Choral Settings Of Shakespeare Texts
CHORAL SETTINGS OF SHAKESPEARE TEXTS
Compiled by Maggie Hamilton.
UPPER VOICES
Armstrong Gibbs: You spotted snakes
Unison & pf
Novello £1.99
Malcolm Arnold: Three Songs from ‘The Tempest’
Unison & pf
Paterson’s Publications £2.25
Peter Aston: Three Shakespeare Songs
S solo, SA choir
Novello £2.95
Amy Beach: Three Shakespeare Choruses
4-pt female chorus & pf.
Treble Clef Music £4.50
Judith Bingham: If Music Be
SSAA & 2 clar
Peters EP71111 £2.25
Johannes Brahms: 4 Songs Op. 17
SSA, 2hn & hpschd
Breitkopf & Härtel vs. ChB 5143 Euro 2.20, full score PB 3226 Euro 10.50, wind pts OB 3226 Euro 9.50
Bob Chilcott: Music to hear
SSA & pf
OUP £1.85
Emma Lou Diemer: Three Madrigals
2-pt or SATB & pf.
Boosey & Hawkes (New York) £1.99
Shena Fraser: I know a bank
SS & pf
Paterson’s Publications £1.75
John Gardner: A Shakespeare Sequence
Women’s voices, pf duet, opt. perc
OUP hire only
John Hind: Two Shakespearean Songs
SSA & pf
Novello £2.75
Herbert Howells: Under the greenwood tree
2-part & pf
Novello £2.25
John Ireland: Full Fathom Five
2-part & pf
Novello £1.75
Anthony Milner: Ashmansworth
4-part round
Novello £1.75
E.J. Moeran: When icicles hang by the wall
TB or SA & pf
Novello (both versions) £1.75
Bernard Naylor: Two Ophelia Songs
SA & pf
J. Curwen £2.25
John Rutter: It was a lover and his lass
SA & pf
OUP £2.20
John Rutter: When Daisies Pied
SSAA & pf
OUP £2.20
William Schuman: Orpheus with His Lute
SSA & pf
Associated Music Publishers £1.25
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sigh no more, Ladies
SSA & pf
OUP £1.85
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with his lute
Unison & pf
OUP £1.85
Judith Weir: Storm
SSAA sols, children’s chorus, 3fl, 3vc, 3perc
Chester Music vs. £3.75, full score £24.95
David Willcocks: It was a lover and his lass
SSA & pf/orch
OUP £1.60
David Willcocks: Under the greenwood tree
SSA & pf/orch
OUP £2.20
David Willcocks: The Glories of Shakespeare
SSA, narrator, chmbr orch.
OUP hire only
MALE VOICES
Ingolf Gabold: Your sister’s drown’d
S sol, male voice choir unacc.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen £6.95
Johannes H.E. Koch: ‘Orpheus’ Laute ließ die Wipfel wüster Berge’ in Nagels Männerchorbuch vol.4
Male chorus
Bärenreiter EN 1203 £9.00
E.J. Moeran: When icicles hang by the wall
TB or SA & pf
Novello (both versions) £1.75
SATB
Samuel Barber: The Death of Antony; The Death of Cleopatra
SATB & pf.
G. Schirmer £17.95
Richard Rodney Bennett: Sea-Change
SATB (div.)
Novello £5.95
Michael Berkeley: Farewell
SATB unacc.
OUP £1.85
Geoffrey Bush: Tell me where is fancy bred?
S,T sols, SATB & vc
Novello £1.75
Gary Carpenter: The Food of Love bk.1
SATB & pf.
Cadenza Music £6.95
Andrew Carter: O Mistress mine
SATB unacc.
OUP £1.85
Brian Chapple: Five Shakespeare Songs
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Chester Music £10.95
Bob Chilcott: The Isle is full of noises
SATB unacc.
OUP £2.20
Erik Chisholm: Crabbed age and youth
SATB unacc.
J. Curwen £2.25
Emma Lou Diemer: Three Madrigals
2-pt or SATB & pf.
Boosey & Hawkes (New York) £1.99
Jonathan Dove: Two Sonnets
SSAATTTTBBBB unacc.
Peters EP72183 £3.95
John Gardner: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
SSATB unacc.
Novello £2.25
John Gardner: Seven Songs
SATB & chmbr orch. or pf duet
OUP Hire only
Matthew Harris: Shakespeare Songs vols.1-5
SATB unacc.
Associated Music Publishers vols.1-4 £2.50; vol.5 £2.95
Daniel Helldén: Rosemary
SATB unacc.
Edition Egtved £2.18
Fanny Hensel: Unter des Laubdachs Hut
SATB
Breitkopf & Härtel ChB 5234 Euro 1.60
Tony Hewitt-Jones: Full Fathom Five
SSAATTBB unacc.
Novello £2.95
Bo Holten: Pavane-Fantasia
SSATB sols, SSATBB unacc.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen £10.95
Joseph Horovitz: Three Songs from ‘As You Like It’
SATB unacc./& 1 instr.
Novello £4.75
Knud Jeppesen: Four Shakespeare Songs
SATB unacc.
Edition Egtved £3.45
Betsy Jolas: Chant Dormant
SSAATTBB unacc.
Alphonse Leduc £9.95
Franz F. Kaern: Three Sonnets against Vanity
SSAATTBB unacc.
Carus-Verlag 9.919 Euro 7.50
Stefan Kalmer: When shall we three meet again
SMsA/SMsA/TBB/Rock Choir
Carus-Verlag 9.801/00 Euro 4.30
Nils Lindberg: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
SATB unacc.
Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia £1.50
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi: Four Shakespeare Songs; More Shakespeare Songs; No
More Shakespeare Songs?
SATB (div.) unacc.
Sulasol Music £6.50; £8.50; £3.50
Frank Martin: Songs of Ariel
SATB unacc.
Universal Edition Euro 14.95
William Mathias: Shakespeare Songs
SATB & pf
OUP hire only
William Mathias: It was a lover and his lass
SATB & pf
OUP £1.85
Paul Mealor: Let Fall the Windows of Mine Eyes
SATB (div.)
Novello £2.95
E.J. Moeran: Sigh no more, ladies
SATB unacc.
Novello £2.25
E.J. Moeran: Under the greenwood tree
SATB unacc.
Novello £1.75
Thomas Pitfield: Marriage Song
SSATBB unacc.
J. Curwen £2.25
John Rutter: Birthday Madrigals
SATB, opt. db &/or pf
OUP £8.75
John Rutter: It was a lover and his lass
SATBarB unacc.
OUP £1.85
John Rutter: ‘Tell me where is fancy bred’ from Fancies
SATB & orch. (or pf)
OUP vs. £12.95
John Rutter: When Icicles Hang
SATB & orch. (or pf)
OUP vs. £11.50
Stephen Sametz: When he shall die
SATB unacc.
OUP £1.60
William Schuman: Orpheus with His Lute
SATB & pf
Associated Music Publishers £1.25
George Shearing: Music to Hear; Song and Sonnets
SATB, pf & opt. db.
Hindon Publications Inc. £8.95; £4.95
Mike Sheppard: Music to Hear
SATB (div) unacc.
Peters EP72594 £2.25
Friedrich Silcher: ‘Süße Liebe liebt den Mai’ in Singt im Chor
SATB
Bärenreiter BA 6355 £ 5.00
Howard Skempton: Orpheus with his lute
SATB unacc.
OUP £1.60
Giles Swayne: Ophelia Drowning
SATB & fl.
Novello £10.95
Giles Swayne: Three Shakespeare Songs Op.4
SATB unacc.
Novello £5.95
John Tavener: Fear no more
SATB unacc.
Chester Music £1.75
John Tavener: Song for Athene
SATB (div.)
Chester Music £2.99
John Tavener: Three Shakespeare Sonnets
SSSAATTBBB unacc.
Chester Music £3.50
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 3 Shakespeare Songs
S(S)ATB unacc.
OUP £3.50
David Willcocks: O Mistress mine
SATB unacc.
OUP £1.60
WORKS WITH ORCHESTRA
George Benjamin: Sometimes Voice
Bar sol, SATB chorus & orch.
Faber Music vs. £4.99
Hector Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette
A,T,B sols, ATB choir, STB choir & orch.
Bärenreiter vs (French) BA 5458-90 £24, full score (h/b) BA 5458 £277.50, parts BA 5458-72 on hire, study score TP 334 £20
Judith Bingham: Shakespeare Requiem
S,Bar sols, SATB choir & orch.
Edition Peters vs. £24.95
Jonathan Dove: Our Revels Now Are Ended
Bar sol, SATB & orch.
Peters EP7755 £9.50
George Dyson: Agincourt
S,A,T,B sols, SATB choir & orch.
Novello vs. £9.95
John Gardner: Seven Songs
SATB & chmbr orch. or pf duet
OUP Hire only
Michael Hurd: The Phoenix and the Turtle
S sol, SATB, timp & strs
Novello vs. £6.95
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
S,S,S sols, SSAA choir & orch.
Breitkopf & Härtel vs. EB 8720 Euro 19.00, chorus pts ChB 5305 Euro 2.40, plus on hire
John Rutter: Blow, blow thou winter wind
SSATB & pf or small orch.
OUP £1.85
John Rutter: Tell me where is fancy bred from ‘Fancies’
SATB & orch. (or pf)
OUP vs. £12.95
John Rutter: When Icicles Hang
SATB & orch. (or pf)
OUP vs. £11.50
Phyllis Tate: A Secular Requiem
SATB, org & orch.
OUP hire only
Ralph Vaughan Williams: In Windsor Forest (adapted from the opera ‘Sir John in Love’)
SATB & orch/str. orch. & pf
OUP vs. £10.25
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
16 solos, or S,A,T,B sols, SATB choir & orch.
OUP vs. £8.75
William Walton: Henry V – A Shakespeare Scenario
Narrator, SATB choir, boys’ choir & full orch. (or chmbr orch.)
OUP hire only
