List of compositions by Eric Coates

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]

1. Children's Dance
2. Intermezzo
3. Scène du Bal

| for small orchestra
Orchestral | 1912 | A La Gavotte[2] |
Orchestral | 1912 | The Mermaid, A Graceful Dance |
Orchestral | 1915 | From the Countryside, Suite[6]

1. In the Meadows (Early Morning)
2. Among the Poppies (Afternoon)
3. At the Fair (Evening)

Orchestral | 1918 | Wood Nymphs, Valsette[7][3] |
Orchestral | 1919 | Springtime, Suite[2][8]

1. Fresh Morning
2. Noonday Song
3. Dance in the Twilight

Orchestral | 1919 | Summer Days, Suite[9][3]

1. In a Country Lane
2. On the Edge of the Lake
3. At the Dance

Orchestral | 1920 | Coquette |
Orchestral | 1921 | Moresque, Dance Interlude[7] |
Orchestral | 1922 | Joyous Youth, Suite[7]

1. Introduction
2. Serenade
3. Valse "Joyous Youth"

Orchestral | 1923 | The Merrymakers, Miniature Overture[4] |
Orchestral | 1925 | 2 Light Syncopated Pieces[7]

1. Moon Magic
2. Roses of Samerkand

Orchestral | 1925 | The Selfish Giant, Phantasy[9][3] | inspired by the story by Oscar Wilde
Orchestral | 1926 | By the Tamarisk, Intermezzo[7] |
Orchestral | 1926 | The Three Bears, Phantasy[7] | from the fairy story Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Orchestral | 1928 | Four Ways, Suite[6]

1. Northwards – March
2. Southwards – Valse
3. Eastwards – Eastern Dance
4. Westwards – Rhythm

Orchestral | 1929 | The Unknown Singer, Interlude[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][11] |
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]

1. In the Country: Rustic Dance
2. A Song by the Way: Romance
3. Evening in the Town: Valse

Orchestral | 1932 | Dancing Nights, Concert Valse[4] |
Orchestral | 1932 | The Jester at the Wedding, Suite from the Ballet[4]

1. The Princess Arrives
2. Dance of the Pages
3. The Jester
4. Dance of the Orange Blossoms
5. The Princess
6. The Princess and the Jester

Orchestral | 1933 | London Suite (aka London Everyday)[7][4]

1. Covent Garden
2. Westminster
3. Knightsbridge – In Town Tonight

Orchestral | 1933 | 2 Symphonic Rhapsodies[4]

1. I Pitch My Lonely Caravan
2. I Heard You Singing / Birdsongs at Eventide

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][11]

1. The Man from the Country
2. The Man about Town
3. The Man from the Sea

Orchestral | 1936 | The Forgotten Waltz |
Orchestral | 1936 | London Again, Suite[9]

1. Oxford Street: March
2. Langham Place: Elegie
3. Mayfair: Valse

Orchestral | 1936 | Saxo Rhapsody[12] |
Orchestral | 1937 | For Your Delight, Serenade[7][3] |
Orchestral | 1938 | Seven Seas, March[2] |
Orchestral | 1939 | Footlights, Concert Valse[9] |
Orchestral | 1939 | Last Love, Romance[13][11] |
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[14]
Orchestral | 1942 | Over to You, March |
Orchestral | 1942 | Star of God |
Orchestral | 1943 | Four Centuries Suite[1]

1. The Seventeenth Century – Prelude and Hornpipe
2. The Eighteenth Century – Pavane and Tambourin
3. The Nineteenth Century – Valse
4. The Twentieth Century – Rhythm

Orchestral | 1943 | London Calling, March[15] |
Orchestral | 1944 | Salute the Soldier, March |
Orchestral | 1944 | The Three Elizabeths Suite[7][11]

1. Halcyon Days (Elizabeth Tudor)
2. Springtime in Angus (Elizabeth of Glamis)
3. Youth of Britain (Princess Elizabeth)

| 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][11] | Used as the daily startup music of BBC Television Service.
Orchestral | 1949 | Music Everywhere, Rediffusion March | 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.[16]
Orchestral | 1950 | Holborn, March[7] |
Orchestral | 1953 | Men of Trent, March |
Orchestral | 1953 | Rhodesia, March |
Orchestral | 1954 | The Dam Busters March[7] | used in the 1955 film The Dam Busters
Orchestral | 1954 | Sweet Seventeen, Concert Valse[7][11] |
Orchestral | 1955 | Sound and Vision, Television March[17] | 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 |
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 |
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]
Chamber music | 1929 | Under the Stars | for violin and piano
Chamber music | 1941 | First Meeting, Souvenir[18] | for viola and piano; written for violist Lionel Tertis; revised for violin and piano in 1943, also as a song
Piano | 1911 | 6 Short Pieces (without Octaves)

1. Prelude
2. A Little Song
3. Élégie
4. Alla Menuetto
5. Valse
6. Slumber Song

Piano | 1914 | Idyll |
Piano | 1930 | 3 Lyric Pieces[19]

1. Fragment
2. Nocturne
3. Valse

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[18] | words by William Shakespeare
Vocal | 1908 | The Outlaw's Song[18] | words by Joanna Baillie
Vocal | 1908 | 2 Songs

1. Swedish Love Song
2. Devon to Me

| for baritone and piano
1\. words by Georgia Roberts
2\. words by John Galsworthy
Vocal | 1908 | When I Am Dead[18] | words by Christina Rossetti
Vocal | 1908 | When We Two Went A-Maying | words by Ella Brown
Vocal | 1908 | Who Is Sylvia?[18] | words by William Shakespeare
Vocal | 1909 | At Daybreak[20] | words by Fred G. Bowles
Vocal | 1909 | 4 Old English Songs[20]

1. Orpheus with His Lute
2. Under the Greenwood Tree
3. Who is Sylvia?
4. It Was a Lover and His Lass

| 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[21] | 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

1. Love Is Every Maiden's Joy
2. Strephon and Amaryllis
3. A Cavalier Love Song

| 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[21] | words by Frederic Weatherly
Vocal | 1912 | The Awakening | words by Edward Teschemacher
Vocal | 1912 | A Dinder Courtship[21] | 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[20] | words by William Shakespeare
Vocal | 1913 | All Mine Own | words by Harold Simpson
Vocal | 1913 | Betty and Johnny[18] | words by Frederic Weatherly
Vocal | 1913 | Dick's Quandary | words by Frederic Weatherly
Vocal | 1913 | The Grenadier[18] | 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[20]

1. Back o' the Moon
2. Dream o' Nights
3. The Man in the Moon
4. Blue Bells

| words by Nancie B. Marsland; for voice and piano or orchestra
Vocal | 1916 | The Green Hills o' Somerset[20] | 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[18] | 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[20] | words by Edward Lockton; for voice and piano or orchestra
Vocal | 1918 | 4 Songs of the Air Service

1. Ordered Overseas
2. Five and Twenty Bombers
3. Billy
4. The First Job of All

| 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[20] | 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[21] | words by Frederic Weatherly
Vocal | 1920 | At Sunset[21] | words by Mrs Charles Hutchins
Vocal | 1920 | At Vesper Bell[18] | 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[21] | 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[21] | 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

1. Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
2. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
3. Little Boy Blue[20]
4. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
5. Miss Muffet
6. Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake
7. Hush-a-bye
8. New Year's Eve

| 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[20] | 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[18] | 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[20] | words by Jennie Dunbar
Vocal | 1926 | Bird Songs at Eventide[21] | words by Royden Barrie; for voice and piano or orchestra
Vocal | 1926 | Brown Eyes I Love[21] | words by Lillian Glanville
Vocal | 1927 | The Dreams of London[21] | words by Almey St. John Adcock
Vocal | 1927 | A Song Remembered | words by Royden Barrie
Vocal | 1928 | Homeward to You[21] | words by Royden Barrie
Vocal | 1928 | I'm Lonely, Valse Song[21] | words by Gordon McConnel
Vocal | 1928 | Little Lady of the Moon[21] | words by Frederic Weatherly
Vocal | 1929 | Always As I Close My Eyes[20] | words by Maud Handfield-Jones
Vocal | 1929 | Doubt[21] | words by Florence Hedley-Stodden (né Florence Gertrude Altenborough)
Vocal | 1930 | Because I Miss You So[18] | words by Lillian Glanville
Vocal | 1930 | The Young Lover[18] | 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[20] | words by Phyllis Black
Vocal | 1933 | I Looked for You | words by Phyllis Black
Vocal | 1933 | Rise Up and Reach the Stars[20] | words by Winifred May
Vocal | 1933 | Ship of Dream[18] | words by Winifred van Noorden
Vocal | 1934 | Beautiful Lady Moon[18] | words by Phyllis Black
Vocal | 1934 | Music of the Night[18] | 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[18] | words by Christopher Hassell; for voice and piano or orchestra
Vocal | 1939 | Princess of the Dawn[18] | words by Christopher Hassell
Vocal | 1940 | Sleepy Lagoon[20] | words by Jack Lawrence
Vocal | 1940 | Today is Ours[21] | words by Frank Eyton
Vocal | 1942 | Star of God | words by Frederic Weatherly
Vocal | 1943 | A Song of Summer[21] | words by Lady Joan Vernay; for voice and piano or orchestra
Vocal | 1954 | The Scent of Lilac[20] | 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

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Four Centuries: Music of Eric Coates, Vol. 2, ASV, 1993
2. ^ a b c d e f g The Enchanted Garden (10 Orchestral Pieces), ASV, 1998
3. ^ a b c d e f g h Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol 2. Chandos Records (2020)
4. ^ a b c d e f g Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol 1. Chandos Records (2019)
5. ^ IMSLP, full score
6. ^ a b Eric Coates: Sound and Vision, Dutton 1998
7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t The Definitive Eric Coates, Nimbus N16231 (2013)
8. ^ The Land of Lost Content
9. ^ a b c d e f g London Again: The Music of Eric Coates, Avie AV2070
10. ^ The Land of Lost Content
11. ^ a b c d e f Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol 3. Chandos Records (2023)
12. ^ Jack Brymer, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Sir Charles Groves
13. ^ The Land of Lost Content
14. ^ Payne, Michael (2012). The Life and Music of Eric Coates (Chapter 9: The War Years, 1939–1945). Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate.
15. ^ The Land of Lost Content
16. ^ "Rediffusion Presentation: The Music". Transdiffusion Network. 2018-09-09.
17. ^ The Land of Lost Content
18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Eric Coates: Songs. Marco Polo, 1995
19. ^ First recording by Ben Dawson on Luminate Records (2022)
20. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Songs by Eric Coates, SOMMCD0192, 2019
21. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p The Songs of Eric Coates, ASV, 1986

## Sources[edit]

* Music on the Web – Eric Coates: Orchestral Works
* Music on the Web – Eric Coates: Songs and Ballads

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* By the Sleepy Lagoon (1930)
* London Suite (1932)
* The Dam Busters March (1942)

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