DAVID EDGAR WALTHER IMPRESSIONIST: PASSIONATE DARK; DEEP NIGHT DREAMS
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Volume V. Voice: underlined means that a recording is available on this website.
Fach, sex, & key may be changed as long as still appropriate to the music.

Book Ia. Story Cycles: Low Voice & Medium Orchestra:
1.     Orpheus in The Underworld: Boethius (in Latin); 14.5 minutes; 7 songs; piano, orch, or perc., timp. & str..
​2.    Remembrance of Love's Death: Emily Dickenson (u.c.); 16 minute & 20 seconds: 12 songs; piano or orch.

Book Ib: Song Cycles (Groups) with Low Voice & Orchestra
1a.   Rain: James Joyce: 13.5 minute; 6 songs; low dramatic voice & piano or med. orch.

1b.   Rain: James Joyce: 14 minutes & 40 seconds; 7 songs for medium low lyric voice & piano.
2.    2 Songs from "The Journey":  James Joyce; 19 minutes; piano, synthesizer, or orch.

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Book Ic: Spiritual Settings, for Voice & Orchestra:
1.     Deep River: 18 minutes; 8 spirituals for low voice, piano or orch.
2.    When The Stars Begin To Fall: 13 minutes; 8 spirituals for high voice; piano or orch. 

Book II. Two Voices with Instruments​:
1.    Yes: e. e. cummings (u.c.); 45minutes & 15 seconds; 4 songs; two high voices & clarinet or English horn.
2.   A Thought & 3 Folk Songs: Emily Dickinson (u.c.) & anon; 9 minutes for high & low voice with flute & guitar.

Book III: Solo Voice with Instruments:
Book IIIa: High Voice with Instruments:

1,     Echoes: Hart Crane; 2.5 minutes; high soprano (or lyric soprano) & viola.
2.    Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee: Henry van Dyke; 4 minutes; with flute & organ.
3a.  Serenade and Fugue: Thomas Hardy; 4. 5 minutes; soprano & flute. 

3b.  A Secret and a Prayer: Ann Head (u.c.); 1 minute & 40 seconds; soprano & flute.
4.    Diptych: unknown poet; 9 minutes & 50 seconds; 2 songs & interlude with flute, clarinet, bassoon & piano.
5.    Six Valentine's Day Cards: 9 minutes; Emily Dickinson; with flute, harp & piano.

6.    Some Things That Fly:  Emily Dickinson; 7 "things" in 10 minutes; soprano, flute & guitar.
7.    Simples of The Moon: James Joyce; 13 minutes and 40 seconds; 5 songs; soprano, flute & viola. 
8.   Echo and Mirage: Christina Rosetti; 12 minutes & 40 seconds; 3 songs with fl. cl. marimba, hrp. pno. vla. vc., & opt. perc.
9.   4 Orphic Hymns: tr. by Thomas Taylor; 19.5 minutes; with clarinet & guitar.

Book IIIb: Low Voice with Instruments:
​1.     Echo's Bones: Samuel Beckett (u.c.); 6 minutes & 45 seconds; 5 songs with 'cello.
2.     Wondering: Charles Schultz (u.c.) &  e. e. cummings (u.c.); 7 & a half  minutes; very low voice with pno. or D.B. str. quartet.
3.    The Conqueror Worm: Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia"; 12 minutes; 6 songs with violin.
4.    The Unbroken Circle: 8 spiritual settings; 14.5 minutes; very low voice, with violoncello & double bass with opt. percussion.

Book IV: Voice and Piano: Please see Book I above for additional works for voice and piano:
Book IVa:  High Voice with Piano:

1.     De Profundis Clamavit: psalm of King David (Latin); 3 minutes: soprano (#2 from "Praise Lord and Lady").
2.    ​Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Monaemon Amijima): Chikamatsu (in Japanese); 3 minutes; soprano. withheld.
3.    Three Short Songs: Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 4 minutes; high voice.
4.    When The Heart is Full of Love: Anon; 7.5 - 10.5 minutes; (from "Masque of the Witches"); high voice.
5.    The Steeple's Remembrance: Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 10 songs; 12 minutes; high voice.

Book IVb. Low Voice with Piano:
1.     Three Very Short Songs: Emily Dickinson (u.c.): 1 minute & 25 seconds. 
2.     Last Murmurs of Ligeia: Edgar Allan Poe; 3.5 minutes; 3 songs.
3.     Three Portraits: William Butler Yeats, Linda Cecil (u.c.); & Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 6 minutes.
4.     6 Blake Songs (Songs of Summer); William Blake; 10 minutes.

5.     Great Streets of Silence: Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 11 minutes & 50 seconds
6.     Chamber Music: James Joyce; 10 minutes; 5 songs for lyric voice.
7.      Cascando: Samuel Beckett; 12.5 minutes; 4 songs for low voice.

Book V: Unaccompanied Voice: The key may be changed, as long as it is appropriate to do so. 
Book IVa:  High Voice:
1.      Dachshund: poem by Jill Shapiro (u.c.); 45 seconds. 
2.     Mother Goose Songs: Mother Goose (1919); 3 minutes & 15 seconds.
3.     Night over Bass Rocks: James Joyce; 4 minutes & 40 seconds; 3 songs.​
​4.     Cal'mus: Walt Whitman from "The Leaves of Grass"; 6.5 minutes; 4 gay love songs for tenor or baritone.
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1 Book Vb. Unaccompanied Low Voice:
1.       A Tree: Joyce Kilmer; 1 minute. 
2.      The Book of Runes: 3 cycles of contemporary plain song to pomes by James Joyce. 
         I.   Three Whole Tone Songs: 4.5 minutes;
         II.   Four Songs of Rejection and Hope: 5.5 minutes;
         III.  The Cool Valley: 17 minutes; story cycle with 13 songs.


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    • I. Chamber
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    • V. Voice
    • Volume V: Voice SUMMARY
    • VI. Chorus
    • VII. Opera
    • VIII. Music Theater
    • IX. Critical Editions
    • James Joyce
    • Emily Dickinson
  • Photos
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