Vocal
- Wanderers Gemütsruhe (Song for a Wanderer) for soprano (or tenor) and piano (1938, revised 1948); text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Where the Bee Sucks for medium voice and piano (1940); Ariel's song from the incidental music The Tempest; text by William Shakespeare
- Melodrama and Dramatic Song for Michelangelo for voice and orchestra (1940)
- Tanglewood Song for voice (unison voices) with accompaniment of 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, and bass tuba
- Song of Anguish, cantata for baritone or bass and large orchestra (1945); Biblical text
- Song of Songs, cantata for soprano or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1946); Biblical text
- For Cornelia, song for voice and piano (1955); text by William Butler Yeats
- Time Cycle, 4 songs for soprano and orchestra (1959–1960); version for soprano, clarinet, cello, celesta, percussion (1960); texts by W. H. Auden, A. E. Housman, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird for voice, flute, piano, percussion and tape (1978); text by Wallace Stevens
- Measure for Measure for tenor and small orchestra (1980); text by William Shakespeare
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Famous quotes containing the word vocal:
“Prayer is
The world in tune,
A spirit-voice,
And vocal joys,
Whose echo is Heaven’s bliss.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
“With sweet May dews my wings were wet,
And Phoebus fir’d my vocal rage;
He caught me in his silken net,
And shut me in his golden cage.
He loves to sit and hear me sing,
Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;
Then stretches out my golden wing,
And mocks my loss of liberty.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. But there is also, it seems to me, a moment at which democracy must prove its capacity to act. Every man has a right to be heard; but no man has the right to strangle democracy with a single set of vocal chords.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)