Diptych (The Source)
Liederbüchlein fur Regina Beate (Reinkarnation)
Border Boyhood (The joys I knew) tenor and piano
Hills of Home (Blows the wind today) baritone and piano
Songs from Factories and Fields (Black in the pit) bass-baritone and piano
The Infernal City
Four Vietnamese Miniatures (Song from prison) high voice with harp or piano
Nine Haiku
19 Songs of Innocence (Introduction: piping) mixed voices and piano
A Child’s Garden of Verses Song Cycle for one or two high voices and piano
Calbharaigh (Calvary)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Two Songs to poems by Edgar Allen Poe (Annabel Lee) medium to high voice and piano
Two Songs to poems by Kathleen Raine (Triad)
Four Songs to poems by Christian Morgenstern (Stor’ nicht)
Eight Songs to poems by William Soutar (To the future)
Songs to poems by Hugh MacDiarmid (A’e gowden lyric)
The Gaelic Muse
The Last Trump
Traighean (Shores)
The Gangrel Fiddlerbaritone or mezzo-soprano, violin part

| RSS 701 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 4½+5 ½’ | £8.40 |

 

Text: Rabindranath Tagore, from Gitanjali

1. The Source
2. When and Why

| RSS 702 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (e–m) | Duration 4’ | £5.00 |
Text: Christian Morgenstern, translated by Ronald Stevenson

 

1. Reinkarnation
2. O traure nicht
3. Brüder
4. Eins und Alles

| RSS 703 | Typeset | 59 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 24’ | £15.00 |
Text: Hugh MacDiarmid

 

1. The Joys I Knew
2. Memories
3. A Celebration of Colour
4. Intermezzo (piano solo) – Nocturne: The Hushed Song
5. The Nut Trees
6. Fighting Spirit
7. The Nook of the Night Paths

Recorded by The Artsong Collective on Sing a song of seasons! Song cycles by Ronald Stevenson Musaeus MZCD 100

| RSS 704 | Duration 20’ | in preparation |
Texts: John Davidson

 

1. The Boat is Chafing
2. Vive la Vie
3. Vive la Mort
4. To the Generation knocking at the door
5. The Last Journey

| RSS 705 | Typeset | 19 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 12’ | £8.40 |

Text: Robert Louis Stevenson

 

1. Blows the Wind Today
2. In the Highlands
3. I Saw Rain Falling
4. Requiem

| RSS 706 | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 7’ | £6.30 |
Text: Hugh MacDiarmid

 

1. Black in the Pit
2. From Factories and Fields
3. Oh, it’s Nonsense

RSS 711 | manuscript | 33 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 28’ | £10.20 pdf only |
Texts: Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean

 

1. ‘Glasgow’ (MacDiarmid) (Piuttosto grave con passo ponderoso ed espressione minacciosa)
2. ‘Auld Wife in High Spirits (in an Edinburgh Pub)’ (MacLean) (Comodo, a piacere, con fantasia)
3. ‘Glasgow 1960’ (MacDiarmid) (Allegro vivace, ritmico e narrante)
4. Interlude, for piano solo (Andante (segue) – )
5. ‘Calvary’ (Maclean trans. Douglas Young) (Andante, remoto, catalettico – Moderato con moto (attacca))
6. ‘Open Glasgow up!’ (MacDiarmid) (Moderato, solenne e con spazio)
7. ‘The Aerial City’ (MacDiarmid) (Allegro albeggiante)

No. 5 is a re-working of ‘Calbharaigh’, No. 2 of Anns an Airdhe, as an Dominhe for SATB chorus (1968) and exists also in a version for unaccompanied voice, with alterations to allow the singing of either the Gaelic original or the Douglas Young translation, and in another version for voice and clarsach; published in Raymond Ross and Joy Hendry (eds.), Sorley Maclean: Critical Essays, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1986.

| RSS 707 | Typeset | 10 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 9’ | £6.30 |
Text: Ho Chi Minh

 

1. Song From Prison
2. Evening
3. Cock-crow
4. Dawn

| RSS 708 | Typeset | 22 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 12’ | £8.40 |
Texts: School of Bashô, words by Keith Bosley after the Japanese

 

1. Dedication
2. The Fly
3. Gone Away
4. Nocturne
5. Master and Pupil
6. Spring
7. Blossoming Cherry: aubade for harp (or piano)
8. Curfew
9. Hiroshima
10. Epilogue

Recorded by The Artsong Collective on Sing a song of seasons! Song cycles by Ronald Stevenson Musaeus MZCD 100

| RSS 709 | 47 and 51 pages in two vols. | Grade m–d | Duration 45’ | £14.50 per vol. |
Soprano, contralto, tenor and baritone soloists, final a cappella chorale and piano
Texts: William Blake

 

1. Introduction: Piping down the valleys wild (soprano)
2. The Shepherd (tenor)
3. The Ecchoing Green (tenor)
4. The Lamb (soprano)
5. The Little Black Boy (bass)
6. The Blossom (contralto)
7. The Chimney Sweeper (bass)
8. The Little Boy Lost (soprano)
9. The Little Boy Found (soprano)
10. Laughing Song (tenor)
11. A Cradle Song (contralto)
12. The Divine Image (bass)
13. Holy Thursday (tenor)
14. Night (contralto
15. Infant Joy (soprano)
16. Spring (soprano)
17. Nurse’s Song (soprano)
18. A Dream (tenor)
19. Introduction and Chorale: Another’s Sorrow (SATB)

| RSS 710 | Typeset | 79 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 35’ | £17.25 |
Texts: Robert Louis Stevenson For 1 or 2 high voices |

 

1. Dedication
2. Bed in Summer
3. The Land of Nod
4. Time to Rise
5. Singing
6. Rain
7. Windy Nights
8. Shadow March
9. My Shadow
10. Fairy Bread
11. The Swing
12. Summer Sun
13. From a Railway Carriage
14. Autumn Fires
15. When the Golden Day is Done
16. The Lamplighter
17. Envoy
18. Farewell to the Farm

Recorded by The Artsong Collective on Sing a song of seasons! Song cycles by Ronald Stevenson Musaeus MZCD 100

| RSS 714 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 2’ | £8.50 |
Text: Somhairle Maclean (translated by Douglas Young)
for tenor and piano
this song is no.5 in the song cycle The Infernal City

| RSS 715 | manuscript | 3 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 2’ | £3.00 pdf only |
Text: William Wordsworth
for tenor

| RSS 730 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 6’ | £8.40 |

 

1. for medium voice: Annabel Lee
2. for high voice: Eldorado

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Download version of the above: RSS 730D | £5.00 |

| RSS 731 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 1+1½’ | £5.00 |

 

1. Triad (1987)
2. To my Mountain (1976)

| RSS 732 | Typeset | 18 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 2+2+2+4’ | £8.40 |

 

1. Stör’ Nicht
2. Herbst
3. Wasserfall bei Nacht I
4. Wasserfall bei Nacht II

| RSS 733 | Typeset | 25 pages | Grade (e–m) | £9.00 |

 

1. To the Future
2. The Plum Tree
3. The Buckie Braes
4. Hill Sang
5. Hallowe’en Sang
6. The Droll Wee Man
7. The Quiet Comes In
8. Day is D?ne

| RSS 734 | Typeset | 16 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration c.2’ each | £8.00 |

 

1. A’e Gowden Lyric
2. The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
3. Fairy Tales
4. The Rose of all the World
5. Bubblyjock
6. Cophetua
7. Trompe l’Oeil

| RSS 735 | Typeset | 32 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 2–6’ each | £10.80 |

 

1. The Gaelic Muse 2’
2. O Wha’s The Bride? 4’
3. The Bobbin Winder 2½‘
4. The Robber 3’
5. In the Fall 6’
6. The Song of the Nightingale 3’

| RSS 736 | Typeset | 41 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 1–4’ each’ | £14.00 |
For baritone

 

1. The Last Trump
2. Lines from Buchanan’s Epithalamium
3. Scots Steel and Irish Fire
4. The Skeleton of the Future
5. The Barren Fig: Blues Écossaise
6. At My Father’s Grave
7. My Love is to the Light of Lights
8. Coronach for the End of the World

| RSS 737 | Typeset | 3 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 2½’ | £3.00 |
Text: Sorley MacLean
for high baritone or tenor

| RSS 738 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 4’ | £5.00 |
Text: Norman McCaig

| RSS 739 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 2’ | £3.00 |
Text: Aonghas MacNeacail

| RSS 740 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 5½’ | £5.00 |
Text: William Blake

| RSS 800 | Manuscript | 22+9 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 12’ | £9.60 pdf only |
Texts (in Aberdonian Doric): Donald Gordon

 

1. ‘The Gangrel Fiddler’ (Moderato)
2. ‘Bairnsang’ (Allegretto quasi giga)
3. ‘Lang Journey Back’ (Allegro con slancio)