| Work Title
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Bass Songs
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| Alternative. Title
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| Composer
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Various
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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None [force assignment]
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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44 songs
- Sullivan: I Would I were a King
- Aylward: Mavourneen
- Macfarren: The monk within his cell
- Balfe: From Rushy Beds of Silver Nile
- Tchaikovsky: A pleading
- Wallace: The bell ringer
- Tchaikovsky: Oh, but to hear thy voice
- Tchaikovsky: Ah! Weep no more
- Thomas: The drum-major's song (Air du tambour major)
- Hatton: Simon the cellarer
- Mendelssohn: I am a roamer
- Wagner: O pure and tender star of eve (O du mein holder Abendstern)
- Halévy: Though faithless men (Se il rigor)
- Mozart: Within these sacred bowers (Qui sdegno) (In diesen heil'gen Hallen)
- Schubert: The Erl King (Der Erlkonig)
- Schubert: The wanderer (Der Wanderer)
- Gounod: Maids may boast (Si les filles d'Arles)
- Gounod: Vulcan's song
- Schumann: I will not grieve (Ich grolle nicht)
- Carissimi: I triumph! I triumph! (Vittoria! Vittoria!)
- Gounod: Nazareth
- Handel: Clouds may rise (Sorge infausta)
- Handel: Love that's true will live for ever (Si, tra i ceppi)
- Handel: Born amid the rugged wildwood (Nasce al bosco)
- Handel: It must be so
- Handel: Pour forth no more unheeded prayers
- Handel: I rage, I melt, I burn!
- Handel: O ruddier than the cherry
- German Folk Songs: My lodging is the cellar here (Der Mann im Keller)
- Handel: Tyrannic love!
- Handel: Ye verdant hills
- Bononcini: Love leads to battle (Pupille nere)
- Purday: The old English gentleman
- Boyce: Heart of oak
- Loder: The brave old oak
- Anon: Down among the dead men
- Scottish Folk Songs: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled!
- Leveridge: The Roast Beef of Old England
- Irish Folk Music: The harp that once thro' Tara's halls
- Irish Folk Music: The minstrel boy
- Scottish Folk Songs: Bonnie Dundee
- Scottish Folk Songs: The hundred pipers
- Scottish Folk Songs: Auld lang syne
- Gounod: She alone charmeth my sadness
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| Librettist
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includes
- Alexander Cockburn
- George Weatherly
- John Oxenford (also as translator)
- Edward Fitzball
- F. J. Whishaw
- Paul England (translations from French, German, Italian)
- W. H. Bellamy
- Henry F. Chorley
- Goethe
- M. X. Hayes (translations from German, Italian)
- Schmidt
- M. Carré
- David Garrick
- Dyer
- Robert Burns
- Thomas Moore
- Walter Scott
- Lady Nairne
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| Language
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English, French, German, Italian, Scots
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| Piece Style
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Romantic
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| Instrumentation
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low voice (bass), piano
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