Humphrey-Procter Gregg (1895-1980) - Compositions |
Items marked * originally published by Boosey and Hawkes in the 1930s and now to be re-published with permission |
Items marked ** newly published by edition db and now available |
Items marked *** originally published by Stainer & Bell in the 1930s and awaiting permission to re-publish |
Dramatic |
The Pied Piper: A Dramatic Parable (1920) |
Le Malade imaginaire (incidental music; includes Three Dances for small orchestra) |
Orchestral |
Concerto in A for clarinet and orchestra ** |
Pastoral Dance for small orchestra (piano score, unfinished short score with details of orchestration) |
Variations on an Air from Aberdeenshire (violin and orchestra) |
In addition, the Procter-Gregg Archive contains sketches for both a piano concerto and a violin concerto. |
Voice and orchestra |
The Danube to the Severn (Tennyson) |
In the Highlands (Stevenson) |
The Land of Lost Content (Housman) |
Spring Awakens (Tennyson) |
Songs with piano |
Paul Bewsher: In an Aeroplane (1921) |
Rupert Brooke: All suddenly the wind comes soft (c.1940) |
T.E. Brown: The Bough of May |
Robert Burns: I dreamed I lay; Bonny Lesley; Guid Ale (1922); Bonny Wee Thing; O my luve's like a red, red rose; Duncan Gray**; The Farewell**; Out over the Forth**; The Dusty Miller**; The Lady Mary Ann; I dreamed I lay where flowers were springing; Tibbie Dunbar**; Hee Balou**; Jockey's ta'en the Parting Kiss** |
Byron: There be none of Beauty's daughters; The Evening Star** |
Allan Cunningham: A wet sheet and a flowing sea |
Cicely Fox Smith: Steel Rails; So Long (1930); The Wine of Life; Limehouse Reach** |
James Hogg: A Boy's Song ** |
A.E. Housman: The Land of Lost Content**; With rue my heart is laden (1920/30) |
Leigh Hunt: Jenny Kissed me |
Violet Jacob: Tam i' the Kirk; The Wild Geese (1941); The Water Hen; The Gowk (1941)**; The Licht Nichts; The Banks o' the Esk |
John Masefield: Trade Winds: The West Wind |
Alice Meynell: Renouncement** |
Christina Rossetti: Uphill** (1932); O Roses |
William Shakespeare: Casket Song (1945); I know a bank; O Mistress Myne; (arrangement); |
P.B. Shelley: The Widow Bird; One word is too often profaned**; Music when soft voices die** |
R.L. Stevenson: In the Highlands**; Blows the wind today; Requiem; The Unforgotten; Half the World Apart (1940)**; Canadian Boat Song; The Stormy Evening** |
Wyndham Tennant: The Freedom of the Downs |
Tennyson: Old Yew; Wild Bird [2 settings]; I envy not in any moods; The Danube to the Severn**; Ring out Wild Bells; O that 'twere possible; There rolls the deep (1941) |
17th century and earlier: I loved a lass (George Wither); Carol: I sing of a mayden (Anon.); He that loves a rosy cheek (Carew); Out upon it! I have loved (Suckling); Follow your Saint (Campion); Tune thy music to thy heart (Campion); Never weather-beated sail (Campion); Fain would I change that note (Anon.); To Julia (Herrick); Spring the sweet spring (Nashe); Go, lovely rose (Waller); Love is a sickness (Daniel); In Despite of a Country Life (Ravenscroft) (?c.1934)**; Love is but the frailty of the mind (Congreve) (1922)**; Believe not in him (Anon.)**; Sleep (Fletcher) |
Anon.: The Ploughman (1945); I have friends among the dead (1922); La Mort du Roi Renaud (1920) |
School Song for King William's College, Casteltown, Isle of Man: Insulae Collegium (K.A.R. Sugden) (unison voices with chorus, piano and optional bugle) |
Notes |
The songs marked with an asterisk* were published by Boosey & Co. in the 1930s. I know a bank was published in 2000 in the Boosey and hawkes 20th Century Easy Song Collection. The songs marked with a double asterisk** are newly published by edition db. In Despite of a Country Life (Ravenscroft) (?c.1934); Love is but the frailty of the mind (Congreve) (1922); Believe not in him (Anon.) published by edition db are published as Three 17th century Songs of Fine Ladies |
Recitation with piano |
Home Thoughts in Laventie (1916) |
Chorus |
A Case - Catch (1959): SSTB |
Two Choral Amens (1933): SATB |
Daffodils (Herrick): SSATB |
Fain would I change that note: ATBB |
Five Songs for Chorus (Scott) (1952) (Coronach; Lucy Ashton's Song; Song in Waverley; Rangers' Song; True Love's the Gift): various combinations |
Joly Joly Wat (1933): SATB |
Magnificat (1919) and Nunc Dimitis: SSATB and organ |
Motet: O Lord turn thy wrath away from us: SATB |
Motet: The Revival (Vaughan) (1968): SSAATT |
Motet: The Sun and Stars (Whitmre): SATB |
Motet on Webbe's Morning Hymn (Keble) (1943): SSATTBB |
Three Madrigals (Love is a Sickness; To Blossoms (1959); Cupid and Campaspe) |
Tune thy music to thy heart (Campion) (1971); SATB** |
To Violets (Herrick) (1935); SATB |
Many other shorter pieces |
Chorus and orchestra |
High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Jean lngelow) |
Jerusalem (Blake) |
Kubla Khan (Coleridge) |
Piano |
Berceuse and Tarantelle |
A Book of Waltzes (1931) |
Gay Variations and Finale on an Original Theme (dedicated to R.J. Forbes) |
[24] Preludes, in two books |
[5] Preludes and Fugues |
Rhapsody (1916-17) |
Scherzo in F sharp minor (1927/1937/1971) |
Seven Pieces without Purpose (1924) |
Sonata in C minor ('The Sea') ** |
Suite of Eighteenth Century Dance Forms (1941) ** |
Second Suite of Eighteenth Century Dance Forms (1958) |
Theme, Variations and Tarantella |
Two Fantastic Waltzes (1930) |
Two Little Sketches (1911-13) |
Westmoreland Sketches, vols. 1-4 (26 [actually 27] Pieces), (1964-8), Forsyth, 1986 (edition includes a substantial editor's preface, with biographical information by Maurice Aitchison) |
Many shorter pieces, including mazurkas, tangos, inventions, waltzes, studies, etc. Also cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor K466 |
Organ |
Processional for a Festival Organ (1937) |
Three Chorale Preludes |
Chamber Music |
Duettino (horn and piano)** |
Country Tune (cello and piano) (1977)** |
[5] Pieces for Paul (violin and piano) (1972-7) |
A Rustic Suite (two recorders and piano), Arnold, nd |
Sonata No.1 in A minor (violin and piano), Boosey, 1936 (dedicated to Albert Sammons)** |
Sonata No.2 in C (violin and piano)** |
Sonata No.3 in F (violin and piano) (1947-8)** |
Sonata No.4 in D (violin and piano)** |
Sonata in F sharp minor (viola and piano) (1969)** |
Sonata no.1 in E (cello and piano)** |
Sonata no.2 in D minor (cello and piano)** |
Sonata (flute and piano) (fragment only) |
Sonata in A (horn and piano) (1975)** |
Sonata in G minor (clarinet and piano)** |
Concerto in A for clarinet (piano reduction by composer)** |
Sonata in E minor (oboe and piano) (1970-1) |
String Quartet in G minor (first three movements only extant) |
String Quartet No.1 in F sharp minor** |
String Quartet No.2 in D minor |
String Trio in G major |
Variations on an Air from Aberdeenshire (violin and piano) ** |
Several other shorter pieces for violin and piano |
Note |
This list was compiled with collaboration between Michael Almond and John Turner after the former's extensive research, sorting and arranging. It should be regarded as a preliminary working draft only as more research is needed to identify and date much of the material, all of which is housed in Manchester University's John Rylands Library. |