Below is a sortable list of compositions by Eric Coates. The works are categorized by genre, date of composition and title.
Genre | Date | width= | Title | Notes |
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Stage | 1930 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[1] | Incidental music; revised in 1938 as The Enchanted Garden | |
Stage | 1932 | The Jester at the Wedding | Ballet | |
Stage | 1938 | The Enchanted Garden[2] [3] | Tone poem | |
Stage | March of the Knight of Malta | Operetta | ||
Orchestral | 1904 | Ballad, op 2 [4] | for string orchestra | |
Orchestral | 1911 | Miniature Suite[5] | for small orchestra | |
Orchestral | 1912 | A La Gavotte | ||
Orchestral | 1912 | The Mermaid, A Graceful Dance | ||
Orchestral | 1915 | From the Countryside, Suite[6] | ||
Orchestral | 1918 | Wood Nymphs, Valsette[7] | ||
Orchestral | 1919 | Springtime, Suite[8] | ||
Orchestral | 1919 | Summer Days, Suite[9] | ||
Orchestral | 1920 | Coquette | ||
Orchestral | 1921 | Moresque, Dance Interlude | ||
Orchestral | 1922 | Joyous Youth, Suite | ||
Orchestral | 1923 | The Merrymakers, Miniature Overture | ||
Orchestral | 1925 | 2 Light Syncopated Pieces | ||
Orchestral | 1925 | The Selfish Giant, Phantasy | inspired by the story by Oscar Wilde | |
Orchestral | 1926 | By the Tamarisk, Intermezzo[10] | ||
Orchestral | 1926 | The Three Bears, Phantasy | from the fairy story Goldilocks and the Three Bears | |
Orchestral | 1928 | Four Ways, Suite | ||
Orchestral | 1929 | The Unknown Singer, Interlude[11] | ||
Orchestral | 1930 | By the Sleepy Lagoon, Valse Serenade | also for voice and piano, used as theme for the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs | |
Orchestral | 1930 | Cinderella, Phantasy | ||
Orchestral | 1930 | With a Song in My Heart | orchestral arrangement of the song from the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Spring Is Here | |
Orchestral | 1931 | From Meadow to Mayfair, Suite | ||
Orchestral | 1932 | Dancing Nights, Concert Valse | ||
Orchestral | 1932 | The Jester at the Wedding, Suite from the Ballet | ||
Orchestral | 1933 | London Suite (aka London Everyday) | ||
Orchestral | 1933 | 2 Symphonic Rhapsodies | ||
Orchestral | 1934 | London Bridge, March | ||
Orchestral | 1935 | Song of Loyalty | also for voice and piano | |
Orchestral | 1935 | The Three Men Suite | ||
Orchestral | 1936 | The Forgotten Waltz | ||
Orchestral | 1936 | London Again, Suite | ||
Orchestral | 1936 | Saxo Rhapsody[12] | ||
Orchestral | 1937 | For Your Delight, Serenade | ||
Orchestral | 1938 | Seven Seas, March | ||
Orchestral | 1939 | Footlights, Concert Valse | ||
Orchestral | 1939 | Last Love, Romance[13] | ||
Orchestral | 1940 | Calling All Workers, March | theme for the BBC radio programme Music While You Work | |
Orchestral | 1942 | The Eighth Army, March | also for piano solo; used in the 1943 film Nine Men[14] | |
Orchestral | 1942 | Over to You, March | ||
Orchestral | 1942 | Star of God | ||
Orchestral | 1943 | Four Centuries Suite | ||
Orchestral | 1943 | London Calling, March[15] | ||
Orchestral | 1944 | Salute the Soldier, March | ||
Orchestral | 1944 | The Three Elizabeths Suite | Halcyon Days was used as the opening and closing music for the 1967 BBC television series The Forsyte Saga | |
Orchestral | 1945 | Youth of Britain, March | ||
Orchestral | 1946 | Television March[16] | Used as the daily startup music of BBC Television Service. | |
Orchestral | 1949 | Music Everywhere, Rediffusion March[17] | Used as the daily startup music of Associated-Rediffusion 1956–57. The piece pre-dates the television station and had been renamed by the Rediffusion company with Coates' permission.[18] | |
Orchestral | 1950 | Holborn, March | ||
Orchestral | 1953 | Men of Trent, March | ||
Orchestral | 1953 | Rhodesia, March | ||
Orchestral | 1954 | used in the 1955 film The Dam Busters | ||
Orchestral | 1954 | Sweet Seventeen, Concert Valse | ||
Orchestral | 1955 | Sound and Vision, Television March[19] | Used as the daily startup music of Associated TeleVision in London weekend programmes from 1955 to 1968 and Midlands from 1956 to 1971. | |
Orchestral | 1956 | Impressions of a Princess, Intermezzo | ||
Orchestral | 1957 | High Flight, March | ||
Orchestral | 1957 | South Wales and West, Television March | Used as the daily startup music of Television Wales and the West from 1958 to 1968. | |
Orchestral | The Dance of the Orange Blossoms, Valse | |||
Orchestral | I Sing to You | |||
Orchestral | Lazy Night | |||
Orchestral | Rustic Dance | |||
Chamber music | 1906 | Ballad in G major, Op. 13 | for viola and piano; composed under the pseudonym "Eric Glendower" | |
Chamber music | 1908 | Minuetto on Old Irish Melody | for string quartet; movement IV from Suite on Londonderry Air, a collaborative work for string quartet co-composed with Frank Bridge, Hamilton Harty, J. D. Davis and York Bowen | |
Chamber music | 1928 | Mirage, Romance | for violin and piano (also orchestral version) | |
Chamber music | 1929 | Under the Stars | for violin and piano (also orchestral version) | |
Chamber music | 1941 | First Meeting, Souvenir | for viola and piano; written for violist Lionel Tertis; revised for violin and piano in 1943, also as a song | |
Piano | 1911 | 6 Short Pieces (without Octaves) | ||
Piano | 1914 | Idyll | ||
Piano | 1930 | 3 Lyric Pieces[20] | ||
Piano | 1942 | The Eighth Army, March | also orchestrated | |
Vocal | 1908 | A Damask Rose | words by Fred G. Bowles | |
Vocal | 1908 | It Was a Lover and His Lass | words by William Shakespeare | |
Vocal | 1908 | The Outlaw's Song[21] | words by Joanna Baillie | |
Vocal | 1908 | 2 Songs | for baritone and piano 1. words by Georgia Roberts 2. words by John Galsworthy | |
Vocal | 1908 | When I Am Dead | words by Christina Rossetti | |
Vocal | 1908 | When We Two Went A-Maying | words by Ella Brown | |
Vocal | 1908 | Who Is Sylvia? | words by William Shakespeare | |
Vocal | 1909 | At Daybreak[22] | words by Fred G. Bowles | |
Vocal | 1909 | 4 Old English Songs | words by William Shakespeare | |
Vocal | 1909 | The Gates of Spring | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1909 | Gwenny | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1909 | May-Day Dance | 4-part song; words by M. Byron | |
Vocal | 1909 | Stone-Cracker John[23] | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1909 | Sweet Phyllis | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1909 | Your Heart Is Like a Golden Fair | words by Ella Brown | |
Vocal | 1909 | Yvette | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1910 | Lace and Porcelain, 3 Old World Songs | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1910 | The Little Girl I Love | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1910 | Little Love | words by Georgeanne Hubi Newcombe | |
Vocal | 1910 | Love among the Daffodils | words by Edward Teschemacher | |
Vocal | 1910 | Waiting for the Spring | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1910 | When the Robin Goes A-Singing | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1911 | A Bird's Lullaby | words by the composer | |
Vocal | 1911 | If You Were My Little Boy | words by Edward Teschemacher | |
Vocal | 1911 | Love's Fantasy | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1911 | The Moon Boat | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1911 | Mother England's Brewing | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1911 | Reuben Ranzo | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1912 | The Awakening | words by Edward Teschemacher | |
Vocal | 1912 | A Dinder Courtship | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1912 | Rose of Mine | words by Edward Teschemacher | |
Vocal | 1912 | Sweet-and-Twenty | words by William Shakespeare | |
Vocal | 1912 | Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred | words by William Shakespeare | |
Vocal | 1913 | All Mine Own | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1913 | Betty and Johnny | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1913 | Dick's Quandary | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1913 | The Grenadier | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1913 | Melanie | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1913 | Pierrette's Song | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1914 | By Mendip Side | words by P. J. O'Reilly | |
Vocal | 1914 | Eildon Hill | words by Frederic Weatherly; see Eildon Hill | |
Vocal | 1914 | The Hour of Love | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1914 | A Japanese Farewell | words by Douglas Furber | |
Vocal | 1914 | Marry Me, Nancy, Do! | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1914 | Moonland Dreams | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1914 | Rose of the World | words by Helen Taylor | |
Vocal | 1915 | The Mill o' Dreams, Cycle of 4 Little Songs | words by Nancie B. Marsland; for voice and piano or orchestra | |
Vocal | 1916 | The Green Hills o' Somerset | words by Frederic Weatherly; for voice and piano or orchestra | |
Vocal | 1916 | An Old World Garden | words by Eric Chilman | |
Vocal | 1916 | The Palace of Roses | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1916 | Sigh No More, Ladies | words by William Shakespeare | |
Vocal | 1916 | The Widow of Penzance | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1917 | Asphodel | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1917 | Dreams | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1917 | Land of My Heart | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1917 | Our Little Home | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1917 | Your Love | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1918 | The Fairy Tales of Ireland | words by Edward Lockton; for voice and piano or orchestra | |
Vocal | 1918 | 4 Songs of the Air Service | words by Edward Lockton | |
Vocal | 1918 | The Fruits of the Earth | words by Edward Lockton | |
Vocal | 1918 | The Heart You Love Is Calling | words by Edward Lockton | |
Vocal | 1918 | The Maid and the Moon | words by Eileen Price-Evans | |
Vocal | 1918 | My Prayers Take Wings to Find You | words by Harold Simpson | |
Vocal | 1918 | Sally and I and the Daylight | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1918 | Yours and Mine | words by Edward Lockton | |
Vocal | 1919 | By the North Sea | words by Arthur Conan Doyle | |
Vocal | 1919 | An Elizabethan Lullaby | words by William Akerman | |
Vocal | 1919 | A Nest in Arcady | words by Edward Lockton | |
Vocal | 1919 | Roses of Peace | words by E. Barker | |
Vocal | 1919 | The Stars Above | words by Haydn H. Morris | |
Vocal | 1919 | Through All the Ages | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1920 | At Sunset | words by Mrs Charles Hutchins | |
Vocal | 1920 | At Vesper Bell | words by Gunby Hadath | |
Vocal | 1920 | Pepita | words by Douglas Furber | |
Vocal | 1920 | Since Yesterday | words by Anne Page | |
Vocal | 1920 | The White Winding Road | words by Daisy Fisher | |
Vocal | 1920 | You Come No More | words by Daisy Fisher | |
Vocal | 1921 | Brown Eyes beneath the Moon | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1921 | I'm Wanting You | words by Gunby Hadath | |
Vocal | 1921 | I Pitch My Lonely Caravan at Night | words by Annette Horey | |
Vocal | 1921 | Moon Daisies | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1921 | Passion-Flower | words by Gertrude Wiskin | |
Vocal | 1921 | words by Ernest Butcher | ||
Vocal | 1922 | Blue Sky and White Road | words by Charles Roff | |
Vocal | 1922 | Coloured Fields | words by Daisy Fisher | |
Vocal | 1922 | June's First Rose | words by Edward Lockton | |
Vocal | 1922 | Ole Dear | words by Dorothy Dickinson | |
Vocal | 1922 | Thinkin' of You | words by Dorothy Dickinson | |
Vocal | 1923 | I Heard You Singing | words by Royden Barrie; for voice and piano or orchestra | |
Vocal | 1923 | Mending Roadways | words by Dena Tempest | |
Vocal | 1923 | Nobody Else But You | words by Daisy Fisher | |
Vocal | 1923 | A Song of the Wind | words by Edward Lockton | |
Vocal | 1924 | Diff'rent Somehow | words by Gordon McConnel | |
Vocal | 1924 | 8 Nursery Rhymes | words by anonymous | |
Vocal | 1924 | Ev'ry Minute of Ev'ry Day | words by Elsie Mary Skeet | |
Vocal | 1924 | In Town | words by Dorothy Dickinson | |
Vocal | 1924 | Sea Rapture, an Impression | words by Emeric Hulme-Beaman | |
Vocal | 1924 | Yearning | words by Royden Barrie | |
Vocal | 1925 | The Gates of If-Ever | words by D. Eardley-Wilmot | |
Vocal | 1925 | K-Naughty Kanute | words by Elsie Mary Skeet | |
Vocal | 1925 | The Little Green Balcony | words by Royden Barrie | |
Vocal | 1925 | Little Snoozy Coon | words by Royden Barrie | |
Vocal | 1925 | Rose of Samarand | words by Royden Barrie | |
Vocal | 1925 | Song of the Little Folk | words by Jennie Dunbar | |
Vocal | 1926 | Bird Songs at Eventide | words by Royden Barrie; for voice and piano or orchestra | |
Vocal | 1926 | Brown Eyes I Love | words by Lillian Glanville | |
Vocal | 1927 | The Dreams of London | words by Almey St. John Adcock | |
Vocal | 1927 | A Song Remembered | words by Royden Barrie | |
Vocal | 1928 | Homeward to You | words by Royden Barrie | |
Vocal | 1928 | I'm Lonely, Valse Song | words by Gordon McConnel | |
Vocal | 1928 | Little Lady of the Moon | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1929 | Always As I Close My Eyes | words by Maud Handfield-Jones | |
Vocal | 1929 | Doubt | words by Florence Hedley-Stodden (né Florence Gertrude Altenborough) | |
Vocal | 1930 | Because I Miss You So | words by Lillian Glanville | |
Vocal | 1930 | The Young Lover | words by Royden Barrie | |
Vocal | 1931 | Home-Along | words by Arthur L. Salmon | |
Vocal | 1932 | The House Love Made for You and Me | words by Gordon Johnstone | |
Vocal | 1932 | If Stars Were Tears | words by Frank Eyton | |
Vocal | 1932 | Stars and a Crescent Moon | words by Phyllis Black | |
Vocal | 1933 | I Looked for You | words by Phyllis Black | |
Vocal | 1933 | Rise Up and Reach the Stars | words by Winifred May | |
Vocal | 1933 | Ship of Dream | words by Winifred van Noorden | |
Vocal | 1934 | Beautiful Lady Moon | words by Phyllis Black | |
Vocal | 1934 | Music of the Night | words by Phyllis Black | |
Vocal | 1935 | Song of Loyalty | words by Phyllis Black | |
Vocal | 1935 | Good Bye | words by Irving Caesar | |
Vocal | 1938 | You Are My Rose | words by Christopher Hassell | |
Vocal | 1938 | Your Name | words by Christopher Hassell; for voice and piano or orchestra | |
Vocal | 1939 | Princess of the Dawn | words by Christopher Hassell | |
Vocal | 1940 | Sleepy Lagoon | words by Jack Lawrence | |
Vocal | 1940 | Today is Ours | words by Frank Eyton | |
Vocal | 1942 | Star of God | words by Frederic Weatherly | |
Vocal | 1943 | A Song of Summer | words by Lady Joan Vernay; for voice and piano or orchestra | |
Vocal | 1954 | The Scent of Lilac | words by Winifred May | |
Vocal | 1956 | The Dam Busters | words by Carlene Mair | |
Choral | 1956 | God's Great Love Abiding, Hymn | for mixed chorus; words by the composer | |
Choral | 1963 | Loyal Hearts | for mixed chorus and piano; arrangement of Queen Elizabeth from The three Elizabeths Suite; words by Anne C Wood |