Violets was written in 1927. It is a setting of a poem by George Meredith (1828-1909) and has been arranged here for High Voice with Piano accompaniment.Muriel Herbert (1897-1984) was a British composer pianist and singer. She studied at the Royal College of Music where she met Charles Stanford and Roger Quilter. She wrote many songs for Voice and Piano in her early life as well as some instrumental and orchestral works but stopped composing after her husband left her in 1939. Her works were largely unappreciated until twenty years after her death but they have now quite rightly been the subject of a keen and enthusiasticrevival with a growing fan base.

Selected art songs by prominent American composers in the G. Schirmer and AMP catalog including songs by Samuel Barber John Duke Lee Hoiby Charles Ives John Jacob Niles William Schuman and others.Includes worksfrom Ernst Bacon: It's all I have to bring • Samuel Barber: The Crucifixion; The Daisies; Hey nonny no!; The Monk and His Cat; Mother I cannot mind my wheel; A Slumber Song of the Madonna; Sure on this shiningnight • Paul Bowles: Cabin; Heavenly Grass; Sugar in the Cane • Theodore Chanler: The Lamb • Ernest Charles: When I Have Sung My Songs • John Duke: Loveliest of Trees • Richard Hageman:Do not go my love • Lee Hoiby: Where the Music Comes From • Carles Ives: In the mornin'; Serenity • Herbert Kingsley: The Green Dog • Charles Naginski: The Pasture • John Jacob Niles:Black is the color of my true love's hair; Go 'way from my window; The Lass from the Low Countree • Gladys Rich: American Lullaby • William Roy: This Little Rose • John Sacco: Brother Will BrotherJohn • William Schuman: Holiday Song; Orpheus with his lute.