List of compositions by Arnold Bax

This is a list of musical compositions by English composer Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953).

Symphonies

 * Symphony in F (1907, piano score; 2012–13 completed and orchestrated by Martin Yates)
 * Spring Fire, Symphony for Orchestra (1913, sometimes classified as a Tone Poem)
 * Symphony No. 1 (1922)
 * Symphony No. 2 (1926)
 * Symphony No. 3 (1929)
 * Symphony No. 4 (1931)
 * Symphony No. 5 (1932)
 * Symphony No. 6 (1935)
 * Symphony No. 7 (1939)

Ballets

 * Tamara (1911, orch. 2000)
 * From Dusk till Dawn (1917)
 * The Truth about the Russian Dancers (1920)

Tone poems

 * Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905)
 * Into The Twilight (1908)
 * In the Faëry Hills (1909)
 * Rosc-catha (1910)
 * Christmas Eve (1912, revised c.1921)
 * Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, revised 1935)
 * The Garden of Fand (1913, orch. 1916)
 * In Memoriam (1916)
 * November Woods (1917)
 * Tintagel (1917, orch. 1919)
 * Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, revised 1932)
 * The Happy Forest (1922)
 * The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931)
 * Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927)
 * Northern Ballad No. 2 (1934)
 * Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Northern Ballad No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933)
 * A Legend (1944)

Concertante

 * Symphonic Variations, for piano and orchestra (1918)
 * Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra (1920)
 * Winter Legends, for piano and orchestra (1930)
 * Cello Concerto (1932)
 * Saga Fragment, for piano and orchestra (1932)
 * Violin Concerto (1938)
 * Piano Concertino (1939)
 * Morning Song, for piano and orchestra (1946)
 * Concertante for Three Solo Wind Instruments and Orchestra (1948/1949)
 * Concertante for Orchestra with Piano (Left Hand) (1949)
 * Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré for Harp & String Orchestra (1949)

Other orchestral works

 * Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations) (1904)
 * A Song of War and Victory (1905)
 * On the Sea Shore (1908, orch. 1984)
 * Festival Overture (1911, revised 1918)
 * Dance of Wild Irravel (1912)
 * Four Orchestral Pieces (1912–13)
 * Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1913, revised 1928)
 * Symphonic Scherzo (1917, revised 1933)
 * Russian Suite (1919)
 * Mediterranean (1922)
 * Cortège (1925)
 * Romantic Overture (1926)
 * Overture, Elegy and Rondo (1927)
 * Three Pieces (1928)
 * Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (1930)
 * Sinfonietta (1932)
 * Saga Fragment (1932)
 * Rogue's Comedy Overture (1936)
 * Overture to Adventure (1936)
 * London Pageant (1937)
 * Paean (1938)
 * Salute to Sydney (Fanfare) (1943)
 * Work in Progress (Overture) (1943)
 * Victory March (1945)
 * The Golden Eagle (Incidental Music) (1945)
 * Two Royal Wedding Fanfares (1947)
 * Coronation March (1952)

One player

 * Valse, for harp (1931)
 * Rhapsodic Ballad, for cello (1939)

Two players

 * Harp
 * Fantasy Sonata for harp and viola (1927)
 * Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)
 * Violin
 * Violin Sonata No. 0 in G minor (1901)
 * Violin Sonata No. 1 (1910)
 * Legend, for violin and piano, in one movement (1915)
 * Violin Sonata No. 2 (1915, revised 1922)
 * Ballad, for violin and piano (1916)
 * Violin Sonata No. 3 (1927)
 * Ballad, for violin and piano (1929)
 * Violin Sonata in F (1928)
 * Viola
 * Concert Piece for viola and piano (1904)
 * Sonata for viola and piano (1921–1922)
 * Fantasy Sonata for harp and viola (1927)
 * Legend for viola and piano (1929)
 * Cello
 * Folk-Tale, for cello and piano (1918)
 * Cello Sonata (1923)
 * Cello Sonatina (1933)
 * Legend-Sonata, for cello and piano (1943)
 * Flute
 * Four Pieces for Flute and Piano (1912, revised 1915 & 1945)
 * Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)
 * Clarinet Sonata (1934)

Three players

 * Trio in One Movement for Piano, Violin, and Viola (1906)
 * Elegiac Trio, for flute, viola, and harp (1916)
 * Piano Trio in B flat (1946)

Four players

 * String Quartet in A major (1902)
 * String Quartet in E major (1903)
 * String Quartet No. 1 in G major (1918)
 * Piano Quartet, in one movement (1922)
 * String Quartet No. 2 (1925)
 * String Quartet No. 3 in F (1936)

Five players

 * Cello Quintet in G (1908)
 * Piano Quintet in G minor (1915)
 * Quintet for Harp and Strings, in one movement (1919)
 * Oboe Quintet (1922)
 * Viola Quintet, in one movement (1933)

Six or more players

 * In Memoriam, sextet for cor anglais, harp & string quartet (1916)
 * Nonet (1930) for flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, 2 violins, viola, cello and bass
 * Octet (1934) for horn, piano and string sextet
 * Threnody and Scherzo, octet in two movements (1936) for Bassoon, 2 Vlns, 2 Vlas, Cello, Contrabass & Harp
 * Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Harp and String Quartet (1936) - transcription of Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)

One piano

 * Clavierstücke (Juvenilia) (1897–8)
 * Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1898)
 * Piano Sonata in D minor (1900)
 * Marcia Trionfale (1900)
 * White Peace (arranged by Ronald Stevenson 1907)
 * Concert Valse in E flat (1910)
 * Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, revised 1917–20)
 * Piano Sonata in F♯ minor (1910, revised, 1911, 1919 & 1921)
 * Two Russian Tone-Pictures (1912)
 * Nympholept (1912)
 * Scherzo for Piano (1913)
 * Toccata for Piano (1913)
 * From the Mountains of Home (arranged by Peter Warlock) (1913)
 * The Happy Forest (1914)
 * In the Night (1914)
 * Apple-Blossom-Time (1915)
 * In a Vodka Shop (1915)
 * The Maiden with the Daffodil (1915)
 * A Mountain Mood (1915)
 * The Princess’s Rose Garden (1915)
 * Sleepy-Head (1915)
 * Winter Waters (1915)
 * Dream in Exile (1916)
 * Nereid (1916)
 * On a May Evening (1918)
 * A Romance (1918)
 * The Slave Girl (1919)
 * What the Minstrel Told Us (1919)
 * Whirligig (1919)
 * Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919, revised 1920)
 * Burlesque (1920)
 * Ceremonial Dance (1920)
 * A Country-Tune (1920)
 * A Hill Tune (1920)
 * Lullaby (1920)
 * Mediterranean (1920)
 * Serpent Dance (1920)
 * Water Music (1920)
 * Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921)
 * Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926)
 * Pæan (c.1928)
 * Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932)
 * A Legend (1935)
 * Piano Sonata in B flat Salzburg (1937)
 * O Dame get up and bake your pies (1945)
 * Suite on the Name Gabriel Fauré (1945)
 * Four Pieces for Piano (1947)
 * Two Lyrical Pieces for Piano (1948)

Two pianos

 * Fantasia for Two Pianos (1900)
 * Festival Overture (arrangement of orchestral work 1911)
 * Moy Mell (1916)
 * Mediterranean (arranged for three hands by H. Rich 1920)
 * Hardanger (1927)
 * The Poisoned Fountain (1928)
 * The Devil that tempted St Anthony (1928)
 * Sonata for Two Pianos (1929)
 * Red Autumn (1931)

Film music

 * Malta, G. C. (1942)
 * Oliver Twist (1948)

Choral

 * Fatherland (Runeberg, tr. C. Bax) [tenor solo] (1907, revised 1934)
 * A Christmas Carol (Anon.) [arranged for SATB by Hubert Dawkes] (1909)
 * Enchanted Summer (Shelley) [two soprano solos] (1910)
 * Variations sur ‘Cadet Rousselle’ (French trad.) [arranged by Max Saunders] (1918)
 * Of a rose I sing a song (Anon.) [SATB, harp, cello, double bass] (1920)
 * Now is the Time of Christymas (Anon.) [TB, flute, piano] (1921)
 * Mater, ora Filium (Anon.) [SSAATTBB] (1921)
 * This Worldes Joie (Anon.) [SATB with SATB divisions] (1922)
 * The Boar’s Head (Anon.) [TTBB] (1923)
 * I sing of a maiden that is makeless (to "I syng of a mayden", Anon.) [SAATB] (1923)
 * To the Name above every Name (Crashaw) [soprano solo] (1924)
 * St Patrick’s Breastplate (Anon.) [SATB] (1924)
 * Walsinghame (Raleigh) (tenor, obbligato soprano) (1926)
 * Lord, Thou hast told us (Washbourne) [hymn for SATB] (1930)
 * The Morning Watch (Vaughan) [SATB] (1935)
 * 5 Fantasies on Polish Christmas Carols (trans. Śliwiński) [unison trebles] (1942)
 * 5 Greek Folksongs (trans. Michel-Dmitri Calvocoressi) [SATB] (1942)
 * To Russia (Masefield) [baritone solo] (1944)
 * Gloria [SATB] (1945)
 * Nunc Dimittis [SATB] (1945)
 * Te Deum [SATB] (1945)
 * Epithalamium (Spenser) [SATB in unison] (1947)
 * Magnificat [SATB] (1948)
 * Happy Birthday to you (Hill) [arr. SATB] (1951)
 * What is it like to be young and fair? (C. Bax) [SSAAT] (1953)

Songs with orchestra

 * 2 Nocturnes [soprano] (1911)
 * 3 Songs [high voice] (1914)
 * Song of the Dagger (Strettell and Sylva) [bass] (1914)
 * The Bard of the Dimbovitza (Strettel and Sylva) [mezzo-soprano] (1914, revised 1946)
 * Glamour (O’Byrne) [high voice] (1921, orchestrated by Rodney Newton 1987)
 * A Lyke-Wake (Anon.) [high voice] (1908, orchestrated 1934)
 * Wild Almond (Trench) [high voice] (1924, orchestrated 1934)
 * Eternity (Herrick) [high voice] (1934)
 * O Dear! What can the matter be? (trad. arr. Bax) (1918)

Songs with chamber ensemble

 * Aspiration (Dehmel) [arranged for high voice w/violin, cello, & piano] (1909)
 * My eyes for beauty pine (Bridges) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)
 * O Mistress mine (Shakespeare) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)

Songs with piano

 * The Grand Match (O'Neill) (1903)
 * To My Homeland (Gwynn)  (1904)
 * A Celtic Song Cycle (Macleod) (1904)
 * Eilidh my Fawn
 * Closing Doors
 * The Dark Eyes to Mine
 * A Celtic Lullaby
 * At the Last
 * When We Are Lost (Arnold Bax)  (1905)
 * From the Uplands to the Sea (Morris) (1905)
 * Leaves, Shadows and Dreams (Macleod)  (1905)
 * In the Silence of the Woods (Macleod) (1905)
 * Green Branches (Macleod)  (1905)
 * The Fairies (Allingham)  (1905)
 * Golden Guendolen (Morris)  (1905)
 * The Song in the Twilight (Freda Bax)  (1905)
 * Mircath: Viking-Battle-Song (Macleod)  (1905)
 * A Hushing Song (Macleod)  (1906)
 * I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden (Shelley)  (1906)
 * Ballad: The Twa Corbies [recitation with piano] ('Border Minstrelsy')  (1906)
 * Magnificat (St. Luke 1.46-55)  (1906)
 * The Blessed Damozel (Rossetti)  (1906)
 * 5 Traditional Songs of France (1920)
 * I Heard a Piper Piping (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil, Joseph Campbell) (1922)