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Somerville's published works for piano include: "Alpine Roses – Morceau" (1913); "Automobile waltz" (1912); "Carina – Morceau pizzicato pour Piano" (1911); "The Honey Bee – Humoresque for the piano" (1924); "Intermezzo" (1922); "The
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remarked that the score "halts between the methods of the lyric and the grand-opera stage, and would have been all the better for cutting out all the connections with the latter." A week later, the critic continued, "He has no great gift of melody. ... Worse than the orchestration is the handling of
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Somerville include: "All the Way to Coventry" (1913); "Call the yowes to the knowes" (1891); "God Sends the Night" (1908); "The Hour I love the best of all" (1924); "The Lark and the Nightingale" (1900); "The Laughing Waves" (1900); "A Memory" (1891); "The Song of Kent" (1921); "Songs of
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and "Three Light Pieces for Piano: Bagatelle, Melody, and Valse" (1911). Among his orchestral works are "Four
Fancies – Suite" (1925); "Funeral of a Flea" (1928); "Nucleus Themes, No. 1" (1927); "Razzle-Dazzle" (1928); and "Two Grotesque Recitations (1927)".
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