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April 20th, 2015 · 5 Comments

Here, if anyone is interested, is an alphabetical list of my songs. It includes art songs, cabaret songs, songs from shows, choral works, and everything else. Except, of course, for all the ones that I wrote and later threw out.

Agnosticize [TTBB]
Alba (Ezra Pound) [SAT]
Alphabet
Amerigo and Isabella
Anecdote (Jean de La Fontaine, my translation) [voice and ‘cello]
Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Punch You No Face

Babbo Natale
Babies
B.C./R.W.
Bend Down Your Faces (James Joyce) [SAT] (written with Ann Garvey)
The Best Fruit Is Free
Black Friday
Bloated Plutocrats on Parade
Bread and Honey
Breeders Can’t Be Choosers
Bubble, Bubble
Buenas Noches, Little Roaches
Bugs, Not Drugs

Can You Wait… (I. M. Condit) [voice, ‘cello, and piano]
Careers

The Death of Orpheus
A Different Point of View
Don’t Despair
Don’t Talk to Me
Drops of Red

The Easter Bunny’s Noel
Eddie Unchained (a ventriloquial musical, with string quartet)
1. Eddie Unchained
2. I’m a Likable Guy
3. In an Ivory Tower
4. Never Cross the Crosswalk
5. We’ll Rally Round Our Eddie
6. And To Think I Knew Him When
7. It’s Time To Give Up and Die Out
8. Oatmeal
9. Never Cross the Crosswalk (reprise)
10. This Is One Party That Won’t Be Terrible
11. Eddie Unchained (reprise)
Eight Riddles (C. C., Chatterbox Magazine, 1898)
The Elephant Calf (Bertolt Brecht, directed by Julie Taymor) [voices, clarinet, violin, bassoon, piano, percussion]
1. Monologue of a Mother’s Grief
2. Oh Dear, What Fun We Had in Old Uganda
En Route (Blaise Cendrars, my translation) [voice, violin, and piano]
1. “Everyone talks about sunsets”
2. “The sea is still sea-blue”
3. “We don’t want to be sad”
Epitaph (Richard Corbett) [voice and piano]

Fa La La La La
A Few Essential Principles
Film Crew
Flake Food
Flipbook Songs
Frankincense [voice, bass recorder, and harpsichord]
From Roussel’s “Indications” (Raymond Roussel, in my translation) [voice and piano]
Free Wine
Full Time, Part Time (from Doug & Mike’s Adult Entertainment)
The Fun Song (from Doug & Mike’s Adult Entertainment)

Get on the Grid
The Glorious Town
Good Night
Greenaway Pictures [voice and piano]
1. The Boat Sails Away (Kate Greenaway)
2. Dirty Jim (Jane and Ann Taylor)
3. Poor Dicky’s Dead (Kate Greenaway)
4. The Butterfly (Jane and Ann Taylor)

Happiness or Unhappiness
He Will Be Back Soon (I. M. Condit) [voice, toy piano, small electronic organ, and percussion]
How About a Movie?
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Skinner [voice and tuba]
Hungry for Fun (a slide show musical, with illustrations by Doug Roesch)
1. Hungry for Fun
2. Let’s Get Away
3. We Know
4. Bargain Breakfast
5. Jackpot
6. Moulin Rouge
7. A Wedding Should Be a Special Occasion
8. Let’s Get Away (reprise)
The Hype Is Ripe
The Hypnotist’s Birthday

I Don’t Like That
I Don’t Want to Be the Pope in Rome [voice, viola, and tuba]
I Just Don’t Understand
I Like to Clean (from Mike’s Kiddie Show)
I Never Met a Man Who Never Met a Man He Didn’t Like That I Like
I Wish I Were an Alien
I’m Canceling My Counseling
I’m Still Bitter
Im Hinterland (H. L. Mencken) [voice and piano]
In Memoriam
In Ukuleleland (from The King of Ukuleleland)
The Inchworm [voice and piano]
Insects Have Taken Santa’s Place
It’s Easy to Be an Eccentric Nowadays
It’s Your Loss, Boss
I’ve Got to Be the Person That I Am

Jack Frost Got Lost [voice and harpsichord]
James
Jesus Under the Mistletoe
John Dee’s Dreams (John Dee) [voice and piano]
1. “My dream of being naked”
2. “It was the eighth day”
3. “All the night very strange knocking”
4. “Saterday night”
5. “I dreamed that the toth next my top toth skarce cold hang”
6. “The nyght following”
7. “These two nights”
8. “This night I had the vision”
9. “I had a dream after midnight”

Key His Eyes

Lasciate L’Ombre (Luigi Tansillo) [voice and piano]
Let the Patient Lift the Panniculus
Let’s Not Leave the House Any More
Let’s Ridicule the Nightingale
Listen to the Birds Cry Ouch
Little Flower
Little Two-Headed Kitten
A Llifetime with Lloyd (a show featuring my dummy Lloyd)
1. Lloyd’s Llament
2. Bandwagon
3. If Something Goes Wrong, Just Pretend It Didn’t Happen
Love is Fun
Love Me Unconditionally

Make a Wish
Make the Angels Go Away
Medulla Oblongata
Mike’s Kiddie Show (from Mike’s Kiddie Show)
Millay Songs (Edna St. Vincent Millay) [voice and piano]
1. Song of Shattering
2. Spring
3. The True Encounter
Mr. Toilet Is Our Friend (from Doug & Mike’s Adult Entertainment)
Motivational Speakers
My Face Is in the Sand
My Mistake [voice and piano]
My Pal Satan

Never Schtup a Nutjob
Nine Settings for Voice and Piano
1. Giordano Bruno
2. Marsilio Ficino
3. Tommaso Campanella
4. Christopher Smart
5. Attributed to the Comte de Saint-Germain
6. Guillaume Apollinaire
7. Jean-Pierre Brisset
8. Francis Picabia
9. James Joyce
No More
Not Much to Brag About
Notary Publics

Oh Dear, Oh Dear (Maman, Maman)
Or So I’ve Been Told

The Parcel
Peepee Caca Fucky Fuck
People Like You
Philosophy: A Shameful Sonnet (Edmond Haraucourt, my translation) [SATB]
A Prayer (Benjamin De Casseres) [SSAA]
Ptooey
Purity

Quand vient le solstice

Radio
The Renaissance Faire
The Rose

The Scale or Ladder of Man’s Life (Francis Bacon) [voice and piano]
Sentimental Doofus [voice and piano]
Seven Songs with Viola
1. Calico Pie (Edward Lear)
2. True Love (Walter Ralegh)
3. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (John Keats)
4. Sonnet 28 (Giles Fletcher the Elder)
5. Ed Kistner (Ed Kistner)
6. The Silly Bee (Robert Devereux)
7. To Electra (Robert Herrick)
Somebody Said Something Offensive
Son of a Gun
Spendthrift
Sugar

The Terrier’s Christmas
That’s Why We Call It Love
Things Are Looking Up
Three Songs (from The Donner Party, performed by Kraken, directed by Herbert Blau)
1. “Lean back from your thirst” (Stuart Friebert)
2. “Did you do your painting” (Stuart Friebert)
3. “Strike a match in the morning” (Herbert Blau)
A Tip from a Pro
Twenty-Four More (MTV jingle)

Uncle’s Ankles

Viola

We All Will Do the Hukilau in Heaven (from American Excess)
We All Work So Hard
We Are Not a Pretty People
We Are the Chorus That Preaches to the Choir [SATB]
We Have No Life Beyond Our Daily Life
We Need More Art
We’re Just a Bit of Dust
The West Coast Is the Worst Coast
The Whale (I. M. Condit) [voice and six instruments]
What Could Be More Interesting Than That?
What Is True Happiness? (from I Fioretti di San Francesco, my translation) [voice, violin, and viola]
What’s That Smell?
When a Snowman Melts
When I Sleep (Gertrude Stein) [voice and bells]
Why Do We Have to Die? (from The Book of Wonders, 1913)
Whine
The Wishing Well (from Doug & Mike’s Adult Entertainment)
The Workman’s Friend (Flann O’Brien) [voice, viola, and tuba]
The Worse It Gets, the Better We Like It
Worthless Little Moments
Wreck of a Man

Y2WKS (from Millennial Mouthful)
Your Parents
You’re Only as Good as Your Microphone

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5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 mamie // Apr 20, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    You missed one.

  • 2 Doug // Apr 21, 2015 at 12:19 am

    I probably forgot a few. Did you have one in mind?

  • 3 Norman Conquest // Apr 24, 2015 at 7:40 pm

    And you still had time to do other stuff, eh?

  • 4 Doug // Apr 25, 2015 at 12:00 pm

    I didn’t get much done yesterday.

  • 5 Norman Conquest // Apr 29, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    That’s OK, I can only publish one book a day.