Vocal Works by Vanessa McClintock

Music for the soloist with accompaniment to choral ensembles
Appropriate for sacred church and secular performances, chamber settings, through demanding concert hall venues

Vocal Chorus
with piano & a Cappella

Hymns
SATB

General Religious

Vocals with Piano /
Solos and More

  • BIBLE WOMEN
    – Collection of songs celebrating
    women in the Bible

  • FOUR LINCOLN
    – Four songs about President Lincoln
    based on poems by Walt Whitman

  • THREE SONGS OF THE SEA
    – Collection of songs inspired by the sea
    Poems by Cunningham, Longfellow, and Masefield

  • * NEW * SKETCHES* NEW *
    for Mezzo-Soprano
    with String Quartet

  • As Gracious As

    – soprano, challenging
  • My Lover, Still
    – high voice, intermediate difficulty

  • Song Cycle
    – mezzo soprano, challenging
    – five songs on poems by American poets

  • The Hollow Men
    – Low to medium voice, challenging
    – Musical setting of T.S. Eliot's poems

  • If I Only Had Time
    – Solo mid-range voice
    – with string quartet or piano or both
    – Post Romantic/Expressionist temperment
  • [SEE "Lighter Fare" catalogs]

  • Farewell
    – (...it's been so long)
    – More of an art-song, but with a quiet,
    plaintive jazzy flavor

  • One in a Million
    – Plaintive love-sick, love forlorn
    – More of an art-song, but with a pop flavor

  • Overture for a Runner
    – Very pop-like, fast moving

  • Hawaiian Love
    – Male and female soloists, with piano.
    – Aloha has many meanings.
    – A love song.

  • Visions
    – Pop-like in nature.
    – Upbeat, with women's chorus.

  • I Wanna Climb that Mountain
    – Of a slave crossing into freedom
    – Later used in PORTRAITS

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