Music and Texts of GARY BACHLUND
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Songs in English
829 settings
chronologically by date
Four Polite Little Limericks - (2023) William Cosmo Monkhouse
for medium high voce and piano
Home - (2022) Edward Thomas
for tenor and piano
A Poet to His Poems - (2022) Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne
for medium high voce and piano
Before Quiet - (2022) Hazel Hall
for mezzo soprano and piano
Three Girls - (2022) Hazel Hall
for mezzo soprano and piano
Four Lewd Little Limericks - (2022) Algernon Charles Swinburne
for medium voice and piano
War-time Cradle Song - (2022) Scharmel Iris
for mezzo soprano and piano
Nobody - (2022) Emily Dickinson
for medium voice and piano
Pooh Songs - (2022) A. A. Milne
for medium voice and piano
i. Isn't it funny
ii. How sweet to be a Cloud
iii. Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um
iv. Who found the Tail?
v. Very, very funny
vi. Cottleston Pie
vii. Lines written by a Bear of Very Little Brain
viii. Sing Ho!
ix. Anxious Pooh Song
I dreamed that I was a rose - (2022) James Weldon Johnson
for medium voice and piano (direct link)
Broken Smiles - (2020) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
i. It is much
ii. Harrison Street Court
iii. Trafficker
iv. Jungheimer's
v. Soiled Dove
vi. Gone
Letter to the World - (2020) Emily Dickinson
for medium voice and piano
Poems Done on a Late Night Car - (2020) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
i. Chickens
ii. Used Up
iii. Home
There is a solemn wind tonight - (2019) Katherine Mansfield
for mezzo soprano and piano
Four Sonnets (1923) - (2019) E. E. Cummings
for mezzo soprano and B-flat clarinet
i. goodby Betty
ii. at Dick Mid's place
iii. "kitty"
iv. thy last applause
Expectans Expectavi - (2018) Charles Hamilton Sorley
for medium voice and piano
In April - (2018) Margaret Lee Ashley
for medium voice and piano
Rudkin - (2018) Kenneth H. Ashley
for baritone and piano
Answer to a Reproach for Drunkenness - (2018) Caliph Yazid I
for tenor and piano
Three Little Mice - (2018) Anonymous
for medium voice and piano
Love is a sweet light - (2018) Emily Ezust
for mezzo soprano and piano
The Apple-Tree (2018) Nancy Campbell
for mezzo soprano and piano
Long-Legged Fly - (2018) W. B. Yeats
for medium or low voice and piano
A Life Lesson - (2018) James Whitcomb Riley
for baritone and piano
The Willow-Tree - (2017) Charles Dodgson
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
Tommy - (2017) Charles Dodgson
for high voice and piano
Facts - (2017) Charles Dodgson
for soprano and piano
From a New Theory of Parallels - (2017) Charles Dodgson
for tenor and piano
Yesterday was glad - (2017) Charles Dodgson
for medium voice
'Weh Down Souf - (2017) Daniel Webster Davis
for medium voice and piano
A Drinking Song - (2017) W. B. Yeats
for baritone and piano
Envoi - (2017) William Roscoe Thayer
for medium voice and piano
Baby Toes - (2017) Carl Sandburg
for baritone and piano
Plain Milwaukee Beer - (2016) Anonymous
for baritone and piano
Matins - (2016) DuBose Heyward
for medium voice and piano
Love and Poetry - (2016) Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
for soprano and piano
Quarrel - (2016) Elinor Wylie
for soprano and piano
A Cradle Song - (2016) William Butler Yeats
for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano
The Musical Ass - (2016) Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa
for tenor and piano
Purple - (2016) Margaret Steele Anderson
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated - (2016) Mark Twain
for medium voice and piano
Cousin Kate - (2016) Christina Rossetti
for soprano and piano
Chanson - (2015) Oscar Wilde
for baritone and piano
Old Man - (2015) Jean Starr Untermeyer
for soprano and piano
Humoresque - (2015) Alice Corbin
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
Bringers - (2015) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Autumn Movement - (2015) Carl Sandburg
for soprano and piano
A Windy Day in Summer - (2015) Gerard Manley Hopkins
for medium voice and piano
The Fly - (2015) William Blake
for medium voice and piano
Fall, Leaves, Fall - (2015) Emily Brontë
for medium voice and piano
'Tis moonlight - (2015) Emily Brontë
for medium voice and piano
Velvet Shoes - (2015) Elinor Wylie
for soprano and piano
If I can stop one heart from breaking - (2015) Emily Dickinson
for medium or low voice and piano
Haiku - (2015) Julie Dalton-Williamson
for medium voice and piano
The Logical Vegetarian - (2014) G. K. Chesterton
for baritone and piano
Henry Purcell - (2014) Gerard Manley Hopkins
for medium voice and piano
My Fairy - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for medium voice and piano
A Game of Fives - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for tenor and piano
A Square Poem - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for medium voice and piano
Never stew your sister - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for medium voice and piano
Punctuality - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for soprano and piano
Solitude - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for baritone and piano
Dreamland - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for medium voice and piano
Ye Carpette Knyghte - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for medium or high voice and piano
Love - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for medium voice and piano
Bessie's Song to Her Doll - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for mezzo soprano and piano
Fame's Penny-Trumpet - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for tenor and piano
My Fancy - (2014) Lewis Carroll
for baritone and piano
Reward - (2013) Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
for medium voice and piano
Mistletoe (Mistelzweig) - text of Walter de la Mare, in parallel with a translation of Bertram Kottmann
for medium voice and piano
Slow, slow, fresh fount - (2013) Ben Jonson
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
Loam - (2013) Carl Sandburg
for mezzo soprano and piano
There Will Come Soft Rains - (2013) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
The Year - (2013) Carl Sandburg
for soprano and piano
Sea-Wash - (2013) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Incantation - (2013) Bertram Kottmann
for mezzo soprano and piano
Let me love - (2013) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
On Receiving News of the War - (2013) Isaac Rosenberg
for medium voice and piano
Losses - (2013) Carl Sandburg
for medium or low voice and piano
The News - (2013) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for bass or baritone and piano
Scamp - (2013) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
The cloud - (2013) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
Travel - (2013) Edna St. Vincent Millay
for medium voice and piano
A Boy's Summer Song - (2013) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
Who's gonna pull the welfare wagon - (2013) text of the composer
for medium voice and piano
In Winter - (2013) text in English by Bertram Kottmann, after a German text from Karlsruher Handschrift, 15th century
for medium voice and piano
Johnny B Blue and Suzy Q - (2013) text of the composer
for medium voice and piano
The drinking song - (2013) John Fletcher
for tenor and piano
Silence - (2013) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium or low voice and piano
Howdy, honey, howdy - (2013) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Our life is but a dream - (2013) Bertram Kottmann
for medium voice and piano
Death - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
To a Dead Friend - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Silver Filigree - (2012) Elinor Wylie
for medium voice and piano
Incantation - (2012) Elinor Wylie
for mezzo soprano and piano
Overly philosophic - (2012) Bertram Kottmann
for medium voice and piano
The Eagle and the Mole - (2012) Elinor Wylie
for medium voice and piano
Crowned with dreams - (2012) Bertram Kottmann
for medium voice and piano
Beauty - (2012) Elinor Wylie
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
The Gift to Sing - (2012) James Weldon Johnson
for medium voice and piano
Vengeance Is Sweet - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone or bass and piano
A death song - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Drink On - (2012) Thomas Shadwell
for baritone and piano
Growing Gray - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Whip-Poor-Will and Katy-Did - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for mezzo soprano and piano
Forever - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
The Dance - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
At the Tavern - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Fair, Rich and Young - (2012) Sir John Harington
for tenor and piano
No Ending - (2012) Julie Dalton Williamson
for low or medium voice and piano
Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary - (2012) John Lyly
for baritone and piano
Love is a bubble - (2012) Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
for medium voice and piano
To Music - (2012) Robert Herrick
for medium or high voice and piano
Song - (2012) Susanna Haswell Rowson
for mezzo soprano and piano
Upstream - (2012) Carl Sandburg
for baritone and piano
Six from Sevenoaks - (2012) Bertram Kottmann
for medium voice and piano
Creed and not a Creed - (2011) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium or high voice and piano
I could do with a drink! - (2011) Bertram Kottmann
for medium voice and piano
No Frigate - (2011) Emily Dickinson
for medium voice and piano
Love Song - (2011) Harriet Monroe
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
The Minuet - (2011) Mary Mapes Dodges
for mezzo soprano and piano
The Four Angels - (2011) Rudyard Kipling
for mezzo soprano and piano
Little Love Poems - (2011) Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
for baritone 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
Twilight - (2011) Hazel Hall
for medium voice and piano
Frustration - (2011) Don Marquis
for tenor and piano
Ale - (2011) W. H. Davies
for baritone and piano
Hours - (2011) Max Eastman
for medium or low voice and piano
Between two hills - (2011) Carl Sandburg
for medium or low voice and piano
A Prayer - (2011) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
So beautie on the waters stood - (2011) Ben Jonson
for tenor and piano
I Hear the Stars Still Singing - (2011) James Weldon Johnson
for baritone and piano
Edmund's Speech - (2011) William Shakespeare
for baritone and piano
Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy - (2011) Oliver St. John Gogarty
for baritone and piano
Three Jonson Ballads - (2011) Ben Jonson
for medium voice and guitar
i. The faiery beame upon you
ii. The Hourglass
iii. So breaks the sun
Sigh no More - (2011) William Shakespeare
for baritone and piano
Eddi of Manhood End - (2011) Rudyard Kipling
for bass and piano
A Warm Day in Winter - (2011) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
O mistress mine - (2011) William Shakespeare
for baritone and piano
Three Songs of a Woman - (2011) Eva Bauche-Eppers
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. What Will I Be
ii. In Need
iii. Spiral
The City of Sleep - (2011) Rudyard Kipling
for low voice and piano
Lager Beer - (2011) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
I Saw a Peacock - (2011) Anonymous, before 1665
for high voice and piano
The Carrion Crow - (2010) Anonymous
for baritone or bass and piano
A-Waiting and A-Watching - (2010) Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
for medium voice and piano
Be Strong - (2010) Judah ben Teima
for high voice and piano
Cahoots - (2010) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Tears - (2010) Wang Seng-Ju (6th Century), translated by H. A. Giles
for medium voice and piano
When All Is Done - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Song of the Witches - (2010) William Shakespeare
for countertenor and piano
Born Like the Pines - (2010) James Ephraim McGirt
for medium voice and piano
Under the harvest moon - (2010) Carl Sandburg
for low or medium voice and piano
Peas - (2010) Anonymous
for medium voice and piano
Geometry - (2010) Alfred Kreymborg
for medium voice and piano
Of Time and Eternity - (2010) Emily Dickinson
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. I died for beauty
ii. The bustle in a house
iii. I went to thank her
iv. Dialogue
Appreciation - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone 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?
Songs of a Fool - (2010) William Butler Yeats
for medium voice and piano
Captain Stratton's Fancy - (2010) John Masefield
for baritone and piano
A Summer Night - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for low or medium voice and piano
The Donkey - (2010) G. K. Chesterton
for medium voice and piano
Married and Single Life - (2010) Anonymous text
for tenor and piano
An Eternity - (2010) Archibald MacLeish
for low voice and piano
No-e in the Ark - (2010) Anonymous text, with additional text by the composer
for tenor and piano
The Real Question - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Noddin' By The Fire - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium or low voice and piano
Buzz, Quoth the Blue Fly - (2010) Ben Jonson
for medium voice and piano
Indifference - (2010) Anonymous
for medium or 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 and piano
Day - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Old - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Invocation - (2010) Max Eastman
for medium or low voice and piano
The Wild Goat - (2010) Claude McKay
for medium voice and piano
Manual System - (2010) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Advice - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
Art - (2010) Ezra Pound
for medium or high voice and piano
Death Stands Above Me - (2010) Walter Savage Landor
for baritone and piano
When Cap'n Tom comes home - (2010) Katherine Lee Bates
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
A Seaside Romance - (2010) Don Marquis
for tenor and piano
White Shoulders - (2010) Carl Sandburg
for baritone and piano
Peace - (2010) Sara Teasdale
for medium or low 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
Twell De Night Is Pas' - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Musicological Marx - (2010) Gary Bachlund
for baritone and piano
The Irreverent Brahmin - (2010) Arthur Guiterman
for medium voice and piano
Don't Laugh, Boys - (2010) James Ephraim McGirt
for medium voice and piano
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness - (2010) Arthur Guiterman
for medium voice and piano
Old Men - (2010) William Butler Yeats
for medium voice and piano
Itching heels - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
One Bright Day In The Middle Of The Night - (2010) Anonymous
for medium voice and piano
The River Of Ruin - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Lines for a Christmas Card - (2010) Hilaire Belloc
for medium voice and piano
Barter - (2010) Sara Teasdale
for medium voice and piano
Supplication - (2010) Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
for medium voice and piano
The Table and the Chair - (2010) Edward Lear
for medium voice and piano
Don't You See? - (2010) Katharine Lee Bates
for medium voice and piano
The House of Dreams - (2010) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
If We Must Die - (2010) Claude McKay
for medium voice and piano
The Bureaucrat's Memo - (2010) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
Two Possum Songs - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
i. Sling Along
ii. Possum
Love you, too! - (2010) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
I Sang - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
The Little Creature - (2009) Walter de la Mare
for medium voice and piano
Life - (2009) James Weldon Johnson
for medium 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
A Prayer - (2009) Claude McKay
for medium voice and piano
Sea Poppies - (2009) Hilda Doolittle (H. D.)
for soprano and piano
When I Have Passed Away - (2009) Claude McKay
for medium voice and piano
A Parable - (2009) Arthur Conan Doyle
for medium voice and piano
Apple Pie Dream - (2009) Eric Metaxas
for medium voice and piano
Satan - (2009) James Ephraim McGirt
for medium voice and piano
Brer Rabbit, you's de cutes' of 'em all - (2009) James Weldon Johnson
for medium voice and piano
The Inexpressible - (2009) Ernest Hemingway
for medium voice and piano
Green - (2009) D. H. Lawrence
for high voice and piano
Deserted - (2009) Madison Cawein
for medium voice and piano
Why Fades a Dream - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Chump Change - variations on Mulberry Bush - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for high voice and piano
America - (2009) Claude McKay
for medium voice and piano
Spanish Johnny - (2009) Willa Cather
for mezzo soprano and piano
Choose - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
When the rose is faded - (2009) Walter de la Mare
for high voice and piano
A Thanksgiving Fable - (2009) Oliver Herford
for medium or high voice and piano
The Spirit of Air - (2009) Walter de la Mare
for baritone and piano
Dead Cleopatra - (2009) Conrad Aiken
for medium or high voice and piano
When I Go Free - (2009) Walter de la Mare
for medium voice and piano
Trouble in de Kitchen - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
I Saw Three Witches - (2009) Walter de la Mare
for baritone and piano
Go, lovely Rose - (2009) Edmund Waller
for medium voice and piano
On Broadway - (2009) Claude McKay
for medium voice and piano
Forbidden Fruit - (2009) Emily Dickinson
for medium voice and piano
After Church - (2009) Samuel Alfred Beadle
for medium voice and piano
W'en de sun shines hot - (2009) James McGirt
for medium voice and piano
Modern Art - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
Let Me Live Out My Years - (2009) John G. Neihardt
for baritone or bass baritone and piano
Be the Best of Whatever You Are - (2009) Douglas Malloch
for medium or low voice and piano
The Lugubrious Whing-Whang - (2009) James Whitcomb Riley
for medium or low voice and piano
A Little Song of Life - (2009) Lizette Woodworth Reese
for medium voice and piano
Soup - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Eletelephony - (2009) Laura Elizabeth Richards
for medium voice and piano
dodecophonoclast - (2009) Elaine Fine
for medium high voice and piano
Euclid - (2009) Vachel Lindsay
for medium voice and piano
If Love Be All - (2009) Bliss Carman
for medium or high voice and piano
Seven Silly Little Songs - (2009) texts of Henry Aldrich, Gelett Burgess, Oliver Herford and anonymous authors
for medium voice and piano
i. Animal Fair
ii. Eve, apropos de Rien (Herford)
iii. The Purple Cow (Burgess)
iv. Reasons for Drinking (Aldrich)
v. Judged by the Company One Keepsvi. The Purple Cow Again (Burgess)
vii. The Frog
Revolutionary Tea - (2009) arr. of traditional text and melody
for medium or high voice and piano
Song of Summer - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
I am the Wind - (2009) Zoë Akins
for soprano and piano
A Hymn - (2009) G. K. Chesterton
for medium voice and piano
Deep in the night - (2009) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
Not They Who Soar - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
The Tyranny of Party - (2009) Mark Twain
for medium voice and piano
Oh it's always someone else's fault - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
The Junk Man - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
He Had His Dream - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Merry-go-round - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
Over the Hills - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium or low voice and piano
Election Day - (2009) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voice and piano
On the Death of a Politician - (2009) Hilaire Belloc
for medium voice and piano
Bills - (2009) Mark Twain
for medium voice and piano
Well, we are out of money now - (2009) after public quotes of Barak Hussein Obama II
for medium voice and piano
Politics - (2009) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voice and piano
Mortality - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Spiritual Love Song - (2009) Roger Bourland
for low or medium voice and piano
Accountability - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for low or medium voice and piano
Raise those taxes! - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for medium or high voice and piano
Directions for Singing - (2009) John Wesley
for baritone and piano
The Debt Unpayable - (2009) Francis William Bourdillon
for medium voice and piano
Good morning, Life - (2009) William Henry Davies
for medium voice and piano
The Sum - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for low or medium voice and piano
One's-Self I Sing - (2009) Walt Whitman
for baritone and piano
We Two Boys - (2009) Walt Whitman
for baritone and piano
In the Forest - (2009) Oscar Wilde
for baritone and piano
Requiescat - (2009) Oscar Wilde
for baritone and piano
We all declare for liberty - (2009) Abraham Lincoln
for baritone and piano
The Harlem Dancer - (2009) Claude McKay
for medium voice and piano
The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and Tongs - (2009) Edward Lear
for medium voice and piano
Portrait of a Barmaid - (2009) Edith Sitwell
for medium or high voice and piano
April's Lambs - (2009) William Henry Davies
for baritone 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
Music, when Soft Voices die - (2009) Percy Bysshe Shelley
for baritone and piano
A sword-great story - (2009) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
We Wear the Mask - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
My Heart, Waiting - (2009) Harmony Twitchell
for medium voice and piano
What Could I Do? - (2009) Richard Le Gallienne
for medium voice and piano
A Golden Day - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Aubade - (2009) Edith Sitwell
for mezzo soprano and piano
Sometimes I Wonder - (2009) Mark Twain
for high or medium voice and piano
Compensation - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Death snips proud men by the nose - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
The girl in the tea shop - (2009) Ezra Pound
for baritone and piano
A Government Song - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
Beautiful Women - (2009) Ezra Pound
for baritone and piano
Life - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for low or medium voice and piano
Red-Headed Girl - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
A Banjo Song - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
Ironic Poem about Prostitution - (2009) George Orwell
for baritone and piano
Summer Silence - (2009) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Honky Tonk - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
When a Feller's Itchin' To Be Spanked - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
The Double Standard Song - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for low or medium voice and piano
Pigs is Pigs - (2009) Ellis Parker Butler
for medium 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
Over silent waters - (2009) E. E. Cummings
for soprano and piano
A Frolic - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
Primer Lesson - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Dawn - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Three Songs for Roger - (2009) Gary Bachlund
for baritone and piano
i. Life
ii. Who Am I?
iii. Love
Philosophy - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
The Young Housewife - (2009) William Carlos Williams
for baritone and piano
Winter Is Coming - (2009) Waverley Turner Carmichael
for medium or low voice and piano
The Lawyers' Way - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
The Old Men - (2009) William Carlos Williams
for medium voice and piano
The Snow-Blossoms - (2009) Clark Ashton Smith
for medium voice and piano
Sobs En Route to a Penitentiary - (2009) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Letter to Saint Andrew - (2008) Mark Twain
for medium voice and piano
The Red Wheelbarrow - (2008) William Carlos Williams
for medium voice and piano
spring omnipotent goddess - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for mezzo soprano and piano
Chrismus Is A-Comin' - (2008) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Decoration - (2008) S. Foster Damon
for soprano and piano
Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue - (2007, rev. 2008) Gary Bachlund
for soprano and piano
A Chorus Girl - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for tenor and piano
Pierrot - (2008) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
A son of a Gambolier - (2008) Charles E. Ives
for baritone and piano
it is at moments after i have dreamed - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Where the Mind Is Without Fear- (2008) Rabindranath Tagore
for medium voice and piano
...that better things might be - (2008) Charles E. Ives
for medium voice and piano
Lullaby - (2008) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for medium voice and piano
Pray tell, my brother, why - (2008) Rudolph J. Rummel
for low, medium or high voice and piano
I Am Freedom's Fool - (2008) Robert W. Service
for medium voice and piano
Jim - (2008) Bret Harte
for baritone and piano
An Easy Goin' Feller - (2008) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for baritone and piano
Hymn - (2008) C. S. Lewis
for medium voice and piano
The Bear Hunt - (2008) Abraham Lincoln
for medium voice and piano
The Hammer - (2008) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
The Sand-Man - (2008) Paul Laurence Dunbar
for low or medium voice and piano
And What Shall You Say? - (2008) Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
for medium voice and piano
To Rosa - (2008) Abraham Lincoln
for baritone and piano
The Social Democrat's Song - (2008) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
The New River - (2008) Charles E. Ives
for medium voice and piano
Hope won't survive - (2008) Jule Dalton-Williamson
for medium voice and piano
Sir I Exist - (2008) Stephen Crane
for medium voice and piano
Mors et Vita - (2008) James Edwin Campbell
for medium 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 Laurence Dunbar
for medium or high voice and piano
The Law the Lawyers Know About - (2008) Harry Douglas Clark Pepler
for medium voice and piano
Politics - (2008) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
After Love - (2008) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
The Lawyers Know Too Much - (2008) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Beyond Debate - (2008) Hervey Allen
for mezzo soprano and piano
I Can Trust - (2008) Daniel Webster Davis
for low or medium voice and piano
The Opening Game - (2008) Ernest Hemingway
for medium voice and piano
Calling the Doctor - (2008) John Wesley Holloway
for medium or high voice and piano
A Young Man and His Sister - (2008) Lewis Carroll
for medium voice and piano
No Aigs fo Breakfast - (2008) William Chambers Barnett II
for medium 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
Sence You Went Away - (2008) James Weldon Johnson
for medium voice and piano
A Solitary Triumph - (2008) P. G. Wodehouse
for tenor or baritone and piano
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear - (2008) Edward Lear
for high voice and piano
Every man - (2008) George Reginald Margetson
for medium or low voice and piano
Memories - (2008) Charles E. Ives
for medium voice and piano
i. Very Pleasant
ii. Rather Sad
It's Great When You Get In - (2008) Eugene O'Neill
for medium or high voice and piano
The Negro Speaks of Rivers - (2008) Langston Hughes
for low or medium voice and piano
Two Poems of Louis Untermeyer - (2008)
for high voice and piano
i. With a Volume of Heine
ii. Matinée
God's Will - (2008) Mildred Howells
for medium voice and piano
Not All There - (2008) Robert Frost
for medium voice and piano
End of the Comedy - (2008) Louis Untermeyer
for medium voice and piano
The Late Singer - (2008) William Carlos Williams
for tenor and piano
Advice to Little Girls - (2008) Mark Twain
for medium voice and piano
Question - (2008) Langston Hughes
for medium voice and piano
Song in a Minor Key - (2008) Dorothy Parker
for mezzo soprano and piano
Complete Destruction - (2008) William Carlos Williams
for medium voice and piano
Union Square - (2008) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
Punch, Brothers, Punch - (2008) Mark Twain
for low or medium voice and piano
but the other day - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for medium or low voice and piano
into the strenuous briefness - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
when life is quite through - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for high, medium or low voice and piano
Freedom - (2008) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voice and piano
In Flanders Fields - (2008) John McCrae
for medium or medium high voice and piano
Government - (2008) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
A Book of Nonsense - (2008) Mervyn Peake
( noted herein as a Work-in-progress, release date Fall 2008 )
for high, medium or low voice and piano (three separate editions)
i. The Dwarf of Battersea
ii. Little Spider
iii. O Little Fly
iv. 'It Worries Me to Know'
v. How Fly the Birds of Heaven
vi. Of Pygmies, Palms and Pirates
vii. And Old and Crumbling Parapet
viii. It Is Most Best
ix. O'er Seas That Have No Beaches
x. 'Come, Break the News to Me, Sweet Horse'
xi. An Angry Cactus Does No Good
xii. I Cannot Give You Reasons
xiii. The Trouble With Geraniums
xiv. Crocodiles
xv. O Love! O Death! O Ecstasy!
xvi. O Here It Is! And There It Is!
xvii. I Have My Price
xviii. Lean Sideways on the Wind
xxix. Tintinnabulum
xx. The Hideous Root
xxi. The Men in Bowler Hats Are Sweet
xxii. Shrink, Shrink
xxiii. Aunty Jane (Aunts and Uncles)
xxiv. Aunty Grace (Aunts and Uncles)
xxv. Uncle Wog (Aunts and Uncles)
xxvi. Aunty Flo (Aunts and Uncles)
xxvii. Aunty Vi (Aunts and Uncles)
xxviii. Uncle Sam (Aunts and Uncles)
xxix. Aunty Nag (Aunts and Uncles)
xxx. Aunty Mig (Aunts and Uncles)
xxxi. Aunty Jill (Aunts and Uncles)
xxxii. Uncle Jake (Aunts and Uncles)
xxxiii. Crown Me With Hairpins
xxxiv. Squat Ursula
xxxv. Leave the Stronger
xxxvi. The Thread Remains
xxxvii. The Adventures of Footfruit
The Lord Is My Shepherd - (2008) Psalm 23 in Kings James Version
for baritone and harp (or piano)
the bigness of cannon - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Strictly Germ-Proof - (2008) Arthur Guiterman
for medium voice and piano
The Pelican Chorus - (2008) Edward Lear
for medium high voice and piano
i walked the boulevard - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Four Little Cat Songs - (2008) Julie Dalton Williamson
for medium high voice and piano
i. saph goes under the bed
ii. Our Ginger Moggy
iii. Vin was my cat
iv. Zoe! Zoe!
Beer - (2008) George Arnold
for medium voice and piano
Raisin Pie - (2008) Edgar Guest
for medium voice and piano
The Things Our Fathers Loved - (2008) Charles Ives
for medium voice and piano
Stupidity Street - (2008) Ralph Hodgson
for medium or low voice and piano
Winter - (2008) Walter de la Mare
for medium voice and piano
The Ghost - (2007) Walter de la Mare
for medium voice and piano
If freckles were lovely - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
i'm so drunGk, dear - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Hog Meat - (2007) Daniel Webster Davis
for medium high voice and piano
A Prayer - (2007) Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
for medium voice and piano
Chicken Little - (2007) Margaret Free and Harriette Taylor Treadwell
for high voice and piano
Three Abortion Carols - (2007) Parodies by the composer
for medium voice and piano
i. Away in a Basin
ii. O Little Child Unwanted
iii. Silent child, wholly defiled
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - (2007) William Butler Yeats
for medium voice and piano
all the girls - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for high voice and piano
Mietvertrag - (2007) Olivia Melton
for medium voice and piano
Companion to the Other - (2007) Apache Wedding Prayer adapted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
for medium voice and piano
The Song of the Quoodle - (2007) G. K. Chesterton
for medium voice and piano
The New Road - (2007) Anne Lafeber
for contralto and piano
Happiness - (2007) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Gold Leaves - (2007) G. K. Chesterton
for medium or high voice and piano
Seven Presidential Pardons - (2007) texts after quotes of recent American Presidents
for high or medium voice and piano
i. I'm Not a Crook (after Richard Milhouse Nixon)
ii. American Efficiency (after Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.)
iii. To drown my troubles (after James Earl Carter)
iv. The Second Oldest Profession (after Ronald Wilson Reagan)
v. No Exaggeration (after George Herbert Walker Bush)
vi. It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is (after William Jefferson Clinton)
vii. The Strategery (after George Walker Bush)
The Hoard of the Gibbelins - (2007) Lord Dunsany
for horn in F (or Wagner tuba), mezzo soprano and piano
It's drink that uplifts - (2007) Turlough O'Carolan
for high voice and piano
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - (2007) Eugene Field
for medium high voice and piano
O sweet spontaneous earth - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for high voice and piano
I like Americans - (2007) Ernest Hemingway
for medium voice and piano
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock - (2007) Wallace Stevens
for mezzo soprano and piano
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog - (2007) Oliver Goldsmith
for bass baritone and piano
The Hearse Song - (2007) Anonymous
for baritone and piano
Sweeney Among the Nightingales - (2007) T. S. Eliot
for soprano and piano
The Bells of Hell - (2007) Anonymous
for medium voice and piano
Five Poems of Countée Cullen - (2007)
for medium voice and piano
i. Saturday's Child
ii. Incident
iii. The Loss of Love
iv. For a Poet
v. The Wise
On the Mississippi - (2007) Hamlin Garland
for medium voice and piano
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd. (2007) Mark Twain
for medium voice and piano
Montparnasse (1920) - (2007) Ernest Hemingway
for medium voice and piano
The Lip and the Heart - (2007) John Quincy Adams
for medium voice and piano
Warm Summer Sun - (2007) Mark Twain
for medium voice and piano
Wedlock - (2007) Benjamin Franklin
for medium voice and piano
maggie and millie and molly and may - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for high voice and piano
Hokku - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
A Regular Sort of a Guy - (2007) Eugene O'Neill
for medium voice and piano
anyone lived in a pretty how town - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Where's Madge then, - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
New York Sorrows - (2007) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Central Park at Dusk
ii. Broadway
iii. The Kiss
iv. The Old Maid
v. Coney Island
vi. Less than the cloud to the wind
vii. Summer Night, Riverside
a politician is an arse upon - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Four Songs of a Woman - (2007) Georgia Douglas Johnson
for medium voice and piano
i. I Want to Die While You Love Me
ii. The Heart of a Woman
iii. Youth
iv. My Little Dreams
The Snow Man - (2007) Wallace Stevens
for medium voice and piano
dying is fine)but Death - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Three Cummings Songs - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for soprano and piano
i. may i feel said he
ii. if i believe
iii. buy me an ounce
Good and Clever - (2007) Elizabeth Wordsworth
for medium voice and piano
Owls - an Epitaph - (2007) Edward Elgar
for medium voice and piano
The Cudgel'd Husband - (2006) Jonathan Swift
for tenor and piano
The Place of the Damned - (2006) Jonathan Swift
for medium voice and piano
Pieces of Peacock Pie - (2006) Walter de la Mare
for medium high voice and piano
i. The Lost Shoe
ii. Tired Tim
iii. The Huntsmen
iv. Some One
v. Miss T
vi. The Cupboard
vii. Hide and Seek
viii. Then
ix. Full Moon
x. Poor Henry
xi. Will Ever?
xii. Song of the Secret
Music - (2006) Walter de la Mare
high voice and piano
The Harlot's House - (2006) Oscar Wilde
for medium voice and piano
Fantaisies Décoratives - (2006) Oscar Wilde
for soprano and piano
i. Le Panneau
ii. Les Ballons
The Town Rabbit in the Country - (2006) Camilla Doyle
for mezzo soprano and piano
The Divine Image - (2006) William Blake
for soprano and piano
The Margaret Sanger Song - (2006) Adapted from texts by Margaret Sanger
for medium voice and piano
The Horrible History of Jones - (2006) G. K. Chesterton
for medium high voice and piano
Old Age Blues - (2006/text from 2008) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
The Circus Band and Other Delights - (2006) Charles E. Ives
for medium or 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
Metaphysics - (2006) Oliver Herford
for medium high voice and pianoBetween the Sunken Sun and the New Moon - (2006) Paul Hamilton Hayne
for medium high voice and pianothe sky was - (2006) E. E. Cummings
for medium high voice and piano
Echoes from the Cabin - (2006) James Edwin Campbell
for high or medium high voice and pianoi. Uncle Eph's Banjo Song
ii. Ol' Doc' Hyar
iii. When ol' Sis' Judy pray
iv. Negro Serenade
v. De Cunjah Man
The Gourmet's Love Song - (2006) P. G. Wodehouse
originally for baritone and piano
Daffodils - (2006) William Wordsworth
for baritone and piano
October - (2005) Robert Frost
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
Fire and Ice - (2005) Robert Frost
for high, medium or low voice and piano
The Mad Gardener's Song - (2005) Lewis Carroll
for mezzo soprano or baritone
Two Simple Songs - (2005) Virginia Bachlund
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. Renaissance
ii. A Seeking Heart
A Vase of Carnations - (2005 / rev. 2009) Gary Bachlund
for high voice and piano
The Wild Horse Travels - (2005) Gordon Bachlund
for tenor and piano
Four Seasons - (2005) Anton Gill
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. Summer
ii. Autumn
iii. Winter
iv. Spring
Lions and Ants - (2006) Walt Mason
for high or medium voice and pianothis is the garden - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for soprano and piano
The Wanderer - (2005) Beulah May
for mezzo soprano and piano
The Emperor of Ice-Cream - (2005) Wallace Stevens
for medium voice 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
oil tel duh woil doi sez - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Doll's boy 's asleep - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for mezzo soprano and piano
as freedom is a breakfast food - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for mezzo soprano and piano
Harte Songs - (2005) Bret Harte
for baritone and piano
i. Mrs. Judge Jenkins
ii. Coyote
iii. Plain Language from Truthful James
The Prism of Life - (2005) John Addington Symonds
for bass or bass-baritone and piano
God's Bottles - (2005) Leaflet Issued by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union (n. d.)
for high or medium voice and piano
i sing of Olaf glad and big - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for bass or bass-baritone and piano
All Lovely Things - (2005) Conrad Aiken
for bass and pianoFrom Cautionary Tales for Children - (2005) Hilaire Belloc
for mezzo soprano or soprano and piano
i. Henry King
ii. Matilda (who told such dreadful lies)
iii. George (The boy who played with dangerous toys)
nobody loses all the time - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and pianoDrolleries and Wisdom - (2005) G. K. Chesterton
for baritone and piano
i. Wine and Water
ii. In My Own Nursery
iii. The Englishman
iv. A Ballade of Suicide
v. The Holy of Holies
vi. A Ballade of an Anti-PuritanInjun 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
After Apple-picking - (2005) Robert Frost
for baritone or bass and piano
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 PessimistPoets on Pigs - (2005) Mary Buchanan, Noel Coward, Sian Davies, Ogden Nash, 'Mother Goose,' Alfred Scott Gatty, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sara Teasdale, Christopher Smart, Archibald Stodart-Walker, a traditional anonymous poem and a poem by the composer
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. The Pig - a Limerick
ii. The Pig - a Fable
iii. This Pig Went to Market - a traditional English child's poem
iv. Dickory, dickory, dare - from Mother Goose
v. Three Little Pigs -- the Traditional Story newly told in rhyme
vi. The Spectre Pig -- a Ghost Story
vii. Piggy Patter, Piggy Platter -- a Patter Song
viii. The Star and the Pig -- an Art Poem
ix. Politics is where the pig -- an Editorial
x. The Three Little Pigs -- another of the Three Pig Stories
xi. Early Bacon! -- an Appreciation of the Butchered Pig
xii. Any Part of Piggy -- in Summary....Three Magical Songs - (2005) William Butler Yeats
for baritone and piano
i. The Stolen Child
ii. The Song of the Wandering Aengus
iii. The Second ComingNursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers - (2005) Mother Goose, A Child's Garden of Verses and a traditional 18th century prayer
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Cobbler! Cobbler! Mend My Shoe
ii. Mary Had a Little Lamb
iii. The Child and the Star
iv. Pat-a-Cake, Baker's Man
v. Little Drops of Water
vi. Rain
vii. Rich Man, Poor Man
viii. Now I Lay Me Down to SleepThree Psalms - (2005) from The Scottish Psalter of 1635
for medium or low voice and organ
i. A Tree by the River Side - from Psalm 1 after Thomas Sternhold
ii. Like as the Hart - from Psalm 42 after John Hopkins
iii. Give Laud Unto the Lord - from Psalm 148 after John Pullain
In My Grave - (2004) Frances Ginzer
for soprano and piano
Songs of War - (2004) Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Rudyard Kipling and Rupert Brooke
for baritone and piano
i. In Time of the Breaking of Nations
ii. The Send-Off
iii. Attack
iv. Dead Man's Dump
v. Gethsemane
vi. Danny Deever
vii. The Dead"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 hellwhen god lets my body be - (2004) E. E. Cummings
for tenor or baritone and piano"spoke joe to jack" and other songs - (2004) E. E. Cummings
for baritone and piano
i. spoke joe to jack
ii. red-rag and pink-flag
iii. the way to hump a cow
iv. there are possibly 2½
v. these children singing in stone
vi. love is the every only god
vii. up into the silence
viii. love is more thicker than forgetlittle man (2004) E. E. Cummings
for soprano and pianoThe Broken Heart - (2004) Thomas Moore
for tenor and pianoTo the States - (2004) Walt Whitman
from "Inscriptions" in "Leaves of Grass"
for soprano or tenor and piano
Après un petit déjeuner - (2003) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
At tea - (2003) Thomas Hardy
soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
'I am the One' - (2003) Thomas Hardy
for mezzo soprano and piano
To Lizbie Browne - (2003) Thomas Hardy
for tenor and piano"Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense - (2002) Edward Lear
for soprano and piano
i. Calico Pie
ii. An Old Man with a Beard
iii. The Duck and the Kangaroo
iv. Eyes
v. The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly
vi. The Birds Sat Upon It
vii. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
viii. An Old Lady
ix. The JumbliesAshes and Eyes - (2002) Anton Gill
for mezzo soprano and organ
Five Sonnets - (2000) 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”
The Pilgrim Soul - (1999) William Butler Yeats
for high voice and pianoFelix Randal - (1999) Gerard Manley Hopkins
for medium voice and piano
Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins - (1999)
for soprano and piano
i. Pied Beauty
ii. God's Grandeur
iii. Spring
iv. To Call Thee Love
I Will Love You Anywhere - (1999) Mark Burstein, after Dr. Seuss
for medium voice and pianoFrom the Song of Songs - (1998) Bible Texts edited by Julie Dalton Williamson
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. I am black, but comely
ii. My Love
iii. I am sick with love
iv. Return!
v. A Seal Upon Your HeartA Rational Anthem - (1998) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voiceLive with Me - (1997) Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh (last verse), quoted by William Shakespeare
low or medium voice and pianoConsolation - (1996) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voice and pianoLittle Questions (1992) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
Anne Frank (1992) Michael O'Loughlin
for soprano and piano
Hot House Ballads (1991/2008)
for medium voice and piano
i. Hot and Blue
ii. Heavenly Days
iii. Hot House
iv. No Body Blues
A Prayer for Today - (1991) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voice and pianoAncient Music - (1991) Ezra Pound
for baritone and piano
"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
o by the by - (1991) E. E. Cummings
for soprano and piano
Small Homes - (1991) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
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
To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned - (1991) D. H. Lawrence
for tenor and pianoSongs for the Victim of AIDS - (1991) Gary Bachlund
for medium or low voice and piano
i. Clever Death, Stupid Death
ii. It was a cross
iii. Room A-460
iv. Yesterday
v. A Litany of Finger Pointing
vi. The Quilt
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
seeker of truth - (1991) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
e. e.'s songs - (1990) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
i. Jimmie's got a goil
ii. raise the shade will you dearie?
iii. mary green
iv. says ol man no body-
v. time, be kind
vi. plato told him
mr youse needn't be so spry - (1990) E. E. Cummings
for baritone and piano
Because I could not stop for death - (1990) Emily Dickinson
for high voice and piano
Love Songs for Dorothy - (1990 / rev. 2009)
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Romance Novel
ii Cigarette Smoke
iii. What About It?
iv. Jumbled
v. A Litany of Symptoms--------------------------
Love Songs -- (1990) Dorothy Parker
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Two-Volume Novel
ii Picture in the Smoke
iii. General Review Of The Sex Situation
iv. Theory
v. Symptom Recital
Three Blake Settings - (1990) William Blake
for medium high voice and piano
i. The Sick Rose
ii. The Lilly
iii. Ah! Sun-flower
Voices Under Milk Wood - (1989) Dylan Thomas
for medium high voice and piano
i. First Voice
ii. A Draper Mad With Love
iii. Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard Widow
iv. Bessie Bighead
v. Oh There's a Face!
vi. Whispers on the Stairs
vii. Mary Ann Sailors
viii. Remember Last Night?
ix. The Children's Song
x. Polly Garter (singing)
xi. Knock Twice, Jack
xii. A Puffball
xiii. Sunset Hymn
xiv. In Pembroke City
xv. First Voice Last
Hollywood - (1989) Bertolt Brecht
for medium voice and pianoA Sunshiny Thought - (1989 / rev. 2009) Gary Bachlund
for high voice and pianoI'm very fond of Cummings' words - (1989/2008) Gary Bachlund
medium voice and pianoStephano's Song from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for tenor and piano
Where the Bee Sucks from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for countertenor and piano
Caliban's Song from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for bass-baritone and piano
Come Unto These Yellow Sands from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for countertenor and piano
My Sweet Mistress - (1989) William Shakespearefor tenor and piano
A Hymn to God the Father - (1987) John Donne
for high voice and pianoWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed - (1986) Edna St. Vincent Millay
for medium voice and pianoAll That's Past - (1986) Walter de la Mare
medium voice and pianowanta spend six dollars kid - (1985) E. E. Cummings
for high soprano and piano
Three Poems of Walter de la Mare - (1985)
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Alas, Alack!
ii. The Song of the Shadows
iii. Silver
Three Little Americana Songs - (1985) texts as set by Charles Ives
for medium voice and piano
i. Nature
ii. Ann Streetiii. Like a Sick Eagle
chansons innocentes (1923) - (1983) E. E. Cummings
for high voice and piano
i. in Just --
ii. hist whist
iii. Tumbling-hairwhy 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 pianoSouthern Pacific - (1984) Carl Sandburg
for tenor and baritone and pianoit 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 DanceBuffalo Bill's - (1983) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
the Cambridge ladies - (1983) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Sonnet CXVI - (1983) William Shakespeare
medium high voice and piano
Daybreak from "Cannery Row" - (1983) John Steinbeck
for soprano and piano
Dora's Girls from "Cannery Row"- (1983) John Steinbeck
for mezzo soprano and piano
