Judith Cloud, composer

A NIGHT at the OPERA - poetry by Douglas Atwill (2018)

Tenor & piano 

1. Steamship Ballroom
2. Grapefruit and English Muffin
3. Volare
4. A Night at the Opera

BOTANY for the GODS - poetry by Janet Joyner (2016)

Soprano & piano 

1. Cassandra
2. Botany for the Gods
3. Rain Song (Homage to Paul Verlaine)
4. Decoherence as My Way Out of the Quantum Mechanics of Underpants
5. In a Goolagong Bog
6. Lift Off

- composed for Christine Graham

BLACK DAY, BRIGHT DAY- poetry by Louise Labé, translation by Willis Barnstone (2013)

Contralto & piano (6'21")

1. Sonnet XIV  Although I Cry (3'54")
2. Sonnet XV  To Honor the Return of Sparkling Sun (2'27")

- composed for Rehanna Thelwell

I SPILL MY SOUL- poetry by E.E. Cummings (2009)

Soprano & piano

1. Thy fingers make early flowers of all things (2'05")
2. this is the garden; colors come and go, (5'30")
3. (sitting in a tree--) (1'40")
4. O Thou to whom the musical white spring (2'17")

COWBOY DREAMS- Three arrangements of songs from the Western Frontier

Tenor or high baritone & piano (8'15")

1. The Cowboy's Dream (3'30")
2. The Pecos Stream (2'35")
3. The Big Corral (2'10)

ASSORTED SONGS-English 

Voice & piano  (high, medium and low keys)

1. You are tired, I think (poetry by E. E. Cummings) 2015
2. Didn't you hear my Lord when He called (traditional) 2014
3. Perplexed music (poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 2013
4. Someone should start laughing (poetry by Hafiz) 2013
5. Alleluia (traditional) 2013
6. Absences (poetry by Philip Larkin) 1973
7. The Salley Gardens (poetry by William Butler Yeats) 1982
8. Suzanne (words and music by Leonard Cohen in an art song arrangement) 2012
9. Hotel Garden--poetry by Carl Tomlinson 1982

FOUR SONGS of the HEART- poetry by Kathleen Raine (2009)

Mezzo-soprano & piano (12')

1. Lament
2. Nocturn
3. Purify
4. The Healing Spring

FOUR SONNETS by PABLO NERUDA, Set 1- English translations by Stephen Tapscott (2006)

Soprano or Mezzo-soprano & piano (12')

1. I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz (Morning)
2. Don't go far off, not even for a day (Afternoon)
3. They're liars, those who say I lost the moon (Evening)
4. When I die, I want your hands on my eyes (Night)

- commissioned by Arlene Shrut

FOUR SONNETS by PABLO NERUDA, Set 2- English translations by Stephen Tapscott (2008)

Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (14')

1. If your eyes were not the color of the moon (Morning)
2. Your hand flew from my eyes into the day(Afternoon)
3. Maybe—though I do not bleed—I am wounded (Evening)
4. And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream into my dream (Night)

- commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette

QUATRE MELODIES DE RONSARD-- poetry by Pierre de Ronsard (2007)

Baritone or mezzo-soprano & piano (11')

1. Quand je te vois, seule…
2. Bonjour, mon coeur
3. À sa guitare
4. Je suis homme, né pour mourir

- dedicated to Carol Kimball

NIGHT DREAMS-- poetry by Margaret Atwood (2006)

Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (17')

1. Night Poem
2. Siren Song
3. Variations on the Word Sleep
4. Flying Inside Your Own Body

- commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette

AWAKE on a SPRING NIGHT-- poetry by Betty Andrews (1994)

Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (12')

1. When I Was Young
2. The Time Comes
3. New Grass
4. Awake On A Spring Night
5. The Shape of Laughter

THE SECRET HISTORY of WATER-- poetry by Silvia Curbelo (2003)

Soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor or baritone & piano 

1. The Blackbirds Take Over the Sky (3'56")
2. The Secret History of Water (4'40")
3. The Death of the Tango (4'03")
4. The Lake Has Swallowed the Whole Sky (4'37")
5. Drinking Song (3'54")
6. For All The Goodbyes (4'37")
7. Dreaming Horse (2'15")
8. The Room Was A Pond (4'04")
9. I’m in love, I’m floating (3'25")
10. Last Call (5'10")
11. Janis Joplin (3'24")
12. Some nights you crank up the car radio and just drive (5'08")
13. The Simple Geography of Leaving (4'26")
14. Spontaneous Human Combustion (2'20")

THREE SONGS for BASS-BARITONE-- poetry by Thomas Carew; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; anon. (2012)

Bass-baritone & piano (12')

1. Celia Singing (5'30")
2. Song and Music (4'15")
3. A Short History of Medicine (2'00")

- composed for Toby Kidd

Tres Cançoes-- Portuguese poems by Ricardo, del Melo Neto & de Morales

Tenor or soprano & piano (8')

1. Canto Da Juriti
2. Poema
3. Soneto De Separaçao

- Composed for Ricardo Pereira

DE AMOR OSCURO-- Spanish poetry by Federico Alarcón (2004)

Tenor or soprano & piano (5')

1. Me diste una canasta de manzanas
2. Desde que conoci en el camino

- Composed for Ricardo Pereira