30 nineteenth-century partsongs for unaccompanied SATB including classics of the genre and lesser-known gems. The book includes a full introduction and critical notes by the editor.

Barnby: Sweet and low, Benedict: Dirge for the faithful lover, Bishop: Home, sweet home, Coleridge-Taylor: Summer is gone, Elgar: As torrents in summer, Elgar: Go, song of mine, Elgar: My love dwelt in a Northern land, Goss: List! for the breeze, Hatton: Stars of the summer night, Horsley: Slow fresh fount, MacCunn: Oh where art thou dreaming?, Macfarren: Orpheus, with his lute, Mendelssohn: An old romance, Mendelssohn: Departure, Parry: Music, when soft voices die, Parry: There rolls the deep, Pearsall: Lay a garland, Pearsall: Sir Patrick Spens, Pearsall: Who shall have my lady fair, Stanford: Heraclitus, Stanford: The blue bird, Sterndale Bennet: Come live with me, Sterndale Bennet: Sweet stream, Sullivan: Echoes, O hush thee, my babie, Sullivan: The long day closes, Walmisley: Music, all powerful, Wesley: O sing unto my roundelay, Wood: Full fathom five