The below is a list of compositions and arrangements understood to have been produced by Thomas Bulch either in his own name or under one of the known pseudonyms he used. Primarily Godfrey Parker and Henri Laski. Again much of the list has been compiled based on lists produced by previous researchers of the subject, including Thomas’s grandson Eric Tomkins – however, a few have been added based upon discoveries of pieces having been cited as performed in contemporary reports of brass programmes from the Australian and British newspapers. We keep a more detailed list annotated with these cited performances. The Australian site ‘Trove’ has been an excellent resource in this respect. We have also been given other lists such as the listed catalogue of the Arthur Sterling collection which contains a great many Bulch pieces.
NB: Though initial research by others led us to believe that Carl Volti, Charles Le Thiere and Theo Bonheur were all Bulch pseudonyms we have learned this to be not the case so we removed those titles from this list. It’s highly likely that Tom Bulch arranged their works for brass band though.
I have included arrangements as well as compositions as it’s key to appreciating how hard T E Bulch worked, there are many arrangements and particularly edits to pieces composed by others for which he will probably never be credited. It’s easy to see from this (quite probably incomplete list) just how prolific T E Bulch was. A great many of these pieces were advertised for their accessibility and ease of playing. It’s clear that Thomas knew that to sell a great deal of music it would need to be of a broadly playable standard rather than making each piece deliberately challenging, yet there are many pieces composed specifically for contest too.
Title | Type | Credited | Date | |
A Day in Scotland | Quick March | Godfrey Parker | ||
A Day in Ireland | March | T E Bulch | ||
A Song That Will Never Die | Song | Eugene Lacosta | 1904 | |
A Guid New Year | Arrangement | (arr.) T E Bulch | ||
A Venetian Carnival | March | T E Bulch | ||
ABCDEF | March | T E Bulch | ||
Adelina | Schottische | Godfrey Parker | 1892 or earlier | |
Adeste Fidelis | (arr.) T E Bulch | |||
Adventurer, The | Quick March (March) | T E Bulch | 1910 or earlier | |
Alice Bertha | Mazurka | Henri Laski | ||
After The Ball | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Al Fresco | Schottische | T E Bulch | 1891 or earlier | |
Alice Where Art Thou | Arrangement | (arr.) T E Bulch | ||
All Coons Day | Two Step | T E Bulch | 1906 or earlier | |
American Airs | Selection | T E Bulch | 1906 or earlier | |
Anna Bolena | Contest Selection | T E Bulch | 1895 or earlier | |
Annie of the Vale | March | T E Bulch | ||
Antipodes | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1887 or earlier | |
Attack, The | Grand Quickstep | T E Bulch | 1896 | |
Austral | Overture | T E Bulch | 1894 | |
Australian Light Horse | March | T E Bulch | 1910 or earlier | |
Azalien | Mazurka | Godfrey Parker | ||
Ballarat | March | T E Bulch | 1884 | |
Baltimore | Selection | T E Bulch | 1910 or earlier | |
Baby Elephant, The | March | |||
Bathurst | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1891 | |
Battalion | March | T E Bulch | 1924 or earlier | |
Battle of Eureka, The | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1890 or earlier | |
Battle of Jutland | March | T E Bulch | ||
Belgian Guards, The | Quick march | T E Bulch | 1895 | |
Beauty’s Bower | T E Bulch | |||
Beauty Waltz | Waltz | Henri Laski | 1907 or earlier | |
Bell Brandon | March | T E Bulch | ||
Bendigo | March | T E Bulch | 1908 or earlier | |
Big Push, The | March | T E Bukch | ||
Benita | Cornet Solo | T E Bulch | 1924 or earlier | |
Bizarre | Solo | T E Bulch | ||
Blue Bells Of Scotland | Air Varie | T E Bulch | ||
Blue Danube | Arrangement | (arr.) Bulch | ||
Bombardique | Polka for bass end | T E Bulch | ||
Bombardment of Port Arthur | Grand Naval Fantasia | T E Bulch | 1904 | |
Bonnie Jennie Gray | Quick March | Godfrey Parker | 1890 or earlier | |
Boys of ANZAC | March | T E Bulch | ||
Breathe Not of Parting | Quick March | Godfrey Parker | 1904 | |
Brewster’s Millions | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1908 | |
Brigadier, The | March | T E Bulch | 1919 | |
Bright-Eyed Nancy | Valse | Henri Laski | 1904 | |
Brilliant | Cornet Solo | T E Bulch | 1908 or earlier | |
Buy A Broom | Air Varie | T E Bulch | ||
Canterbury Engineers | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1893 | |
Carbine | Galop | T E Bulch | 1905 or earlier | |
Cheer Up Brigade | Quick March | T E bulch | ||
Chef D’Oeuvre | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1886 | |
Chiselhurst | Quadrille | T E Bulch | 1905 or earlier | |
Christians Awake | Hymn | (arr.) Bulch | 1895 or earlier | |
Clarice | Mazurka | Godfrey Parker | 1892 or earlier | |
Commanding Officers Parade | Quick March | T E Bulch | ||
Concerto | T E Bulch | 1926 or earlier | ||
Constellation | March | T E Bulch | 1900 or earlier | |
Coons Festival, The | Rag Time March | T E Bulch | ||
Coquette | Waltz | Henri Laski | ||
Craigelee | Quick march | Godfrey Parker | 1892 or earlier | |
Crystal | Selection | T E Bulch | 1905 or earlier | |
Cyclone | March | T E Bulch | 1888 or earlier | |
Dainty Daisy | Intermezzo | Henri Laski | 1906 or earlier | |
Dance of the Dandy Coons | Barn Dance | T E Bulch | 1914 | |
Darling Dolly | Waltz | Henri Laski | ||
Deiria, The | March | T E Bulch | 1906 or earlier | |
Defiance | March | T E Bulch | 1926 or earlier | |
Dominion of Canada | Two Step | arr. T E Bulch | 1915 | |
Donizetti | Selectuon | (arr.) T E Bulch | 1904 or earlier | |
Dream Land | Waltz | Henri Laski | ||
Druid, The | March | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Dunedin Navels | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1894 | |
El Ave | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1891 or earlier | |
The Elephant | Grand March | T E Bulch | 1887 | |
Elsinore | Waltz / Valse | Henri Laski | 1899 or earlier | |
En Avant | Quickstep | T E Bulch | ||
Empire, The | Selection | T E Bulch | 1902 or earlier | |
English, The | T E Bulch | 1904 or earlier | ||
Euphemia | Waltz | T E Bulch | ||
Ever True | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1903 or earlier | |
Faint and Wearily | Air varie | T E Bulch | 1912 or earlier | |
Fair Japan | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1898 or earlier | |
Far fa’ the Gloamin | March | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Federation | March | Henri Laski | 1899 or earlier | |
Final Flutter | Galop | Godfrey Parker | 1894 or earlier | |
Flashlight | Gallop | Eugene Lacosta | 1904 | |
Flora Bell | Quickstep | T Bulch | Pre 1899 | |
Flowers of Australia Fleurs D’Australie, Les) | Waltz | Henri Laski | 1895 or earlier | |
Floretta | Mazurka | Eugene Lacosta | ||
Florina | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1903 | |
Flying Squadron | Eugene Lacosta | |||
Fortissimo | Contest Quadrilles | T E Bulch | 1893 or earlier | |
Forward | Quickstep | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Full and Plenty | (other compositions) | |||
Gawler | T E Bulch | |||
Gems of Meyerbeer | Selection | T E Bulch | 1901 | |
Gems of America | Selection | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Gems of Tscarkowsky | Fantasia | T E Bulch | 1904 | |
Gems from Weber | Selection | T E Bulch | 1886 or earlier | |
General Joffre | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1915 or earlier | |
Genevieve | T E Bulch
Henri Laski | 1895 or earlier | ||
Giant, The | March | Bulch | 1887 | |
Gibraltar | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1904 | |
Gigantique | Grand Contest Overture | T E Bulch | 1906 or earlier | |
Glory to God | Anthem | Godfrey Parker | ||
God Save Ireland | T E Bulch | 1929 or earlier | ||
Good Shot | Gallop | Godfrey Parker | 1887 | |
Good Morning | galop | T E Bulch | 1895 or earlier | |
Gollity | Polka | Godfrey Parker | ||
Go Lightly | Polka | Godfrey Parker | 1894 or earlier | |
Grand Christmas Number | Selection | T E Bulch | ||
Grasp of an English Hand, The | Quick March | Godfrey Parker | 1893 or earlier | |
Guid New Year, A | (arr.) Bulch | |||
Gumsucker, The | Tongueing Polka | T E Bulch | 1887 | |
Good-bye Mavourneen | March | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Grieve Not of Parting | Godfrey Parker | |||
Hail Victoria | Quick March | Charles Le Thiere (arr. Bulch) | ||
Happy Moments | March | T E Bulch | 1886 or earlier | |
Happy Thoughts | Schottische | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Hark The Herald Angels Sing | Arrangement | (arr.) Bulch | 1900 or earlier | |
Heroes of Gallipoli | March | T E Bulch | 1915 | |
Heroes of Erin | March | T E Bulch | 1922 or earlier | |
Highland Gems | Waltz | T E Bulch | ||
Home I Love So Well, The | Air Varie | T E Bulch | ||
Home Visions | (other composition) | T E Bulch | 1903 | |
Hopetoun | March | T E Bulch | 1891 or earlier | |
IBBN (Intercolonial Brass Band News) | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1896 or earlier | |
Il Barbiere | Selection | (arr.) T E Bulch | ||
In My Cottage | Air Varie | T E Bulch | ||
Ipswich | March | Arthur Kingsley | ||
Irish Airs | Selection | T E Bulch | 1929 or earlier | |
Irish Brigade | Quadrille | T E Bulch | 1908 or earlier | |
Jamie Stewart’s Birthday: Scotch Patrol | T E Bulch | |||
Jester’s March | Quick March March for piano | T E Bulch | 1908 or earlier | |
Jerusalem | Sacred March | Godfrey Parker | ||
Jessonda | March | (arr.) T E Bulch | 1901 | |
Jollity | Polka | T E Bulch | ||
Jolly Sailors | Schottische | T E Bulch | 1891 or earlier | |
Jubilee March, The | March | T E Bulch | 1887 | |
Jumbo | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1884 | |
Jupiter & Mars | Duet polka for 2 cornets with pianoforte accompaniment | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Just For Tonight | Solo | T E Bulch | ||
Kilties, The | Quadrille | T E Bulch | ||
King Pin | March | T E Bulch | ||
King’s Guard, The | March | T E Bulch | ||
Kiss, The | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1918 or earlier | |
Kitchener’s Army: March Past | March | T E Bulch | 1914 | |
Lads In Navy Blue, The | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Land of the Shamrock | Irish Quadrille | T E Bulch | 1915 or earlier | |
Last Thoughts | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1920 or earlier | |
Latrobe | Quick march | Godfrey Parker | ||
Lead On Lads | March | T E Bulch | 1902 or earlier | |
Lena | T E Bulch | |||
Les Fleurs D’Australie (also The Flower of Australia) | Waltz | Henri Laski | 1895 or earlier | |
Life of a Fireman | Descriptive Fantasia | S Redler | 1907 or earlier | |
Life of a Chorister | Descriptive Fantasia | S Redler | 1907 or earlier | |
Life of a Blacksmith | Descriptive Fantasia | S Redler | 1907 or earlier | |
Light Artillery | March | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Lionheart | March | T E Bulch | 1910 or earlier | |
Little Dark Eyes | Waltz | Henri Laski | 1906 or earlier | |
Little Maggie May | March | T E Bulch | 1893 or earlier | |
Lohengrin | Selection | (arr.) T E Bulch | 1903 or earlier | |
Lucretia Borgia | Arrangement (Grand Selection) | Godfrey Parker | ||
Lurline | Selection | T E Bulch | 1895 | |
Lyndhurst | Gallop | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Mabel | Varsoviana (Mazurka) | Godfrey Parker | ||
Maid O’th’ Mist | Waltz | Henri Laski | 1907 | |
The Maori Chief | March | T E Bulch | 1888 or earlier | |
March of the Druids | March | T E Bulch | 1897 | |
Mary Blane | Quick march | Godfrey Parker | 1906 or earlier | |
Mastere | Quartette | T E Bulch | 1904 or earlier | |
Meditation | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1909 or earlier | |
Melbourne by Night | Selection | T E Bulch | 1906 or earlier | |
Melodique | March | T E Bulch | 1904 or earlier | |
Meltonville | Lancers | T E Bulch | ||
Memories of England | Selection | T E Bulch (also Godfrey Parker) | 1905 | |
Memories of Erin | Selection | T E Bulch | ||
Mira | Godfrey Parker | |||
Miranda | Intermezzo | T E Bulch | ||
Moa, The | Contest march | T E Bulch | 1896 | |
Mon Ami | Polka | T E Bulch | 1885 or earlier | |
My Darling Wife | Song solo | |||
My Polly | Waltz | Henri Laski (also Godfrey Parker) | 1893 or earlier | |
Myrine | Waltz | Henri Laski (& T E Bulch) | 1894 or earlier | |
Nada | Valsette | T E Bulch & Henri Laski | 1898 or earlier | |
Neck or Nothing | March | T E Bulch | ||
Newcastle | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Newtown | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Noralla | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1910 | |
No Surrender | March | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Olivia | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1891 or earlier | |
On The Alert | March | T E Bulch | 1925 or earlier | |
On The War Path | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1904 | |
Opossum Hunt | Gallop | T E Bulch | 1891 or earlier | |
Our Hands Have Met | Godfrey Parker | |||
Our Heroes Return | Quick March | T E Bulch | ||
Pantaloon (Bombardon) | Air Varie | T E Bulch | ||
Parade | T E Bulch | 1897 or earlier | ||
Parthia Schottische | Schottische | T E Bulch | 1896 | |
Peak Hill March | Quick March | T E Bulch | ||
Phonograph | Quadrille | T E Bulch | 1893 or earlier | |
Piemuera | March | A L Sutton | ||
Pile Arms | March | T E Bulch | ||
Polish Patrol | Arrangement | (Ch. De Kontski) | ||
Popular Airs | Selection | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Popular Hits | Selection | T E Bulch | 1910 or earlier | |
Port Sea | Quadrilles | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Postman’s Parade | Quick march | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Prayer and Passion | T E Bulch | |||
Pro, The | Solo brilliante, for cornet with pianoforte, solo polka | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Promised Land, The | Sacred march | Godfrey Parker | ||
Queen of Beauty | Solo polka | T E Bulch | 1890 or earlier | |
Queen of the Night | Waltz | Henri Laski | ||
Queen of the Rink | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1924 or earlier | |
Quickshot | Gallop | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Rally, The | Quick march | T E Bulch | ||
Ready for Action | Quick march | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Regimental Favourite | March | T E Bulch | 1908 or earlier | |
Remember Majuba | Song | Henri Laski | ||
Reminiscences of Weber | Selection | T E Bulch | 1895 or earlier | |
Robert Il Diavolo | Selection | T E Bulch | ||
Roberto | Quadrille | T E Bulch | ||
Rose of the Morn | Waltz | Henri Laski | ||
Round About | Polka | |||
Royal Irish Brigade | Quadrille | T E Bulch | 1899 or earlier | |
Royal English | Lancers | T E Bulch | 1900 or earlier | |
Sabrina | Air varie | (arr.) T E Bulch | 1901 | |
Sacred Gems | Sacred Fantasia | T E Bulch | ||
Scottish Gems | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1897 or earlier | |
Scotch Airs | Quartette | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Sambo’s Birthday | Two Step | T E Bulch | 1905 or earlier | |
Sandhurst | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1892 or earlier | |
Sandringham | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1908 or earlier | |
Second to None | Contest March | T E Bulch | 1893 or earlier | |
Semiquaver | March | T E Bulch | 1893 or earlier | |
Scarlet & Blue, The:To Lord Kitchener of Khartoum | March | arr. as Henri Laski | 1905 | |
She’s Sleeping Neath The Oregon Pines | Cornet Solo | T E Bulch | 1906 or earlier | |
Shildon | March | T E Bulch | 1887 | |
Sleeping Camp, The | Quick March | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Soldier’s Pride, The | March | T E Bulch | 1887 | |
South Street Parade | Two Step | T E Bulch | 1920 or earlier | |
Sons of the Empire | Selection | T E Bulch | 1924 or earlier | |
Silus | Air Varie | T E Bulch | ||
Spring Blossoms | Valsette | Eugene Lacosta | ||
Stella | March | Godfrey Parker | 1898 or earlier | |
St Patrick’s Day | Quick march | Godfrey Parker | ||
Swanee River | Air Varie | T E Bulch | ||
Sweet Marie | Quick march | Godfrey Parker | ||
Sweetheart Mine | Waltz | T E Bulch | 1907 or earlier | |
Sydney by Night | Selection | T E Bulch | 1898 or earlier | |
Tasma | Overture/fantasia | T E Bulch | 1897 or earlier | |
Templemore | Quick march | Godfrey Parker (also Bulch) | ||
Three Cheers for Jack at Sea | Song Solo | T E Bulch | ||
Torchlight Parade | March | T E Bulch | 1916 or earlier | |
Trilby | March | T E Bulch | 1896 or earlier | |
Tripod | Solo tongueing polka | T E Bulch | 1904 | |
Tritone | Solo Polka | T E Bulch | 1883 or earlier | |
Triumphant | March | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier | |
Trixie | Scottische | Godfrey Parker | 1904 or earlier | |
Trumpet Triplets | Solo polka | T E Bulch | 1901 or earlier | |
Typhoon, The | March | T E Bulch | 1879 (approx) | |
Umbria | T E Bulch | |||
Union Jack | Quick March | T E Bulch | ||
Veni, Vidi, Vici | March | T E Bulch | 1914 or Earlier | |
Verdi’s Works | Selection | (arr.) Bulch | 1905 or earlier | |
Vetoria | March | T E Bulch | 1922 or earlier | |
Victor, The | March | T E Bulch | 1919 | |
Visions of Love | Waltz | T E Bulch | ||
Whitworth | March | R Malthouse | 1892 or earlier | |
Yancowinna | March | T E Bulch | ||
Yankee Land | T E Bulch | |||
Young Recruit, The | Descriptive military fantasia | T E Bulch | 1894 or earlier |