Vocal Works
| Voice and Piano (or Organ) | Voice with Instruments | Choral Works |
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Low Valley for Voice and Piano (1950) |
| Poem by Stan Brakhage. |
| MS |
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You Were There (1950) |
| Popular song for voice and piano. Words by Stan Brakhage. |
| MS |
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Weeping Willow (1950) |
| Popular song for voice and piano. Words by Stan Brakhage. |
| MS |
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Alone with You (1951) |
| Popular song for voice and piano. Words by Stan Brakhage. |
| MS |
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Three Spanish Songs: La Guitarra (The Guitar), [rev.] (March 1957) |
| Song for mezzo-soprano and piano. Spanish text by Federico Garcia Lorca. |
| New York: Peer International Corporation, 1961 |
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Three Spanish Songs: Las Seis Cuerdas (The Six Strings) [rev.] (March 1957) |
| Song for mezzo-soprano and piano. Spanish text by Federico Garcia Lorca. |
| New York: Peer International Corporation, 1961 |
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Three Spanish Songs: Adivinanza de la Guitarra (The Riddle of the Guitar), [rev.] (March 1957) |
| Song for mezzo-soprano and piano. Spanish text by Federico Garcia Lorca. |
| New York: Peer International Corporation, 1961 |
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The Falcon for Soprano and Piano (February 18-28, 1956) |
| Anonymous text, 16th. century England |
| 4 min., 10 sec. |
| Award: Sigma Alpha Iota American Music Award and publication - Carl Fischer, 1957. |
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The Falcon [rev.] (September-October 1957) |
| Song for soprano and piano. Anonymous text, 16th century England |
| New York: C.F. Peters Corporation, 1958 |
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Another Spring (November 9, 1966) |
| Song for baritone and piano. Poem by Tu Fu |
| MS |
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Ode to a Nightingale for High Voice and Piano [rev.] (December 22, 1980- January 11, 1981) |
| English text on a poem by John Keats |
| MS |
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I Am No Subject Unto Fate (October - November 1971) |
| Song for mezzo-soprano, tenor and organ. English text on an anonymous poem first published in Playford's Choice Ayres, 1676. |
| MS |
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The Haven (October 8, 1975) |
| Song for medium voice and piano. English text on a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| MS |
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De Profundis, A Song Cycle (December 31, 1976 - January 22, 1977) |
| Voice and piano |
| English texts: A spirit haunts the year's last hours (Tennyson); I am (Clare); The World is Too Much With Us (Wordsworth); The Fascination of What's Difficult (Yeats); No Worst, There is None (Hopkins); the Last Invocation (Whitman) |
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| Song Anthology |
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No. 1: Under the Greenwood Tree (From "As You Like It") (March 17, 1980) |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
For soprano or tenor |
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No. 2: Full Fathom Five (From "The Tempest") (March 19, 1980) |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
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No. 3: Still to be Neat (Marach 19, 1980) |
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) |
For tenor |
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No. 4: Come Live with Me and Be My Love (March 21, 1980) |
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) |
For mezzo-soprano or baritone |
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No. 5: The Garden of Love (March 27, 1980) |
William Blake (1757-1827) |
For soprano or tenor |
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No. 6: There Is Sweet Music Here (March 30 - April 1, 1980) |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
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No. 7: The Sick Rose (April 2, 1980) |
William Blake (1757-1827) |
For soprano or tenor |
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No. 8: Like to the Falling of a Star (April 5, 1980) |
Henry King (1592-1669) |
For soprano or tenor |
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No. 9: Oh do not Wanton With Those Eyes (April 12, 1980) |
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) |
For baritone |
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No. 10: I Dare Not (April 13, 1980) |
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) |
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No. 11: Hence All You Vain Delights (April 14-15, 1980) |
John Fletcher (1579-1625) |
For mezzo-soprano or baritone |
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No. 12: A Farewell (And if I Did, What Then?) (April 15-16, 1980) |
George Gascoigne (1542-1577) |
For baritone |
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No. 13: Go, Lovely Rose (April 26, 1980) |
Edmund Waller (1606-1687) |
For soprano or tenor |
No. 3 from "Five Songs" |
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No. 14: Why So Pale and wan (June 30, 1980) |
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) |
For soprano or tenor |
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No. 15: Why Art Thou Slow, Death (July 4, 1980) |
Philip Massinger (1583-1640) |
For mezzo-soprano |
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No. 16: Plain Dealing (Well, well, 'Tis True) (July 5, 8, 1980) |
Alexander Brome (1620-1666) |
For tenor |
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No. 17: Upon Julia's Clothes (When as in Silks my Julia Goes) (July 9, 1980) |
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For tenor |
No. 1 from "Five Songs" |
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No. 18: So, We'll Go No More A Roving (July 14, 1980) |
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
For soprano or tenor |
No. 5 from "Five Songs" |
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No. 19: This Living Hand (July 18, 1980) |
John Keats (1795-1821) |
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No. 20: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (July 19, 1980) |
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
For soprano or tenor |
No. 4 from "Five Songs" |
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No. 21: Ask me No More (July 21, 1980) |
Thomas Carew (1595-1640) |
For tenor |
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No. 22: Crossing the Bar (July 2, 1980) |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
For mezzo-soprano or baritone |
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No. 23: When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly (July 28, 1980) |
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
For soprano or tenor |
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No. 24: I Am No Subject Unto Fate (1971, rev. 1980) |
Anonymous (pub. 1676) |
For soprano or tenor |
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No. 25: A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours (December 31, 1976) |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
No. 1 from "De Profundis" |
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No. 26: Sudden Light (August 8, 1980) |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) |
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No. 27: The Last Invocation (January 22, 1977) |
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
No. 6 from "De Profundis" |
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No. 28: The World Is Too Much With Us (December 16-17, 1976) |
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
For soprano or tenor |
No. 3 from "de Profundis" |
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Five Songs (April 26 - July 21, 1980) |
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Song cycle for High Voice and Piano |
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English texts: I. When as in Silks My Julia Goes (Herrick); II. Ask Me no More Where Jove Bestows (Carew); III. Go Lovely Rose (Waller); IV. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (Wordsworth); V. So We'll Go No More a Roving (Lord Byron) |
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Stephen Foster's Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (November 11, 1980) |
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Song for High Voice and Piano |
| English text |
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MS |
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To the Sacred Moon (Theodritus) (December 22, 1980-January 11, 1981) |
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Concert Aria for soprano and piano |
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Text adapted from Theocritus (fl. 270 B.C.E.); English translation by Thomas Creech (1684) |
| MS |
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Commitment of Two Lives to Single Hopes … (July 14-15, 1981) |
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Song for medium voice and piano |
| English text by Pamela Stephens |
| MS |
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Tre Sonetti di Cavalcanti (July 15-16, 1983) |
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Song cycle for medium voice and piano |
| Italian text |
| MS |
Works for Voice with Instruments
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A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucie's Day for Tenor Voice and String Quartet on the Poem by John Donne [rev.] (August 1966) |
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MS |
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America: A Cycle of Four Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra on Poems by Hermann Melville (1819-1891) (October-November 1958) |
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I. Allegro moderato (Where the Wings of a Sunny Dome Expand); II. Allegro (Later, and it Streamed in Flight); III. Adagio Espresivo (Yet Later, and the Silk did Wind Her Fair Cold Form); IV. Allegro risoluto (But From the Trance She Sudden Broke) |
| George Bolek Award. National Federation of Music Clubs, 1959. |
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America: Song Cycle on Poems by Herman Melville for Soprano Voice and String Sextet or String Orchestra [rev.] (1963) |
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I. Allegro moderato (Where the Wings of a Sunny Dome Expand); II. Allegro (Later, and it Streamed in Flight); III. Adagio Espresivo (Yet Later, and the Silk did Wind Her Fair Cold Form); IV. Allegor risoluto (But From the Trance She Sudden Broke) |
| MS |
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"Reve Parisien" de Charles Baudelaire (December 17, 1971-February 11, 1972) |
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Song for voice and string quintet |
| French text by Charles Baudelaire |
| MS |
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Reve Parisien" de Charles Baudelaire [rev.] (July-August 1973) |
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Song for voice and strings |
| French text by Charles Baudelaire |
| MS |
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Reve Parisien" de Charles Baudelaire [2nd. rev.] (1981) |
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Song for voice and string quartet |
| French text by Charles Baudelaire |
| MS |
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Igor Stravinsky: Pribaoutki Arranged for Voice, Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (March 30, 1982) |
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Suite for voice, violin, clarinet, and piano |
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| No text. | I. Moderato | II. Allegro | III. Allegretto | IV. Lento |
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Hark! Hark The Lark! For Mixed Chorus, Unaccompanied on a Poem by William Shakespeare (1949) |
| MS |
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Last Leaves of Autumn (ca. 1950) |
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Part song for SSAATTBB |
| English text by Stanley Brakhage from the poem, "Concrete, the Life Cycle" |
| MS |
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Questing for Chorus of Mixed Voices, Unaccompanied (1950) |
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English text on a poem by Stan Brakhage |
| MS |
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Three Cinquains for Chorus of Mixed Voicon Poems of Adelade Crapsey [rev.] (April 4, 1953) |
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I. Triad |
II. The Guarded Wound | III. The Grand Canyon |
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Quartet for Chorus of Mixed Voices on Original Poems by J.S. Brakhage [rev.] (April 1953) |
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I. Prelude |
II. Sea Fantasy | III. Fingers and the Past | IV. No Stars |
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Missa Brevis (Kyrie-Gloria) for S.S. A. & 11 Woodwind Instruments (December 1953-February 1954) |
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7.5 min. |
| Piano reduction by the composer |
| Award: Eurydice Chorus Award by the Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1954. |
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Two Songs (1. To the Old, Long Life… 2. Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount…) (March 1955) |
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Part songs for mixed chorus, unaccompanied |
| English text by Ben Jonson (1573-1637) from Cynthia's "Revels and the Metamorphosed Gypsies" |
| Award: Composition Contest for New Choral Works, Division of Fine Arts - Kansas Wesleyan University, 1956. |
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Music for Reformation Vespers, Princeton University Chapel, November 2, 1958 (September-October 1958) |
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Psalmody and motets for voices, organ, and six winds |
| English text |
| MS |
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Motet for chorus and organ (March 1959) |
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English text. "Blessed are those…" |
| MS |
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Three motets for Chorus of Mixed Voices, Unaccompanied (December 1959) |
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I. Blessed are those… |
II. O Lord Our Lord | III. Thanks Be to God… |
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A Shakespeare Song for Mixed Chorus (Soprano, Tenor, and Bass Soloists) With Piano Accompaniment (January 1959) |
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English text from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Act II, Sc. II) |
| 5 min. |
| MS |
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A Shakespeare Song from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act II, Scene II) [rev.] (November-December 1966) |
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Song for mixed chorus and piano |
| 4 min. |
| MS |
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Put Out to Sea (Thalassa) (January 13-February 16, 1973) |
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Song for chorus (TB) and piano |
| MS |
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A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day (October-November 1979) |
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Song for mixed chorus, unaccompanied |
| English text by John Donne (1572-1631) |
| MS |
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Brahms: Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee, op. 30 (1980) |
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Song for mixed chorus and band |
| MS |
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Louis Bourgeois, 1551: "All people That on Earth do Dwell" (Psalm C), arranged by Jolley, orchestrated by Ramiro Cortés (November 11, 1980) |
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Sacred song for mixed chorus and orchestra |
| 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 trb, tba, timp, stgs |
| MS |
| Choral parts used are published |
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G. Holst: Psalm CXLVIII (May 20, 1981) |
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Sacred song for mixed chorus and band |
| Inst.: picc, 3 fl, 2 ob, Eb cl, 3 clk, bs, cl, bn, 2 a sx, t sx, bar sx, 3 tp, 4 hn, 4 tbn, bar, tba, perc. |
| MS |
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Turn Back, O Man (July 17, 1982) |
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Hymn for mixed chorus, unaccompanied |
| English text by C. Bax. Melody from Genevan Psalter, 1551 |
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