HENRY SMART

Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879) was born in London, son of a music publisher, who was also an orchestra director and violinist. He declined a commission in the Indian army and planned to work in law, but he gave it up for a musical career. He was organist of Blackburn parish church; St. Giles-without-Cripplegate; St. Luke’s, Old Street; and finally of St. Pancras New Church. He was the music editor for Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), the Presbyterian Hymnal (1875), and the hymn book of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He was a recognized authority on organs and designed many instruments, including those in the City Hall and St. Andrew’s Hall in Glasgow, Scotland, and the Town Hall in Leeds. Smart was highly rated as a composer by his contemporaries, especially his organ works and part-songs. His best-known compositions are now probably the hymn tune “Regent Square”, commonly sung with the words "Christ Is Made The Sure Foundation” and “Angels from the Realms of Glory”. In the last fifteen years of his life Smart was practically blind. He composed by dictation, primarily to his daughter.

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.

 

SET	TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
	A May song			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 2) No. 3	A Psalm of Life		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	An Old Church Song			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 1 No. 3	Ave Maria (non-liturgical)	SATBdiv	Etheldred Mary Smart	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Behold where laughing spring			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Bring the fairest flowers			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	By-gone days			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Cold Autumn wind			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Consolation		Fouqué (transl.)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 2 No. 3	Cradle song	SATBdiv	Etheldred Mary Smart	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Crocuses and snowdrops		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Days of darkness			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 2) No. 2	Dost thou idly ask		William Cullen Bryant	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 1) No. 3	Doth not my lady come?		William Cox Bennett	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Part Songs for mixed voices No. 1	Dream, Baby, Dream	SATBdiv	Barry Cornwall	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Evening hymn			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Father! we are weary hearted			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	For Love’s sweet sake			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Forget not the dead			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Good night, thou glorious sun		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 1) No. 6	Hear, sweet spirit		Sml. T. Coleridge	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	How soft the shades of evening creep		Reginald Heber	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	How sweet is summer morning		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Hunting Song		Sir Walter Raleigh	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Hymn to Aurora			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 2 No. 2	Hymn to Cynthia		Ben Jonson	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	If I had but two little wings		Sml. T. Coleridge	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Lady, rise! sweet morn’s awaking		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Long has been the winter			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Look in mine Eyes, my Dearest!			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Part Songs for mixed voices No. 4	Love and mirth			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 2 No. 1	Morning	SATBdiv	John Ellison	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	My love I see in all the flowers			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	My love is like the swallow			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 1) No. 2	My true love hath my heart		Philip Sidney	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Nature’s praise		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Now May is here	SATBdiv	Frederick Enoch	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Nymphs of air and ancient sea		Reginald Heber	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	O come to the woods away			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Oh, hear me not, Maidens			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Part Songs for mixed voices No. 3	Oh say not that my heart is cold		Charles Wolfe	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 2) No. 4	Only Thou		Ernst C. F. Schultze	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Pack clouds away			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Pipe! Red-lip’d Autumn— pipe!		Frederick Enoch	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 2) No. 5	Prithee send me back my heart		John Suckling	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Queen of the night			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Rise, fair goddess of the dawn		Jessica Rankin	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sabbath Bell			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Say, in that land of beauty			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sing to the Maidens			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sleep, gentle Babe		J. S. Stallybrass	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Softly come! Thou evening gale		Frederick Enoch	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Solatium in adversis (What care I, an’ if all the world)			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Part Songs for mixed voices No. 2	Song of the Seasons		Barry Cornwall	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 1 No. 4	Spring		Etheldred Mary Smart	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 1) No. 4	Spring Song		William Cox Bennett	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Spring’s return			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Springtime is here			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Stars of the summer night		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Summer morning		W. S. Passmore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Summer offerings			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Summer winds			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sunrise o’er the sea			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sweet Vesper Hymn	SATBdiv	Frederick Enoch	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 1) No. 5	The curfew		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The Curfew Bell		Wellington Guernsey	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The day hath spun its busy round			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The Gypsy’s Song			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The homeward watch			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 2 No. 4	The joy of Spring		Etheldred Mary Smart	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The land of wonders		Schiller (transl.)	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 2) No. 6	The moon		Matthias Claudius	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The Northern Star			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The Sea King		Barry Cornwall	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 1 No. 1	The shepherd’s farewell		Etheldred Mary Smart	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The shepherd’s lament		Goethe	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The skies are blue			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The Skylark			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The starry midnight hour			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The sunny hour			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The two happy faces			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Four-part Songs composed for H. Leslie’s choir, Book 1 No. 2	The wave’s reproof		Etheldred Mary Smart	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	There is a land			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Thoughts of childhood			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 1) No. 1	’Tis break of day		Jessica Rankin	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	’Twilight		Longfellow	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Victoria			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
Six Four-part Songs (Set 2) No. 1	Wake to the hunting		Reginald Heber	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	We are waiting by the river			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	When Spring comes round		Frederick Enoch	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	When through life’s wilderness			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Wind thy horn		Thomas Moore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Ye little birds that sit and sing		Heywood	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing