The Drawing-room Ballad or Parlour Song

George DuMaurier on Parlour Songs. [Click on thumbnails for larger images and captions.]

Annabelle Lee — A Victorian setting of Poe's poem (music by music by Henry Leslie)
Home, Sweet Home! (lyrics by John Howard Payne, music by Henry Rowley Bishop)
Woodman, Spare That Tree! (lyrics by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell)
Three Fishers Went Sailing (lyrics by by Charles Kingsley, music by John Hullah)
The Lost Chord (lyrics by Adelaide Anne Procter, music by Arthur Sullivan)
Oh Mother! Take the Wheel Away (lyrics and music by Claribel)
Come into the Garden, Maud (lyrics by Alfred Lord Tennyson, music by Michael Balfe)
The Volunteer Organist (lyrics by W. B. Glenroy [pseudonym of William Gray], music by Henry Lamb [pseudonym of Henry Spaulding])
Throw Out the Life-line! (lyrics and music by the Rev. Edwin Ufford)
I Come from the Beautiful Rhine (lyrics by Charles Mackay, music by Frank Mori)
Anchored (lyrics by Samuel K. Cowan, music by Michael Watson)
The Village Blacksmith (lyrics by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by Willoughby Hunter Weiss)
On the Road to Mandalay (lyrics by Rudyard Kipling, music by Oley Speaks)
Somewhere a Voice Is Calling (lyrics by E. Newton, music by Arthur F. Tate)
Tatters (lyrics and music by Gerald M. Lane)

Boosey, William. 1931. Fifty Years of Music. London: Ernest Benn.

Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair. 1898. Stories of Famous Songs. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898), 201-2;

Russell, Henry. 1895. Cheer, Boys, Cheer! London: John Macqueen.

Scott, Derek B. The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour. 2nd ed. Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1974. The Parlour Song Book: A Casquet of Vocal Gems. London: Pan.

Turner, Michael R. and Antony Miall, eds. 1975. Just a Song at Twilight: The Second Parlour Song Book. London: Michael Joseph.

Willeby, Charles. 1893. Masters of Contemporary Music. Osgood & McIlvaine: London.

Last modified 25 September 2007