The Craxton Family
Harold Craxton
Catalogue of Works by Harold Craxton
A more detailed catalogue of all known musical works can be seen at the Craxton Studios. The following gives the titles of all published pieces (in order of publication date; composition dates are not known in most cases). A few of the more important MS works are also listed.
- Pianoforte: original pieces
3 Pieces, op.1 (1911)
Gavotte in E flat (1917)
A Shepherdess in Porcelain (1917)
Woodland Lullaby (1917)
Timothy's Pieces (1921) (2 pieces)
Tuneful Topics (1925) (5 pieces)
Here and There (1930) (4 pieces)
Two Little Studies ( 1930)
Two Soudanese Pieces (1930)
December and May (1931) (4 pieces)
Springtime (1931) (3 pieces)
Tahitian Dance (1931)
Two Pastoral Preludes (1931)
The Happy Hunter (1932)
The Plaint of Love (from a lute book c.1535, freely transcribed) (1935)
Siciliano and Rigadon (c.1735, freely transcribed) (1935; 2-piano version 1950)
Aeroplanes and Trains (1936) (2 pieces)
Two Mazurkas (1937)
Meditation (Vita in ligno moritur) (from a lute book c.1530, freely arranged) (1938)
Bourrée Humoresque (founded on an 18th Century tune) (1938)
Five Impromptus, designed as studies for hand (or wrist) touch (1939)
Seven Pieces (1947)
An Album Leaf (1955)
Eight Preludes (1955)
Two Studies (1959)
Six Pieces (1961)
Three Album Leaves on the initials E. F. (MS: 1911)
Little Robin Goodfellow - Scherzetto (MS: 1917)
- Pianoforte: transcriptions
Purcell: Five Pieces (1920)
Bull: The King's Hunt (1923)
Weelkes: Galliard (1923)
Anon (16th Century): Alman (1924)
Boyce: Tempo di Gavotta (1926)
Bach: Largo from Clavier Concerto in F minor (1927)
The Craxton-Moffatt Collection of Old Keyboard Music (23 pieces; 1928-1937)
Schubert: Nacht und Trliume (1928)
Eccles: A Trumpet Tune (1928)
Couperin: The Gossip (1931)
Easy Elizabethans (1933) (10 pieces, including 2 by Byrd and 4 by Farnaby)
Airs and Graces from the Early 18th Century (1935) (10 pieces)
Two Pieces (1936) (by Anon, and Matheson)
The Fiddler at the Feast (1936) (7 tunes from Playford's Dancing Master)
Anon: Minuet and Rigadoon (1936)
Dance Tunes of Other Days (1937) (7 pieces)
Arne: Gavotte from Sonata no,5 (1945)
Two 18th Century Minuets ( 1959)
- Violin and Pianoforte
Romance in B minor, op.2 (MS: 1909)
- Viola and Pianoforte: transcription
Boyce: Tempo di Gavotta (1948)
- Violoncello and Pianoforte: transcriptions
Arne: Sonata in B flat (1931)
G. Famaby: A Maske (1931)
R. Johnson: Two Almans (1931)
Bach: Largo from Clavier Concerto in F minor (1932)
- String Quartet and Pianoforte: transcription
Matthew Dubourg's Jig and Sarabande (arr. with Alfred Moffatt) (1938)
- Oboe and Pianoforte: transcriptions
Three Elizabethan Pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (1944)
- Voice and Pianoforte
Come you, Mary! (Norman Gale) (1914)
March on! Canada! (L. A. Lefevre) (1914)
Mavis (L. A. Lefevre) (1914)
A Requiem (R. L. Stevenson) (1914)
Bless thou the Lord, 0 my Soul (Psalm 104) (1915; also orchestrated)
Hearts in Love (Edward Oxenford) (1915)
Oh! To see the Cabin Smoke (P. J. O'Reilly) (1915)
Timothy (Norman Gale) (1915)
Shepherd Love (Helen Taylor) (1916)
Sorrow no more (Fred G. Bowles) (1916)
The Country Faith (Norman Gale) (1917)
Bless my Brooms (Janet Begbie) (1919)
The Snowdrop (Norman Gale) (1924)
Beloved, I am lonely (May Aldington) (1926)
Two Songs from Shakespeare (0 Mistress Mine; It was a Lover and his Lass) (MS: 1944)
Two Songs from Shakespeare (Come away death; Sigh no more, ladies) (MS: 1944)
Christopher Howell 2000
