| From: Karen Mercedes To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: animal songs Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
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)
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