Songs for High Voice

chronologically by year of composition

Author's Alphabetical Index

 

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   YR1537

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

 

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     YR1503
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 

 

Four Epigrams of Asclepiades - (1995)

for high voice and piano

   i.    Zeu

   ii.   Nicaretes

   iii.  Oenos

   iv.  Pin', Asclepiades

 

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      YR1502
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     YR1509
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     YR1500.7
for high voice and piano

 

The Quilt - (1991) Gary Bachlund     YR1500.8
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 

 

chansons innocentes (1925) - (1984) E. E. Cummings
for high or medium voice and piano
    i.     why did you go
    ii.     little tree

 

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