George DuMaurier on Parlour Songs. [Click on thumbnails for larger images and captions.]
Discussions
Parlour Songs
- Annabelle Lee — A Victorian setting of Poe's poem (music by music by Henry Leslie)
- Home, Sweet Home! (lyrics by John Howard Payne, music by Henry Rowley Bishop)
- Woodman, Spare That Tree! (lyrics by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell)
- Woodman, Spare That Tree! (another performance)
- Three Fishers Went Sailing (lyrics by by Charles Kingsley, music by John Hullah)
- The Lost Chord (lyrics by Adelaide Anne Procter, music by Arthur Sullivan)
- Oh Mother! Take the Wheel Away (lyrics and music by Claribel)
- The Old Arm Chair (lyrics by Eliza Cook, music by Henry Russell)
- Come into the Garden, Maud (lyrics by Alfred Lord Tennyson, music by Michael Balfe)
- The Volunteer Organist (lyrics by W. B. Glenroy [pseudonym of William Gray], music by Henry Lamb [pseudonym of Henry Spaulding])
- Throw Out the Life-line! (lyrics and music by the Rev. Edwin Ufford)
- I Come from the Beautiful Rhine (lyrics by Charles Mackay, music by Frank Mori)
- Anchored (lyrics by Samuel K. Cowan, music by Michael Watson)
- The Village Blacksmith (lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by Willoughby Hunter Weiss)
- On the Road to Mandalay (lyrics by Rudyard Kipling, music by Oley Speaks)
- Somewhere a Voice Is Calling (lyrics by E. Newton, music by Arthur F. Tate)
- Tatters (lyrics and music by Gerald M. Lane)
- Ben Bolt (lyrics by Thomas Dunn English, music by Nelson Kneass)
- The Children's Home (lyrics by Frederic E. Weatherly, music by Frederic Cowen)
- Kathleen Mavourneen (lyrics by Julia Crawford, music by Frederick Nicholls Crouch)
- The Bridge (lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by Maria Lindsay)
- The Madman (lyrics and music by Henry Russell)
- The Last Link is Broken (music by William Clifton)
- Mr. and Mrs. Brown (lyrics and music by Stephen Forster)
- The Little Hero (lyrics by Arthur Matthison and music by Stephen Adams)
- Ora Pro Nobis (lyrics by A. Horspool, music by T. Piccolomini)
- Leonore (Thy voice is music to mine ear)
Piano Pieces
- Fairy Wedding Waltz (music by Joseph W. Turner)
- The Battle March of Delhi (music by John Pridham)
Bibliography
Boosey, William. 1931. Fifty Years of Music. London: Ernest Benn.
Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair. 1898. Stories of Famous Songs. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898), 201-2;
Parlor Songs: Popular Sheet Music from the 1800s to the 1920s. Web. 13 December 2011. [Chiefly American.]
Russell, Henry. 1895. Cheer, Boys, Cheer! London: John Macqueen.
Scott, Derek B. The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour. 2nd ed. Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.
Stephen Collins Foster. Web. 13 December 2011. [Chiefly American.]
Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1974. The Parlour Song Book: A Casquet of Vocal Gems. London: Pan.
Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1975. Just a Song at Twilight: The Second Parlour Song Book. London: Michael Joseph.
Willeby, Charles. 1893. Masters of Contemporary Music. Osgood & McIlvaine: London.
Last modified 31 December 2011