Music and Texts of Gary Bachlund

Music and Texts of GARY BACHLUND

Songs for High Voice

chronologically by year of composition

Authors' Alphabetical Index

Tommy - (2017) Charles Dodgson

for high voice and piano

Der heroische Pudel - (2016) Christian Morgenstern

for high voice and piano

Pflück dieses Blümlein - (2015) after a poem of Rabindranath Tagore

for high voice and piano

Der Poet - (2014) Bertram Kottmann after Li-Tai-Po

for medium or high voice and piano

Ye Carpette Knyghte - (2014) Lewis Carroll

for medium or high voice and piano

Die Lampe - (2013) Christian Morgenstern

for high voice and piano

Kindergebetchen - (2013) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium or high voice and piano

Das Bild - (2013) Christian Morgenstern

for high voice and piano

Memento - (2013) Igino Ugo Tarchetti

for high voice and piano

Der Misanthrop - (2012) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for high voice and piano

To Music - (2012) Robert Herrick

for medium or high voice and piano

Der schönste Anblick - (2012) Justinus Kerner

for medium or high voice and piano

Creed and not a Creed - (2011) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium or high voice and piano

Old Manuscript - (2011) Alfred Kreymborg

for medium or high voice and piano

Egotist - (2011) Ambrose Bierce

for medium or high voice and piano

I Saw a Peacock - (2010) Anonymous, before 1665

for high voice and piano

Be Strong - (2010) Judah ben Teima

for high voice and piano

Du bist die Ruh - (2010) Friedrich Rückert

for high or medium voice

Friede - (2010) Albert Ehrenstein

for high voice and piano

Summer Stars - (2010) Carl Sandburg

for medium or high voice and piano

Justice - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium or high voice and piano

Bumpity Ride - (2010) Walter de la Mare

for medium or high voice

Art - (2010) Ezra Pound

for medium or high voice and piano

Almendros en flor - (2010) Ana María Fagundo

for medium or high voice and piano

Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go? - (2010) Charles Wharton Stork (after the Danish of Ludwig Holstein)

for high voice and piano

Der Kehlkopf - (2010) Eduard Möricke

for medium or high voice and piano

Mausfallen-Sprüchlein - (2009) Eduard Möricke

for medium or high voice and piano

Crisis - (2009) Gary Bachlund

for medium or high voice and piano

To America - (2009) James Weldon Johnson

for medium or high voice and piano

Klabautermann - (2009) Christian Morgenstern

for high voice and piano

Green - (2009) D. H. Lawrence

for high voice and piano

Chump Change - variations on Mulberry Bush - (2009) Gary Bachlund

for high voice and piano

When the rose is faded - (2009) Walter de la Mare

for high voice and piano

Ich möchte Gott sein - (2009) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for high voice and piano

Dead Cleopatra - (2009) Conrad Aiken

for medium or high voice and piano

Ein Herbstlied - (2009) Francisca Stoecklin
for medium or high voice and piano

Das quiekende Ei - (2009) Paul Scheerbart

for high voice and piano

Für ewig - (2009) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

for high voice and piano

Der kleine Kunstreiter - (2009) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium or high voice and piano

Was ist der Mensch? - (2009) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium or high voice and piano

If Love Be All - (2009) Bliss Carman

for medium or high voice and piano

Revolutionary Tea - (2009) arr. of traditional text and melody

for medium or high voice and piano

Seliger Tod - (2009) Ludwig Uhland

for medium or high voice and piano

Prähistorische Ballade - (2009)
for high voice and piano

Raise those taxes! - (2009) Gary Bachlund

for medium or high voice and piano

Portrait of a Barmaid - (2009) Edith Sitwell

for medium or high voice and piano

I Like Pigs - (2009) Winston Churchill

for high voice and piano

The King-fisher Song - (2009) Lewis Carroll

for high voice and piano

Sometimes I Wonder - (2009) Mark Twain

for high or medium voice and piano

Blindekuh - (2009) August Kopisch

for high voice and piano

Verborgenheit - (2009) Eduard Mörike

for high or low voice and piano

Was ist ein Original? - (2009 Paul Scheerbart

for high voice and piano

Joy - (2009) Carl Sandburg

for high voice and piano

What's the Use - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for high voice and piano

Gesang der Ungeborenen - (2009) Hugo von Hofmannsthal

for high voice and piano

Halbe Arbeit - (2009) Theodor Strom

for high voice and piano

Der Esel - (2008) Matthias Claudius

for medium or high voice and piano

Wasser und Wein - (2008) August Kopisch

for medium or high voice and piano

And What Shall You Say? - (2008) Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.

for medium or high voice and piano

Nein! - (2008) Christian Morgenstern

for medium or high voice and piano

Opera, n. - (2008) Ambrose Bierce

for high voice and piano

The Idol-Maker Prays - (2008) Arthur Guiterman

for high voice and piano

Nothing to Do - (2008) James Ephriam McGirt

for high voice and piano

Si mundus vult decipi - (2008) Gary Bachlund

for high voice and piano

Theology - (2008) Paul Lawrence Dunbar

for medium or high voice and piano

Calling the Doctor - (2008) John Wesley Holloway

for medium or high voice and piano

An old Fellow of Trinity - (2008) Arthur Clement Hilton

for high voice and piano

The Big Bell in Zion - (2008) Theodore Henry Shackelford

for high voice and piano

How pleasant to know Mr. Lear - (2008) Edward Lear

for medium or high voice and piano

It's Great When You Get In - (2008) Eugene O'Neill

for medium or high voice and piano

Two Poems of Louis Untermeyer - (2008) Louis Untermeyer

for high voice and piano

i. With a Volume of Heine

ii. Matinée

when life is quite through - (2008) E. E. Cummings

for high voice and piano

maggie and millie and molly and may - (2007) E. E. Cummings

for high voice and piano

Music - (2006) Walter de la Mare

high voice and piano

The Circus Band and Other Delights - (2006) Charles Ives

for high voice and piano

i. The Circus Band

ii. The See'r

iii. The Cage

iv. The Side Show

v. Waltz

vi. 1, 2, 3

Oui, je le sais bien - (2006) André Gide

for high voice and piano

Echoes from the Cabin - (2006) James Edwin Campbell
for high or medium high voice and piano

i. Uncle Eph's Banjo Song

ii. Ol' Doc' Hyar

iii. When ol' Sis' Judy pray

iv. Negro Serenade

v. De Cunjah Man

A Vase of Carnations - (2005 / rev. 2009)

for high voice and piano

Verona - (2004) Rudolf Hagelstange
for high voice and piano

Zwei Ritter - (2004) Heinrich Heine
for high voice and piano

Five Sonnets - (2002) William Shakespeare

for high or medium voice and piano

    i.     Sonnet VIII - “Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?”
    ii.    Sonnet XVIII - “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
    iii.   Sonnet XIX - "Devouring Time"
    iv.   Sonnet XXX - “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”
    v.    Sonnet LXVI - “Tir’d with all these, for restful death I cry”

Le Faune - (2001) Paul Verlaine
for high voice and piano

Alte Libe - (1999) Yiddish Folk Sayings
for high or medium high voice and piano / high voice and harp & strings
    i.     Mit sholem-bayes
    ii.    Di beste t'file
    iii.   A kunst
    iv.   A sheyne velt
    v.    Vos men vert alt
    vi.   Alte libe
    vii. Der balebos
    viii. Die velt iz a redl

The Pilgrim Soul - (1999) William Butler Yeats
for high voice and piano

Sole e amore - (1993) Giacomo Puccini
for high voice and piano

Kleengedichtjes - (1991) Guido Gezelle
for high or medium voice and piano
    i.     Vlaamsche poësis
    ii.    Als de ziel luistert
    iii.   Janneke
    iv.   De winden
    v.    Naar Hem
    vi.   Snee
    vii. In de blijde mei!

"Alice" Songs - (1991) Lewis Carroll
for high voice and piano
    i.     Childhood Dreams
    ii     The Little Crocodile
    iii.   Pig and Pepper
    iv.   The Mock Turtle's Lament
    v.    Jabberwocky
    vi.   Tweedledum and Tweedledee
    vii. Humpty Dumpty
    viii. The Lion and the Unicorn
    ix.   Queen Alice

Three Songs of Immanuel Frances - (1991)
for high voice and piano
i. Eit echezeh Chana ( )
ii. Einei Tz'viah ( )

iii. Ei Socharim ( )

Chamber Music - (1991) James Joyce
for high voice and piano
    i.     Make Music Sweet
    ii.    Twilight
    iii.   Goldenhair
    iv.   Where Love Did Sometime Go
    v.    Pain
    vi.   Companion
    vii. Gentle Lady
    viii. Rain Has Fallen
    xi.   I Hear an Army

Weeping Is A Comfort - (1991) Gary Bachlund
for high voice and piano

The Quilt - (1991) Gary Bachlund
for high voice and piano

the secrets of living - (1991) E. E. Cummings
for high voice and piano

Because I could not stop for death - (1990) Emily Dickinson
for high voice and piano

Goethe-lieder - (1989) Johann Wolfgang Goethe
for medium or high voice and piano
    i.     Das Alte
    ii.    Ja, schelte nur
    iii.   Das Beste
    iv.   Annonce
    v.    Lebenslust
    vi. Was bleibt denn
    vii. Hab ich nur geschrieben

A Hymn to God the Father - (1987) John Donne
for high voice and piano

why did you go - (1984) E. E. Cummings
for high or medium voice and piano

little tree - (1984) E. E. Cummings
for high or medium voice and piano

it may not always be so; and i say - (1983) E. E. Cummings

for high voice and piano

This Perfect World - (1983) David Fries
for high voice and piano
    i.     Memories
    ii.    Friends
    iii.   The Dance