The Music of
William Vincent Wallace

(1812-1865)

OPERAS

• ACT I.
• No. 1. Plot and story of Opera
• No. 2. Overture
• No. 3. Aria. "Tis the Harp in the Air" (Soprano)
• No. 4. Chorus or Trio. "The Angelus" [lyrics]
• No. 5. Duet. "Of Fairy Wand had I the Power" (Soprano & Baritone) [lyrics]
• No. 6. Chorus. "Pretty Gitana" [lyrics]
• ACT II.
• No. 7. Song. "Alas! those Chimes" (Contralto) [lyrics]
• No. 8. Trio. "Turn on, old Time" (Tenor, Bar. & Contralto) [lyrics]
• No. 9. Song. "Yes! Let me like a Soldier Fall" (Tenor)
• No. 10. Ballad. "In happy moments" (Baritone)
• No. 11. Chorus. "Oh! what Pleasure" [lyrics]
• ACT III.
• No. 12. Introduction
• No. 13. Ballad. "There is a Flower that bloometh" (Tenor)
• No. 14. Song. "Scenes that are brightest" (Soprano)
• No. 15. Duet. "Sainted Mother" (Soprano & Contralto)
• No. 16. Finale. "With rapture glowing" [lyrics]

• No. 3. One Day I Wandered (RECITATIVO)
• ------ It Was a Form (AIR CAVATINA)
• No. 4. She Comes in All Her Loveliness (CAVATINA)
• ------ Crown, the Sceptre & the Sway (2d. Mvmt.)
• No. 5. Adieu Fair Land (BALLAD)
• No. 15. Gone Is the Calmness (BALLAD)
• No. 16. They Who Would Still Be Happy (BALLAD)
• No. 22. A Lowly Youth, the Mountain Child (BALLAD)
• No. 24. In That Devotion Which We Breathe (BALLAD)
• No. 28. One Gentle Heart (Finale)

ACT 1.

• Overture
• No. 1. All Is Silent (Introduction)
• Mo. 2. Hark! Hark! The King Advanceth (Chorus of Naiads)
• No. 3. The Naid's Spell (Flow on, on! Silver Rhine)
• No. 4. When the Night Winds Sweep the Wave (Romance)
• No. 5. Sail! Sail! on the Midnight Gale (Chorus)
• No. 6. Oh! Rudolph, Haughty Rudolph Tell (Duet)
• No. 7. I See By the Grey of Morn (Trio)
• No. 8. Drain the Cup of Pleasure (Chorus)
• No. 9. Here's Count Rudolph (Solo)
• No. 10. Our Bark in Moonlight Beaming (Barcarole)
• No. 11. When On Yon Rock the Moonbeams (Finale to Act 1)

ACT 2.

• No. 12 Behold! Behold! (Chorus) and Under a Spreading Coral (Solo)
• No. 13. From His Palace of Chrystal (Chorus & Dance)
• No. 14. Sweet Form, That in My Dreamy Gaze (Recit. & Air)
• No. 15. Take This Cup of Sparkling Wine (Rondo)
• No. 16. My Rage Beware (Quartet & Chorus)
• No. 17. As in the Cup the Bead Flied Up (Drinking Song)
• No. 18. Gentle Troubadour (Ballad)
• No. 19. Come Away to the Chase (Hunting Chorus)
• No. 20. The Nectar Cup May Yield Delight (The Father's Love) (Recit. & Ballad)
• No. 21. Peace to the Mem'ry of the Brave (Chorus)
• No. 22. Oh! Heavens It Is My Father (Finale to Act 2)

ACT 3.

• No. 23. Instrumental Introduction
• No. 24. My Home, My Hear't First Home (Recit. & Ballad)
• No. 25. Gold & Wine Cure Every Care (Chorus)
• No. 26. Lady, Let This Arm Sustain Thee (Duet)
• No. 27. Sad is My Soul and Oh Thou to Whom This Heart (Grand Scena)
• No. 28. Love, Transient Passion of the Earth (Scena & Air)
• No. 29. Though the World With Transport Bless Thee (Quartet, unaccompanied)
• No. 30. Now With Joy Each Blossom (Chorus & Ballet)
• No. 31. Oh! Lurline My Naiad Queen (Grand Duet)
• No. 32. Oh! Rudolph! In the Castle We O'erheard (Finale) [to Act 3]

This list is what was published separately from the original score.

• No. 1. Good Eve, My Gentle Father (Trio)
• No. 2. O Never Laugh Sir Knight
• No. 3. Postman's Song (Do You Want a Letter?)
• No. 4. Hark How the Chimes (Trio)
• No. 5. The Commandant's Song (A Soldier Must Forever War Be Waging)
• No. 6. Haughty Maid
• No. 7. O Bright Is the Palace Dome
• No. 8. The Soldier's Song (Go Sing How Our Troup Was the First in War)
• No. 9. My Long Hair Is Braided
• No. 10. Oh Lady Moon (Duet)
• No. 11. Love Me and Fear Not
• No. 12. 'Till Life at Last Be Over (Duet)
• No. 13. The Pain of Earth's Most Cruel Wrong
• No. 14. When the Elves at Dawn Do Pass
• No. 15. Hope's Glad Echo Round Me Swells
• No. 16. Come Away, Come Away
• No. 17. Paid, Paid, Too Long Delayed
• No. 18. Latin Hymn ([?] perpetua [?])
• No. 19. I Stand Beside My Grave
• No. 20. O Am I Dreaming Still

This [originaly unnumbered] list is from the original 381+ page piano/vocal score, as published by Cramer, Beale & Chappell of London.

• No. 1. Instrumental—Introduction
• No. 2. First Scene—"The conquer'd foe is flying" (Mary, Elsie, and Chorus)
• No. 3. Trio—"Good eve, my gentle father" (Mary, Rudiger, and Pastor)
• No. 4. Ballad—"O never laugh, Sir Knight" (Mary)
• No. 5. Recitative—"Is not a mountain nigh" (Mary, Rudiger, and Pastor)
• No. 6. Trio—"Hark! how the chimes" (Mary, Rudiger, and Pastor, with Choruc)
• No. 7. Postman's Song—"Do you want a letter" (Claus)
• No. 8. Scena—"A soldier must forever be waging" (Commandant)
• No. 9. Recitative—"You boast too loud" (Elsie and Commandant)
• No. 10. Quick movement— "Haughty Maid" (Commandant)
• No. 11. Recit. & Romance— "O bright is the palace dome" (Rudiger)
• No. 12. Recitative— "'Tis a famous chorus" (Claus and Chorus)
• No. 13. Song— "Go, sing how our troup" (Rudiger, with Chorus)
• No. 14. Rondo— "My long hair is braided" (Mary)
• No. 15. Finale— "See how you sing your best"
• No. 16. Quintet— "Did I hear him call'd" (Mary, Elsie, Rudiger, Commandant and Pastor)
• No. 17. Solo— "O wonder not! I pray for thee" (Rudiger)
• No. 18. March & Chorus— "Champion of Liberty"

• No. 19. Introduction— "Up the hill, where meteors guide" (Elsie and Chorus)
• No. 20. Recitative— "The cloud hath pass'd" (Mary)
• No. 21. Duet— "Oh Lady Moon! on silver clouds reclining" (Mary and Rudiger, with Chorus)
• No. 22. Air— "Love me and fear not I fail thee" (Rudiger)
• No. 23. Duet— "Till life at last be over" (Mary and Rudiger)
• No. 24. Scene— "To yonder wither'd oak" (Elsie and Chorus)

• No. 25. Introduction— "Mary, Mary, up! awake!" (Chorus of Women)
• No. 26. Recit. & Duet.— "The pain of earth's most cruel wrong," (Commandant and Pastor)
• No. 27. Recitative— "There will the judges be," (Commandant)
• No. 28. Ballad— "When the elves at dawn" (Mary)
• No. 29. Scene— "Mary! my child!" (Mary, Commandant, Pastor and Chorus)
• No. 30. Trio— "Melted is the frost that bound her," (Mary, Commandant, and Pastor)
• No. 31. Finale— "There she is! the Sorceress"

• No. 32. Recitative— "Stay, cruel dream" (Rudiger)
• No. 33. Air— "Lone, oppressed, in prison lying" (Rudiger)
• No. 34. Recitative— "What is the hour?" (Rudiger, Claus, and Chorus)
• No. 35. Quick Movement— "Come away! come away!" (Rudiger, with Chorus)
• No. 36. Recit. & Duet— "Paid, paid, too long delay'd?" (Elsie and Commandant)
• No. 37. Solo & Chorus— "Ring the bells merrily" (Elsie and Chorus)
• No. 38. Latin Hymn— "Flos perpetuus rosarum," (Mary)
• No. 39. Scene & Chorus— "Mock her not" (Mary, Pastor, Commandant, and Chorus)
• No. 40. Air— "I stand beside my grave" (Mary)
• No. 41. Soldier's Chorus— "The tyrant shall wake" (Chorus of Men)
• No. 42. Recitative— "What demon work is this?" (Mary, Rudiger, Claus, Pastor and King)
• No. 43. Rondo Finale— "Oh! am I dreaming still" (Mary)

• No. 1. Through the Pathless Forests Drear (Tenor)
• No. 2. Swift as Dart (Soprano)
• No. 3. Woodbird's Song (Soprano)
• No. 4. The Pangs of Unrequited Love (Baritone)
• No. 5. Why Did I Leave My Country Dear (Bass)
• No. 6. Though Born in Woods (Tenor)
• No. 7. Dance Ye Lithely (Soprano)
• No. 8. Why Throbs This Heart (Soprano)
• No. 9. Ah! Happy Hour [Duet] (Tenor & Soprano)
• No. 10. The Desert Waste, the Rocky Steep (Baritone)
• No. 11. I Make Thee King (Soprano)
• No. 12. My Loved Home I Never Shall See More (Tenor)
• No. 13. No Joy Can E'er the Bliss Exceed (Soprano)