Joseph Baber

Life

Selected works

• Op. 1: Duos for Violin and Viola
• Op. 2a: Longfellow Songs
• * It Is Not Always May
• * The Aftermath
• * Serenade
• * The Rainy Day
• * The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
• * Snow-flakes
• Op. 2b: Emersonian Hymns
• * The Informing Spirit
• * Compensation
• * Thine Eyes Still Shined
• * Thought
• * Terminus
• * To Ellen
• * Nature
• Op. 3: Miscellaneous Instrumental
• Op. 4: "Wise Men And Shepherds" Christmas Cantata
• Op. 5: Instrumental Works for Winds
• * Sonnet for Solo Oboe, Flute and String Orchestra
• * Meditation for Solo Bassoon
• * Sketches for Flute and Piano
• Op. 6: Cavalier Lyrics
• * Song
• * Why So Pale and Wan
• * Take, O Take Those Lips Away
• * The Constant Lover
• * To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her
• * Of the Last Verses in the Book
• * To Blossoms
• Op. 7: Serenade for String Orchestra
• Op. 8: Serenade for String Trio
• Op. 9: Shakespearean Madrigals
• * Fie on Sinful Fantasy
• * Tell Me Where
• * I Am Gone, Sir
• * Who Is Sylvia?
• * When Icicles Hang By the Wall
• * Weep No More, Ladies
• * O Mistress Mine
• * It Was a Lover and His Lass
• * Under the Greenwood Tree
• Op. 10: Overture to "As You Like It"
• Op. 11: Kingdom of the Heart's Content for Piano
• Op. 12: American Songs
• * Words
• * The Dying Lover
• * The Dark Hills
• * Nancibel
• * To A Golden Haired Girl In A Louisiana Town
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• * Terminus
• * Evening Song
• * The Runner In The Skies
• * Force
• Op. 13: Bagatelle-Preludes
• Op. 14: Incidental Music
• * Music for the play, "Tiger at the Gates"
• * Music for the play, "Our Town"
• * Honor's Concert Prize piece, "Music for String Orchestra"
• * Castelnuovo-Tedesco Variations for Piano
• * Sketchbooks: impressions in shorts score of mid-western scenes
• * Preludes for Piano, written for Virginia Bodman
• Op. 15: Two Sonatas for Viola and Piano
• Op. 16: Twelve American Pastorals for SSA and Cello Ensemble
• * Afternoon on a Hill
• * On a Dayward Height
• * Valley Song
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• * Wind in the Sunlit Trees
• * Former Barn Lot
• * Wild Peaches
• * A Winter Piece
• * Daisies
• * The Road
• * Meadowlarks
• * The Spice Tree
• Op. 16a: Five Pastorals for Soprano and lower strings
• Op. 17: The Klausli Service
• Op. 18: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
• * Eldorado
• * The Traveller
• * "A Boy's Will"
• * I Will Build a House
• * In The Train
• * A Vagabond Song
• * The First Snow-fall
• * Wood Song
• * Afternoon on a Hill
• * A Winter Piece
• * Meadowlarks
• Op. 19: Shakespearean Songs for high voice and piano
• * Full Fathom Five
• * Willow Song
• * Take, O Take Those Lips Away
• * Under the Greenwood Tree
• * Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
• * The Master, The Swabber, The Boatswain
• * Take, O Take Those Lips Away
• * It Was A Lover And His Lass
• * Blow, Blow, Thy Winter Wind
• Op. 20: Organ Preludes on Protestant Hymn Tunes
• Op. 21: Trio for Violin, Viola and Violoncello
• Op. 22: Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra
• Op. 23: Sonata for Violin and Piano
• Op. 24: Overture: The New Land
• Op. 25: Trio for Oboe, Viola and Piano
• Op. 26: Concerto No. 1 for Viola and String Orchestra
• Op. 27: Psalms for Chorus SATB
• Op. 28: Concerto No. 2 for Viola and Orchestra
• Op. 29: Songs of Love and Loss
• * Pity Me Not
• * The Net
• * Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
• * This Quiet Dust
• * Where No Thoughts Are
• Op. 30: String Quartet
• Op. 31: Incidental Music
• * Keyboard Toccatas
• * Scherzo for Viola and Piano
• Op. 32: Divertimentos
• Op. 33: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
• * Go and Catch a Falling Star
• * In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
• * The Widow's Song
• * Up-Hill
• * Mnemosyne
• * Cradle Song of the Infant Jesus for Soprano, Viola and Organ
• Op. 34: Works for Unaccompanied String
• Op. 35: Music from the Kansas College Co-operative Composers Project
• * Prelude for Band
• * Scherzo for Chamber Orchestra
• * Carol
• * Alleluias
• * To Everything There Is a Season
• * I Beseech You, Therefore, Brethren
• Op. 36: Three Madrigals on Lyrics by Thomas Campion for Solo Voices
• * "I care not for these ladies"
• * "Rose-cheek'd Laura, come"
• * "Now winter nights"
• Op. 37: Mephisto Rhapsody for Violin and Piano
• Op. 38: Partita for Keyboard
• Op. 39: "Fox and Bear" - A Children's Guide to the Orchestra for Narrator and Orchestra
• Op. 40: Frankenstein: Opera in 4 Acts
• Op. 41: Five Fantasias on Finnish Folk Songs for SATB and Piano 4-hands
• * Kalliole Kukkulalle
• * Minun Kultani
• * Lapsuuden Ystavalle
• * Ranalle-Istaja Neito
• * Rukkaset
• Op. 42: Rumpelstiltskin: Opera in 2 Acts
• Op. 43: Landscapes for Soprano and Nine 'Cellos
• Op. 44: Missa Brevis for Women's Chorus SSA and Organ
• Op. 45: Rhapsody for Two 'Cellos and Orchestra
• Op. 46: Symphony No. 1 in E minor
• Op. 47: Six Sinfonias for Piano
• Op. 48: Music for St. Michaels
• Op. 49: Three Fantasias for String Quartet
• Op. 50: Ere We Be Young Again
• * Good and Bad Children
• * Looking Forward
• * Whole Duty of Children
• * At the Seaside
• * Singing
• * Rain
• * Where Go the Boats
• * The Swing
• * My Bed is a Boat
• * Envoy
• Op. 51: Two Marches in the American Style for Orchestra
• Op. 52: Samson and the Witch, Opera in 1 Act
• Op. 53: Songs from Shakespeare
• * When Dasies Pied
• * How Should I Your True Love Know
• * Where the Bee Sucks
• * Come unto These Yellow Sands
• * You Spotted Snakes
• * Orpheus with His Lute
• * Who Is Sylvia
• Op. 54: Requiescat for Violin and Orchestra - in memoriam of John Gardner
• Op. 55: 'The Wild Swans at Coole' and other songs on poems of William Butler Yeats
• * The Wild Swans at Coole
• * Brown Penny
• * Made Quiet
• * First Love
• * Remorse for Intermperate Speech
• * Tom O'Roughley
• * To a Child Dancing in the Wind
• * Two Years Later
• * When You Are Old
• * The Lake Isle of Innesfree
• Op. 56: Songs for School Children
• * Some One
• * How Doth the Lowly Crocodile
• * Ariel's Song
• * Who Has Seen the Wind
• Op. 57: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
• * A Lover Pleads with his Friends for Old Friends
• * Beloved Rivers
• * And That Is Life
• * Full Moon
• * The Philosopher
• * Home-Coming
• Op. 58: 'Dark of the Moon' for Mezzo-Soprano
• * Winter
• * September Night
• * Wisdom
• * Low Tide
• * "She who could bind you"
• * Foreknown
• * At Tintagil
• * The Fountain
• * Epitaph
• Op. 59: Symphony No. 2 in D
• Op. 60: Shiloh, for tenor, horn, and piano
• * The Portent
• * Misgivings
• * Malvern Hill
• * Shiloh
• Op. 61: The Shepherd's Calendar, suite for solo English Horn
• Op. 63: Heartland: A Runaway Summer Overture for Orchestra
• Op. 64: Steel Town, Capriccio for Chamber Orchestra
• Op. 65: Summer Music: Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano
• Op. 66: The Kentucky Suite for Orchestra
• Op. 67: St Louis Suite for Clarinet and Piano
• Op. 68: Fantasia for String Quartet
• Op. 69: Organ Preludes
• Op. 70: Songs for Our Children
• Op. 71: "Echo" and "The First Spring Day" for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet and String Orchestra
• Op. 72: Two Songs for a Christening for Soprano and Organ or Strings
• Op. 73: Heartland: September Towns
• Op. 74: Madrigals from Shakespeare
• * Under the Greenwood Tree
• * How Should I Your True Love Know
• * It Was a Lover and His Lass
• * Willow Song
• * Take, O Take Those Lips Away
• * O Mistress Mine
• Op. 75: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
• Op. 80: An American Requiem
• Op. 81: Introduction and Allegro for Six Cellos
• Op. 89: Two Movements Concertante for Oboe and Small Orchestra
• Op. 90: Sonata for Three Cellos and Piano
• Op. 91: Album of American Ghosts
• Op. 94: Suite Concertante for flute and string orchestra
• Op. 99: River of Time: An Opera in 2 Acts