The titles below are examples of pieces that may be included in performances as well as standard Renaissance, classical, and romantic works, including recent compositions.
Title | Composer (Date) |
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All Poor Men | Trad Xmas |
Amazing Grace | Music E O Excell Lyrics Rev’d John Newton (1772) |
Away in a Manger | Trad Xmas |
Bicycle Built for Two | Music & Lyrics Henry Dacre (1857) |
Blue Danube | Ioseph Ivanovici (1845 – 1902) |
Click Go the Shears | Music Henry Clay Work (1832 – 1884) Lyrics Takashi Otowa (1925 – 2009 |
Cockles & Muscles | Trad. Irish Folk Tune (refers to 17th C. Molly Malone (1st printed 1876) |
Come Back to Sorento | Music uncertain: Lyrics Giambattista de Curtis (1860 – 1926) Arr. RVT of Dew: English trans Charles Aveling (1st heard 1934) |
Coronation Street Theme | Eric Spear (1st heard 1960: arr RVT) |
Ding Dong Meerrily | Trad Xmas |
Fascination | Music F D Marchetti (1904) Lyrics Maurice de Feraudy (1905) |
Funiculi Funicula | Music Luigi Denza (1846 – 1922 1st heard 1880) Lyrics Peppino Turco (1846 – 1903) |
GOD defend NZ | Music John J Woods (1876) Lyrics Thomas Bracken (1870) |
God Save the Queen/King | Thomas Arne (1710) or John Bull (1619) 1st sung 1745 |
Greensleeves | Trad. Tudor Folk Song (1580) |
Hamsel & Gretel Prayer | Engelbert Humperdinck (1893) |
Happy Birthday | Mildred & Patty Hill (circa 1893) |
Hungarian Folk Dance | Music Matyas Sieber (1905 – 1960) (Arr. RVT of Dew) |
Irish Tunes | Trad Irish |
Like as the Hart | Vincent Novello (1781-1861) based on Psalm 42 |
Love Me Tender | Words & Music Elvis Presley & Vera Mason (1st heard 1962) |
Memory | Music Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) Lyrics Trevor Nunn (1940) from Cats |
Menuett | Boccherini (1771) |
Mockin’ bird Hill | Music Calle Jularbo (1893) Lyrics Vaughn Horton (1911) |
Never Smile at a Crocodile | Music Frank Churchill (1901) Lyrics Jack Lawrence (1912) 1st sung 1953 |
Past 3 O’Clock | Trad Xmas |
Peace Song | Music & Lyrics Dorothy Buchanan |
Penny Lane | Lennon/McCarthy (Beatles-1st heard 1965) |
Rose of Tralee | Music Charles William Glover (1806) L:yrics William Pembroke Mulchinock (c. 1820) or Edward Mordaunt Spencer (c.1820) |
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer | Johnny Marks (1st heard 1949) |
Sana Lucia | Trad Neapolitan Folk song arrang. Teodoro Cottrau (1827-1878) & RVT |
Scottish Tunes | Trad Scottish |
Serenade | Music Joseph Haydn (1732) or Romanus Hoffstetter (1742) |
Silver Threads | Music Hart P Danks (1834 – 1903) |
Skaters’ Waltz | Emil Waldteufel (1882) |
Spring | Vivaldi (1675 – 1741) |
Vilia | Italian Folk Song Lorenz Hart, Franz Lehar, Leo Stein, Viktor Leon (uncertain who did what c.1880) |
Waltz | Johannes Brahms (1833 -1897) |
Waltzing Matilda | Music & Lyrics A B Paterson & Marie Cowan (1st heard 1891) |
We wish you a Merry Xmas | Trad from c. 1830 but current version arr. Arthur Warrell (1st heard 1935) |
Welsh Rabbit Country Dance | Trad. Irish Folk Tune |
Whispering Hope | Septimus Winner (1868) |
Yesterday | Lennon McCartney (Beatles 1965) |