Songs for Tenor

chronologically by year of composition

Author's Alphabetical Index

The Cudgel'd Husband - (2006)   Jonathan Swift 

   for tenor and piano

Lions and Ants - 2006
Walt Mason
for tenor or baritone and piano

Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon - (2006) Paul Hamilton Hayne
for tenor or baritone and piano

Chanson des peintres - (2006) Charles Cros

for tenor and piano

 

The Wild Horse Travels - (2005) Gordon Bachlund

for tenor and piano

 

Three Airs from the Beggar's Opera - (2005) John Gay

for tenor and piano

    i.    A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir

    ii.    If the Heart of a Man

    iii.    Youth's the Season Made for Joys

 

Injun Summah - (2005) Benjamin Franklin King
for mezzo soprano or tenor and piano 
    i.     Injun Summah
    ii.    The River St. Joe
    iii.   The Cow Slips Away
    iv.   Gedder in yo' grain

 

The Sum of Life - (2005) Benjamin Franklin King 
for tenor and piano
    i.   If I should die tonight
    ii.  The Hair-Tonic Bottle
    iii. The Pessimist

 

"crazy jay blue)" and other poems - (2004) E. E. Cummings
for tenor and piano 
    i.     crazy jay blue)
    ii.    dominic has a doll
    iii.    in time of daffodils
    iv.    as joe gould says
    v.    when mack smacked phyllis
    vi.   the old almost lady
    vii.   when any mortal(even the most odd)
    viii.  what the hell

 

when god lets my body be -  (2004) E. E. Cummings
for tenor or baritone and piano

 

The Broken Heart - (2004) Thomas Moore 
for tenor and piano

 

To the States - (2003) Walt Whitman
from "Inscriptions" in "Leaves of Grass"
for soprano or tenor and piano

 

To Lizbie Browne - (2003) Thomas Hardy
for tenor and piano 

 

Las Canciones de Bécquer - (2001) Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 
for tenor and piano 
    i.        Hoy creo en Dios
    ii.       Un beso
    iii.      Olas gigantes 
    iv.      ¡Qué hermoso!
    v.       La luz divina

 

To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned - (1991) D. H. Lawrence 
for tenor and piano 

 

Stephano's Song from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare

for tenor and piano

 

My Sweet Mistress from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for tenor and piano