SONGS ABOUT CATS
These are solo songs and arias about domestic house cats.
NOTE: Accompaniment is "piano" and voice is "unspecified" unless otherwise noted.
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Jehan Alain: Chanson du Chat
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Jean Absil: Chanson du chat - No. 1 from Trois poèmes de Tristan Klingsor, Op. 45 (1940)
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Beth Anderson: Cat Songs [baritone, piano or double bass]
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H.K. Andrews: When cats run home
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Gary Bachlund: "Mauskätzchen" from Mäuselein, Mauskätzchen und Spätzchen (2007) [high voice, piano] - download PDF score
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Gary Bachlund: "The Owl and the Pussycat" (from "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (2002) [soprano, piano]
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David Baker: Le chat qui peche [soprano, orchestra, jazz quartet]
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Claude Ballif: Le chat, from Le Cortege d'Orphée
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Samuel Barber: The Monk and His Cat, from Hermit Songs
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Jean-Joel Barbier: Chanson du chat gris
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Martin Boykan: The Owl and the Pussycat, from A Packet for Susan (2003) [mezzo-soprano]
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Radie Britain: Kittens Questionnaire (1936) [unspecified]
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Benjamin Britten: For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey, from Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30 [alto, organ]
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John Cage: little four paws, from Five Songs for contralto voice and
piano [contralto]
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David DeBoor Canfield: Cats (1976) [soprano; string quartet, harpsichord, tape of prerecorded cat sounds]
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Carson P. Cooman: My Cat, from Foolish Songs
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Aaron Copland: I bought me a cat, from Old American Songs, first set
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Daniel Steven Crafts: Cat Stories (a song-cycle of poems about cats)
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Robert Desnos: La petite chat qui ne ressemble a rien
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Alphonse Diepenbrock: Les Chats
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Gottfried von Einem: Katzenlied, from Vier Tierlieder
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Michèal Fiacc: Cat and Mouse: Two Humorous Songs
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Jean Françaix: Belaud, mon petit chat gris, from Trois Épigrammes (1961)
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C. Armstrong Gibbs: Five Eyes, Op. 9 No. 3 (Gibbs also did an SSA trio setting of the same text as his Op. 15 No. 2)
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Alberto Ginastera: Gato
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André Grassi: Le cat cure
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Michael Head: The Matron Cat's Song
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Robin Hendrix: Maggie's Pet; Three Little Mice; Ding Dong Bell/Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat; I Love Little Pussy; Poor Dog Bright; The Lazy Cat; Mother Tabbyskin - from Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs
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Johann Adam Hiller: Auf ein paar von der Katze erwürgte Lachtauben, from Lieder für Kinder
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Sidney Homer: The dog lies in his kennel (Heft 1, No. 8 from Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song", Op. 19 [high voice, piano]
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Paul Kapp: A cat came fiddling, from A Cat Came Fiddling and Other Rhymes of Childhood
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Willem Kersters: Le chat et la feuille - No. 3 from Chien, zèbre et chat, Op. 60 (1972) [soprano]
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Josephine Lang: Lied des Katers "Hiddigeigei" - No. 5 from Fünf Lieder aus dem "Trompeter von Säckingen", Op. 45 (1869/70)
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Peggy Lee/Sonny Burke: Siamese Cat Song, from The Lady and the Tramp
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Ellen Jane Lorenz: Two Little Kittens, No. 5 from Eighteen Short Pieces for Voice and Piano or Piano Alone
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Carl Loewe: Die Katzenkönigin (Fabelballade), Op. 64 No. 3
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Theodore Lucas: La chanson du chat [soprano]
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Wilfrid Mellers: Five Cat Songs [tenor]
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H.S. Middleton: Pussy has a whiskered face, from Kikirikee (1925)
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Darius Milhaud: Le Chat
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Stanislaw Moniuszko: Kotek
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Modest Mussorgsky: V Oogloo (In the corner), No. 2 from Detskaya (The Nursery)
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Modest Mussorgsky: Kot Matros ("Sailor" the Cat), No. 7 from Detskaya (The Nursery)
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Lina Pizzuto: Le chat dans le nuit
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Francis Poulenc: Ba, be, bi, bo, bou, from La Courte Paille
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William Price: The Cat (2003) [soprano]
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François Rasse: Les petits chats (1916) [high voice]
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Betty Roe: An appeal to cats in the business of love, from Cat and Mouse: More Jazz Songs [soprano, double bass]
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Manuel Rosenthal: Le petit chat est mort, from Chansons du Monsieur Bleu
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Francis Routh: Tom Cats, No. 1 from Two Cautionary Tales (1990) [medium voice, guitar]
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Guy Sacré: Chat, from Six Poèmes de "Vocabulaire"
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Erik Satie: Chanson du chat - No. 5 from Ludions (1923)
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Henri Sauguet: Chat, from Les Animaux et leurs Hommes
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Henri Sauguet: Le chat I, from Six Mélodies sur des Poèmes Symbolistes
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Henri Sauguet: Le chat II, from Six Mélodies sur des Poèmes Symbolistes
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Eric Satie: Chanson du chat, from Ludions
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Arnold Schoenberg: Der genügsame Liebhaber, from Brettl-Lieder
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Colin Seamarks: Six Mehitabel Magpies [soprano, double bass]
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J.C.S. (J.C. Seyfert?): Quodlibeticum: Wir haben drey Katzen [soprano; 2 violins, basso continuo]
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Seymour Shifrin: The Cat and the Moon
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: Les Chats (cycle) [high voice]
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Misha V. Stefanuk: Cat Songs, Op. 89 [soprano]
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Misha V. Stefanuk: Cat Haiku, Op. 73 [soprano]
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Igor Stravinsky: The Owl and the Pussycat
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Igor Stravinsky: Koshachi kolybelnyje pesni (Berceuses du Chat) (1915-1916) [alto, 3 clarinets]
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Flavio Testi: Cantata Quarta (Viens, mon beau chat), Op. 31
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Richard Pearson Thomas: The Owl and the Pussycat, No. 3 from A Little Nonsense: Songs to Texts of Edward Lear [soprano; piano]
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Alfred Uhl: Hund und Katze, from Vier Lieder aus der heiteren Kantante "Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut"
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Heitor Villa-Lobos: Gatinha Parda, No. 4 from Modinhas e Cançõs
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Peter Warlock: Oh, my kitten, No. 4 from Candlelight: a Cycle of Nursery Jingles
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Christoph E.F. Weyse: Cat Cavatina
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Nicholas White: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (2006)
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Hugo Wolf: Mausfallensprüchlein, from Six Songs for Female Voice [unspecified female]
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Geoffrey Wright: A Cradle of Cats (1968) [high voice]
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Juerg Wyttenbach: Von der Katze ein Stuecke [violin]
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trad. German: Der Vogel singt, die Katze schnurrt
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trad. French (chanson populaire du Vivarais): La vielle et le chat
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trad. (nursery rhyme): Ding dong dell, the pussy's in the well
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trad. (German nursery rhyme): A B C, die Katze lief im Schnee
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trad. (Scottish folk song): The Cameronian Cat (aka The Presbyterian Cat)
Music Theatre Works About or Featuring Cats
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Geoffrey Bush: The Cat Who Went to Heaven (opera)
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Nancy Harrow: The Cat Who Went to Heaven (opera)
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Hans Werner Henze: Die englische Katze (opera)
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Vladimir Kojoukharov: Le Paradis du Chats (opera)
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Jacques Offenbach: Whittington, ou Le chat du diable (operetta)
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Jacques Offenbach: La chatte metamorphosée en femme (operetta)
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Harold Oliver: The King of Cats (chamber opera)
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Auguste Thibault: Le chat-botté (operetta)
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Cats (musical)
And a Few Ensembles (just for the heck of it)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Nun, liebes Weibchen, K.625 [soprano, bass]
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Maurice Ravel: Duo miaulé, from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges [mezzo-soprano, baritone]
Gioachino Rossini: Duetto buffo di due gatti
Le chat et la musique
Carl Van Vechten: The Tiger in the House - Chapter Eight: The Cat in Music
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