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Settings of Shakespeare

High voice and piano
High voice and violin
Unaccompanied voice
Medium voice, violin and piano
Medium voice and flute/oboe
Tenor or baritone and piano
Bass voice and piano
Baritone and piano
S.A.T.T.B.B. a capella
S.A.T.B. a capella

Misc. songs and choral music

Tenor and soprano duet
Soprano or contralto and piano
Soprano and violin
Medium voice, viola and piano
High voice and flute
Soprano and piano trio
S.A.T.B. a capella
S.A.T.B. and piano
S.S.A. or T.T.B. and piano
S.S.A.T.B. a capella
S.A.T.B. and organ
Cantatas
Opera

 

The Brooklands Press

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James Walker
VOCAL MUSIC

 SETTINGS OF SHAKESPEARE
 

Three Songs            
          £5 (2 parts)      
Hark, hark the lark  (Cymbeline) (1974)
Come away, death  (Twelfth Night) (1964)
It was a lover  (As You Like It) (1964)
 

Four Songs  (1963)   
       
 
£5.50 (2 parts)                                             
When daisies pied  (
Love’s Labour’s Lost)
Come away, death  (Twelfth Night)
Who is Sylvia  (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Under the greenwood tree  (As You Like It)
 

Take, O take those lips away  (Measure for Measure)  (1978)
          £1

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Orpheus with his lute  (Henry VIII)  (1995)
          £4 (score and 2 parts)
 

Three songs  (1997)
         
£5 (2 parts)
Willow song  (Othello)
Over hill, over dale (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Ye spotted snakes  (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
(See also Flute and voice)
 

Songs for Autolycus: from A Winter's Tale  (1997)
         
£5.50 (2 parts)
Jog on
Will you buy any lace
When daffodils
Lawn as white

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Now the hungry lion roars (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)  (1987)
          £3 (2 parts)
 

Three sighs (1976)
         
£5.50 (2 parts)
Three contrasted settings of ‘Sigh no more, ladies’ from Much Ado About Nothing
waltz-song, serenade, military style
(The audio clip example is taken from the CD ‘Sweet Swan of Avon’ by English Serenata, CDE 84301)
 

Sigh no more, ladies
from Much Ado About Nothing
         
£7 (6 scores)
(The waltz-song setting, see above)
 

Tempest Songs  (1985)
         
£5.50 (4 scores)
Where the Bee Sucks
Full Fathom Five
Come unto these Yellow Sands

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MISCELLANEOUS SONGS & CHORAL MUSIC
 

The Colour  (Thomas Hardy)  (1977)
          £4 (2 parts)
 

Nuptial Song  (J.L.Warren) (1987)
          £2.50 (2 parts)
 

‘tis I go fiddling  (N.Hopper) (1996)
          £3 (2 parts)
 

Love and Beauty: a cycle  (1996)
         
£6.50 (score and 2 parts)
Love and Beauty (Walter.Scott)
When music sounds (Walter De la Mare) 
She walks in beauty (Lord Byron) 
When to her lute (Thomas Campion)

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Prayers to the Guardian Angel: three songs to mediaeval words  (1982)
          £5 (2 parts)
I pray thee, spirit
A God and yet a Man!
O, Sweet Angel
(See also Flute and voice)


 

Aubade & Nocturne (vocalise) (1968)
         
£8.50 (score and 4 parts)
Commissioned by the Belfast Festival in 1968 and performed by Kerstin Meyer and the Archduke Trio.
 

A Lyke-Wake Dirge (1978)
         
£4 (1 set)
This ae night

Choric Song        Alfred, Lord Tennyson   (1978)
          £5 (4 scores)
There is sweet music here

 

Four Curious Songs  (1979)
          £12 (piano score and 4 parts)
The Hag (Robert Herrick)
An August Midnight (Thomas Hardy)
The Fairy Hunt (Francis Ledwidge)
Stocking and Shirt (James Reeves)

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Three Psalms  (1982)
         
£6 (1 set)
I will lift up mine eyes
By the rivers of Babylon
Praise ye the Lord
 

Weathers 1 and 2  (Thomas Hardy) (1975)

Birds at Winter Nightfall  (Thomas Hardy) (1975)
          £7.50 (5 copies)
 

The Spacious Firmament on High
          Please enquire for price
Written for the service at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon for Shakespeare’s Birthday, 23 April 1996.
 

This Airy Day (1977)
(35:00)
          Please enquire for price
A divertimento for the springtime of the year
Rant, Reverie, Lament, Réjouissance, Epithalamion, Pastourelle, Revally, Epilogue
Commissioned by the Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society for its 150th anniversary

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The Small World (1982)
(40:00)
          Please enquire for price
A diversion for grown-ups

Our Arrival, Our Instructions, Our Discoveries, Our Conclusions
Commissioned by the Sheffield Concert Choir
 

Night Songs  (1987)
(40:00)
          Please enquire for price
Commissioned by the Doncaster Choral Society

All three of the above cantatas are available on hire from the Brooklands Press
 

The Proposal (1972)
(35:00)
          Please enquire for price
after Chekhov, libretto by Simon Carter
Copies on hire from G.Schirmer Inc.

‘Let me hail an unremittingly funny new one-act opera’ 
Leicester Mercury 1974
‘The three singers warmed to it with enthusiasm’
Bucks Examiner 1975

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