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Publishers:
Boosey and Hawkes
Oxford University Press (OUP) New York or UK
Hildegard Publishing Company
The Clarke Estate is currently managed by Christopher Johnson, P.O. Box 343, New York, NY 10156 and Oxford University Press, New York. I acknowledge the valuable contribution made by Johnson in 1977, when he catalogued Clarke's works in consultation with her. I have tried to verify this catalogue where possible, and have made emendations and additions.

Vocal Works (solo voice and piano except where indicated)       Instrumental Works     Choral Works
Title
Text author
MS Sources
Sources
Date of Composition/ Completion
Published
Wandrers Nachtlied
Goethe
 
RC Estate
?1903
 
Chanson
Mdterlinck
 
RC Estate
?1904
 
Ah, for the red spring rose
?
 
RC Estate
1904
 
Shiv and the Grasshopper
Kipling, (from The Jungle Book)
 
RC Estate
1904
 
Aufblick
Dehmel
 
RC Estate
1904
 
Klage
Dehmel
 
RC Estate
?1904
 
Stimme im Dunkeln
Dehmel
 
RC Estate
?1904
 
O Welt
?
 
RC Estate
?1904
 
Oh, dreaming world
?
 
RC Estate
?1905
 
Du
Richard Schaukal
 
RC Estate
1905
 
The moving finger writes
Khayyám, from the Rubaiyát, trans. Fitzgerald
 
RC Estate
?1905
 
Wiegenlied
(Voice, violin, piano)
Detlev von Liliencron
 
RC Estate
?1905
 
Nach einem Regen
Dehmel
 
RC Estate
?1906
 
Durch die Nacht
Dehmel
 
RC Estate
1906
 
Vergissmeinnicht
Dehmel
 
RC Estate
April, 1907
 
Nacht für nacht
Two voices, piano
Dehmel
 
RC Estate
August, 1907
 
Magna est veritas
Patmore
 
RC Estate
1907
 
Spirits
Two high voices, piano
R. Bridges
 
RC Estate
?1909
 
The color of life
Old Chinese Words
 
RC Estate
?1910
 
Return of spring
Old Chinese Words
 
RC Estate
?1910
 
Tears
Chinese words, Wang Seng-ju as transl. by L. Cranmer-Byng in A Lute of Jade (1911)
The result of a contest between Clarke, Eugene Goossens, and May Mukle, to see who could write the best setting of this text
RC Estate, Eastman School of Music
?1910
 
The folly of being comforted
Yeats
 
RC Estate
?1911
 
Shy one
Yeats
To Gervase Elwes
 
?1912
Winthrop Rogers, Boosey & Hawkes, 1920/1994
The Cloths of Heaven
Yeats
To Gervase Elwes
 
?1912
Winthrop Rogers, Boosey & Hawkes, 1920/1994
Weep you no more sad fountains
Dowland
To Dora [Clarke, the composer's sister]
RC Estate
?1912
OUP, 2002
Away delights
Two voices and piano
Fletcher
To Dora [Clarke, the composer's sister]
RC Estate
?1912-1913
 
Hymn to Pan
Tenor, baritone, piano
Fletcher
To Dora [Clarke, the composer's sister]
RC Estate
?1912-1913
 
Infant joy
Blake
 
 
?1913
Winthrop Rogers, 1924/ Boosey & Hawkes, 1994
Down by the salley gardens
Yeats
 
 
1 Feb 1919
Winthrop Rogers, 1924/ Boosey & Hawkes, 1994
Psalm 63 (A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah)
 
 
 
Dec 1920
OUP, 2002
The seal man
Masefield
23 Oct 1925 by John Goss, Bar, and Reginald Paul, piano
Photocopy of manuscript at Eastman School of Music
24 Jan 1922
Winthrop Rogers, 1926/ Boosey & Hawkes, 1994
Three Old English Songs arr. for voice and violin:
1. It was a lover and his lass (Morely)
2. Phyllis on the new mown hay
3. The tailor and his mouse
1. Shakespeare
26 May 1924, Norman Notley, bar; Clarke, violin
Photocopy of manuscript at Eastman School of Music
Jan 1924
Winthrop Rogers 1925/ Boosey & Hawkes 1994
June twilight
Masefield
To John Goss
Photocopy of manuscript at Eastman School of Music
Jan 1925
Winthrop Rogers 1926/ Boosey & Hawkes 1994
Come, O come, my life's delight
Campion
Based on Clarke's own earlier choral setting
RC Estate
Jan 1926
OUP, 2002
A dream
Yeats
 
 
1926
Winthrop Rogers, 1928/ Boosey & Hawkes, 1994
Sleep
Tenor, baritone, piano
Fletcher
To David Brynley and Norman Notley, members of the English Singers. First perf. at the home of Julian Huxley
RC Estate and Britten/Pears Library, Aldeburgh
1926
 
Sleep [version II]
Tenor, baritone, piano
Fletcher
To David Brynley and Norman Notley, members of the English Singers. First perf. at the home of Julian Huxley
Britten/Pears Library, Aldeburgh
?1926
 
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Fletcher
To David Brynley and Norman Notley, members of the English Singers. First perf. at the home of Julian Huxley
Britten/Pears Library, Aldeburgh
?1926
 
Three Irish Country Songs, arr. for voice and violin
1. I know my love
2. I know where I'm goin
3. As I was goin to Ballynure
From the edition by Herbert Hughes
 
 
April 1926
OUP, 1928, reprinted 2002
The cherry-blossom wand
A. Wickham
To Anne Thursfield
 
1927
OUP, 1929, 2002
Eight o'clock
Housman
To Lawrence Strauss/ perf. by John Goss, 23 Nov. 1927, London.
 
1927
Winthrop Rogers, 1928/ Boosey & Hawkes, 1994
Greeting
E. Young
 
RC Estate
?1928
Winthrop Rogers, 1928/ Boosey & Hawkes, 1994
Cradle song
Blake
 
 
Mar 6, 1929
OUP, 1929, 2002
The aspidistra
C. Flight
 
 
1929
Chester, 1930; OUP, 2002
Tiger, tiger
Blake
 
RC Estate
1929-33, revised 1972
OUP, 2002
Lethe
St. Vincent Millay
 
RC Estate
1941
OUP, 2002
Daybreak, high voice, string quartet
John Donne
 
RC Estate
?early1940s
 
The donkey
Chesterton
To Povla Frijsch
RC Estate
Nov.,1942
1984 in BMS Journal vi
OUP, 2002
Binnorie
traditional ballad, also known as   'The twa sisters'and
'The cruel sister'
Perf. on Oct. 27, 28, 2001 by Eileen Strempel (sop) and Sylvie Beaudette (piano), Boston
RC Estate, pencil draft and ink working copy
?1940s
OUP, 2002
God made a tree
K. Kendall
 
RC Estate
1954
OUP, 2002
Down by the Salley Gardens, voice, violin.
Yeats
Arr. of Clarke s 1919 song for Helen and Howard Boatwright
RC Estate and Eileen Strempel
1950s
OUP, 2002
Up-Hill
Christina Rossetti
Discovered in Clarke estate ca. 2000.
RC Estate and Eileen Strempel
No known date
 
Instrumental Works      Choral Works

 

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