Works about Music
Title
Poet/Lyricist
Voicing/Instrumentation
Level
Poet/Lyricist: Philip Dacey
- SATB, orchestra
Level: MA
Create a Song Once More
St Cecilia invites King David to imagine a restorative path beyond guilt and shame
St Cecilia invites King David to imagine a restorative path beyond guilt and shame
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SATB a cappella
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Rabindranath Tagore
- SSA a cappella
- SATB a cappella
Level: M
Give Me a Laundry List (and I'll set it to music)
A lighthearted spin on a boast by composer Giaocchino Rossini
A lighthearted spin on a boast by composer Giaocchino Rossini
Poet/Lyricist: A famous boast by Giaocchino Rossini
- SSAA a cappella
- SATB a cappella
Level: M
How To Sing Like a Planet
A genre-defying “instruction manual” as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it
A genre-defying “instruction manual” as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- TBB, piano
- SATB, piano
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Zimbabwean proverb
- SAB, piano, claves
- SSA, piano, claves
- TBB, piano, claves
- SATB, piano, claves
Level: ME
Poet/Lyricist: Gregory Djanikian
- High voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Level: A
Poet/Lyricist: Dutch proverb / Elizabeth Alexander
- Vocal duet, piano
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Swedish proverb
- SSA, oboe, piano
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SSA a cappella
Level: M
When the Song of the Angels Is Stilled
A rhythmic and relevant best-seller about the true “work of Christmas”
A rhythmic and relevant best-seller about the true “work of Christmas”
Poet/Lyricist: Howard Thurman
- SATB a cappella
- SATB, flute
- SSAA a cappella
- TTBB a cappella
Level: M
Y Comienzo a Bailar (“And I Begin To Dance”)
An intimate portrait of the bittersweet experience of memory, loss, and love
An intimate portrait of the bittersweet experience of memory, loss, and love
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander / Augustin Cadena
- SATB, piano
Level: MA