An excerpt from the Western opera "Riders of the Purple Sage" based on the novel by Zane Grey, this aria is scored for baritone and piano.
A set of four songs for lower voice with piano and optional string trio accompaniment. Songs may be sung separately or as a group. The deep sonority of lower voices works particularly well with strings.
This extended setting is a sort of meditation on memories of past love, as the speaker remembers traveling old paths of place and memory. It captures the quiet calm of graceful scenes that poet Conrad Aiken
The monodrama Ahab is the third that Hall has created with librettist Caitlin Vincent. This ten-minute work takes an imaginary approach to the final moments in the life of Herman Melville's
This collection of 12 songs continues Cipullo's outstanding art songs for baritone and piano. An Earth to Walk Upon, a set of six songs, reflects on life in this physical world and compares our
Cipullo's vocal works are becoming increasingly popular. The 14 songs in this volume for baritone and piano were composed between 2002 and 2009. A set of six, America 1968, represent poet Robert
Previously included in the collection Winter Windows.
The text of Juliana Hall's musical setting for baritone and piano is the famous sonnet The New Colossus by American poet Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and now inscribed on a plaque on the
Here is a collection of modern art songs for voice and piano by American composer John Conahan in which he sets poems and texts that have been a source of inspiration for him. Available in four separate
Based on the poetry of Langston Hughes, American composer Gwyneth Walker has created a twelve minute set of songs for either tenor or baritone voice based on themes of water and rivers. These titles are
Foursquare Cathedral is a setting of five poems from Todd Boss's critically lauded debut volume, Yellowrocket. It was commissioned by Arthur Jacobson and Peninah Petruck for bass-baritone Benjamin
Young Thompson was captured as a POW in the Vietnam War. Now, as Old Thompson, he sings the Catalogue Aria after receiving a letter from Richard Nixon which warns that he might find some
All three songs from Prayers and Blessings are interconnected motivically, yet distinct in meter, tonality and message. Peace and reverence flow throughout. The version for bass-baritone was
Each song in this collection is dedicated to four singers - friends of the composer. The songs Homecoming and Quilt were commissioned by the West Chester University Poetry Conference (West
Winter Windows is a cycle of songs that each offer a "window" into a different wintry scene. There is, of course, a snow-man, and there are snowflakes and fields piled high in snow drifts, but the
Composed in 1984 and revised in 1993, Of All the Souls That Stand Create for baritone and piano is a setting of a poem by Emily Dickinson. The music features free tonality, a consistently
Song of the Silkie (String Quartet No. 2) is a dramatic work for high baritone (or baritone and soprano, or mezzo-soprano, or countertenor) and string quartet. The work is based on a folk tale
For baritone/countertenor & cello. First printing. Composed for the Christopher Caines Dance Company. Premiered in New York, June 2004. Texts by Ezra Pound. Includes program and performance notes.
For baritone & piano. Text by Robert T. Squibb. Dedicated to the Central City Opera and Lawrence Kraman. Score, 14 p.
Lincoln was commissioned for the Lincoln Symposium, Concord, Massachusetts, in celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, February 13, 2009. The string orchestra is scored for