"This volume...should be in the libraries of every music school & voice teacher." - Judith Carman, Journal of Singing, March/April, 2005
CELIUS DOUGHERTY:
30 ART SONGS
in Original Keys, for Medium / High Voice & Piano
"American composer Celius Dougherty is best remembered for his art songs. Gracious and witty, they show a love of words, with texts ranging from the most elite English and American poets to a dictionary entry, Love in the Dictionary. With a deep understanding of the voice and the piano, Dougherty created a body of song literature that lives on in a steady flow of student and professional performances. This edition includes several songs that were previously unpublished. Singers will love Review, a hilariously detailed critic's account of a voice recital." - G. Schirmer
Available at www.ClassicalVocalRep.com
| Song Title (underlined titles can be played.) | Source of text | Original cover | Audio Sample? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty is not Caused | Emily Dickinson | ||
| Bird & the Beast | 10 Year Old Boy | yes | |
| Children’s Letter to the UN | Kindergarten Class | ||
| Declaration of Independence | 4 Year Old Boy | ||
| Everyone Sang | Siegfried Sassoon | ||
| The First Christmas | Elizabeth Fleming | ||
| Green Meadows | Celius Dougherty | yes | |
| Hush’d Be the Camps Today | Walt Whitman | ||
| The Ké | Chinese 718 BC | ||
| little fourpaws | E. E. Cummings | ||
| Love in the Dictionary | Funk & Wagnall's | ||
| Loveliest of Trees | A. E. Housman | ||
| Madonnah of the Evening Flowers | Amy Lowell | ||
| A Minor Bird | Robert Frost | ||
| O by the by | E. E. Cummings | ||
| Pianissimo | Eli Ives Collins | ||
| Portrait | Browning | ||
| Primavera | Amy Lowell | yes | |
| Review | Celius Dougherty | yes | |
| Serenader | Dillon | ||
| Sonatina | Rose Flyeman | ||
| Song for Autumn | Mary Webb | ||
| Sound the Flute | Blake | yes | |
| The Stranger | Gaelic | ||
| Tapestry | Douglas | ||
| Thy fingers make early flowers | E. E. Cummings | ||
| until and I heard | E. E. Cummings | ||
| Upstream | Carl Sandburg | ||
| Weathers | Hardy | ||
| What the Bullet Sang | Bret Hart |
"It is truly good news for singers and pianists that they will again have easy access to the songs of Celius Dougherty. Thanks to G. Schirmer for bringing back in one volume many of his previously published songs and adding a second volume of his gorgeous folksong arrangements, including several never published before. Dougherty's songs are eminently singable – he knew how to write a good tune with an ingratiating piano part – and his humorous songs are among the wittiest in the literature. I look forward to hearing them on many singers' recitals." - Paul Sperry, director of Joy in Singing
"The substance of art song...the directness and storytelling function of folksong...worthy of concert performance at the highest level...wonderful vehicles for study."
- Judith Carman, Journal of Singing, March/April, 2005
2 Editions: High & Low Voice with Piano
Across the Western Ocean * Barbara Allen * Blow Ye Winds * Bring My Lulu Home * Buffalo Boy * Colorado Trail * Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens * I Wish I Were on Yonder Hill * The Lady Who Loved a Pig * Mobile Bay * O Waly, Waly * Red River Valley * Rio Grande * Shady Grove * Shenandoah * Stewball * Wayfaring Stranger * What You Gonna Do When the Meat Gives Out
Available at www.ClassicalVocalRep.com
SERENADER:
Songs and a Sonata
74 minute CD, 2003
available on Pandora & Spotify
Barcarole * Bird And The Beast * Blow Ye Winds* Bring My Lulu Home * Exotic Lullaby * Green Meadows * The K'e * Love in the Dictionary * A Minor Bird * Madonna of the Evening Flowers * O Waly, Waly * Primavera * Review * Serenader * Songs of the American Countryside * Wayfaring Stranger * Weathers * Music from Seas and Ships
12 art songs, 4 folk arrangements, 4 folk duets and a duo-piano sonata of sea chanties.... In 2002 Paul Sperry devoted half of his annual celebration of American composers at the Lincoln Center Library to songs by Celius. The performers were the winners of the prestigious Joy In Singing competition. Following the concert three of these wonderful singers - Jennifer O'Loughlin, James Martin and Scott Murphree - made studio recordings of 9 songs for this CD, accompanied by Israel Gursky. Charleston's finest soprano and accompanist, Deanna McBroom and Robin Zemp, respectively, combined to record the first Dougherty song that was published, Green Meadows (1925), Wayfaring Stranger (1967) and his tour de force, Madonna of the Evening Flowers (1949.) Tony Offerle's rich baritone voice joined them for Songs of the American Countryside (1967,) four unpublished folk duets. The finale is Music from Seas and Ships, a duo-piano sonata of sea chanties, performed by Fabiana Claure and William Villaverde.
Singers: James Martin, Deanna McBroom, Scott Murphree, Tony Offerle & Jennifer O'Loughlin.
Pianists: Fabiana Claure, Israel Gursky, William Villaverde & Robin Zemp.
ALL VOCAL WORKS
All titles listed below are held in the CeliusDougherty.Org archive, the Schubert Club museum, the music libraries at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Olaf College and the College of Charleston. Titles in bold are in print. If the song was set for more than one vocal range, bold print indicates the one that was published. Underlined titles can be played.
* indicates that the song is included on the CD, Serenader.
** indicates that a video of this song, performed by Nancy Williams, accompanied by Celius, is included in Dougherty and Ruzicka, a 28 film portrait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RKRTDcbCR4 . Published works are delineated by initials as follows: "GS" for G. Schirmer, "BH" for Boosey & Hawkes, "CF" for Carl Fisher, "HWG" for H W Gray Co. and "Ch" for J & W Chester, Ltd. The opera for children, Many Moons, is out of print but can be rented at G.Schirmer. A performance by the College of Charleston can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7pfI-giCmk.
OPERA
| Damia |
f. Petronius Satyricon |
1935 |
Fl,Ob,Cl,Ba,Tru,Tro,Tu,Ho,Ha,Ty,Strings | |
| Many Moons |
f. Thurber |
1961 |
GS |
piano |
| Many Moons |
f. Thurber |
|
Fl,Ob,Cl,Ba,Tru,Tro,Tu,Ho,Ha,Ty,Strings |
ART SONGS
|
Abend im Dome |
Ernst Shellenberg |
|
|
Medium |
|
Barcarole |
Amy Lowell |
|
|
|
|
Beauty is Not Caused |
Emily Dickinson |
1948 |
GS |
Medium |
| The Bird and the Beast * |
Sir Ernest Gowers |
1951 |
GS |
Medium |
| Children’s Letter to the U.N. |
Public School #90 |
1949 |
GS |
Medium |
|
A Cliff Song |
Austin Clarke |
|
|
High |
| Choral |
Hi with 2 Pianos |
|||
| Declaration of Independence |
Wolcott Gibbs |
1971 |
GS |
Med, Low |
|
Dirge in woods |
George Meredith |
1932 |
|
Medium |
|
The Eastern Gate |
Chinese, 680 B.C. |
|
|
Low |
|
Emily Dickinson on the Birth of her Nephew |
Emily Dickinson |
|
|
High |
|
Evening Song |
Sherwood Anderson |
|
|
Medium |
|
Everyone Sang |
Siegfried Sassoon |
2004 |
GS |
High, Low |
|
Exhortation |
Walt Whitman |
|
|
High |
|
Exotic Lullaby * |
Jeane Parke |
1932 |
|
High |
|
Extase (for Eva Gauthier) |
Victor Hugo |
1925 |
|
High |
| The First Christmas |
Elizabeth Fleming |
1950 |
GS |
High |
|
Follies |
Carl Sandburg |
|
|
High |
| Frauenhand |
Theodore Storm |
Medium |
||
|
Grand Is The Seen |
Walt Whitman |
1959 |
|
High, Low |
|
Celius Dougherty |
1925 |
GS |
High |
|
|
Harry Ploughman (Passacaglia) |
Gerard Manly Hopkins |
1932 |
|
High |
|
Heaven-Haven |
Gerard Manly Hopkins |
1955 |
CF |
Medium |
|
Hush’d Be the Camps Today |
Walt Whitman |
1948 |
GS |
Med, Low |
|
I Hear America Singing |
Walt Whitman |
|
|
Hi, Med ,Lo |
|
I Hear an Army |
James Joyce |
1932 |
|
High |
|
I Never Felt at Home |
Emily Dickinson |
|
|
Medium |
|
If Love Were What The Rose Is |
Swinburn |
1948 |
|
High |
|
In This Meadow Starred With Spring |
Siegfried Sassoon |
1960 |
|
Med, Low |
|
in time of daffodils |
Cummings |
1964 |
|
Medium |
|
The Ké * ** |
Chinese, 718 B. C. |
1951 |
GS |
Medium |
|
A Lady |
Amy Lowell |
|
|
High |
|
Les Deux Flutes |
Toussaint |
|
|
High |
|
Little four paws |
Cummings |
1960 |
GS |
Medium |
|
Lost |
Carl Sandburg |
|
|
High |
| Love in the Dictionary * ** |
Funk & Wagnalls |
1948 |
GS |
High, Med |
|
Loveliest of Trees |
Hausman |
1948 |
BH |
Medium |
|
Madonna of the Evening Flowers * |
Amy Lowell |
1949 |
BH |
Medium |
| A Minor Bird * |
Frost |
1958 |
GS |
Med, Low |
|
Morning Glory |
Chinese, 1121 B.C. |
1965 |
|
Med, Low |
|
Music |
Amy Lowell |
1951 |
CF |
Medium |
|
A Mystic as Soldier |
Siegfried Sassoon |
|
|
High |
|
New England Pastorale |
Emily Dickinson |
|
BH |
Medium |
|
The Nightingale Has A Lyre Of Gold |
W.E. Henley |
1951 |
|
High, Med |
|
No Coward Soul (Last Lines) |
Emily Bronte |
|
|
|
|
O by the by |
Cummings |
1960 |
GS |
Med, High |
|
O Captain! My Captain! |
Walt Whitman |
|
|
Low |
|
Oncet in a Museum |
Weaver |
|
CF |
High |
|
Peddler of Flowers |
Amy Lowell |
|
|
|
|
Pianissimo |
Eli Ives Collins |
1948 |
GS |
High, Med |
|
Pied Beauty |
Gerard Manly Hopkins |
1932 |
|
High |
|
Pierrot's Song |
Sara Teasdale |
|
|
Medium |
|
Portrait |
Browning |
1948 |
GS |
High, Med |
|
Portrait of a Lady |
Amy Lowell |
|
CF |
Low, High |
|
Amy Lowell |
1948 |
GS |
High |
|
|
Review * |
Celius Dougherty |
2004 |
GS |
High, Med |
|
See Yon Opening Flower |
Percy B Shelley |
|
|
Medium |
|
Dillon |
1950 |
GS |
High, Med |
|
| Sonatina |
Rose Fyleman |
1948 |
GS |
Medium |
|
Song for a Mariner |
Swinburn |
1960 |
|
|
|
Song for Autumn |
Mary Webb |
|
GS |
High, Med |
|
The Song Of Natchez Under The Hill |
John Gould Fletcher |
|
|
High |
| Song of the Jasmin |
Arabian Nights |
1957 |
BH |
High |
| Sound the Flute ** |
Blake |
1957 |
GS |
Medium |
| Spring Song |
Rupert Brooke |
|||
| The Stranger |
Gaelic |
1955 |
GS |
High |
| Summertime |
Gershwin |
Hi, with 2 pianos |
||
|
Sweet Spring Is Your Time |
Cummings |
1959 |
GS |
Duet |
|
Tapestry |
Douglas |
|
GS |
Medium |
|
The Taxi |
Amy Lowell |
1962 |
CF |
Medium |
|
these children singing in stone |
Cummings |
|
|
Medium |
|
Thy fingers make early flowers of all things |
Cummings |
1959 |
GS |
Medium |
|
Tilly |
James Joyce |
1932 |
|
Medium |
|
To a Toad |
Edgar Fawcett |
1932 |
|
Low |
|
Until and I heard |
Cummings |
1959 |
GS |
Med, High |
|
Upstream |
Carl Sandburg |
1959 |
GS |
Hi, Med, Lo |
|
Valley Song |
Carl Sandburg |
|
|
Medium |
|
Vor Der Ernte |
Conrad F. Meyer |
|
|
Medium |
| Weathers * |
Hardy |
1951 |
GS |
Medium |
|
What the Bullet Sang |
Bret Hart |
2004 |
GS |
High |
|
who were so dark of heart |
Cummings |
2017 |
CVR |
Medium |
|
The Winds |
Swinburn |
|
|
Medium |
BALLADS & FOLK ARRANGEMENTS
FIVE FOLK SETTINGS | 1953 | |||
| Bring My Lulu Home * | American |
| GS | High & Low |
| Colorado Trail | American |
| GS | High & Low |
| The Lady Who Loved a Pig | American |
| GS | High & Low |
| Stewball | American |
| GS | High & Low |
| What You Gonna Do When the Meat Gives Out | American |
| GS | High & Low |
SEA CHANTIES |
| 1948 |
| |
Across the Western Ocean | Irish |
| GS | High & Low |
|
| GS | High & Low | |
Mobile Bay |
|
| GS | High & Low |
Rio Grande |
|
| GS | High & Low |
Shenandoah |
| GS | High & Low | |
|
|
|
| |
SONGS OF THE AMERICAN COUNTRYSIDE | Folk Duets | 1966 |
| |
Wayfaring Stranger |
|
| sopra & barit | |
The Gambling Suitor * |
|
| sopra & barit | |
Goodbye Fare You Well * |
|
| sopra & barit | |
The Ballad of Edward |
|
| sopra & barit | |
MaryAnne * |
|
| sopra & barit | |
Uncle Joe's Reel * |
|
| sopra & barit | |
| ||||
| ||||
| Ballad of Edward | Appalachian – Niles | 1967 |
| Med Duet w/ Guitar |
Ballad of William Sycamore | Stephen Vincent Benet | 1969 |
| High & Med |
Barbara Allen | English Ballad | 2004 | GS | High & Low |
| Bonnie Eloise | Thomas |
| Medium | |
| Colin’s Cattle | Celtic Lyre |
| Med w/ Guitar | |
Come all Ye Fair & Tender Maidens | Appalachian |
| Hi & Lo, Med w/ Guit, Med w/ Flute, Cl & Harp, SSA | |
| Buffalo Boy | Lomax | 2004 | GS | High & Low |
| The Cuckoo | Lomax |
| SSA, Med w/ Guit, Med w/ Guitar & Flute | |
| Good-bye Fare You Well | Sea Chantey | 1967 |
| Low |
I Wish I Were on Yonder Hill | Irish | 2004 | GS | High & Low |
| The Little Mohee | Songs of N. Carolina |
| Med w/ Guitar | |
| Mary Ann | Canadian |
| Med w/ Guitar | |
| Red River Valley |
| 2004 | GS | High & Low |
| Riding to Heaven | Spiritual | Med | ||
| Searching for Lambs | Folksongs of Europe |
| Med w/ Guitar | |
| Shady Grove | Lomax | 2004 |
| Hi & Lo, Med w/ Guit |
| She Moved Through the Fair |
|
| Medium | |
| She’s Like the Swallow | Canadian |
| Med w/ Guitar, Lo Duet | |
| Song for Babe | Lomax |
| Medium | |
| Song of the Children | English | Medium | ||
English Folk Song | 2004 | GS | High & Low | |
| The Water Cresses | Appalachian – Niles |
|
| Med, Lo w/ Guitar |
American | 2004 | GS | High & Low |
CHORAL
FIVE SEA CHANTIES | ||||
| Across the Western Ocean | Sea Chantey | 2005 | GS | SATB, TTB, SA, TTBB |
| Blow Ye Winds | Sea Chantey | 1956 | GS | TTBB |
| Mobile Bay | Afro-Am Chantey | 1956 | GS | TTBB |
| Rio Grande | Sea Chantey | 1956 | GS | TTBB |
| Shenandoah | Sea Chantey | 1956 | GS | TTBB |
FOLK SETTINGS | ||||
| Buffalo Boy | Tennessee | 1971 | GS | SATB |
| Colorado Trail | Sandburg | 1953 | SATB, TTB, SA, TTBB | |
| Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maids | Appalachian | SSA | ||
| The Cuckoo | Appalachian | SSA | ||
| Mary Ann | Canadian | 1967 | GS | SSA, SAB, |
Shady Grove |
| 2005 | GS | SATB, SSA, 2 PART |
THE HAPPY SHEPHERD | ||||
| Little Lamb | Blake | 1957 | SSA, SATB | |
| Sound the Flute | Blake | 1957 | GS | SSA, SATB |
| The Shepherd | Blake | 1957 | SATB | |
| Ave Maria | Stravinsky | SATB | ||
| Childrens Letter to the U.N. | Kindergarten | 1949 | GS | SAB, TTBB ,SATB |
| A Christmas Tableau | French Book of Hours |
| SATB, SSA | |
| Declaration of Independence | Gibbs | 1971 | GS | SSA |
| The First Christmas | Fleming | 2005 1950 | GS | SATB, SAB, 2 PART SSA,TTBB, TB w/strings |
| Love in the Dictionary | Funk & Wagnall's | 1949 | SSA | |
| A Minor Bird | Frost | 1958 | GS | SATB, SAB, SSA TTBB w/ bar solo |
| A Prayer in Spring | Frost |
| SATB, SSA | |
| Scottish Christmas Carol |
| SATB | ||
| Sound the Flute | Blake | 1957 | GS | SSA |
| The World’s Desire | G. K. Chesterton | SATB | ||
SONG CYCLES
EGLANTINE AND IVEY :8 Sonnets from the Portuguese |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
1976 |
|
|
|
The Face of All the World |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
Say Over Again |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers |
|
|
High, Medium |
|
|
Thou Hast Thy Calling |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
When Our Two Souls Stand Up |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
The First Time the Sun Rose |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
And Yet, Because Thou Overcomest So |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
Beloved, My Beloved |
|
|
Medium |
|
SEVEN SONGS |
e. e. cummings |
|
|
|
|
O Thou to whom the musical white spring |
2017 |
CVR |
High |
|
|
Until and I heard |
1959 |
GS |
Med, High |
|
|
Little four paws |
1960 |
GS |
Medium |
|
|
O by the by |
1960 |
GS |
Med, High |
|
|
Thy fingers make early flowers of all things |
1959 |
GS |
Medium |
|
|
I thank you god for most this amazing day |
2017 |
CVR |
High |
|
|
Your little voice |
2017 |
CVR |
High, Low |
|
WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH |
Walt Whitman |
1963 |
|
|
|
Darest Thou Now, O Soul |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
Whispers of Heavenly Death |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
Quicksand Years That Whirl Me |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours |
|
|
Medium |
|
|
At The Last, Tenderly |
|
|
Medium |
SONGS TO CHILDREN’S TEXTS
| The Bird and the Beast * | Sir Ernest Gowers | 1951 | GS | Medium |
| Children’s Letter to the U.N. | Public School #90, Queens | 1949 | GS | Medium |
| Declaration of Independence | Wolcott Gibbs | 1971 | GS | Medium |
| Sonatina | Rose Fyleman | 1948 | GS | Medium |
SONGS WITH ORCHESTRA
| Ballad of William Sycamore | Steven V. Benet | 1969 | Hi /Pic,Fl,Ob,Cl,Ba,Ho4,Tru3,Tro,Tu,Ti,Strings |
| Blow Ye Winds | Sea Chanty | 1955 | Med w/Fl, Ob, Cl, Ba, Ho, Tru, Ty, Strings |
| Childrens Letter to the U.N. | Kindergarten | 1950 | SATB w/ Fl, Cl, Ba, Ho, Tr, Tu, Ty |
| Everyone Sang | Sassoon | 1956 | Hi w/Fl, Ob, Cl, Ba,Ho,Tru,Tro,Tu,Ty, Strings |
| First Christmas | Fleming | 1954 | Med w/ Fl, Ob, Cl, Ba,Ho,Ce, Strings |
| Hush'd Be the Camps Today | Whitman | 1952 | Med w/Fl, Ob, Cl, Ba, Ho, Tr, Trom, Ty, Strings |
| Shenandoah | Sea Chanty | 1955 | Med w/Fl,Ob,Cl,Bsn,Hn,Strings |
| Whispers of Heavenly Death | Whitman | 1963 | Med w/ Fl,Cl,Ba2,Ho3,Tr2,Tu,Perc,Strings |
RELIGIOUS
| A Christmas Tableau | f. French Book of Hours | SSA | ||
| Effort Benediction | George A. Tigh | 1985 | Lorenz | Medium |
| First Christmas | Elizabeth Fleming | 1950 | GS | Hi, Medium, TTBB, SA, SATB, TB w/strings |
| Garden Hymn | Southern Folk Hymn | 1985 | High | |
| In this Meadow Starred with Spring | Siegfried Sassoon |
| Medium & Low | |
| Jesu, Fairer than Earth’s Fairest | Richard Butler |
| High | |
| Last Lines | Dag Hammarskjold |
| Medium | |
| Nativity | f. A Book of Hours |
| Medium | |
| No Coward Soul (Last Lines) | Emily Bronte |
| High | |
| Philip's Song | George A. Tigh | 1986 | Lorenz | Medium |
| Pied Beauty | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| High | |
| Riding to Heaven | Spiritual |
| Medium | |
| A Scotish Christmas Carol | Scottish |
| SATB | |
| The Song of the Children | Old English |
| Medium | |
| A Sort of Christmas Song | Richard Butler |
| Medium | |
| The Stranger | Gaelic | 1955 | GS | High, Med |
| The World's Desire | G. K. Chesterton |
| SATB | |
| ||||
| THE HAPPY SHEPHERD | William Blake |
| ||
| a. The Lamb |
| SATB, Med | ||
| b. Sound the Flute | 1957 | GS | SATB, Med | |
| c. The Shepherd | SATB |
Titles in bold print are included in Celius Dougherty - 30 Art Songs or Celius Dougherty - Folksongs and Chanties (G. Schirmer, 2004.) Underlined titles can be played.
* indicates that a recording is included on the compact disc, Serenader: Songs & a Sonata by Celius Dougherty, available at Pandora and Spotify.
** indicates that a video of this song, performed by Nancy Williams, accompanied by Celius, is included in Dougherty and Ruzicka, a 28 film portrait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RKRTDcbCR4 .