Catalog | Sarah Meneely-Kyder

List of works

Title

Instrumentation

Lyrics by

Notes

Oratorio

Letter From Italy, 1944 (2013)

Chorus, soloists (SSSAT)
and chamber orchestra

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

Available in full score or piano reduction

Choruses:

Kiska Prayer

SATB a cappella

One Loves

SATB

Anything that is not a cappella uses
orchestra in various arrangements

Embarrassment of Riches

SATB

The Mystery

SSAAT

Reprise

SATB

Tenor arias from Letter From Italy, 1944

(Father, Dr. John K. Meneely Jr., unless otherwise specified)

Oh, the Sweetie Man

(Grandfather, Jake Meneely)

Size

I Know a Land

Away

Riva Ridge

Letter From Italy, 1944

Cold Comfort

Dream in the Last Third of Night

(Duet with Nan)

Soprano arias from Letter From Italy, 1944

Ideally 2 or 3 sopranos singing the roles of Delia (mother) and daughters Sarah and Nan

If Loneliness

S (Delia) and women’s chorus

Cantaloupes

S (Sarah)

Outside In

S (unaccompanied)

Dream in the Last Third of Night

S/T (Nan & Father)

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

S (Delia) and Chorus

Boots

S (Delia)

Duets from Letter From Italy, 1944

S,T

Bittersweet

Delia, John, chorus

In Bed

Delia, John

Trios from Letter From Italy, 1944

SSA – daughters

Mother Nature

A Solitude of Three

Reprise (opening)

Solo Voice and Strings

“Letter From Italy, 1944”

Baritone, String Quartet

(aria written in 1997)

Solo Voice & Piano

Five Songs for Soprano (1973)

1. I Will Make My Own Peace

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

2. If Loneliness

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

3. Where’s the Faith?

S.M-K.

4. Sun Song

S.M-K.

5. Little Robin

S.M-K.

Mother Picks Grapes (2005)

Soprano

Ann Silsbee

Where’s the Song? 2013

High and low voice versions

S.M-K.

Weep, The Mighty Typhoons

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
(use of keyboard and interior strings)

Seasonal haiku, waka by S.M-K. Excerpts from poetry of Eisaku
Yoneda, a survivor of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Five Songs for Bass & Piano (1981)

1. Greet Each Morning

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

2. Looking into Heaven

John Kimberly Meneely

3. Where Streets are Silent Now

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

4. Sing Me the Song

S.M-K.

5. Kennst Du Das Land?

John Kimberly Meneely

Chamber Music for Solo Voice and 2 or more instruments

Twilight/Taps

Soprano, Trumpet, Piano

S.M-K.

From Notes to Nine Lovers

Soprano, Flute, Alto Flute, Piano

Paul Lamar

Stand Up and Call Out

Soprano or Tenor, Chorus, Piano & Strings

Kate Stewart

Five Spirituals

Soprano or Bass/Baritone, Flute/Alto Flute, Piano

1. My Lord, What a Mornin’

(no Flute)

2. Let Us Break Bread Together

3. A City Called Heaven

(Alto Flute)

4. Jump Down, Turn Around

5. Stand Up & Call Out

Kisses and Poems

Soprano, Clarinet & Piano

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

Duets for 2 voices and piano

To Delia at Six Months (1984)

S/A

S.M-K.

Georgia O’Keefe, Images (1994)

S/A

S.M-K.

I Have Read You Like a Book (1988)

S/A (brief addition of a third voice (Alto) at the end)

John Eels

Bluebells in the Arbor (2005)

S/S

Ann Silsbee

Works for 3 voices

Five Systems

S/S/S or A, Resonator Bells, Acoustic Guitar, Kalimba, Tubular Chimes

Works for a cappella vocal quartet SATB

Whistling Pig at Snowing’s End (2002)

Jeanne LeVasseur

Life Sings a Song

SAAT, Piano

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

Choral Works

Traditional Irish Blessing

S/A/Bar., Piano

Three Lullabies

S/A women’s choir, Piano, Tubular Chimes

1. Baloo Baleerie

Scottish traditional

2. Philomel with Melody

from Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet

3. God is In the Night

S.M-K.

Dona Nobis Pacem

SATB, Brass choir (3 Trumpets,
3 Trombones, Organ)

In This Divine Arrangement

Soprano, Chorus (SATB) organ, strings

Our Father Which Art In Heaven

SATB, String Quintet

Circadian Rhythms

SATB, SATB soli, Marimba, Cello, Piano

Paul Lamar

I Do

SATB, Piano

S.M-K.

Rose and Saint (1987)

Triple SATB a cappella quartet

S.M-K.

Filarmonico

SATB, Vibes, Piano, Gamelan Chimes

Arachne

SATB, Vibes, Marimba, Piano, Strings

Paul Lamar

Watching You Hearing Me

SATB, Piano

S.M-K.

A Garland of Hymns and Carols – 20+ years of Christmas Cards (original compositions in the interior of cards)

Dona Nobis Pacem

SSS/TTT a cappella

Little Seed of Brilliant Light

SATB a cappella

S.M-K.

How Shall I plant My Garden

S/A Organ or Piano

S.M-K.

In the Bleak Midwinter

SATB a cappella

Christina Rosetti

The Nomad

S/A, Oboe, Bassoon, Organ

Gary Fountain

Song of Mary

Tenor solo

S.M-K.

Lo, How a Rose

SATB a cappella

German, 15th Century (tr. unknown)

It is Thou

solo S/T, Handbells

S.M-K.

Father, a Perfect Soul is Born

Women’s chorus, Oboe, Organ

S.M-K.

Lord Jesus is His Name

SATB a cappella

S.M-K.

The Snow Lay on the Ground

Mezzo-Soprano quartet

Little Child

Women’s Chorus, Oboe & Clarinet

S.M-K.

Christ is Born in Bethlehem

SSS/TTT

S.M-K

How Softly Breathes Your Little Son

SS/Organ

excerts from Kenneth Patchen poem “I Have Lighted the Candles, Mary”

Christmas Lullaby

Soprano Chorus

Gary Fountain

Silent Night, Holy Night

Joseph Möhr

Hush

4 altos/Tenor, Baritone, Bass

S.M-K.

O Little Town of Bethlehem

SATB a cappella

Phillip Brooks

Song of Mary – reprise

SATB, Harp

Sing a Song of Christmas

S, MS, A, Contralto, Strings

S.M-K.

Light

SATB unaccompanied

S.M-K.

Subsequent Christmas Carols

Joy

Double a cappella chorus (SATB)

S.M-K.

Coventry Carol

SATB a cappella

Robert Croo

I Know Not How That Bethlehem’s Babe

SATB a cappella

Henry Farrington

Jubilate Deo arr. S.M-K.

On a Cold and Wintry night

Sleep Now

S & Piano

Father, a Tender Soul is Born

MS or T & Piano

Works for Solo Piano

Silkscreen

Season Phases

Homegrown

Free Running

Recollections: Theme and Variations

Later arranged for WW quintet

Works for 2 Pianos

Now I Sing Only One Song

Nines (scores in the shape of a tic-tac-toe board)

Available in parts only,
each three 8½ × 14" pages

1	2	3
A	B	C
A	B	C
A	B	C

1. Nines

2. Silver Lining,

3. Cry

4. July 3rd

5. Dancing, Dancing

Works for Flute & Piano

The Four Elements Fantasia for Flute & Piano

Doriadoremaeolia Introduction and Hymn in the shape of a Tic-Tac-Toe Board

Based on a Hymn to Sri Rama Krishna

Oversize score

Narcissus for A-Clarinet

inspired by Narcissus Monologue by Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

Works for Cello and Piano

Homage to Brahms Intermezzo & Variations

Four Moods

Sweethearts: Grid and Sequence for Cello & spoken female voice (based on a grid SWEETHEARTS from which the text is created and the tale is told)

Misc.

The Three Gunas

Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Piano 4 hands, Violin & Cello

In Paradisum (based on the Gregorian chant)

Pedal Organ