John Wall Callcott

Aliases: Calcott, John Wall

Life

Born: 20 November 1766

Died: 15 May 1821

Biography

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List of choral works

• For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see John Wall Callcott compositions

Sacred works

Canons Blessed is he that considereth the poor Bow down thine ear Call to remembrance Christ being raised from the dead Miserere mei Deus Out of the deep Thou, Lord, hast been a defence unto the poor Anthems I heard a voice from Heaven

Metrical psalm tunes Consider my affliction, Lord Defend me, Lord, from shame Let all the just to God with joy My soul with grateful thoughts of love O God, my gracious God, to thee The Lord himself, the mighty Lord The Lord to thy request attend Through all the changing scenes of life To God, our never-failing strength Sacred glees Thou palsied earth Forgive blessed shade

Secular works

Glees and madrigals, arranged by author of lyrics

Baillie, Joanna (1762-1852), poems by

• Hark! the cock crows
• Once upon my cheek he said the roses grew

Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850), poem by

• Mark the merry elves

Campbell, Thomas, (1777-1844) who adapted a song by Martin Parker (1600-1656)

• Ye gentlemen of England

Carey, Henry (1687-1743), paraphrase of opening lines of 'Chrononhotonthologos'

• Aldiborontiphoscophornio

Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770), poems by

• Oh thou where'er (thie bones att reste)
• Songe to Aelle
• Whann Battayle smethinge

Cooper, John Gilbert (1722 - 1769), poem by

• The tomb of Shakespeare

Evans, Thomas, from his “Old Ballads”, published 1810

• The Red Cross Knight
• Soft and safe though lowly grave

Goldsmith, Dr Oliver (1730-1774), from his poem "The deserted village"

• O blessed retirement

Goethe, Johann Wolgang von (1749-1832), poem by, translated into English by Matthew Lewis

• The Erl King

Gray, Thomas, (1716-1771), poems by

• Hail! Happy Albion!
• Oh! sovereign of the willing soul
• Thee, the voice, the dance, obey
• Thyrsis, when we parted
• Ye distant spires

Jones, Sir William (1746-94) from poem "Laura" freely adapted from Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374)

• Go plaintive breeze

Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) from poem "To Celia"

• Drink to me only with thine eyes

Lewis, Matthew (1775-1818), poem by

• The Water King

Lowth, Bishop Robert (1710-1787), Latin elegy by

• Cara vale

Madden, Elizabeth Jane (c.1745 - 1805), poem by

• With sighs, sweet rose

Marriott, Sir James (1730 - 1803), poem by

• High on a mountain's lofty brow

Mathias, Thomas James (1754-1835) poems by

• Why does beauteous Lina weep?
• Fill the horn of glossy blue

Ossian (James Macpherson (1736-1796)), poems by

• Desolate is the dwelling of Morna
• Father of heroes
• Green thorn of the hill of ghosts
• Hast thou left thy blue course
• In the lonely vale
• Peace to the souls of the heroes
• Pleasant is the voice of thy song

Petrarca, Francesco (1304–1374), poem by

• O voi che sospirate

Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758), poem by

• Farewell to Lochaber

Rannie, John, lived 18th Century, poems by

• The Banks of the Yarrow
• Lone dweller of the rock

Russell, Thomas, (1762-1788), adapted from first two stanzas of “An ein Veilchen” by Christian Felix Weisse (1726-1804)

• Though from thy bank of velvet torn

Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset (1636-1706) poem by

• To all you ladies now at hand

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), from poem "Lay of the last minstrel"

• Melrose
• Rosabelle
• Waterloo

Shenstone, William (1714 - 1763), poem by

• Go, tuneful bird

Smith, Charlotte Turner (1749 - 1806), sonnets

• Ah! Hills beloved
• Spring's dewy hand

Southey, Robert (1774-1843) from poem "Madoc"

• Garvan
• Thou art beautiful queen of the valley

Traditional

• As I was going to Derby

Unknown author of lyrics

• Are the white hours for ever fled
• Beneath these walls (Blenheim)
• The coming morn
• Dull, repining sons of care
• Epitaph on Sir John Calf
• O snatch me swift
• See with ivy chaplet bound
• When Arthur first in court began to wear long hanging sleaves

Catches

• A beauteous fair has pierced my heart
• Ah! How Sophia can you leave?
• Alas, cried Damon
• The haughty wife of Jove
• The historians
• Imperial Rome, the mistress of the world
• In all her steps, in each enchanting eye
• The Knell of tyrant laws I hear
• Sir John Hawkins' History of Music
• Vostra moglie fu baciata
• Whene'er my dame a-hedging goes

Round

• She who lies here

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