Songs with Orchestra or Chamber Ensemble
Aeschylus and Sophocles MER 3 min. |
med vo; pf, str qrt or str orch |
"We also have our pest of them which buzz" (Landor) |
At Sea PEER 1½ min. |
"Some things are undivined except by love" (Johnson) |
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The Bells of Yale PEER 2 min. |
Version 1: ("Sing on, sweet chime" [Mason]): Bar solo, male quartet or chorus (TTBB), vc |
Ives Society critical edition by Kenneth Singleton (sc and pts for rent) |
The Cage MER 1 min. |
"A leopard went around his cage" (Ives) |
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Charlie Rutlage AMP 3 min. |
"Another good cowpuncher has gone to meet his fate" (O'Malley) |
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The Circus Band PEER 3 min. |
"All summer long, we boys dreamed 'bout big circus joys!" (Ives) |
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December MER 1 min. |
"Last, for December, houses on the plain" (San Gimignano) |
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Evening AMP 2 min. |
"Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray" (Milton) |
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General William Booth Enters Into Heaven MER 6 min. |
"Booth led boldly with his big bass drum" (Lindsay) |
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He Is There! PEER 3 min. |
"Fifteen years ago today | A little Yankee boy" (Ives) |
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The Housatonic at Stockbrige |
(could be performed with med. voice or unison chorus) |
(see Orchestra Orchestral Set No. 1, mvt. iii) |
Hymn (Largo cantabile) PEER 3 min. |
"Thou hidden love of God, whose height, whose depth" (Tersteegen) |
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Incantation (Allegretto sombreoso) PEER 1 min. |
"When the moon is on the wave" (Byron) |
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Indians (Largo) AMP 2½ min. |
"Alas! for them their day is o'er" (Sprague) |
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The Innate (Adagio cantabile) PEER 2½ min. |
"Voices live in every finite being" (Ives) |
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The Last Reader MER 2 min. |
Version 1: vo, 2 fl, org, 2 va |
"I sometimes sit beneath a tree" (Holmes) |
Like a Sick Eagle MER 1½ min. |
"The spirit is too week–mortality" (Keats) |
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Luck and Work MER 1 min. |
"While one will search the season over" (Johnson) |
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Mists MER 2 min. |
"Low lie the mists; they hide each hill and dell" (Harmony Ives) |
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The New River PEER 1 min. |
"Down the river comes a noise!" (Ives) |
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Old Home Day PEER 4 min. |
fl, cl, tpt, tbn, dr set, pf |
"Go, my songs! Draw Daphnis from the city" (Ives) |
An Old Song Deranged PEER 2½ min. |
low vo; hp/gui, vn/va, va, 2 vc |
"Songs my mother taught me in the days long vanished" (Heyduk) |
The Pond MOB 1 min. |
med vo; fl/vn, 2 hp, opt cel/bells, pf, str |
"A sound of a distant horn" (Ives) |
Premonitions MER 1½ min. |
"There's a shadow on the grass" (Johnson) |
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The Rainbow (So May It Be!) PEER 1 min. |
med vo; fl, pf, str |
"My heart leaps up when I behold" (Wordsworth) |
Remembrance PEER 1 min. |
med vo; fl/vn, vn/fl, pf |
"A sound of a distant horn" (Ives) f |
The See'r (Scherzo) AMP 1 min. |
"An old man with a straw in his mouth" (Ives) |
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Song for Harvest Season MER 2 min. |
med vo; cnt/tpt, tbn, tba (or org) |
"Summer ended, Harvest o'er" (Phillimore) |
Sunrise CFP 6 min. |
med vo; vn, pf |
"A light low in the East" (Ives) |
The Swimmers MER 1½ min. |
"Then, the swift plunge into the cool, green dark" (Untermeyer) |
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Tolerance (A Lecture) MER 1 min. |
"How can I turn from any fire" (Kipling) |