| Other author/creator | Davis, Eric, 1966- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Thorsett, Brian, editor. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Alternative. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Beloved. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Beyond the sunset. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. From the valley. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Fury of the sea. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. God's promise. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Hope dreams. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Hush-a-by, sweetie. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. I dreamed. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. If you loved me. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. In Flanders' fields. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Jest a wearyin' fer you. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Long day. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Mother o' mine. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. No voice but yours. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Oh, bring me love! |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Red rose. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Son of my heart. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Wayside prayer. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. West of the sun. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Songs (1908) |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Songs of love. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Little love songs. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Breaks the morning. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. He giveth his beloved sheep. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Thou blessed man of God. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Little wild rose. Vocal score. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Dashing little duke. Bold dragoon. Vocal score. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. When I am all your own. Vocal score. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Chanson Algerian. Vocal score. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Our crystal wedding day. |
| Included Work | Tours, Frank E., 1877-1963. Around the corner. |
| Uniform title | Songs. Selections |
| Contents |
Individual songs. The alternative -- Beloved -- Beyond the sunset -- From the valley -- Fury of the sea -- God's promise -- Hope dreams -- Hush-a-by, sweetie -- I dreamed -- If you loved me -- In Flanders' fields -- Jest a wearyin' fer you -- The long day -- Mother o' mine -- No voice but yours -- Oh, bring me love! -- Red rose -- Son of my heart -- A wayside prayer -- West of the sun -- Song sets. Two songs. I took a thought -- When we met -- Three songs of love. Hidden in your heart -- Give me your hands -- Come back to me -- Four little love songs. Before you came -- For you and me -- So great our love -- Yesterday, to-day, to-morrow! -- Sacred songs. Breaks the morning -- He giveth his beloved sheep -- Thou blessed man of God -- Theatre and film songs. Little wild rose (from The dairymaids) -- The bold dragoon (from The dashing little duke) -- When I am all your own (from The Balkan princess) -- Sweet Nell (from the opening of the Plaza Theatre, London) -- Chanson Algerian (from Beau Geste) -- Our crystal wedding day (from Hassard Short's Ritz revue) -- Appendices. Appendix 1: Facsimile of composer's fair copy of Around the corner (unpublished song) -- Appendix 2: Published works -- Appendix 3: Discography. |
| Abstract |
Frank E. Tours was a leading music director for operettas and musicals during the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout his career as a conductor, he was also a prolific composer of songs for voice and piano. Over a thirty-year period, he set more than seventy lyrics to music, while most of his evenings were spent in the orchestra pits of London's West End and Broadway. Tours' concert songs were central to the development of the British and American ballad tradition in the twentieth century and occupy a middle ground between the Victorian ballad and post-Romantic art song. This volume presents thirty-eight of his songs in facsimile--his ballads as well as songs for musical theatre and film--along with a biography, commentaries on the songs, and other details about his career. |
| General note | Songs originally published between 1903 and 1947. |
| General note | Includes brief biography (pages xi-xxiii) and song-by-song critical commentary (pages 199-210). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | English words. |
| ISBN | 9780578342856 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0578342855 |
