Liturgical and secular vocal music, 1901-1969

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MS. Mus. b. 628

Other church music and secular vocal music, including part songs and songs for voice(s) and piano.

Liturgical music:

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E, for double choir (SATB SATB) unaccompanied. [HJ 2:13]. Draft (1908) and revised draft (1967)
Communion service in B minor, for SATB and organ. [HJ 2:3]. Draft (1964) and revised draft (1968)
Preces and responses, for men's voices (ATTB). [HJ 2:14]. 1969. Draft. [Published: Cathedral Music, 1991]
'Nun danket'. Descant and harmonisation for the last verse of 'Now thank we all our God'. [HJ 2:6]. 1969. Non-autograph copy. [Published: RSCM, 1969]

Solo songs:

'Clown's songs', from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth night'. For tenor and piano. [HJ 10:17]. 1908. 1: 'O mistress mine' only. Draft
'Epitaph' ('Here lies a most beautiful lady'), for voice and piano. Text: Walter de la Mare. [HJ 6:5]. 1966. Draft
'Invictus' ('Out of the night'), for baritone and piano. Text: W.E. Henley. [HJ 10:8]. c.1912. Fair copy
'Lines on the Massacre in Piedmont', for baritone and piano. Text: John Milton. [HJ 10:9]. 1901. Draft and sketches
'The moor', for baritone and piano. Text: Ralph Hodgson. [HJ 6:23]. 1923. Draft score with corrections and fair copy
'The student's song', from 'The spook sonata' [play by Arnold Strindberg]. For voice and harp. [HJ 10:14]. Composed between 1923 and 1926. Draft
'Three Shakespeare Songs', from 'Twelfth night'. For counter-tenor and piano. [HJ 10:17a]. 1. 'O mistress mine' [different from the above setting]; 2. Come away, death. 3. When that I was. Drafts and sketches
'Three songs', for tenor and piano. Text: George Herbert. [HJ 10:16]. 1. 'The flower'; 2. 'Bitter sweet'; 3. 'The temper'. 1962. Drafts, sketches and photostats (with page from Radio Times, listing the first performance by Wilfred Brown and Edna Blackwell, broadcast on 29 May 1964, and a letter from Blackwell)

Songs, etc. for more than one voice:

'The Bey of Bamra', for soloists, children's choruses (SSA) and piano. Text: A.W.S. Bridge and F.M. Bridge. [HJ 6:18]. 1958. Drafts and sketches with typescript text
'The boy and the angel', for vocal quartet (SATB), string quartet and piano. Text: Robert Browning. [HJ 10:12]. 1905. Score and cello part only (with a letter from Beatrice Spencer and printed obituary of Arthur Foxton Ferguson)
'I love the jocund dance', unison song for voices and piano. Text: William Blake. [HJ 6:9]. 1966. Draft. [Published: Novello, 1966]
'A rouse for Prince Charles', for SATB and piano. Words and music by W.H. Harris. [HJ 10:2]. 1969. Draft and sketches
'Slumber song'. Unison song for voices and piano. [HJ 6:14]. 1956. Accompaniment arranged for strings, 1957. Full score (without voice part). [Published (vocal score): Edward Arnold, 1956]
'A song of May Day'. Choral song, for SATB and orchestra or piano. Text: Beaumont & Fletcher. [HJ 6:16]. Accompaniment only, arranged for 2 pianos. 1941. 2 scores. [Vocal score published: Novello, 1940.
'You spotted snakes', for children's voices in 2 parts and piano. Text: from Shakespeare's 'A midsummer night's dream'. [HJ 10:19]. 'Written for OUDS summer play in Magdalen Grove, Oxford, summer 1926'. Draft