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Opus#
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Title
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Publisher
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Year
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Duration
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11 |
Six Greek Fragments
soprano or tenor & piano
1) Inscription: Pan Plato
2) Cold Pastoral Leonidas
3) Flowers: For Heliodora Maleagros
4) Memphis Palladas
5) Modus Vivendi Palladas
6) On Troy fallen Agathias
A set of vivid miniatures, each with its own contrasting character. Employs various scale structures.
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1961
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9'
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13 |
Five Thomas Hardy Songs
tenor & piano
1) The Protean Maiden
2) A Winsome Woman
3) Boys then and now
4) In time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
5) Weathers
The songs concentrate on the more gentle and positive aspect of Thomas Hardy's complex character.
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1961 |
8' |
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14 |
Six American Songs
soprano or tenor & piano
1) Buffalo Bill e.e.cummings
2) To One in Paradise E.A. Poe
3) The Purist Ogden Nash
4) Morning at the Window T.S. Eliot
5) What the Bullet sang, Bret Harte
6) New Hampshire T.S. Eliot
These settings span the period from E.A. Poe to e.e.cummings;
the mood covers the span from the humorous to the tragic.
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1961 |
10' |
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16 |
Six Irish Songs
soprano or tenor & piano
1) Magdalen Walks Oscar Wilde
2) Strings in the Earth James Joyce
3) Death may be... Oliver St. John Gogarty
4) I hear an Army charging James Joyce
5) A Cradle Song W.B. Yeats
6) A Drinking Song W.B. Yeats
A set of songs with lyrics chosen from around the start of the
twentieth century. Contain a wide variety of emotions.
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1962 |
11' |
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36
| Butterflies
soprano solo & large chamber ensemble
An extended work consisting of settings of eight haiku with interludes
Sop solo, 1-1-1-1, 1-0-0-0, 2 perc, hpschd, elec org, 2 vln, vla, clc, cb. |
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1970
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30' |
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51a |
Wood
(without text) soprano or shackuhachi & 4 synthesizers
Both the vocal and synthesizers parts in this vocalise work
employ proportional notation and makes use of Japanese
shackuhachi ornamentation devices.
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1978 |
10' |
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51b |
Wood II
(without text) soprano & string quartet
An arrangement of 'Wood', the synthesizer parts being
arranged for string quartet; employs proportional notation.
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1979/80 |
10' |
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78 |
Three Ross Songs
) baritone or mezzo sop. & chamber ensemble
1) Butterfly
2) If ice
3) Young Poplars
These three miniature settings for medium voice are as an
Accompaniment consisting of flute, clarinet, violin, cello,
percussion and piano
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1994 |
5' |
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88 |
Northern Songs, Book 1 & 2
(W.W.E. Ross)
soprano, violin, piano & organ
Book 1
1) Butterfly
2) Thought
3) Moon
4) Butterfly II
5) Diver
Book 2
6) Wandering
7) Butterfly III
8) Pine Odour
9) Butterfly IV
10) Sun
These two sets of songs to texts of Canadian Imagist poet
W.W.E. Ross were written at the request of the McLean Trio.
They explore the natural world of rural Ontario, Canada.
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1999 |
11'35"
11'15" |
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97 |
Five Edward Thomas Songs
) mezzo-soprano & piano
1) Sowing
2) Tall Nettles
3) Song
4) Adlestrop
5) The Huxter
Settings of nostalgic texts set in rural Southern England, by a
poet who died in the First World War.
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2005 |
9' |
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107
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The Silvered Lute: a Wang Wei Song Album
soprano & piano
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1) The Ravine
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2) The Grove of Dark Bamboo
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3) Green Creek
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4) Green Willows
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5) Cold Mountains
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6) The Autumn Moon
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7) The Hunt
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8) Old Home
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9) The Empty Mountain
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An album of nine settings of poems by the great
Tang Dynasty poet and painter, Wang Wei.
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2006 |
16' 00"
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114 |
Golden Apples (Oscar Wilde)
High soprano and piano
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1) From Spring Days to Winter e
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2) Le Jardin
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3) Theocritus
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4) Chanson
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5) 5) Ave Mari Gratia Plena
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Five settings of characteristic texts by the Irish literary genius, Oscar Wilde
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2007
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12' 10"
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115
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Bid Time Return
soprano voice and piano
1) 'Cold Dawn' (Derek Healey)
2) 'Kensington: 1954' (Derek Healey)
3) 'Ariel's Song' (William Shakespeare)
4) 'Mantra' (Joshu/Chao-Chou)
5) 'A Puzzlement' (Han Shan)
6) 'Requiescat' (Anon Ancient Greek)
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2008
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10' 45"
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123
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Thy Distant Fire: an Edgar Allan Poe Songbook
high voice and piano
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1) Eldorado
4) Sancta Maria!
7) Serenade
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2) Evening Star
5) To the River
8) Lines on Ale
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3) To F:
6) To Zante
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Eight settings of Poe's imaginative poetry for high voice.
Moods vary from the fantastic, through the religious, to love songs.
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Jan. 2010
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18' 15"
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121a,b & c
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An Italian Songbook: 10 songs with texts byCarducci, Pascoli and d'Annunzio
Baritone and piano
Opus 121a: Three Carducci Songs
1) 'Pianto Antico ' (2' 48")
2) 'San Martino' (3' 43")
3) 'Il treno' (1' 34")
Total = 8' 05"
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Opus 121b: Four Pascoli Songs
1) 'Novembre' (2' 56")
2) 'Il gelsomino notturno'(4' 09")
3) 'Orfano (2' 06")
4) 'L'assiuolo' (2' 36")
Total = 11' 47"
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Opus 121c: Three D'Annunzio Songs
1) 'Assisi' (4' 35')
2) 'O falce di luna calante'(2' 55")
3) 'Romanza' (2' 12")
Total = 9' 42"
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Three groups of songs, each devoted to the work of a single lateNineteenth Century Italian poet. Moods cover the gamut from an heroiclament to a cradle song. Can also be performed by mezzo-soprano.
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Oct. 2009
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29' 34"
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