Category:Glees
The glee is a type of partsong that flourished in 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. Earlier examples are almost all for men's voices (occasionally with B.C.) but, later, soprano voices (sometimes sung by trebles) were frequently included. Whilst many glees are in simple binary form, more ambitious examples consist of several dramatically contrasted sections, often ending with a fugue. For competitive purposes glees were often classified as 'humorous' or 'serious' (the latter embracing anything from the Ossianic to the amorous). Although largely supplanted by the romantic partsong roughly from the time of Mendelssohn and his imitators onwards, some glees continued to be composed throughout the 19th century.
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- Here sleeps what once had beauty (Jonathan Battishill)
- Here's a health to the King (Joseph Stephenson)
- Here, beneath this lofty shade (John Alcock Sr.)
- High on a mountain's lofty brow (John Wall Callcott)
- Hilarity (S. H. Dehn)
- The historians (John Wall Callcott)
- Hodge told Sue (Luffman Atterbury)
- The Housemaids (Lord Mornington)
- How hard is the fortune of all womankind (William Boyce)
- How stands the glass around? (Anonymous)
- How sweet in the woodlands (Henry Harington)
- How sweet, how graceful (Philip Hayes)
- Hush to peace each ruder wind (Thomas Arne)
- Hush, the god of love here sleeping lies (James Hook)
- Hushed in death (Henry Hiles)
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- I faint! I die! (Richard Woodward)
- I know you false (William Horsley)
- I swore I loved (Richard Langdon)
- I will rest on the cold turf (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
- I wish to tune my quiv'ring lyre (Thomas Forbes Walmisley)
- Ianthe (Henry Harington)
- Ianthe (Joseph William Holder)
- If 'tis joy to wound a lover (Richard Langdon)
- If all the world and love were young (Philip Hayes)
- If any so wise is (William Jackson of Exeter)
- If love and all the world were young (Samuel Webbe)
- Imperial Rome, the mistress of the world (John Wall Callcott)
- In a vale closed with woodland (William Jackson of Exeter)
- In all her steps, in each enchanting eye (John Wall Callcott)
- In awful pause (John Wall Callcott)
- In my bosom contentment shall reign (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
- In the garb of old Gaul (Harriett Abrams)
- In the lonely vale (John Wall Callcott)
- In the merry month of May (John Wilson)
- In the rose's fragrant shade (Robert Cooke)
- In this house give glimmering light (John Percy)
- In vain you tell your parting lover (Francis Hutcheson)
- In vain you tell your parting lover (Jonathan Battishill)
- Interred here doth lye a worthy wyght (Benjamin Cooke)
- Is it night (Samuel Webbe)
- It was a lover and his lass (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- I’ve come o’er the fields (Reginald Haddon)
L
- Labor (Edward Anders Wimmerstedt)
- Lament and mourn, he's dead and gone (Simon Ives)
- The lass of Richmond hill (James Hook)
- Let gaiety sparkle (John Danby)
- Let happy lovers fly (John Stafford Smith)
- Let me, careless and unthoughtful lying (Thomas Linley the elder)
- Let not rage, thy bosom firing (Thomas Arne)
- Let perjur'd fair Amyntas know (Jonathan Battishill)
- Let us take the road (Johann Christoph Pepusch)
- Let us, my Lesbia, live and love (John Stafford Smith)
- Like apple blossom (Charles Harford Lloyd)
- Like as the damask rose, you see (William Crotch)
- List for the breeze (John Goss)
- Little warbler, who dost bring mirth (John Danby)
- Lo here, beneath this hallow'd shade (Philip Hayes)
- Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd hours (John Goss)
- Lone dweller of the rock (John Wall Callcott)
- Lone minstrel of the moonlight hour (Legh Richmond)
- Love and Folly were at play (François-Hippolyte Barthélémon)
- Love and Folly were at play (Robert Cooke)
- Love delights the giddy lad (Samuel Webbe)
- The love rapture (Thomas Arne)
- Love, inform thy faithful creature (Pieter Hellendaal)
- Lover, thou must be presuming (Benjamin Cooke)
- Low in yon vale (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
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- Made to engage all hearts (Philip Hayes)
- Make haste to meet the gen'rous vine (Thomas Arne)
- Mark the merry elves (John Wall Callcott)
- Me, Goddess, by the right hand lead (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
- Melrose (John Wall Callcott)
- Melting airs soft joys inspire (William Hayes)
- Merrily play on the tabor pipe (William Hayes)
- Merry Peg (Henry Harington)
- The merry summer months (John Henry Rheem)
- 'Midst silent shades (John Stafford Smith)
- The mighty conqueror (Samuel Webbe)
- The monument of Queen Elizabeth (James Hook)
- The Mouse's Petition (Benjamin Cooke)
- Music has power (John Danby)
- Music the soul with melody inspires (Dodd Perkins)
- Music, all powerful (Thomas Forbes Walmisley)
- My banks they are covered with bees (Stephen Storace)
- My dear mistress had a heart (Reginald Spofforth)
- My little heart (Samuel Webbe)
- My Old Coat (Philip P. Bliss)
- My Phillida, adieu (John Sale)
- My pocket's low and taxes high (Samuel Webbe)
- Myrtilla (Samuel Howard)
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- Ne'er trouble thyself (Matthew Locke)
- New Year Song (Louis K. Liu)
- The Nightingale (John Danby)
- The nightingale (Lord Mornington)
- No April can revive the wither'd flow'rs (Samuel Webbe)
- No glory I covet (John Sale)
- Now in her green mantle (William Knyvett)
- Now the bright morning star (Maria Hester Park)
- Now the woodland chorists sing (John Danby)
- Nymphs of the forest (William Horsley)
O
- O blessed retirement (John Wall Callcott)
- O come ye fair, while blooming May (Benjamin Cooke)
- O come, my dearest Delia (Philip Hayes)
- O cruel Amarillis (William Horsley)
- O Cupid, god of young desires (Theodore Aylward)
- O Fancy, parent of the muse (John Stafford Smith)
- O friendship, thou balm (John Danby)
- O happy fair (William Shield)
- O happy plains (Philip Hayes)
- O life, how pleasing (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
- O Night (Samuel Webbe)
- O once I took pleasure to stray (John Danby)
- O Pan, delight of nymphs (John Stafford Smith)
- O ponder well (Samuel Webbe Jr.)
- O sacred friendship, heaven's delight (Benjamin Cooke)
- O sacred solitude (Philip Hayes)
- O snatch me swift (John Wall Callcott)
- O thou whose beams (John Goss)
- O vainly wise (John Wall Callcott)
- O Venus, regina Cnidi Paphique (Benjamin Cooke)
- O virgin pale (William Linley)
- O you, whom vanity's light bark conveys (John Stafford Smith)
- O'er Handel's tomb (James Nares)
- O'er the moor to Maggy (Harriett Abrams)
- Oberon (Lord Mornington)
- Obscure, unprized and dark (John Danby)
- Of peace restored (Philip Hayes)
- Oft have I stood at eve (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
- Oft, with wanton smiles and jeers (Jonathan Battishill)
- Oh hope, thou soother sweet (Samuel Webbe)
- Oh love, how swift thy fairest prospects fade (John Wall Callcott)
- Oh thou where'er (thie bones att reste) (John Wall Callcott)
- Oh! Sovereign of the willing soul (John Wall Callcott)
- Oh! Sweetest of thy lovely race (Samuel Webbe)
- Oh, the sweet contentment (William Horsley)
- The Old Canoe (George Frederick Root)
- Old Chiron (Michael Wise)
- Old Farmer's Song (Louis K. Liu)
- On a bank beside a willow (William Horsley)
- On a day (William Jackson of Exeter)
- On a dream (Joseph Baildon)
- On a summer's morning early (John Wall Callcott)
- On Edward's brow (Philip Hayes)
- On his deathbed (Samuel Webbe)
- Once upon my cheek he said the roses grew (John Wall Callcott)
- One morning, Dame Turner's brisk maid (James Hook)
- Orpheus with his lute (Lord Mornington)
- Orpheus with his lute (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- Ossian's address to the sun (Legh Richmond)
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- Pale April, with her childish eye (Lord Mornington)
- Peace (John Frederick Bridge)
- Peace to the souls of the heroes (John Wall Callcott)
- Peace, thou white robed child of light (Peter Valton)
- A Perfect Day (Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
- Pleasant is the voice of thy song (John Wall Callcott)
- Poculum elevatum (Thomas Arne)
- Poor, little, pretty, flutt'ring thing (Thomas Arne)
- Pretty warbler, cease to hover (Samuel Webbe)
- The Pride of every grove I chose (John Stafford Smith)
- Prithee fill me the glass (Benjamin Cooke)
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- The Red Cross Knight (John Wall Callcott)
- Return blest days (John Stafford Smith)
- Rise my joy (Samuel Webbe)
- Rise, glory rise (Thomas Arne)
- Rise, my soul! (Joseph William Holder)
- Ronilda! (Henry Rowley Bishop)
- Rosabelle (John Wall Callcott)
- Round thy pillow (Robert Cooke)
- The royal machine (J. Matthews)
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- Sacred pow'r of love and wine (John Danby)
- Says my lord to his lady (Joseph Baildon)
- Says Sue to Pru (Lord Mornington)
- Secure by George's care (John Stafford Smith)
- See how smoothly (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
- See the bowl sparkles (Lord Mornington)
- See the chariot at hand (William Horsley)
- See with ivy chaplet bound (John Wall Callcott)
- See, my lovely Celia comes (James Oswald)
- Seeing Flower (Louis K. Liu)
- Sequester'd far within a myrtle grove (John Alcock Jr.)
- She is faithless and I am undone (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- Shepherds, I have lost my love (John Danby)
- Shepherds, rise! and shake off sleep (Henry Lahee)
- Sigh no more, ladies (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- The Singing Club (Thomas Arne)
- Sleep soft, fair form (John Wall Callcott)
- Sleep, poor youth (John Stafford Smith)
- Sling the flowing bowl (Thomas Linley the elder)
- Slow fresh fount (William Horsley)
- So many tears of misery (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
- Soft and safe though lowly grave (John Wall Callcott)
- Soft o'er the mountain's purple brow (John Danby)
- Soft sleep, profoundly pleasing power (Lord Mornington)
- Solace of life (Samuel Arnold)