Bibliography
of John Clare pieces set to music
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Arnold,
Malcolm
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Song
of Praise (Warm into praises, kindling muse)
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Solo
song
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Arnold,
Malcolm
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The
John Clare Cantata
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Mixed
choir and piano duet
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Ayres,
Paul
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The
Music of the Past – “The past it is a magic word …”
Commissioned
by Hull Ladies Musical Union, 2001 – manuscript
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SSA
and piano
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Beckwith,
George
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O
Wert Thou in the Storm, manuscript
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Solo
voice
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Bennett,
Richard Rodney
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The
Birds’ Lament
The
Insect World
Clock
a Clay
The
Early Nightingale
1965
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Choral
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Bird,
Geoffrey
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John
Clare’s Seasons,
manuscript, 2002
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8
songs for medium voice
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Blyth
Daubney, Brian
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Song’e
Eternity and
Hidden Love, composed by Brian Blyth Daugney, a Lincolnshire composer,
in 1992 at the request of the English Poetry and Song Society – appear in
Volume 2 (1970 – 1992) published by Summerfields Press in 1996 (Blyth
Daubney’s own publication)
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Solo
voice and piano
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Britten,
Benjamin
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The
Evening Primrose, 5
flower songs, op. 47, Boosey & Hawkes
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Choral
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Britten,
Benjamin
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Spring
Symphony,
Op. 44: Part 1(4) The Driving Boy (the text comes from Clare’s May and
contains a few changes by George Peele
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Clayton,
Vicky
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Set
some of John Clare to music in the mid 90s.
She sings with Fairport Convention as well as being a solo artist
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Copley,
Ian
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Corri,
Haydn
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The
Meeting,
bassoon obblig. by
Graham
Foulkes, manuscript, 1820
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Solo
voice
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Dab
Hand (folk group: tom McConville,
Gordon Tyrrel and Tom Napper
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Married
to a Soldier
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LP
record CM025
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Deacon,
George
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Dream
Not of Love
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17 compositions
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Voice,
harmonium and violin
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Deacon,
George
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John
Clare and Folk Tradition
(book
but contains mass of Clare material with tunes more closely related to his
musical heritage plus reproduction of part Here We Meet Too Soon to Part
set by Haydn Corri, plus ref to Sweet the Merry Bells Ring Round set
by F W Crouch (British Lib G806a-45), plus The Banks of Bromsgrove set
by James Power.
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Deadman,
Terence
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The
Midsummer Cushion:
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A Beautiful Sunset in November
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Birds and Spring
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Night Wind
Manuscript,
2003
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Solo
voice
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Deadman,
Terence
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Little
Trotty Wagtail
Adieu
Autumn
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Deadman,
Terence
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Clock
a Clay,
manuscript, 2003
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Solo
voice
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Deadman,
Terence
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Evening
Primrose, manuscript
2003
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High
voice and piano
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Dodgson,
Stephen
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Four
Poems of John Clare
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Voice
and guitar
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Dyson,
Gordon
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Mary
(It Is the Evening Hour)
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Solo
voice
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Gooch
& Thatcher
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Musical
Settings of Early and Mid Victorian Literature, 1979
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Gurney,
Ivor
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Ploughman
Singing (Here Morning in the Ploughmans Songs)
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Solo
voice
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Hold,
Trevor
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Composer’s
Debt to John Clare,
John Clare Society Journal no. 1, 1982
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Hold,
Trevor
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A
Little Song Book for John Clare
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Evening Schoolboys
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A Mother’s Lullaby
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Married to a Soldier
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Clock a Clay
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The Tell Tale Flowers
1993
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Solo
voice
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Hold,
Trevor
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A
John Clare Song Book
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Break of Day
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Country Letter
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Dying Child
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Love’s Riddle
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Lost as Strangers
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Drinking Song
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Evening
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What is Life
Thames
Publishing (Elkin Music Services, Norwich), 1999 (1980 manuscript)
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Solo
voice
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Hurd,
Michael
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Shepherd’s
Calendar
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Withering and Keen the Winter Comes
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Come, Queen of Months
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O Love is So Deceiving
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Harvest Awakes the Morning Still
1975
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Choral
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Jeffreys,
John
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Little
Trotty Wagtail
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Solo
voice
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Palmer,
Roy
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?
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Ridout,
Alan
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Love
Songs
(four
poems of John Clare) for Ct. gui (6/11/72) – details from Father Anselm
Cramer, Ampleforth (email archive@ampleforth.org.uk)
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Ridout,
Alan
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The
Shepherd’s Calendar (Set 1)
(six
pieces 17/3/91 – Emerson)
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Four
bassoons and narrator
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Ridout,
Alan
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The
Shepherd’s Calendar (Set 2)
(six
pieces 19/5/91 – Emerson)
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Four
bassoons and narrator
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Rubbra,
Edmund
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Little
Trotty Wagtail (no. 2 of Three Bird Songs), 1938
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Treble
and piano
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Rubbra,
Edmund
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Bonny
Mary O, 1938
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Mixed
choir and piano
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Shaw,
Martin
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Shaw,
Pete & Robinson, Eric
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Woman,
Sweet Witchingly Woman an entertainment based upon
John Clare’s songs and poems on the theme of the female race, words edited by
Eric Robinson, music by Pete Shaw or trad. Arr. By Pete Shaw. The songs are Something New, O
Woman, Sweet Witchingly Woman, If Kitty’s rosy Presence Now, The Mother’s
Caution, Ere the Church Bell, When I met her, Sports of the Village, Winter
Winds Cold & Bleak, Give me the Hour that Puts to Bed, My Old Lover Left
Me, Here’s a Health Unto thee, Come Give Us the Health
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Solo
voice or chord accompaniment, performed in Peterborough Cathedral, 3 July
1993
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Standford,
Patric
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A John
Clare Cantata
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Solo
soprano, women’s voices and orchestra
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Sterndale
Bennett, William
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Winter’s
Gone, 12 songs, op. 23 and 35, Novello, c. 1850
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Solo
voice
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Swann,
Donald, and Smith, Alison
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The
Songs of Donald Swann. The Poetic
Image: a Victorian song cycle for
medium voice and piano (Albert House Press 1991) –
contains settings/songs by several poets including Clare’s An Invite to
Eternity.
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Tate,
Phyllis
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Glad
Christmas is Come, two part setting
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Tyler,
Malcolm
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My
Early Home, manuscript
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Solo
voice
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Tyrrel,
Gordon
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A
Distance From the Town: a musical appreciation of the work of the poet John
Clare – contains a number of tunes clare would have played as
written down by himself. Fellside
records FECD129, 1998
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Vocals,
guitar, whistles, flute, cello, concertina, melodeon, fiddle
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Waite,
Michael
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Six
Bird Songs, manuscript
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Choral
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Warlock,
Peter
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Little
Trotty Wagtail, Oxford Choral Songs, 1923
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Solo
voice
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Wilson,
Andrew
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Clare’s
Calendar – a song cycle consisting of Autumn,
Emmonsail’s Heath in Winter, Spring, and Come We to the Summer
www.andrew-m-wilson.com
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Soprano,
2 violins, and organ
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Wilson,
James
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The
Birds Are Gone to Bed (Bucolics, op. 28)
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Solo
voice
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Wood,
Chris
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Trespasser
– cd – theme is the impact of enclosure of country people – the track Mad John
opens with the first 4 lines of The Flitting
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Wood,
Royston (of the folk group The Young Tradition)
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No
Relation
Includes
his setting of The Cellar Door
Transatlantic
Records TRA 342 recorded jointly with Heather Wood
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Young,
Bill
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A
Pleasant Place – the sheet music for Bill Young’s setting of this Clare
poem can be downloaded at http://www.cyberware.co.uk/~ddm221
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