Below is a sortable list of compositions by Eric Coates. The works are categorized by genre, date of composition and title.
Genre | Date | Title | Notes |
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Stage | 1930 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[1] | Incidental music; revised in 1938 as The Enchanted Garden |
Stage | 1932 | The Jester at the Wedding[1] | Ballet |
Stage | 1938 | The Enchanted Garden[2][3] | Tone poem |
Stage | March of the Knight of Malta | Operetta | |
Orchestral | 1904 | Ballad, op 2 [4] | for string orchestra |
Orchestral | 1911 | Miniature Suite[5]
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for small orchestra |
Orchestral | 1912 | A La Gavotte[2] | |
Orchestral | 1912 | The Mermaid, A Graceful Dance | |
Orchestral | 1915 | From the Countryside, Suite[6]
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Orchestral | 1918 | Wood Nymphs, Valsette[7][3] | |
Orchestral | 1919 | Springtime, Suite[2][8]
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Orchestral | 1919 | Summer Days, Suite[9][3]
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Orchestral | 1920 | Coquette[10] | |
Orchestral | 1921 | Moresque, Dance Interlude[7] | |
Orchestral | 1922 | Joyous Youth, Suite[7]
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Orchestral | 1923 | The Merrymakers, Miniature Overture[4] | |
Orchestral | 1925 | 2 Light Syncopated Pieces[7][10]
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Orchestral | 1925 | The Selfish Giant, Phantasy[9][3] | inspired by the story by Oscar Wilde |
Orchestral | 1926 | By the Tamarisk, Intermezzo[7][10] | |
Orchestral | 1926 | The Three Bears, Phantasy[7][11] | from the fairy story Goldilocks and the Three Bears |
Orchestral | 1928 | Four Ways, Suite[6]
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Orchestral | 1929 | The Unknown Singer, Interlude[12][10] | |
Orchestral | 1930 | By the Sleepy Lagoon, Valse Serenade[7][4] | also for voice and piano, used as theme for the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs |
Orchestral | 1930 | Cinderella, Phantasy[9][13] | |
Orchestral | 1930 | With a Song in My Heart[2] | orchestral arrangement of the song from the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Spring Is Here |
Orchestral | 1931 | From Meadow to Mayfair, Suite[7][11]
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Orchestral | 1932 | Dancing Nights, Concert Valse[4] | |
Orchestral | 1932 | The Jester at the Wedding, Suite from the Ballet[4]
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Orchestral | 1933 | London Suite (aka London Everyday)[7][4]
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Orchestral | 1933 | 2 Symphonic Rhapsodies[4]
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Orchestral | 1934 | London Bridge, March[7][3] | |
Orchestral | 1935 | Song of Loyalty[7] | also for voice and piano |
Orchestral | 1935 | The Three Men Suite[9][13]
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Orchestral | 1936 | The Forgotten Waltz | |
Orchestral | 1936 | London Again, Suite[9]
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Orchestral | 1936 | Saxo Rhapsody[14] | |
Orchestral | 1937 | For Your Delight, Serenade[7][3][10] | |
Orchestral | 1938 | Seven Seas, March[2] | |
Orchestral | 1939 | Footlights, Concert Valse[9][11] | |
Orchestral | 1939 | Last Love, Romance[15][13][10] | |
Orchestral | 1940 | Calling All Workers, March[7][3] | theme for the BBC radio programme Music While You Work |
Orchestral | 1942 | The Eighth Army, March[7] | also for piano solo; used in the 1943 film Nine Men[16] |
Orchestral | 1942 | Over to You, March[10] | |
Orchestral | 1942 | Star of God | |
Orchestral | 1943 | Four Centuries Suite[1][11]
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Orchestral | 1943 | London Calling, March[17] | |
Orchestral | 1944 | Salute the Soldier, March[10] | |
Orchestral | 1944 | The Three Elizabeths Suite[7][13]
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Halcyon Days was used as the opening and closing music for the 1967 BBC television series The Forsyte Saga |
Orchestral | 1945 | Youth of Britain, March | |
Orchestral | 1946 | Television March[9][13] | Used as the daily startup music of BBC Television Service. |
Orchestral | 1949 | Music Everywhere, Rediffusion March[11] | Used as the daily startup music of Associated-Rediffusion 1956–57. The piece pre-dates the television station and had been renamed by the Rediffusion company with Coates' permission.[18] |
Orchestral | 1950 | Holborn, March[7] | |
Orchestral | 1953 | Men of Trent, March | |
Orchestral | 1953 | Rhodesia, March[10] | |
Orchestral | 1954 | The Dam Busters March[7] | used in the 1955 film The Dam Busters |
Orchestral | 1954 | Sweet Seventeen, Concert Valse[7][13][10] | |
Orchestral | 1955 | Sound and Vision, Television March[19] | Used as the daily startup music of Associated TeleVision in London weekend programmes from 1955 to 1968 and Midlands from 1956 to 1971. |
Orchestral | 1956 | Impressions of a Princess, Intermezzo[10] | |
Orchestral | 1957 | High Flight, March[2] | |
Orchestral | 1957 | South Wales and West, Television March[7] | Used as the daily startup music of Television Wales and the West from 1958 to 1968. |
Orchestral | The Dance of the Orange Blossoms, Valse | ||
Orchestral | I Sing to You[11][10] | ||
Orchestral | Lazy Night[2][3] | ||
Orchestral | Rustic Dance | ||
Chamber music | 1906 | Ballad in G major, Op. 13 | for viola and piano; composed under the pseudonym "Eric Glendower" |
Chamber music | 1908 | Minuetto on Old Irish Melody | for string quartet; movement IV from Suite on Londonderry Air, a collaborative work for string quartet co-composed with Frank Bridge, Hamilton Harty, J. D. Davis and York Bowen |
Chamber music | 1928 | Mirage, Romance | for violin and piano (also orchestral version)[7][10] |
Chamber music | 1929 | Under the Stars | for violin and piano (also orchestral version)[10][11] |
Chamber music | 1941 | First Meeting, Souvenir | for viola and piano; written for violist Lionel Tertis; revised for violin and piano in 1943, also as a song[20] |
Piano | 1911 | 6 Short Pieces (without Octaves)
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Piano | 1914 | Idyll | |
Piano | 1930 | 3 Lyric Pieces[21]
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Piano | 1942 | The Eighth Army, March | also orchestrated |
Vocal | 1908 | A Damask Rose | words by Fred G. Bowles |
Vocal | 1908 | It Was a Lover and His Lass[20] | words by William Shakespeare |
Vocal | 1908 | The Outlaw's Song[20] | words by Joanna Baillie |
Vocal | 1908 | 2 Songs
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for baritone and piano 1. words by Georgia Roberts 2. words by John Galsworthy |
Vocal | 1908 | When I Am Dead[20] | words by Christina Rossetti |
Vocal | 1908 | When We Two Went A-Maying | words by Ella Brown |
Vocal | 1908 | Who Is Sylvia?[20] | words by William Shakespeare |
Vocal | 1909 | At Daybreak[22] | words by Fred G. Bowles |
Vocal | 1909 | 4 Old English Songs[22]
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words by William Shakespeare |
Vocal | 1909 | The Gates of Spring | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1909 | Gwenny | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1909 | May-Day Dance | 4-part song; words by M. Byron |
Vocal | 1909 | Stone-Cracker John[23] | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1909 | Sweet Phyllis | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1909 | Your Heart Is Like a Golden Fair | words by Ella Brown |
Vocal | 1909 | Yvette | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1910 | Lace and Porcelain, 3 Old World Songs
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words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1910 | The Little Girl I Love | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1910 | Little Love | words by Georgeanne Hubi Newcombe |
Vocal | 1910 | Love among the Daffodils | words by Edward Teschemacher |
Vocal | 1910 | Waiting for the Spring | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1910 | When the Robin Goes A-Singing | words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1911 | A Bird's Lullaby | words by the composer |
Vocal | 1911 | If You Were My Little Boy | words by Edward Teschemacher |
Vocal | 1911 | Love's Fantasy | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1911 | The Moon Boat | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1911 | Mother England's Brewing | words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1911 | Reuben Ranzo[23] | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1912 | The Awakening | words by Edward Teschemacher |
Vocal | 1912 | A Dinder Courtship[23] | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1912 | Rose of Mine | words by Edward Teschemacher |
Vocal | 1912 | Sweet-and-Twenty | words by William Shakespeare |
Vocal | 1912 | Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred[22] | words by William Shakespeare |
Vocal | 1913 | All Mine Own | words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1913 | Betty and Johnny[20] | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1913 | Dick's Quandary | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1913 | The Grenadier[20] | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1913 | Melanie | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1913 | Pierrette's Song | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1914 | By Mendip Side | words by P. J. O'Reilly |
Vocal | 1914 | Eildon Hill | words by Frederic Weatherly; see Eildon Hill |
Vocal | 1914 | The Hour of Love | words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1914 | A Japanese Farewell | words by Douglas Furber |
Vocal | 1914 | Marry Me, Nancy, Do! | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1914 | Moonland Dreams | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1914 | Rose of the World | words by Helen Taylor |
Vocal | 1915 | The Mill o' Dreams, Cycle of 4 Little Songs[22]
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words by Nancie B. Marsland; for voice and piano or orchestra |
Vocal | 1916 | The Green Hills o' Somerset[22] | words by Frederic Weatherly; for voice and piano or orchestra |
Vocal | 1916 | An Old World Garden | words by Eric Chilman |
Vocal | 1916 | The Palace of Roses | words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1916 | Sigh No More, Ladies[20] | words by William Shakespeare |
Vocal | 1916 | The Widow of Penzance | words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1917 | Asphodel | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1917 | Dreams | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1917 | Land of My Heart | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1917 | Our Little Home | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1917 | Your Love | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1918 | The Fairy Tales of Ireland[22] | words by Edward Lockton; for voice and piano or orchestra |
Vocal | 1918 | 4 Songs of the Air Service
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words by Edward Lockton |
Vocal | 1918 | The Fruits of the Earth | words by Edward Lockton |
Vocal | 1918 | The Heart You Love Is Calling | words by Edward Lockton |
Vocal | 1918 | The Maid and the Moon | words by Eileen Price-Evans |
Vocal | 1918 | My Prayers Take Wings to Find You | words by Harold Simpson |
Vocal | 1918 | Sally and I and the Daylight | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1918 | Yours and Mine | words by Edward Lockton |
Vocal | 1919 | By the North Sea[22] | words by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Vocal | 1919 | An Elizabethan Lullaby | words by William Akerman |
Vocal | 1919 | A Nest in Arcady | words by Edward Lockton |
Vocal | 1919 | Roses of Peace | words by E. Barker |
Vocal | 1919 | The Stars Above | words by Haydn H. Morris |
Vocal | 1919 | Through All the Ages[23] | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1920 | At Sunset[23] | words by Mrs Charles Hutchins |
Vocal | 1920 | At Vesper Bell[20] | words by Gunby Hadath |
Vocal | 1920 | Pepita | words by Douglas Furber |
Vocal | 1920 | Since Yesterday | words by Anne Page |
Vocal | 1920 | The White Winding Road | words by Daisy Fisher |
Vocal | 1920 | You Come No More | words by Daisy Fisher |
Vocal | 1921 | Brown Eyes beneath the Moon | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1921 | I'm Wanting You | words by Gunby Hadath |
Vocal | 1921 | I Pitch My Lonely Caravan at Night[23] | words by Annette Horey |
Vocal | 1921 | Moon Daisies | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1921 | Passion-Flower | words by Gertrude Wiskin |
Vocal | 1921 | Roses All the Way, Foxtrot | words by Ernest Butcher |
Vocal | 1922 | Blue Sky and White Road | words by Charles Roff |
Vocal | 1922 | Coloured Fields | words by Daisy Fisher |
Vocal | 1922 | June's First Rose | words by Edward Lockton |
Vocal | 1922 | Ole Dear | words by Dorothy Dickinson |
Vocal | 1922 | Thinkin' of You | words by Dorothy Dickinson |
Vocal | 1923 | I Heard You Singing[23] | words by Royden Barrie; for voice and piano or orchestra |
Vocal | 1923 | Mending Roadways | words by Dena Tempest |
Vocal | 1923 | Nobody Else But You | words by Daisy Fisher |
Vocal | 1923 | A Song of the Wind | words by Edward Lockton |
Vocal | 1924 | Diff'rent Somehow | words by Gordon McConnel |
Vocal | 1924 | 8 Nursery Rhymes
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words by anonymous |
Vocal | 1924 | Ev'ry Minute of Ev'ry Day | words by Elsie Mary Skeet |
Vocal | 1924 | In Town | words by Dorothy Dickinson |
Vocal | 1924 | Sea Rapture, an Impression[22] | words by Emeric Hulme-Beaman |
Vocal | 1924 | Yearning | words by Royden Barrie |
Vocal | 1925 | The Gates of If-Ever | words by D. Eardley-Wilmot |
Vocal | 1925 | K-Naughty Kanute | words by Elsie Mary Skeet |
Vocal | 1925 | The Little Green Balcony[20] | words by Royden Barrie |
Vocal | 1925 | Little Snoozy Coon | words by Royden Barrie |
Vocal | 1925 | Rose of Samarand | words by Royden Barrie |
Vocal | 1925 | Song of the Little Folk[22] | words by Jennie Dunbar |
Vocal | 1926 | Bird Songs at Eventide[23] | words by Royden Barrie; for voice and piano or orchestra |
Vocal | 1926 | Brown Eyes I Love[23] | words by Lillian Glanville |
Vocal | 1927 | The Dreams of London[23] | words by Almey St. John Adcock |
Vocal | 1927 | A Song Remembered | words by Royden Barrie |
Vocal | 1928 | Homeward to You[23] | words by Royden Barrie |
Vocal | 1928 | I'm Lonely, Valse Song[23] | words by Gordon McConnel |
Vocal | 1928 | Little Lady of the Moon[23] | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1929 | Always As I Close My Eyes[22] | words by Maud Handfield-Jones |
Vocal | 1929 | Doubt[23] | words by Florence Hedley-Stodden (né Florence Gertrude Altenborough) |
Vocal | 1930 | Because I Miss You So[20] | words by Lillian Glanville |
Vocal | 1930 | The Young Lover[20] | words by Royden Barrie |
Vocal | 1931 | Home-Along | words by Arthur L. Salmon |
Vocal | 1932 | The House Love Made for You and Me | words by Gordon Johnstone |
Vocal | 1932 | If Stars Were Tears | words by Frank Eyton |
Vocal | 1932 | Stars and a Crescent Moon[22] | words by Phyllis Black |
Vocal | 1933 | I Looked for You | words by Phyllis Black |
Vocal | 1933 | Rise Up and Reach the Stars[22] | words by Winifred May |
Vocal | 1933 | Ship of Dream[20] | words by Winifred van Noorden |
Vocal | 1934 | Beautiful Lady Moon[20] | words by Phyllis Black |
Vocal | 1934 | Music of the Night[20] | words by Phyllis Black |
Vocal | 1935 | Song of Loyalty | words by Phyllis Black |
Vocal | 1935 | Good Bye | words by Irving Caesar |
Vocal | 1938 | You Are My Rose | words by Christopher Hassell |
Vocal | 1938 | Your Name[20] | words by Christopher Hassell; for voice and piano or orchestra |
Vocal | 1939 | Princess of the Dawn[20] | words by Christopher Hassell |
Vocal | 1940 | Sleepy Lagoon[22] | words by Jack Lawrence |
Vocal | 1940 | Today is Ours[23] | words by Frank Eyton |
Vocal | 1942 | Star of God | words by Frederic Weatherly |
Vocal | 1943 | A Song of Summer[23] | words by Lady Joan Vernay; for voice and piano or orchestra |
Vocal | 1954 | The Scent of Lilac[22] | words by Winifred May |
Vocal | 1956 | The Dam Busters | words by Carlene Mair |
Choral | 1956 | God's Great Love Abiding, Hymn | for mixed chorus; words by the composer |
Choral | 1963 | Loyal Hearts | for mixed chorus and piano; arrangement of Queen Elizabeth from The three Elizabeths Suite; words by Anne C Wood |