Songs for Tenor

chronologically by year of composition

Authors' Alphabetical Index

Marietta - (2011)     Klabund

for tenor and piano

 

Der Adler und die Eule - (2011)     Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

for tenor and piano

 

Frustration - (2011)     Don Marquis

for tenor and piano

 

Spaghetti - (2011)    Joachim Ringelnatz

for tenor and piano

 

So beautie on the waters stood - (2011)     Ben Jonson

for tenor and piano

 

Vetter Franz auf dem Esel - (2011)     Wilhelm Busch

for tenor and piano

 

Ten Poems of Edward Thomas - (2010)   

for tenor and piano

      i.      The Trumpet

      ii.     Tall Nettles

      iii.    Head and Bottle

      iv.    The Huxter

      v.     Sowing

      vi.    The Gallows

      vii.   When he should laugh

      viii.  The touch of rain

      ix.     In memoriam

      x.      Will you come?

 

Married and Single Life - (2010)     Anonymous text

for tenor and piano

 

No-e in the Ark - (2010)     Anonymous text, with additional text by the composer

for tenor and piano

 

A Seaside Romance - (2010)     Don Marquis

for tenor and piano

 

Ich sah dich gern im Sonnenschein - (2010)     Wilhelm Busch

for tenor and piano

 

Vogel-lieder - (2010)    Wilhelm Busch

for tenor and piano

      i.     Fink und Frosch

      ii.    Der weise Schuhu

      iii.   Der hinterlistige Heinrich

 

Anoche cuando dormía - (2008)   Antonio Machado

for tenor and piano

 

Tres Canciones de Ana María Fagundo - (2008)

for soprano or tenor and piano

      i.    Malvas en la pradera

      ii.   A la poesía

      iii.  Rosas en diciembre

 

A Chorus Girl - (2008)   E. E. Cummings

for tenor and piano

 

Dos Canciones de Rosalía de Castro - (2008)

for tenor and piano

      i.   La eterna primavera

      ii.  No eres vano sueño

 

Wärst du ein Bächlein - (2008)    Wilhelm Busch

for tenor and piano

 

En El Entierro de Un Amigo - (2008)   Antonio Machado

for tenor and piano

 

La noria - (2008)   Antonio Machado

for tenor and piano

 

A Solitary Triumph - (2008)

for tenor or baritone and piano

 

The Late Singer - (2008)

for tenor and piano

 

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