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674 STANLEY STAR SPANGLED BANNER, THE
Op.
91. Songs of the Sea ior baritone, male choir, and orchestra.
92. Three Ehapaodies from Dante, for pf. solo,
93. Five Characteristic Pieces for Tin. and pt (also for Tcello and
pt
&i. Symphony in B flat.* (In memonam O. F, Watts.)
9B. Serenade-Nonet in ¥ for strings and wind.*
96. Stabat Mater, Symphonic Can^ta for soli, choir, and orchestra.
(Leeds Festival, 1907.)
97. Six 'Songs of Faith ' (Tennyson and Walt Whitman).
98. Evening Service on Gregorian Tones.
99. String Quai'tet in G minor.*
100. Wellington (Tennyson) for soli, chorus, and orchestra.
101. Six Short Preludes and Postjudea for Organ, Ist set.
loa. Overture and Incidental Music to 'Attlla' (Binyon). (HlB
Majesty's Theatre, 1907.)*
103. Fantasia and Fugue for organ.
104. String Quartet In B flat. (In memorlam Joseph Joachim.)
105. Six Short Preludes and Postludes for organ, 2nd set.
Without Opub-Ndmbehs.
Festival Overture. (Gloucester Featlval, 1877.)
Sym phony In B flat. (A lexandra Palace, 1876.)
Blegiac Symphony, in D minor. (Cambridge, 1882.)
Scherzo in B minor for pf.*
Songs—'Irish Eyes,' 'A Valentine,' 'Three Ditties of the olden
'lime,' ' La Belle Dama sans Merci,'
'
Frospice ' (Browning),
'The Tomb,' contr. to an album published by Teague and
£ing (Winchester), 'I likeir my love' (contr. to album of
Twelve New Songs by British Composers, 1891).
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Arrangements of Irish Song»— ' Songs of Old Ireland,' 1882 ; Irish
Songs and Ballads,' 1893.
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The Peti ie Collection of Irish Music ' was edited by Stanford for the
Irish Literary Society in 1902-5.
The operas, 'The Veiled Prophet,' ' Savonarola,' and the ' Canterbury
Pilgrims,' which have no opus-numbers, are referred to above.
Mentlonshould also be made of an Installation Ode for the Chancellor
of the University (the Duke of Devonshire), in 1892, which is a
'quodllbet' on well-known tunes. (See for this and many
other details of Stanford's career, the MusieaZ Times of 1898,
pp. 785 ff.)
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STANLEY, Charles John, Mus.B., born in
London, Jan. 17, 1713, at two years old became
blind by accident, at seven began to learn
music from John Reading, organist of Hackney,
and a few months later was placed with Maurice
Greene, under whom he made such rapid
progress that in 1724 he was appointed organist
of AH Hallows, Bread Street, and in 1726
organist of St. Andrew's, Holborn. On July
19, 1729, he graduated as Mus.B. at Oxford.
In 1734 he was appointed one of the organists
of the Temple Church, In 1742 he published
'Six Cantatas, for a Voice and Instruments,'
the words by Hawkins, the future historian of
music, which proved so successful that a few
months later he published a similar set to words
by the same author. In 1757 he produced
his ' Jephthah,' and in 1760 joined J. C. Smith
in carrying on the oratorio performances formerly
conducted by Handel, for which he composed
'Zimri,' 1760, and 'The Fall of Egypt,' 1774.
In 1761 he set to music Robert Lloyd's dramatic
pastoral, Arcadia, or The Shepherd's
'
Wedding,' written in honour of the marriage
of George III. and Queen Charlotte. [Eight
solos for a German flute, violin or harpsichord
appeared as op. 1, and Six Concertos in seven
parts, for strings, as op. 2 ; another set of flute
solos was made from these latter.] He published
also 'Three Cantatas and Three Songs
for a Voice and Instruments,' and three sets,
of ten each, of Organ Voluntaries. In 1774,
on the retirement of Smith, he associated
Thomas Linley with himself in the conduct of
the oratorios. In 1779 he succeeded Boyce as
Master of the King's Band of Music. Burney
says he was ' a neat, pleasing, and accurate
performer, a natural and agreeable composer,
and an intelligent instructor.' He died May
19, 1786, His portrait by Gainsborough was
finely engraved by Mary Ann Rigg (afterwards
Scott), and another portrait, at the organ, was
engraved by Mao Ardell. w. H. H.
STANSBURY, George Feeberiok, son of
Joseph Stansbury, a player upon the fiute,
bassoon, and viola, residing in Bristol, was born
in that city in 1800. When only twelve years
old he was proficient on the pianoforte, violin,
and flute, and at nineteen was engaged by Mme.
Catalani as accompanist during a concert tour
through England. He was, in 1820-23, musical
director at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. In 1828
he appeared at the Haymarket Theatre as Capt.
Macheath in The Beggar's Opera, ' ' and on Jan.
15, 1829, at Covent Garden in A. Lee's 'Nymph
of the Grotto.' He sang there and at Drury
Lane for several years. [He was re-engaged at
Dublin from 1833 to 1835 ; his music for ' Life
in Dublin ' was given there in 1834. w. H. o. p.]
He was engaged as musical director and conductor
at the St. James's, the Surrey, and other
theatres. He composed music for Waverley
'
(with A. Lee), and 'Puss in Boots,' 1832;
'The Elfin Sprite,' and 'Neuha's Cave,' 1833,
His
and other pieces, besides many songs, etc.
voice was of poor quality, but he was an excellent
musician, and a ready composer. He died
of dropsy, June 3, 1845. w. H. H.
STANSFIELD, Ely, a Yorkshire musician,
settled at or near Halifax in the early part
of the 18th century. He issued Psalmody
'
Epitomiz'd, being a brief collection of plain and
useful Psalm Tunes, both old and new, in four
parts, London, seconded., 1731, 8vo.' The book
is of considerable interest as a volume of Yorkshire
psalmody, many of the tunes being by
Stansfleld himself, and named after Lancashire
and Yorkshire towns. F. K.
STAR SPANGLED BANNER, THE.
An
American national song, the melody being that
of an English lyric commencing, To ' Anacreon
in Heaven.' The story of the verses is as
follows : Francis Scott Key, a young lawyer of
Baltimore, during the English and American
war in 1814, sought the release of a medical
friend who had been captured by the English,
and who was detained on one of the English
vessels. With a flag of truce and a letter
from the President, he rowed out on Sept. 13,
1814, and obtained his request ; but as there
had been planned an attack on Fort M 'Henry,
they were not allowed to leave until the next
day. During the bombardment the Baltimore
lawyer anxiously watched the stars and stripes
floating over the fort until nightfall, and when
morning dawned, to his great joy, the flag still
held its position. Scott Key wrote the first
verse during his detention and completed the
song ashore. It was immediately published on
a broadside, and in a newspaper, The Baltimore
American for Sept. 21, 1814. The author had
adapted it to the English air which had more