Vocal
- Wanderers Gemütsruhe (Song for a Wanderer) for soprano (or tenor) and piano (1938, revised 1948); text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Where the Bee Sucks for medium voice and piano (1940); Ariel's song from the incidental music The Tempest; text by William Shakespeare
- Melodrama and Dramatic Song for Michelangelo for voice and orchestra (1940)
- Tanglewood Song for voice (unison voices) with accompaniment of 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, and bass tuba
- Song of Anguish, cantata for baritone or bass and large orchestra (1945); Biblical text
- Song of Songs, cantata for soprano or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1946); Biblical text
- For Cornelia, song for voice and piano (1955); text by William Butler Yeats
- Time Cycle, 4 songs for soprano and orchestra (1959–1960); version for soprano, clarinet, cello, celesta, percussion (1960); texts by W. H. Auden, A. E. Housman, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird for voice, flute, piano, percussion and tape (1978); text by Wallace Stevens
- Measure for Measure for tenor and small orchestra (1980); text by William Shakespeare
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“The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. But there is also, it seems to me, a moment at which democracy must prove its capacity to act. Every man has a right to be heard; but no man has the right to strangle democracy with a single set of vocal chords.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
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And shut me in his golden cage.
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Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;
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—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Prayer is
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A spirit-voice,
And vocal joys,
Whose echo is Heaven’s bliss.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)