# Madeleine Dring

Madeleine Dring, née le 7 septembre 1923 à Hornsey et morte le 26 mars 1977 à Londres, est une violoniste, pianiste, chanteuse et compositrice britannique.

## Biographie

Née le 7 septembre 1923 à Hornsey, Madeleine Dring étudie le violon au Junior Department du Royal College of Music de Londres. Elle y acquiert une formation de pianiste, de chanteuse et d'actrice. Elle prend des cours de composition avec Herbert Howells et Ralph Vaughan Williams. Elle écrit notamment un opéra : Cupboard Love.

## Œuvres
### Instrumental et vocal

* Italian Dance (1960), hautbois et piano
* Fantasy Sonata en un mouvement (1938, publié en 1948), piano
* Three Fantastic Variations on Lilliburlero pour deux pianos (1948)
* Jig (1948), piano
* Prelude and Toccata (1948), piano
* Tarantelle (1948), piano à quatre mains
* Festival Scherzo (1951), piano et orchestre à cordes
* Sonata pour deux pianos (1951)
* March: for the New Year (1954), piano
* Caribbean Dance (Tempo Tobago) (1959), piano quatre mains ou deux mains
* Dance Suite (1961), piano
* Polka (1962), oboe and piano
* Colour Suite (1963), piano
* Danza Gaya (1965), deux pianos ou hautbois et piano
* Three Dances (1968; Josef Weinberger), piano
* Trio pour flûte, hautbois, et piano (1968)
* Valse française (1980), pour piano à deux ou quatre mains (original scores housed at Royal College of Music, London)
* Three Pieces: Valse, Sarabande, Tango (1983), flute et piano
* Waltz (1983), hautbois et piano
* Suite (1984), harmonica et piano (plus tard arrangé par Roger Lord pour hautbois)
* Trio pour hautbois, basson, et clavecin (1986) (original score housed at Royal College of Music, London)
* Idyll pour hautbois (alto) et piano (le mari de la compositrice, Roger Lord, déçu que l'œuvre reste enjouée et inéditée pendant de nombreuses années, peut-être à cause de son chromatisme, a décidé de transcrire la partie de hautbois, dont il jouait, à un instrument plus adapté. La pièce a été enregistrée pour la première fois en 2007 par Thierry Cammaert, hautboïste de l'ensemble Quartz, ensemble d'instruments à vent belge L'ensemble a aussi interprété l'œuvre sous forme de trio pour flûte, hautbois et piano)
* Three Shakespeare Songs (original score housed at Royal College of Music, London), (1949) (Published by Legnick 1949, republished with 4 additional Shakespeare songs, Thames 1992, published as Dring Volume 1)* First performance 10 May 1944 with Ifor Evans, Baritone, Madeleine Dring, Accompanist, performed at the RCM
* Thank you, Lord (1953), vocal, text L. Kyme (not published as composed - Dring did not approve of this edition)
* An additional four songs with texts by L. Kyme were written in 1953. They have now been published.
* The Pigtail (1963) vocal duet, text A. von Chamisso.
* Dedications: Five poems by R. Herrick (1967), vocal suite (published 1992 by Thames as Dring Volume 2)* (original score housed at Royal College of Music, London)
* Love and time: Four Songs (1970s) (published in 1994 by Thames as Dring Volume 5)*
* Four Night Songs: texts of Michael Armstrong (1976), (published 1985 Cambria (US) 1992 Thames as Dring Volume 3)*
* Five Betjeman Songs (1976) (published in 1980 by Weinberger)* (original score housed at Royal College of Music, London)
* Seven Songs for Medium Voice (various compositional dates, compiled and published by Thames in 1993 as Dring Volume 4)*
* Six Songs for High Voice (various compositional dates, compiled and published by Thames in 1999 as Dring Volume 6)* Includes: My true-love hath my heart, Echoes, The Cherry Blooming, The Parting, The Enchantment, Love is a Sickness
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 1: Art Songs and Arrangements: Lyrics of Shakespeare, Herrick, Rossetti, Ellison, Anon, and Arrangements of Horn, Pinsuti, Kjerulf, and Pattison. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 2: Cabaret Songs: All Music and Lyrics of Madeleine Dring. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 3: More Art Songs: Lyrics of Cibber, Marlowe, Goldsmith, Blake, Dring, Longfellow, and Tynan. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 4: More Cabaret Songs: Lyrics of Madeleine Dring and Charlotte Mitchell. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 5: Still More Art Songs, Arrangements, and Love Songs: Lyrics of Herrick, Campbell, Lord, Dring, and Kyme. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 6: Still More Cabaret and Theatre Songs: Lyrics of Dring, Mitchell, Vanbrugh, and Bridie. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 7: Cabaret Duets: Lyrics of Aitken, Breton, Dring, Howitt, Lear, Mitchell, and Rafferty. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 8: Cabaret Ensembles of 3 or More Voices: Lyrics of Dring, Mitchell, and Aitken. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.
* Previously Unpublished Vocal Works Volume 9: Songs from West End Revues: Lyrics of Dring, Mitchell, and Rafferty. Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR. Published 2018 Copyright Simon Lord.

### Théâtre et télévision
#### Musique de scène

The Emperor and the Nightingale (1941) Performed at the RCM 20 December 1941. No score is available at this time. Tobias and the Angel (1946) Incidental music and two songs published 2018 Somebody’s Murdered Uncle (1947) for BBC radio; Duets: "I should have trusted you darling" and "There's nothing to stop us now" There are also two quartets: "There's no such thing as a perfect crime" and "Bloggins, Birch, and Frome," as well as a solo entitled, "J. Allington Slade." Songs published 2018 The Buskers (1959), for which she provided music for the Wedding Song, not located at this time. Little Laura Cartoons (1960–61), Dring provided and played music for six episodes. Four episodes were broadcast in New Zealand in 1976. The Jackpot Question (1961), for Associated TV, repeated in 1962 with another cast. The Whisperers (1961), for ITV Season 7, Episode 7. The Provok’d Wife (1963), texts by Vanbrugh: Four pieces typeset by Alistair Fisher. Published in 2018 The Lady and the Clerk (1964), for Associated TV I Can Walk Where I Like, Can’t I? (1964), for Associated TV When the Wind Blows (1965), for Associated TV Helen and Edward and Henry (1966), for Associated TV Variation on a Theme (1966), for Associated TV Airs on a Shoestring (1953) Songs: "Model Models," Films on the Cheap Side at Cheapside" "Strained Relations," and "Snowman" (all lyrics by Charlotte Mitchell), "Sing High, Sing Low" (Lyrics by Madeleine Dring). Songs published 2018 Pay the Piper (1954) "Pay the Piper" (Lyrics at BL) Location of song scores unknown at this time). From Here and There (1955) "Resolutions" and "Life Sentence" (Lyrics Charlotte Mitchell) (Lyrics at BL) (Location of song scores unknown at this time) Fresh Airs (1955) "Mother knows," Sketch "Witchery," and "Miss Spenser," (Lyricist Madeleine Dring) (Lyrics at BL, but location of song score for Miss Spenser unknown at this time). Mother knows published 2018 Child’s Play (1958) Overture, "High in the Pines," "Love Song," and "Hearts and Arrows" have been recovered. (Location of scores for four other songs missing this time)) (Lyricist Sean Rafferty) These are not at the BL because Players' Theatre is a private club and was not censored. Four to the Bar (1961) "Diedre" was included in this, also known as "Mother knows" from "Fresh Airs"(Lyricist Madeleine Dring.) An LP was produced by Philips of this music. Published 2018. Ballet[edit] Waiting for ITMA (1947), for BBC TV The Real Princess (1971), scored for 2 pianos

### Opera

Cupboard Love (représenté à titre posthume le 19 décembre 1983 à St John's Smith Square par Intimate Opera Company). Publié en 2017 par Classical Vocal Reprints, Fayetteville, AR, première américaine en avril 2018, Florida State University. Première européenne à Byre Opera, St Andrews University, prévue en juin 2019. Première londonienne par The Operatists, Tête à Tête Opera Festival 6 septembre 2023.

### Autres compositions

* The Wild Swans (1950), pièce de théâtre pour enfants, Cygnet Company
* The Fair Queen of Wu (1951), drame dansé pour la télévision de la BBC, partition au RCM
* The Marsh Kings's Daughter (1951), pièce de théâtre pour enfants, Cygnet Company
* The Scarlet Crabapple (La pomme écarlate), Cygnet Company