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From: Karen Mercedes
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Subject: Re: animal songs
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With a few exceptions, I've included only songs that don't
anthropomorphise the animals. Thus no songs about birds pining away for
their lover-birds, etc. And no songs in which animals are purely
symbolic.



DOMESTIC ANIMALS/PETS

Herbert Kingsley: The Green Dog

Samuel Barber: The Monk and His Cat (from HERMIT SONGS)

J.K.G. Loewe: Kie Katzenkoenigen (The Cat Queen)

Modest Mussorgsky: Kot Matros ("Sailor" the Cat)

Duparc: Le Galop (The Gallop)

Josephine Lang: Lied des Katers "Hiddigeigei" (Cat's Song "Hiddigeigei"

Hugo Wolf: Mausfallenspruechlein (A little mousetrap epigram)

Arnold Schoenberg: Der genuegsame Liebhaber (The Frugal Collector)

Brahms: Der Jaeger im Walde (from VOLKS-KINDERLIEDER)

Kenneth Benshoof; Harris Lindenfeld: The Cow (Lindenfeld's setting from
THREE SONGS ON POEMS BY THEODORE ROETHKE)

Peter Warlock: Twelve Oxen

John Ireland: I have twelve oxen that be fair and brown





OTHER ANIMALS

Kenneth Benshoof: The Fox

Rorem - The Snake

Barber - My Lizard

Britten - Tyger (from SONGS AND PROVERBS OF WILLIAM BLAKE)

Arthur Bliss - The fallow deer at the lonely house

Walton - Jumbo's Lullaby

Grainger - Morning song in the jungle; Night-song in the jungle;
Tiger! Tiger! (from THE JUNGLE BOOK)

Ives - The Cage

Arthur Bliss - The beck (from ANGELS OF THE MIND)

Ernst Bacon - The Swamp

Britten - My hoggie (from A BIRTHDAY HANSEL)



MORE THAN ONE ANIMAL

Britten: Wagtail and Baby (from WINTER WORDS)

Britten: Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting (from NOCTURNE FOR TENOR
SOLO, 7 OBLIGATO INSTRUMENTS, AND STRING ORCHESTRA)

Britten: Proverb III (SONGS AND PROVERBS OF WILLIAM BLAKE)

Peter Warlock: Suky, you shall be my wife (from CANDLELIGHT: A CYCLE OF
NURSERY JINGLES)

Delibes - Les animaux de Grandville (The Animals of Grandville)

Auguste Vaucorbeil - L'alouette et le vieux hibou (The lark and the old
owl)



BIRDS (DOMESTIC/UNUSUAL) - There are too many wild bird songs to include
here. Just do a search on "Rossignol" or "Nachtigall" (or
"Nightingale", "Lark", "Alouette", "Dove", etc.) and you'll see what
I mean!

Henry F.B. Gilbert - The Owl

Virgil Thomson: My crow Pluto

Brahms: Die Henne (The Hen, from VOLKS-KINDERLIEDER)

J.K.G. Loewe: Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the Bird-Catcher)




INSECTS (I avoided butterflies, because they're nearly as prevalent as
nightingales!)

William Alwyn: The study of a spider (from A LEAVE-TAKING)

Bizet: Le grillon (The Cricket)

Brahms: Marienwuermchen (Caterpillar?, from VOLKS-KINDERLIEDER)


KM
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