Scores: Songs

All texts by Lara Candland unless otherwise indicated.

Gemtian Songs (2010, rev.) for voice and any other instruments and voices

Gentian Songs (2009) for medium voice and piano. Texts by Lara Candland.

Locust Songbook (2008)
36 “Singer-Songwriter” Songs for voice and keyboard, or voice and rock band, or voice and any other instruments.

Lalage Songs (2006). 12 Songs for voice and rock band (or keyboard, or other instruments)

Songs for Voice and Piano:
Gentian Songs:
A Hoard of Gems
bees circle
Rouge November
The Coming of the Lord
From Locust songs:
What Kind of World
Devouring Time
A Soft Shower of Rain
Three Images

Night - A cycle of 3 songs (1992)
Upon this Rock (Text by C. Thomas Asplund) High Voice
Upon This Rock (Baritone)

Songs for Voice and Rock Band:
Sword, Gun, Hand

Songs for Voice and Other Instrument(s):

She Is Led (2003) for speaker and viola
History of Church (2002) for voice and viola
Bergman on the Beach, for Soprano and Violin
Emma’s Lullabye (2001) - for unaccompanied female voice
Little Apples (2001) for soprano and easy piano, 4 hands
Girls In Absentia, Making Haste (2001) for voice and piano, 4 hands (very easy)
Moments (1997) for voice and viola
Pale Leaves on Wet Black Bough (1995) for soprano and contrabass
Five Poems (1992) for female speaker, soprano saxophone, and piano
Eternal Science (Text: P.P. Pratt) (1987) - for voice and men’s choir
“Fly, fly…” (Text: P.P. Pratt) (1987) for baritone, marimba and bass marimba
Parting (Text: Charles Penrose) (1986) for Baritone, Marimba, and Bass Marimba
Psalm: Prayer of Forgiveness (1986) for voice and vibraphone

From the Seattle Experimental Opera Chorus Songbook (2 Sopranos, Oboe (doubling on English Horn), Viola (doubling on Harmonium and Toy Piano), Contrabass, and Drums (doubling on French Horn), written 1995-97:
Helen, Eating Pigeon, In A Fever of Writing, A Recollection (Northern), Remember Marquez?, You Tire Me, A Recollection of Girls Sleeping, A Sentimental Recollection, Queen Mother, I Will Write Ten Poems About What Happened To Me In Prison, A Regard for Sickness (I Show Styron a Thing or Two About Disease), The Failure of a Sentence, Miss Tiny Voice, Resting on the Alien Garden of Your Forehead, Streisand Dream