Kyle Gann: Vocal Music Scores
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Songs for Voice and Piano:

Et Faim Sallir les Loups des Boys for baritone (2015) - text by Ezra Pound; 2 minutes

Faith for soprano (1984) - text by Ella Wheeler Wilcox; 3 minutes; recording

The Hippopotamus for baritone (1979) - text by T. S. Eliot; 4 1/2 minutes; recording

Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Sermon for soprano (1985/93) - text by T. S. Eliot; 5 1/2 minutes

Songs from Proença for soprano (1991) - texts by Ezra Pound, Comtessa de Dia, Arnaut Daniel, Peire Vidal, anonymous; 6 songs, 50 minutes

Transcendentalist Songs for male or female voice (2014) - texts by Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Cranch, Hedge; 9 songs, 29 minutes; recordings:
1. Enosis
2. To the Face Seen in the Moon
3. The Rhodora
4. The Columbine
5. Indeed, Indeed I Cannot Tell
6. The Garden
7. Questionings (The Idealist)
8. In the Busy Streets, mp3
9. I Slept and Dreamed that Life Was Beauty, mp3
1, 2, 9: Ingrid Kammin; 3, 4, 7: Robert Mangialardi; 5, 6, 8: William Hudson

Your Staccato Ways for soprano (2013) - text by Karen Schoemer; 5 songs, 13 minutes; recordings:
Couplets
Flatland
Little Womb
Hotel Minor
Takeoff
Kimberly Kahan, soprano; James Fitzwilliam, piano

Solo Voice with Chamber Ensemble:

Could Ye Loan Me Ten Pence? for singer and two melody instruments (1978) - 2 minutes

Proença for alto with flute, electric piano, vibraphone, and bass (2015) - texts by Ezra Pound, Comtessa de Dia, Arnaut Daniel, Peire Vidal, anonymous; 6 songs, 50 minutes; recordings:
Be.m pac d'ivern
Na Audiart
Alba (En un vergier sotz fuella d'albespi)
Estat ai en grue cossirier
L'aura amara
Near Perigord; Michelle Allen McIntire, voice

Your Staccato Ways for soprano with flute, clarinet, trumpet, vibes, piano, string trio (2013) - text by Karen Schoemer; 5 songs, 14 minutes

Satie for female voice with flute, violin, percussion, harp (1975) - text by Erik Satie; 12 minutes; recording, Paulette Wallendorf, voice

The Stream (Admonitions) for female voice with vibraphone and four percussion (1987) - text by Henry David Thoreau; 7 minutes

Solo Voice with Electronic Background:

Scenario for soprano with background CD (1975) - text by S.J. Perelman; 17 minutes; recording, Martha Herr, voice

Solo Voice with Chamber Orchestra:

Cap Rock Wind for contralto with chamber orchestra (2015-16) - text by Woody Guthrie; 16 minutes

Solo Voice with Orchestra:

Scenario for soprano and large orchestra (3-2-oboe d'amore-2-3; 2-3-2; harmonica; acoustic guitar, elec bass; timp, xyl, mar, tam-tams, drum set; celesta; strings); text by S.J. Perelman (2003/2012) - 17 minutes



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