Composer: Michael Alec Rose

Website: http://www.michaelalecrose.com/

Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Five Bucolics for Voice and Piano

no. 1. is that you Boss is that (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
no. 2. you spread the nighttime Boss (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
no. 3. are you against me Boss (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
no. 4. thank you for the leaf Boss thank you (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
no. 5. there was a fox Boss in my dream (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*

Five Songs for High Voice and Piano

no. 1. When geometric diagrams and digits (Text: Robert Bly after Friedrich von Hardenberg) *
no. 2. Casida of the Rose (Text: Robert Bly after Federico García Lorca) *
no. 3. Waxwings (Text: Robert Francis) *
no. 4. Sleeping in the forest (Text: Mary Oliver) *
no. 5. I live my life in growing orbits (Text: Robert Bly after Rainer Maria Rilke) *

The Way In: Four Songs for Baritone (or Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano

no. 1. The way in (Text: Robert Bly after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
no. 2. In Blackwater Woods (Text: Mary Oliver) *
no. 3. October day (Text: Robert Bly after Rainer Maria Rilke) * ITA FRE
no. 4. First snow (Text: Mary Oliver) *

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A cypress shall rise (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
A valediction (Text: Ernest Dowson)
are you against me Boss (in Five Bucolics for Voice and Piano) (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
Aubade (Text: Donald Alfred Davie) [x]*
Casida of the Rose (in Five Songs for High Voice and Piano) (Text: Robert Bly after Federico García Lorca) *
First snow (in The Way In: Four Songs for Baritone (or Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano) (Text: Mary Oliver) *
God speaks to Man but once (Text: Robert Bly after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x]*
I live my life in growing orbits (in Five Songs for High Voice and Piano) (Text: Robert Bly after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
In Blackwater Woods (in The Way In: Four Songs for Baritone (or Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano) (Text: Mary Oliver) *
is that you Boss is that (in Five Bucolics for Voice and Piano) (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
Morning poem (Text: Mary Oliver) *
October day (in The Way In: Four Songs for Baritone (or Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano) (Text: Robert Bly after Rainer Maria Rilke) * ITA FRE
Prayer for Our Daughters (Text: Mark Jarman) *
Scenes from "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (Text: Mark Jarman) [x]*
Sleeping in the forest (in Five Songs for High Voice and Piano) (Text: Mary Oliver) *
thank you for the leaf Boss thank you (in Five Bucolics for Voice and Piano) (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
The way in (in The Way In: Four Songs for Baritone (or Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano) (Text: Robert Bly after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
there was a fox Boss in my dream (in Five Bucolics for Voice and Piano) (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*
Waxwings (in Five Songs for High Voice and Piano) (Text: Robert Francis) *
When geometric diagrams and digits (in Five Songs for High Voice and Piano) (Text: Robert Bly after Friedrich von Hardenberg) *
Wild peace (Text: Yehuda Amichai) [x]*
you spread the nighttime Boss (in Five Bucolics for Voice and Piano) (Text: Maurice Manning) [x]*