Songs for Medium Voice

Music and Texts of GARY BACHLUND

Songs for Medium Voice

chronologically by year of composition

Authors' Alphabetical Index

Ach, wie ist´s möglich dann - (2019) Anonymous

for medium voice and piano

Drei Hasen - (2019) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Expectans Expectavi - (2018) Charles Hamilton Sorley

for medium voice and piano

In April - (2018) Margaret Lee Ashley

for medium voice and piano

Three Little Mice - (2018) Anonymous

for medium voice and piano

Zivilisatorisches - (2018) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Long-Legged Fly - (2018) W. B. Yeats

for medium or low voice and piano

Yesterday was glad - (2017) Charles Dodgson

for medium voice and piano

'Weh Down Souf - (2017) Daniel Webster Davis

for medium voice and piano

An das Herz - (2016) Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

for medium voice and piano

Matins - (2016) DuBose Heyward

for medium voice and piano

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated - (2016) Mark Twain

for medium voice and piano

Ein Licht - (2015) Bertram Kottmann

for medium voice and piano or harp

Bringers - (2015) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice 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

Frühling - (2015) Theodor Fontane

for medium voice and piano

Wohl bete ich - (2015) Bertram Kottmann after a text by Emily Dickinson

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

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

Weihnachtslied - (2015) Bertram Kottmann after Gordon Mackay Brown

for medium voice and piano or harp

Theater - (2014) Klabund

for medium voice and piano

Tag um Tag, o Herr meines Lebens... - (2014) Bertram Kottmann after a text of Rabindranath Tagore

for low or medium voice and piano

Henry Purcell - (2014) Gerard Manley Hopkins

for medium voice and piano

Der Poet - (2014) Bertram Kottmann after Li-Tai-Po

for medium or high voice and piano

My Fairy - (2014) Lewis Carroll

for medium voice 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

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

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

Pst - (2013) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Le Pot de fleurs - (2013) Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier

for medium voice and piano

Es wohnen die hohen Gedanken - (2013) Wilhelm Busch

for medium or low voice and piano

Entwurf zu einem Trauerspiele - (2013) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Die Enten laufen Schlittschuh - (2013) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Wir Kinder der Vergangenheit - (2013) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Sea-Wash - (2013) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

Der innere Architekt - (2013) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Eginhard und Emma - (2013) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Lass lieben mich - (2013) Bertram Kottmann, after a text of Sara Teasdale

for medium voice and piano

Wenn Eicheln fallen - (2013) Bertram Kottmann, after a text of Alfred Austin

for medium voice and piano

Kindergebetchen - (2013) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium or high voice and piano

Drum - (2013) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

On Receiving News of the War - (2013) Isaac Rosenberg

for medium voice and piano

Das Parlament - (2013) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Losses - (2013) Carl Sandburg

for medium or low voice and piano

Errare humanum est - (2013) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Das Köhlerweib ist trunken - (2013) Gottfried Keller

for medium voice and piano

Travel - (2013) Edna St. Vincent Millay

for medium voice and piano

Poesie - (2013) Justinus Kerner

for medium voice and piano

Der Sperling - (2013) Bertram Kottmann, after a text of Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Johnny B Blue and Suzy Q - (2013)

for medium voice and piano

Wollen - (2013) Franz Drey

for medium or low voice and piano

An die Nachtigall - (2013) Matthias Claudius

for medium voice 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

Fortuna lächelt... - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Death - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Er stellt sich vor sein Spiegelglas - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

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

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

Täglich zu singen - (2012) Matthias Claudius

for medium voice and piano

The Gift to Sing - (2012) James Weldon Johnson

for medium voice and piano

Seid mir nur nicht gar zu traurig - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Beschränkt - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

A death song - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

So nicht - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Growing Gray - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Bewaffneter Friede - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Forever - (2012) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Der alte Narr - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

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

No Ending - (2012) Julie Dalton Williamson

for low or medium voice and piano

Herbst - (2012) Bertram Kottmann after a poem by Albert Laighton

for medium voice and piano

Blumen - (2012) Bertram Kottmann after a poem by Albert Laighton

for medium voice and piano

Der Tod - (2012) Heinrich Heine

for medium voice 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

Jaja! Das kommt von das! - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Die Faulheit - (2012) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

for medium voice and piano

Der Komiker - (2012) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Antwort - (2012) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

for medium voice and piano

Einer Unglücklichen - (2012) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium or low voice and piano

Das Gesetz der Quadrille - (2012) Franz Kafka

for medium voice and piano

Zur Ruh', zur Ruh' - (2012) Justinus Kerner

for medium or low voice and piano

Abendlied - (2012) Manfred Kyber

for medium voice and piano

Nimm mich - (2012) Anonymous

for medium voice and piano

Ein Spruch - (2012) Justinus Kerner

for medium voice and piano

Der schönste Anblick - (2012) Justinus Kerner

for medium or high voice and piano

Six from Sevenoaks - (2012) Bertram Kottmann

for medium voice and piano

Eine ungenehme Überraschung - (2012) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Zu Neujahr - (2011) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Creed and not a Creed - (2011) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium or high voice and piano

Zum Jahresanfang - (2011) Bertram Kottmann

for medium 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

Ohrwurm und Taube - (2011) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Ein jüdisches Kind - (2011) Erika Taube

for medium or low voice and piano

Tango - (2011) Klabund

for medium voice and piano

Du musst verstehn! - (2011) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice 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

Lied des Harfenmädchens - (2011) Theodor Storm

for medium voice and piano

Doch möcht ich - (2011) Heinrich Heine

for medium voice and piano

Ich machte - (2011) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Hours - (2011) Max Eastman

for medium or low voice and piano

So fand ich gestern Nachmittag - (2011) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium 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

Dann - (2011) Else Lasker-Schüler

for medium voice 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

Deux Chansons - (2011) Tristan Klingsor

for medium voice

i. Chat, chat, chat

ii. Où le coq a-t-il la plume?

A Warm Day in Winter - (2011) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Zwölf Kinder-lieder für Erwachsene - (2011) Bernstein, Liliencron, Kyber, Eichendorff, Morgenstern, Hebbel, Goethe, Busch and anonymous texts

for medium voice and piano

i. Rosenringel

ii. Kinderland, du Zauberland

iii. Rabenschabelschnupfen

iv. Ball der Tiere

v. Gottes Segen

vi. Es flogen drei Enten...

vii. Neue Bildungen

viii. Zwei Knaben

ix. Ich und Du

x. Die zwei Wurzeln

xi. Liebe

xii. Als ich ein kleiner Bube war

Sechs Ritornelle in canonischen Weisen - (2011) Friedrich Rückert

for medium voice and piano

Gedichte - (2011) Walter Hasenclever

for medium voice and piano

Siehst du mich - (2011) Else Lasker-Schüler

for medium voice and piano

A-Waiting and A-Watching - (2010) Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

for medium voice and piano

Im Park - (2010) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Cahoots - (2010) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

Ein Esel-lied - (2010) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Tears - (2010) Wang Seng-Ju (6th Century), translated by H. A. Giles

for medium voice and piano

Gethsemane - (2010) Kurt Heynicke

for medium voice and piano

Du bist die Ruh - (2010) Friedrich Rückert

for high or medium voice

When All Is Done - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice 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

Im heißen Bad - (2010) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Peas - (2010) Anonymous

for medium voice and piano

Weltflucht - (2010) Else Lasker-Schüler

for medium voice and piano

Geometry - (2010) Alfred Kreymborg

for medium voice and piano

Songs of a Fool - (2010) William Butler Yeats

for medium voice 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

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 low 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

Überall - (2010) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Day - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Old - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

König David - (2010) Heinrich Heine

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

Dichter und Kämpfer - (2010) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for low or medium high voice and piano

Art - (2010) Ezra Pound

for medium or high voice and piano

Lob der Faulheit - (2010) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

for medium voice and piano

Vier Unsinn-lieder - (2010) anonymous texts

for medium voice and piano

i. Sagga-lieder

ii. Kuh

iii. Klapphorn-Verse

iv. Icke!

Bauchweh - (2010) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium voice and piano

Die sonnige Kinderstraße - (2010) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Almendros en flor - (2010) Ana María Fagundo

for medium or high voice and piano

Yevarechecha - (2010) biblical Hebrew text

for medium voice and guitar

Peace - (2010) Sara Teasdale

for medium or low voice and piano

Die große Sehnsucht - (2010) Paul Scheerbart

for medium voice and piano

Twell De Night Is Pas' - (2010) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

The Irreverent Brahmin - (2010) Arthur Guiterman

for medium voice and piano

Gute Nacht! - (2010) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

for medium voice and piano

Don't Laugh, Boys - (2010) James Ephraim McGirt

for medium voice and piano

Bist du bei mir - (2010) Anonymous

for medium voice and keyboard

Lebensregel - (2010) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium voice and piano

Schnauz und Miez - (2010) Christian Morgenstern

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 or low voice and piano

Das Nasobēm - (2010) Christian Morgenstern

for medium or low 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

Freibeuter - (2010) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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

Wir sind... - (2010) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Gesang der Intellektuellen - (2010) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium high voice and piano

If We Must Die - (2010) Claude McKay

for medium voice and piano

Totalität - (2010) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice and piano

Genialisch treiben - (2010) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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

Der Kehlkopf - (2010) Eduard Möricke

for medium or high voice and piano

Die Ahnung - (2010) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium voice and piano

Der Werwolf - (2010) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Love you, too! - (2010) Gary Bachlund

for medium voice and piano

Postskriptum - (2010) Jakob van Hoddis

for medium voice and piano

Gott ist alles - (2009) Elisabeth von Österreich

for medium voice and guitar

Der Storch - (2009) Heinrich Seidel

for medium voice and piano

I Sang - (2009) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

Toilettenkünste - (2009) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Schneidercourage - (2009) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice and piano

The Little Creature - (2009) Walter de la Mare

for medium voice and piano

Ufm Bergli - (2009) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice and piano

Life - (2009) James Weldon Johnson

for medium voice and piano

Mausfallen-Sprüchlein - (2009) Eduard Möricke

for medium or high 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

Katzenpastete - (2009) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice and piano

A Prayer - (2009) Claude McKay

for medium voice and piano

Die Dämmerung - (2009) Alfred Lichtenstein

for medium or low voice and piano

Auf ein altes Bild - (2009) Eduard Möricke

for medium voice and piano

Aus meiner Kinderzeit - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice 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

Ringelnatz in dreiviertel Takt - (2009)

for medium voice and piano

i. Ein Kehlkopf

ii. Beim Mittagessen!

iii. Ein Nagel saß in einem Stück Holz

iv. Ein Stahlknopf

v. Die Nacht starb

vi. An einem Teiche

vii. Der Spiegel, der Kamm und der Schwamm

viii. Weißt du's?

ix. Schon gut!

x. Ein Lied

xi. Liebens Malzbonbon

xii. Ein Nadelkissen

xiii. Ein Schwefelholz

xiv. Miliz

Problem - (2009) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice and piano

Zauberschwestern - (2009) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Die Gedanken treuer Liebe - (2009) Eduard Möricke

for medium voice and piano

Lange nichts gegessen - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Apple Pie Dream - (2009) Eric Metaxas

for medium voice and piano

Amerika - (2009) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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

Die singende Muschel - (2009) Francisca Stoecklin
for medium or high voice and piano

The Inexpressible - (2009) Ernest Hemmingway

for medium voice and piano

Trunken müssen wir alle sein - (2009) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice and piano

Ein Säufertraum - (2009) Paul Scheerbart

for medium voice and piano

Ich will alleine über die Berge gehn - (2009) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium 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

America - (2009) Claude McKay

for medium voice and piano

Choose - (2009) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

Die Ameisen - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Logik - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

A Thanksgiving Fable - (2009) Oliver Herford

for medium voice and piano

Dead Cleopatra - (2009) Conrad Aiken

for medium or high voice and piano

Bumerang - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Liedchen - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Ein Herbstlied - (2009) Francisca Stoecklin
for medium or high voice and piano

Zum Bockspringen - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium 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

Go, lovely Rose - (2009) Edmund Waller

for medium voice and piano

Das alte Lied - (2009) August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

for medium voice and piano

Der Faulpelz - (2009) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium or high voice and piano

Chansonette - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Jeden Abend werfe ich - (2009) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium or high 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

Was ist der Mensch? - (2009) Erich Kurt Mühsam

for medium or high voice and piano

W'en de sun shines hot - (2009) James Ephraim McGirt

for medium voice and piano

Modern Art - (2009) Gary Bachlund

for medium voice 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 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
        v.    Judged by the Company One Keeps

vi. The Purple Cow Again

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

A Hymn - (2009) G. K. Chesterton

for medium voice 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

Ruf vom Berge - (2009) Georg Friedrich Treitschke

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

Ob ich dich liebe - (2009) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for medium voice and piano

Seliger Tod - (2009) Ludwig Uhland

for medium or high voice and piano

Der Rabe Ralf - (2009) Christian Morgenstern

for medium or low voice and piano

Individualität - (2009) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Spiritual Love Song - (2009) Roger Bourland

for medium voice and piano

Accountability - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for low or medium voice

Raise those taxes! - (2009) Gary Bachlund

for medium or high voice 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

Geschmacksache - (2009) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

The Sum - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for low or medium voice

Frau Teemaschine - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Ich und Du - (2009) Friedrich Hebbel

for medium voice and piano

Die Stadt - (2009) Theodor Storm

for medium voice and piano

In Zelle 108 - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

The Harlem Dancer - (2009) Claude McKay

for medium voice and piano

Die Gechichte vom Hänschen - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Gesang der jungen Anarchisten - (2009) Erich Mühsam

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

A sword-great story - (2009) E. E. Cummings

for medium voice and piano

Der genügsame Liebhaber - (2009) Hugo Salus

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

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

Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle - (2009) Victor Hugo

for medium voice and piano

Volkslied - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

A Government Song - (2009) Gary Bachlund

for medium voice 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

Winterweihe - (2009) Karl Friedrich Henckell

for medium voice and piano

Bürokratismus - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Rezept - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Summer Silence - (2009) E. E. Cummings

for medium voice and piano

Honky Tonk - (2009) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

The Double Standard Song - (2009) Gary Bachlund

for low or medium voice and piano

Ein kleines Lied - (2009) Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

for medium voice and piano

Verborgenheit - (2009) Eduard Mörike

for high or low voice and piano

Pigs is Pigs - (2009) Ellis Parker Butler

for medium voice and piano

Primer Lesson - (2009) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

Kartoffellied - (2009) Matthias Claudius

for medium voice and piano

Altes Lied- (2009) Frank Wedekind

for medium voice and piano

Dawn - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Sie war ein Blümlein hübsch und fein - (2009) Wilhelm Busch

for medium voice and piano

Philosophy - (2009) Paul Laurence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Unerhört - (2009) Ludwig Kalisch

for medium voice and piano

Der letzte Weg - (2009) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Mutter - (2009) Else Lasker-Schüler

for medium voice and piano

Winter Is Coming - (2009) Waverly Turner Carmichael

for medium or low voice and piano

Auf den Berge Sinai - (2009) From Kinderreime aus Leipzig (Müller)

for medium 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

Fünf Fabeln - (2008) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

for medium high voice and piano

        i.     Aesopus und der Esel
        ii.    Eine philosophische Maus
        iii.   Der Fuchs und der Storch
        iv.   Der kriegerische Wolf
        v.    Die Wasserschlange

Der Esel - (2008) Matthias Claudius

for medium or high voice and piano

Ich liebe dich - (2008) Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee

for medium voice and piano

Wettstreit - (2008) Hoffmann von Fallersleben

for medium voice and piano

Rätsel - (2008) Hoffmann von Fallersleben

for medium voice and piano

Letter to Saint Andrew - (2008) Mark Twain

for medium voice and piano

The Red Wheelbarrow - (2008)

for medium voice and piano

Chrismus Is A-Comin' - (2008) Paul Lawrence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

Die Moral - (2008) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium or low voice and piano

Venez à lui - (2008) Victor Hugo

for medium voice and piano

Wasser und Wein - (2008) August Kopisch

for medium or high voice and piano

Was? - (2008) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

for medium voice and piano

Tante Qualle und der Elefant - (2008) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

Kleine Wesen - (2008) Joachim Ringelnatz

for medium voice and piano

i. Einleitung

ii. Die Feder

iii. Der Funke

iv. Der Edelstein

v. Die Seifenblase

vi. Das Ei

vii. Der Floh

viii. Die Nadel

ix. Das Samenkorn

x. Der Wassertropfen

xi. Der Knopf

xii. Der Stein

xiii. Der kleine Junge

xiv. Das kleine Mädchen

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

Alles ist Eins - (2008) Rainer Maria Rilke

for medium voice and piano

Lullaby - (2008) Paul Lawrence Dunbar

for medium voice and piano

I Am Freedom's Fool - (2008) Robert W. Service

for medium voice and piano

Hymn - (2008) C. S. Lewis

for medium voice and piano

The Bear Hunt - (2008) Abraham Lincoln

for medium voice and piano

Oración de Abuelita - (2008) Anonymous

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 or high voice 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

Igel und Agel - (2008) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Du lieblicher Stern - (2008) Hoffman von Fallersleben

for medium voice and piano

Nein! - (2008) Christian Morgenstern

for medium or high voice and piano

Fisches Nachtgesang - (2008) Christian Morgenstern

for medium voice and piano

Hope won't survive - (2008) Julie 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

Theology - (2008) Paul Lawrence 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

The Lawyers Know Too Much - (2008) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

I Can Trust - (2008) Daniel Webster Davis

for medium or low voice and piano

The Opening Game - (2008) Ernest Hemmingway

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

Sence You Went Away - (2008) James Weldon Johnson

for medium voice and piano

How pleasant to know Mr. Lear - (2008)

for medium or 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

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

Advice to Little Girls - (2008) Mark Twain

for medium voice and piano

Question - (2008) Langston Hughes

for medium voice and piano

Complete Destruction - (2008) William Carlos Williams

for medium voice 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 medium voice and piano

Freedom - (2008) Ambrose Bierce

for medium voice and piano

In Flanders Fields - (2008) John McCrae

for medium voice and piano

the bigness of cannon - (2008) E. E. Cummings

for medium voice and piano

Government - (2008) Carl Sandburg

for medium voice and piano

Hokku - (2007) E. E. Cummings

for medium voice and piano

If freckles were lovely - (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

If freckles were lovely - (2007) E. E. Cummings

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

The Snow Man - (2007) Wallace Stevens

for medium voice and piano

Good and Clever - (2007) Elizabeth Wordsworth

for medium voice and piano

Owls - an Epitaph - (2007) Edward Elgar

for medium voice and piano

Poèmes pour la paix - (2007) Paul Éluard

for medium high voice and piano

i. Bonjour

ii. Splendide!

iii. O! mes amis!

iv. Près de toi

v. Mon enfant

vi. Travaille

vii. Ma belle

viii. Pour être heureux

ix. Une vierge amoureuse

x. Je rêve

xi. Mon jardin

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

The Harlot's House - (2006) Oscar Wilde

for medium voice and piano

Tes Souvenirs - (2006) Kundry Van Mechelen

for medium voice 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 piano

the 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 piano

i. Uncle Eph's Banjo Song

ii. Ol' Doc' Hyar

iii. When ol' Sis' Judy pray

iv. Negro Serenade

v. De Cunjah Man

Harte Songs - (2005) Bret Harte

for medium voice and piano

i. Mrs. Judge Jenkins

ii. Coyote

iii. Plain Language from Truthful James

The Emperor of Ice-Cream - (2005) Wallace Stevens

for medium 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”

Felix Randal - (1999) Gerard Manley Hopkins
for medium voice and piano

I Will Love You Anywhere - (1999) Mark Burstein, after Dr. Seuss
for medium voice and piano

A Rational Anthem - (1998) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voice

Consolation - (1996) Ambrose Bierce
for medium voice and piano

Little Questions (1992) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice 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 piano

Small Homes - (1991) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano

Songs 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

seeker of truth - (1991) E. E. Cummings
for medium 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!

Le Silence - (1991) Alfred de Vigny
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

Three Blake Settings - (1990) William Blake
for medium high voice and piano
    i.     The Sick Rose
    ii.    The Lilly
    iii.   Ah! Sun-flower

La Mort - (1990) Charles Baudelaire
for medium voice and piano
    i.      Prélude
    ii.     La Mort des Amants
    iii.    La Mort des Pauvres
    iv.    La Mort des Artistes
    v.     La Fin de la Jounée
    vi.    La Rêve d'un curieux
    vii.   Pour l'enfant
    viii. Les vrais Voyageurs
    ix.    Interlude
    x.     Horreur!
    xi.    Pour le Voyage

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 piano

i'm very fond of black bean soup - (1989) E. E. Cummings
medium voice and piano

Az amar Shlomo - (1988) I Kings 8:10-13 in Hebrew

for medium voice and piano

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed - (1986) Edna St. Vincent Millay
for medium voice and piano

All That's Past - (1986) Walter de la Mare
medium voice and piano

Three Little Americana Songs - (1985) texts as set by Charles Ives
for medium voice and piano
i. Nature
ii. Ann Street

iii. Like a Sick Eagle

Buffalo Bill's - (1983) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano

the Cambridge ladies - (1983) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano

Sonnet 116 - (1983) William Shakespeare
medium high voice and piano