Modern Ballads (Various)

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General Information

Work Title Modern Ballads
Alternative. Title A Selection of 50 Favourite Songs and Ballads by the Most Eminent Composers
Composer Various
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 50 songs
  1. Cowen: It was a Dream
  2. Clay: She Wandered Down the Mountain Side
  • The old oak hall / words by Dorothy Blomfield ; music by F. Neale
  • Wait till you come to forty year / words by W.M. Thackeray ; music by Theo. Marzials
  • Shall I like a hermit dwell / words by Sir Walter Raleigh ; music by W.H. Montgomery
  • Destiny / words by Maria X. Hayes ; music by Dolores
  • One only! / words by John Oxenford ; music by J.B. Wekerlin
  • Phœbe dearest, tell, oh! tell me / words by W.H. Bellamy ; music by J.L. Hatton
  • Forgiven / words by Florence Marryat ; music by Elizabeth Philp
  • Give me back my heart / words by Sir J. Suckling ; music by G. Frank Blatch
  • The rose looking in at the window
  • To a rose / words by John Oxenford ; music by J.B. Wekerlin
  • Farewell to Erin / words and music by Claribel
  • Who shall be fairest? / words by Charles Mackey ; music by Frank Mori
  • Mary Morison / words by Robert Burns ; music by Arthur Sullivan
  • Then and now / words by Courtenay Boyle ; music by Louisa Gray
  • Alone / music by Virginia Gabriel
  • The land of long ago / words by T. Westwood ; music by Delores
  • Birds in the night : a lullaby / words by Lionel H. Lewin ; music by Arthur S. Sullivan
  • Knitting / words by Maria X. Hayes ; music by J.L. Molloy
  • Soldier, rest / words by Sir Walter Scott ; music by Miss Talbot-Airey
  • Memory's flowers / words by F. Langbridge ; music by Louis Diehl
  • Past and future / music by F.H. Cowen
  • All the world's a stage / words by Edward Oxenford ; music by Ciro Pinsuti
  • Mary Hamilton / words by G. Whyte Melville ; music by Mrs Wilberforce
  • As you like it / words by Edward Oxenford ; music by Ciro Pinsuti
  • The secret of thy name / words and music by Cotsford Dick
  • Phillips: Cushla Machree
  • The fisher / music by Hamilton Aidé
  • Happy days / words by Edward Copping / music by Louis Diehl
  • The old cottage clock / words by C. Swain ; music by J.L. Molloy
  • Sacred vows / words by Russell Gray ; music by Virginia Gabriel
  • When sorrow dies / words by Edward Oxenford ; music by Ciro Pinsuti
  • He doesn't love me / words and music by Louisa Gray
  • Bye-and-bye / words by E.L. Blanchard ; music by Elizabeth Philp
  • The mother's dream / words by the Rev. W. Barnes ; music by Arthur Sullivan
  • Lovely rose / words by Sarah Phœbe Howell ; music by Francis Howell
  • Smiles may end in tears / words by Edward Oxenford ; music by Ciro Pinsuti
  • Drifting / words by Longfellow ; music by Dolores
  • Molly Maloney / words by A.P. Graves ; music by A.M. Wakefield
  • 'Twas not a dream / words by Sarah Phœbe Howell ; music by Francis Howell
  • Spring is here / words by John Oxenford ; music by J.B. Wekerlin
  • Defton woods / words by Jean Ingelow ; music by A. Scott Gatty
  • There be none of beauty's daughters / words by Byron ; music by Edward J. Bellerby
  • As the sun goes down / words by John McIntyre ; music by Alfred Moul
  • Jane Barnaby / words by John Jones ; music by A. Scott Gatty
  • Think of me / words by J.H. Gatty ; music by A. Scott Gatty
  • Farewell / words by G.J. Whyte-Melville ; music by A. Scott Gatty
  • A souvenir / words by L.L.B. ; music by A. Scott Gatty
  • Home again / words by Sidney Dobell ; music by Fred. Henley.
Librettist various see below
  1. Robert Edward Francillon (1841–1919)
  2. Benjamin Charles Stephenson (1839–1906)
Language English
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voice, piano