Although more than ninety of Gurney’s songs and a handful of other works have been published to date, a large number of songs are out of print. As editions go out of copyright, we shall aim to make these songs available on this page as PDFs, which you can download by clicking on the title.
Works out of Print
Contents of ‘Twenty Songs’ — the first two volumes of ten songs published by Oxford University Press, in 1938:
Listed alphabetically by title (poet in parentheses)
- All night under the moon [‘For G’] (Wilfrid Gibson)
- An Epitaph (Walter de la Mare)
- A Sword (Robin Flower)
- Black Stitchel (Wilfrid Gibson)
- Blaweary (Wilfrid Gibson)
- Bread and Cherries (Walter de la Mare)
- Cathleen ni Houlihan (W. B. Yeats)
- Down by the Salley Gardens (W. B. Yeats)
- Epitaph in Old Mode (J. C. Squire)
- Ha’nacker Mill (Hilaire Belloc)
- Hawk and Buckle (John Doyle [Robert Graves])
- Last Hours (John Freeman)
- Nine of the Clock (John Doyle [Robert Graves])
- The Boat is Chafing (Walter de la Mare)
- The Follow of Being Comforted (W. B. Yeats)
- The Latmian Shepherd (Edward Shanks)
- The Scribe (Walter de la Mare)
- The Singer (Edward Shanks)
- When Death to Either shall Come (Robert Bridges)
- You are my Sky (J. C. Squire)
Music in Print
The following works are in print and available from the respective publisher or your local music shop:
- Ludlow and Teme (song cycle): Stainer & Bell
- The Western Playland (song cycle): Stainer & Bell
- Five Elizabethan Songs: Boosey & Hawkes
- ‘Twenty Songs’ (selection from the original five volumes of ten songs): Oxford University Press
- ‘Eleven Songs’: Thames Publishing (Music Sales)
- Preludes and Nocturnes (for solo piano): Thames Publishing (Music Sales)