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Complete Works

Edgar Bainton's daughter, Helen, drew up a list of her father's works which has now been greatly enlarged by members of the Edgar Bainton (UK) Society. Although every attempt has been made to make it complete, there can of course be no guarantee that forgotten or hitherto unknown works, editions or arrangements may not yet be found. Within each category the works are arranged first in order of composition, where known, otherwise by date of publication, and then alphabetically within each year.
 
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Chamber Music
  • Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 9 (1904). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • String Quartet, Op. 26 (1911). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • String Quartet in A major (1915, rev. 1920). MS.
  • Sonata for Viola and Pianoforte (1922). MS.
  • Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1924). Stainer & Bell, 2008; also published in facsimile by the National Library of Canberra, 1953.
Choral Works
  • Sweet Nightingale (trad., transc. Cecil Sharp, arr. Bainton) for chorus and orchestra (n.d.). MS.
  • Mignon's Requiem (Goethe and Carlyle) for boys' voices, chorus and orchestra (1904). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • The Blessed Damozel Op. II (D. G. Rossetti) for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra (1906-7). Breitkopf & Hartel, 1907.
  • The Transfiguration of Dante, Op. 18, for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1908). MS.
  • Sunset at Sea, Op. 20 (Reginald Buckley) for chorus and orchestra (1909-10 ). Stainer & Bell, 1912.
  • The Vindictive Staircase, Op. 29 (W. W. Gibson) (1913): Humoreske for chorus and orchestra. Stainer & Bell, 1913.
  • Walooki the Bear: A short operetta (Reginald Buckley) for children's voices and piano. J. Curwen & Sons, 1913.
  • A Song of Freedom and Joy, Op. 24 (Edward Carpenter) for chorus and orchestra or piano (1910-20). J. Curwen & Sons, 1920.
  • Cantata: The Tower (Robert Nichols) for mixed voices and orchestra (1923-4). J. Curwen & Sons, 1924.
  • A Hymn to God the Father (John Donne) for chorus and orchestra (1921- 6). OUP, 1926.
  • The Dancing Seal (W. W. Gibson): A humoreske for chorus and orchestra (1921-6). OUP, 1925.
  • To the Name above every Name (Richard Crashaw) for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1928). MS.
  • The Veteran of Heaven (Francis Thompson) for chorus and orchestra (1931). MS.
  • See also Symphony No. 1, Before Sunrise, for contralto solo, chorus and orchestra, under Orchestral Works.
Church Music
  • Anthem: The heavens declare Thy glory (Psalm 19) for SATB (1912). J. Curwen & Sons, 1913.
  • Anthem: Who can number the sand of the sea (Ecclesiasticus I :2) for SATB (1914). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Motet: Christ in the Wilderness (Robert Graves) for SATB unacc. (1922). OUP, 1928. Also published in English Pastoral Part Songs (ed. Paul Spicer), OUP, 1994.
  • * Anthem: And I saw a new heaven (Revelation 21:i) for SATB and organ (1928). Novello & Co., 1928.
  • Anthem: Fiat lux (Lady Dufferin), for SATB, ‘For the Duchess of Montrose’ (1928). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Anthem: Open Thy gates (Robert Herrick) for SATB unacc. (193 I). OUP, 1932.
  • Bainton contributed four tunes to the Supplement to the Book of Common Praise (Melbourne: OUP, 1947): ‘Ulladulla’, ‘Kilcolman’, ‘Moruya’ (for Alice Allnut's Christmas carol) and ‘Hymn to Joy’, which is an SATB free arrangement of Beethoven's theme from the Ninth Symphony.
Film Music
  • Music for the film Bush Policemen (Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, 1953). MS.
    (Note: The role of the bush policemen in the Australian outback was, according to this film, ‘to preserve law and order on the fringes of civilization’.)  
Operas
  • The Crier by Night (Gordon Bottomley): Music-drama in one act (1912-19). MS.
  • Oithona (after Ossian) (1915). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Verse drama: The Pearl Tree: An opera-phantasy in two acts for voices and full orchestra (Robert Calverley Trevelyan) (1925-7). MS.
    (Three numbers were published separately as solo songs with piano) 
Organ Solo
  • Fantasia on the plainsong melody `Vexilla Regis' (1925). Sydney: J. Albert & Son, 1973.
Orchestral Works
  • Music for a Tragedy (n.d.). Parts extant.
  • Symphonic poem: Pompilia (1903). MS.
  • Symphony in B flat, A Phantasy of Life and Progress, Op. 5 (1903). Unpublished, MS lost..
  • Symphonic poem: Paracelsus, Op. 8 (after Robert Browning) (1904, rev. 1913). MS.
  • Symphony No. 1, Before Sunrise (A. C. Swinburne) for alto, chorus and orchestra (1907, Carnegie Award 1917). Stainer & Bell, 1920.
    (The first movement, ‘Genesis’, was authorized for independent performance.) 
  • Suite: The Golden River, Op. 16 (after Ruskin) (1908, rev. 1912). MS.
  • Four Dances, Op. 21 (1909): 1. Morris Dance; 2. Minuet; 3. Pavane; 4. Valse. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Overture-Phantasy: Prometheus, Op. 19 (1909). MS.
  • Celtic Sketches, Op. 23 (1910-rr): I. Sea-Sorrow; 2. Sea Rapture; 3. Pharais. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Overture for Orchestra (Ruhleben, n.d.), Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Three Pieces for Orchestra (Ruhleben, 1914-18; 1919): 1. Elegy; 2. Inter mezzo; 3. Humoresque. MS.
    (Note: These pieces had their origin in Bainton's incidental music for two of the Shakespeare comedies that were performed at Ruhleben during the 1916 tercentenary celebrations. No. 1 accompanied Viola's lament for Sebastian in Twelfth Night and No. 2 the Windsor Forest scene in The Merry Wives of Windsor. No. 3 is a cameo of Sir John Falstaff. Bainton's incidental music for As You Like It is not represented here.) 
  • Concerto-Fantasia for piano and orchestra (1917-20, Carnegie Award 1922). Stainer & Bell, 1922.
  • Eclogue for orchestra (1923). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • * Orchestral suite: Pavane, Idyll and Bacchanal for strings, flute (or solo violin) and tambourine (1924). OUP, 1925; Goodmusic, 2012.
  • Rhapsody: Epithalamion (after Edmund Spenser) (1929). MS.
  • Symphonic poem: Thalassa (after Swinburne) (1933). MS.
    (Note: Thalassa was reworked during the summer of 1933 and eventually became the Symphony No. 2.) 
  • Symphony No. 2 in D minor (1939-41). Miniature score pub. NSW Conservatorium of Music, 1943.
  • Symphony No. 3 in C minor (1952-6). MS.
Part Songs with Piano
  • Two Scottish Folk Songs (Robert Burns) for SATB (Icao): 1. The winter it is past; 2. The Water-Side. Novello & Co., 1910.
  • Shed no tear (Keats) for SA (1912). Joseph Williams, 1912.
  • There is sweet music (Tennyson) for SA with optional piano acc. (1912). J. Curwen & Sons, 1913.
  • Cantata: The Making of Viola (Francis Thompson) for two-part treble voices (1913). Joseph Williams, 1914.
  • Sweet Spring (Thomas Nashej for two-part voices. Joseph Williams, 1913.
  • Sing, little bird (Celia Thaxter) for two-part women's voices (1913). Augener Ltd, 1914.
  • Where are the joys (Scottish trad.) for two-part voices (1913). Novello & Co., 1913.
  • Winter (Christina Rossetti) for two-part voices (1913). Joseph Williams, 1914.
  • Summer's Call (Felicia Hemans) (1915) for two-part treble voices. Joseph Williams, 1919.
  • The Gold of the King's Highway (Joan Rundall) for three-part treble voices (1919). Year Book Press, 1919.
  • The Night Bird (Charles Kingsley) for SSA (1919). J. Curwen & Sons, 1920.
  • O! where do fairies hide their heads? (Thomas Haynes Bayly) for SSA (1919). Year Book Press, 1919.
  • Shepherds' Hymn (Richard Crashaw) for SS. J. Curwen & Sons, 1919.
  • What the Woodlands Say (Charles Kingsley) for SS (1919). Joseph Williams, 1920.
  • Bird of the Wilderness (James Hogg) for two-part voices (1920). Year Book Press, 1921.
  • My Doves (Elizabeth Barratt Browning) for two-part voices (1920). A. & C. Black, 1920.
  • The Lark's Song (anon.) for two-part voices (1921). Joseph Williams, 1922.
  • A Drop of Dew (Andrew Marvell) for two part voices (1922). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Old wInter (Thomas Noel) for two-part voices (1922). OUP, 1923.
  • Ye little birds that sit and sing (Thomas Heywood) for SSA (1922. OUP, 1923
  • Call of the Morning (George Darley) for two-part voices (1923). Music and Youth magazine, 1923.
  • The Spinning Wheel (Wordsworth) for SSA (1925). Edwin Ashdown Ltd, 1925
  • What way does the wind come? (Wordsworth) for two-part treble voices (1925). Elkin & Co., 1925.
  • The blackbird (anon. Elizabethan) (1926). Two-part song for equal voices. J• Curwen & Sons, 1926.
  • Bridal Song (John Fletcher) for SSA (1926). Novello & Co., 1928.
  • The Green Linnet (Wordsworth) for two-part voices (1928). Novello & Co., 1928
  • Sirena (Michael Drayton) for two-part voices (1928). Elkin & Co., 1928.
  • Astrophel (Spenser) for two-part voices (1929). Novella & Co., 1929.
  • Seal up her eyes, O Sleep (William Cartwright) (1931 for SSA. Boosey & Co, 1931.
  • The Shepherd's Song (John Still) for SS (1929). A. & C. Black/Year Book Press, 1929.
  • The Nymph's Song (Michael Drayton) for two-part voices (1931). Joseph Williams, 1933.
  • The Four Winds (Thomas Love Peacock) for SATB (1932). OUP, 1934.
  • Spring's Queen (Sir John Davies) for SSA (1932) OUP, 1933.
  • To the Fringed Gentian (William Cullen Bryant) for two-part voices (1933). Joseph Williams, 1951.
  • Merlin's Apple-Trees (Thomas Love Peacock) for two-part voices (1933). OUP, 1934.
Piano Duet
  • A Miniature Suite for piano duet (1922): 1. Minuet; 2. Barcarolle; 3. English Dance. OUP/Anglo-French Music Co., 1922.
  • A Dance, for piano duet. Melbourne: Allan & Co., 1941.
Piano Solo
  • The White Company. Elkin & Co., n.d.
  • Variations and Fugue in B Minor, Op. I (1898). MS.
  • Autumn Idylls, Op. 4 (1900). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Two Preludes (1911). Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd, 1911.
  • * From Faery: Four pieces for piano (1912): 1. Puck; 2. Will o' the Wisp; 3. A Fairy Lullaby; 4. Goblin Dance. Augener Ltd, 1912.
  • Old English Dances (1912): I. A Country Dance; 2. Morris Dance. Augener Ltd, 1919.
  • * Three Little Sketches for piano (1912): 1. Bakawali's Dance; 2. SilentNoon; 3. After work to play, and then to sleep. Augener Ltd, 1913.
  • * Four Tone Pictures for pianoforte (1913): 1. Shadowy Woodlands; 2. Still Waters; 3. Humoresque; 4. Nocturne. Augener Ltd, 1915.
  • Two Dances for pianoforte (1913): 1. Redowa (Bohemian dance); 2. Strath spey. Augener Ltd, 1922.
    (Note: Originally there was also a Minuet, but this is no longer extant.)  
  • * Capriccio in G minor (1919). Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd, 1920.
  • Little Pictures from Holland (1919). Augener Ltd, 1920
    (Note: One source has the ‘Dutch Fisher Maiden's Song’ published separately by Augener in 1915.) 
  • By Wave and Shore (1920): Five little pieces without octaves for piano. Anglo-French Music Co., 1920.
  • * Gardens of the Sea (1921). Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.
  • The Making of a Nightingale (1921). MS.
  • White Hyacinth (1921). OUP, 1925.
  • Wild Flowers: Six little pieces for pianoforte (1921). Anglo-French Music Co., 1922.
  • * The White Pathway: Three easy pieces for pianoforte (1922): I. The Fairy Javelin of Midir; 2. The White Procession; 3. Where Rainbows Bloom. Elkin & Co., 1923.
  • From a Jewel Box (1923): Five piano pieces. J. B. Cramer & Co., 1923. Blossom-Time (1924). Leonard Gould & Bolttler, 1925.
  • Clans of Air and Water (1924): I. The Evening Cloud; 2. The Rivulet; 3. The Linnet's Song; 4. The Lake; 5. Clans of the Air. Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.
  • The Isle of Enchantment: Two piano pieces (1926). J. B. Cramer & Co., 1926.
  • Deux Morceaux (c. 1927): 1. The Pool of Rushes; 2. The Enchanted Woods. Leonard Gould & Bolttler, 1927.
  • Willows (1927). MS.
  • Gammer's Garland (1928): Five pieces for piano, elementary. Joseph Williams, 1928.
  • Gavotte and Musette (1928). Leonard Gould & Bolttler, 1930.
  • Magic (1931): Five pieces for piano. Augener Ltd, 1932.
  • From Tropic Seas (c. 1932): Five pieces for piano: 1. Flying Fish; 2. The Isle of Palms and Spices; 3. The Midnight Moon; 4. Over the Murmurous Soft Hawaiian Sea; 5. The Merry Porpoise. Joseph Williams, 1932.
  • January: Song of the Robin. OUP, 1934.
  • April: Sun and Showers. OUP, 19344
    Note: The score of ‘April: Sun and Showers’ is headed ‘All the Year Round’, which suggests that it and ‘January: Song of the Robin’ may have been part of a cycle (or a planned cycle) of twelve.  
  • Forest Voices (1938): 1. Elves of Spring; 2. The Moonflower; 3. The Jacaranda. Joseph Williams, 1938. Visions (1945). Melbourne: Allan & Co., 1951.
Solo Songs with Piano
  • Four Songs, Op. 2 (W. E. Henley, 1899-1901): 1. When the wind storms by; 2. Life is bitter; 3. O gather me the rose; 4. The April sky. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Four Songs, Op. 3 (1899-1903):1. Coronach (Walter Scott);2. The Sea(Keats); 3. The Stranger (Keats); 4. The Knight's Return (CharlesKingsley). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Four Songs, Op. 6 (1904 - 6): 1. Three Shadows (D. G. Rossetti); 2. There's a woman like a dewdrop (Robert Browning); 3. Meeting at night (Robert Browning); 4. At the moon's soft splendour (Shelley). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Three Songs, Op. 12 (William Watson) (1907): 1. April; 2. Thy Voice; 3. Under the dark and piny steep. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Five Songs, Op. 17 (W. W. Gibson) (1909): 1. The day has come; 2. King Ormel; 3. I know a pool; 4. Star and song; 5. Mist. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Mother to Babe (George Meredith) (19I0). Stainer & Bell, 1912.
  • Six Songs (Fiona MacLeod) ( 1910 ): 1. The Bells of Sorrow; 2. Like Bells in the Wind; 3. The Three Evils of the Night; 4. Fern Branches; 5. Lullaby; 6. Roseen Dhu. Nos. 5 and 6 published by Stainer & Bell, 1912, the others unpublished.
  • A Song of the Virgin Mother (Ezra Pound) (1911) Novello & Co., 1912. Also published as an unaccompanied part song.
  • Song-cycle, Op. 25 (Ezra Pound) (1911). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Sylvia (Francis Thompson) (1911). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • A Dove (Keats) (1912). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Flower of Beauty (George Darley) (1912). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • * Ring out, wild bells (Tennyson) (1912). OUP, 1924. Also published as a unison song.
  • Two Elizabethan Songs (1912): 1. Slow, slow, fresh fount (Ben Jonson) (Joseph Williams, 1920); 2. Within a Greenwood Sweet (anon.) (unpublished, MS lost).
  • I wore your roses yesterday (Celia Thaxter 1913). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Song-cycle: A Sister of Sorrow, Op. 30 (Gordon Bottomley) (1913): 1. Up the Road; 2. Weeping Cross; 3. Wedding Eve. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • The Ship of Rio (Walter de le Mare) (1914). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Songs for a Gardener (Rabindranath Tagore) (1914): 1. My heart, bird of the wilderness; 2. Though the evening comes with slow steps. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Songs of Night and Morning, Op. 31 (Gordon Bottomley) (1914): 1. Sanctuaries; 2. Spring Comes; * 3. Valley Moonlight; 4. Dawn. Winthrop Rogers, 1920 (no. 3) and 1924 (nos. 1, 2 and 4).
  • All Night under the Moon (W. W. Gibson) (1917). Winthrop Rogers, 1920.
  • A Casualty (W. W. Gibson) (1919). Augener Ltd, 1919.
  • Two Songs (‘Æ’ (George Russell)) (1919): I. The Well of All-Healing; 2. Frolic. J. Curwen & Sons, 1920
  • Awake, My Heart (Robert Bridges) (1920). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Love on my heart from heaven fell (Robert Bridges) (1920). Boosey & Co., 1923.
  • * The nightingale, near the house (Harold Munro) (1920). J. Curwen & Sons, 1920.
  • Hives (W. W. Gibson) (1921). Stainer & Bell, 1921.
  • Two Songs (W. H. Davies) (1921): 1. Laughing Rose; 2. Love and the Muse. J. Curwen & Sons, 1921.
  • Strings in the Earth (James Joyce) (1922). MS.
  • To the Children (Longfellow) (1922). J. B. Cramer & Co., 1923.
  • The Twilight People (Seumas O'Sullivan) (1922). J. B. Cramer & Co., 1923.
  • Angel Spirits of Sleep (Robert Bridges) (1923). OUP, 1925.
  • The Moth (Walter de la Mare) (1923). MS.
  • Two Songs (H. Orsmond Anderton) (1923): 1. The Faery Isle; 2. A Parable in Porcelain. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Two Songs (James Thomson) (1923): 1. Gifts (Joseph Williams/Stainer & Bell, 1924); 2. The Poet (unpublished, MS lost).
  • By the Moon (Thomas Ravenscroft) (1924). J. Curwen & Sons, 1924. Also published as a unison song.
  • Honeymoon Song (W. W. Gibson). Stainer & Bell, 1924.
  • The Joyous Wanderer (Alice Meynell) (1924). Boosey & Co., 1925.
  • Two Nursery Rhymes (Christina Rossetti) (1924): 1. When the cows come home; 2. When a mounting skylark sings. Year Book Press, 1925. Also published as a pair of unison songs.
  • Two Songs (Francis Ledwidge) (1924):1. Evening; 2. The Find. Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd, 1924.
  • The Cottager's Lullaby (Wordsworth) (1925). Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd, 1926.
  • A Ballad of Dreamland (A. E. Swinburne) (1926). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • The Cakewalk (W. W. Gibson) (1926). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • The Little Waves of Breffny (Eva Gore-Booth) (1926). Elkin & Co., 1927.
  • The Master-Singer (early Italian, transl. D. G. Rossetti) (1926). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • The Virginian Voyage (Michael Drayton) (1926). Novello & Co., 1926. Also published as a unison song.
  • Boy Johnny (Christina Rossetti) (1927). MS.
  • The Little Celandine (Wordsworth) (1927). Joseph Williams, 1928. Also published as a unison song.
  • Young Love Lies Dreaming (Christina Rossetti) (1927). Joseph Williams, 1928.
  • A Cradle Song (Padraic Colum) (1928). MS.
  • A Nosegay (John Reynolds) (1928). Boosey & Co., 1929.
  • Praise of Cynthia (Edmund Spenser) (1928). Novello & Co., 1928.
  • Heart's Delight (Lascelles Abercrombie) (1929). MS.
  • Heavenly Beauty (Edmund Spenser) (1929). Elkin & Co., 1930. Also published as a unison song.
  • Forth they went (Eva Gore-Booth) (1931). MS.
  • The Triumph of Maeve (Eva Gore-Booth) (1931). MS.
  • Two Songs (Edmund Blunden) (1931): 1. Shooting Star at Harvest; 2. Wild Cherry Tree. MS.
  • Three songs from The Pearl Tree for voice with piano reduction of the orchestral score: 1. Chandravali's song; 2. Radha's vision; 3. The Rishi's song. Sydney: Nicholson's Pty., 1945.
  • A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns) (1947). Chappell & Co., 1951.
Solo Voice and Orchestra
  • Two Songs, Op. 13 (Edward Carpenter) for baritone and orchestra (1908-10): *1. Christmas Eve; 2. Little heart within thy cage. MS.
  • Two Songs (W. B. Yeats) for baritone and orchestra (1913): I. The Fiddler of Dooney; 2. The Cap and Bells. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • An English Idyll (Neville Cardus) for baritone and orchestra (1956). MS.
Unaccompanied Part Songs
  • The Ballad of Semmerwater (William Watson) (1908) for SATB with piano acc. for practice only. J. Curwen & Sons, 1910.
  • The Miracle (W. W. Gibson) (1908) for SATB. Breitkopf & Bartel, 1908.
  • * I love the jocund dance (William Blake) for SATB (1911). Stainer & Bell, 1913.
  • Night (William Blake) for SATB (191I). Stainer & Bell, 1914.
  • A Song of the Virgin Mother (Ezra Pound) for SATB (1911). Novello & Co., 1912. Also published as a solo song for piano.
  • Weep ye no more (words 16th cent.) for SSA. Stainer & Bell, 1911.
  • Blow, bugle, blow (Tennyson) for SSAA (1912). J. Curwen & Sons, 1915.
  • Phyllis the Fair (Robert Burns) for SATB (1912). Staff, Musical Times, 1912; tonic sol-fa, Novelle. & Co., 1913.
  • The Castle of King Macbeth (Owen Meredith) for male voices (1913). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • The Clown's Courtship (anon.) for SATB (29i3). J. Curwen & Sons, 1914.
  • A Federal Song (Reginald Buckley) for SATB (1913). J. Curwen & Sons, 1914.
  • Harvest Anthem (Ruhleben, n.d.). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Autumn in the Orchard (Gordon Bottomley) for SATB (1914). J. Curwen & Sons, 1915.
  • Into the Silent Land (Longfellow) for SATB (1914). J. Curwen & Sons, 1919.
  • Two Part-Songs (Alfred Noyes) for SATB (1914): I. In the Cool of the Evening; 2. Unpublished, MS lost.
  • The Sower (Gordon Bottomley) for two-part voices. Year Book Press, 1915.
  • The Dead (Rupert Brooke) for SATB (1918). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Abou Ben Adhem (Leigh Hunt) for SATB (1919). A. & C. Black, 1921.
  • The Filling of the Swamps (W. H. Ogilvie) (1919) for two-part voices. Year Book Press, 1919.
  • The Heather (Neil Munro) for SATB (1919). Unpublished, MS lost.
  • Nightfall (Edward Harding) for SATB (1919). Year Book Press, 1919.
  • May! queen of blossoms (Edward Lord Thurlow) for two-part treble voices (1919). Edward Arnold & Co., 1920.
  • The Sea (Keats) for SSA. Edward Arnold & Co., 1919.
  • Devilswater (W. W. Gibson) for TTBB (1920). J. Curwen & Sons, 1921.
  • The Dancers (Thomas Moore) for SSA. Edward Arnold & Co., 1921.
  • The Elf-Queen (anon.) for SSA (1921). Edward Arnold & Co., 1922.
  • November (John Keble) for SATB (1921). Edward Arnold & Co., 1925.
  • Mariner's Song (Thomas Lovell Beddoes) for two-part voices (1922). Music and Youth magazine (Anglo-French Music Co.), 1923; OUP, 1927.
  • To Music (Robert Herrick) for SATB (1922). Edward Arnold & Co., 1923.
  • Summer (Shelley) for three-part treble voices (1923). Staff, Joseph Williams, 1924; for SSA in tonic sol-fa, Joseph Williams, 1926.
  • The Spring Rose (William Browne) for SSAA (1924). Joseph Williams, 1930.
  • A Musical Instrument (Elizabeth Barratt Browning) for SATB (1925). Elkin & Co., 1925.
  • To a Skylark (Wordsworth) for SATB (1925). Edwin Ashdown Ltd, 1925.
  • A Waking Song (Sir Walter Scott) for TTBB (1925). Edwin Ashdown Ltd, 1925.
  • Go, Lovely Rose (Edmund Waller) for TTBB (1926). Elkin & Co., 1926.
  • Matin Song (Thomas Heywood) for TBB (1926). OUP, 1927.
  • The Golden Skein (William Blake) for SATB (1927). Four-part song. Novello & Co., 1928.
  • Two Scottish Folk Songs (Robert Burns) for SATB (1927): 1. Rosy May (Novello & Co., 1928); 2. Behold, my love, how green the groves (OUP, 1928)
  • If I had but two little wings (Coleridge) for TTBB (1928). Elkin & Co., 1928.
  • If I were yonder wave (Thomas Moore) for TTBB (1928). Novello & Co., 1928.
  • Lycidas (Milton) for SSA (1928). Year Book Press, 1928.
  • A Merry Meeting (anon.) for SATB (1928). Elkin & Co., 1928.
  • A Shepherd's Roundelay (Edmund Spenser) for SATB (1928). A. & C. Black/Year Book Press, 1929.
  • In Youth is Pleasure (Robert Weyer) for ATBB (1929). OUP, 1930.
  • To the Nightingale (Milton) for SATB (1929). Elkin & Co., 1930.
  • The Goddesses' Glory (anon.) for SATB (193i). Novello & Co., 1931 .
  • Pastourella (H. Sheers) for SATB (1934 Elkin & Co., 1941.
  • Serenade (John Gibson Lockhart) for TTBB (1933). Leonard Gould, 1950; Melbourne: Allan & Co., 1959.
  • Lay, Lullay (trad.) - (also known as the Coventry Carol) - for SSA (1950). Joseph Williams, 1950.
  • King Canute (Wordsworth) for SATB (1954). Melbourne: Allan & Co., c. 1954.
  • Bainton contributed to ‘Twelve Labour Choruses&rsquo for SATB, pub. ILP [Independent Labour Party] Publication Department (n.d., c. 1930).
Unison Songs
  • The Cloud (Shelley) for women's voices (1912). J. Curwen & Sons, 1913.
  • Ring out, wild bells (Tennyson) (1912). OUP : staff, 1923; tonic sol-fa, 1925. Also published as a solo song with piano.
  • A Rosebud (Robert Burns) for women's voices (1912). Edward Arnold & Co., 1918.
  • Two Unison Songs (with piano acc.) (1923): 1. The Enchanted Garden (Francis Turner Palgrave); 2. Little Trotty Wagtail (John Clare). Leonard Gould, 1929.
  • By the Moon (Thomas Ravenscroft) (1924). J. Curwen & Sons, 1925. Also published as a solo song with piano.
  • Two Nursery Rhymes (Christina Rossetti) (1924): 1. When the cows come home; 2. When a mounting skylark sings. Year Book Press, 1925.
    (Note: As part of Kikirikee, a collection of Rossetti settings for children, by various composers, with facsimile signatures added.  
    Also published as a pair of solo songs with piano.)
  • Two Unison Songs (1925): 1. Sweet Robin (William Blake); 2. Lady Daffadowndilly (Christina Rossetti). Novello & Co., 1925.
  • The Virginian Voyage (Michael Drayton) (1926). Novello & Co., 1926. Also published as a solo song with piano.
  • Two Unison Songs (Tennyson) (1926): 1. The City Child; 2. The Sea-Shell's Lullaby. Novello & Co., 1926.
  • A Christmas Carol (Robert Herrick) (1927). OUP, 1928.
  • The Little Celandine (Wordsworth) (1927). Joseph Williams, 1928. Also published as a solo song with piano.
  • Heavenly Beauty (Edmund Spenser) (1929). Unison with piano acc. Elkin & Co., 1930. Also published as a solo song with piano.
  • Two Unison Songs (1929): 1. The Jolly Shepherd (John Wootton); 2. The Sea-Goddess (anon.). Novello & Co., 1930.