List of compositions by Arthur Bliss

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This is a list of compositions by Arthur Bliss.

Contents 1 Stage 1.1 Operas 1.2 Ballets 1.3 Incidental Music 2 Orchestral 3 Concertante 4 Vocal/Choral Orchestral 5 Chamber Music 6 Instrumental 6.1 Piano 6.2 Organ 6.3 Other 7 Vocal 7.1 Voice and Ensemble 7.2 Voice and Piano 7.3 Choral 7.4 Hymns 8 Brass/Military Band 9 Fanfares 10 Orchestral Arrangements 11 Music for media 11.1 Film Music 11.2 Music for Radio 11.3 Music for Television 12 Lost

[edit] Stage

[edit] Operas

• Olympians, The (1948)
• Beggar's Opera, The (1952)
• Tobias and the Angel (1960)

[edit] Ballets

• Rout (a ballet in one scene) ( 1920?)
• Melee Fantastique (1921)
• Narcissus and Echo (1931)
• Checkmate (1937)
• Miracle of the Gorbals (1944)
• Adam Zero (1946)
• Lady of Shallot, The (1958)
• Diversions (based on Music for Strings) (1961?)
• Frontier (based on music from Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet) (1969?)
• Royal Offering, A (based on Colour Symphony) (1977)

[edit] Incidental Music

• As You Like It (1919)
• King Solomon (1924)
• Summer Day's Dream - violin and oboe (1949)

[edit] Orchestral

• Melee Fantastique (revision) (1921/1937/1965)
• Two Studies (1920)
• Colour Symphony, A (1921/1932)
• Pyonepsion (last movement of A Colour Symphony) (1922)
• Bliss: One Step (1923)
• Twone, the house of Felicity (1923)
• Polonaise (1925)
• Hymn to Apollo (1926/1965)
• Introduction and Allegro (1926/1937)
• Music for Strings (1935)
• March, The Phoenix - homage to France (1944)
• Memorial Concert (1946)
• Theme and Cadenza (from Memorial Concert) (1946)
• Processional (1953)
• Birthday Greeting for Her Majesty, A (1955)
• Meditation on a Theme by John Blow (1955)
• Edinburgh Overture (1956)
• Discourse for Orchestra (1957/1965)
• Ceremonial Prelude (1965)
• March in homage of a great man (1965)
• Metamorphic Variations (1972)
• Two Contrasts for String Orchestra (1972)

[edit] Concertante

• Concerto for Piano, Strings Tenor and Percussion (1920/1923)
• Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1924)
• Concerto for Piano in Bb major (1938)
• Violin Concerto (1955)
• Cello Concerto (1970)

[edit] Vocal/Choral Orchestral

• Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks' (1928)
• Morning Heroes (1930)
• Songs of Welcome (1954)
• Beatitudes, The (1961)
• Mary of Magdala (1962)
• Golden Cantata (1963)
• God save the Queen (1969)
• World is charges with the Grandeur of God, The (1969)
• Two Ballads (1971)

[edit] Chamber Music

• Trio for piano, clarinet and cello (1909)
• Quartet for piano, clarinet, cello and timpani (1910??)
• String Quartet in A major (1914)
• Piano Quartet in A minor (1915)
• Fugue for String Quartet (1916)
• Piano Quintet (1919)
• Conversations (1920)
• String Quartet (1923)
• Allegro (from incomplete string quartet) (1927)
• Quintet for oboe and strings (1927)
• Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1932)
• String Quartet No.1 Bb major (1941)
• String Quartet No.2 (1950)
• Toast to the Royal Household (1961)
• Play a penta (1971)
• Prelude for Brass, Percussion, Piccolo and Double Bassoon (1974?)

[edit] Instrumental

[edit] Piano

• May Zeeh (1910)
• Suite (1912)
• Intermezzo (1912)
• Valse Fantastiques (1913)
• Rout (two piano arrangement) (1920?)
• Bliss: One Step (1923)
• Masks (1924)
• Suite (1925)
• Toccata (1925)
• Two Interludes (1925)
• Rout Trot, The (1927)
• Study (1927)
• Karen's Piece (1940/1941)
• Piano Sonata (1952)
• Miniature Scherzo (1969)
• Fun and Games (three hands/two pianos) (1970)
• Triptych (1970)
• Wedding Suite, A (1974)

[edit] Organ

• Praeludium (1971)

[edit] Other

• Intermezzo for Viola and Piano (1914?)
• Violin Sonata (incomplete) (1914)
• Two Pieces for Clarinet (1916)
• Andante Tranquillo e Legato (1926??)
• Viola Sonata (1933)
• Enid’s Blast (1968)
• Music for a Prince (1970)

[edit] Vocal

[edit] Voice and Ensemble

• Madam Noy (1918)
• Rhapsody (1919)
• Rout (1920)
• Two Nursery Rhymes (1920)
• Tempest, The (1921)
• Women of Yu’eh (1923)
• Four Songs (1927)
• Serenade for Baritone and Orchestra (1929)
• Two Love Songs (from the Serenade) (1929)
• Enchantress, The (1951)
• Elegiac Sonnet (1954)
• Knot of Riddles, A (1963)
• Two Ballads (1971)
• Four song (1973)

[edit] Voice and Piano

• Tis time I think by Wenlock Town (1914)
• Hammers, The (1915)
• Tramps, The (1916)
• La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi) (1919)
• Three Romantic Songs (1921)
• Three Songs (1923/1972)
• Ballad of the Four Seasons, The (1923)
• Three Jolly Gentlemen (1923)
• When I was one and twenty (1923)
• Fallow deer at the lonely house, The (1924)
• At the Window (1925)
• Rich or Poor (1925)
• Child's prayer A (1926)
• Simples (1932)
• Seven American Poems (1940)
• Two American Poems (1940)
• Auvergnat (1943)
• Pack clouds away (incomplete) (1960s)
• Song of a man who has come through (incomplete) (1960s)
• Angels of the Mind (1969)
• Sailing or Flying (1970)
• Tulips (1970)

[edit] Choral

• When wilt thou save thy people? (1943??)
• Aubade for Coronation Morning (1953)
• Seek the Lord (1956)
• Birthday songs for a Royal child (1959)
• Stand up and bless the Lord (1960)
• Cradle Song for a newborn child (1963)
• O give thanks unto the Lord (1965)
• He is the Way (1967)
• River Music (1967)
• Sweet Day, so cool (1967)
• Three Songs for Girls and Boys (1967)
• Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? (1968)
• One, two, buckle my shoe (1968)
• Prayer to the infant Jesus, A (1968)
• Christ is Alive! Let Christians sing (1970)
• Ode for Sir William Walton (1972)
• Prayer of St Francis of Assisi (1972)
• Put thou thy trust in the Lord (1972)
• Mar Portugues (1973)
• Shield of Faith (1974)
• Sing, Mortals (1974)

[edit] Hymns

• Pen Selwood – Hymn Tune (1967?)
• Santa Barbara – Hymn Tune (1967??)
• Mortlake – Hymn Tune (1971?)

[edit] Brass/Military Band

• Kenilworth (1936)
• First Guards (1956)
• Call to Adventure (1962)
• Belmont Variations, The (1963)
• Linburn Air (1965)
• Salute to Lehigh University (1968)

[edit] Fanfares

• Fanfare for a Political Address (1921)
• Fanfare for Heroes (1930)
• Dominion Greetings (1935)
• Three Jubilant and Three Solemn Fanfares (1935/1943)
• Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion (1938)
• Birthday Fanfare for Henry Wood (1944)
• Peace Fanfare for Children (1944)
• Salute to Painting, A (1953)
• Salute to the RAF, A (1956)
• Service of the Order of Bath (1956)
• Fanfare preceding the National Anthem (1960)
• Let the People Sing Two Fanfares (1960)
• Royal Fanfares and Interludes (1960)
• Salute to the Royal Society, a (1960)
• Greetings to a City (1961)
• Wedding of Princess Margaret, Music for (1961?)
• Gala Fanfare (1962)
• High Sheriff's Fanfare (1963)
• Fanfare, Homage to Shakespeare (1964)
• Fanfare for the Commonwealth Arts Festival (1965)
• Right of the Line, The (1965/1982 poth.)
• Fanfare: Prelude for Orchestra ‘Macclesfield’ (1966)
• Fanfare for the Lord Mayor of London (1967)
• Prince of Wales Investiture Music (1969)
• Birthday Greetings to the Croydon Symphony Orchestra (1971)
• Fanfare for a Coming of Age (1973)
• Fanfare for the National Fund for Crippling Diseases (1973)
• Wedding of Princess Anne, Music for (1973)
• Lancaster-prelude (1974)

[edit] Orchestral Arrangements

• Fire Dance (arr. Of work by Sinding)
• Set of Tunes and Dances (Purcell) (1921)
• Das alte jahr vergangen is (Bach) (1932)
• Three Bach Chorales from St John Passion (1960)

[edit] Music for media

[edit] Film Music

• Things to Come (1934)
• Conquest of the Air (1937)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1944)
• Men of Two Worlds (1945)
• Presense au combat (1945)
• Christopher Columbus (1949)
• War in the Air (1954)
• Welcome the Queen (1954)
• Seven Waves Away (1956)

[edit] Music for Radio

• Your question answered (1944)
• Heritage of Britain (1950)

[edit] Music for Television

• ABC Television Signature and Interval Music (1956)
• An Age of Kings (1960)
• Royal Palace Music (1966)
• Spirit of the Age (1975)

[edit] Lost

• Elizabethan Suite (??)
• March and Valse des Fleurs (arr. Tchaikovsky) (1910??)
• Valses Melancoliques, Deuxième Preludes; Valse-Phantasie (1913??)
• The Festival of Flora (arr. Of Henry Purcell) (1927??)
• Theme from Processional Interlude (1969)