User:Richard Mix/Cowell songs

From The Music of Henry Cowell, A Descriptive Catalog by William Lichtenwanger:

Unaccompanied voice

1 The Waves [Sketch, 1907 (age 9 or 10)]
92 "Jesus was born at Christmas" [song for voice, melody only ca 1913?]
271 "ain' a gonna go down dere no more" [words and melody only, apparently from dictation]
364 The Dream of My Life [for voice alone; One of several attempts by HC over the years (in this case about 1922, he thought in 1963) to achieve a reasonably successful "pop" song.]
428 Lover Slain [for voice or instrumental solo? ca. 1926?]
497/1,5,6 Proletarian songs and a march for voice or voices, with or without piano [1930-33?]
538 "Six Little Mother Goose Texts 1937, for Solos or SATB with Piano.
762 "Her name is Ann Littleton Lomax And she shows us ten in-curling toe" 1951 [Mar.]
858 Tune for Jennie Love from Henry Sept. 26 1958 "Jennie I love you Yes your Henry Loves You."
925/2 [Music from a visit to a Japanese school; a melody put to Kasuko Yuize's words.] 1962

Voice & piano

1-16m long

104/8,9,
125 The Fish's Toes [for voice and piano] Nov 1914 Clarissa Dixon
131 Rain [for voice and piano] Nov 1914 Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
134-36 Nov 1914 Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

Time to Rise [for voice and piano]
Looking Forward[for voice and piano]
At the Seaside [for voice and piano]

157 My Auntie [for voice and piano] Jan 1915 ( Clarissa Dixon
177 "Dreamed I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing" Sept. 1915 Robert Burns
182 Light and Joy Dec 1915 Clarissa Dixon
186 Vive Liberty: An Anthem 1915? Clarissa Dixon
198 The Wisest Wish Apr 1916 Clarissa Dixon
228 Angus Og Dec 1917 J. 0. Varian
250 April for contralto or mezzo 1918-19 Ezra Pound
251 Mother 1918-19 Theresa Helburn
258 System "Every night my prayers I say" 1918-19 Robert Louis Stevenson,
282 Oh, let me breathe into the happy air Aug 1919 "Written for the Engagement of Prof. Seward

and Miss Holmes" John Keats beginning "Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl"

291 The Daga's Song of the Hero Sun [ca 1919] John 0. Varian
296 The Sun's Travels [1917-19?] Robert Louis Stevenson
299 To My Valentine [14 Feb?] 1920. Later dated "circa 1920" by HC via note of SRC.
317 Forget Me Not [ca 1920]
319 Grief Song [ca 1920] Ellen R. Veblen
331 Auntie's Skirts May-Dec 1921 Robert Louis Stevenson
363 The Song of the Silence [for voice and piano, missing from index] 1922 Harry Cowell
365 Sentence [ca 1922? missing from index] Witter Bynner
366 Vox Celeste [ca 1922?] Harry Cowell
420 "Shelter my soul, 0 my love" [ca 1920-25?] Mrs. Sarojini Naidu. [Stanford libr.]
425 Carl's Birthday Mar [1926?] HC and Carl Ruggles
455 Renewal [Dec?] 1929. Clarissa Dixon
497/4
820 Because the Cat [for voice and piano] [1951-55?]Barbara Allan Davis

17-32m long

93 100 129 145 146

151 The Prelude [for voice(s) and piano] [ca 1914] J. 0. Varian
175 The Dream Bridge Sept 1915 Clark Ashton Smith
222 "Oh, could I mount on fairy wings" Sept 1917 Florence Gay Currier
226 Look Deep "Child of earth, look deep" Oct 1917 unknown
248 Democracy 1918-19 J. 0. Varian
261 My Summer 1918-19 Dr. William Brooks "of the YMCA"
268 Vision "Lo it seemed" 1919 Louise Brown
274 Prayer for Mary 1919 Burns[?]
276 Psalm 121 "I will lift up mine eyes ..." Jun 1919 (276a for mixed chorus a capp ©1953)
278 "There is a Light" Jan 1919 John 0. Varian
297 To a Skylark [for high soprano and piano] Jan 1920 Shelley
322 Before and After [1915-20?] "Tune and Words by Thos. Glynn. Harmonized by Henry Cowell
329 My Love May-Dec 1921 Harry Cowell
330 Song in the Songless May-Dec 1921 George Meredith [missing in index?]
344 Allegro and Burden [see below]
358 "Music, When Soft Voices Die" 1922 Shelley
421 The Willow Waltz [ca 1920-25? "An attempt to enter the

field of popular music; the words by a publisher. About 1914."]

497/2, Free Nations United! [for voice(s) and piano] [Proletarian songs and a march for voice or voices, with or without piano 1930-33?]
507 Relativity [for voice and piano] 1934 T Possibly from The Dune Forum, like its companion song (no. 504)
509 Plan Ahead [for voice and piano] [ca 1934?]By Charles W. Eliot, Jr., from the Bill of Rights of the National Residential Planning Board
665 The Pasture [for high voice and piano] 31 Dec 1944. Robert Frost;
694 Daybreak Song for [bass] Voice and Piano Aug. 1946 William Blake's poem "Morning"
864 Spring Pools Song for High Voice and Piano [ca 1958?] Robert Frost
955 The Word External [for voice and piano] Dec 1917? perhaps by a member of the Halcyon Temple?

33-48m or 3p long

106 Sonnet on the Sea's Voice Jun 1914 George Sterlin
204 Christmas Song May 1916 Ellen R. Veblen
207 "If any of those children" [=? "If any starving child"] 3 Oct 1916 HC?
215 March Men of the Earth "Ye who would be true and free ca 1916 J. 0. Varian
220 ??? The Red Flame of Midyar [for piano]
230 Consecration [for xmas] Dec 1917 Florence Gay Currier
244 The Morning Pool [for contralto or mezzo-soprano and piano] Feb 1918 Clark Ashton Smith
256 Homing Mar 1918 Lina Brower
387 Manaunaun's Birthing John 0. Varian; his title Irewidd's Shoonthree or Irewee's Song

1926, J. Curwen & Sons [1924 in HC's business records]

- 387a † Manaunaun's Birthing [arranged for "orchestra & band"]
400 Where She Lies 1924 (CD 286). Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "Epitaph,"
414 The Fairy Fountain [for high voice and piano] [ca 1925?] HC to Olive, 1 Jan 1926: "He [Roland Hayes] sings . . .The Fairy Fountain, to which Harry wrote words."
474 Milady of Dreams [1920-30? furnished by a publisher hoping for a pop hit. No

luck.]

477 How Old Is Song? 9 Mar 1931. HC put a melody to his father's words, using Aeolian Harp copyright 1943, Ernest Williams, New York
604 Mice Lament [for voice and piano strings] 1940 Ella (Mrs. Percy) Grainger
695 The Donkey For Voice (Medium High) and Piano Aug. 1946 G. K. Chesterton
698 March in Three Beats [for voice(s) and piano] Words put to HC's tune by Dr. Beattie
760 Signature of Light [for voice and piano] Jan. 1951 Dora Hagemeyer
825 Crane [for voice and piano] 1956 Padraic Colum
827 Night Fliers [for voice and piano] 1956 Padraic Colum
910 Firelight and Lamp [for voice and piano] 1962 Gene Baro
939 The Eighth-Note Jig [for voice and piano] [1960-64?] Raymond Brown [?]

more than 48m long

123 Among the Rushes [for voice and piano] Nov 1914 (CD 103) Clarissa Dixon
125 The Fish's Toes [for voice and piano] Nov 1914 (CD 105) Clarissa Dixon
152 St. Agnes Morning [for voice and piano] [ca 1914] Maxwell Anderson
159 Song of Courage [for voice and piano] Apr 1915 Clarissa Dixon
161 Jealousy: Land and Sea [for voice and piano] Apr 1915 Clarissa Dixon
164 God of the Future [for voice and piano] May 1915 J. 0. Varian
174 White Death Sept 1915 Clark Ashton Smith
216 Psalm VII [read Psalm VIII] "O Lord, our Lord" ca 1916
337 Olivia [ca 1921] Harry Cowell, "presumably an invocation from Harry to Olive before their marriage" "Rewritten for Christmas for Harry"
363 The Song of the Silence [for voice and piano] 1922 "Dedicated to Laura Lewis" Harry Cowell
417 Our Sun [ca 1925?] J. 0. Varian, beginning "Vastness, vastness of darkness"
421 The Willow Waltz [ca 1920-25?] HC via SRC's note laid in: "An attempt to enter the

field of popular music; the words were supplied by a publisher"

436 Dust and Flame [ca 1927] Jock Rantz; unpublished?
575 Up from the Wheelbarrow [for voice and piano] 7 Dec 1939. Ogden Nash, I'm a Stranger Here Myself
753 Full Moon in March [Dance score] For Piano and Low Male Voice 1950 inspired by William B. Yeats's play
783 The Little Black Boy [for voice and piano] 1952 [1947? revised 1954 for Roland Hayes]
808 Spring Comes Singing For (High) Voice and Piano 1954 Dora Hagemeyer's poem "Renascence"
891 Music I Heard 31 Jul 1961 Poem by Conrad Aiken, from No. 1 of his Discordants

multi-movement pieces

334 [Tuscan Peasant Songs for voice and piano] 6 Dec 1921 Folk Music Harmonized [for 1 and

4] and New Music Composed [for 2 and 3] by Henry Cowell."

Old Hymn for Christmas
Song of the Firefly
Goddess of the Dawn to the Peasant
Christmas Hymn of Fiumalbo

344 Allegro and Burden [1916-21?] According to SRC, an early Christmas text: "Whaunce that eriy storm came down . . . "
492 Sunset/Rest Two Songs for Low Voice 26 Sep 1933 Catherine Riegger [New Music 1938]
497 [Proletarian songs and a march for voice or voices, with or without

piano, ca. 1930-33]

538 [Six Songs on Mother Goose Rhymes, sketch]
542 Three Anti-Modernist Songs [for high voice and piano, coll. Slonimsky Peters] 1938

A Sharp Where You'd Expect a Natural.
Hark: From the Pit a Fearsome Sound.
Who Wrote This Fiendish "Rite of Spring?"

incomplete pieces, *52, *155, *200, *203, *270, *366, *427, *456, *472, *761 unlocated pieces, †104/10,11, †116-18, †124, †126, †127, †130, †137, †140-44, †156, †165, †167, †168, †171, †172, †176, †178, †179, †181, †183, †187, †188, †190, †191, †193, †196, †200, †202, †205, †206, †209, †231-33, †235, †249, †252, †255, †257, †259, †260, †275, †277, †286, †314, †330, †360, †379, †386, †465-68, †502, †503, †533, †544, †615, †629

Voice & organ

419 Reconciliation [for tenor and sketched organ] [ca 1920-25?] "A E" in caption, the pseudonym of George William Russell