List of compositions by Julius Harrison

This is a partial list of compositions by English composer Julius Harrison (1885–1963).

Operetta

• A Fantasy of Flowers (1944); libretto by Muriel Levy^[1][2][3]

Orchestral

• Ballade for string orchestra (1902)
• Prelude Music for string orchestra and piano (or harp), Op.16 (1912); original for harp and string quartet
• Variations on "Down Among the Dead Men" (1912)^[4][5]
• Widdicombe Fair, Humoreske for string orchestra, Op.22 (1916); original for string quartet
• Rapunzel (1917); tone poem ^[4]
• Worcestershire Suite (1918); original for piano
• Romance, a Song of Adoration (1930); for orchestra
• Cornish Holiday Sketches for string orchestra (1935)
• Autumn Landscape for string orchestra (1937); premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in February 1937
• Troubadour Suite for string orchestra, harp (or piano) and optional horns (1944)

1. The King of Navarre's Chanson
2. The Marriage of Yolande
3. Song of Spring
4. Dancing Song

Concertante

• Bredon Hill, Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1941)

Chamber music

• Prelude Music, Quintet in G♭ major for harp and string quartet, Op.16 (1912); also for string orchestra and piano (or harp)
• Scaramouche for violin and piano (1915)
• Pensée fugitive for violin and piano (1915)
• Widdicombe Fair, Humoreske for string quartet, Op.22 (1916); also for string orchestra
• Fanfare for a Masked Ball for 4 trumpets (1921)
• Sonata in C minor for viola and piano (1945)
• String Quartet

Organ

• Paean and Tonus Peregrinus: Homage to Cesar Franck
• Paean (1913)
• Supplication / Gloria in Excelsis / Canzone (1913)

Piano

• Rhapsody, Intermezzo and Capriccio (1903)
• Musette for voice and piano (1907)
• Barcarolle (1917)
• Worcestershire Suite (1918); also orchestrated

1. The Shrawley Round
2. Redstone Rock
3. Pershore Plums
4. The Ledbury Parson

• The Pixie Man, Suite (1920)
• Silver Bells and Cockle Shells (1920)
• Five English Songs (1921)
• Severn Country, Suite (1928)

1. Dance in the Cherry Orchard (Ribbesford)
2. Twilight on the River (Bewdley)
3. Far Forest

• Philomel (1938)
• Town and Country (1948)
• Wayside Fancies, Suite (1948)

1. March Humoresque
2. An Old Legend
3. Columbine's Waltz
4. Summer Breeze
5. The Jolly Huntsman

• Autumn Days (1952)
• Burlesque (1952)
• Caprice (1952)
• High Summer (1952)
• Mr. Alberti Takes a Stroll (1952)
• Outdoor Song: At the fair (1952)
• Spring in the Air (1952)
• The Rival Fourth Finger (1952)
• Valse-Serenade (1952)

Vocal

• Six Short Songs for medium voice and piano (1907)
• Bonny Blue-cap for medium voice and piano (1908); words by Sir Walter Scott
• Rosalys for soprano voices and orchestra (1912); words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti^[6][7][8]
• Songs of Fancy, 4 Songs (1913); words by P. Ashbrooke

1. Little Untrodden Paths
2. Oh, Little Mist from the Sea
3. Silent Trees
4. At Daybreak

• Four Songs of Chivalry for voice and piano (1915); words by William Morris

1. Sir Giles' War Song
2. Guendolen
3. The Eve of Crecy
4. The Gilliflower of Gold

• Three Eastern Love Songs for voice and piano (1915); words by Edward Teschemacher

1. You Bring Me Pearls
2. O Jewel of the Deep Blue Sea
3. Caravan of Love

• The Wanderer's Song (1915); words by George Reston Malloch^[9][10][11]
• Four Narratives from the Ancient Chinese for medium voice and piano (1917)

1. The Soldier
2. The Last Revel
3. There Was a King of Liang
4. The Recruiting Sergeant

• Three Sonnets from Boccaccio for high voice and piano (1919); words by Giovanni Boccaccio
• On the Beach at Otahai (1920); words by E. J. Brady
• Three Songs (1921–1927)

1. Merciless Beauty; words by Geoffrey Chaucer
2. The Escape from Love; words by Geoffrey Chaucer
3. A Lament; words by Sir Thomas Wyatt

• I Know a Bank for soprano or tenor and piano (1928); words from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Four Cavalier Tunes for tenor or baritone and piano (1930); words by Robert Browning

Boot, Saddle, To Horse and Away

King Charles

Marching Along

• Rhapsody for tenor or baritone voice and orchestra (1932); words by Walt Whitman
• Sea Winds for voice and piano (1932); words by Paul Askew
• Memory Island for baritone and piano (1936); words by Paul Askew
• Philomel for voice and piano (1938); words from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Four Songs from Twelfth Night for high voice and piano (1948); words from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

1. Come Away Death
2. Jolly Robin
3. O Mistress Mine
4. Clown's Song

Choral

• Cleopatra, Dramatic Poem (Cantata) for soli (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor), chorus and orchestra (1908); performed at the Norwich Festival in 1908
• Harvest Cantata for soprano (or tenor) and contralto (or baritone) soli, chorus and piano or organ (1910); words by Rose Dafforne Betjemann
• Christmas Cantata for soli and chorus (1911); words by Rose Dafforne Betjemann
• Viking Song, Part-song for male chorus and pianoforte or orchestra (1911); words by Fred Adlington
• Open Thy Gates, Introit Anthem for mixed chorus (with organ ad libitum) (1913); words by Robert Herrick
• Prevent Us, O Lord, Anthem for mixed chorus and organ (1914)
• Blows the Wind To-day for mixed chorus a cappella (1915); words by Robert Louis Stevenson
• In the Forest for mixed chorus a cappella (1913); words by Heinrich Heine; translation by Francis Hueffer
• Requiem for Archangels for SATB choir or chorus (1919)^[12]
• In Celia's Face for chorus (composed prior to 1921); poem by Thomas Carew^[13]
• Easter Carol for female chorus and piano (1921); words by Frederick Elliott
• The Little Men for female chorus (1921); words by William Allingham
• Pastoral for chorus (composed by 1922)^[14]
• The Blessed Damozel for female chorus a cappella (1928); words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• I Love the Jocund Dance for a capella SSA chorus (1929); poem by William Blake^[15][16][17]
• A Sunny Shaft, Part Song for female chorus and piano (1929); words by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Merry Miller, Folk-jingle for mixed chorus a cappella (1932); words by Helen Taylor
• Song of the Plough for mixed-voice chorus (1932); words from the first Georgic of Virgil, tr. James Rhoades^[18]
• Magnifcat and Nunc dimittis for unison voices and organ (1941)
• The Wild Huntsman, Fantasia for male chorus a cappella (1946)
• The Dark Forest, Part-song for mixed chorus a cappella (1947); words by Edward Thomas
• Mass in C for solo voices, chorus, organ and orchestra (1936–1947); premiered at Stoke-on-Trent in 1948; twice broadcast in 1952 and 1955
• Missa liturgica for mixed chorus a cappella (1950)
• Psalm C (Psalm 100) for mixed chorus and organ (1953)
• Requiem Mass for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soli, mixed chorus and orchestra (1948–1957); first performed in 1957 at the Worcester Three Choirs Festival

Unfinished opera

• The Canterbury Pilgrims. The opera's Introduction and Love Duet were premiered in 1923,^[19] but the opera was never completed.

Arrangements

Harrison's many arrangements include versions of Weber's Invitation to the Dance, sundry Schubert songs (entitled Winter and Spring) and a "concert version" of Smetana's The Bartered Bride all for mixed chorus.^[20]