The Thematic Catalogue is a partial list compiled by Tranchell of his own early compositions, including titles, year (and part of year), a musical motif, and various other annotations. The Catalogue (also referred to as the 'Thematic Index') is held in the Cambridge University Library, MS.Tranchell.2.853.
Note that some of the musical motifs are not complete musical phrases, perhaps being more aides-memoire.
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Transcribed entries
A note at the top of the first page states:
B Book. X not fully written.
'FL' is understood to mean Footlights.
The titles from the catalogue are listed in tabular form below, without the musical phrases. We're also publishing the list of missing songs, with their musical motifs, in the order they appeared in Tranchell's Catalogue:
Missing songs with a few bars of notes
| Song title from Catalogue | Annotation | Year |
|---|---|---|
| That's why I'm buying the ring | 194[?] | |
| Malta telescope | 1944 | |
| Death is my preoccupation | 1944½ | |
| RAF | 1944½ | |
| Floriariariana Blues | 1944½ | |
| Gleeclub | 1944½ | |
| Malta the little Altar | 1944 | |
| I’m curious Katie | B | 1944 |
| Words cannot Express | B | 1944 |
| Hopeful-nil desperandum | X | 1944 |
| My new boyfriend | 1944½ | |
| Buy buy blackbird | 1944 | |
| It’s a cuppa mamma’s special home-made tea | B | 1944 |
| Doormat | 1944 | |
| Ring the bells and Put the flaps out | FL. 1947 | 194? |
| Good evening every body | FL. 1947 | 1944 |
| Down in the Backroom | X | 1944 |
| Just a bit of Heather | FL [????]. B | 1944 |
| Convalescence | [?] | |
| Barnend | 1947 | |
| Amphilokia | 194? | |
| Jeep | B | 1945 |
| Spartos opening | 1945 | |
| Salonika. Queen Olga Street | X | 1945½ |
| Harding Roberts | 1945½ | |
| Signal mess | X | 1945½ |
| Tout le monde s’arrete pour le five-o’-clock | 1946 | |
| Sing my heart | 1946 | |
| It’s love that makes the world go round | 1946½ | |
| Calais transit | X[?] | 1946 |
| Whip my Belly | 1945½ | |
| Psychiko | 1945 | |
| Lets be always in each others companies | FL. 1947 | 1946½ |
| Peas-hill parlour | 1946 | |
| Lacy yourself tighter, Lucy [sic. should be Lace...] | X | 1947 |
| Malta scrap | X | 1944 |
| Of the silly ways | F.L. B | 1946½ |
| We are the Footylights | F.L. B | 1946½ |
| No No No! (Stop Stop Stop!) | F.L. B | 1946½ |
| The Dowager Says | 1946½ | |
| Too much kissing can be bad for you | 1947 | |
| Insatiable | X | 1946½ |
| Love’s gotta be Coupon free | 1946½ | |
| Gershwin Concerto | X | 1947 |
| Silvester | 1947 | |
| Barnabas-Tenison Halt | 1947½ | |
| Straw in mouth | 1947½ | |
| Nanny Who dat man! | 1947½ | |
| High kicks | 1947½ | |
| Exhibition | 1947½ | |
| Chauffeur | 1947½ | |
| Dot’s douce | 1947½ | |
| Pagan World | 1947½ | |
| It’s proven he’s a Trinity man | 1948 | |
| Swiss Car | FL 1948 | 1947½ |
| Pizzicato Doublebass | 1948 | |
| There's an Opening for you | FL S | 1947½ |
| Backs to the Wall boys | FL S | 1947½ |
| I’m the minister | FL S | 1947½ |
| With Fur around my bottom | FL S | 1947½ |
| Up the Cam | FL 1948 | 1947½ |
| Old Curtain Number | FL S | 1947 |
| You’re exactly like a dream come true | X | 1947½ |
| A Thing or Two | X | 1947 |
| Shut your eyes, hold your breath | 1944 | |
| Fairy | B | 1945½ |
| Money trouble | ?? | 1947½ |
| Torquay Strand | 1947 | |
| Happy Ending | 1948 | |
| Second Man | 1948 | |
| Bearded Lady | 1948 | |
| I’ve got a cat called Isabelle | B | 1938 |
| Here comes Tootsie | X | 1938 |
| Why I can’t get off with you | X | 1941 |
| The awfully chap | F.L.1948 | 1948 |
| The Five Four Tune | X | 1947½ |
| It’s an End | X | 1948 |
| Olympic Torch Song | F.L.1948 | 1948 |
| Carnival in Bishops Stortford | F.L.1948 | 1948 |
| Sticking to the Saddle | F.L.1948 | 1948 |
| Temple Dancer | F.L.1948 | 1948 |
| It’s The End | ?F.L.1948 | 1948 |
| R.I. (Webbs Court) | 1948 | |
| I like a hat (Freedom) | FL S | 1948 |
| Customs House. Channel Queen | 194[?] | |
| Customs House. Main tune | 194[?] | |
| Customs House. Lady | 194[?] | |
| Customs House. You lie to me | 194[?] | |
| All roads lead to Rome | 194[?] | |
| Telepathy | 194[?] | |
| Freeman Hardy & Willis | 194[?] | |
| Carter Pattér-song | 1948 | |
| Come to Codwin Bay | 1948 | |
| Dancing thro | 1948½ | |
| Flitting | 1948½ | |
| Symbolic | 1948½ | |
| Dancing thro’ again | 1948½ | |
| What a surprise | 1948½ | |
| Cervinia trial | 1948½ | |
| Another bit of dancing thro’ again | 1948½ | |
| Trinity Street | 1948½ | |
| Ted’s Pages One | 1948½ | |
| Ted’s Pages Two | 1948½ | |
| Paris Albergo | 1948½ | |
| On the Road | 1948½ | |
| On the Road again | 1948½ | |
| Green Walz | 1948½ | |
| Caressante | 1948½ | |
| Middle first | 1948½ | |
| Crossing France | 1948½ | |
| Bess | 1948½ | |
| Similar Cases | 1948½ | |
| Forty Eight Genes | 1948½ | |
| Mia Bambina | 1948½ | |
| Blood boil | 1948½ | |
| Musical trains | 1948½ | |
| Following the Fish | 1948½ | |
| Who cares | 1948½ | |
| Greek way of making a friend | 1948½ | |
| No hunting | 1948½ | |
| It’s in the book | 1948½ | |
| Swingbridge | 1948½ | |
| Fish II | 1948½ | |
| to friend | 1948½ | |
| Faraday Villa | 1949 | |
| Hills Road | 1949 | |
| We three always agree | 1949 | |
| Goodbye to Toni’s | 1948 | |
| ?? Panto opening | 1947½ | |
| Crowther | 1944 | |
| U.2. | 1942 | |
| Second attempt | 1944 | |
| Happy Chorus | 1944 | |
| Fairies | 1946 | |
| Catholic Church | 1949 | |
| Cornelius Flott | 1948½ | |
| Cloud at 15.00 | 1949 | |
| Oedipus | 1949 | |
| Spring | 1949 | |
| Summer dance | 1949 | |
| Summer main | 1949 | |
| Excuse for Venice | 1949 | |
| Vegetabu-el | 1949 | |
| You just can’t think (Autumn) | 1949 | |
| Putting gin in the tea (Autumn) | 1949 | |
| We’ve had an awful lot of trouble with the boss (Autumn) | 1949 | |
| Autumn | 1949 | |
| Fashions | 1949 | |
| It’s never very safe (Winter) | 1949 | |
| A lot of people say (Winter) | 1949 | |
| If winter comes can spring be far behind | 1949 | |
| Uncle Sam | 1949½ | |
| Stipulations | 1949½ | |
| Give me back my heart | 1949½ | |
| Under your nose | 1949½ | |
| Idling | 1949½ | |
| Arlington Rd Valse | 1949½ | |
| Ça ne veut dire rien | 1949½ | |
| Sixpence for a chair | 1949½ | |
| Under your Nose | 1949½ | |
| Mrs Brown, Mrs Green, etc | 1949½ | |
| Don’t give them the benefit of the doubt | 1950 | |
| Mislinguelt | 1950½ | |
| Sniff sniff sniff | 1950½ | |
| Lullaby | 1951½ | |
| I put lead in their pencils | 1951½ | |
| Robinson Crusoe | 1952½ | |
| Panto Closing Scene I | 1952½ | |
| Christmas Pud | 1952½ | |
| Joshua Taylor’s Pause for laugh | 1952½ | |
| Please be abnormal nicely | 1949 | |
| Hoopla Hoopla! | 1953 | |
| 37 Jesus Lane | 1953 | |
| Knights of Gladness | 1953 | |
| Square Dance | 1953 | |
| Who dear? | 1952½ | |
| Clown | 1953 | |
| Dame Reject | 1953½ | |
| Dwarf Ballet I, II, III | 1953½ | |
| Dame accept (?) | 1953½ | |
| Malky chapel | 1954 | |
| Heaven! | 1954 | |
| Unwritten History | 1954 | |
| Oh what a problem | 1954¾ | |
| Gerontophily | 1954¾ | |
| Dream ballet I – V | 1954¾ | |
| Zuleika: What an evensong | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: I say you’ve got bubbly | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Oxford City of repose | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Beauties architectural | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Nobody cares a wrap for sex in Oxford | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: In a tiny East End Music Hall | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Zuleika | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Zuleika's Travels | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: We’ll have a lovely time | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: We’ll show you the spot | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Lovely sky | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: The kind of man for me | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Life without love | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Just a Mother at heart | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Ten thousand acres | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: I John Albert | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Nellie O’Mara | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: None new the sorrow | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Anything may happen | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: The last dance | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: What has she got | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Always be wary of women | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Someday | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Skies of grey | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Follow the fashion | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Zuleika’s triumph | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Give me a school | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Just one year & maybe | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Zuleika’s unused verse | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Am I alone in my dreams | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: (various sketches) | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Interim | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Attempted Travel Song | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Am I alone : attempts | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Opening : attempt | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: lovely time (a), (b), (c) | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: City of repose (a), (b) | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Zuleika (a), (b) | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Nellie O’Mara sketch | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Polka | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Doorstep sketch | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Noaks sketch | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: I see myself in serge | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: My Doorstep Too | 1954½ | |
| Zuleika: Dorset's unused verse | 1954½-55 | |
| Zuleika: Damn the woman damn | 1954½-55 | |
| Zuleika: attempted New Travel Song | 1954½-55 | |
| Zuleika: New Travel Song | 1954½-55 | |
| Zuleika: New Polka | 1954½-55 | |
| Zuleika: sketches (a) - (j) | 1954½-55 | |
| Gates of Summer | 1955 | |
| Xmas Tree Land (& sketches x 4) | 1955¾ | |
| Ballet (x 7) | 1956¾ | |
| Ballet of Wishes (x 5) | 1959¾ | |
| Emperor & Princess Ballet (x 7) | ||
| Prologue Tune | ||
| Love Breakers | ||
| The Fox, Ape & Bee | ||
| Chapel List | 1958 | |
| Men’s Shop (3 tunes) | 1958½ | |
| Love, Cherish & Obey | ||
| A Near Thing | ||
| Hush He Sleeps | ||
| Tedious Affair | ||
| Lord Sandwich | ||
| Animal Ballet (x 7 tunes) | 1958¾ | |
| Wonderland Ballet | ||
| Prologue | ||
| Envelope Tune | ||
| If you can’t tell a dog from a cat | 1959 | |
| Matthew’s Tea | ||
| Pacific (a) & (b) | ||
| Corbulon | ||
| C’est la Vie | ||
| Mugwump | ||
| Bourganeuf | ||
| More muggywump | ||
| Magdalene Street | ||
| Pitt Press | ||
| Dodie & Vincent (a) & (b) | ||
| The Grove | ||
| Librarian | ||
| Exam Paper | ||
| Cavemen | ||
| Maybe I’m waiting for you | 1958¾ | |
| Good advice | 1958¾ | |
| Why why why (a) and (b) | 1958¾ | |
| Available | 1959 | |
| Photographs | 1959 | |
| His First Mayweek: A peaceful night in June | ||
| His First Mayweek: Decanters | ||
| His First Mayweek: I have just discovered | ||
| His First Mayweek: Crême Brûlée | ||
| His First Mayweek: By & By | ||
| His First Mayweek: Open the Gate for the Fire Brigade | ||
| His First Mayweek: The damage is severe | ||
| His First Mayweek: None of us like the Notion | ||
| His First Mayweek: Where in the whole wide world | ||
| His First Mayweek: Now Hadrian, built a | ||
| His First Mayweek: I telephoned the laundry | ||
| His First Mayweek: I came home | ||
| His First Mayweek: You were a teenage burglar | ||
| His First Mayweek: Love love love | ||
| His First Mayweek: Just a toothbrush & pyjamas | ||
| Puritanism | ||
| Sonata Horn Violin Piano I, II, III) | ||
| What deaths men have died | ||
| Nativitates (I & II) | ||
| Cissie's Swans (I - XIII) | ||
| Lied von der lustbarkeit | ||
| 3rd piano sonata (I - V) | ||
| Johnson over Jordan (I - XXXIV) | ||
| 7 pieces in alphabetical order (1 - 7) |