Heart, op. 3, no. 2
    with a dedication to Stefan George
  • ms. in the possession of Leslie East

Afterday, op. 50, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • London: Elkin, 1906

All Through the Night
  • voice and piano
  • London: Elkin, 1921

Alone
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles after the Chinese
  • London: Elkin, 1919 as No. 1 of Songs of Old Cathay

And So I Made A Villanelle
op. 65
  • voice and piano
  • Text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Darvell
  • London: Elkin, 1908

Angelus
  • voice and piano
  • Text by Cyril Scott
  • London: Elkin, 1925 as No. 3 of Songs of a Strolling Minstrel

April Love, op. 1, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • Oxton: The Author, 1900
  • later published: London: Metzler, 1903 as op. 3, no. 1
    with a dedication to Frederic Austin
  • ms. in the possession of Leslie East

Arietta, op. 72, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Duffield Bendall
  • New York: Elkin, 1910

Arise My Love, My Fair One
  • voice and piano
  • text from Song of Solomon
  • London: Elkin, 1939

Asleep, op. 31
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Agnes and Eric Harben
  • London: Boosey, 1903

Aspiration
  • voice and piano
  • text by Irene McLeod
  • London: Elkin, 1926

Atwain, op. 56
  • voice and piano
  • text by F. Leslie
  • London: Elkin, 1907

Autumn Song
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to Monsieur et Madame Golay-Chovel
  • London: Elkin, 1913

Autumn's Lute
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • London: Elkin, 1914

Autumnal, op. 11
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • composed ca. 1900

Autumnal, op. 32
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • Revision of Autumnal, op. 11
  • dedicated to Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • London: Boosey, 1904


Ballad of Dark Rosaleen
op. 13
  • voice and piano
  • composed [ca. 1900?]

Ballad of Fair Helen of Kirkconnel, op. 8; arr
  • voice and piano
  • text: Anonymous
  • London: Elkin, 1925
  • ms. at New York Public Library
  • printed copy with annotations by Peter Pears
    in Britten-Pears Library

Ballad Singer, op. 42, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Eric Harben
  • dedicated to Eric and Agnes
  • London: Boosey, 1904

Birthday
  • voice and piano
  • text by Christina Rossetti
  • dedicated to Charles Tilson Chowne
  • London: Elkin, 1913

Blackbird's Song, op. 52, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • London: Elkin, 1906

Blythe and Merry Was She
  • voice and piano
  • text by Robert Burns
  • London: Elkin, 1922

By Yon Bonnie Banks
  • voice and piano
  • text by Mrs. H.M. Freeman
  • London: Elkin, 1922


Cherry Ripe
  • voice and piano
  • text by Robert Herrick
  • melody by Charles Edward Horn
  • dedicated to Percy Grainger
  • London: Elkin, 1922

Comin' Thro' the Rye
  • voice and piano
  • London: Elkin, 1922


Daffodils, op. 68, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ella Erskine
  • London: Elkin, 1909

Dairy Song, op. 5, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Rober Quilter
  • composed [ca. 1899?]
  • London: Boosey, 1903

Damon
  • voice and piano
  • text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • composed Aug. 17, 1895
  • ms. in the possession of Leslie East

Daphnis and Chloe, op. 9
  • voice and piano
  • text by Selwyn Image
  • dedicated to Francis Korbay
  • composed [ca. 1900?]
  • London: Boosey, 1904

Don't Come in Sir, Please!
op. 43, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles after the Chinese
  • dedicated to Walter Crook
  • London: Elkin, 1905

Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ben Johnson
  • dedicated to Hubert Eisdell
  • London; Elkin, 1913


Eastern Lament, op. 62, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles from the Chinese
  • dedicated to Swami Abhedananda
  • London: Elkin, 1909

Eileen, op. 42, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ellen Mary Rowning
  • London: Boosey, 1904

Evening, op. 71, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • revision of Vesperale, op. 9
  • dedicated to Walter and Ella Pearce
  • London: Elkin, 1910

Evening Hymn, op. 34
  • voice and piano, with violin ad. lib
  • text by Edward Caswall from the Latin
  • revision of Piano Concerto, op 10 in D major
  • dedicated to Father and Mother (Henry & Mary Scott)
  • London: Boosey, 1904

Evening Melody
  • voice and piano
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • London: Elkin, 1914

Exile, op. 9
  • voice and piano
  • composed ca. 1900


For a Dream's Sake
  • voice and piano
  • text by Christina Rossetti
  • dedicated to Beryl Freeman
  • london: Elkin, 1912

From Afar
French title: D'outremer
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to Olive and Gerald Lowell Webb
  • London: Elkin, 1923


Garden of Memory
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to Anthony Bernard
  • London: Elkin, 1924

Garrison Churchyard
  • voice and piano
  • text by Eric Thirkell Cooper
  • composed 1916

Gift of Silence, op. 43, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Heddie and Alan Gardiner
  • London; Elkin, 1905

Greek Song, op. 29
  • voice and piano
  • composed ca. 1903


Have Ye Seen Him Pass By?
  • voice and piano
  • text from Charles de Coster's "The Legend of Tyl Ulenspiegel,"
    translated from the French by Geoffrey Whitworth
  • dedicated to Anne Thursfield
  • London: Elkin, 1921

Huckster
  • voice and piano
  • text by Edward Thomas
  • dedicated to Nelsa and Alexander Chaplin
  • London: Elkin, 1921
  • printed copy with annotations by Peter Pears
    in the Britten-Pears Library


If We Must Part
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • composed 1929

I'll Bid My Heart Be Still
Subtitle: Ancient Border Melody
  • voice and piano
  • text by Thomas Pringle
  • London: Elkin, 1922

Immortality
  • voice and piano
  • text by Lord Lytton
  • London: Elkin, 1920

In a Fairy Boat, op. 61, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Bernard Weller
  • London: Elkin 1908

In Absence
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles after the Chinese
  • London: Elkin 1919, as No. 2 of Songs of Old Cathay

In the Silver Moonbeams
Subtitle: Au Clair de la Lune
  • voice and piano
  • adapted from the old French song "Au clair de la Lune"
  • text by Cyril Scott from the French
  • dedicated to Alec and Marion Densham
  • London: Elkin 1923

In the Valley
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to Hubert and Kitty Eisdell
  • London: Elkin 1912

Insouciance, op. 56, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles after the Chinese
  • London: Elkin 1907

Invocation
  • voice and piano
  • text by Margaret Maitland Radford
  • dedicated to George Whitehouse
  • London: Elkin 1916


Lady June
  • voice and piano
  • text by Elizabeth Haddon
  • London: Elkin 1935

Last Word, op. 30, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to David Bispham
  • London: Boosey, 1903

Lilac-Time
  • voice and piano
  • text by Walt Whitman
  • dedicated to Maggie Teyte
  • London: Elkin 1914

Little Bells of Sevilla
  • voice and piano
  • text by Dora Sigerson Shorter
  • London: Elkin 1917

Little Foreigner
  • voice and piano
  • subtitle: A character song
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • dedicated to Madame Conchita Supervía
  • London: Elkin 1932

Little Song of Picardie
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • London: Elkin 1912

Looking Back
  • voice and piano
  • text by Christina Rossetti
  • dedicated to Bertram Binyon
  • London: Elkin 1917

Lord Randall
  • voice and piano
  • dedicated to Laurence Strauss
  • London: Elkin 1926

Love Lost, op. 62, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles from the Chinese
  • London: Elkin 1908

Love's Aftermath
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • printed copy with annotations by Peter Pears
  • in the Britten-Pears Library
  • London: Elkin 1911

Love's Quarrel, op. 55, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Lord Dutton
  • dedicated to Cara and Austin Harris
  • London: Elkin 1907

Lovely Kind & Kindly Loving
op. 55, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Nicholas Breton
  • dedicated to
  • London: Elkin 1907

Lullaby, op 57, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Christina Rossetti
  • dedicated to Guy and Marie Harben
  • London: Elkin 1908
  • printed copy with annotations by Peter Pears
    in the Britten-Pears Library


March Requiem
  • voice and piano
  • text by Norah Richardson
  • London: Elkin 1928

Mary, op. 42, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin
  • London: Boosey 1904

Meditation
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Nora Panfili
  • London: Elkin 1915

Mermaid's Song
  • voice and piano
  • text by Tamar Faed
  • London: Elkin 1930

Minstrel Boy
  • voice and piano
  • text by Thomas Moore
  • London: Elkin 1922

Mirage, op. 70, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to M. London
  • London: Elkin 1910

Mist
  • voice and piano
  • text by Marguerite E. Barnsdale
  • dedicated to Astra Desmond
  • London: Elkin 1925

My Captain, op. 38, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Walt Whitman
  • London: Elkin 1904

My Lady Sleeps, op. 70, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Duffield Bendall
  • dedicated to Sir Landon Ronald
  • London: Elkin 1910


New Moon, op. 74, no. 6
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to Miss Jean Waterston
  • London: Elkin 1911

Night Song
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to George Whitehouse
  • London: Elkin 1915

Night Wind
  • voice and piano
  • text by Teresa Hooley
  • London: Elkin 1920

Nocturne
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to Mathilde and Wilhelm Kohl
  • London: Elkin 1913


Old Loves
  • voice and piano
  • text by Cyril Scott after an old French text
  • dedicated to Bertram Binyon
  • London: Elkin 1919

Old Song Ended
German title: Ein altes lied beendigt
  • voice and piano
  • text by Dante Gabriel
  • dedicated to Maggie Teyte
  • London: Elkin 1911

Oracle
  • voice and piano
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • dedicated to Blanche Marchesi
  • London: Elkin 1918 as No. 1 of
    Songs of a Strolling Minstrel

Osme's Song, op. 68, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by George Darley fron Sylvia
  • London: Elkin 1909

Our Lady of Violets
  • voice and piano
  • text by Teresa Hooley
  • London: Elkin 1920


Pastorale
  • voice and piano
  • without text
  • London: Elkin 1919

Picnic, op. 46, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles, from the Chinese
  • dedicated to R.R. Vamam Shankar Rav Pandid
  • London: Elkin 1906
  • subsequently incorporated as No. 5 of Songs of Old Cathay

Pierrot and the Moon Maiden
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Wiesi and Klemens
  • London: Elkin 1912

Pilgrim Cranes
  • voice and piano
  • text by Lord De Tabley
  • London: Elkin 1917

Prayer
  • voice and piano
  • text by Charles Kingsley
  • London: Elkin 1914

Prelude, op. 57, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to A.J. Rowan Hamilton
  • London: Elkin 1908


Rain
  • voice and piano
  • text by Margaret Maitland Radford
  • London: Elkin 1916

Reconciliation
  • voice and piano
  • text by Naomi Carvalho
  • London: Elkin 1923

Reflection, op. 43, no. 4
  • voice and piano
  • text by William Roger Paton, from the Greek
  • dedicated to Henry Hadley
  • London: Elkin 1905

Requiem
  • voice and piano
  • text by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • dedicated to the Memory of Charlotte Milligan-Fox
  • London: Elkin 1917

Retrospect
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Alan Gardiner
  • London: Elkin 1913

Roundel of Rest, op. 52, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Arthur Symons
  • dedicated to Arthur Symons
  • London: Elkin 1906


Sands of Dee, op. 11
  • voice and piano
  • text by Charles Kingsley
  • composed ca. 1900

Sands of Dee (ca. 1917)
  • voice and piano
  • text by Charles Kingsley
  • dedicated to Nesta Richardson
  • revision of op. 11
  • London: Elkin 1917

Sange eines fahrenden
Spielmanns, op. 1
• Prelude: Worte trügen Worte Fliehen
• Heisst es viel dich bitten
• So ich traurig bin
• Dieses ist ein rechter Morgen
• Aus dem Knospen quellen
• Sieh mein Kind ich gehe
  • voice and piano
  • text by Stephan George
  • dedicated to Hans Luthy, Clemens Franckenstein,
    Balfour Gardiner, T. Holland-Smith, and Roger Quilter
  • composed Aug 1980
  • performed by John Potter and Stephen Banfield
  • on Nov, 6 1980 at Walter Moberly Hall, Keele University, Keele.
  • Mss. in the possession of Leslie East
    and in the Grainger Museum
    (ms: MG C2/SCO-181A and photoprints: MG C3/SCO-181A)
  • London: Elkin 19

Scotch Lullabye, op. 57, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Walter Scott
  • composed [ca. 1908?]
  • London: Elkin 1910

Sea-Fret
  • voice and piano
  • text by Teresa Hooley
  • dedicated to Granville Bantock
  • London: Elkin 1919

Sea-Song of Gafran
  • voice and piano
  • text by Felicia Hemans from Welsh melodies
  • London: Elkin 1927

Serenade, op. 61, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Duffield Bendall
  • dedicated to Theodore Byard
  • London: Elkin 1908

She's But a Lassie Yet
  • voice and piano
  • text by James Hogg
  • dedicated to Bertram Binyon
  • London: Elkin 1919

Sleep Song
  • voice and piano
  • text by William B. Rands
  • dedicated to Michael A.M. Eisdell and his mother
  • London: Elkin 1912

Song of Arcady
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Bella and Maya Heerman
  • London: Elkin 1914
  • printed copy with annotations by Peter Pears
    in the Britten-Pears Library

Song of London, op. 52, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to H.G. Wells
  • London: Elkin 1906

Song of Wine, op. 46, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles, from the Chinese
  • subsequently incorporated as No. 3 of Songs of Old Cathay
  • dedicated to Frederic Austin
  • London: Elkin 1907

Songs, Selections
• Beware
• Under the Greenwood Tree
• Hark! Hark! The Lark
• Sigh No More, Ladies
• What Win if I Gain?
• Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep
  • title: Six Songs
  • voice and piano
  • composed 1895 -96
  • various dedications and texts
  • Ms. in possession of Leslie East

Sorrow, op. 36, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Melchior lechter
  • London: Elkin 1904

Spring Ditty, op. 72, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by John Addington Symonds from the Latin
  • dedicated to
  • London: Elkin 1910

Spring Song
  • voice and piano
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • dedicated to Ilse Stegmann
  • London: Elkin 1913

Spring-Day
  • voice and piano
  • composed [ca. 1965?]

Sumer Is Icumen In
  • voice and piano
  • dedicated to Hubert Eisdell
  • London: Elkin 1913

Sundown
  • voice and piano
  • text by Dorothy Grenside
  • London: Elkin 1919

Sunshine and Dusk
  • voice and piano
  • text by Margaret Maitland Radford
  • London: Elkin 1918

There Comes an End to Summer,
   op. 30, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Charles Bonnier
  • London: Boosey 1903

Time I've Lost in Wooing
  • voice and piano
  • text by Thomas Moore
  • dedicated to Hans and Carrie Lüthy
  • composed July 1893
  • London: Boosey 1904
  • Ms. in possession of Leslie East

Time O'Day
  • voice and piano
  • text by Olive Macnaghten
  • dedicated to Hubert Eisdell
  • London: Elkin 1919

To-Morrow
  • voice and piano
  • text by Christina Rossetti
  • London: Elkin 1927

Trafalgar, op. 38, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Thomas Hardy
  • London: Boosey 1904

Tranquility
  • voice and piano
  • without text
  • London: Elkin 1919

Trysting Tree, op. 72, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Charles Sayle
  • London: Elkin 1910

Tyrolese Evensong
  • voice and piano
  • text by Felicia Hemans
  • London: Elkin 1916


Unforeseen, op. 74, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • dedicated to Miss Grainger Kerr
  • London: Elkin 1911


Valediction, op. 36, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Gervase Elwes
  • London: Elkin 1904

Valley of Silence, op. 72, no. 4
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • printed copy with annotations by Peter Pears
  • in the Britten-Pears Library
  • London: Elkin 1911

Vesperale, op. 9
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Percy Grainger
  • composed Apr. 23, 1900
  • Ms. in possession of Leslie East

Villanelle, op. 33, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Mabel and Edwin Lee
  • London: Boosey 1904

Villanelle of Firelight
  • voice and piano
  • text by Naomi Carvalho
  • dedicated to Winifred Barnes
  • London: Elkin 1922

Villanelle of the Poet's Road
op. 74, no. 5
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Charles Dyer
  • London: Elkin 1911

Vision, op. 62, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles, from the Chinese
  • dedicated to Mrs. Rowan Hamilton
  • London: Elkin 1908

Voices of Vision, op. 24, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • dedicated to Aimé and Robin Legge
  • London: Elkin 1903


Waiting, op 46, no. 1
  • voice and piano
  • text by Herbert A. Giles, from the Chinese
  • dedicated to R. R. Vamam Shankar Rav Pandit
  • London: Elkin 1906
  • subsequently incorporated as No. 4 of Songs of Old Cathay

Watchman
  • voice and piano
  • text by Jean Hyacinth Hildyard
  • London: Elkin 1920

Water-Lilies
  • voice and piano
  • text by P.J. O'Reilly
  • London: Elkin 1920

What Art Thou Thinking Of?
  • voice and piano
  • text by Christina Rossetti
  • London: Elkin 1924

Where Be Going?
  • voice and piano
  • text by Hubert Eisdell
  • London: Elkin 1913

White Knight, op. 43, no. 3
  • voice and piano
  • text by Rosamund Marriott Watson after an old French text
  • dedicated to Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • London: Elkin 1905

Why So Pale and Wan?
op. 55, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Sir John Suckling
  • London: Elkin 1907

Willows, op. 24, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • dedicated to Aimé and Robin Legge
  • London: Elkin 1903


Yvonne of Brittany, op. 5, no. 2
  • voice and piano
  • text by Ernest Dowson
  • dedicated to Walter Crook
  • composed [ca. 1899?]
  • London: Boosey 1903

Compiled with thanks to Laurie J. Sampsel and her book:  Cyril Scott: A Bio-Bibliography

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