George DuMaurier on Parlour Songs. [Click on thumbnails for larger images and captions.]
Discussions
Absence
- Alice, Where Art Thou? (lyrics by Weillinton Guernsey, music by Joseph Ascher)
- The Hazel Dell (lyrics and music by George Root, under the pseudonym Wurzel)
- Somewhere a Voice Is Calling (lyrics by E. Newton, music by Arthur F. Tate)
Characters
- A Bandit’s Life Is the Life for Me (lyrics by John Oxenford, music by William Vincent Wallace)
- The Bell-Ringer
- Ben Bolt (lyrics by Thomas Dunn English, music by Nelson Kneass)
- Mr. and Mrs. Brown (lyrics and music by Stephen Forster)
- The Madman (lyrics and music by Henry Russell)
- The Village Blacksmith (lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by Willoughby Hunter Weiss)
- The Watchman (lyrics by Wilfrid Mills, music by Joseph Adams)
Children
- The Children's Home (lyrics by Frederic E. Weatherly, music by Frederic Cowen)
- The Little Hero (lyrics by Arthur Matthison and music by Stephen Adams)
- Ora Pro Nobis (lyrics by A. Horspool, music by M. Piccolomini)
- Shells of Ocean (lyrics and music by John William Cherry)
- Tatters (lyrics and music by Gerald M. Lane)
- My Sweetheart When a Boy (lyrics by Frederick Enoch, music by John Wilford Morgan)
Home
- Home, Sweet Home! (lyrics by John Howard Payne, music by Henry Rowley Bishop)
- Oh Mother! Take the Wheel Away (lyrics and music by Claribel)
- The Old Arm Chair (lyrics by Eliza Cook, music by Henry Russell)
- Woodman, Spare That Tree! (lyrics by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell)
- Woodman, Spare That Tree! (another performance)
- The Mistletoe Bough (lyrics by Thomas Haynes Bayly, music by Henry Rowley Bishop)
Lovers
- Annabelle Lee — A Victorian setting of Poe's poem (music by music by Henry Leslie)
- Come into the Garden, Maud (lyrics by Alfred Lord Tennyson, music by Michael Balfe)
- Goodbye! (lyrics by George J. Whyte-Melville, music by Paulo Tosti)
- It Was a Dream (lyrics by R. Francillon, music by Frederick Cowen)
- In the Gloaming (lyrics by Meta Orred, music by Annie Fortescue Harrison)
- Kathleen Mavourneen (lyrics by Julia Crawford, music by Frederick Nicholls Crouch)
- The Last Link is Broken (lyrics and music by William Clifton)
- Leonore (Thy voice is music to mine ear) (lyrics by C.J. Jeffreys, music by Sidney Nelson, c. 1840.)
- Love’s Old Sweet Song (lyrics by G.C. Bingham, music by James Molloy)
Places
- I Come from the Beautiful Rhine (lyrics by Charles Mackay, music by Frank Mori)
- I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby (lyrics by W.G. Wills, music by Frederic Clay)
- On the Road to Mandalay (lyrics by Rudyard Kipling, music by Oley Speaks)
Religion
- The Bridge (lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by Maria Lindsay)
- The Gentle Shepherd (lyrics by Wilfrid Mills, music by Joseph Adams)
- The Lost Chord (lyrics by Adelaide Anne Procter, music by Arthur Sullivan)
- Throw Out the Life-line! (lyrics and music by the Rev. Edwin Ufford)
- The Volunteer Organist (lyrics by W. B. Glenroy [pseudonym of William Gray], music by Henry Lamb [pseudonym of Henry Spaulding])
- Still Watch o’er Me Little Star (lyrics by R. Lee, music by C.T. Dondode)
The Sea
- Anchored (lyrics by Samuel K. Cowan, music by Michael Watson)
- A Life on the Ocean Wave (lyrics by Epes Sargent, music by Henry Russell)
- Three Fishers Went Sailing (lyrics by by Charles Kingsley, music by John Hullah)
- The Wreck of the Hesperus (lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by John Hatton)
Piano Pieces
- Fairy Wedding Waltz (music by Joseph W. Turner)
- The Battle March of Delhi (music by John Pridham)
Bibliography
Boosey, William. 1931. Fifty Years of Music. London: Ernest Benn.
Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair. 1898. Stories of Famous Songs. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898), 201-2;
Parlor Songs: Popular Sheet Music from the 1800s to the 1920s. Web. 13 December 2011. [Chiefly American.]
Russell, Henry. 1895. Cheer, Boys, Cheer! London: John Macqueen.
Scott, Derek B. The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour. 2nd ed. Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001. [Complete text in the Victorian Web
Stephen Collins Foster. Web. 13 December 2011. [Chiefly American.]
Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1974. The Parlour Song Book: A Casquet of Vocal Gems. London: Pan.
Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1975. Just a Song at Twilight: The Second Parlour Song Book. London: Michael Joseph.
Willeby, Charles. 1893. Masters of Contemporary Music. Osgood & McIlvaine: London.
Last modified 7 February 2020