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A Catalogue of the Works of Cyril Rootham ( 1875 - 1938) By  John France

This catalogue is the 'first cut' of on-going project. It has no claims to completeness. However it is the first attempt that I am aware of to draw together a number of sources for Rootham's works. I am happy to hear  from anyone who has any comments, corrections or additions to make to these listings. It is to be hoped that this tool may be used to allow students and those with a general interest in British music to pursue the works of this much underrated composer.

Opera & Stage Works    
   
The Two Sisters 1920/21   
(M. Fausset) Goodwin & Tab, London    
     
Choral Works with Orchestra    
     
Andromeda - a dramatic cantata - for soloists, chorus & orchestra   1908 
(Charles Kingsley ) Novello & Co. London    
     
Coronach - for baritone, chorus & orchestra   1910 
(Sir Walter Scott ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Three Songs - for chorus, piano & orchestra 1910  
Stainer & Bell, London    
     
The Quest - for female voices, piano and strings or string quartet 1911/12  
( M.Mines ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
The Choruses from Achilles in Scyros - for female voices, strings & harp 1912 
( Robert Bridges ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
For the Fallen - for chorus & orchestra 1915  
( Laurence Binyon ) Novello & Co London    
     
Brown Earth - for chorus, semi-chorus & orchestra   1921/22 
( T. Moult ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
The Golden Time - for chorus & orchestra or piano   1924 
J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity - for soli, chorus, semi chorus & orchestra 1928 
(John Milton ) Stainer & Bell, London  
     
Praise the Lord O my soul - for chorus & orchestra (Psalm 103 )   1934 
Oxford University Press, London    
     
City in the West for chorus string orchestra & harp 1936 
( J. Rootham ) Oxford University Press, London    
     
Symphony No. 2 (Revelation) - for female voices & orchestra 1938 (1936) 
MS    
     
Choral    
     
O, Sturdy & Fleet be the British athlete - for male voices 1896 
( Harry Clifton ) J Curwen & Sons, London & Leipzig    
     
Strew on her roses - S.A.T.B. 1899  
     
Love & Laughter - S.A.T.B. 1899 
     
Out of the Deep - anthem for male voices (Psalm 130 )   1903 
Houghton & Co. London    
     
Happy streams whole trembling fall - five part madrigal   1904
Novello & Co. London    
     
A Shepherd in a Glade - four part song   1904 
( J. Dowland ) Novello & Co. London    
     
Break, break, break - quartet for male voices   1906 
( Lord Tennyson ) Weekes & Co. London    
     
Sweet Echo - madrigal in five parts   1907 
Vincent Music Co. London    
     
Coronach - part song   1908 
( Sir Walter Scott ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
It is the wind of the dawn - duet 1908 
( Lord Tennyson ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Lullaby - two part song   1908 
( Thomas Dekker ) Stainer & Bell, London  
     
Helen of Kirkconnell - male voices   1908 
( Traditional )    
     
The Splendour Falls - four part song   1909 
( Lord Tennyson ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
O, may I join the choir invisible - soprano solo & female voices & organ/piano   1910
( G. Elliot ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
In Highland & Meadow - four part songs 1. In the Highlands. ( R.L. Stevenson) 1910 
2. Angel spirits of sleep (Robert Bridges) 3. The Meadows in Spring ( E. Fitzgerald)    
Stainer & Bell, London    
     
The Stolen Child - part song 1911 
(W.B.Yeats) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
The Quest - female voices   1911 
( M.Mines) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Sweet Content 1911  
( T. Dekker ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Hear the voice and the prayer - anthem   1911 
Stainer & Bell, London    
     
The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance - anthem   1911 
Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Follow your Saint - madrigal S.S.A.T.B.   1913 
(Campion & Rossiter's Book of Ayres ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Gay Marigold - part song   1914 
( Robert Bridges ) J Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Larks - part song 1914  
( Robert Bridges ) J Curwen & Sons, London    
     
O Salutaris Hostia - anthem   1916 
     
Noel, a carol - treble voices   1917 
( T Gautier ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Twa Sisters of Binnorie - for mixed voices   1922 
(North Country Ballad ) J Curwen & Sons, London  
     
Jemima - for men's voices   1923 
J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Ode - How Sleep the Brave - for unison voices   1923 
( W. Collins ) Oxford University Press, London    
     
The Golden Time - female voices or S.A.T.,B   1925 
J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Eight Bells - for unaccompanied male voices   1926 
( J. C. Squire) J Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Daybreak at Sea - for mixed voices   1933 
( M. McKenna ) Oxford University Press, London    
     
Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis - choral setting   1934 
The Faith Press, London & Leighton Buzzard    
     
Te Deum 1934  
The Faith Press, London & Leighton Buzzard    
     
Guy's Cliffe at Night - for two parts   1935 
( M. Coleridge ) Oxford University Press, London    
     
In London Town - for S.S.C unaccompanied   1936 
( M. Coleridge ) Oxford University Press, London    
     
Hark, where Poseidon's White Horse - for S.S.A.T.B   1936 
( Bliss Carman ) Oxford University Press, London    
     
Full Fathom Five - female voices   1937 
( Shakespeare ) J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Sigh no more ladies - for female voices   1937 
( Shakespeare ) J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Songs    
     
Weep you no more   1894 
(John Dowland ) Boosey & Co. London    
     
In the Merry May   1894 
     
The Golden Light of Day   1895 
(K. Nicholls) Boosey & Co. London    
     
Under the Lindens   1895 
(W.S. Landor ) Boosey & Co. London    
     
It was an English Ladye Bright   1904 
( Sir Walter Scott ) Boosey & Co. London    
     
The Ballad of Kingslea Mere   1907 
     
Beyond the Sea 1908  
     
The Bramble 1908  
     
The Greenwood Tree   1908 
     
Two Songs : 1. I sorrowed that the Golden Day was dead   1909
2. The Springtime of Life    
( Thomas Love Peacock) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
A Supplication Song   1909 
( Sir Thomas Wyatt ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Helen of Kirkconnell   1912 
( Traditional ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Four Dramatic Songs: 1. Imagination 2. Unwelcome   1913
3. St Andrew's 4. Over the hills    
( M.E. Coleridge ) Novello & Co. London    
     
A Vignette Song 1914  
( Robert Bridges ) Novello & Co. London    
     
Noel   1918 
( T. Gautier )    
     
A Boys Song 1919  
( James Hogg ) Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Three Song Pictures: 1. Butterflies 2. Idyll 3. Everyone Sang 1920 
( S. Sassoon ) West's London    
     
A Child's Prayer 1921  
( S. Sassoon ) J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
A Poplar and the moon   1921 
( S. Sassoon ) J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Morning Glory 1921  
( S. Sassoon ) J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
South Wind   1921 
( S. Sassoon ) J. Curwen & Sons, London    
     
Sorrow Song 1921  
( W. J. Turner ) Schott & Sons, London    
     
West Wind 1923  
( J. Masefield ) J Curwen & Sons, London    
     
The King of China's Daughter   1923 
( Edith Sitwell ) Schott & Co. London    
     
If I has but two little wings   1925 
     
Four Hymns: 1. Who shall ascend ( T.E Hankinson)   1937
2. None other lamb ( C.G. Rossetti ) 3. Love, lift me up    
( E. Spenser ) 4. O, Lord in me ( Mary Countess of Pembroke )  
Oxford University Press, London    
     
     
Orchestral    
     
Pan - Rhapsody for Full Orchestra   1912 
MS [Oxford University Press, London]    
     
The Two Sisters Overture ( Concert Version)   1918 
MS [J. Curwen & Sons, London]    
     
Processional for the Chancellor's Music   1920 
MS [Oxford University Press, London]    
     
St John's Suite - for small orchestra   1921 
MS [Oxford University Press, London]    
     
Miniature Suite - for Orchestra/string quartet & piano   1921
J. Curwen & Sons, London.    
     
Rhapsody on an Old English Tune 'Lazarus' for double string orchestra.   1922 
Murdoch, Murdoch & Co, London    
     
Psalm of Adonis 1930  
MS [Oxford University Press, London]    
     
Symphony No. 1   1931/32  
MS [Oxford University Press, London]    
     
Symphony No. 2 ( choral finale )   1936 
MS    
     
   
Chamber  
     
Reminisciences des Alpes Bavaroises   1906 
Trois miniatures pour Violin et Piano    
Schott & Co. London    
     
String Quintet in D major 1909  
MS    
     
String Quartet in C major 1914  
Murdoch, Murdoch & Co. London    
     
Suite for Flute & Piano 1921  
J. & W. Chester, London    
     
Suite in Three Movements 1922  
J.& W. Chester, London    
     
In the Lake Country - slow movement of String Quintet   1924
Murdoch, Murdoch & Co. London    
     
Sonata in G minor for violin & Piano   1925 
Oxford University Press, London    
     
Septet for Viola, Wind Quintet and Harp   1930 
MS [Oxford University Press, London]    
     
Pianoforte Trio - for violin, 'cello & Piano   1931/32 
Oxford University Press, London    
     
     
Organ    
     
Fantasia Overture in D minor   1904 
Houghton & Co, London    
     
Epinikion - Song of Victory   1908 
Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Elegiac Rhapsody on an Old English Melody   1911 
Stainer & Bell, London    
     
Rhapsody on an Old English Tune 'Lazarus'   1925 
J. Cramer & Co. London    
     
Arrangements    
     
Henry Purcell

Dances from the Fairy Queen for String Orchestra 

1923 
     
Henry Purcell

Nymphs & Shepherds  

  1915 (1925) 
Henry Purcell

1926

Dances from the Fairy Queen for violin and piano 

 
J. Curwen & Sons, London 

 
     
W.A. Mozart

Six Dances for Strings &  Optional wind 

1926 (1927) 

Oxford Orchestral Series  

   
     
M. Locke

Lord, let me know mine end  

 

 

- Choral
The Yearbook Series of Anthems & Church Music 

  1930 

John France November 2000

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