This is a list of works by Scottish composer Erik Chisholm (1904–1965).

Ballets The Forsaken Mermaid, 1936 The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1937 The Earth Shapers, 1941 The Hoodie Craw, 1948 The Piobaireachd A Woodland Tale Polish Woman

Operas The Feast of Samhain, 1941 The Inland Woman, 1951 (based on Mary Lavin's 'The Green Death and the Black Death') Dark Sonnet, 1952 (based on the play 'Before Breakfast' by Eugene O'Neill) Black roses, 1954 Simoon, 1953 (based on a text by August Strindberg) Unnatural Death, 1953 The Midnight Court, 1954-61 (based on 'A Rhythmical Bacchanalia' by Bryon Merryman) The Canterbury Tales, 1961-62 (based on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales') The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1963 (based on Berthold Brecht's 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle') The Importance of Being Earnest, 1963 (based on Oscar Wilde's play of The Importance of Being Earnest) The Life and Loves of Robert Burns, 1963 (based on poems of Burns, and his correspondence with brother Gilbert and other contemporaries) The Wolflings

Dark Sonnet, Black roses and Simoon formed the three-act trilogy of Murder in Three Keys.

Orchestral Symphonies Symphony No. 1 in C minor Symphony No. 2, 1939

Other orchestral works Adventures of Babar A Celtic Wonder Tale Ceol Mor Dances : Version for Orchestra Chaconne, 1922 Dunedin Suite, for strings The Enchanted Forest: Prelude for Orchestra The Freiris of Berwick From The True Edge Of The Great World: Preludes for Orchestra From The Western Isles, 1939, for strings Hebridia: Orchestral Suite Part 1 March Pictures From Dante, 1948 Prelude in G Rhapsody Six Celestial Pieces : No 1 - Sirius Straloch Suite, 1933 Straloch Suite for Strings Sword Dance Two Pieces for String Orchestra, 1929 A Woodland Tale

Concertante Dance Suite, for piano and orchestra, 1932 Piano Concerto No.1 Piobaireachd, 1937 Piano Concerto No.2 On Hindustani Themes, 1948–1949 Cantos Gitanos, for piano and orchestra Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1950

Chamber One player Sonata for Cello Alone, 1930 Sonata for Solo Viola Sonata for Solo Violin, 1930

Two players Gavotte, for violin and piano, 1934 Morris Dance, for violin and piano A Scotch Tit-Bit, for violin and piano Sonata for 2 Violoncellos Three Miniatures, for cello and piano Three Short Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, 1960

Four players A Highland Stream, quartet for flute, clarinet, cello and triangle Sorrow for a Queen (after Maeterlink) : Version for Brass Quartet Three Pieces for String Quartet : No 1 - Idyll Three Pieces for String Quartet Three Scottish Lullabies, string quartet

Five players Ceol Mor Dances, quintet for four pianos and percussion Sonatina for Woodwind Quintet Three Dances, quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon

Six or more players Double Trio, for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and double bass Allegro, for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, violin and cello Gipsy, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola and cello Sarabande, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and timpani

Piano One piano Sonata in A: An Riobain Dearg (The Red Robin) The Piobroch Sonatina Sonatine Ecossaise Night Song of the Bards, six nocturnes for piano All Quiet on the Western Front, a sonata in three movements Honeycombs; for the Children, pianoforte suite Perthshire Airs Highland Sketches G minor Sonatina, 1922 Sonatina No.4 Elegies Nos. 1-4 With Cloggs On Collection of Piano solos, Ceol Mor, which reflect Highland bagpipe tunes known as Piobaireachd Lord Lovat's Lament Maclean of Cole putting his Foot on the Neck of his Enemy Duntroon Pibroch Mackenzie of Applecross The Macgregors The Chisholm MacCrimmon's Lament Lament for King James Cluig Pheairt No. 16 Too Long in this Condition A Lament for the Harp Tree Squinting Patrick's Flame of Wrath

Two pianos Piano Concerto No 2 : On Hindustani Themes : arranged for 2 Pianos

Vocal Songs with orchestra Dismal is this Life for Me (tenor) The Minde's Melody (female chorus) Mungo (bass solo with chorus) O Son Of God It Is A Great Grief (tenor with piano) Pageant of Music for the People, 1939 (chorus) There Was a Time When I Thought Far Sweeter (tenor) Though You Like to Drink Your Ale (tenor)

Songs with piano The Bee Blossoms The Blue-Bird The Braw Plum (William Soutar) Celtic Folk Songs A Celtic Song Book The Chailleach (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone] Cradle-Croon (Yeats) Cradle Song (Version 2), 1926 A Dirge for Summer (William Soutar) The Donkey, 1923 (G K Chesterton) The Fairies, 1923 I Arose one morning early (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone] In The Dark Little Boney (1806) : The Sergeant's Song, 1926 [tenor] Meditation My Ocean Steed, 1923 The Offending Eye, 1926 (A. E. Housman) [high voice] Ossian's Soliloquy (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone] Seven Poems of Love (Lillias Scott) [soprano] 'Love's Reward' 'Johnnie Logie' 'Skreigh o' Day' 'Fragment (Lament)' 'Prayer' 'Innocence' 'Hert's Sang' She Calls Me Her Coal-Black Mammy Sixty Cubic Feet (Randall Swingler) [baritone] Skinny Minny Snail, Snail, Shoot Out Your Horn Summer Song (William Soutar) The Prodigy (William Soutar) There's a Guid Time Comin' Yet The Three Worthies (William Soutar)

Unaccompanied songs Crabbed Age & Youth, 1926 Cradle Song (Version 1), 1928 A Highland Dirge [female chorus] I Want to Talk to Thee In Glasgow Here, 1925 The Song of the Women, 1928 Three Revolutionary Songs : Musical Recitative [male chorus]

Arrangements Paderewski's Theme Varié for two pianos Alkan's Symphonie Op 39 no 4-7 for a string orchestra Alkan's Concerto for Piano arranged for solo piano and string orchestra

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