Britain, long revered for its choral music and partsongs, had largely neglected art songs since the Elizabethan era. The middle of the nineteenth century witnessed efforts to revive the genre, particularly in the works of Sir C. Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. The following generation, including the Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916), built on the foundations laid by Parry and Stanford and served as the bridge to the vocal music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Edward Elgar, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, and ultimately Benjamin Britten. Though best known for his Scottish-influenced compositions, MacCunn composed over 100 songs that, free from national constraints, are some of the most refined and sophisticated examples of his music. Almost no modern editions of MacCunn’s song exist, though many were published during the composer’s lifetime. The current two-part edition presents the composer’s 102 extant songs. Part 1 contains 53 individual songs; part 2 presents the songs that were first published as sets.

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Contents

Individual Songs

1. I Saw Thee Weep

2. To Mary in Heaven

3. Serenade

4. For the Wandering Jew

5. The Cottager to Her Infant

6. A Finland Love Song

7. A rosebud by my early walk

8. I think of thee, in the night

9. When twilight dews are falling soft

10. Morning Song

11. Night Piece to Julia

12. Cradle Song (Richard Gall)

13. Keep Your Tears for Me

14. Pour Forth the Wine

15. Strathallan’s Lament

16. When Thou Art Nigh

17. The Day of Love

18. I’ve Found My Mountain Lyre Again!

19. Here’s to thy health, my bonnie lass

20. My Mary Dear, Farewell

21. A Song of the South

22. A Widow Bird Sate Mourning

23. Bethesda

24. Small birds in the corn

25. A Flower Auction

26. All on a fair May morning

27. Changes

28. Do not vex thy violet

29. A Cavalier’s Song

30. If a nobler waits for thee

31. Many Days, and Many Ways

32. O Gentle Sleep

33. On a Faded Violet

34. To Eva

35. When Roses Blow

36. The Wanderer

37. Had I a cave on some wild distant shore

38. The heath this night must be my bed

39. I arise from dreams of thee

40. Thine am I, my faithful fair

41. Wilt thou be my dearie?

42. Cosie Song

43. Lie There, My Lute

44. One lone star

45. Ave Maria

46. Fair is Love

47. Cradle Song (Tennyson)

48. There’s a wee, wee glen in the Hielan’s

49. With Thee

50. Lullaby, Lilibrow

Appendix

’Twas in an airy dream of night

Bio

Jennifer Oates is Associate Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center–CUNY. She specializes in research of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British music, particularly dealing with issues of identity. Her biography of Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn appeared in 2013 in Ashgate's Nineteenth-Century British Music series, and her critical edition of MacCunn's overtures is volume 53 in Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.