SONGS ABOUT FISH
In honour of Nemo, Marlin, Dory, Gill, and the rest of the
FINDING NEMO gang, here are solo songs - appropriate for
classical singers - about fish and other creatures of the deep.
NOTE: Accompaniment is piano, and voice is "unspecified", unless otherwise noted.
Anton Arensky: Pesn' Rybki (Song of the Little Fish), op. 21 no. 2 (also No. 1 from Six Romances op. 27)
Georges Auric: Aglaé (No. 4 from Huit poèmes de Jean Cocteau)
Paul Ayres: Poor Fish
Mily Balakirev: Pesnja Zolotoj Rybki (Song of the Little Golden Fish)
Robert F. Baksa: The Troutlet (No. 7 from A Cynic's Cycle)
Connie Beckley: The Aquarium
Arthur Bliss: Fish in River; An Oyster (No. 1 and No. 3 from A Knot of Riddles); In the Beck (No. 5 from Angels of the Mind)
William Bolcolm: The Fish (from I Will Breathe A Mountain) [mezzo-soprano]
John Cage: Litany for the Whale [2 equal voices]
Elliott Carter: Dolphin (from In Sleep, in Thunder) [tenor, orchestra]
Constance Cooper: A Salmon Speaks (in quarter tones) [soprano, oboe]
Stephen Cronin: Secrets (1. Shellfish, 2. Crabs, 3. Fish (2002) [tenor, violin]
Ikuma Dan: Saury fish (No. 4 from Songs (6) for Children)
Terence Deadman: The Magic Fish
(a musical)
John Duke: The Lobster Quadrille (No. 1 from Five Lewis Carroll Poems)
Louis Durey: Le Dauphin (The Dolphin); Le Poulpe (The Octopus); La Méduse (The Jellyfish); Le Écrevisse (The Crayfish); La Carpe (The Carp); (Nos. 19-23 from La Bestiaire)
Gottfried von Einem: Wölfe des Wassers", Op. 96 No. 4 (from Vier Tierlieder)
Thomas Goss: The Whale (No. 3 from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts) [soprano, soprano saxophone, piano]
Ulf A. Grahn: Lady Muriel's Song (1987) [voice, piano]
Reynaldo Hahn: La pêche (No. 7 from Douze Rondels)
Benton Hess: Metamorphosis: Fish (No. 4 from Metamorphosis) [high voice, piano]
Lee Hoiby: Strayed Crab (No. 2 from Rain Forest)
David Horne: Little Fish (from Life's Splinters) [tenor, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello]
Josseph Klein: Liebhaber in allen Gestalten (No. 6 of Acht Lieder und Gesänge von Heine und Goethe, Op. 71) [soprano, piano]
Charles Koechlin: La Pêche (No. 1 from Sept Rondels, Op. 8)
Joseph Kosma: La pêche et la baleine
Henry Lawes: The anglers' song
Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov: Pesnja Rybki (Song of the Little Fish), op. 54
Tom Johnson: Dryer (1978) [tenor, baritone, piano]
Charles Koechlin: La pêche
György Ligeti: The Lobster Quadrille (No. 7 from Nonsense Madrigals)
Rodney Lister: Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (1981) (from Songbook)
Carl Loewe: Das Fischergewerbe (1826)
Gustav Mahler: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn) [baritone]
Robert MacGimsey: Jonah and the Whale
Stanisław Moniuszko: Rybka (The Little Fish) [soprano, piano]
Cole Porter: The Tale of the Oyster (from Fifty Million Frenchmen) [mezzo-soprano]
Francis Poulenc: Le Dauphin (The Dolphin); Le Écrevisse (The Crayfish); La Carpe (The Carp) (Nos. 4-6 from La Bestiaire, FP. 15a)
Alan Rawthorne: Two Fish (from Three French Nursery Rhymes) [tenor, piano]
Christoph Rheineck: Die Forelle: In einem Bächlein helle (No. 3 from Sechs Lieder)
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart: Die Forelle: In einem Bächlein helle (No. 40 of Sämtliche Lieder)
Franz Schubert: Fischerlied, D.562
Franz Schubert: Die Forelle (The Trout, D.550
Franz Schubert: Fischerweise, D.881
Franz Schubert: Lieber in allen Gestalten, D.558
Arthur Shepherd: To a Trout
Shel Silverstein: Underwater Land (14 songs about underwater creatures)
Charles Villiers Stanford: The horses of the sea (from Kookoorookoo and other songs) (1916)
Ringo Starr: Octopus' Garden
Kurt Weill: Petroleum-Song "Die Muschel von Margate" (The Mussel of Margate) (from Konjunktur) [soprano]
Trad.: Shoals of Herring
Trad.: The Chivalrous Shark
Trad.: Song of the Fishes
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