American composer Juliana Hall has written more than 50 song cycles and works of vocal chamber music for prestigious commissions and artists such as Dawn Upshaw and David Malis. This song cycle is based on

On the surface, this 1941 Elizabeth Bishop poem is about roosters. More specifically, roosters in Key West, where the poet spent a decade. But the subtexts could not be any more appropriate in terms of

Hall presents a new setting of the same nine sonnets set by Benjamin Britten in his cycle of the same name, providing an alternative view of Donne’s deeply moving and thought-provoking texts on the

Commissioned by Lynx Project for its 2017 Autism Advocacy Project which sets the words of individuals with autism to music in newly commissioned art songs, Hall's six-minute song cycle for tenor

This canticle based on texts taken from the Gospel of Luke is designed like a triptych painting. Fashioned like a visual art triptych, the "left panel" or Prologue of the piece proclaims

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

Previously included in the collection Winter Windows.

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

Composed in 1989, one of Hall's earliest compositions, this collection of ten short songs on children's poetry by the great English poet Walter de la Mare is fanciful, charming, humorous, endearing,

Based on six poems by American poet Billy Collins, these songs offer gentle, colorful, and playful glimpses into a narrator's past experiences taking piano lessons. This lighthearted song cycle possesses

Hall's song setting for soprano voice and alto saxophone of the famous Wallace Stevens poem is composed in 13 short parts, each a brief performance at one of the 13 stops along the Wallace Stevens Walk in

Love and loss are the themes of this moving poem by A.E. Housman. The musical setting for tenor and piano encapsulates the deep emotion inherent in the poem.

A song cycle based on a set of seven poems created as a group by Boston imagist poet Amy Lowell. These poems effectively convey the grim sense of unease felt in a time of war or strife. While they never

A song of thanks, I Can No Other Answer Make was written in 2016 for the wonderful American tenor Paul Sperry. Just four short lines of text from Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night" are set as the