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Composers Bureau

Emma Lou Diemer

Vocal Works

  • Psalm 121 for soprano or tenor and organ, 1957 (Seesaw, 1981), MD, 5'.
  • Songs of Reminiscence for soprano and piano, texts by Dorothy Diemer Hendry, 1958 (Seesaw, 1981), MD, 12'.
  • Three Mystic Songs for soprano and baritone voice and piano, ancient Hindu texts, 1963 (Seesaw, 1968), MD, 15'.
  • Four Chinese Love-Poems for soprano and harp or piano, ancient Chinese texts, 1965 (Seesaw, 1976), MD, 9'.
  • The Four Seasons for soprano or tenor and piano, text from the Fairie Queen, 1969 (Seesaw, 1981), MD, 9'.
  • Four Poems by Alice Meynell for soprano or tenor and chamber ensemble (2 flutes/piccolo, 2 percussion, vibraphone, xylophone, harp, harpsichord,
  • piano, strings), 1976 (Carl Fischer, 1977), MD, 15'. Commissioned by Mu Phi Epsilon, premiered in Kansas City, MO, 1976.
  • I Will Sing of Your Steadfast Love, from Psalm 89, for high voice and organ, 1986 (Arsis Press, 1987), MD, 4'.
  • Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry for tenor and piano, 1986 (Seesaw, 1988), D, 13'. Commissioned by Professional Music Teachers Association of California.
  • Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman? for medium high voice, text from Proverbs 31, 1989 (Arsis Press, 1990), MD, 4'.
  • In You, O Lord, Do I Put My Trust for medium high voice, text from Psalm 31, 1989 (Seesaw, 1993), 4'.
  • Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God for medium voice and organ or piano, text from Psalm 51, 1990 (Arsis Press, 1990), MD, 4'.
  • And I Saw a New Heaven and a New Earth for medium high voice, trumpet, and organ or piano, text from Revelation 21, 1991 (Arsis Press, 1991), 6'45".
  • Two Songs: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Shakespeare) and
  • October Wind (Dorothy Diemer Hendry) (Southern Music Co., 1995). Vol. 4 of Art Songs by American Women Composers.
  • Three Christmas Songs for high voice and organ, 1994.
  • Seven Somewhat Silly Songs, 1996.
  • Four Songs, Southern Music Co., 2001. Vol. 14 of Art Songs by American Women Composers, Ruth Friedberg, editor.
    • "Strings in the Earth and Air" - Joyce
    • "The Caller" - Dorothy Diemer Hendry
    • "One Perfect Rose" - Dorothy Parker
    • "Comment" - Parker
  • Three Christmas Songs for medium high voice and piano. Emerson Music, 2002.
  • On This Wedding Day for medium high voice and piano or organ. Emerson Music, 2003.

Chorus or Voice and Orchestra

  • Anniversary Choruses, texts from the Psalms, Henry Timrod, Archibald Rutledge, 1970 (Carl Fischer, 1970), MD, 15'.
  • Four Poems by Alice Meynell for soprano or tenor and chamber orchestra (2 flutes/piccolo, 2 percussion, vibraphone, xylophone, harp, harpsichord, piano, strings), 1976 (Carl Fischer, 1977), MD, 15'.
  • Invocation, text by May Sarton, 1985 (Carl Fischer Rental Library, 1987; also available from The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection), MD, 7'.
  • There is a Morn Unseen, text by Emily Dickinson, 1991 (Seesaw, 1993), 8'.
  • MASS (in Latin) for mixed chorus, soloists, two pianos and percussion, 1996-2000. Pub. by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, 2000. Some movements published separately.

Mixed Chorus

  • Christmas Cantata, "The Holy Chld" 1988, text by Dorothy Diemer Hendry, (choir, children's choir, soloists, readers, organ, piano, percussion, guitar op. synthesizer op.) (The Sacred Music Press, 1989), MD, 45'.
  • A Feast for Christmas (brass quintet or piano), 1988, texts by William Blake, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Peter Cornelius (Charlene Archibeque Choral Series, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, 1991).
  • Kyrie for Mixed Chorus, Piano-Four Hands, Organ, 1993 (Santa Barbara Music Publishing, 1997).
  • Gloria for Mixed Chorus, Two Pianos, and Percussion, 1996 (Santa Barbara Music Publishing, 1997).
  • Three Madrigals, 1960 (Boosey & Hawkes, 1962), MD. Texts by Shakespeare.
  • O to Make the Most Jubilant Song, 1970 (Carl Fischer, 1972), D. Text by Walt Whitman.
  • Madrigals Three, 1972 (Carl Fischer, 1972; in Choral Sounds, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973), MD. Elizabethan texts.
  • The Call (strings and percussion op.), 1976 (G. Schirmer, 1978), MD. Text by Thomas Mordaunt.
  • From This Hour, Freedom (strings and percussion op.), 1976 (G. Schirmer, 1978), MD. Text by Walt Whitman.
  • Wild Nights! Wild Nights!, 1978 (Hinshaw, 1978), MD. Text by Emily Dickinson.
  • Three Poems by Oscar Wilde, 1984 (Carl Fischer, 1989), MD.
  • More Madrigals, 1984, texts by Dorothy Diemer Hendry (Charlene Archibeque Choral Series, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, 1990), MD.
  • Two Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1993 (Music Alliance, 1994), E.
  • To Come So for mixed chorus, women’s chorus, and chamber ensemble, 1993.

Women's Chorus

  • Fragments From the Mass (SSAA), 1960 (Marks, 1961), MD.
  • Four Carols (SSA), 1960 (Theodore Presser/Elkan-Vogel, 1962), MD.
  • The Prophecy (SSAA), 1968 (Boosey & Hawkes, 1975), D.
  • Eleven Limericks by Lear (SSA), 1990 (Carl Fischer, 1991), MD.
  • The Visionary (SSA), text by Charlotte Brontė, 1990 (Seesaw, 1993), MD.
  • O Viridissima Virga, (Hildegard Publishing Co., 1999)
  • Hope Is the Thing--An Emily Dickinson Suite for women’s chorus and keyboard, 2001. Published by Treble Clef Music Press, 2002.

Men's Chorus

  • Three Poems of Ogden Nash (TTB, piano), 1960 (Harold Flammer, 1965), MD.
  • Away, Delights (TTBB), 1979 (Alexander Broude, 1979), MD.
  • Reasons briefly set downe by th' auctor to perswade euery one to learne to singe (TTBB, piano), 1989 (Seesaw, 1993), text by William Byrd, E, 4'.

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