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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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