Works for Solo Voice &
Woodwind Instrument(s)
These works were composed expressly for solo voice with one or more woodwind instruments, and without piano or other keyboard "continuo".
PICCOLO
Scearce, J. Mark: Nos. 5 and 7 from Bird by Bird - soprano
Shields, Alice: Wildcat Songs - soprano
FLAGEOLET
Burgess, Anthony: Ic eom of Irelonde - soprano
SHAKUHACHI
Masumoto, Kikuko: Vocalise - soprano
TRANSVERSE (GERMAN) FLUTE
Flute is soprano, unless otherwise noted.
Asplund, Christian: A Girl's Body at Crepuscule - a chamber opera in 2 scenes - soprano and mezzo-soprano
Avalon, Robert: Duet to Japanese Text, Op. 15 - soprano
Bank, Jacques: Een Taaie Winter (1988) - unspecified - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Barton, David: From all that dwell below the skies - soprano
Benson, Warren: Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan - mezzo-soprano
Berlinski, Herman: Psalm XXIII - soprano
Beyer, Johanna: Have Faith! (1936-37) - soprano
Bibalo, Antonio: Due Intermezzi - baritone
Blake, Braxton: Three Songs on Poems by Marianne Moore - mezzo-soprano
Brown, Kay Newell: If I were a Queen (A Set of Three) (1969) - soprano
Burgan, Patrick: Jeux de femmes (six poèmes érotiques de Paul Verlaine) - soprano
Caplet, André: Écoute, mon coeur - high
Carr, Peter: Three Songs - tenor
Conrad, Laurie: Awakening - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: The Sound of the Flute - soprano
Conrad, Laurie: Birds I - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: Insects Cry - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: Morning - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: The Rose - mezzo-soprano [may be performed with C clarinet]
Corigliano, John (arr.): Three Irish Folksong Settings - soprano
Doran, Matt: Four Songs for Soprano and Flute - soprano
Draganski, Donald: The Bestiary - soprano
Eaton, John: A Greek Vision - soprano (coloratura)
Farkas, Ferenc: Tibicinium - unspecified
Fine, Vivian: The Great Wall of China - medium
Hagen, Daron: Christmas Night (from Dear Youth) - soprano
Hagen, Daron: I Stop Again - soprano
Head, Michael: Bird-Song - soprano
Heggie, Jack: The Deepest Desire - mezzo-soprano
Homs, Joaquim: Sis antics poemes xinesos - high
Homs, Joaquim: Canço de flabiol - soprano
Hoover, Katherine: Four Carols, Op. 1 (1970) - soprano
Hoover, Katherine: Seven Haiku, Op. 3 (1973) - soprano
Ibert, Jacques: Deux stèles orientées - high or medium
Jirackova, Marta: Just So: Five duos to a text of the same name by J. Prevert, Op. 3 (1972) - soprano
Krauss, Houwert J.: Donne che parlano - soprano
Krawl, Jim: Duet (2005) - soprano
LaBerge, Ann: Indeed (1986) - medium
Linjama, Jyrki: Legenda (1986) - soprano
Locklair, Dan: Spring Thunder - soprano
Luening, Otto: Suite for Soprano and Flute - soprano
Maessen, Sylvia: Dichters (2003) - soprano
Mann, Ted: Lighten Our Darkness - soprano
Meier, Margaret Shelton: Creation (1981) - unspecified
de Montéclair, Michel Pignolet: Le dépit généreux (#1 from Cantatas, book 1) - unspecified [may be performed with oboe]
de Montéclair, Michel Pignolet: Pan et Sirinx (#4 from Cantatas, book 1) - unspecified [may be performed with oboe]
Mortari, Virgilio: Canzone (vocalise) - soprano
Musgrave, Thea: Primavera - high
Nourse, Nancy: Psalm 126 - soprano
Obukhov, Nikolay: 2 Liturgical poems - soprano
Proch, Heinrich: Deh torna mio bene, Op. 164 - coloratura soprano
Riegger, Wallingford: Music for Voice and Flute, Op. 23 (1950) - high
Rivier, Jean: Vocalise - mezzo-soprano
Rodrigo, Joaquín: Dos Poemas de Juan Ramón Jimenez (1959) - high
Rodrigo, Joaquín: Un tiempo fue Itálica famosa - high
Roland-Manuel, Alexis: Deux Élégies - high
Rosseau, Norbert: L'eau passe, Nos. 41, 9, et 19, Op. 47 (1954) - high
Rosseau, Norbert: Comme Autrefois, Op. 47 No. 41 (1954) - tenor
Rosseau, Norbert: Laissez au Bois, Op. 47 No. 19 (1954) - soprano
Rosseau, Norbert: Ronds de lumière, Op. 47 No. 9 (1954) - soprano
Roussel, Albert: Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26 - soprano
Sáry, László: Magnificat, for soprano and one or three flutes - soprano
Saylor, Bruce: Four Psalms - mezzo-soprano
Scearce, J. Mark: Bird by Bird - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: nos. 4, 6, and 9 = alto flute; nos. 5 & 7 = piccolo
Schäffer, Boguslaw: Aspekty Ekspresyjne (1963) - soprano
Scott, Cyril: Idyll for voice and flute - high
Shapey, Ralph: Lullaby - soprano
Shapey, Ralph: O Jerusalem - soprano
Shields, Alice: Komachi at Sekidera, No. 1 - mezzo-soprano or soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Shields, Alice: Komachi at Sekidera, No. 1 - soprano or mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Silverman, Faye-Ellen: Love Songs - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: soprano or alto
Steele, Lynne: Three Sonnets from the Portuguese - soprano
Sternberg, Erich-Walter: The Distant Flute - contralto or baritone
Stokes, Thomas: The Stocking (solo cantata) - medium
Straesser, Joep: All Perishes - soprano ["The singer has to play some small percussion instruments."]
Tal, Marjo: En Sourdine - soprano
Talma, Louise: Wishing Well - soprano
Tavener, John: Lament for Constantinople - bass - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Thow, John: Chinese Poems - soprano
Thrane, Waldemar: Kom Kjyra (Norwegian Echo Song) (1944) - high
Turok, Paul: Three Songs, Op. 27 - soprano
Vinholes, Luis Carlos: Tempo-espaço XVI - unspecified [may be performed with oboe]
Vogel, Roger C.: The Frog, He Fly...Almost - high - instrument tuning/voicing: alto [may be performed with clarinet]
Welcher, Dan: The Bequest - high
Wilding-White, Ray: Six Poems from the Tang Dynasty - soprano
Wilding-White, Ray: For Mrs. Crofts - soprano
Wilding-White, Ray: For Robert Michaud - baritone
Wilding-White, Ray: Psalm 84 - baritone
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Calm (2003) - soprano
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Freaky (2003) - soprano
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Wind (2003) - soprano
von Zieritz, Grete: Stimmen im Walde - soprano
Zuckerman, Mark: Twilight Songs - soprano
RECORDER (ENGLISH FLUTE)
Recorder is soprano/treble, unless otherwise noted.
Bergmann, Walter: Pastorale - contralto
Grange, Philip: A Spectre Scene - soprano
Henze, Hans Werner: Heilige Nacht (1993) - medium
Lehmann, Hans Ulrich: "Sprich..." (1993) - male alto (countertenor) - instrument tuning/voicing: tenor
Lumsdaine, David: A Norfolk Song Book - soprano
Mellers, Wilfrid Howard: The Echoing Green - soprano
OBOE
Adaskin, Murray: Busy - soprano
Adaskin, Murray: The Secret - soprano
Burgon. Geoffrey: Worldes Blisse - countertenor
Conrad, Laurie: The Rose - mezzo-soprano [may be performed with C clarinet]
Conrad, Laurie: Winds - mezzo-soprano [may be performed with C clarinet]
Draganski, Donald: The Anatine Captain - soprano
de Montéclair, Michel Pignolet: Le dépit généreux (#1 from Cantatas, book 1) - unspecified [may be performed with flute]
de Montéclair, Michel Pignolet: Pan et Sirinx (#4 from Cantatas, book 1) - unspecified [may be performed with flute]
Pinkham, Daniel: For Echo is the Soul of the Voice - high
Sauguet, Henri: J'habite le silence - unspecified
Stokes, Thomas: Four Songs for Voice and Oboe - unspecified
Tann, Hilary: A Girl's Song to Her Mother: A Lullaby - unspecified female
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Ten Blake Songs - tenor
Vinholes, Luis Carlos: Tempo-espaço XVI - unspecified [may be performed with flute]
Vogel, Roger C.: Oboe - medium
OBOE D'AMORE
Steinke, Greg A.: Sketches - bass
CLARINET
Clarinet is B flat, unless otherwise noted.
Abecassis, Eryck: El Jargongora (1998) - soprano
Bargielski, Zbigniew: Rosengarten (1971) - baritone or bass - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Batterham, Andrew: Mrs. Burns steps out - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Beck, Jeremy: Four Songs by Blake (1987) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Beyer, Johanna: Ballad of the Star-Eater (1934) - soprano
Beyer, Johanna: Three Songs for Soprano and Clarinet (1934) - soprano
Birtwistle, Harrison: Deowa (1983) - soprano
Blank, Allan: Being - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: A
Bliss, Arthur: The Dandelion (from Two Nursery Rhymes) - high
Blumenthaler, Volker: Picture's Rust - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Borup-Jörgensen, Axel: Duineser Elegien - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Bouliane, Denys: Manche haben trompetten (1990) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Childs, Barney: Seven Epigrams (1964) - soprano
Cojocaru, Dora: Cantos II (1991) - mezzo-soprano
Colding-Jørgensen, Henrik: Enfance II (1983) - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Conrad, Laurie: Birthday '76 - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: C
Conrad, Laurie: Clouds - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: Elegy - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: Elegy II - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: The Falls - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: C
Conrad, Laurie: The Glass is Breaking - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: People - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: The Rose - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: C [may be performed with flute]
Conrad, Laurie: Waiting - mezzo-soprano
Conrad, Laurie: Winds - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: C
De Smet, Raoul: Vocalise No. 1 (1986) - soprano
Dinescu, Violeta: Euraculos (1980) - mezzo-soprano
Donatoni, Franco: Cinis (1988) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Dusapin, Pascal: So full of shapes is fancy - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Eastman, Donna Kelly: Just Us (1993) - mezzo-soprano
Eaton, John: Ad Luciam Beatricem - mezzo-soprano
Farkas, Ferenc: Chartina/Papirszeletek - unspecified
Farkas, Ferenc: Két dal Berda Jòzsef verseire - unspecified
Fulkerson, James: Passages (1965) - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Gendel, Scott: DiPrima Songs (1999) - soprano
Grahn, Ulf: Du silence (1979) - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Harrison, Sadie: Little Gifts (1998) - soprano
Jacob, Gordon: Three Blake Songs - high
Jacob, Gordon: Three Songs for Soprano Voice and Clarinet - soprano
Kupferman, Meyer: Three Blake Songs (1971) - high
Lee, Hyla: At North Farm - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Lockwood, Annea: For Richard - medium
Loeb, David: A Dream within a Dream - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Meijering, Cord: Serenades I & II - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Neukomm, S: Psalm 70 - contralto - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Newman, Maria: Kestral and Leonardo - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Parker, Michael: Five Newfoundland Foksongs, Op. 32 (1986) - mezzo-soprano
Parker, Michael: Invisible Cities, Op. 49 (1993) - mezzo-soprano
Rainsong, Lisa: Quicksilver (1998) - tenor
Reid, Sally: The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska (1994-96) - mezzo-soprano
Sclater, James: E.R.A.-tic Behavior: 5 Womanly Thoughts for a Manly Audience - mezzo-soprano [may be performed with alto saxophone]
Sclater, James: Four Songs on Texts of Emily Dickinson - high - instrument tuning/voicing: C
Sharon Davis: Three Poems of William Blake - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: low (alto, bass, or contrabass)
Theobald, Jim: Go in Green (Times Fifteen) - soprano
van Oosten, Roel: Resignatie (1985) - baritone or bass - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Three Vocalises for Soprano and Clarinet - soprano
Vogel, Roger C.: The Frog, He Fly...Almost - high [may be performed with alto flute]
Vollinger, William: Some Things that Haydn Said - soprano
Vollinger, William: The Child in the Hole - soprano
von Einem, Gottfried: Intime Töne, Op. 105 - medium
Webern, Anton: Dormi Jesu, No. 2 from 5 Canons on Latin texts, Op. 16 (1924) - soprano
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Bubble (2003) - soprano
Zeljenka, Ilja: Caprice - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: bass
BASSET HORN
Lehmann, Hans Ulrich: Osculetur me (1988-89) - soprano
Stockhausen, Karlheinz: Mond Eva (1979) - tenor
SAXOPHONE
Báthory-Kitsz, Dennis: The Pretty Songs - unspecified - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Coryn, Roland: Ascension - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Dubedout, Bertrand: Ça va commencer ça commence - mezzo-soprano
Hespos, Hans Joachim: Gallimak (1998) - soprano
Laitman, Lori: I Never Saw Another Butterfly - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto/E flat
Laitman, Lori: Living in the Body (2001) - soprano
Lemay, Robert: Mitsu no kisetsu (1998) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: baritone
Leroux, Philippe: Un lieu verdoyant (2005) - soprano
Lomon, Ruth: A Fantasy Journey into the Mind of a Machine (1985) - soprano
Marbe, Myriam: An die Sonne - mezzo-soprano
Meier, Margaret Shelton: They Went Home - soprano
Morrison, John Howell: Crows (2002) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Nishikaze, Makiko: Liebeslied - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: soprano
Osmon, Leroy: Yiskor - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: soprano
Poffet, Ingeborg: Palaver (1989) - unspecified - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Poffet, Ingeborg: Suffering Boy (1989) - unspecified - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Sclater, James: E.R.A.-tic Behavior: 5 Womanly Thoughts for a Manly Audience - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto [may be performed with clarinet]
Wanamaker, Gregory: Four Vocalises (2005) - unspecified female - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Echo (2003) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Friends (2003) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Silent Goodbye (2003) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: soprano
Yeo, Ge-Suk: Waterfall (2003) - soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: alto
Yiskor, Leroy: Osmon - mezzo-soprano - instrument tuning/voicing: soprano
ENGLISH HORN (COR ANGLAIS)
Giuffré, Gaetano: Interlocutions - high
Hodkinson, Sydney F.: Adam Lay Ybounden - mezzo-soprano
Silverman, Faye-Ellen: Echoes of Emily - contralto
BASSOON
Blank, Allan: Don't let that horse eat that violin (1975) - medium
Blank, Allan: The Penny Candy Store beyond the El - medium
Griebling, Mary Ann: I'm Nobody - mezzo-soprano
Kearns, Ann: Six Poems of Mary Oliver - soprano
McLarry, Beverly: Edgar Allan Poe Songs (1987) - unspecified
Sain, James Paul: For a Good Dog (1989) - medium
SERPENT
Mabry, Drake: Quatre Tanke (1998) - soprano
Mohr, Trevor: Ihr Kinderlein Kommet (2000) - soprano
COMBINATIONS
Adler, Christopher: Song for a Glacial Boulder - tenor (or soprano) - instruments: saxophone quartet
Andrzej, Nikodemowicz: Canzone (Loreto Litany IIc) (1992) - soprano - instruments: chamber wind orchestra
Bank, Jacques: Late of the City of Rome (1989) - medium-high (mezzo-soprano or tenor) - instruments: flute quartet
Bank, Jacques: Minutes of Lives (1982) - soprano - instruments: 4 clarinets
Coryn, Roland: Zes Liederen, Op. 58 (1995) - high - instruments: clarinet quartet
Dallapiccola, Luigi: Goethe-Lieder - soprano - instruments: 3 clarinets (E flat, B flat, bass)
Draganski, Donald: Six Songs on Mother Goose Rhymes - soprano - instruments: (rescored by composer for) wind quintet
Durey, Louis: Le Printemps au Fond de la Mer - unspecified - instruments: wind ensemble
Feldman, Morton: Journey to the End of Night - soprano - instruments: flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon
Firsova, Elena: Two Sonnets of Shakespeare's, Op. 25a (1988) - soprano - instruments: (rescored by composer for) saxophone quartet
Firsova, Elena: Night, Op. 20 (1978) - soprano - instruments: saxophone quartet
Gamstorp, Goran: Barnet i Skogen (1987) - mezzo-soprano - instruments: saxophone quartet
Glass, Philip: Hebeve Song - soprano - instruments: clarinet, bassoon
Gottlieb, Jack: Light and Splendour - unspecified - instruments: flute, clarinet
Hampton, Calvin: Labyrinth - soprano - instruments: saxophone quartet
Harry Bannick: Songs on Texts of Annie M.G. Schmidt - baritone - instruments: saxophone quartet
Heussenstamm, George: Poems from the East, Op. 52 - soprano (singing and speaking) - instruments: wind quartet (piccolo or alto flute, oboe or English Horn, B flat clarinet or bass clarinet, bassoon)
Jeths, Willem: Aria (Fong Leng), from Mathilde Willink - soprano - instruments: saxophone quartet
Jeths, Willem: Aria (I go), from Mathilde Willink - mezzo-soprano - instruments: (rescored by composer for) saxophone quartet
Kechley, Gerald: When I am dead, from Three Rossetti Songs (1972) - soprano - instruments: 2 flutes
Knussen, Oliver: Trumpets, Op.12 (1975) - soprano - instruments: 3 clarinets
Lumsdaine, David: What Shall I Sing? - soprano - instruments: 2 clarinets
Marecos, Carlos: Mamória principal, No. 10 (1994) - soprano - instruments: oboe, clarinet
de Marez Oyens, T.: Recurring Thoughts of a Haunted Traveller - soprano - Instruments: saxophone quartet
Maw, Nicholas: The Head of Orpheus (1992) - soprano - instruments: 2 clarinets
Nishikaze, Makiko: tree-three - mezzo-soprano - instruments: 2 saxophones
Raskatov, Alexander: Antonin Artaud in Pas de Deux (1994) - mezzo-soprano - instruments: saxophone quartet
Stevens, Halsey: Two Shakespeare Songs (1958) - mezzo-soprano - instruments: flute, clarinet
Stravinsky, Igor: Berceuses du chat (1916) - contralto - instruments: 3 clarinets
Stravinsky, Igor: Elegy for J.F.K. (1964) - baritone - instruments: 3 clarinets
Stravinsky, Igor: Pastorale Vocalise (1923 - transcription by composer) - soprano - instruments: wind quartet
Sumera, Lepo: Seenekantaat (Mushroom Cantata) - bass - instruments: wind quintet
Sumera, Lepo: Carmen veris (Spring Song) - bass - instruments: wind quintet
Sumera, Lepo: Kaks Shakespeare'i sonetti (2000) - soprano - instruments: (rescored by composer for) saxophone quartet
Thorne, Francis: Four Seasons Songs (2002) - mezzo-soprano - instruments: 2 clarinets (B flat, bass)
Webern, Anton: Funf Canons nach lateinischen Texten fur hohen Sopran, Klarinette und Bassklarinette, op. 16 (1928) - high soprano - instruments: 2 clarinets (B flat, bass)
Weill, Kurt: Vom Tod im Wald, Op. 23 (cantata) - bass - instruments: 10 wind instruments
Wernick, Richard: Songs of Remembrance - mezzo-soprano - instruments: shawm, English horn, oboe
Wolber, Gary: The Best Thing - baritone - instruments: soprano flute, alto flute
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