John Blackwood Mc Ewen - Selected Works

Selected Works

Stage

• The Royal Rebel, Comic Opera in 3 acts (1909)

Orchestral

• Comala, Symphonic Poem (1889)
• Lanark, Overture (1890)
• Suite in E major (1893)
• Suite in F (1893)
• Overture to a Comedy (1895)
• Symphony in A minor (1892–1898)
• Three Border Ballads (1906–1908)

1. Coronach (1906)
2. The Demon Lover (1906–1907)
3. Grey Galloway (1908)

• Solway, Symphony No. 5 in C♯ minor (1911)
• The Jocund Dance, Dance Tunes for string orchestra (1920, orchestrated 1927); original for string quartet
• Suite of Old National Dances for string orchestra (1924); also for string quartet
• Prelude (1925)
• Where the Wild Thyme Blows, Prelude (1936)
• Overture di ballo for chamber orchestra (1936)
• Suite for string orchestra (1936)

1. Prelude
2. What the Cello Said
3. Der kleine Meister (The Little Masters)
4. Orientale
5. Scherzo

• Suite in C major for string orchestra (1941)
• Suite in D major for string orchestra (1941)
• Suite "Ballet de Lilliput" for string orchestra and harp

Concertante

• Concerto for viola and orchestra (1901)
• Hills o' Heather, A Retrospect for cello and orchestra (1918)
• Prince Charlie, A Scottish Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1924, orchestrated 1941); original for violin and piano

Chamber music

• String Quartet in F major (1893)
• String Quartet in F minor (1893)
• String Quartet No. 1 in F (1893)
• String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (1898); published in 1903
• Graih My Chree, Recitation Music for 2 violins, viola, cello, piano and percussion (1900)
• String Quartet No. 3 in E minor (1901)
• 6 Highlands Dances for violin and piano (1902)
• String Quartet No. 4 in C minor (1905)
• String Quintet "Phantasy-Quintet" in E minor (1911)
• "Nugae", 7 Bagatelles (String Quartet No. 5) for 2 violins, viola and cello (1912)

1. Lament in G minor
2. March of the Little Folk in E♭ major
3. Peat Reek in G minor
4. Scherzino in G minor
5. Humoresque in A
6. The Dhu Loch in D
7. Red Murdoch in G minor

• String Quartet No. 6 "Biscay" in A major (1913); published as No. 8

1. Le phare (The Lighthouse)
2. Les dunes (The Dunes)
3. La racleuse (The Oyster-Raker)

• Sonata No. 1 in E♭ major for violin and piano (1913)
• Sonata No. 2 in F minor for violin and piano (1913–1914)
• 2 Poems for violin and piano (1913)

1. Breath o' June
2. The Lone Shore

• Sonata No. 3 in G for violin and piano (1913)
• String Quartet No. 7 "Threnody" (1916); published as No. 9
• "A Little Sonata" (Sonata No. 4) in A major for violin and piano (1917)
• String Quartet No. 8 in E♭ major (1918)
• String Quartet No. 9 in B minor (1920)
• The Jocund Dance, Dance Tunes (String Quartet No. 10) for 2 violins, viola and cello (1920); also for string orchestra
• Martinmas Tide in G minor for violin and piano (1921)
• Sonata No. 5 "Sonata-Fantasia" for violin and piano (1921)
• String Quartet No. 11 in E minor (1921)
• Prince Charlie, A Scottish Rhapsody for violin and piano (1924); also for violin and orchestra
• Suite of Old National Dances, String Quartet No. 12 (1924); original version for string orchestra
• String Quartet No. 13 in C minor (1928)
• Sonata No. 6 for violin and piano (1929)
• String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (1936)
• A Little Quartet "In modo Scotico", String Quartet No. 15 (1936)
• String Quartet No. 16 "Quartette provençale" (1936)
• Piano Trio No. 2 in A minor (1937); after the 1936 Prelude Where the Wild Thyme Blows for orchestra
• Improvisations provençales for violin and piano (1937)
• 5 Preludes and a Fugue for 2 violins (1939); version for violin and viola (1942)
• Under Northern Skies for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1939)
• Sonata No. 7 in A minor for violin or viola and piano (1941)
• Pericula, 6 trios avec piano (1943)
• Piano Trio No. 3 "Rococo" (1943)
• Piano Trio No. 4 "Fantasy" (1943)
• Pericula (Experiments), 6 String Trios for violin, viola and cello (1943)
• Pibroch for 2 violins, viola and cello (1943); arrangement of movement III of String Trio No. 2
• String Quartet No. 17 "Fantasia" in E major (1947)
• 2 Duos for oboe and piano
• Romance for Violin
• 5 Scottish Dances for violin and piano

Organ

• Festive March
• March

Piano

• Sonata in E minor (1903)
• 4 Sketches (1909)

1. Prelude
2. Quasi minuetto
3. Elegy
4. Humoreske

• Suite de ballet for piano 4-hands (1912)
• Vignettes from La Côte d'Argent (1918)

1. Petite Chérie (Little Darling)
2. Les Hirondelles (The Swallows)
3. Pantalon rouge (Red Trousers)
4. Crépuscule du soir mystique (Mystical Twilight)
5. La Rosière (The Motorboat)

• Sonatina in G minor (1918)
• 3 Preludes (1920)

1. A White Naiad in a Rippling Stream
2. A Rapt Seraph in a Moonlight Beam
3. The Dew by Fairy Feet Swept from the Green

• On Southern Hills, 3 Sketches from Provençe (1938)

1. White Oxen
2. Drifting Clouds
3. L'improvisadou (The Improvisatore)

• Ballet Suite (1938)

1. La Senorita
2. Intermezzo
3. Valsette
4. Alla Marcia

• Allemande
• Phyllis Hallain's Book
• Sonatina in C
• A Winter Poem

Vocal

• The River for voice and piano (1899); words by Moore Park
• The Vale of Glenariff for voice and piano (1899); words by Thomas McEwen
• Brevity for voice and piano (1905); words by Constance Travers
• Here's a Flower for Your Grave for voice and piano (1905); words by Justin Huntly McCarthy
• Love's But a Dance for voice and piano (1905); words by Henry Austin Dobson
• A Roundel of Rest for voice and piano (1905); words by Arthur Symons
• 3 Songs for voice and piano (1906); words by Paul Verlaine in translation by A. Wingate

1. Song of Autumn
2. The Wood's Aglow
3. Soleils couchants

• Sleep, Little Blossom for voice and piano (1909); words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Gauger for voice and piano (1911); words by J. Meade Falkner
• 14 Poems for inflected voice and piano (1943); words by Margaret Forbes
• Day by Day for voice and piano
• England, My England for voice and orchestra; words by William Ernest Henley
• Love's Remembrance for voice and piano
• The Birds Lullaby for voice and piano; words by Pauline Johnson

Choral

• The Vision of Jacob, Sacred Cantata for tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra (1892); words by Thomas McEwen
• A Scene from Hellas for female chorus and orchestra (1895, revised 1947); words by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Day in Spring, Cantata for female chorus and piano (1898); words by Thomas McEwen
• Evening, Two-Part Song for female chorus and piano (1898)
• The Last Chantey for chorus and orchestra (1898); words by Rudyard Kipling
• Morning Greeting, Two-Part Song for female voices (1898)
• Slumber Song, Two-Part Song for female chorus and piano (1898)
• Weep No More, Four-Part Song for mixed chorus and piano (1902); words by John Fletcher
• Charm Me Asleep, Four-Part Song (1903); words by Robert Herrick
• Let Me the Canakin Clink, Four-Part Song (1903); words from Othello by William Shakespeare
• O That Men Would Praise the Lord, Anthem for Harvest (1903)
• Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Ode for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1905); words from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton
• Troll the Bowl, Four-Part Song for mixed chorus and piano (1905); words by Thomas Dekker
• Allen-a-Dale, Four-Part Song for mixed chorus and piano (1907); words by Sir Walter Scott
• The Links o' Love, Part-Song for mixed chorus and piano (1909); words by Andrew Wanless
• Three Scenes from the Empire Pageant at the Cristal Palace, 1910 for chorus and wind orchestra (1909)
• The Wind in the Chimney, Part Song (1911); words by Bret Harte
• Autumn Song, Two-Part Song for female chorus and piano (1912)
• The Garland for mixed chorus and piano
• Psalm 24: Chorus and "Lift Up Your Hearts" for mixed chorus a cappella
• 6 Two-Part Songs for female voices and piano
• When through the Piazzetta for mixed chorus a cappella

Literary

• Exercises on Phrasing in Pianoforte Playing (1908)
• A Text-Book of Harmony and Counterpoint (1908)
• A Primer of Harmony for Use in Schools (1911)
• The Thought in Music: An Enquiry into the Principles of Musical Rhythm, Phrasing and Expression (1912)
• The Principles of Phrasing and Articulation in Music (1916)
• The Foundations of Musical Aesthetics, or the Elements of Music (1917)
• First Steps in Musical Composition (1922)
• Tempo Rubato, or Time-Variation in Musical Performance (1928)
• An Introduction to an Unpublished Edition of the Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven (1932)