GRANVILLE BANTOCK

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946) was born in London. In his late teens, he began to show an interest in music, but his father enrolled him to study for the Indian Civil Service. Bantock would skip lectures to attend concerts and peruse scores in libraries. A diplomatic career was abandoned and he began studies in Chemical Engineering. He became ill and he was banished by doctors to a dark room at home for six months. His father conceded to the young composer’s desire to study music. He entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1889 to study composition. On leaving the RAM in 1893 he worked as an editor of the New Quarterly Musical Review and as a conductor of light opera. From 1897 to 1900 he was Musical Director at the New Brighton Tower Pleasure Gardens where he extended the small seaside band to a full-scale symphony orchestra and presented concerts of music by Elgar, Parry, Stanford, Sibelius, Mackenzie, Corder and Wagner. In 1900 he became Principal at the Birmingham and Midland Institute and in 1908 became Peyton Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham and also taught at Trinity College, London. He had an active career as an important academic, composer, examiner, adjudicator, editor, conductor and committee member for a variety of institutions.

 

All are SATB; some contain divisi.

 

TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
Arranmore		Thomas Moore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Awake, awake!			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Ca’ the Yowes			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Coronach			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
In the silent West			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Jack and Joan			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Nocturne			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
O can ye sew cushions?		Scottish	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
O what a lovely Magic hath been here			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
On Himalay			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
One with eyes the fairest		Euripides, trans Shelley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Out of the Darkness			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Spring-Enchantment			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Cruiskeen Lawn			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Leprehaun			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Moon has risen			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Silken Thread			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Song of Fionnuala		Thomas Moore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Three Ravens		English	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Tyger			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The wearin’ o’ the green		Irish	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
War Song			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Willow, Willow		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing