Six Autumn Songs
1. Indian Summer - John Greenleaf Whittier
2. October's Bright Blue Weather - Helen Hunt Jackson
3. Autumn - Thomas Hood
4. The Latter Rain - Jones Very
5. To the Fringed Gentian - William Cullen Bryant
6. November - Hartley Coleridge
*duets for 2 Sopranos (or Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano) with piano
Six Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke - Fall 1998
1. A la lune
2. Ce qui Dure
3. Reflet du Feu
4. Prisonniers
5. Chanson Cruelle
6. L'Orphelin
*duets for Soprano and Bass-Baritone with piano
Two Trios for Solo Women's Voices - Spring 1997
1. A Song of Three Uncommon Daisies (A Meadow drama in one act) -Twystan Twyeth
2. A Ballad of Trees and the Master - Sidney Lanier
*trios for 2 sopranos and mezzo with piano
Eleven Addresses to the Lord by John Berryman - Summer 1995
For Bass-baritone and Piano
1. Master of Beauty
2. Holy, as I suppose
3. Sole watchman
4. If I say Thy name
5. Holy, and Holy
6. Under new management
7. After a Stoic
8. A Prayer for the Self
9. Surpise me
10. Fearful I peer
11. Germanicos leapt
Five Songs of William Blake from Poetical Sketches - January 1994
For Soprano, Flute, Clarinet (Bb & A) and Cello
1. How sweet I roam'd
2. My silks and fine array
3. Love and harmony combine
4. Memory, hither come
5. Mad song
**Both full score and a piano/vocal score exist.
Four Songs to Poems of William Blake - July 1993
For Bass-baritone and piano
1. The Lamb
2. The Echoing Green
3. The Tyger
4. Laughing Song
Eleven Songs of Innocence from William Blake - Summer 1996
For Soprano, Flute, Clarinet (Bb & A) and Cello
1. Piping Down the Valleys Wild
2. A Dream
3. The Blossom
4. The Divine Image
5. The Chimney Sweeper
6. Infant Joy
7. The Shepherd
8. The Little Boy Lost
9. The Little Boy Found
10. Nurse's Song
11. Spring
Two Nocturnes and Aubade: Three Songs to Poems of William Blake - 1993
For Bass and String Quartet (original version)
For Bass and Piano
1. To the Evening Star
2. Night
3. To Morning
Four Songs to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Revised 1995
For Soprano and Bb clarinet
1. Heaven-Haven: A nun takes the veil
2. For a picture of St. Dorothea
3. Spring and Fall: to a young child
4. Easter
**The 4th song, Easter, has been completely rewritten. It is altogether different from the early version written in 1995.
**These songs have been transposed a half tone down for a high mezzo-soprano. In this case the clarinetist will play his part on the clarinet in A.
Requiem for a Bride Six Songs to Poems of D. H. Lawrence
For Baritone with Flute, Clarinet in A, Trumpet in C, Tenor Trombone, Violin and Cello
1. Suspense
2. The Bride
3. Sorrow
4. Silence
5. Brooding Grief
6. Troth with the Dead
Five Songs to Poems of Francis Ledwidge - Early Autumn 1999
For Tenor and Piano
1. To Matty McGoona
2. My Mother
3. When Love and Beauty Wander Away
4. By Faughan
5. To One Who Comes Now and Then
Five Spring Songs of Francis Ledwidge - Spring 1999
For Mezzo-Soprano or Baritone and Clarinets
1. Spring (I)
2. Spring (II)
3. Desire in Spring
4. May Morning
5. Evening in England
**One player alternates between clarinets in Bb, A and Bass-clarinet in Bb down to cello
C (written pitch-sounding low Bb).
Songs to Poems of Thomas Merton
**Seven Sets
**Complete sets scored for full orchestra.
Set No. 1 For Baritone and Piano
1. Love Winter when the plant says nothing
2. For my brother: reported missing in action, 1943
3. Song for Nobody
4. A Messenger from the Horizon
Set No. 2 For Low Voice and Piano
1. The Messenger
2. Saint Jason
3. Song for Our lady of Cobre
4. The Flight into Egypt
5. The Winter's Night
6. Evening
7. Carol
8. The Man in the Wind
Set No. 3 For Soprano and Piano
1. The Greek Women
2. Calypso's Island
3. Ariadne
4. Ariadne at the Labyrinth
Set No. 4 For High Voice and Piano
1. The Candlemas Procession
2. The Heavenly City
3. St. Paul
4. Trappist, Working
5. Poem
6. Dirge for a Town in France
Set No. 5 For High Voice and Piano
1. St. Agnes: A Responsory
2. Crusoe
3. Advent
4. When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple . . .
5. April
6. O Sweet, Irrational Worship
7. Song from Crossportion's Pastoral
Set No. 6 For Baritone or Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
1. Night-flowering Cactus
2. Landscape
3. What to Think When it Rains Blood
4. Song: In the Shows of the Round Ox
5. An Elegy for Five Old Ladies
6. Spring Storm
Set No. 7 For High Baritone or Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
1. Lent in a Year of War
2. In Memory of the Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca
3. The Captives - A Psalm
4. Aubade - Harlem
5. In the Rain and the Sun
6. The Guns of Fort Knox
7. Elegy for the Monastery Barn
8. The Moslems' Angel of Death
Dakota Songs Poems by Kathleen Norris -
Fall 1994
For Soprano and Guitar
Set No. 1
1. Taking the Blue
2. Stranded in Mobridge by a Spring Blizzard
3. Calentures
4. Calentures - North
5. New Year's Eve in Bismarck, North Dakota
Set No. 2
1. Jacqueline Age Two, In the Black Hills
2. The First Day of Summer
3. On the Land
4. Visitors
5. The Little Mermaid
Seven Songs to Poems of Isaac Rosenberg
For Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
1. Psyche's Lament
2. Girl's Song
3. Under These Skies
4. Beauty (II)
5. Who loses the Hour of the Wind?
6. O, Be These Men and Women
7. A Girl's Thoughts
Nine Songs to Poems of Isaac Rosenberg - Summer 1997
For Soprano and Piano - Revised 1999
1. Wedded (II)
2. April Dawn
3. Expression
4. Heart's First Word, (II)
5. Green Thoughts Are
6. If you Are Fire
7. Sleep (Another Version)
8. Two Fragments: The Trees Suffer the Wind
The Monster Wind Prowls in the Writhen Trees
9. Girl to Soldier on Leave
**The bound piano/vocal score has not yet been revised. The original autograph revised in 1999 is correct.
Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg - 1998
For Bass-Baritone and Piano
For Bass-Baritone and Orchestra
Four Poems of Isaac Rosenberg with an epitaph by Joseph Leftwich - July 1999
For Bass-Baritone and String Quartet
Epitaph: Killed in Action
1. Home Thoughts from France
2. Louse Hunting
3. Break of Day in the Trenches
4. Returning, We Hear the Larks
Five Scenes from An Island Voyage of Robert Louis Stevenson
For Baritone and Six Instruments (Bb Clarinet, Eb Alto Saxophone, Trumpet in C, Viola, Cello and Piano) - April 21, 1981
For Baritone and Full Orchestra - 1973-79
1. Noyon Cathedral
2. The Forest of Mormal
3. The Reeds of the Oise
4. Drums at Landrecies
5. The Graces of Origny
Six English Epitaphs - Final Revision: June 1998
For Bass-Baritone and Piano **The original version is for voice and piano.
For Bass-Baritone and Full Orchestra
1. In memory of Thomas Thetcher
2. Cadman's Flight
3. Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
4. Elizabeth Poticary, wife of Hieron Poticary, clothier. 1590
5. A Scottish epitaph: John Bell of Bonekenbrig
6. In a summer churchyard of the Wyle Valley
Four Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Aug 15, 1994
For SATB and Organ
1. God's Grandeur
2. The Windhover
3. Easter Communion
4. Pied Beauty
A Cappella Chorus to Poems of Robert Frost
- Revised Fall 1997
SATB
Set I
1. Tree at my Window
2. A Minor Bird
3. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
4. Reluctance
5. A Peck of Gold
6. Lodged
Set II
1. Acquainted with the Night
2. The Pasture
3. A Prayer in Spring
4. A Late Walk
5. Rose Pogonias
6. To the Thawing Wind
Tennyson Songs A Cappella - Revised Fall 1997
SATB
Set I
1. Now sleeps the Crimson Petal
2. Break, Break, Break
3. The Kraken
4. The Splendour Falls
5. Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere (A Fragment)
Set II
1. Ask me no more
2. O Swallow, Swallow
3. Sweet and Low
4. Move Eastward, Happy Earth
5. A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours
6. Early Spring
A Collection of Enlarged Hymns and Anthems
For a cappella singing or with accompaniment
1. A Ballad of Trees and the Master - Poem by Sydney Lanier - SATB a cappella
2. Christ, Thou Giver of the Light - SSA
Words attributed to St. Hilary of Poitiers, died 366A.D.; Tr. Unknown
3. Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies
For two equal female and male voices with organ
Text: Charles Wesley (1707-88)
4. Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life - SATB a cappella
Text: George Herbert (1593-1632)
5. Drop, Drop, slow Tears - SATB a cappella
Text: Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)
6. Flower of Wisdom - SATB a cappella
Poem by Benedict Neale Lundgren, OSB (b. 1951)
7. How Long Will You Forget Me, Lord? - SATB a cappella
Based on Psalm 13 by composer
8. I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say - SATB with Organ
9. I lift mine Eyes unto the Hills
For two equal voices with organ or piano. Based on Psalm 121 by composer
10. I Love the Lord - SATB a cappella
Psalm 116, Scottish Psalter
11. Jesu, the Virgins' Crown - SATB and Organ
St. Ambrose (340-97). Transl. J.M. Neale (Jesu, corona virginum)
12. Let all the World in Every Corner Sing - SATB and Brass Qt.
George Herbert (1593-1632)
Brass quartet = 2 Trumpets in C and 2 Tenor Trombones in Bb
13. Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now - SATB with Organ
(Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend)
Transl. Catherine Winkworth (1827-78)
14. My God and is Thy Table Spread - SATB a cappella
P. Doddridge (1702-51)
15. Not in the Whirlwind
For two equal voices with piano accompaniment
16. Round the Lord in Glory Seated - SATB with Organ
Richard Mant (1776-1848)
17. Soul of My Savior
Ascribed to Pope John XXII (1249-1334)
May be sung in two parts by men's or women's voices a cappella. Organ accompaniment is optional.
18. Spring, SATB a cappella
Text: J.Newton (1725-1807)
19. The Elixir, SATB a cappella
Text: George Herbert (1593-1632)
20. The God of Abraham Praise. Unison and Organ/Piano
Text: Thomas Olivers (1725-99)
Unison (male or female) with organ or piano
21. The Olive Tree Text, SATB a cappella
Adapted from Psalm 52 by composer
22. The Psalmist's Spring Song
Text: Adapted from Psalm 65 by composer
For two equal voices with organ or piano
23. Through all the changing Scenes of Life - SATB and Organ
Text: Based on Psalm 33, Nahum Tate and M. Brady, 1696
24. Thy Kingdom Come! On Bended Knee - SATB and Organ
Text: F.L. Hosmer (1840-1929)
The Sagatagan Harp
A collection of 219 hymns of praise, including morning, evening and seasonal hymns. These were written under the name Henry Bryan Hays which should no longer be used. These hymns were written sporadically over a period of 20 years (from the early 1960s to the early 1980s).
Four Civil War Poems of Herman Melville - June 1998
SATB a cappella
1. The Portent
2. Ball's Bluff (A Reverie) (October 1861)
3. Shiloh (A Requiem) (April 1862)
4. The College Colonel
Where I Lived
Five pieces for SATB and Marimba from Walden of Henry David Thoreau.
1. The Winds
2. Birds
3. Morning mists on the pond
4. Mid-afternoon on the lake
5. Morning
Parkers's Back An opera in 2 acts
Full Orchestral version and Piano/Vocal
**First full-length opera; 1972. Revised in the 1980s
**Piano vocal score dates from 1962. This is the primitive original version. The score was revised later in the 80s. However, the piano/vocal version has not been updated to agree with the revised orchestral version.
Gilgamesh Comes Home An opera in 2 acts
Full Orchestra
**Written in the late 1970s. Revised in the 1980s.
The Little Match Girl An opera in one act
Scored for full orchestra
Scored for chamber orchestra *The excerpts which have been revised are written in pencil on separate folded sheets found at the spot that has been revised. The complete opera now confoms to the revised piano/vocal score.
Piano/Vocal score *Revised and final version - 1981
Piano/Vocal score for Two Pianos *This edition does not yet include the revisions of the definitive piano/vocal score.
The Sauna An opera in one act for small orchestra
Piano/Vocal score *Written in 1973. Revised in 1979.
Orchestral score for small orchestra
The Swineherd An opera in one act 1978
Orchestral score for large orchestra
Piano/Vocal score
*Based on the fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen
A Sarum Offering: Evensong for Bim
Orchestral score for chamber orchestra
Organ/Piano/Vocal
**First version written in 1992. The last and definitive version - 1997.
The Stations of the Cross
For Soprano and Tenor soloists and Chamber Orchestra
Orchestral score.
**Stations I-VII - 1980,
Stations VIII-XIV - 1993
**Should be performed without interruption.
Four Snowscapes for Solo Flute (1993)
1. Sunlight on snow
2. Birds in snowy trees
3. Wind blowing fresh snow
4. Moonlight on snow
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 1 for Eb Saxophone and C Trumpet (1992)
1. Early Springtime on the Farm (Cat. 500)
2. The Barn Dance (Cat. 920)
3. Hoosick Valley (from the Window; Cat. 611)
4. Halloween (Cat. 1188)
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 2 for Bb Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet in Bb and A, and Flugelhorn (or Cor Anglais) (1993)
1. Sugar Time (Cat. 1468)
2. Hoosick River, Winter (Cat. 1031)
3. Joy Ride (Cat. 1079)
4. So Long till Next Year (Cat. 1461)
5. Rainbow (Cat. 1511)
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 3 for Alto Saxophone and Cello (April 12, 1994, Revised)
1. Picnic (1945, Cat. 484)
2. Washday (1945, Cat. 498)
3. The Daughter's Homecoming (1943, Cat. 216)
4. Black Horses (1942, Cat. 181)
5. The Mailman Has Gone (1949, Cat. 818)
6. The Doctor (1950, Cat. 957)
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 4 for Flute, Trumpet in C, Flugelhorn, Trombone (Dec. 1995)
1. Country Fair. 1950 (Cat. 921)
2. Mary and Little Lamb. 1947 (Cat. 650)
3. Balloon. 1957 (Cat. 1289)
4. Christmas at Home. 1946 (Cat. 586)
5. A Storm is on the Waters Now. 1947 (Cat. 666)
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 5 for Flute/Piccolo and oboe (or sop Saxophone) (Spring 1996)
1. Old Times. 1957 (Cat. 1296)
2. First Wagon on Cambridge Pike. 1944 (Cat. 415)
3. Rockabye. 1957 (Cat. 1303)
4. Checkered House. 1943 (Cat. 317)
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 6 for Piano, Bb Clarinet and C Trumpet (July 1996)
1. Falling Leaves. 1961 (Cat. 1490)
2. The Thrashers. 1954 (Cat. 1148)
3. The Spring in Evening. 1947 (Cat. 706)
4. The Thunder Storm. 1948 (Cat. 729)
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 7 for Bb Clarinet, Violin and Cello (May 1997)
1. Bringing in the Maple Sugar. 1939? (Cat. 42)
2. The Old Oaken Bucket. 1943 (Cat. 238)
3. The Quilting Bee. 1950 (Cat. 883)
4. Wind Storm. 1956 (Cat. 1250)
5. The Sun Has Gone Down. 1944 (Cat. 397)
Grandma Moses Suite, No. 8 for Bb Clarinet/B Clarinet and Bb Trumpet/Flugelhorn (1997)
1. The Eisenhower Farm. 1956 (Cat. 1205)
2. Lincoln. 1957 (Cat. 1305)
3. The Battle of Bennington. 1953 (Cat. 1100)
4. Corn. 1958 (Cat. 1362)
5. Horseshoeing. 1955 (Cat. 1181)
Variations on a Plain Chant Melody (Dei fide)
for Brass Quintet
2 Tpts in C, Horn in F, Tbn, Bass Tbn with C and E attachments or Tuba
1. Prelude
2. Fanfare
3. Threnody
4. Fugue
5. Chorale
Six Miniatures for Wind Sextet (1946, Chicago. Revised, 1983, St. John's Abbey)
For Fl, Ob, Bb Cl, Bsn, Horn in F, Trpt in Bb
1. Processional for Nervous People
2. Sunday Afternoon in the Park: Bandstand
3. Piece for Lonely People
4. Pas de Deux
5. Drinking Song
6. Piece for People Pretending to have a Good Time.
Prelude and Fugue No. 4 in C# Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier of J. S. Bach
For 4 Timpani, Harp and String Orchestra
Two Preludes and Fugues (Nos. I and II) from The Well-Tempered Clavier of J. S. Bach, Bk. I (1994)
Two Preludes from Parker's Back (1980s)
Full orchestration and reduction
*This Catalogue was originally compiled by Marcie Lyn Hagen as an Appendix to a thesis, The Vocal Compositional Process of Bryan Beaumont Hays as Related to his Vocal Composition, submitted March 2001 to the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, Dr. Michael Cherlin, Adviser.
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