GEORGE A. MACFARREN

Sir George Alexander Macfarren (1813-1887) was born in London. From early youth, he suffered from poor health and weak eyesight. His eyesight continually deteriorated until he became totally blind in 1860. However, his blindness had little effect on his productivity. Macfarren began to study music when he was fourteen and, at sixteen, entered the Royal Academy of Music. Because of his eyesight, he abandoned performance and concentrated on composition. He later taught at the Academy, eventually becoming a principal. He was also appointed professor of music at Cambridge University in 1875. He was conductor at Covent Garden, London; founder the Handel Society; program note writer for the Philharmonic Society; and edited the works of Handel and Purcell. He wrote 18 operas, 13 oratorios and cantatas, 9 symphonies, and 162 songs. He was active as writer of part-songs, literature for the many amateur choirs appearing throughout the country. He was knighted in 1883 on the same day as Arthur Sullivan and George Grove. His brother Walter Macfarren (1826-1905) was a pianist, composer and professor of the Royal Academy.

All are mixed chorus with one exception; some contain divisi.

SET	TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
	Adieu, love, adieu			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	All is still		J. Oxenford	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Poems of Charles Kingsley No. 2	Alton Locke’s song		Charles Kingsley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	At first the mountain Rill		J. Oxenford	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 7	Blow, blow, thou winter wind		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Break on thy cold grey stones, o sea		Tennyson	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 3	Come away, death	TrTrATTB		LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	England’s Minstrel King		G. Linnaeus Banks	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Fair Hebe			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 6	Fear no more the heat o’ the sun	SSTB	Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Three Madrigals set to Nursery Rhymes No. 2	Girls and boys, come out to play		Nursery Rhyme	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 14	Hark, hark the lark		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Harvest Home			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	I’m lonesome since I cross’d the hill			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 11	It was a lover and his lass			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Love wakes and weeps		Sir Walter Scott	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Maidens, never go a-wooing			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Midsummer night’s dream			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Now fie on love		Goffe	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 12	O mistress mine		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Once I loved a maiden fair			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 1	Orpheus with his lute	TrTrATB	Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Robin Goodfellow		Ben Johnson	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 8	Sigh no more, ladies		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Three Madrigals set to Nursery Rhymes No. 1	Sing a song of sixpence		Nursery Rhyme	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Poems of Charles Kingsley No. 6	Sing heigh ho		Charles Kingsley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Song of the railroads	w/ piano	R. M. Milnes	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 10	Take, O take, those lips away		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 15	Tell me where is fancy bred			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The birdes that had left their song		Chaucer	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The cuckoo sings in the poplar tree		Edward Fitzball	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The Girl I've left behind me			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The miller		George Coleman	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Poems of Charles Kingsley No. 1	The sands of Dee		Charles Kingsley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The splendor falls on Castle walls		Tennyson	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Poems of Charles Kingsley No. 3	The starlings		Charles Kingsley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Poems of Charles Kingsley No. 4	The three fishers		Charles Kingsley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Poems of Charles Kingsley No. 5	The world’s age			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Three Madrigals set to Nursery Rhymes No. 3	There was a man of Edmonton		Nursery Rhyme	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	There was a simple Maiden			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 13	Under the greenwood tree			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 4	When daisies pied	TrTrATB	Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 2	When icicles hang by the wall	TrTrATB	Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 5	Who is Sylvia?	TrTrATB	Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Ye little birds		Thomas Heywood	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Shakespeare Songs No. 9	You spotted snakes	SSAA	Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing