Samuel Barber - Works List NOTE: All published works are available from G. Schirmer (New York). Manuscripts can be found at the Library of Congress. OPERAS-PUBLISHED Vanessa, Op.32 (Menotti), 1957; rev. 1964; arr. for chorus, solo, and duet, "Under the Willow Tree" (1961) A Hand of Bridge, Op. 35 (Menotti), 1959 Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40 (Zeffirelli after Shakespeare), 1966; rev. 1974. Concert arias, sop. and orch., "Give Me Some Music," "Death of Cleopatra" (1968); arr. for chorus, "On the Death of Antony," "On the Death of Cleopatra" (1968) OPERAS-UNPUBLISHED The Rose Tree (Annie Sullivan Brosius Noble), 1920 BALLETS Configurations (Canzone for Flute and Piano), 1981. Medea ("Serpent Heart," Martha Graham), Op. 23, 1946; revised, Cave of the Heart, 1947; rev. orchestral suite, Op. 23, 1947; rev. Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a, 1953 Souvenirs (or The Blue Rose), Op. 28 ( Todd Bolender), 1952. See Solo instrumental music. INCIDENTAL MUSIC-UNPUBLISHED Incidental music for the play One Day of Spring, by Mark Kennedy, 1935 ORCHESTRAL MUSIC-PUBLISHED Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5, 1931 Music for a Scene from Shelley. Op. 7, 1933 Symphony in One Movement, Op. 9, 1936 Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (arr.of String Quartet, mov't 2), 1938; arr for organ (Strickland, 1949); Agnus Dei (arr. for chorus, 1967); arr. for clarinet choir (Lucien Caillet, 1964); arr. for woodwind choir (John O'Reilly, 1967) Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12, 1937 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 12, 1939 Second Essay for Orchestra, Op.17, 1942 Second Symphony, Op. 19, 1944; mov't 2, Night Flight, Op. 19a, 1964 Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21, 1944 Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 22, 1945 Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a, 1953 Tocatta Festiva, Op. 36, 1960 Die Natali, chorale preludes for Christmas, Op. 37, 1960; Stille Nacht, arr. for organ, 1960 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 38, 1962 Fadograph of a Yestern Scene, Op. 44, 1971 Third Essay for Orchestra, Op. 47, 1978 Canzonetta for Oboe and String Orchestra, Op. 48 (posth), 1977-78 ORCHESTRAL MUSIC-UNPUBLISHED Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1930 (lost) Horizon, 1945 Adventure, 1954 BAND MUSIC-PUBLISHED Commando March, 1943 BAND MUSIC-UNPUBLISHED Funeral March (on the Army Air Corps Song), 1943 CHAMBER MUSIC-PUBLISHED Serenade for String Quartet, Op. I, 1928; arr. for string orchestra, 1944 Dover Beach, Op. 3, baritone/contralto and string quartet (Matthew Arnold), 1931 Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 6, 1932 String Quartet, Op. 11, 1936 (arr. of 2nd mov't, Adagio for Strings) Summer Music for woodwind quintet, Op. 31, 1955 Canzone (Elegy) for flute (or violin) and piano, Op. 38a, 1958 (1961) Mutations from Bach for brass choir and timpani, 1967 Variations on Happy Birthday, on the occasion of Eugene Ormandy's seventieth birthday (brass and timpani), RCA limited edition, 1970 CHAMBER MUSIC-UNPUBLISHED Fantasie for Two Pianos, 1924 (also Sonata in Modern Form) Sonata in Modern Form, 1925 Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1928 (lost) Commemorative [Wedding] March (violin, cello, and piano), 1941 Song for a New House, for voice, flute, and piano (Shakespeare), 1941 String Quartet (2nd mov't only), 1949 SOLO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC-PUBLISHED Three Sketches: Love Song, To my Steinway, Minuet, 1923-24 Suite for Carillon, 1932 Excursions, Op. 20, 1942-44 Souvenirs, Op. 28, four hands, 1951; arr. for piano solo, for two pianos (Gold and Fizdale), and for orch., 1952. See Ballets Sonata for Piano, Op. 26, 1949 Wondrous Love: Variations on a Shape-note Hymn, Op. 34 (organ), 1958 Nocturne, Op. 33, 1959 Ballade, Op 46, 1977 SOLO MUSIC-UNPUBLISHED Melody in F, 1917 Sadness, 1917 Largo, 1918 War Song, 1918 At Twilight, 1919 Lullaby, 1919 Themes, ca. 1923 Untitled work ("Laughingly and briskly"), ca 1924 Petite Berceuse, ca. 1924 Prelude to a Tragic Drama, 1925 To Longwood Gardens, 1925 Fresh from West Chester (Some Jazzings): Poison Ivy, a Country Dance (1925), Let's Sit It Out, I'd Rather Watch (1926) Three Essays, 1926 To Aunt Mamie on her birthday, 1926 Main Street, ca.1926 Chorale for a New Organ, 1926 Three Chorale Preludes and Partitas for organ, 1927 Two-and three-voices fugues, 1927 Prelude and Fugue in B minor, for organ, 1927 Pieces for Carillon: Round, Allegro, Legend, Dirge, 1930-31 Two Interludes (Intermezzi), 1931-32 After the Concert, ca. 1973 CHORAL MUSIC-PUBLISHED The Virgin Martyrs (Siegbert of Gembloux, trans Helen Waddell), 1935; Let down the bars, O Death (Emily Dickinson), 1936, Op.8 Reincarnations, Op.16 (James Stephens): Mary Hynes, 1937; Anthony O'Daly, The Coolin, 1940 A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15 (Stephen Spender), 1940 Ad bibinum cum me rogaret ad cenam (V.Fortunatus), for Carl Engle, 1943 Prayers of Kierkegaard, Op. 30 (Soren Kierkegaard), soprano, chorus, and orchestra, 1954 Chorale for Ascension Day, 1964 Agnus Dei, 1967 (arrangement of 2nd mvmt. of String Quartet) Twelfth Night (Laurie Lee); To Be Sung on the Water (Louise Bogan), Op. 42, 1968 The Lovers, Op. 43 (Pablo Neruda), baritone, chorus, and orchestra, 1971 CHORAL MUSIC-UNPUBLISHED Christmas Eve: A trio with solos, 1924 Motetto on words from the Book of Job, for four-and eight-part chorus, 1930 (1938?) Mary Ruane(Stephens), 1936 Peggy Mitchell (Stephens), 1936 God's Grandeur (General Manley Hopkins), 1938 O the Mind, the mind has mountains (Hopkins), unfinished, ca. 1939 Ave Maria (after Josquin Desprez), 1940 Long Live Louise and Sidney Homer, 1944 SONGS-PUBLISHED Three Songs, Op. 2: The Daisies (James Stephens), 1927; With rue my heart is laden (A.E. Housman), 1928; Bessie Bobtail (James Stephens), 1934 Dover Beach (see chamber works) Three Songs, Op. 10 (James Joyce): Rain has fallen, Sleep now, 1935; I hear an army, 1936 Four Songs, Op. 13: A Nun Takes the Veil (Hopkins), 1937 (arr.for chorus, Heaven Haven, 1961); The Secrets of the Old (W.B. Yeast), 1938; Sure on this shining night (James Agee), 1938 (arr. for orch. and voice; and for chorus and pf, 1941); Nocturne (Frederic Prokosch), 1940 (arr. for voice and orchestra) Two Songs, Op. 18: The queen's face on the summery coin (Robert Horan), 1942: Monks and Raisins (J.G. Villa), 1943 Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op.24 (Agee), 1948, soprano and orchestra; arr. soprano and chamber orchestra, 1950 Nuvoletta, Op. 25 (Joyce), 1947 Melodies passageres, Op. 27 (Rainer Maria Rilke): Puisque tout passe, 1950; Un cygne, 1951; Tombeau dans un parc, 1951; Le clocher chante, 1950; Depart, 1950. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 (Irish text of 8th to13th centuries): At Saint Patrick's Purgatory (trans.Sean O'Faolain), 1952; Church Bell at Night (trans. Howard Mumford Jones),1952; Saint Ita's Vision (trans Chester Kallman), 1953; The Heavenly Banquet (trans. O'Faolain), 1952; Sea- Snatch (trans. W.H. Auden), 1953; Promiscuity (trans. Auden), 1953; The Monk and His Cat (trans. Auden), 1953; The Desire for Hermitage (trans. O'Faolain), 1953 Andromache's Farewell, Op. 39 (from Euripides; The Trojan Women, trans. J.P. Creagh), soprano and orchestra, 1962 Despite and Still, Op. 41, 1968: A Last Song (Robert Graves); My Lizard (Theodore Roethke); In the Wilderness (Graves); Solitary Hotel (Joyce); Despite and Still (Graves) Three Songs, OP. 45, 1972: Now have I fed and eaten up the rose (Gottfried Keller, trans. Joyce); A Green Lowland of Pianos (Jerzy Harasymowicz, trans. C. Milosz); O Boundless, boundless evening (Goerg Heym, trans. C.Middleton), 1972 SONGS-UNPUBLISHED Sometime, 1917 Why not? (Kitty Parsons), 1917 In the Firelight (Eugene Field), 1918 Isabel (John Greenlaf Whittier), 1919 Prayer (for his mother), 1921 An Old Song (Charles Kingsley), 1921 Hunting Song (John Bennett), with cornet, ca. 1921 Thy Will Be Done, A Sacred Solo (3 verses from "The Wanderer"), voice and organ, ca. 1922 Seven Nursery Songs ("Mother Goose Rhymes set to music"), 1920-23 October-Weather (Barber), ca. 1923 Dere Two Fella Joe, 1924 Minuet, two voices, ca. 1924 My Fairyland (Robert T. Kerlin),ca.1924 Summer Is Coming (after Alfred Tennyson), 3 voices,ca.1924 Two Poems of the Wind, 1924 (Fiona Macleod): Little Childern of the Wind; Longing A Slumber Song of the Madonna (Alfred Noyes), voice and organ, 1925 Fantasy in Purple (Langston Hughes),1925 Lady, When I Behold the Roses (anon.).1925 La nuit (Alfred Meurath), 1925 Two Songs of Youth, 1925: I Never Thought That Youth Would Go (J.B. Ritten- house); Invocation to Youth (Laurence Binyon) Addio di Orfeo (C. Monteverdi), 1926 An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him (Sir THomas Wyatt), 1926 Ask me to Rest (E.H.S. Terry), 1926 Au clair de la lune, 1926 Hey Nonny No (Christ Church MS) , 1926 Man (Humbert Wolfe), 1926 Music, when Soft Voices Die (Percy B. Shelley), ca. 1926 Thy Love (Elizabeth Browning), 1926 Watchers (D.Cornwell), 1926 Dance (James Stephens), 1927 (lost) Mother I cannot Mind My Wheel (Walter Savage Landor), 1927 Only of Thee and Me (Louise Untermeyer), ca.1927 Rounds [of three voices], 1927: A Lament (Shelley), To Electra (Robert Herrick), Dirge: Weep for the World's Wrong (anon., 1350); Farewell; Not I (Robert Louis Stevenson); Of a Rose Is Al Myn Song (anon., 1350); Sunset (Stevenson), The Moon (Shelley), Sun of the Sleepless (Byron), The Throstle (Tennyson), When Day is Gone (Robert Burns), Late, Late, So Late (Tennyson) There's nae lark (Algernon C. Swinburne), 1927 The [Passionate] Shepherd to His Love (Christopher Marlowe); The Nymph's Reply [to the Shepherd] (Sir Walter Raleigh), 1928 The Song of Enitharmon Over Los (William Blake), ca. 1934, incomplete Love at the Door (from Meleager, trans J.A.Symonds), 1934 Serenader (George Dillon), 1934 Love's Caution (W.H. Davies), 1935 Night Wanderers (Davies), 1935 Of that so Sweet Imprisonment (J. Joyce), 1935 Peace (from Bhartorihari, trans. P. E. More), 1935 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost), 1935 Of that so sweet imprisonment (James Joyce), 1935 Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce), 1935 Who Carries Corn and Crown (?),ca.1935 Beggar's Song (W. H. Davies), 1936 In the Dark Pinewood (Joyce), 1937 Song for a New House (Shakespeare). See chamber works Between Dark and Dark (Katherine Garrison Chapin), 1942 (lost) 4/95