Henry Papale

Complete Catalog of Songs

 

Op. 4: Songs for Friends of Chimneysweeps. Poems by William Blake (1757-1827) Medium Voice and Oboe. (Premier Performance: 1972, East Rutherford, NJ: Joyce McLean & Daniel Pociernicki)

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Praeludium: (Oboe Solo)  

 

1. The Little Vagabond

2. London

3. Love’s Secret

4. A Song of Sorrow

5. The Wildflower’s Song

6. Freedom and Captivity

7. The Clod and the Pebble

8. Smile and Frown
   
    

Op. 6: The Compleat Hedonist. Poems by Beaumont (1584-1616) & Fletcher (1574-1625) Med. Voice & Bassoon
 

1. ​I’d wish my life no better part…

2. Now the lusty Spring is seen…

3. Take, oh, take those lips away…

4. God Lyaeuss ever young…

5. Drink today and drown all sorrow…

6. Turn thy beauteous face away…

7. Weep no more, nor, sigh, nor groan…

8. Come follow me…
   
   
    

Op. 53: Follow the Gleam. Poems by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Tenor & Piano
 

1. ​O, Young Mariner

2. Mighty the Wizard

3. Once at the Croak of a Raven

4. Then to a Melody

5. Down from the Mountain

6. Then, with a melody

7. Clouds and darkness

8. Then Broader and Brighter

9. Not of the Sunlight
   
    

Op. 55: Four Songs for Soprano & Piano (Premier Performance: Synod Hall, Pittsburgh, Nancy Vance Jacobs & Composer, 1997)
 

1. Cold Blows the Wind: Anon (ca. 1400?)

2. Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love: by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880)

3. Bitter for Sweet, by Christina Rossetti (1823-1873)

4. At least to pray is left…by Emily Dickinson (1831-1886)
   
                  

Op. 63: Ten Little Songs: Poems by Emily Dickinson (1831-1886) Soprano, Oboe & Piano Had I not seen the Sun
   

1. Had I not seen the Sun

2. An Everywhere of Silver

3. An Hour is a Sea

4. To wait an Hour is Long

5. It Rises-passes-on our South

6. Some Wretched creature, take…

7. There is no Silence in the Earth…

8. I could not drink it, Sweet…

9. Noon is the Hinge of Day

10. How still the Bells…
    
     

Op. 68: 7 Songs: Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Medium Voice & Piano (in alphabetical order)
   

1. All things on Earth and Sea

2. Not I

3. The Angler and the Clown

4. The Angler Rose

5. The Careful Angler

6. The Precarious Mill

7. Windy Nights
   
    

Op. 69: 10  Songs: Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Medium Voice & Piano (in alphabetical order)
 

1. A Starry Night

2. Compensation

3. Dance

4. Day

5. Despair

6. Dreams

7. Over the Hills

8. Rain Songs

9. Silence

10. Twilight
     

Op. 71: El Dorado, Poem by Edgar Allen Poe (1803-1849) Soprano, Clarinet (Bb), Bassoon & Piano (Premier Performance 1998, Nancy Vance Jacobs & Pittsburgh Performance Ensemble, Duquesne University Recital Hall,)

Op. 74D: 7 Songs from Shakespeare (1564-1616) & Jonson (1572-1637) Soprano & Clarinet (Bb): (Premier performance NYC Composer’s League: Gina Crusco & Robert Goodman) 2000).
 

1. Come unto these yellow sands (Shakespeare)

2. Full Fadom Five (Shakespeare)

3. Come Follow Me (Jonson)

4. O That Joy (Jonson)
   
    

Op. 111: 10 Songs for Children (Vol. I of  42 Songs for Children) Medium Voice & Piano (Premier performance Gina Crusco & Chamber Ensemble (scored by Composer) Riverside Park Outdoor Concert, NYC)
 

1. Wynken, Blynken & Nod: by Eugene Field (1850-1895) 

2. The Gingham Dog & the Calico Cat: by Eugene Field (1850-1895)

3. The Jumblies: by Edward Lear (1812-1888)

4. The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo: by Edward Lear (1812-1888)

5. Calico Pie: by Edward Lear (1812-1888)

6. The Quangle Wangle’s Hat: by Edward Lear (1812-1888)

7. Hickery-Dickery-Dock: Traditional Nursery Rhyme

8. Meg Merrilies: by John Keats (1795-1821)

9. Jack Sprat: Mother Goose

10. Hills: by Hilda Conkling (1910-1986): written when the poet was 10!
    
     

Op. 125: Twelve Songs for Children, (Vol. II of 42 Songs for Children) Medium Voice & Piano
 

1. Someone Came Knocking: by Walter de la Mare (1874-1956)

2. The Owl & the Pussy Cat: by Edward Lear (1812-1888)

3. Snow: by Walter de la Mare (1874-1956)

4. The Ship of Rio: by Walter de la Mare (1874-1956)

5. The Bee’s Song: by Walter de la Mare (1874-1956)

6. The Pig-Tale: by Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898)

7. Humpty-Dumpty’s Song: by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

8. Haddock’s Eyes (or The Knight’s Tale): by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

9. Antigonish: by Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)

10.  The Frog: by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

11. The Musical Cat: Anon. (London, c. 1500-1600)

12. Little Rain Men: by Ruth Anne Hussey (Age 12) ca. 1925? (St. Nicholas Magazine)
    
     

Op. 128: 5 Dark Songs for Medium Voice & Piano
 

1. Kubla Kahn: by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

2. Sir Patrick Spens: Anon. Scottish Ballad (17th (?) century)

3. From far… by A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

4. Afternoon in February: by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

5. The Sisters, by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
   
    

Op. 132: Eleven more Songs for Children, (Vol. III of 42  Songs for Children) Medium Voice & Piano 
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1. If all the World: Mother Goose

2. Little Nancy Etticoat: Anon. Riddle

3. A Centipede: Anon.

4. Hurt No Living Thing: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

5. Little Dame Crump: Anon.

6. Grasshopper Green: Anon.

7. The Lobster Quadrille: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

8. The Chiruppy Cricket: Martha B. Thomas (found on pg. 40, “Poems for the Children’s Hour)

9. Who Has Seen the Wind?:  Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

10. The Ambitious Mouse: John Chipman Farrar (1896-1974)

11. I’m Nobody, who are you?: Emily Dickinson (1830-1896)
    
     

Op. 134: Nine Songs for Children, (Vol. IV of 42 Songs for Children) Medium Voice & Piano 
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1. A Nonsensical Song: (Henry Papale (1937-      )

2. Song of the Careless Grass-groomer: (Henry Papale (1937-     )

3. Up in the Morning Early: Robert Burns (1759-1796)

4. The World’s Wanderers: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

5. Triads: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

6. To Marfydd: Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)

7.  The Kraken: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

8. The Old Ghost: Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)

9. Clock-A-Clay: John Clare (1793-1804)
    

Op. 135: 21 Songs Melancholic & Whimsical Medium Voice & Piano
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1. King Death: Barry Cornwall [Bryan Waller Procter] (1787-1874)

2. Those Evening Bells: Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

3. Epitaph: John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

4. Prelude: Still South, John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

5. Evening Star: Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

6. Patch-Shaneen: John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

7. If All the World Were Paper, Anon

8. The Wise Old Owl:  Anon

9. Barnacle: (Henry Papale from Poems For His Grandchildren)

10. He cannot be complete: Anon

11. To the Terrestrial Globe: W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911)

12. Nancy Dawson:  Anon

13. Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog: Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

14. There are a number of us: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

15. Time: An Enigma, by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)                                                                     5.

16. Sneeze, by Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

17. Proud Maisie, by Walter Scott (1771-1832)

18. The Old Witch in the Copse, by Barry Cornwall [Bryan Waller Procter] (1787-1874)

19. And Can the Physician, Anon.

20. Eight O’Clock, by A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

21. The Old Woman that was toss'd (Mother Goose) (1765?)
     

Op. 138: Quattro Canzone, Poems (in Italian) by Giosue Carducci (18 35-1907) Medium Voice & Piano (Premier Performance, NYU University Casa Italiano, NYC 2010, Terri Bobiak, and members of the Underworld Opera Company.)
 

1. Sole e Amore (Rime Nuove XXI)

2. Tedio Invernale (Rime Nuove XLIV)

3. Matuttino e Notturno (Rime Nuove XXII)

4. Vignetta (Rime Nuove XLV)

Op. 139: Ten Songs, Poems by Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Medium Voice & Piano (Premiere Performance 2011, NYU University  Casa Italiano)
 

1. A Man Saw a Ball of Gold

2. I Stood Upon a High Place

3. Places Among the Stars

4. I Saw a Man

5. Little Birds of the Night

6. There Was, Before me

7. Mystic Shadow Bending Near Me

8. I walked in a Desert

9. There Came Whisperings

10. I Was in the Darkness
     

Op. 144: Blake Songs, Vol. II  (7 songs) Poems by William Blake Medium Voice and Oboe
 

1. Great things are done…

2. I mock thee not…

3. Mr. Blake’s Lullaby

4. The Fly

5. A Compliment to the Ladies

6. I found them blind…

7. English Encouragement of Art
   
    

Op. 145: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Poem by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Med. Voice & Piano
 

1. Among twenty snowy mountains…

2. I was of three minds…

3. The blackbird whirled…

4. A man and a woman

5. I do not know which to prefer                                                                                                

6. Icicles filled the long window

7. O thin man of Haddam

8. I know noble accents

9. When the blackbird…

10. At the sight of blackbirds

11. He rode over Connecticut

12. The River is moving

13. It was evening all afternoon.
    
     

Op. 146: 8 Songs: Poems by Emily Dickinson (1831-1886) Medium Voice and Piano
 

1. There is a Zone

2. Let down the bars, O Death

3. Departed to the judgment

4. A Night there lay the Days between

5. There came a Wind like a Bugle

6. A little madness in the Spring

7. What tenements of Clover

8. The Soul has bandaged Moments
   
    

Op. 148: Sense in Nonsense, Vol. 1 Medium Voice & Piano
 

1. Under the Beechful Eye: W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911)

2. The Jabberwocky: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898)​

3. The Walrus and the Carpenter: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

4.  The Cremation of Sam McGee: Robert Service, (1874-1958)
   
    

Op. 151 Ten Songs: Dunbar, Vol. II (listed in alphabetical order) Medium Voice & Piano
 

1. A Hymn

2. A Starry Night

3. At the Tavern

4. Cornstalk Fiddle

5. Death

6. Evening

7. Good Night: A Lullaby

8. Night, Dim Night

9. Rain Songs

10. Sum
    
     

Op. 153 Five Songs: Sense in Nonsense,  Vol. 2 Medium Voice & Piano
 

1. My Dream (Anon.)

2. True Sympathy, or “Prevention of Cruelty to Teachers!”:  G.K.Chesterton (1874-1936)

3. A Riddle (Anon.)

4. He Thought He Saw A Unicorn: G.K.Chesterton:  (1874-1936)

5. Uffia: Harriet B. White
   
    

Op. 171 Three Songs of the Sea (Poems by John Masefield (1878-1967) Baritone & Piano
 

1. Sea Fever

2. Roadway

3. Wanderers Song
   
    

Op. 182. 4 Elegiac Songs forMedium Voice (two for Baritone, 2 for Mezzo Soprano & Piano)
 

1. Fear no more (William Shakespeare, Cymbeline IV, ii) Baritone

2. Warm Summer Sun (Walt Whitman, 1819-1892) Baritone

3.  Full Fadom Five (William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I, ii) Mezzo Soprano

4. The End of the Road (Christina Rossetti) Mezzo Soprano
   
    

Op. 185 Two Songs In Memoriam Roberta Papale for Medium voice & Piano
 

1. Epitaph (William Browne (1592-1643) 

2. When I Am Dead (Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
   
    

Op. 188. Songs For Eve:  (Archibald MacLeish [1892-1982]) 7 songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone & Strings (or Piano)
 

1. What Eve Sang

2. What Adam Said

3. What Eve Said

4. What The Green Tree Said

5. Eve’s Lullaby

6. What the Wind Said to The Water

7. What the Water Replied  
   
       

Op. 189. 6  Lullabies (or Quiet Songs) for Mezzo Soprano & Piano
 

1. Lullaby (William Blake)

2. Snow (Walter de la Mare)

3. Silver (Walter de la Mare)

4. Dream Song (Walter de la Mare)

5. A Middle English Lullaby (Anon. circa 1350-1400)

6. The Sun Kept Setting (Emily Dickinson)
   
        

Op. 191. Two Songs from the Babington Plot:
 

  I. Tychborne’s Elegy: Chidiok Tychborne  (1562-1586) 
  II.  Kyd’s Answer: Thomas Kyd(1558-1594)

218 Songs