List of compositions by William Boyce

Works

Vocal music

Services

• Te Deum, G major, verse service
• Te Deum and Jubilate, A major, verse service
• Te Deum and Jubilate, A major, short service
• Burial Service, E minor, 4 voices for Captain T. Coram, 3 April 1751; ed. by J. Page, in Harmonia sacra, London, 1800
• Te Deum and Jubilate, C major, full service
• Kyrie, A major
• Sanctus, A/G major

  Anthems

• Begin unto my God with timbrels, verse text published in A Collection of Anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal, London, 1769
• Behold O God our defender, full for the coronation of George III, 1761
• Be thou my judge, O Lord, verse
• Blessed is he that considereth the poor, verse
• Blessed is he that considereth the sick, verse, with orchestra
• Blessed is the man that ferrets the Lord, verse
• Blessing and glory, verse
• By the waters of Babylon, verse
• Come, Holy Ghost, full for the coronation of George III, 1761
• Give the king thy judgements, verse
• Give the king thy judgements, verse
• Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, verse
• Great and marvellous are thy works, full text published in A Collection of Anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal, London, 1769
• Hear my crying, verse
• Hear my prayer, full, with orchestra
• The heavens declare the glory of God, verse
• Help me, O Lord, full
• How long wilt thou forget me, verse
• How long wilt thou forget me, verse, incomplete
• I cried unto the Lord, verse
• If we believe, verse
• I have set God always before me, verse
• I have surely built thee a house, verse for reopening of St Margaret's, Westminster, 1759
• I was glad, full for the coronation of George III, 1761
• I will always give thanks, verse
• I will magnify thee, O God, verse ed. by J. Page, in Harmonia sacra, London, 1800
• The King shall rejoice, verse, with orchestra for the marriage of George III, 1761; ed. in Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, viii, 1970
• The King shall rejoice, full, with orchestra for the coronation of George III, 1761
• The King shall rejoice, verse, with orchestra for the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy, 1766
• Let my complaint come before thee, verse ed. by J. Page, in Harmonia sacra, London, 1800
• Let my prayer come up, full for, coronation of George III, 1761
• Like as the hart, verse
• The Lord is a sun and a shield, full, with orchestra for the coronation of George III, 1761
• The Lord is full of compassion, verse
• The Lord is King and hath put on glorious apparel, verse
• The Lord is King be the people never so impatient, verse for thanksgiving for the Peace of Paris, 1763
• The Lord is my light and my salvation, verse
• The Lord liveth, verse
• Lord, teach us to number our days, verse
• Lord, thou hast been our refuge, verse, with orchestra for Festival of the Sons of the Clergy, 1755
• Lord, what is man that thou art mindful of him, verse
• Lord, what is man that thou shouldest visit him, verse
• Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle, verse
• My heart is fixed, verse text published in A Collection of Anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal, London, 1769
• My heart is inditing, verse, with orchestra for the coronation of George III, 1761
• My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, verse text published in A Collection of Anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal, London, 1769
• O be joyful in God all ye lands, verse
• O be joyful in God all ye lands, verse
• O be jovful in God all ye lands, verse, with orchestra
• O give thanks unto the Lord and call upon His name, verse
• O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, verse for the birth of Prince George, 1762
• O praise the Lord, verse
• O sing unto the Lord a new song, verse
• O sing unto the Lord a new song, verse text published in A Collection of Anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal, London, 1769
• O where shall wisdom be found?, verse
• Ponder my words, verse
• Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, full, with orchestra for the coronation of George III, 1761
• Praise the Lord, ye servants, verse
• Save me, O God, full
• Sing, O heavens, verse
• Sing praises unto the Lord, verse
• Sing unto the Lord
• The souls of the righteous, full, with orchestra for the funeral of George II, 1760
• Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, verse
• Turn thee unto me, full
• Turn thee unto me, verse
• Unto thee, O Lord, verse text published in A Collection of Anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal, London, 1769
• Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way, verse

  Chants and hymns

• Double Psalm Chant, D major
• Double Psalm Chant, F major
• Chant, D major, Divine Harmony doubtful, attributed to Mr. Davis
• Faint is my head and sick my heart
• Hosanna to the King
• How long O my God shall I plead
• I'll celebrate thy praises, Lord
• Lord, how my bosom foes increase
• The Lord my pasture shall prepare
• The Lord does them support that fall
• The man is blest of God through Christ
• O God who dost for ever live
• Servant of God, well done
• To the call of pressing need
• Weigh the words of my profession
• When rising from the bed of death
• To Sion's hill I lift my eyes

  Other sacred works

• David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan, sacred cantata, solo voices, chorus, orchestra
• Lo! On the Thorny bed of care
• Noah: An oratorio
• Vital spark of heavenly repair
• Hither, ye sons of harmony repair, 4 voices and basso continuo
• O how perverse is flesh and blood, partsong
• also 12 hymns published in 18th-century anthologies

  Theatre works

• Peleus and Thetis, masque
• Secular Masque
• The Chaplet, musical entertainment in 2 parts
• The Shepherd's Lottery, musical entertainment in 2 parts
• The Tempest, masque
• Harlequin's Invasion, or A Christmas Gambol, pantomime a collaboration with M. Arne and T. Aylward
• * Heart of Oak

  Music in other theatre works

• Dirge
• 2 Songs
• Instrumental music
• Pastoral interlude
• Dirge
• Song
• Song
• Instrumental music
• Music for animating the statue, 3-pt song
• 2 Songs, duet
• 2 Odes
• Other songs by Boyce adapted in: The Temple of Peace ; Midas ; Love in the Village ; The Royal Chase ; The Summer's Tale ; The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity ; Tom Jones ; Harlequin's Museum, or Mother Shipton Triumphant

  Court odes

• Pierian sisters hail the morn, ode for the King's Birthday, 1755
• Hail! hail! auspicious day, ode for New Year's Day, 1756
• When Caesar's natal day, ode for the King's Birthday, 1756
• While Britain, in her monarch blest, ode for New Year's Day, 1757
• Rejoice, ye Britons, hail the day!, ode for the King's Birthday, 1757
• Behold, the circle forms! prepare!, ode for New Year's Day, 1758
• When Othbert left the Italian plain, ode for the King's Birthday, 1758
• Ye guardian powers, to whose command, ode for New Year's Day, 1759
• Begin the song – ye subject choirs, ode for the King's Birthday, 1759
• Again the sun's revolving sphere, ode for New Year's Day, 1760
• Still must the muse, indignant hear, ode for New Year's Day, 1761
• 'Twas at the nectar'd feast of Jove, ode for the King's Birthday, 1761
• God of slaughter, quit the scene, ode for New Year's Day, 1762
• Go, Flora, said the impatient queen, ode for the King's Birthday, 1762
• At length the imperious lord of war, ode for New Year's Day, 1763
• Common births, like common things, ode for the King's Birthday, 1763
• To wedded love the song shall flow, ode for the King's Birthday, 1764
• Sacred to thee, O commerce, ode for New Year's Day, 1765
• Hail to the rosy morn, ode for the King's Birthday, 1765
• Hail to the man, so sings the Hebrew bard, ode for the King's Birthday, 1766
• When first the rude o’erpeopled north, ode for New Year's Day, 1767
• Friend to the poor! for sure, O king, ode for the King's Birthday, 1767
• Let the voice of music breathe, ode for New Year's Day, 1768
• Prepare, prepare your songs of praise, ode for the King's Birthday, 1768
• Patron of arts! at length by thee, ode for the King's Birthday, 1769
• Forward, Janus, turn thine eyes, ode for New Year's Day, 1770
• Discord, hence! the torch resign, ode for the King's Birthday, 1770
• Again returns the circling year, ode for New Year's Day, 1771
• Long did the churlish East detain, ode for the King's Birthday, 1771
• At length the fleeting year is o’er, ode for New Year's Day, 1772
• From scenes of death, and deep distress, ode for the King's Birthday, 1772
• Wrapt in stole of sable train, ode for New Year's Day, 1773
• Born for millions are the kings, ode for the King's Birthday, 1773
• Pass but a few short fleeting years, ode for New Year's Day, 1774
• Hark! or does the muse's ear, ode for the King's Birthday, 1774
• Ye powers, who rule o’er states and kings, ode for the King's Birthday, 1775
• On the white rocks which guard her coast, ode for New Year's Day, 1776
• Ye western gales, whose genial breath, ode for the King's Birthday, 1776
• Again imperial winter's sway, ode for New Year's Day, 1777
• Driven out from heaven's ethereal domes, ode for the King's Birthday, 1777
• When rival nations great in arms, ode for New Year's Day, 1778
• Arm’d with her native force, behold, ode for the King's Birthday, 1778
• To arms, to arms ye sons of might, ode for New Year's Day, 1779

  Other odes

• The charms of harmony display, ode for St Cecilia's Day, ca. 1738
• See fam’d Apollo and the Nine, ode for St Cecilia's Day, 1739
• Gentle lyre, begin the strain
• Here all thy active fires diffuse, ode for the installation of Duke of Newcastle as Chancellor of University of Cambridge
• Strike, strike the lyre, ode for the birthday of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1750?
• Who but remembers yesterday, ode on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1751
• Let grief subside, ode for the birthday of George, Prince of Wales, 1751
• Another passing year is flown, ode for the birthday of George, Prince of Wales, 1752
• Titles and ermine fall behind, ode in commemoration of Shakespeare, Drury Lane, 1756
• Cetra de canti amica, ode in Del canzoniere d'Orazio di Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli
• Degli amor la madre altera, ode in Del canzoniere d'Orazio di Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli
• Arise, immortal Shakespeare rise
• See, white-robed peace, ode for the Seven Years' War, 1763
• Lo, on the thorny bed of care, soli, chorus and orch, sacred ode for Leicester Infirmary, 1774
• Vital spark of heavenly flame, sacred ode
• In elder time, ode

  Cantatas, serenades and dialogues

• Ah whither, whither would Achilles flee, voice and orchestra
• Through flowery meads, cantata, 2 voices and orchestra
• Gentle zephyrs smoothly rove, serenade, voice and orchestra
• When the celestial beauties strove, cantata, 2 voices
• Young Damon, fired with amorous heat, cantata, 2 voices
• Solomon, serenata, 2 voices, chorus and orchestra complete ed. in Musica Britannica, vol. 68
• Long with undistinguished flame, cantata in Lyra britannica, vol. 1, London, 1747
• Tell me ye brooks, cantata in Lyra britannica, ii, London, 1747
• Blest in Maria's friendship, cantata in Lyra britannica, iii, London, 1748
• Let rakes for pleasure range the town, dialogue, 2 voices
• Did you not once, Lucinda vow, dialogue, 2 voices and orchestra
• Thus on a bed of dew bespangled flowers, cantata
• By Danae's progeny, cantata, voice and orchestra
• Blate Jonny in Lyra britannica, v, London, 1756
• Haste, haste every nymph, dialogue, voice and orchestra in Lyra britannica, vi, London, 1759
• Thou rising sun in Lyra britannica, vi, London, 1759
• The inconstant swain

  Glees, catches and rounds

• A blooming youth
• Genius of harmony
• Glory be to God on high
• Hallelujah
• Here's to thee Dick
• John Cooper
• Long live King George
• 'Mongst other roses
• ’Tis on earth
• ’Tis thus, thus and thus farewell

  Solo songs

• Again to the garden
• Age in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• Ah Chloe! thou treasure
• Ah whither, whither would Achilles flee
• Alas how slowly minutes roll
• Amaz'd, their unfrequented fanes in LB, vol. 2, London, 1747
• As Damon stood in pensive mood in LB, vol. 2, London, 1747
• As Phillis the gay
• As Thyrsis reclined
• At Ross how alter’d is the scene!
• Beneath my feet when Flora cast
• Bid me when forty winters more
• Boast not mistaken swain
• Can nothing, nothing move her
• Castalio’s Complaint in Calliope, 1739
• Cease vainglorious swain
• Come all ye young lovers
• Come all ye youths
• The Distracted Lover in Calliope, 1739
• Each hour Mariana
• Fair Eliza beauteous creature
• The flame of love
• Flora, goddess sweetly blooming
• Go, virgin kid
• Goddess of ease
• The heavenly hours are almost past
• How blest has my time been, first version
• How blest has my time been, second version
• How hard is the fortune of all womankind, 2 voices and b.c. in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• How wretched is a maiden’s fate
• I looked, and I sighed
• I love, I doat, first version
• I love, I doat, second version
• If you my wand’ring heart would find
• In vain Philander
• In vain would honour love undo!
• Jessy, or The happy pair in LB, vol. 2, London, 1747
• Long detained by winds contrary
• Lost to the joys of life is he in LB, vol. 2, London, 1747
• Love bids me go
• Love’s no irregular desire
• The man that says Dick Leveridge stinks
• The Modest Petition in Calliope, 1739
• My Florio
• Near Thames’ green banks
• Near to the silent shady grove
• No more shall meads
• The nymph that I loved
• O nightingale
• Of all the torments, all the cares in Calliope, 1739
• Of roses, while I wove
• Oft’ am I by the women told
• On a bank beside a willow
• On thy banks, gentle Stour, song in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• One summer's morning
• Parent of blooming flowers
• Rail no more ye learned asses
• The ravish'd lover, song
• Saw you Phoebe pass this way
• She's blest with wit
• The silent lover in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• Silvia the fair in Calliope, 1739
• Since I with Chloe last was seen
• Since nature mankind for society fram’d, part song in LB, vol. 2, London, 1747
• The song of Diana, voice and b.c. in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• The song of Momus to Mars, voice and b.c. in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747'
• The song of Venus in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• Song sent with a lady's kid glove in LB, vol. 2, London, 1747
• The sun now darts fainter his rays
• Tell me lovely loving pair
• Tell me no more I am deceiv’d, song in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• Tell me, ye brooks, where can my darling hide? in LB, vol. 2, London, 1747
• Tho’ Chloe's out of fashion
• To Harriote all accomplished fair
• To make the wife kind, and to keep the house still, song
• To sooth my heart
• ’Twas summer time
• Venus to sooth my heart
• Well-judging Phyllis in LB, vol. 1, London, 1747
• What though you cannot move her
• When Chloe frowning bids me go
• When Fanny/Cloe, blooming fair
• When first on her my eyes were thrown
• When I but dream of her
• When mariners long wind-bound
• When Orpheus went down
• When the nymphs were contending
• When young and artless as the lamb
• While on my Colin's knee I sit
• Who but remembers yesterday
• Why treat me still with cold disdain?
• Would we attain the happiest state
• You say you love
• Young Phillis, one morning

Instrumental music

Orchestra

• 8 Symphonys in 8 Parts, op. 2 overtures from other odes and theater works
• ** Symphony No. 1, B-flat major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** Symphony No. 2, A major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** Symphony No. 3, C major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** Symphony No. 4, F major, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, strings & b.c.
• ** Symphony No. 5, D major, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings & b.c.
• ** Symphony No. 6, F major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** Symphony No. 7, B-flat major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** Symphony No. 8, D minor, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• 12 Overtures in 7, 9, 10 and 12 Parts overtures from other odes and theater works
• ** No. 1, D major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 2, G major, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 3, B-flat major, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 4, D major, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 5, F major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 6, D minor, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 7, G major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 8, D major, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 9, A major, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 10, F major, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 11, D major, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings & b.c.
• ** No. 12, G major, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings & b.c.
• Concerto, D minor
• Concerto grosso, B minor
• 3 Concerti grossi, B-flat major, D minor, E minor
• Concerto, bassoon performed at Castle Tavern, London, 11 Aug 1742

  Instrumental

• 3 Sonatas, 2 violins and basso continuo
• Overture, C major keyboard score only
• 12 Sonatas, 2 violins, cello, harpsichord
• 10 voluntaries, organ/harpsichord