JOHN LIPTROT HATTON

John Liptrot Hatton (1809-1886) was one of the most prolific and influential composers of English part-songs. He was born in Liverpool and was essentially a self-taught musician. He held several organist positions in Liverpool and appeared as an actor on the Liverpool stage. He relocated to London in 1832 as a member of Macready’s company at Drury Lane and established himself as a composer with the success of operetta and an opera, which opened in Vienna. He was known as a singer, conductor, and concert pianist. From 1848 to 1850 he was in America, giving public and private concerts in New York City. Notably, in 1848, he shared the stage in Pittsburgh, PA with Stephen C. Foster. Returning to England, he became conductor of the Glee and Madrigal Union and director of music at the Princess’s Theatre, London. He wrote operas, cantatas, incidental music, anthems, cathedral pieces, and many songs. His part-songs were regarded as some of the best of the genre.

All are SATB and unaccompanied unless noted in VOICING column. A noting of “div” indicates some incidental divisi within a part or parts, but not a true independent part throughout the entire work. Solos and accompaniment are also noted.

TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
Sacred four-part song: A sound of music floateth		Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sacred four-part song: Beyond life’s troubled sea		Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sacred four-part song: Tears		Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sacred four-part song: The Ladder		Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sacred four-part song: The Rainbow		Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sacred four-part song: The Star		Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sacred four-part song: Vesper Bells are softly pealing
Sacred four-part song: We are waiting by the river
Six Choral Songs (1864) 1. The belfry tower		Camilla Dufour Crosland	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Choral Songs (1864) 2. England	w/piano	Mary Cowden Clarke	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Choral Songs (1864) 3. Come celebrate the May		Mary Cowden Clarke	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Choral Songs (1864) 4. Song to Pan		Beaumont & Fletcher	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Choral Songs (1864) 5. The Indian Maid	w/piano	Camilla Dufour Crosland	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Choral Songs (1864) 6. The pearl divers	w/piano	Camilla Dufour Crosland	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
A garland for our fairest		B. S. Montgomery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
A lover's song
Absence		----	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Ah could I with fancy stray
All the blossoms greet her
April showers		Anon.	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Arise, my Love! my Lady bright!
Around the May-pole tripping		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
At the coming of spring		W. H. Wordley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Auburn sweet village		Oliver Goldsmith	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Ballad of the Weaver
Beware		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Bird of the wilderness		James Hogg	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Blythe is the Bird		Welsh Anon.	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Calm night		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Come live with me, and be my Love		Christopher Marlowe & Sir Walter Raleigh	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Dear Georgette we come to you
Echo’s last word		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Ever true
Forget-me-not
Going a-Maying		Nicholas Breton	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Good night		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Good wishes		Sir Walter Scott	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Hark, the Convent Bells		Thomas Haynes Bayly	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
He that hath a pleasant face		William Henry Bellamy	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Hie thee to the forest
How fair; how bright
I lov’d a lass
I loved her		Letitia Elizabeth Landon	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
I met her in the quiet lane		Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
I've watched you from the shore
If thou art sleeping		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
In the good old time
Jack Frost		---	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Keep time		William S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Little Things
Lo! The peaceful shades of ev’ning		Walter Maynard (Beale)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Love me little, love me long		Anon.	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
May Morning		Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Merrily, merrily sound the bells
Night Music
Night Thoughts
Not for me the lark is singing		Godfrey Turner	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Now the Grass with Dew is wet. Lullaby
O well I love the spring
Ocean's Lullaby
Of a' the Airts the Wind can blaw
Over hill, over dale		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Parting and meeting		B. S. Montgomery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Ripe Strawberries	SATTB	William S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sea-nymphs		William S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
See the rooks are homeward flying		Anon.	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Softly fall the shades of evening		H. W. Godfery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Song of the Gipsy maidens		B. S. Montgomery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Song of the Violet
Song of the Wood-Nymph
Spring song		W. H. Wordley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Spring, the sweet spring		Thomas Nashe	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Stars of the summer night		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Summer Eve		H. W. Godfrey	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Sweet lady bird, awake
Sweet lady moon		M. Watson	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Take heart!		Edna Dean Proctor	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Bait (Come live with me)		John Donne	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The bonnie blackbird
The Brooklet
The Fairies’ Banquet
The Fairies’ Spell
The Farmer’s Boy
The fishing boat		Georgina Elizabeth Troutbeck	LISTEN X
The Forsaken
The Golden Days		Matthias Barr	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The hemlock tree		Longfellow (from the German)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The lark		William Motherwell	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The moon shone calmly bright		John Imlah	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Poppy, or “Out in the fields on a cloudless day”
The Primrose
The red, red rose		Robert Burns	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The reproach		Anon.	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Restless Sea		Frederick Griffin	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Rivals		B. S. Montgomery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The roses are blushing		B. S. Montgomery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The sailor’s song		----	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Sea Nymphs
The Shepherd’s Sabbath Day
The Song of Love
The Spirit of Song
The Starlight has gladdened the river
The Stars are with the voyager
The Summer Gale		Charles Armitage Brown	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Swing		Walter Maynard (Beale)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The urchins’ dance		---	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Village Blacksmith		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Village Dance		B. S. Montgomery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Waterfall		James Couper	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
The Word and the Look
The World’s Wanderers
The Wrecked Hope		William Cox Bennett	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Thinking of thee
Twilight		William S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Twilight now is round us veiling		James Couper	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Unchanged
Wandering Minstrels
What I'd sing
What is got by sighing		W. H. Wordley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
When Evening’s Twilight		----	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
When the heart is free from care
Where shall the lover rest		Sir Walter Scott	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Whether kiss’d by sunbeams		B. S. Montgomery	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Ye merry birds
Zephyrs soft their fragrance			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing

JOHN LIPTROT HATTON

All are SATB and unaccompanied unless noted in VOICING column. A noting of “div” indicates some incidental divisi within a part or parts, but not a true independent part throughout the entire work. Solos and accompaniment are also noted.

TITLE

VOICING

TEXT

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Sacred four-part song:

Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)

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Sacred four-part song:

Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)

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Sacred four-part song:

Tears

Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)

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Sacred four-part song:

Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)

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Sacred four-part song:

The Rainbow

Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)

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Sacred four-part song:

Beatrice Abercrombie (Jane Young)

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Sacred four-part song:

Vesper Bells are softly pealing

Sacred four-part song:

We are waiting by the river

Six Choral Songs (1864) 1.

Camilla Dufour Crosland

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Six Choral Songs (1864) 2.

w/piano

Mary Cowden Clarke

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Six Choral Songs (1864) 3.

Mary Cowden Clarke

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Six Choral Songs (1864) 4.

Song to Pan

Beaumont & Fletcher

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Six Choral Songs (1864) 5.

w/piano

Camilla Dufour Crosland

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Six Choral Songs (1864) 6.

w/piano

Camilla Dufour Crosland

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B. S. Montgomery

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A lover's song

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Ah could I with fancy stray

All the blossoms greet her

Anon.

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Arise, my Love! my Lady bright!

W. S. Passmore

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W. H. Wordley

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Ballad of the Weaver

Longfellow

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James Hogg

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Welsh Anon.

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Longfellow

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Christopher Marlowe & Sir Walter Raleigh

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Dear Georgette we come to you