Category:Glees
The glee is a type of partsong that flourished in 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. Earlier examples are almost all for men's voices (occasionally with B.C.) but, later, soprano voices (sometimes sung by trebles) were frequently included. Whilst many glees are in simple binary form, more ambitious examples consist of several dramatically contrasted sections, often ending with a fugue. For competitive purposes glees were often classified as 'humorous' or 'serious' (the latter embracing anything from the Ossianic to the amorous). Although largely supplanted by the romantic partsong roughly from the time of Mendelssohn and his imitators onwards, some glees continued to be composed throughout the 19th century.
Pages in this category
The following 174 pages are in this category, out of 174 total.
A
- A long farewell (Thomas Norris)
- Ah! Hills beloved (John Wall Callcott)
- Alas that e'er I knew this hour (Samuel Webbe)
- Although soft sleep (Anonymous)
- Amidst the myrtles (Jonathan Battishill)
- Are the white hours for ever fled (John Wall Callcott)
- As I was going to Derby (John Wall Callcott)
- As the moments roll (Samuel Webbe)
- Awake, my fair (Francis Hutcheson)
- Away away away (Samuel Webbe)
B
- The Banks of the Yarrow (John Wall Callcott)
- Beneath a weight of hapless love (Benjamin Cooke)
- Beneath the silent rural cell (Henry Harington)
- Beneath these walls (Blenheim) (John Wall Callcott)
- Blow, blow thou winter wind (Thomas Arne)
- Breathe soft ye winds (Maria Hester Park)
- Breathe soft ye winds (William Paxton)
- By shady woods and purling streams (Maria Hester Park)
C
D
E
F
G
- Garvan (John Wall Callcott)
- Glorious Apollo (Samuel Webbe)
- Go plaintive breeze (John Wall Callcott)
- Go tell Amynta, gentle swain (Maria Hester Park)
- Go, tuneful bird (John Wall Callcott)
- Golden sun, thy warmth display (James Hook)
- Good statesmen need not only wit (Thomas Arne)
- Great Apollo (Samuel Webbe)
- Green thorn of the hill of ghosts (John Wall Callcott)
H
- Hail! Happy Albion! (John Wall Callcott)
- Hail, sacred horrors (William Bates)
- Hail, smiling morn (Reginald Spofforth)
- Hand in hand with fairy grace (Benjamin Cooke)
- Happy the man (Ode to solitude) (Joseph Baildon)
- Hark! the cock crows (John Wall Callcott)
- Hast thou left thy blue course (John Wall Callcott)
- The hawthorn buds begin to blow (James Hook)
- Hence for ever, baleful sorrow (Joseph William Holder)
- Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee (John Goss)
- Here lieth John Croker (William Bates)
- Here my Chloe, charming maid (William Horsley)
- Here rests his head (Jonathan Battishill)
- Here's a health to the King (Joseph Stephenson)
- Here, beneath this lofty shade (John Alcock Sr.)
- High on a mountain's lofty brow (John Wall Callcott)
- Hush, the god of love here sleeping lies (James Hook)
- Hushed in death (Henry Hiles)
I
- I faint! I die! (Richard Woodward)
- I know you false (William Horsley)
- I swore I loved (Richard Langdon)
- If 'tis joy to wound a lover (Richard Langdon)
- If love and all the world were young (Samuel Webbe)
- In the lonely vale (John Wall Callcott)
- Interred here doth lye a worthy wyght (Benjamin Cooke)
- Is it night (Samuel Webbe)
L
- The lass of Richmond hill (James Hook)
- Let us take the road (Johann Christoph Pepusch)
- List for the breeze (John Goss)
- Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd hours (John Goss)
- Lone dweller of the rock (John Wall Callcott)
- Love, inform thy faithful creature (Pieter Hellendaal)
- Lover, thou must be presuming (Benjamin Cooke)
M
N
O
- O blessed retirement (John Wall Callcott)
- O cruel Amarillis (William Horsley)
- O Night (Samuel Webbe)
- O sacred friendship, heaven's delight (Benjamin Cooke)
- O snatch me swift (John Wall Callcott)
- O Venus, regina Cnidi Paphique (Benjamin Cooke)
- O'er Handel's tomb (James Nares)
- Oft have I stood at eve (John Clarke-Whitfeld)
- Oh hope, thou soother sweet (Samuel Webbe)
- Oh thou where'er (thie bones att reste) (John Wall Callcott)
- Oh! Sovereign of the willing soul (John Wall Callcott)
- Oh! Sweetest of thy lovely race (Samuel Webbe)
- Oh, the sweet contentment (William Horsley)
- Old Chiron (Michael Wise)
- Old Farmer's Song (Louis K. Liu)
- On a bank beside a willow (William Horsley)
- On his deathbed (Samuel Webbe)
- Once upon my cheek he said the roses grew (John Wall Callcott)
- Orpheus with his lute (Lord Mornington)
P
R
S
- See how smoothly (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
- See with ivy chaplet bound (John Wall Callcott)
- Seeing Flower (Louis K. Liu)
- She is faithless and I am undone (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- Sleep soft, fair form (John Wall Callcott)
- Soft and safe though lowly grave (John Wall Callcott)
- Soft sleep, profoundly pleasing power (Lord Mornington)
- Songe to Aelle (John Wall Callcott)
- Spring's dewy hand (John Wall Callcott)
- Swiftly from the mountain's brow (Samuel Webbe)
T
- Take, O take those lips away (John Stafford Smith)
- Tell me where is fancy bred? (Ciro Pinsuti)
- The bells of St Michael's tower (Robert Prescott Stewart)
- The coming morn (John Wall Callcott)
- The wreck of the Hesperus (Henry Hiles)
- Thee, the voice, the dance, obey (John Wall Callcott)
- There is beauty on the mountain (John Goss)
- This bottle's the sun of our table (Thomas Linley the elder)
- Thou art beautiful queen of the valley (John Wall Callcott)
- Though from thy bank of velvet torn (John Wall Callcott)
- Thyrsis, when we parted (John Wall Callcott)
- To all you ladies now at hand (John Wall Callcott)
- To drink or to sing is a very fine thing (Theodore Aylward)
- To fair Fidele's grassy tomb (Maria Hester Park)
- To the old (Samuel Webbe)
- To these lone shades (George Berg)
- The tomb of Shakespeare (John Wall Callcott)
U
V
W
- Wake now, my love (William Horsley)
- The water doctor (Anonymous)
- The Water King (John Wall Callcott)
- Waterloo (John Wall Callcott)
- Welcome the covert (Anonymous)
- Whann Battayle smethinge (John Wall Callcott)
- What bright joy can this exceed? (Samuel Webbe)
- When Allen-a-Dale went a-hunting (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
- When Arthur first in court began to wear long hanging sleaves (John Wall Callcott)
- When forced from dear Hebe to go (Thomas Arne)
- When shall we three meet again? (Samuel Webbe)
- When the fair moon (William Horsley)
- When winds breathe soft (Samuel Webbe)
- Whene'er my dame a-hedging goes (John Wall Callcott)
- Which is the properest day to sing? (Thomas Arne)
- While Delia sleeps (Richard Langdon)
- Why does beauteous Lina weep? (John Wall Callcott)
- Why steal the tears adown thy cheek? (Anonymous)
- Winter days (Alfred James Caldicott)
- With freedom blest (Samuel Webbe)
- With sighs, sweet rose (John Wall Callcott)
- Wives by the dozen (Anonymous)