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Oh, Where is My Love? (1981)
Text is a somewhat sappy poem I wrote while in high school, pining for
a lost love who never, technically, existed.
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Lullaby (1981)
The first of many attempts to emulate some of the great lullabies of
Bach and Schubert.
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Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind (1982)
My setting of a text which had been set to music by a number of other
composers.
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Ave Maria (1981)
The first of three (successful) settings of this text; the other two
were choral pieces.
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Ave Maria, Maiden Mild (1982)
Setting of the original English version of Sir Walter Scott's poem; the
German translation was used by Schubert in his famous setting, Ave
Maria, Jungfrau Mild
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I Want You (1982)
Setting of a poem I had found in "Great Poems of the American
People", expressing my unrequited love for a girl I
knew in college. I, of course, never told her how I felt.
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If I had Known (1983)
Written for a composition assignment in college, the text was taken from the
same book as the one above. I think it was a little more tonal than my
instructor would have liked.
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God Be In My Head (1983)
This song was the result of an assignment to write a melody consisting of a subject, a retrograde, and inversion, and a retrograde inversion.
I never got the completed piece back from my instructor, so I have tried to reconstruct the accompaniment from memory.
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Thou Hast Wounded the Spirit that Loved Thee (1983)
Another text taken from "Great Poems", this one was supposed to be an
end-of-the-semester composition assignment, but I didn't use it and ended up
never finishing the class, dropping out of school soon afterwards.
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Tarantula (1993)
A playful song that was suggested by my wife, who was thinking of a
Gilbert and Sullivan tune where they kept singing "Tarantara".
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Hymn of Creation (1993)
A setting of a poem from C. G. Jung's "Symbols of
Transformation", which was analyzed by Jung to describe the poet's
mental illness.
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Stand on the Mountain (1993)
A setting of an excerpt from Isaiah, concluded with a prayer written by
my wife. This song was written for a fellow church choir member who
was taking voice lessons.
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Rainbows in the Sky are True (1993)
Setting of a poem by 9-year-old Katherine Grosvenor, who wrote it on
the morning when a long drought was about to end.
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I Lift Up My Eyes (1994)
Setting of Psalm 120.
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Jesu, Direct my Spirit (1994)
Duet for two sopranos, set to my own text.
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