Vally Weigl Musical Works
This works list was compiled on the basis of multiple sources, not all of which were always in agreement. In particular it was not always possible to determine whether a date is that of composition or that of publication. In her attempts to maximize performance opportunities, Vally Weigl indicated various alternative and ad lib. scorings for many of her works. She would not have been averse to yet other combinations. Most of the performance durations have been taken from documentation provided by American Composers Alliance (http://composers.com/vally-weigl), the primary source for performance materials of Vally Weigl compositions.
Instrumental music
Works for piano solo
Works for piano duo or piano four hands
Works for chamber ensemble
Vocal music
Works for solo voice(s) with accompaniment
Works for chorus
Titles that remain to be researched
Instrumental music
Works for piano solo
Easy Piano Pieces for Children
1. Dance of the Grashoppers and Kittens
2. Dance Suite
3. Kitten Stories
4. Who Is Afraid of Five Black Keys
5. Riding Santa’s Sleigh
Composition: 1952–1963
Performance duration: ca. 18 min.
Available from: ACA; Who Is Afraid of Five Black Keys also available in Composers Facsimile Edition
Lonesome Kitten
Composition: 1961
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: TPC
Toccatina (Hommage to Robert Schumann)
Composition: 1982
Performance duration: 5
Available from: ACA
Works for piano duo or piano four hands
Bagatelles for piano duo
Composition: 1952–1953
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Capriccio
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Easy Piano Duets (arrangements of Bach chorale preludes and folk songs)
Composition: 1943–1945
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Five Bagatelles for piano duet (arranged from Easy Piano Pieces for Children)
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Riding Santa’s Sleigh (from Easy Piano Pieces for Children, arranged for piano four hands)
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Two Bach Chorale Preludes (arrangements for piano duet)
1. In Thee Is Joy
2. Sleepers Wake
Composition: 1948
Performance duration: 7 min.
Available from: ACA
Two Children’s Pieces
Composition: 1953
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Works for chamber ensemble
Adagietto for Strings for string quartet (or string orchestra); alternate title: To Emily
Composition: 1970
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Adagio for Strings for string quartet (or string orchestra)
Composition: 1945/1951?
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Andante for Strings for string quartet (or string orchestra)
Composition: 1945
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Bird of Life, see Oiseau de la vie
Brief Encounters for clarinet (or trumpet, or mezzo-soprano vocalise), flute (or oboe, or English horn), horn, bassoon; see also version for mezzo-soprano
1. Lament
2. Intermezzo
3. Evolution
4. Alla Danza
5. Arioso
6. Rondelette
7. Old Time Divertimento
Composition: 1977–1979; rev. 1979
Performance duration: 21 min.
Available from: ACA
Burleske, see Old-time Burlesque
Cherry Tree, The, for horn, oboe (or flute), and piano; see also version for voice, In Serious Mood
Composition: 1968
Performance duration: 3 min
Available from: ACA
Dialogues for violin (or flute) and clarinet (or viola)
Composition: 1979–1980
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Divertimento for Wind Instruments for trumpet (or clarinet in B), horn, and bassoon
Composition: 1977
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Enigma for flute, viola, and harp (or piano)
Composition: 1979
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Five Occurrences for woodwind quintet
Composition: 1977
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
I Saw Two Birds (from Take My Hand, see below) for two clarinets, cello, and flute (or violin)
Composition: 1975
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Mood Sketches, suite in four movements for woodwind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon)
1. Lyric Intermezzo
2. Episode
3. Nostalgic Dance
4. Capriccio
Composition: 1952–1954
Available from: ACA
New England Suite for clarinet (or flute, or violin), cello (or horn), and piano
1. Vermont Nocturne
2. Maine Interlude
3. Berkshire Pastorale
4. Connecticut County Fair
Composition: 1951–1953
Performance duration: 16–18 min.
Available from: ACA
Old-time Burlesque for cello (or trombone or violin) and piano
Composition: 1938
Performance duration: 6 min.
Available from: ACA
Old Time Divertimento for clarinet (or trumpet), bassoon, and horn; alternate version for three horns
Composition: 1977
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Oiseau de la vie (Bird of Life) in four movements for flute (or clarinet)
1. Oiseau doux de la nuit
2. Oiseau joyeux á laube
3. Oiseau ravi du midi
4. Chant d’adieu au soleil couchant
Composition: 1979
Performance duration: 8 min.
Available from: ACA
Petite Suite for woodwinds (flute, oboe, bassoon, and horn)
Composition: 1981
Performance duration: 11 min.
Available from: ACA
Points and Counterpoints for two clarinets (or violin and clarinet)
Composition: 1982
Performance duration: 8 min
Available from: ACA
Prelude for Three for flute, viola, and harp
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Reverberations for oboe (or clarinet, or flute)
Composition: 1982
Performance duration: 7 min.
Available from: ACA
Silhouette for woodwind quartet (flute, clarinet, bassoon, and horn)
Composition: 1958
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Three Dialogues for flute, viola (or violin), and clarinet
Composition: 1979 [1980?]
Performance duration: 10 min.
Available from: ACA
Three Discourses for flute (or violin) and cello
Composition: 1980
Performance duration: 10 min.
Available from: ACA
To Emily, see Adagietto for Strings
Trialogues for flute, viola, and harp (or piano, or cembalo)
Composition: 1978
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Vocal music
Works for solo voice(s) with accompaniment
All Day I Hear the Noise of Water for deep voice and piano
Text: James Joyce
Composition: 1951
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Along the Moving Darkness, song cycle for medium-high voice, flute (or violin, or oboe), and piano
1. A Conceit of Spring
2. When I Am Dead, My Dearest
3. Out of the Dark
4. The Blackbird
5. Epitaph
Texts: Etta Ruth Weigl, Christina Georgina Rosetti, John Bannister Tabb, Humbert Wolfe, and Chard Powers Smith
Composition: 1965–1977
Performance duration: 17 min
Available from: ACA
Autumn Mood for medium voice and piano
Text: Oscar Maar; trl. Vally Weigl
Composition: 1948
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Beyond Time, song cycle for high voice (soprano or tenor), flute (or clarinet, or violin), and piano
1. Desert Is Not
2. Fill! Fill the Cup
3. Remainder
4. Happy Summer
5. Treasure
Texts: Frederika Glankner (from Secret Bread)
Composition: 1956 [1971?]
Performance duration: 12 min.
Available from: ACA
Birds in Springtime (from Springtide, and Harbingers of Spring) for high (or medium-high voice, flute (or clarinet), and piano
Text: Grace Shattuck Bail
Composition: 1975
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
Black Arch of the Night for medium voice and clarinet (or (viola) obligato
1. Lethe
2. Under the Moon
3. On a Ship at Night
4. The Screech Owl
5. Horses at Night
Texts:H. D. Doolittle,Denise Levertov, Frances Brogan Richardson, and Rosalie Regan
Composition: 1979
Performance duration: 12 min.
Available from: ACA
Blackbird, The, see Along the Moving Darkness
Brief Encounters for mezzo-soprano (or clarinet), Englisch horn (or oboe), and horn, see also the purely instrumental version of Brief Encounters
1. Lament
2. Intermezzo
3. Evolution
4. Alla Danza
5. Arioso
6. Rondelette
7. Old Time Divertimento
Texts: tbd
Composition: 1977–1979; rev. 1979
Performance duration: 21 min.
Available from: ACA
Calls for baritone (or mezzo-soprano), flute (or violin, or clarinet), and piano
Text: Carl Sandburg
Performance duration: 3 min.
Composition: 1977; from the song cycle Only the Moon Remembers
Available from: ACA
Cardinal in March for high (or medium-high) voice, flute (or clarinet), and piano
Text: Etta Ruth Weigl
Performance duration: 3 min.
Composition: 1975; based on Springtide and Harbingers of Spring
Available from: ACA
Christchild’s Lullaby for two women’s voices (or two-part women’s chorus and piano; alternate version for mezzo-soprano, flue (or oboe), and piano
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1940
Performance duration: 3 min
Available from: ACA
Christmas Lullaby, A, for medium-high voice and piano
Text: Mary Hoxie Jones
Composition: 1966
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Christmas Message, A, for medium-high voice and orgel (or piano)
Text: Fra Giovanni
Composition: 1954 [1971?]
Performance duration: 4 min
Available from: ACA
City Birds for mezzo-soprano (or baritone), flute, clarinet, and piano
Text: Madeline Mason (from The Cage of Our Ears)
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA; also available in Composers Facsimile Edition
Come In for medium-high voice and piano; alternative version for voice, clarinet, and bassoon
Text: Robert Frost [not cleared for copyright]
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Come, Little Leaves for two voices, soprano (or alto) recorder, and piano
Text: George Cooper
Composition: 1962
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Dear Earth, a quintet of poems for baritone (or mezzo-soprano), horn, violin, viola, and cello
1. Evolution
2. Redemption
3. Post Factum
4. Dear Earth
5. This Gift of Mine
Texts: Frederika Blankner
Composition: 1956
Performance duration: 15 min.
Available from: ACA
Der Tod (Death) for medium-high voice and piano
Text: Matthias Claudius; trl. Vally Weigl
Composition: 1936
Available from: ACA
Songs from "Do Not Awake Me" for mezzo-soprano or baritone with violin (or flute, or clarinet) and piano
1. Evening Out on the Rim
2. When We Awake Again
3. On the Top of the Hill
4. Ah, Angel!
5. The Quiet House
6. I Felt the Autumn Grieve Me
7. The Wings of the Morning
Texts: Marion Edey
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: 17 min.
Available from: ACA and KWF
Echoes from Poems for mezzo-soprano (or baritone), clarinet, horn (or cello), violin (or flute), and piano
1. The Singing of the Earth
2. Lantern in ther Snow
3. Winter Night (1958)
4. The Angelus
5. Of Heaven and Earth
Texts: Patricia Benton
Composition: 1956–1958
Performance duration: 10–11 min.
Available from: ACA
Elf and the Dormouse, The, for medium voice and piano
Text: O. Herford
Composition: 1962
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Erinnerung an Tirol (Memories of the Tyrol) for medium-high voice, and piano
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1978
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend, The, for medium voice and piano
Text: R. Fyleman
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Firstborn, The, for medium-high voice and piano
Text: Malcolm Crowley
Composition: 1941 [1951–1952]
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Five Songs of Remembrance for mezzo-soprano, flute (or violin, or clarinet), and piano (alternate version for mezzo-soprano and string quartet)
1. Heart, We Will Forget Him
2. What Shall I Do When the Summer Troubles
3. Mother Nature
4. Wild Nights
5. If You Were Coming in the Fall
Texts: Emily Dickinson
Composition: 1950–1953
Performance duration: 12 min.
Available from: ACA and KWF
Four Songs for children’s or women’s voices (either chorus or soli) and piano
Texts: Swinburne, Christine Rossetti, George Cooper, and Dee Harris
Composition: 1962
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Frühling (Springtime) for medium-high voice and piano
Text: Elsie Shyberg [Shybner?]
Composition: 1968
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Gebet vor Abend / Prayer before Evening for medium-high voice and piano
Text: Armin T. Wegner
Composition: 1961
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Glimpse of Hope, see Hoffnungsschimmer
Hoffnungsschimmer [Glimpse of Hope] for alto (or baritone) , viola (or violin), and piano
Text: Rudolf List; trl. Vally Weigl
Composition: 1937; rev. 1971
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
How Many Nights for medium-high voice, viola obligato, and piano
Text: Galway Kinnell
Composition: 1975
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Huntsmen, The, for medium voice, recorder, and piano
Text: Walter de la Mare
Performance duration: 2 min.
Composition: 1960
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
I Hear the Noise of Many Waters for medium-high voice and piano
Text: James Joyce
Composition: 1981
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
In Serious Mood for medium-high voice and instruments (or just instruments)
Text: tbd
incl. The Cherry Tree
Composition: 1977
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
In Springtime for medium-high voice, flute, and piano
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1931
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
In the Meadow for voice, soprano recorder, and piano
Text: C. Rosetti
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Liebster, Liebsters, schläfst Du noch? / Dearest, Dearest, Sleepest Thou? for medium voice and piano
Text: from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Composition: 1916
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Listen for medium-high voice, and piano
Text: Clara Fischer
Composition: 1971
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Little Singers, The, for medium voice, soprano recorder (or flute), and piano
Text: E. Hammond
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Little Songs for Little Vally for 1 (or two) voices, flute (or recorder), and piano
Texts: Josephine Bacon, Annette Wynne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Evelyn Nesbit, Eleanor Farjeon, and Norman Schlichter
Composition: 1963
Performance duration: 12 min.
Available from: ACA
Long, Long Ago, a Christmas carol for voice, soprano recorder (or flute), and piano
Text: tbd
Composition: 1962
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
Lost for mezzo-soprano, oboe, bassoon (cello
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1981
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Lyrical Suite for mezzo-soprano (or baritone), flute (or clarinet, or violin), cello, and piano
1. Tide Foam
2. Tryst
3. Open Book
4. Winter
5. O Love this Tree
6. April Woods
7. Query
Texts: Frederika Blankner (from All My Youth)
Composition: 1980 (C. F. Peters)
Performance duration: 15
Available from: ACA
Madrigal for five solo voices (or five-part mixed chorus)
Text: Frederika Blankner
Composition: 1959
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Memories of the Tryol for soprano (or tenor) and piano (or harp)
Text: tbd
Composition: 1978
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Mice for medium voice and piano
Text: tbd
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Mother’s Day for voice and piano
Text: Clara Fischer
Composition: 1969
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
My God, What Is a Heart for three solo voices (or three-part chorus)
Text: G. Herbert
Composition: 1978
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Nature Moods for high voice, flute (or clarinet), violin (or cello), and piano; alternate version for high voice, flute, clarinet, and violin (or viola)
1. Whippoorwill
2. Winter Reverie
3. Afterthoughts
4. Insect Orchestra
5. Gardener’s Prayer
Texts: Harry Woodbourne
Composition: 1956
Performance duration: 10 min.
Available from: ACA
Never More Will the Wind for medium voice, clarinet, violin, and cello
Text: H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]
Composition: 1982
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Night Will Never Stay, The for two voices (or soprano recorders or flutes) and piano; alternate version for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Eleanor Farjeon
Composition: 1942
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
Nightfall in the Mountains for medium-high voice, viola (or violin), and piano
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1975
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Oh, Lord of Mysteries for medium voice, violin, cello; alternate version for medium voice and piano
1. Death Psalm
2. tbd
Texts: Denise Levertov and Emily Dickinson
Composition: 1982
Performance duration: 14 min.
Available from: ACA
Oh, Love Doth Make the Day for medium (or high) voice and piano
Text: Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Composition: 1981
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
On Langsyne Plantation for medium-high voice, clarinet (or violin), and piano
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1976
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
On the Top of the Hill (from Springtide, and Do Not Awake Me) for voice and obligate Instrumente
Text: Marion Edey
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Only the Moon Remembers, song cycle for mezzo-soprano, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon (or cello); alternative title:Five Songs for medium voice, oboe, clarinet, and cello (or bassoon)
1. Lost
2. Fog
3. I Sang to You
4. Calls
5. Sunsets
Texts: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1976 [1981?]
Performance duration: 12 min.
Available from: ACA
Pax Hominibus for voice(s)
Text: Blake
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Peace, My Heart for medium-high voice, violin, cello (or piano)
Text: Rabindranath Tagore
Composition: 1982
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Pippa’s Song for one or two voices, soprano recorder, and piano
Text: Robert Browning
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Playthings of the Wind for baritone, mezzo-soprano, clarinet (viola, and piano
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1978
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Rain at Night (Regennacht) for low voice (alto or baritone), cello, viola, and piano
Text: Hermann Hesse; trl. Vally Weigl
Composition: 1972
Performance duration: 4 min
Available from: ACA
Rain in Summer for medium voice and piano
Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Composition: 1961
Performance duration: 1 min.
Available from: ACA
Requiem for Allison for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (or string orchestra)
Text: Peter Davies
Composition: 1971
Performance duration: 7 min.
Available from: ACA
Revelation for medium voice and string quartet
Text: Koichi Kihara
Composition: 1980
Performance duration: 8 min.
Available from: ACA and KWF
Rock-a-Bye Lady, The, for medium voice, recorder, and piano
Text: Eugene Field
Composition: 1961
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Salutation of the Dawn, The, for voice, violin (or clarinet), and piano (or organ)
Text: from the Sanskrit
Composition: 1955
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Seal Lullaby for mezzo-soprano, piano, flute (or recorder), and oboe
Text: Rudyard Kipling
Composition: 1978
Performance duration: 7 min.
Available from: ACA
Seeking You for medium-low voice, flute (or violin), and piano
Text: Harry Woodbourne
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Seven Rounds in Various Moods for medium-high voice and piano
Texts: William Shakespeare, Ernest Dawson, Sir William Watson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anonymus, James Stephens, Robert Herrick
Composition: 1965
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Seven Songs for medium voice and piano
Texts: Lindsay, D. Aldis, and N.B. Turner
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Silver for medium voice, recorder, and piano
Text: Walter de la Mare
Composition: 1961
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Songs for a Child for voice, recorder (or flute), and piano
Texts: tbd
Composition: 1962; Westminster Press
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Songs from “Native Island” for medium voice and piano; alternate version for medium-high (or deep) voice, oboe (or clarinet, or violin), and piano
Texts: Gerta Kennedy
Composition: 1965
Performance duration: 7 min.
Available from: ACA
Songs from “No Boundary” for medium voice, violin (or clarinet, or flute), cello, and piano
1. Cricket Song
2. Song from the Meadow’s End
3. Shell Song
4. New Born
5. April
Texts: Lenore Marshall
Composition: 1963
Performance duration: 11 min.
Available from: ACA and KWF
Songs from the Somerset Hills for mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, bass, and piano (or mezzo-soprano and piano)
1. June Hush
2. Spring in the Hills
3. After the Flowers
Texts: Herta Rosenblatt
Composition: 1977
Performance duration: 9 min.
Available from: ACA
Songs Newly Seen in the Dusk for medium voice and string quartet (or cello solo)
1. Hymn to Eros
2. The Fire in Leaf and Grass
3. Who Is at My Window
4. Living a Life
Texts: Denise Levertov
Composition: 1979; originally a set of three songs (nos. 1, 2, and 4) based on poems from Levertov's The Sorrow Dance (1963), to which Vally Weigl subsequently added a new no. 3 song, Who Is at My Window, from Levertov’s O Taste and See (1962), a setting that was originally intended for inclusion in Songs of Concern.
Performance duration: 14 min.
Available from: ACA and KWF
Songs of Concern for medium-high voice, obligato instruments (violin or flute), and piano
1. Not Earth Alone
2. Who Is at My Window
3. Lullaby
4. Grave Song
5. I Have Lighted the Candles
Texts: Joseph Joel Keith, Denise Levertov, Gerta Kennedy (nos. 3 and 4), and Kenneth Patchen
Composition: 1967–1973; the songs eventually included in this cycle, which was originally titled Songs in Time of Strife, underwent a number of changes, as indicated by a number of differing manuscripts; the set listed here may have been revised yet again, as song no. 2 was eventually taken up into the cycle titled Songs Newly Seen in the Dusk. The version at ACA does not include nos. 3 and 4 listed here, including instead Dirge: What Were They Like? and Solo for Saturday Night Guitar.
Performance duration: 18 min.
Available from: ACA and KWF
Songs of Love and Leaving, song cycle for one (or two) medium voice(s) (mezzo-soprano or baritone) with violin, viola (or clarinet), and piano
1. Loam
2. Solo for Saturday Night Guitar
3. Calls
4. Valley Song (1975)
5. At a Window
6. Death Snips Proud Men by the Nose
7. And This Will be All?
8. Stars, Songs, Faces
9. Oh, Langsyme Plantation
10. Wind Horses (1976)
11. Peace, Night, Sleep
Texts: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1965–1980; note in composer’s score: Song Cycle on poems by Carl Sandburg, set to music for alternating a medium female voice with a male voice, with piano and violin (or viola or clarinet) obligato.
Performance duration: 27–30 min.
Available from: ACA
Songs of Remembrance, see Five Songs of Remembrance for mezzo-soprano, flute (or clarinet, or violin), and piano
Summer’s End, see Autumn Mood
Swiftly along Flows the River for medium voice, horn (or viola), and piano
Text: tbd
Composition: 1969
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Songs from "Take My Hand" for mezzo-soprano or baritone with flute (or violin, or clarinet), bass clarinet (or cello), and piano (alternate version for voice and piano)
1. I Saw Two Birds
2. Soon
3. Other Hearts
4. Other Summers
5. Challenge
Texts: Edith Segal
Composition: 1975
Performance duration: 13 min.
Available from: ACA and KWF
Thanks for medium-high voice (mezzo-soprano or baritone) and piano
Text: Clara Fischer
Composition: 1967
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Thistle, Yarrow, Clover for medium-high voice, and piano
Text: Kenneth Porter
Composition: 1975
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Thoughts about Grasshoppers for medium voice, soprano recorder, flute, and piano
Text: F. P. Jacques
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Unchecked, the Hydra Rages On for voice, and piano
When the Vision Dies (Perhaps) for medium-high voice (flute (violin (clarinet, and piano
Text: Vera Britain
Composition: 1971
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Where Go the Boats for voice, recorder, and piano
Text: Robert Louis Stevenson
Composition: 1960
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
Who has Seen the Wind? for voice, flute (or recorder), and piano; alternate version for three-part women’s chorus, piano, and flute (or violin)
Text: Christina G. Rosetti
Composition: 1945
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Who Is at My Window for medium voice, flute (or violin, and piano
Text: Denise Levertov
Composition: 1968
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Wings of the Morning, The, for voice and obligato instruments
Text: Marion Edey
Composition: 1957; drawn from Springtimde and Do Not Awake Me
Available from: ACA
Wynken, Blyken, and Nod for one or two medium voices, recorder, and piano
Text: Eugene Field
Composition: 1961
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Works for chorus
All Faith Prayer for Peace for mixed chorus and piano
Text: John Golden
Composition: 1955
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Along the Way, choral suite for women’s voices, castagnettes, tambourine ad lib., and piano
Texts: Edith Segal, Frederika Blankner, Dorothy Quick, and Emily Dickinson
Composition: 1979
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Along the Way for three-part women’s chorus (or three solo voices)
Text: Edith Segal
Composition: 1979
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
An die Schönheit / Ode to Beauty for mixed chorus, horn, and piano (or strings)
Text: Hermann Hesse; trl. Vally Weigl
Composition: 1936
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
And So the Miracle Came to Pass for unison chorus and piano
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1960
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Ballad of My Father, The, for mixed chorus, solo voices, and piano
Text: Denise Levertov
Composition: 1968
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Benediction for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: tbd
Composition: 1958
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Bless the Four Corners of this House for mixed chorus and piano
Text: Arthur Quiterman
Composition: 1969
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Bold Heart for mixed chorus (or three-part women’s chorus) a cappella
Text: tbd
Composition: 1958
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
Choruses of Concern
Text: tbd
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Christmas Carol for three women’s voices; alternate version for three-part women’s chorus a cappella
Text: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Christmas Folksong for three solo voices; alternate version for three-part women’s chorus and piano
Text: Liselle Woodworth Reese
Composition: 1945
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Christmas in the Holy Land for mixed chorus and piano
Text: Mary Hoxie Jones
Composition: 1957 [1966?]
Performance duration: 3 min
Available from: ACA
Christmas Legend for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Edith O. W. Collins
Composition: 1956
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Day and Night for mixed chorus a cappella and mezzo-soprano (tenor solo)
Text: Henry van Dyke
Composition: 1973
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Drums of War for mixed chorus and piano (or guitar); alternate version for medium-high voice and guitar
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1970; drawn from Songs of Concern
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Easter Morning for mixed chorus (or solo voices) and organ (or piano)
Text: Dora Hagemeler
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Fairy Song for three-part women’s chorus a cappella
Text: John Keats
Composition: 1944
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
Fear No More for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: William Shakespeare
Composition: 1953
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Four Choral Songs on Death and Man for mixed chorus, piano, snare drum, and timpani; alternate version for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Carl Sandburg
Under the Harvest Moon
Shenandoah
Composition: 1946–1953
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Four Seasons, The, a folk, song, and dance cantata for children’s chorus (or three-part women’s chorus) and piano
Text: folk songs, various
Composition: 1937; in collaboration with Karl Weigl
Performance duration: 25 min.
Available from: ACA
From Time and Eternity for five-part mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Emily Dickinson
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Gifts for mixed chorus and piano
Text: James Thompson
Composition: 1967
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Grass (from Four Choral Songs on Death and Man) for mixed chorus, piano, and percussion
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Harbingers of Spring for three-part women’s chorus (or three solo voices), flute (or clarinet), and piano
Texts: Etta Ruth Weigl, Leonore G. Marshall, Rhys Carpenter, Marion Edey, and Grace Shattuck Bail
Composition: 1979
Performance duration: 15 min.
Available from: ACA
Hear Ye, All Ye Peoples for mixed chorus, solo voices ad lib., and piano
Text: Psalm 49
Composition: 1958 [1960?]
Performance duration: 9 min.
Available from: ACA
Heart’s Content for mixed chorus (or three-part women’s chorus) a cappella
Text: tbd
Composition: 1938 [1944?]
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Hymn for five-part chorus a cappella
Text: tbd
Composition: 1944
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Hymn for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: tbd
Composition: 1941
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Hymnus for five-part mixed chorus a cappella
Text: from old English hymn tune
Composition: 1941 [1942]
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
I Am the People, the Mob for mixed chorus, trumpet, trombone, and timpani
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1976
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
In Just Spring for mixed chorus (or solo voices) a cappella
Text: e.e. cummings
Composition: 1963
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Let Down the Bars, O Death for four-part men’s chorus (or solo voices) a cappella
Text: Emily Dickinson
Composition: 1958
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Let My Country Awake for four solo voices, speaker, chorus, and piano
Text: Richard Davidson
Composition: 1967
Performance duration: 8 min.
Available from: ACA
Let There Be Music for three-part women’s chorus a cappella
Text: tbd
Composition: 1960
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Little Jesus Came to Town, The, a Christmas folk song for three-part women’s chorus and piano
Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese
Composition: 1946; published by Schirmer
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Lo, Somewhere for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: H. Löns
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Madrigal for five-part mixed chorus, see also Madrigal for five solo voices
Text: Frederika Blankner
Composition: 1959
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Middleschool Canons / Mittelschuler Kanons for four-part children’s chorus
Text: tbd
Composition:
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Night of Prayer for mixed chorus a cappella and solo voices
Text: Thitch Nhat Hahn
Composition: 1972
Performance duration: 8 min.
Available from: ACA
Nightwind, The, for mixed chorus a capella
Text: Robert Louis Stevenson
Composition: 1942, Presser Mercury Music
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
No Loveliness Is Ever Lost for mixed chorus and solo voices
Text: Nancy Byrd Turner
Composition: 1945
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
O See of Good (God) in Human Kind for mixed chorus
Text: E. Yarnell
Composition: 1946
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
O Seed of God in Humankind for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Elizabeth Baddle Yarnell
Composition: 1952
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Ode to Beauty, see An die Schönheit
Ode to the Westwind for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Percy B. Shelley
Composition: 1979
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Oh! Fair to See for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Christina G. Rossetti
Composition: 1969
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Oh, Wind, Blow Softly for two-part women’s or children’s chorus (or two solo voices), recorder (or flute), and piano
Text: tbd
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
On Christmas Eve for mixed chorus and piano
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1965
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Our World is One for mixed chorus and piano ad lib.
Text: Frederika Blankner
Composition: 1956
Performance duration: 6 min.
Available from: ACA
Peace Hymn for women’s chorus and piano
Text: John G. Whittier
Composition: 1956
Performance duration: 6 min.
Available from: ACA
People Is a Polychrome, The, for mixed chorus a capella
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1976
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
People, Yes! The, cantata for solo voices, mixed chorus, trumpet, Posaune, flute (clarinet, percussion, piano, and string quartet
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1976; dedicated to President Jimmy Carter; published by C.F. Peters, 1980
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Practical Earth Satellites for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1958
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Prayer for Peace for mixed chorus a cappella
Text from Friends Society
Composition: 1982
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Psalm 130 for three-part women’s chorus, tenor solo, and piano
Text: Psalm 130
Composition: 1950
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Road to Peace for unison chorus and piano
Text: tbd
Composition: 1969
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Saint Francis for three-part women’s chorus and flute (violin
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1945; Schirmer
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Sea Sunsets for women’s chorus, flute (or clarinet, or violin), and piano
Text: Carl Sandburg
Composition: 1975
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Shelter for All, A, for mixed chorus, piano, solo voices, and speaker
Text: Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Composition: 1963
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: tbd
Shepherdess Moon for three-part women’s chorus and piano
Text: tbd
Composition: 1946
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Song of Hope for three-part women’s chorus a cappella
Text: Vally Weigl
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Song of the Shadows, The, for mixed chorus and piano
Text: Walter de la Mare
Composition: 1969
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Songs from the Somerset Hills for mixed chorus (or solo mezzo-soprano) and piano
Text: Herta Rosenblatt
Composition: 1977
Performance duration: 9 min.
Available from: ACA
Spring’s Return for three-part women’s chorus, soprano solo, tambourine, and castagnettes
Text: Edith Segal
Composition: 1977
Performance duration: 2 min.
Available from: ACA
Springtide [also titled Two Lyrical Poems] for three-part women’s chorus a cappella; revised version for solo voices, flute (or clarinet), piano, and percussion
1. What Once the Heart Has Loved
2. Not Avalon in April
Texts: Dorothy Quick and Nancy Byrd Turner
Composition: 1943; rev. 1977 [1979?]
Performance duration: 8 min.
Available from: ACA
Still Will Be for five-part mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Dorothy Quick
Composition: 1956
Performance duration: 1 min.
Available from: ACA
Te Deum for mixed chorus (or solo voices) and piano
Text: Melvin Jones
Composition: 1957
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
This Is the Day of Light, anthem for mixed chorus and organ (or piano)
Text: John Ellerton
Composition: 1945
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Thou Art the Way for mixed chorus a cappella (or with organ ad lib.)
Text: Frederika Blankner
Composition: 1958
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
Three Easy Rounds for three or four solo voices (or chorus)
Text: tbd
Composition: 1968
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Three Choral Songs of the Southwest for mixed chorus a cappella
1. Life Chant
2. Desert Lullaby
3. tbd
Texts: Patricia Benton
Texts: Patricia Benton
Composition: 1958 (Mercury Music)
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
To Zion for three-part women’s chorus (or three solo voices), baritone solo, and piano
Text: Judah Ha-Levi; trl. Maurice Samuel
Composition: tbd
Performance duration: 5 min.
Available from: ACA
Two Choral Songs on Poems by Dorothy Quick for three-part women’s chorus a cappella
Texts: Dorothy Quick
Composition: 1956
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Two Choruses for four-part mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Patricia Benton
Composition: 1958
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Two Lyrical Poems, see Springtime for three-part women’s chorus a cappella
We Are the Musicmakers, ode for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Arthur O’Shoughnessy
Composition: 1966
Performance duration: 4 min.
Available from: ACA
When the Song of the Angels Is Stilled for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Howard Thurman
Composition: 1966
Performance duration: 3 min.
Available from: ACA
Who Bids Us Sing for three-part women’s chorus, and flute (clarinet or violin), and piano
Text: Rhys Carpenter
Composition: 1946
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Who Goes There Through the Night? for mixed chorus a cappella
Text: Th. Clark
Composition: 1969
Performance duration: tbd
Available from: ACA
Titles that remain to be researched
From the Far Corners
Mich (Text: R. Fyleman)
Mist Marches across the Valley (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Mother’s Day
Rabbles of Tattered Leaves (Text: Carl Sandburg)
The Year (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Winter Night (Text: M. F. Butts)