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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- With freedom blest (Samuel Webbe)
- With my jug of brown ale (John Sale)
- With sighs, sweet rose (John Wall Callcott)
- With thee, sweet Hope (John Frederick Bridge)
- Wives by the dozen (Anonymous)
- The Woodnymph (Samuel Webbe Jr.)
- Would you engage the lovely maid (Theodore Aylward)
- The wreck of the Hesperus (Henry Hiles)
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- Ye birds, for whom I rear'd the grove (Jonathan Battishill)
- Ye cliffs, I to your airy steep ascend (Samuel Webbe)
- Ye distant spires (John Wall Callcott)
- Ye gales that gently wave the seas (Thomas Billington)
- Ye gentlemen of England (John Wall Callcott)
- Ye gods, give that social delight (James Hook)
- Ye happy fields (Philip Hayes)
- Ye nymphs and sylvan swains (John Danby)
- Ye shepherds and nymphs of the grove (John Danby)
- Ye spotted snakes (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- Ye woods and ye mountains unknown (William Jackson of Exeter)
- Yes, these are the scenes (Richard Langdon)
- Yet awhile, sweet sleep deceive me (Michael Arne)
- You gave me your heart (Samuel Webbe)
- You gentlemen on t'other side (John Wall Callcott)
- Youth of the gloomy brow (John Wall Callcott)