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Joelle Wallach composes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voices and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995 was the American Composers Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate their 10th anniversary; and the New York Choral Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for 200 voices and orchestra to commemorate their 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie Hall. Wallach's ballet, Glancing Below, a 1999 Juilliard Dance Theater showcase production originally commissioned by the Carlisle Project, was premiered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1994, entered the repertory of the Hartford Ballet in February 1995, and received its New York City premiere that June. As early as 1980 her choral work, On the Beach at Night Alone, won first prize in the Inter-American Music Awards. Wallach grew up in Morocco, but makes her home in New York City, where she was born. Her early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division, and she earned bachelors and masters degrees at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University respectively. In 1984 the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano, granted her its first doctorate in composition. A pre-concert lecturer for the New York Philharmonic for several subscription series, Ms. Wallach speaks on a broad range of musical subjects, bringing fresh insights to familiar works and opening doors to modern ones and to those less frequently heard.

The bossa nova of Gertrude Stein's poodle, Basket

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 4'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/basket-gertrude-steins-poodles-bossa-nova/

Score PDF: BASKET-COMPLETE-.pdf

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Description: One of Wallach's several songs capturing the voice of a pet, Basket is a dramatic and hilarious bossa nova in the voice of Gertrude Stein’s beloved poodle, Basket.

Elegy for Rosalie

Year: 2021

Duration (in minutes): 7'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: cello, piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/elegie-for-rosalie/

Score PDF: Rosalie-Elegy-Part-Score-Aug-25-2019.pdf

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Description: Elegy for Rosalie was composed in 2019 in memoriam for Rosalie Calabrese, sorely missed close friend, esteemed colleague, inspiring poet, funny, intelligent and wise. This lyrical work, commissioned for her memorial service, is meant to bring consolation for those who have lost a dear and important lifelong friend.

a musical meditation on the 23rd Psalm for violin solo

Year: 2021

Duration (in minutes): 3'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string instrument

Instruments: violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/beside-the-still-waters/

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Score PDF: Beside-the-Still-Waters-Complete-Sept-11-2021.pdf

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Description: Beside the Still Waters is a musical meditation on the 23rd Psalm for solo violin, composed for Deus Ex Musica’s 2021 Interfaith Recording Project. Its use of double-stop drones throughout represents the constant presence of God, even when the melody of His song is neither audible nor clear.

Piececitos

Year: 2020

Duration (in minutes): 14'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: alto, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/piececitos/

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Score PDF: Piececitos-Score-2022-w-Title.pdf

Text PDF: Poems-pages.pdf

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Description: Piececitos is a vivid musical meditation on motherhood, migration and exile based on poems by Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Set in the original Spanish, Piececitos’ five songs for voice, violin, cello and piano interweave Latin American dance rhythms with haunting melodies: lullabies and laments of a mother on her treacherous journey toward refuge.

I Piececitos – Little Feet

Simple harmonies begin the journey and grow disturbing as a mother flees toward safety. A baby is tied to her back, while a toddler trudges beside her on tiny feet, blue from the cold and bruised from the terrain. Strings trill intermittently, evoking crowds of ululating women and wailing children, echoes and hallucinations of angelic or threatening voices. This movement, like each of the others, ends with a teardrop.

II Amanecer – Dawn

Bach’s “Schafe können sicher weiden” a pastorale of peace and safety is paraphrased here, interrupted, distorted, overshadowed and overtaken by rhythms of battle, brutality, anxiety and fear.

III La Madre triste – The Sad Mother

While strings keen a contrapuntal lament, the sad mother croons a lullaby to the baby swaddled and swaying on her back. Her melody is a paraphrase of a 15th century Sephardic folksong, originally sung by Spanish Jews fleeing their own persecution.

IV Apegarde a mi – Close Beside Me

Little feet take tiny, tripping steps on the long walk toward safety, the toddler close beside his mother as threatening hands hover invisibly over their vulnerable shoulders.

V Los que no danzan – Those Who Cannot Dance

A nostalgic tarantella-like children’s folkdance alternates with jagged rhythms which evoke distant gunfire and the struggle over difficult terrain. Dance sections move from brutal to naive, from crazily chromatic to simply triadic, until heavily syncopated, jagged motion is subsumed in the soothing hum of a mother’s love.

Piececitos uses traditional musical patterns and pre-existing quotations to blend or contrast with newly composed elements. Folkloric wisdom, generational and cultural ties clash in a mother’s inner dialogue of hope, terror and love as she struggles toward refuge for her children.

Suffrage Signatures

Year: 2020

Duration (in minutes): 14'25"

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, harp, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/suffrage-signatures/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/suffrage-signatures/

Score PDF: Suffrage-MAY-2022-Full-ScoreTitle-with-Prog-Note-p-2.pdf

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Description: Composed in 2020 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote, Suffrage Signatures is a four movement chamber work which brings the private lives and intimate relationships of iconic New York suffragettes to life through music. The inspiration for the work is the New York Public Library’s extensive collection of the handwritten letters of these New York pioneers.

Suffrage Signatures’ first movement depicts the deepening friendships between Susan B. Anthony and her colleagues, their increasing intimacy beyond the public proceedings of Seneca Falls or the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

The second movement focuses on Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a granny, advising her grandson on his grammar and his pony.

The women’s fervent belief in the mysteries of seances, phrenology and other now-debunked pseudo-sciences animate the eerie third Séance movement.

And the final movement celebrates the support of 500 British and Irish suffrage leaders congratulating Susan B. Anthony on her 80th birthday. A tribute from across the Atlantic!

Composed for the Cante Libra ensemble, the work is set for flute, harp, violin, viola and cello and portrays, through music, the inner lives of these remarkable women.

La Madre Triste

Year: 2019

Duration (in minutes): 6'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-madre-triste/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-madre-triste/

Score PDF: Madre-Triste-Score-And-Parts-Treble-Choir-Oct-2019.pdf

Text PDF: Madre-Triste-Notes-and-Text.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-madre-triste/

Description: Based on what was originally the middle movement of a larger work, Piececitos, La Madre Triste is a vivid musical meditation on motherhood, migration and exile based on poems by Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Set in the original Spanish, for soprano solo, treble choir, violin, cello and piano, La Madre Triste interweaves Latin American dance rhythms with haunting melodies: lullabies and laments of a mother on her treacherous journey toward refuge.

While the strings keen a contrapuntal lament, the sad mother croons a lullaby to the baby swaddled and swaying on her back. Her melody is a paraphrase of a 15th century Sephardic folksong, originally sung by Spanish Jews fleeing their own persecution. Intermittently, children sing along with the strings, echoes of hope and consolation.

La Madre Triste , like Piececitos as a whole, uses traditional musical patterns and pre-existing quotations to blend or contrast with newly composed elements/ Folkloric wisdom, generational and cultural ties clash in a mother’s inner dialogue of hope, terror and love as she struggles toward refuge for her children.

Farewell Friends

Year: 2019

Duration (in minutes): 4'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/farewell-friends/

Score PDF: Farewell-Friends-Title-May-4-2020.pdf

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Description: Farewell, Friends, composed in 2019 for the Manhattan Choral Ensemble’s 20th Anniversary Concert is a joyous celebration of communal choral singing, meant to be sung for and by friends of choruses, new and old - or as a final choral encore!

O Felix Caecilia

Year: 2019

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/o-felix-caecilia/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/o-felix-caecilia/

Score PDF: joelle-Wallach-O-Flelix-Caecilia-score-title-page.pdf

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Description: O Felix Caecilia is based on a Latin liturgical text, and celebrates music’s own patron Saint Cecilia.

Return

Year: 2018

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/return/

Score PDF: Return-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: Return-PROGRAM-NOTE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/return/

Description: Based on a Sufi text, Wallach’s Return is one of her Spiritual Speculations, a series of brief works for vocal quartet or a cappella chamber choir addressing the conundrum of living with conscience and authenticity in a flawed world.

for voice, piano and soprano saxophone, Bb Clarinet or oboe

Year: 2016

Duration (in minutes): 12'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano, solo voice(s) with solo instruments, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any high voice, any medium voice, any voice, clarinet, mezzo soprano, oboe, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/dances-toward-dusk/

Score PDF: Dancing-Toward-Dusk-SCORE-w-sax-NO-SAX-PART-.pdf

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Description: Composed in 2016 for the Triple Riot Ensemble, Dancing Toward Dusk, is a cycle of three mystical meditations on maturity for chamber ensemble,

A Small Boat of Stars

Year: 2016

Duration (in minutes): 4'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/small-boat-of-stars/

Score PDF: A-SMALL-BOAT-OF-STARS-string-duo-COMPLETE-SCORE-PARTS.pdf

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Description: A Small Boat of Stars, composed in 2016 is a diminutive diptych duo for violin and cello, written in memoriam for composer Stephen R. Gerber and commissioned by String Poet. The two movements, each based on a String Poet work, evoke the elegiac essence of the words rather than setting them literally and honor the memory of a beloved colleague, gone too soon and too suddenly.

for piano four hands

Year: 2015

Duration (in minutes): 11'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: multiple pianos, piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/summer-synchrony/

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Score PDF: Summer-Synchrony-4-hands-FULL-score-TOTAL.pdf

Text PDF: Summer-Synchrony-4-hands-performers-score-TOTAL.pdf

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Description: Summer Synchrony was commissioned by Meredith College as a piano duet with multiple movements each of which would require a different level of pianistic skill so that each member of Octavia, Meredith’s piano studio/ensemble could take part in its performance. Thus Summer Synchrony can be performed as a four movement four-hand sonata by a single piano duo or by multiple, sequential duos at different levels of expertise. Composed during the summer of 2015, Summer Synchrony recalls Wallach’s childhood summers with her grandparents in New York’s Hudson Valley, the sounds of birdsong, of folksongs, of church bells – a warm amalgam, a collage of countryside companionship and a tribute as well to Joelle’s own joy in playing piano duets with friends.

Moonlight in the Woods and Vacant Cities

Year: 2014

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/moonlight-in-the-woods-and-vacant-cities-a-lyrical-diptych/

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Score PDF: MOONLIGHT-IN-THE-WOODS-COMPLETE-2018-SCORE.pdf

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Description: Moonlight in the Woods and Vacant Cities is a lyrical diptych – two complementary evocative movements suggesting, though haunting melodies and mysterious orchestral timbres, a luminescent, lonely evening, a strangely familiar yet mysterious landscape.

for either 2 violins, 2 violi, and cello OR 2 violins, viola, and 2 celli

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 11'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string quintet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/moire-for-string-quintet/

Score PDF: Moire-Score-TWO-CELLI-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: Moire-Score-TWO-VIOLI-SCORE.pdf

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Description: In physics and mathematics as well as in fields as apparently disparate as fabrics and photography, a moiré pattern refers to a visibly evident secondary pattern created when two identical, most often transparent ones, are overlaid and slightly displaced or rotated with respect to one another.

Moiré, named for that phenomenon, explores the shifting perceptions of scale and texture within the ensemble and the musical iridescence of its musical materials. As such it is an unabashedly tonal work for two violins, viola and two ‘celli OR for two violins, two viola and cello, in which melodies and tonalities appear to shift and give rise to otherwise invisible patterns that gracefully and mysteriously surface, submerge and resurface.

Moiré was composed in 2013 at Copland House under the auspices of the Aaron Copland Foundation,

from Calendar Songs

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 4'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/seasonal-songs/

Score PDF: OctoberTitle-N-Score.pdf

Text PDF: October-Text-p1.pdf

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Description: October is one of Wallach's "Seasonal Songs" which refer in some way to the passage of time – calendar months, annual seasons, and even the almanac. The text is an early autumnal poem by Robert Frost.

Cassandra's Lament

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 8'30"

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, opera, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/cassandras-lament/

Score PDF: CassandraCorrectedScoreSept2012TileNotes.pdf

Text PDF: Cassandra-Notes-Text.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/cassandras-lament/

Description: Cassandra’s Lament, for a cappella treble chorus with solo soprano, was commissioned by the Jane Austen Society of North America. It is a collage of melodies and words, elements of Cassandra Austen’s psychic soundscape at the time of her sister Jane’s death. Fragments and shadows of memory and sudden pangs of loss streak across her inner landscape with poignant urgency. juxtaposed with ongoing echoes of the. In Cassandra’s Lament, brief excerpts from the traditional, serene Anglican Requiem chant are juxtaposed with phrases from Cassandra’s distraught and poignant letters, lines from Jane’s formal prayer, hanging at St. Nicholas’ Church, Steventon, and the simple, agonized words Jane uttered on her deathbed. The texts and the melodies associated with each of these recur, and reoccur, reflecting the ruminative process of grief. The reappearances of the serpentine lines seem at first to be identical, but each apparent repetition is subtly altered, changing as grief changes as it heals, imperceptibly and from the inside out.

As Jane Austen’s work often explores the gap between private feelings and their public expression, Cassandra’s Lament explores what may have been such contrasts in her sister Cassandra’s bereavement: the private experience of torment and dislocation at odds with public, prayerful sacraments of serenity, composure and acceptance. In memories, the dead’s legacy of elegant and eloquent words may be at odds with the urgent utterances of their terminal illness.

So it must have been for Cassandra Austen at the time of her sister Jane’s death. In Cassandra’s wrenching experience of loss, her memories of Jane’s own words and reflections about death – both the transcendent and the tortured – juxtaposed in sharp contrast but ultimately in harmony with the steady inexorable Anglican funeral chant that publicly accompanied Jane’s body to its final resting place.

for a cappella voices

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: https://joellewallach.com/composition/pax/

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/pax/

Score PDF: PAX-score-choral.pdf

Text PDF: Pax-choral-PROGRAM-NOTE.pdf

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Description: One of Wallach’s Spiritual Speculations, PAX is a song of faith and spiritual life – that of Suri, Wallach’s angelic cat and mini-muse with a text by D. H. Lawrence.

for solo voice and piano - available in multiple keys

Year: 2012

Difficulty: High (professional)

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/pax-2/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/pax-2/

Score PDF: PAXJuly30Suri.pdf

Text PDF: Pax-choral-PROGRAM-NOTE-1.pdf

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Description: One of Wallach's Meow Mix songs, PAX reflects on the faith and spiritual life of Suri, Wallach’s angelic cat and mini-muse, with a text by D.H.Lawrence.

for cello and dumbek (Middle Eastern Drum)

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 9'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo percussion instrument, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, percussion

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/scalerica-doro/

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Score PDF: Scalerica-dOro-Score-same-as-parts.pdf

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Description: Scalerica d’oro, for cello and Middle Eastern percussion, was commissioned in 2012 by the Shearith Israel League, for premiere by cellist Regina Mushaba at the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of the City of New York. Scalerica d’oro combines Middle Eastern percussion patterns, based on Arabic rhythmic modes with melodies and gestures of the Jewish Mediterranean, They interact and exuberantly engage to create an exhilarating vision of hope, joy and reconciliation. The final rousing song quoted in the work refers to “Abram Avino,” Abraham, the father of both Arabs and Jews.

Mapping the Mind of a Madwoman

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 8'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/lagrimas-y-locuras/

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Score PDF: Lagrimas-y-locuras-CompleteTitleNotesScore-.pdf

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Description: In Lágrimas y Locuras, Mapping the Mind of a Madwoman, Joelle Wallach returns to her fascination with music which expresses a specific psychological landscape. Based on the Mexican folksong La Llorona, Las Lagrimas locuras reveals the infuriated interior monologue of La Llorona herself as she haunts the banks of Mexican waterways, railing against her fate, against the betrayal of her lover and against the result of her own impetuous rage.

La Llorana is a folksong which tells the story of a Mexican Indian woman who, while still young and beautiful, meets a great Spanish conquistador as he rides past the river outside her tiny town. They fall in love, marry, have two children and live in a palace in Mexico City. When he is called back to Spain, she waits in her small town by the river for his return. And it is by the river she sees him again, riding by in a grand carriage with his new blond Spanish bride. He doesn’t seem to recognize her, changed and aged as she has been by her years of yearning and the searing Mexican sun. Furious, she rushes to the riverbank and, crazed by rage, betrayal and humiliation, drowns their two children.

Forever after, she is doomed to pace the banks of Mexican rivers, weeping. For La Llorona, no memory, no reflection or recollection – no matter how sweet – can remain untouched by guilt, anger and the bitterest regret.

Wallach’s Lágrimas y Locuras, Mapping the Mind of a Madwoman, does not recount the story of La Llorona, but instead imagines La Llorona’s tempestuous inner monologue as she walks, eternally distraught, along the banks of innumerable Mexican waterways. Lágrimas y Locuras deconstructs the simple melody of the folksong to explore the state of mind of that woman walking endlessly, alone and weeping, at war with her own past, her thoughts, her memories and conscience in a relentless avalanche of sorrow, remorse and wrath. Each time her thoughts return to simple scenes of past happiness, love or family, the melody within her twists, writhes and rages through strange, unexpected, distorted textures and tonalities.

…a piece of Lisztian scope that attempts to construct the thoughts of a disturbed woman as she walks forever. …fully entering into the spirit of narrating a story while painting a distraught emotional state. The anguished, dissonant climax is powerful.” —Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine

Psalm CXXVI

Year: 2010

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, percussion trio, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-126/

Score PDF: Psalm-126-SCORE-DombekPart.pdf

Text PDF: psalm-126-PROGRAM-NOTE.doc

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Description: Although the 126th Psalm is usually translated in the past tense, the original Biblical Hebrew can be translated equally accurately in the future tense. Thus this translation and its setting of the 126th Psalm is a jubilant expression of individual and collective ecstasy as well as a Messianic vision of peace.

The voices rush and tumble over one another in an exultant dance, sometimes recalling rainfall, rivulets and streams, gushing rivers or hill upon hill of desert sand. The optional Middle Eastern percussion pattern, performed by a single dombek player, and based on Arabic rhythmic modes fuses, harmoniously with the traditional Hebraic melodic formulas and creates a palpable and exciting vision of hope, joy, peace and reconciliation.

(Wallach also has composed, Shir Hamaalot, a simple, one-part setting of Psalm 126 in Hebrew, suitable for communal singing of the final verses of the traditional Grace After Meals.

When the Lord delivers us from exile,
It will all seem like a dream.

Our mouths will fill with laughter,
And our hearts with glorious song.

Rain down your grace upon us, Lord,
Renew us as a stream renews the arid soil;
Surge through us like a river as it swells the desert sands.

Deliver us, deliver us, Lord,
So that they who sow in tears may reap in joy,
And those who went forth weeping, carrying sacks of seed
Will return home singing, carrying sheaves of wheat.

Grieve Not

Year: 2009

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, Bass Trombone, mezzo soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/grieve-not/

Score PDF: GRIEVETitleTOTALJW.pdf

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Description: A loveletter from beyond the grave, Grieve Not is one of Wallach's Spiritual Speculations, 7 brief a cappella choral works. Grieve Not is based on the 19th century poem by Isla Paschal Richardson, and speaks of love, loss and consolation.

Runes & Ritual

Year: 2009

Duration (in minutes): 12'44"

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string trio

Instruments: cello, piano, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/runes-and-ritual/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/runes-and-ritual/

Score PDF: Runes-and-RitualSCORE.pdf

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Description: Runes and Ritual, commissioned by the James Piano Quartet, draws on the rich myth, magic and folklore embedded in the traditions of rural Virginia, where the James Piano Quartet had been in residence for several years. Runes and Ritual’s vivid narrative borrows from indigenous musical gestures – spirituals, hollers, hymn tunes, lullabies, folksongs and yelps – to transform and fuse them into a dramatic tapestry, engaging audiences – whether novices or chamber music aficionados – by evoking music’s own inexplicable magic.

Wny the Caged Bird Sings

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 6'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra, piano, solo brass with piano, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano, string orchestra, string quartet, string quintet

Instruments: alto, any high voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, viola, violin

Publisher: E.C.Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/why-the-caged-bird-sings/

Score PDF: Caged-Bird-Combined-Scores.pdf

Text PDF: Caged-Bird-Combined-Scores-1.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Description: Why The Caged Bird Sings finds the convergence of horn, trebles voices (children's choir or women's) and either strings or piano to explore the tragic irony of the poetic text. The poem, by 19th Century African-American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, is a plaintive personal plea for freedom, an effective alternative to thrashing painfully and purposelessly against constraint.

Woven into Why the Caged Bird Sings’ overall lyricism are subtle timbral clashes which fortify the strength of the work and contribute to the excitement of performance: the innocent beauty of the children’s song, the horn’s heroic call and the piano’s lavish harmonic journey join forces to express the craving of the caged bird in each of us.
Essay on Why the Caged Bird Sings:

Releasing the Caged Bird: Completing a Work
Sympathy

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes,
When the wind blows soft through the springing grass
And the river floats like a sheet of glass,
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals –
I know what the caged bird feels

I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling

…I know why he beats his wing!
When his wings are bruised and his bosom sore, –
When he beats his bars and would be free;
It’s not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings –
I know why the caged bird sings!

—Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872 – 1906)

a collection of 7 works for SATB

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): each 4-5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/spiritual-speculations/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/spiritual-speculations/

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/spiritual-speculations/

Description: Spiritual Speculations consists of several short works for unaccompanied chamber choir or vocal quartet, each of which probes the puzzle of living with conscience in a flawed world. Perusal scores and texts may be found on the individual catalog entries for each of the Spiritual Speculations:

Cloths of Heaven
Therefore
When Lost in the Forest
Mere Dark is Not as Nightlike as it Seems
Pax
Return
Grieve Not

Is not as nightlike as it seems

Year: 2007

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/mere-dark-is-not-so-nightlike-as-it-seems/

Score PDF: MereDarkTiteTextScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/mere-dark-is-not-so-nightlike-as-it-seems/

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 4'30"

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone saxophone, baritone voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-cloths-of-heaven/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-cloths-of-heaven/

Score PDF: vqClothesScore.pdf

Text PDF: Cloths-TEXT-only.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-cloths-of-heaven/

Description: One of Wallach’s Spiritual Speculations for chamber choir or vocal quartet, The Cloths of Heaven, commissioned by the Manhattan Choral Ensemble, is based on a short poem by W.B.Yeats. The lush tapestry of love and longing woven by the voices’ lyrical interplay reflects that evoked by Yeats’ text.
Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:

The Clothes of Heaven is one of several short Wallach works for vocal quartet or chamber choir which can be performed as the cycle, Spiritual Speculations.

(the eye begins to see)

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 8'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo brass with piano

Publisher: Potenza

Publisher website: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/in-a-dark-time-the-eye-begins-to-see/

Score PDF: DarkTimeScoreTitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

Description: Joelle Wallach’s In a Dark Time (the eye begins to see) for horn and piano or chamber orchestra, was commissioned by the International Women’s Brass Conference for its opening concert of 2006. It was premiered there by Laurel Bennert Ohlson, Associate Principal Horn of the National Symphony Orchestra. Like the Theodore Roethke poem from which the title is taken, the music explores the revealing, redemptive power of times of psychic dark.

In a Dark Time

In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood–
A lord of nature weeping to a tree,
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.
What’s madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall,
That place among the rocks–is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.
A steady storm of correspondences!

A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,
And in broad day the midnight come again!
A man goes far to find out what he is–
Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.
Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.
The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

Theodore Roethke

six refective songs for medium or low voice

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 19'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-dream-of-now-2/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-dream-of-now-2/

Score PDF: Dream-of-Now-TitleMusic.pdf

Text PDF: DreamTEXTS.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-dream-of-now-2/

Description: From THE DREAM OF NOW, a cycle of six reflective songs:

Let Evening Come
The Dream of Now
Reflections on Water Dreams
The Layers
When Lost in the Forest,
From the Almanac of Last Things

Post-Millenial Love Songs

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 5' each

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Description: Wallach’s Post-Millenial Love Songs glance and gaze at poems about love.

Close Your Eyes
The Clothes of Heaven
The Almanac of Last Things
Lullaby of Little Birds

V'Shamru

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/vshamru/

Score PDF: VShamru-SCORE-TRANSLATIONS.pdf

Text PDF: VShamru-Text-translation-transliteration.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/vshamru/

Description: V’Shamru is an a cappella setting of a traditional Hebrew psalm, often recited as part of the traditional Friday evening service, a joyous greeting for the arrival of the Sabbath.

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 3'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any medium voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/alleycat-love-song/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/alleycat-love-song/

Score PDF: GminorAlley.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/alleycat-love-song/

Description: Written in the imaginary voice of Jasmin, Wallach’s magical cat and mini-muse,Alley Cat Love Song, based on a poem by Dana Gioia, is a lyrical, lusty look at longing and an exuberant collaboration between piano and voice.

Come into the garden, Fred,
For the neighborhood tabby is gone.
Come into the garden, Fred.
I have nothing but my flea collar on,
And the scent of catnip has gone to my head.
I’ll wait by the screen door till dawn.

The fireflies court in the sweetgum tree.
The nightjar calls from the pine,
And she seems to say in her rhapsody,
“Oh, mustard-brown Fred, be mine!”
The full moon lights my whiskers afire,
And the fur goes erect on my spine.

I hear the frogs in the muddy lake
Croaking from shore to shore.
They’ve one swift season to soothe their ache.
In autumn they sing no more.
So ignore me now, and you’ll hear my meow
As I scratch all night at the door.

for voice and piano

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5.

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Score PDF: Cloth.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Description: The Cloths of Heaven (from “Millennial Love Songs”) is loosely derived from the gestures and moods of Irish speech and song, and invites us to a personal world of dreams and imagination. T he Clothes of Heaven is based on a short poem by W.B.Yeats. The lush tapestry of love and longing woven by the voices’ lyrical interplay reflects that evoked by Yeats’ text.

Aedh Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

The Clothes of Heaven is also available for vocal quartet or chamber choir which can be performed separately or as part of the cycle, Spiritual Speculations.

for chamber choir or vocal quartet

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, oboe, tenor voice

Publisher: G. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/37427/

Score PDF: Schirmer-Edition-TF-complete.pdf

Text PDF: Therefore-ProgramNote.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/37427/

Description: Therefore is one of Joelle Wallach’s Spiritual Speculations, a series of short works for chamber choir or vocal quartet which probe the puzzles of living with conscience in a profoundly flawed world. As Therefore‘s words encourage engagement in the only world we have, the interwoven, wordless sighs lament a lost if illusory ideal. As Therefore ends, those sighs subsume the words; the voices veer toward and away from one another, yearning for and mourning the ruined world, yet meanwhile creating their own accord.

Therefore

Nothing exists that is not marred, therefore
we are obliged to imagine how things might be:
the sea
at its green uttermost, the shore
white to exaggeration, white before
it was checked and clouded by its spent debris.

Nothing exists that does not end, and so
to knowledge we must deliberately be untrue:
you
murmuring that you will not go, when you will go,
promising to do always what you cannot do:
hold the sun steady and the sky new.

No one exists who can be loved the same
by day as by dark; it is that sleeping place,
lame,
we attempt to follow into, and cannot trace,
that makes us lie, saying we know his face,
as if we knew even half of his true name.
—William Dickey

PSALM 23

Year: 2004

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo woodwind instrument, string ensemble, string orchestra

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, cello, contrabass, flute, oboe, organ, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-xxiii/

Score PDF: PSALM-23-Both-orch-organ-ScoresTitles.pdf

Text PDF: Psalm-23-King-James-Text.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-xxiii/

Description: Joelle Wallach’s setting of the 23rd Psalm is based just a little loosely on the King James’ translation of the Bible, and uses the oboe or flute to evoke a shepherd’s pipe as the organ or strings create a peaceful, verdant landscape in which the voices can sing a gentle and confident hymn, creating a slightly asymmetrical shape from the strict parallelisms of the structure of the verse.

A collection of songs about cats and dogs

Year: 2004-2023

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/meow-mix/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/meow-mix/

Score PDF: PussycatCTotal.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/meow-mix/

Description: Meow Mix is a collection of Art Songs written for and about cats. Included are Pax, with a text by D.H.Lawrence; Beauty, text by William Blake; Mujer, text by William Carlos Williams; and Alley Cat Love Song, based on Dana Gioia’s comic poem, Alley Cat Love Song. Each song is available in several keys to accommodate different voice types.

(To find a "Dog Song" look up "Basket," a song in the voice of Gertrude Stein's standard poodle, Basket.)

"The cat of the title of Alleycat Love Song is the composer's own ‘magical cat and mini-muse.’ Here, a light touch enables a beautifully drawn little miniature. PAX, which uses words by D.H. Lawrence to ‘celebrate the spiritual life of Wallach’s cat,’ as the booklet puts it. It is tender and lovely, shot through with innocence." —Colin Clarke, Fanfare

Meditation on a Shang Dong folksong

Year: 2003

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string trio

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo brass instrument, string ensemble, string orchestra

Instruments: any string, cello, contrabass, euphonium, tuba, viola, violin

Publisher: Potenza Music

Publisher website: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

Outside URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUF7v7oRBw

Score PDF: Loveletter-Euphonium-strings-Score.pdf

Text PDF: Loveletter-Piano-reduction.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

Description: Loveletter, (postmark, San Jose) is a tiny tender tuba rhapsody for euphonium or tuba and strings written for the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, its conductor Barbara Day Turner, and tubist Tony Clements as a gift to the community of greater San Jose where Joelle Wallach had been visiting composer at the San Jose Symphony over the course of several concert seasons. Wallach explains, “When Barbara Day Turner approached me with the idea of a work for tuba and strings, it appealed to me immediately: the soulful and subtly lush quality of the tuba singing along with the eloquent silkiness of the strings seemed to reflect the beauty of the Valley’s extraordinary landscape and the rich variety of its inhabitants. “Before any of the usual practical consideration of a commission could be discussed, I found that the piece had begun to sing itself to me: a gift, a love letter to what I had begun to experience as my other home. I found that even once I returned to my home in New York, part of my soul still had an address in San Jose.” Like any loveletter, Loveletter,(postmark, San Jose) is a declaration of love, a song of sweet nostalgia, a yearning to return to a place and especially to the people of that other home.

Revisitation of Myth

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any voice, piano, viola

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-revisitation-of-myth/

Score PDF: A-Revisitatin-of-Myth-score-title-texts.pdf

Text PDF: revisitationtexts.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: 4 song cycle about new interpretations of familiar myths
A Revisitation of Myth is a four-movement chamber piece for viola,
piano and medium voice, with texts by Muriel Rukeyser, Luann Keener, Delmore Schwartz, and Denise Levertov.. Each of the four lyrical and moving songs re-examines a myth
(or myths as in the fourth one) to discover new, different or more complex meanings.
The first song, Icarus Swims, is an invitation to regard Icarus’ fall from sky to ocean in a
new way. The traditional interpretation views Icarus’ immersion as punishment by the
sun and the gods who melt his wax wings for his hubris in attempting to fly. Instead, this
song suggests Icarus’ plunge might be seen as a baptism, an entry into a new domain,
born of his adventurousness and daring.
Lot’s Biblical daughter, Ms Lot, sings the eponymous second movement. She doesn’t
think her father is such a great guy, whatever God thinks of him. She thinks her father
betrayed her as well as her mother and her sisters; and she’s worried about what man
would possibly want her now. She’s frantic and whine-y and self-centered. She probably
gets it from the father she describes so resentfully. Angry in the manner of rebellious
teenagers, she’s panicked, too, adjusting to a new life suddenly devoid of all that’s
comforting and familiar – mother, home, the expected future. Throughout the song, a
relentless, repetitive, murmuring figure passes back and forth among the musicians.
While the principal melodies soar and roar, and the song speeds up and slows down, the
muttering figure binds everyone together and encapsulates the protagonist’s hysteria.
The third song, Hymn to Eros, is simply a plea, a sinuous, sensuous, strenuous wish.
The final song, Abraham and Orpheus, exhorts these two mythic heroes, pleads for
their wisdom, and compares their perplexingly similar lessons with their disturbingly
opposite outcomes. Abraham complied with an order to sacrifice his beloved child as a
token of his faithfulness to a faceless divinity, while Orpheus could not prevent himself
from turning to look at his beloved’s face even in the shadow of death and the gods’
decree. He lost her in his all too understandable disobedience.
For each, the call to duty was to be heeded more than the call of love. Abraham, who
obeyed, was allowed keep the son he would have willingly, obediently sacrificed. Not
so Orpheus who sang and looked back at love, convinced that the power of his love, the
resonance of his song, and the mercy of the gods would prevail even over death..
The calling motive with which the viola and piano introduce the song is repeated and
modified as the song continues. It evokes a variety of other voices: the calling of
Abraham the father and Isaac the son, the tragic calls of Orpheus and Euridice, the
singer’s own exhortation for reprieve from the myths’ harsh lesson; and it recalls as well
the traditional call of a ram’s horn, a heritage of these same spiritual struggles. The
myriad, shifting suggestions implied in the musical “calling” figure reflect, too, the more
global unfolding and elaboration of myth and meaning themselves.
“Music doesn’t get any better than this…” Mark Greenfest for New Music Connoisseu

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, piano, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, harp, horn, oboe, piano, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/nightwatch/

Score PDF: NIGHTWATCH-Joelle-Wallach-ORCH-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: Total-JW-Nightwatch-piano-NoY.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: high voice. Two tiny love songs with texts by Madeleine Tiger and William Stafford

In Memory the Heart Still Sings

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, horn, percussion, viola, violin

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/in-memory-the-heart-still-sings/

Score PDF: MemoryTitleInstOrchScore-.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Description: A rhapsody for solo clarinet and orchestra, In Memory the Heart Still Sings was composed in the summer of 1995, during the time of my grandmother’s deeply numinous preparation for death. Raised in large part by that woman whose grace and wisdom blessed my adulthood as much as my childhood, I stayed close to home that summer as she prepared to die. I more than willingly cancelled any plans to travel or work outside of New York because each hour with her was precious and each conversation a compendium of subtle, sweet, personal wisdom. She reviewed her life and discussed the visceral and spiritual experience of death as it gradually unfolded through and for her. One afternoon, reflecting on her mood, her memories and her ever-increasing exhaustion, she commented that for her, regardless of pain, age, loss, and physical debility, “In memory the heart still sings…” Her words are the title of this evocative, harmonious, elegiac work, an intimate chamber concerto for clarinet and orchestra..

In This My Green, Green World

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any high voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Publisher website: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Outside URL: www.joellewallach.com

Score PDF: GreenMusicTitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Description: A cycle of seven verdent love songs with texts by poets Kenneth Patchen, e.e.cummings, Neal Bowers, William Stafford

String Quartet #2

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 13'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1995/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1995/

Score PDF: String-Quartet-2-1995-SCORE-.pdf

Description: String Quartet #2 takes its stark epigram from Yeats’ The Circus Animals’ Desertion:

…Now that my ladder’s gone,I must lie down where all the ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

The work was conceived and composed in the aftermath of the composer’s husband’s sudden, untimely death. As the Yeats lines suggest, the quartet’s four movements explore intense sensibilities and subtle interactions among players through touching, unpretentious melodies which are presented in simple yet profoundly poignant ways.

The Quartet consists of four movements or moods. The first is nostalgic, declarative, almost sweet. Each instrument alternately sings part of the melodic line and plays other melodic fragments against it. The second movement is angry, angular yet again clearly melodic with the instruments this time almost always move in parallel. They rage against one another while driven closely together.

In the third movement, the viola sustains a plaintive melody almost all the time, with the other instruments providing an eerie harmonic background. Although the harmonic motion seems strangely static, it inexorably, very gradually almost imperceptibly stretches toward unexpected tonal centers.

The fourth movement is brisker. Yet it too has a craggy insinuated melancholy. Here the instruments frequently play in pairs, breaking off and abandoning the solitary viola to play alone, exploring cadenzas which seem to contemplate the music that’s gone before.

In his review for The New Music Connoisseur Mark Greenfest wrote:
“String Quartet #2 has a romantic intensity with a Webernian clarity. Her voice has the strength of Bartok (or Beethoven) – passionate, articulate, authentic and thoroughly moving.”

“String Quartet #2 is a distilled reflection on sorrow and grief. It does not seek to expose or enact the emotions of grief nor the psychological landscapes of sorrow. Instead through strictly musical processes, it reflects on that landscape by presenting the same thematic ideas through four lens or moods. Wallach’s ability to abstract from experience and distill it into such a brilliantly wrought work is miraculous. The composer’s exploration of string textures, contrasts, thematic variations and structures becomes inseparable from the widow’s reflections on loss through the frames and lens of distinct moods.”
—Don Mager, Making Time, Eclectica.org July/Aug 2002

Available on CD

Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing: Music for Strings including
String Quartet #1
String Quartet #2
String Quartet #3
Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing, a concerto for cello and orcehstra
Featuring the Meridian Quartet, and the National Slovak Radio Orchestra, Joel Suben conductor and Robert DeMaine, cello soloist.

for voice and either saxophone, clarinet, heckelphone, or other woodwind

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 1'30"

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any saxophone, any voice, any woodwind, baritone saxophone, baritone voice, bass clarinet, bass voice, clarinet, mezzo soprano, oboe, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/obligato-songs/

Score PDF: Obligato-Songs.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/obligato-songs/

Description: Tiny vignettes, these obligato songs are written for voice with either saxophone or clarinet, with texts by Madeleine Tiger and William Carlos Williams

Portrait of a Lady
Don’t Write to Me
The Chinese Handcuff
Time Feeds on Itself

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: ballet/dance, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string ensemble, string quintet

Instruments: cello, contrabass, percussion, piano, soprano saxophone, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/glancing-below/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/glancing-below/

Score PDF: GlancingTotalTitleScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/glancing-below/

Description: A haunting and lyrical one-movement chamber work for eight players, Glancing Below was originally commissioned by the Carlisle Project as a ballet score. As a ballet entitled Flaws in the Glass, Glancing Below was premiered in Philadelphia’s Drake Theater in August, 1994. By the following winter, it had entered the repertory of the Hartford Ballet, which gave the work its New York City premiere in June, 1995. A 1999 Juilliard Dance Theater showcase production, Glancing Below continues to be performed as a ballet as well as being heard as a profoundly evocative instrumental octet.

Daughters Of Silence

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 17'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/daughters-of-silence/

Score PDF: DaughtersComplete.pdf

Text PDF: DaughtersTEXTS.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: Eight songs about experiences of women

Daughters of Silence
Woman Kills Sweetheart with Bowling Ball
Oregon Trail Journal
When I Couldn’t Afford Poetry
Epistolary
Rape
Hymn from the House of Trouble
Kneading Bread
Joelle Wallach’s cycle of eight songs, Daughters of Silence, covers a broad range of subjects dealing with experiences specific to women. Except for the song based on a real classified ad (which had only a box number), each song is based on a poem by one of five living American women poets, Teresa Anderson, Inzer Byers, Susan Donnelly, Laura Kashiske and Madeline Tiger.

The first song of the group, Daughters of Silence speaks of the spiritual maiming of women through learned self-effacement. Woman Kills Sweetheart With Bowling Ball, the second song in the group, deals with the emotion forbidden to women—rage.

The painful rather than romantic experience of women on the American Frontier is the subject of the third song, Oregon Trail Journal. The resentment and longing of the fourth song, When I Couldn’t Afford Poetry are a product of a similar servitude in our own time.

Epistolary is a setting of a real personal classified advertisement from The New York Review of Books. It is wistful yet a little brash and funny as well. Like the phenomenon of personal ads, it is of our own time but recalls a Romantic ideal.

The alternately sad and agitated sixth song, Rape, evokes the pervasive alternation of sorrow and violation that rape can impart to all other seemingly unrelated experiences of a woman’s life.

Hymn from the House of Trouble, profiles the anguish and regret with which a woman leaves a destructive man.

And the very last song, Kneading Bread examines a cross-cultural activity of women almost everywhere and implies the commonality of their larger experience and the tender inclusion of men and boys in their lives.

Partings And Farewells

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/partings-and-farewells/

Score PDF: CompletePartingsTitScoreConents.pdf

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Description: Six songs of partings and farewells with text by Madeleine Tiger, William Stafford, Theodore Roethke, Carl Sandburg, Denise Levertov

A Biblical Lovesong from Hosea

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 3'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/verastich-li-lolam-a-biblical-a-love-song-from-hosea/

Score PDF: Verastich-li-Olam-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: Verastichli-Olam-PROGRAM-NOTE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/verastich-li-lolam-a-biblical-a-love-song-from-hosea/

Description: V’erastich li l’olam is an unaccompanied vocal duet in Hebrew, suitable for weddings, engagements, betrothals, proposals.... Its text is drawn from the Book of Hosea:
V’erastich Li L’Olam
V’erastich Li B’Tzedek
U’vMishpat U’vChesed U’vRachamim
V’erastich Li B’Emunah
V’Jada’at et Adonai

Where Angels May Lie Down Down Among Us

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, harp, horn, oboe, percussion, timpani, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/where-angels-may-lie-down-among-us/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/where-angels-may-lie-down-among-us/

Score PDF: WHERE-ANGELS-ORIGINAL-VE-COMPLETE-PARTS.pdf

Text PDF: where-Angels-May-Placid-Complete-ScoreTitleInstrumenation-Optimized.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/where-angels-may-lie-down-among-us/

Description: 1-1-1-1; 2-1-1-0 harp, perc, piano strings: 1111 111, 1 perc, pn, strs A chamber symphony. Where Angels May Lie Down Among Us was composed at the Ragdale Foundation during the winter of 1992. In writing it, I was primarily interested in how certain luminous and miraculous things and people are often hidden among the things and people we think of as ordinary. So in this piece, a melody will sometimes be interrupted by a sublimely tender one, and one which at first seems rude, ugly or frightening will seem to become beautiful as it is heard again, played a little differently. This the rough sounding theme interrupting the quiet beginning becomes the surpassingly delicate one at the end – just as someone we might find abrasive or even offensive can become beautiful to us through familiarity.

The word “angel” comes from a Greek translation of the Hebrew word mal’akh which meant “the shadow side of God” but later came to mean “messenger.” I wrote this piece in the winter of 1992 just at the time of my husband’s sudden death, weeks before his 48th birthday. I felt then that I was living in the dark side of God. Yet I am very grateful to have had my years with Stephen, during which he was for me both a Divine message and a messenger – and in a very real sense my muse. I wish he could have heard this, last piece I’d ever write from our time together. But I hope that for those who can hear this piece, some angels will come alive, the sublime interleaved among the ordinary, lifted by the instrumentalists from the mundane world into music’s miraculous realm of transcendence and peace.

Sweet Briar Elegies (cello ensemble version)

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, solo woodwind instrument, string ensemble

Instruments: any saxophone, any woodwind, cello, piano, soprano saxophone

Publisher: To the Fore Publishers

Publisher website: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/composerindex/sweetbrairelegies.php

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sweet-briar-elegies/

Score PDF: SBElegiesSxCello-score-1.pdf

Text PDF: SBElegies-PianoScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/composerindex/sweetbrairelegies.php

Description: Written in Sweet Briar, Virginia, during the summer of 1992 in the aftermath of the composer’s husband’s unexpected death, Sweet Briar Elegies is set for either soprano saxophone and an ensemble of eight celli or for soprano saxophone and piano. Its two movements are not independent elegies but comprise a single elegiac whole. The first movement is a recitative of passionate wistfulness; the second movement, an aria of poignant lyricism and longing interrupted briefly by an ominous, somewhat disturbing middle section.

The piece bears an epigram from William Blake’s Songs of Experience:

…and I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
William Blake Songs of Experience (1794)

Music For Manda

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble

Instruments: any string, guitar

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/music-for-manda/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/music-for-manda/

Score PDF: BMusicScoreTitle.pdf

Description: Birthday Music for Manda was written in celebration of the birthday of a friend’s seven year old daughter who was just beginning the serious study of classical guitar as a duet to play with her teacher. A fun way for a beginner to play a duet with a pro!

Sweet Briar Elegies (cello ensemble version)

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano, string ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: cello, piano, soprano saxophone

Publisher: To the Fore Publishers

Publisher website: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/composerindex/sweetbrairelegiescellos.php

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sweet-briar-elegies/

Score PDF: SBElegiesSxCello-score.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sweet-briar-elegies/

Description: Available as either soprano saxophone and cello ensemble OR soprano saxophone and piano (great for rehearsals).

Written in Sweet Briar, Virginia during the summer of 1992 in the aftermath of the death of the composer's husband, Sweet Briar Elegies is set for soprano saxophone and cello ensemble or soprano saxophone and piano. The two movements are not independent "elegies" but comprise a single elegiac whole. The first movement is a recitative of passionate wistfulness; the second movement, an aria of poignant lyricism and longing with an ominous and disturbing middle section.

The piece bears an epigram from William Blake's Songs of Experience:

... I saw it was filled with graves.
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
William Blake, Songs of Experience (1794)

Since 1980 when her choral work, On the Beach at Night Alone, won first prize in the Inter-American Music Awards, Wallach has regularly placed first in international composition competitions. Her String Quartet 1995 was the American Composers Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate their 10th anniversary; and the New York Choral Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for 200 voices and orchestra to commemorate their 1994 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie Hall. To the Fore Publishers is pleased to publish her works for saxophone, which in addition to Sweet Briar Elegies, include Eulogy, for soprano saxophone and string quartet, and the Saxophone Quartet.

Ms.Wallach lives in New York City, where she was born. She was raised there and in Morocco. Her early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division, and she earned bachelors and masters degrees at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University respectively. In 1984 the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano, granted her its first doctorate in composition.

Tiger's Tail, an orchestral overture, also available for piano 4-hands

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): Tiger'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, piano

Instruments: any string, bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, English horn, flute, harp, horn, oboe, percussion, piccolo, timpani, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-tigers-tail/

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/the-tigers-tale-full-score.html

Description: Available for either full orchestra or piano 4-hands, The Tiger’s Tail was composed in 1990 in Sweet Briar, Virginia with the generous assistance of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Like most of Wallach’s music, it depicts some specific psychological landscapes. Here, the emotional scene is that of the apprehension and excitement which can suddenly wake a dreamer in the dark hours of early morning and make sleep impossible with endlessly running thoughts. The title refers to the expression “to catch a tiger by the tail,” with its intimations of danger and anxiety, its promise of imminent excitement, and its futile longing for repose. A tiger’s tail, itself, can also be imagined: luxuriant fur silken, plushy and dramatically striped; its motion alternating between the soft sensuality of languorous furls and sharp, sudden lashes of malicious playfulness, unpredictably mounting anger, and ominous bestial strength.

The New Music Orchestral Project of the National Orchestral Association gave The Tiger’s Tail its first reading in October 1990 under the baton of Jorge Mester. In 1991, Vienna Modern Masters released The Tiger’s Tail on compact disc with the Polish Radio and Television Broadcast Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla conducting, and the work was premiered October 5, 1991 by the Women’s Philharmonic, JoAnne Falletta conducting, in The San Francisco Civic Center’s Herbst Hall.

Shadow, Sighs And Songs Of Longing

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo string instrument

Instruments: harp, percussion

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Shadow+Signs+and+songs+of+longing

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/shadow-sighs-and-songs-of-longing/

Score PDF: Joelle-Wallach-ShadowScoreTitleTotal.pdf

Text PDF: CompletePNO-SOLO-SHADOW.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Shadow+Signs+and+songs+of+longing

Description: A dramatic, yet lyric, cello concerto. Recording on Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing:, recorded on Capstone Records (CPS-8689)
Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing was composed at Yaddo during the winter of 1991, inspired by the gloomy beauty of the winter landscape and the tragic family history inscribed there: The Trask family purchased Yaddo in the late 1800’s as a healing summer retreat after the death of their first child. Their surviving young daughter accompanied them to Yaddo and gave it it’s peculiar name, a child’s pronunciation of “shadow.” The darkness of their lives at Yaddo was deepened further by the deaths of that daughter and the two other children born to them there. After all of her four children had died and her husband had met his own grizzly and untimely death in a private railroad car, Kristina Trask bequeathed Yaddo as a working retreat for artists. Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing was written in the room to which Mrs. Trask retired for the last years of her sad life, and Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing is dedicated to her legacy.

Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing a four-movement work for accompanied cello, each movement reflecting differently on what might have been the psychological landscape of Kristina Trask’s memories, apparitions and reflections.

“The work is a musical staging of sorrow. Through a constant transforming and reshaping of a single theme it invites the cello solo and the orchestra to explore four distinct colorings of sorrow. In the third movement it builds to a quite overpowering and wrenching climax. The entire work sustains its ideas with compelling engagement and invention. It is not the 19th century soloist pitted against orchestra-projections of heroic individualism-but rather a concerted shared journey. I am carried back to the singularity of the Elgar concerto, which also explores dark psychological landscapes as a journey shared by cello and orchestra.” —Don Mager, Making Time, Eclectica.org July/Aug 2002

From The Forest Of Chimneys

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble

Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, horn, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/from-the-forest-of-chimneys/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/from-the-forest-of-chimneys/

Score PDF: ChimneysTitleScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/from-the-forest-of-chimneys/

Description: From the Forest of Chimneys was written for the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensembles at the suggestion of bassoonist Leonard Hindell, who had asked for a work for a large chamber complement. Wallach scored the work for a mixed octet of winds and strings. The wind group, consisting of clarinet, bassoon and horn, is identical to the winds called for in the Beethoven Septet and the Schubert and Hindemith Octets. The string group is somewhat unusual, however, consisting of violin, two violas, cello and bass. The substitution of a second viola for the normal second violin darkens the overall color, and gives greater prominence to the higher-register melodies.

Recorded by the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, From the Forest of Chimneys is an extended lyrical work for eight instruments, each with an equally crucial and characteristic solo role. The work took shape on my 1991 trip to Poland.

On a dark, misty day, I visited the site of the Birkenau extermination camp. When the Nazis realized that the Russians would advance through Poland, they attempted to eliminate evidence of their inhumane activities by bombing the Birkenau crematoria and gas chambers and setting fire to the barracks. All that now remains, as far as the eye can see, is a forest of chimneys stretching to the horizon.

From the watchtower near the camp’s entrance, I looked out on that forest of chimneys, and on the spirals of mist curling up around one another, intertwining and dispersing like the truncated songs of the many victims whose lives had been cut short in that tragic place. These curling helices of song and mist are the central image of From the Forest of Chimneys. The work was completed during the summer and fall of 1991 at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and in New York City. It is in four movements, each subdivided into long lyrical sections. In each section, the characteristic extended melodies unfold as they pass seamlessly from one instrumental voice to another. As each instrument yields the melodic line, its voice assumes a supporting role and the motives come to be tinted differently. The timbre is thus refracted into subtle coloristic differentiations as the material is passed among the players.

Midnight Menageries

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/midnight-menageries/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/midnight-menageries/

Score PDF: MidnightMenagery-TREBLE-CHORUS-Total-Score.pdf

Text PDF: MidnightMenagery-TREBLE-CHORUS-Total-Score-1.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/midnight-menageries/

Description: Midnight Menageries was composed in 1991 for New Jersey’s Thorndike School of Music children’s choirs. It uses texts from familiar to children from beloved children’s books and expands those texts into a musical realm: “Ark Song” by Susan Donnelly and “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown.

Sticky Grimaces, Toothy Grins

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, percussion ensemble, piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo percussion instrument

Instruments: marimba, percussion, piano, vibraphone, xylophone

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sticky-grimaces-toothy-grins/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sticky-grimaces-toothy-grins/

Score PDF: Sticky-Grimaces-Toothy-Grins-SCORE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sticky-grimaces-toothy-grins/

Description: Sticky Grimaces, Toothy Grins was written in 1991 for the virtuoso New York Philharmonic percussionist Chris Lamb and his wife, pianist Virginia Lamb, as a celebratory piece on the occasion of the birth of their first child, Casey. While the first and third movements joyously explore the virtuosity of both instruments and their playful collaborative possibilities, the middle movement suggests a child’s solitary perception of urban moonlight.

Sticky Grimaces Toothy Grins is available on Nightwatch, a 4Tay CD: https://www.amazon.com/Nightwatch-Joelle-Wallach/dp/B0094GW5KO

Songs For An Unborn Child

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Score PDF: Songs-for-an-Unborn-Child-ScoreTitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: A cycle of three songs with texts by Len Roberts reflecting the complex emotions of either parent after a miscarriage or abortion.

Shir Hamaalot - 126th Psalm in Hebrew

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 4'

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/shir-hamalot-psalm-126-in-hebrewa-grace-after-meals/

Score PDF: ShirHamalot.pdf

Text PDF: When-the-Lord-delivers-us-from-exile.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/shir-hamalot-psalm-126-in-hebrewa-grace-after-meals/

Description: Simple and suitable for the communal Grace After Meals, Shir Hamaalot is a Hebrew setting of Psalm 126. Monophonic, it can be sung by a single voice or several on the same, single melodic line. Although the 126th Psalm is usually translated in the past tense, the original Biblical Hebrew can be translated equally accurately in the future tense. Thus seen as prophetic, 126th Psalm may be a jubilant expression of individual and collective ecstasy as well as a Messianic vision of peace.

(Wallach also has an exuberant four-part choral setting of Psalm 126 in English accompanied by a Middle Eastern Drum.)

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): King'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, opera, piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-kings-twelve-moons-2/

Score PDF: Kings-12-Moons-Vocal-Score-scanned.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-kings-twelve-moons-2/

Description: The King’s Twelve Moons is a lyrical and dramatic chamber opera, an adaptation of a folktale recorded by the Grimm brothers, the story of unwitting tyranny and the responses it evokes.

The plot involves a father who has lost his wife and who, fearing the loss of his daughters as well, keeps them locked in their room while he stands guard. Despite his vigil, they steal away each night, exuberantly dancing through the soles of their shoes. The music expresses the emotional and psychological facets of the story: love and grief twisted into overpowering possessiveness, the daughters’ responses to unreasonable authority, and the final triumph of the forces of exuberant life — a denouement different from the Grimms’.

Domination and disobedience, inadvertent cruelty and powerful love are forces which, though the medium of folk literature speak clearly to listeners. Lyrical, dramatic musical treatment focuses expressive power and infuses the story with meaning which is simultaneously relevant to children or to sophisticated adults.

The King’s Twelve Moons is scored for five singers, and either a piano reduction or an ensemble of chamber instruments. The string parts are written so that they can be executed by either single or sectional players. Thus, depending on the performers available, it is possible to expand the ensemble from 8 players to orchestral size or to reduce it to a single piano. The vocal scoring allows the four female singers who represent the daughters to be supplemented by silent performers or by additional singers as the remaining eight daughters and their secret beaux. Programs such as the increasingly popular opera‑in‑the‑schools could, with little preparation, use children in these non‑singing roles, and touring or regional companies could use community choral singers or local “supernumeraries.” This alternative scoring makes it possible to present The King’s Twelve Moons by small or larger companies, with few or many singers, with a large or small instrumental complement, and with simple or elaborate stage sets.

Opera is perhaps the principal genre of art music to which the general public is regularly exposed: on television and in the live performances of regional and touring companies and of operas-in-the-schools. Because of its appropriateness for adult or school audiences and because of its flexible requirements of instruments and singers, The King’s Twelve Moons can reach a large listening audience, some performances even involving some of the audience as participants. Bringing non-professionals into the performance of opera can stimulate interest in such music. Children or others who have been part of a production are more likely to become students and supporters of opera and of other art music as well.

Clarinet Quintet

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet, solo woodwind instrument, string quartet

Instruments: alto saxophone, any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, soprano saxophone, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quintet-for-clarinet-and-string-quartet/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quintet-for-clarinet-and-string-quartet/

Score PDF: Cl5ScoreTitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quintet-for-clarinet-and-string-quartet/

Description: Joelle Wallach’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings was written during the summer of 1989 for clarinetist William Powell with the generous support of Canada’s Banff Centre. It was conceived with reference to and with reverence for the great works by Mozart and Brahms for the same combination.

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings is a romantic work; its three movements are played without pause. In order to reveal the clarinet’s vast emotional palette, it explores the instrument’s vocal expressivity: the upper register’s plaintive cries, its lowest tones’ sensuous moans, and the lyrical singing of its mid-range. The yearning insistence of the first movement gives way to the meditative melancholy of the second and leads to the rollicking humor of the third. Yet even in the fast, witty third movement, fragments of the brooding previous moods occur.

Sh'ma Kolenu, Hear Our Voice, O Lord

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 3'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: www.joellewallach.com/choral

Score PDF: Shma-Kolenu-ScoreWithTitle.pdf

Text PDF: שמע-ולינו-Shema-koleinu-TEXT.pdf

Description: Sh'ma Kolenu, Hear Our Voice, O Lord, is an a cappella work in Hebrew, a setting of the Biblical prayer for God's attention and mercy.

Three Whitman Songs

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any brass, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, baritone voice, bassoon, cello, clarinet, horn, mezzo soprano

Publisher: potenza music

Publisher website: https://https://potenzamusic.com/?s=Joelle+Wallach&post_type=product

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/three-whitman-songs/

Score PDF: POTENZA-WALLACH-Three-Whitman-Songs-Score1.pdf

Text PDF: 3WHITMAN-SONGS-program-note.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://potenzamusic.com/?s=Joelle+Wallach&post_type=product

Description: Like the Walt Whitman poems on which they are based, the Three Whitman Songs display Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman’s views, his idealism, exhilaration and disillusionment with war in general, especially after his experience as a medic during the US Civil War. The ascending triplet melodic motif of the first song, Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, reflects not only the natural rhythm of the text, but also Whitman’s exuberant spirit. The song ends, as the poem ends, with the bitter suggestion of Whitman’s post-Civil War despondency at mankind’s cruelty. The second song compares the creativity of the soul’s continual search to a spider’s constant weaving. The instruments introduce a characteristic weaving figure which creeps into the vocal line as well as accompanying it. The clarinet does not play the last song. Reconciliation is both its subject and its title. As variants of the rhythmic and melodic patterns of the first two songs recur, recalling the work and worries of the soul, the singer heroically voices Whitman’s resolution of his conflicting perspectives.

Joelle Wallach’s Three Whitman Songs was composed during 1989. Like her other vocal chamber music it fuses Wallach’s central ongoing concerns in chamber music with those in her vocal output. The voice is used in a natural, unforced way and explores the implicit rhythm and melody of the spoken word. As Whitman requests in the first song, the singer appears to warble “spontaneous” songs. The instruments take up the same musical ideas and in developing them, weave a context for the voice, all the while answering the voice and one another.

I

Give me the splendid silent sun, all of his beams full dazzling;
Give me the juicy autumnal fruit…a field where un-mowed grass grows;
Give me an arbor of trellis’d grapes, od’rous at sunrise;
…a sweet breath’d woman, …a perfect child,
…away, aside from the noise of the world.
Give me to warble spontaneous songs, reliev’d, recluse, by myself, for my ears only.
Give me nature’s primal sanities.

II
A noiseless, patient spider….
I launched forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
Ever unreeling, tirelessly speeding them.

And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, — seeking the spheres,
to connect them…
Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
(1868)

III
Word over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war … must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands … of Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soil’d world;

…My enemy is dead — a man divine as myself;
…he lies white-faced and still … I draw near,
bend down and lightly touch his face with my lips.

Piano Trio, A Triad Of Blessing

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin

Year: 1988

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, mezzo soprano, oboe, percussion, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/simeni-kachotam-al-libbecha-set-me-as-a-seal-upon-your-heart/

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Score PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-optimized-for-Web-Score.pdf

Text PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-TEXT-ONLY.pdf

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Description: Joelle Wallach’s Simeni Kachotam Al Libbecha, Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heartis a lyrical and dramatic work for mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble. In its quasi-narrative treatment of the Biblical Song of Songs, Simeni Kachotam Al Libbecha, Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heartfinds an erotic and passionate story line.

Ecstatic tempo fluctuations and adaptations of Arabic scales and rhythmic modes evoke the exotic setting and the frenzied urgency of a turbulent personal quest, partly spiritual and partly of the flesh.

Each haunting melody has alternate settings for its Hebrew words, drawn directly from the Biblical text. The choice of either modern Sephardic pronunciation or ancient historical ones reflects the timelessness of the text.

Woodwind Quintet, O Llama De Amor Viva

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet

Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe

Publisher: Potenza Music

Publisher website: https://potenzamusic.com/product/woodwind-quintet-o-llama-de-amor-viva/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/woodwind-quintet-o-llama-de-amor-viva/

Score PDF: WWTscore.pdf

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Description: The subtitle of Joelle Wallach’s Woodwind Quintet, “O llama de amor viva” (Oh, living flame of love), is the first line of a poem by the Spanish mystic, Saint John of the Cross. The music depicts fire’s gentle flicker and sudden conflagration as metaphor for the varying intensity of consuming spiritual love. The brief rising phrase each instrument breathes in the short slow introduction is a single, graceful lick of flame. As the piece progresses through rapid changes of tempo, texture and mood, the phrases ignite, flaring together or blazing separately, creating climaxes, flashing toward a final flushed moment of glowing repose. Like Wallach’s Of Honey and Of Vinegar, Wallach’s Woodwind Quintet, “O llama de amor viva” won first prize in the historic New Music for Young Ensembles Composition Competition.

La Musica, Los Muertos Y Las Estrellas

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-musica-los-muertos-y-las-estrellas/

Score PDF: La-Musica-los-muertos-y-las-estrellas-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: MMEtexttitle.pdf

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Description: La musica, los muertos y las estrellas is a musical setting for a cappella voices based on three of Juan Ramon Jimenez’ early poems. The first poem compares the tranquility of the soul to a sailboat. The music combines a gentle, reassuring, wave-like rocking motion like that of a lullaby, with rich harmonic color and fluid vocal lines to suggest serene and infinite Divinity. The agitated second poem deals with the mind’s power to destroy – or enhance the soul’s serenity: negative thoughts despoiling the natural calm of the soul envisioned in the previous movement.

The subject of the final section of La musica, los muertos y las estrellas is grief: finding an answer to the pain of human loss through the healing force of the universe’s beauty and rhythmicity: music and stars, gently joyous, lyrical and transcendent. An original “folk melody” contrasts with the keening cries of mourning. The unaccompanied chorus embodies the blend of sensuality and spirituality intrinsic to music and to these texts.

The poet Juan Ramon Jimenez was born in Moguer, Spain in 1881. His work explores the labyrinthine galleries of the soul which may lead to God. In 1917 he married Zenobia Camprubi Aymar, and his love for her became part of the spiritual quest which illuminates his more than 2500 poems. Early in the Spanish Civil War, the couple established and ran a small children’s refuge in Madrid; but the War and the Fascists forced them to emigrate, and they came to theUnited States. When Juan Ramon Jimenez told Zenobia that he’d been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, she was dying of cancer and was too ill to speak. Unable to use words, she hummed him a song from their childhood in celebration. After her death, days later, Jimenez never wrote again, and died himself in Puerto Rico in 1958.

Cantares De Los Perdis

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument trio, percussion trio, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bells, celesta, mezzo soprano, other, percussion, soprano, tenor voice, timpani, tuba

Publisher: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/cantares-de-los-perdis-2/

Score PDF: Cantares-Full-Score-Title.pdf

Text PDF: Cantares-poems-translations.pdf

Description: A haunting, mysterious, lyrical work, Cantares de los perdis is a setting of three of Federico Garcia
Lorca's poems, collected early in the 20th century among Andelusian gypsies. These are among Lorca's most desolate poems, the cri du coeur of an exile, a refugee, an outsider lost in a wilderness beyond rescue or comprehension, whether political, psychological or existential. The percussion two instruments (timpani and crotales , along with the tuba create an evocative soundscape.

Simeni Kachotam Al Libbecha

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: alto flute, any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, mezzo soprano, oboe, percussion, piccolo, viola, violin, xylophone

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Score PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-Score.pdf

Text PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-TEXT-ONLY.pdf

Description: Simeni Kachotam Al Libbecha, Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart is a lyrical and dramatic work in ancient Hebrew for mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble. In its quasi-narrative treatment of the Biblical Song of Songs, Simeni Kachotam Al Libbecha, Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart finds an erotic and passionate story line.

Ecstatic tempo fluctuations and adaptations of Arabic scales and rhythmic modes evoke the exotic setting and the frenzied urgency of a turbulent personal quest, partly spiritual and partly of the flesh.

Each haunting melody has alternate settings for its Hebrew words, drawn directly from the Biblical text. The choice of either modern Sephardic pronunciation or ancient historical ones reflects the timelessness of the text.

12

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 12'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/voices-of-the-iron-harp/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/voices-of-the-iron-harp/

Score PDF: IronHarpScanned-SCORE-optimized.pdf

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Description: Joelle Wallach’s Voices of the Iron Harp, written in 1986 is a love song, almost a farewell to the piano. It uses an open-ended variation form as well as the heroic poetic gestures of 19th and 20th century piano literature to explore and evoke the variety and gradations of mood and sound available through the keyboard from the heart of the iron harp inside.

Several commercial CD's with performances of this work are available.

Greenbriar Grace

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-greenbriar-grace/

Score PDF: GreenbriarScore-scanned-and-Title.pdf

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Description: Greenbriar Grace is a simple setting of a “Grace” prayer by playwright Maryatt Lee and set at her request for the men’s choir of Greenbriar, West Virginia.

String Quartet #1

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 14'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1986/

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Score PDF: 1-String-Quartet-no-1-SCORE-1.pdf

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Description: String Quartet #1 explores relationships between what at first appear to be completely unrelated—even opposite—musical ideas and emotional states. The work begins with the statement of a contemplative, chant-like figure in the cello answered snidely by a taunting phrase in the second violin. The work continues to explore a varied psychological landscape through such confrontations, gradually revealing close intuitive connections among the contrasting phrases. In fact, by the time those original motives which seemed so antithetical at the beginning, return at the Quartet’s close, they seem intimately mated, intrinsically paired.

“String Quartet #1 … frames a musical idea that becomes in its achievement emblematic of extra-musical experiences. Two ideas are placed in immediate confrontation (one contemplative and slow; the other bubbly and impish). Throughout the one movement of the work, these two ideas compete and challenge each other as they work toward a kind of “mating” as Wallach says, in which they become integrated without totally losing their individuality. It is a charming idea, and charmingly and lucidly realized.”
—Don Mager, Making Time, Eclectica.org July/Aug 2002

Available on CD

Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing: Music for Strings including
String Quartet #1
String Quartet #2
String Quartet #3
Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing, a concerto for cello and orcehstra
Featuring the Meridian Quartet, and the National Slovak Radio Orchestra, Joel Suben conductor and Robert DeMaine, cello soloist.

Assent Of The Swallow

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 25'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any high voice, any medium voice, any voice, bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute, horn, narrator/speaker, oboe, percussion, soprano, trombone, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-assent-of-the-swallow/

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Score PDF: Assent-of-the-Swallow-optimized.pdf

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Description: Based on Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale, The Happy Prince, Wallach’s Assent of the Swallow is a touching and lyrical tale about the love between two odd and dissimilar beings who give of themselves to help others. The music is evocative and lyrical, full of color and the quiet passion of compassion. An enjoyable performance piece with a subtle but powerful moral.

Orison Of Ste Theresa

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: alto, any string, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, cello, contrabass, harp, satb chorus, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/orison-of-st-theresa-full-score.html

Score PDF: Orison-of-Ste-Theresa-COMPLETE-SCORE-String-Orch-HPAug-6.pdf

Text PDF: ORISON-complete-SCORE-SQ-H-Aug-6-2018.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/orison-of-st-theresa-full-score.html or https://www.ecspublishing.com/orison-of-st-theresa-piano-choral-score.html

Description: Orison of Ste. Theresa is the first of four choral works Wallach composed during the 1984-85 year of a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, awarded for “Outstanding Artistic Merit” and “Achievement as an Artist.” The work is a setting of Longfellow’s English translation of a section of a prayer by 16th century mystic, Ste.Theresa of Avila, who believed in the sanctity of simple acts when those acts were imbued with the grace of faith. The focus of this particular prayer (or Orison) is faith as consolation. And the music represents these in the gentle stroking of the choral line after the quietly gasping sobs of the strings.
Based on a poem by Ste. Theresa of Avila and available for SATB choir with either string orchestra (and harp), string quartet and harp, or piano accompaniment. All available through E.C.Schirmer.

translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Let nothing disturb thee,
Nothing afright thee;
All things are passing;
God never changeth.
Patient endurance
Attaineth all things.
Whom God possesseth
Nothing is wanting.
Alone God sufficeth.

Oneiros, The Dream

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, piano, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/oneiros-the-dream-2/

Score PDF: OneirosTitleScore.pdf

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Description: Oneiros describes the landscape of dreaming rather than describing a specific dream. In dreams, all things are connected in clear yet inexplicable ways. Oneiros is infused with the surreal wooziness of dreams. The yearning call first heard in the initial clarinet solo echoes again and again through the voices of different combinations of instruments, creating a kaleidoscope of subtly contrasting color and mood before coming to rest with a final nostalgic utterance by the flute.

Oxen Carol

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-oxen-carol/

Score PDF: OxenCarol-total-Score-Scan.pdf

Text PDF: Oxen-Carol-Text.docx

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Description: Wallach’s gentle Oxen Carol, a nostalgic reflection on faith and Christmas fairytales takes its text from Thomas Hardy’s poem of the same name.
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock,
“Now they are all on their knees,”
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.

Quietus

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any string, any voice, cello, harp, piano, soprano, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quietus-for-ssaa/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quietus-for-ssaa/

Score PDF: Quietus-SCORES-vocalorch-ALLPARTS.pdf

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Description: A setting of a desolate poem written by Thomas Jefferson, this mournful work blends voices with instruments to weave a lyrical web. Available for SSA with EITHER piano or strings and harp.

When one by one our ties are torn,
And friend from friend is snatched forlorn,
When man is left alone to mourn,
Oh! then how sweet it is to die!

When trembling limbs refuse their weight
And films slow gathering dim the sight,
When clouds obscure the mental light,
‘Tis nature’s kindest boon to die.
– Thomas Jefferson

Choral Theopneusty

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-choral-theopneusty/

Score PDF: Theopneusty-TitleTextScore.pdf

Text PDF: Theopneusty-Text-only.pdf

Description: SAT solos with SATB chorus. A Choral Theopneusty is based on a particularly vivid chapter of Revelations, a dramatic and astonishing set of supernatural Biblical images.

Up Into The Silence

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/up-into-the-silence/

Score PDF: UpIntoTheSilence-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: UpIntoTheSilence-Text-only.pdf

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Description: Up Into the Silence is an unaccompanied cycle of seven songs with texts by e.e.cummings. Playful and poignant, the songs explore a wide range of moods and vocal colors. Written originally as a complete cycle for low voice, individual songs from Up Into the Silence may easily (as there is no accompaniment) be excerpted and transposed as needed to suit the range and tessitura of other singers. Two versions of Up Into the Silence are available on Compact Disc: one by the Israeli mezzo-soprano Mira Zakai, the other by the German tenor, Gregory Wiest.

Reviews:

“…a cappella with sexy and funny vocal lines…,the music boosted the flow of the text and gave it added color, charm and spin,- exciting, unusual and quite marvelous.”—Review by Mark Greenfest for the IAWM Journal

“The music boosts the flow of the text, and gives it added color, charm and spin. Exciting, unusual and quite marvelous.”—Mark Greenfest for New Music Connoiseur, February 26, 2004

Recordings :
Capstone Records Up into the Silence (CPS-8636)
IMA Recordings Mira Zakai Unaccompanied: Up into the Silence

Yeatsongs of a Fool

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, marimba, mezzo soprano, percussion, piano, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin, xylophone

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Score PDF: Yeats-Songs-of-a-Fool-Total-Chamber.pdf

Text PDF: YEATSONGS-OF-A-FOOL-TotalScanpiano.docx.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: Yeats' Songs of a Fool is a touching work for voice and EITHER piano OR string quartet and mixed percussion, based on three childlike poems by William Butler Yeats.

Plaint For A Prince And King

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: brass ensemble, choral, percussion ensemble, percussion trio, piano

Instruments: any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, horn, percussion, piano, tenor voice, trombone, trumpet, tuba

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/plaint-for-a-prince-and-king/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/plaint-for-a-prince-and-king/

Score PDF: Plaint-for-a-Prince-and-King-CompleteScoreBrassPerc.docx.pdf

Text PDF: Plaint-for-a-Prince-and-King-CompleteScore-Piano.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/plaint-for-a-prince-and-king/

Description: Plaint for a Prince and King, written for men’s choir with either brass and percussion or with piano, is a setting of the Biblical David’s horror, regret and sorrow at his having killed his closest companion, Jonathan, in battle. As such it stands, as does the Biblical texts, for the devastating personal and moral consequences of war – as relevant to the wars of today as to those of Biblical times. A TTBB score with brass and percussion, as well as one with only piano accompaniment.
Jonathan was the son of King Saul and the close, close friend of David who became King after Saul. But the succession from Saul to David was not a smooth one.
There was a bloody civil war from which David emerged the victor and during which Jonathan faced the dilemma of divided loyalties. He chose to side with his father against his friend; and along with his father he was killed in battle.
The text for Plaint for a Prince and King is drawn from the lament David composed on the death of his beloved friend. It is not only a moving elegy, but a testament to compassion for the friend's dilemma, a friend seen not as an enemy or a betrayer, but as the victim of the conflict between two opposing loves.
The music, composed in late 1982 for men's voices with piano or with brass and percussion, is the developmental elaboration of a simple, single motive. The "stretching" of the diatonic tonality, never leaving its domain yet incorporating discord, is descriptive of the story.

Five American Echoes

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/five-american-echoes/

Score PDF: 5AmericanEchoes-Score-Title-Text.pdf

Text PDF: 5AE-title-and-text.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/five-american-echoes/

Description: Joelle Wallach’s Five American Echoes, an a cappella work for mixed voices, was composed in the autumn of 1983. Excerpts from the work of five long-dead, historical American poets present five quite different and distinctive approaches to mortality and immortality.

The first poem, by Emerson, is a paean to the music and beauty inherent in all things; the second, by Longfellow, laments the death of all that is dear. It is a dirge drifting toward silence. Whitman’s third movement focuses on the artist’s narcissism, a self-aggrandizing attempt at immortality. The fourth movement, by Emily Dickinson, counters with the transience of glory. And the final poem, by the 17th century Colonial poet, Phillip Pain, responds by admitting the transitory nature of the world, yet holding forth the hope that love is unbounded by death, and echoing of Emerson’s idea in the first movement, seen in a different light. The Emersonian first movement is repeated to conclude the work.

Five American Echoes won first prize in the first annual competition of the Baroque Choral Guild. It was premiered in San Francisco by the Guild in June 1984.

Turbulence, Stillness, And Saltation

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, harp, horn, oboe, percussion, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/turbulence-stillness-and-saltation/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/turbulence-stillness-and-saltation/

Score PDF: Turbulence-Stillness-and-Saltation-SCORE.pdf

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Description: Winner of the Inaugural Princeton Chamber Orchestra Prize, Turbulence, Stillness and Saltation reflects the three moods of its title: the first similar in style to the Schoenberg Opus 9 Chamber Symphony, the second meditative and introspective, the third evoking a leaping dance called a Saltarello.

Kiss Of Anima Mundi

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, percussion ensemble, percussion sextet

Instruments: percussion

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/kiss-of-anima-mundi/

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Score PDF: Kiss-of-Anima-Mundi.pdf

Text PDF: Kiss-of-Anima-Mundi-NOTES.pdf

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Description: The Kiss of Anima Mundi, a samba of moans and whispers, is a brief, lively, descriptive work for a percussion ensemble of six players who use many more times that number of instruments. Some of these, samba whistles, cuica drums and the afoche come from Brazil. Combined with Brazilian rhythms and contrasted with mysterious sounds from bowed percussion, The Kiss of Anima Mundi explores the kinship between elements of the savage and the spiritual, the mystical and driving physical rhythmicity.

Organal Voices

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, percussion ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble

Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon, bells, marimba, percussion, vibraphone, xylophone

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/organal-voices/

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Score PDF: Organal-Voices-.pdf

Description: Organal Voices, composed in 1983, is a work whose rubato and expressive nature demands a profound mutual responsiveness between its players. The piece explores the timbral and psychological similarities and differences between the bassoon and vibraphone in an evocative, lyrical context. Each performer must be able to find his individual voice, explore uniquely subtle colors and feelings during the “quasi cadenza” moments, yet be able to blend gracefully with the other during the tutti times.

Organal Voices‘ melodic material is entirely derived from the first four notes of the Dies Irae; and its title reflects the composer’s idea of what it must have been like in the Middle Ages to begin to experience simple polyphonic textures as organum developed after centuries of monophony. Then, too each performer must have discovered an increased awareness of the roles of other voices.

Organal Voices, which references the Dies Irae, is a fascinating specter of a piece, ghostly and elusive as a wisp of smoke. Fascinating”

-Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine

Two Recording are available:
on CRS Records, Organal Voices (Record #8635)
On 4Tay https://joellewallach.com/composition/organal-voices/

Of Honey And Of Vinegar

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/of-honey-and-of-vinegar/

Score PDF: HV-scan-with-holes-in-side.pdf

Text PDF: HV-text.pdf

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Description: Of Honey and Of Vinegar is a setting, for mezzo-soprano and two pianos, of four poems by
Emily Dickinson, all related to the sweetness and bitterness of persuasion and seduction (all
without evident sexual context). The composer's challenge to the performers is an unusual
tripartite chamber relationship. Duo pianists are accustomed to accommodating one another in
one way; and a pianist accompanying a singer in another. Here both types of personal dynamic
must be simultaneous. There are thus four permutations of musical interrelationship rather than
one: the two pianists to one another, each to the singer, and the chamber ensemble as a whole.
The first poem explores this difficulty directly. Setting the surrealistically pastoral
poem in a manner reminiscent of some of the Faure songs, the pianos play a long, continuously
repeated melody. The voice serves almost as commentary.
The second poem is ironic, a somewhat ribald and disrespectful look at the strictures of
conventional religion and the gentle persuasiveness of song. Peculiar, perhaps sacreligious,
musical quotes (from hymns, cowboy songs, Christmas carols and Civil War soldier's songs -
all of which Dickinson might have heard) appear, almost competitively, in each piano while
the voice builds dramatically. The song meets the sarcasm of the poem with its own wry
humor: a quirky use of tonality and some unexpected twists and turns.
The third song, like the poem it sets, is the bitterest of the lot. The fourth shows life
wringing art from the artist, brutally squeezing works from a pained and unwilling source.
Recording on Of Honey and of Vinegar Opus One Records(Record #12)

Sin Mananas, Three Spanish Songs

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

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Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sin-mananas-three-spanish-songs-gemido-de-la-guitarra-sonando-suenos-de-tango-and-los-ojos/

Score PDF: SinMananasComplete.pdf

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Description: Sin Mananas, Three Spanish Songs: SinMananasComplete004

Gemido de la Guitarra is a long song, almost a concert aria, based on a 1921 poem, La Guitarra, by Federico Garcia-Lorca. The poem was inspired by Lorca’s extensive research (with daFalla) into the cante jondo, the indigenous poetry and song of southern Andelusia. Wallach’s song, like the Lorca poem it is based on, reflects the passion and mystery, the profound and abiding anguish of the realm of the gypsy guitar. In describing this tradition, Lorca wrote: The figure of the cantaor is found within two great lines, the arc of the sky on the outside, and on the inside the zigzag that wanders like a snake through his heart. When the cantaor sings he is celebrating a solemn rite, as he rouses ancient essences from their sleep, wraps them in his voice, and flings them into the wind…. He has a deeply religious sense of song. Through these chanters, the race releases its pain and its true history….They were prodigious interpreters of the peoples’ soul who destroyed their own hearts in storms of feeling.
Sonando Sueños de Tango is an art song in which characteristic gestures of the Argentinian tango are used. It was written in 1985 for performance in a program of tangos and zambas presented by the Americas Society in New York City. The poet is Graciela Perez Trevisan, an Argentinean woman currently residing in San Francisco.
Los Ojos is based on a poem of the same name by the 20th century Spaniard, Antionio Machado. In the song, silence is an analogue for the stark emptiness of the protagonist’s emotional landscape.

Sin Mañanas: Three Spanish Songs is recorded on the4Tay label. CD 4034 "The Nightwatch"

…marvelously evocative, with guitar imitations on the piano and a pervasive sense of that melancholy that is so indigenous to the region….portrayed by textures of the utmost fragility. Bare lines make maximal impact, with Spanish infused gestures sounding as if from a dream”

-Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine

Sin Mañanas, Three Spanish Songs is recorded on the 4Tay label

Glimpses

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any brass, any string, bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute, harp, oboe, percussion, piccolo, timpani, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola

Publisher: Carl Fischer

Publisher website: https://www.carlfischer.com/cy1871f-glimpses.html

Score PDF: Glimpses-Complete-Score-Carl-Fischer.pdf

Text PDF: WISPS-SCORE.pdf

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Description: Glimpses, composed in 1980 and published by Carl Fischer, consists of eleven fragmentary musical phrases. The focus of the work is its exploration of unusual orchestral colors.

As a painter might achieve different and distinctive shades by mixing pigments, then making them lighter or darker, denser or more transparent, so Glimpses groups unexpected combinations of orchestral instruments at different volumes and densities to produce original and often startling orchestral sonorities.

Quartet For Saxophones

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto saxophone, any saxophone, any woodwind, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Publisher: To the Fore Publishers

Publisher website: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/quartets.php

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quartet-for-saxophones-2/

Purchase score URL: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/quartets.php

Description: Joelle Wallach’s two movement Quartet for Saxophones is a study in the parallel roles saxophones have played in the jazz and classical traditions. The first movement can be heard as a formal passacaglia or a murky blues. The contrasting second movement is a fugue with a jagged, jazzy subject. The piece was written in 1980 in New York City and revised there as well, seventeen years later, in 1997

Mourning Madrigals

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, harp, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https:/https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Mourning-Madrigals-1980-Flute-Sop-Ten-Harp-14-100604.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/mourning-madrigals/

Score PDF: MourningMadrigalsSCOREPART.pdf

Text PDF: Mourning-Madrigals-TEXT.docx

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Description: Recording on Society of Composers (CD #3) Mourning Madrigals was composed in the fall of 1980 in the aftermath of the composer's father’s sudden death. The music traces mourning’s private, tortuous passage through grief from acquiescence to acceptance. The three movement work is based on poems Thomas Hardy wrote in 1912-13 following the death of his wife and on a moving Gregorian Requiem chant which became the generator of the piece’s pitch organization

Three Short Sacred Anthems

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/three-short-sacred-anthems/

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Score PDF: 3-Short-Sacred-AnthemsSCORE.pdf

Text PDF: 3-Short-Sacred-Anthems-Text-only.pdf

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Description: Three Short Sacred Anthems for treble choir, based on three Latin liturgical texts, was written in the winter of 1980. It borrows textures, structures and techniques from ancient settings of these words. Yet despite its clearly nostalgic, polyphony and its historically evocative rhythmic language, its harmonic usage combined with its personal tone painting and its slightly asymmetrical forms subtly but strongly veer toward twentieth and 21st century view of tonality and of faith.

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach and C. F. Peters

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/three-whitman-visions/ OR https://www.edition-peters.com/product/on-the-beach-at-night-alone/ep66841

Score PDF: Three-Whitman-Visions-Clean-Scan-1.pdf

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Description: Three atmospheric movements for a cappella choir and solo chant, based on three haunting post- Civil War poems by Brooklyn poet, Walt Whitman: Look Down Fair Moon, Tears, and On the Beach at Night Alone.

Prayers Of Steel

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, bass voice, soprano, tenor voice

Description: Text by Carl Sandburg

On The Beach At Night Alone

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any high voice, baritone voice, bassoon, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: C.F.Peters

Publisher website: sales.us@editionpeters.com

Score PDF: Three-Whitman-Visions-Clean-Scan.pdf

Text PDF: On-the-Beach-Text.jpg

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Description: Published by C.F.Peters, On the Beach at Night Alone won First Price in the 1980 International Music Awards. Set for SATB with a wordless solo chant mysteriously and melodically set above the more syllabic chorus, On the Beach at Night Alone can stand alone or be performed as the third movement of Three Whitman Visions.

Two Introits

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/30-ecumenical-responses/

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Score PDF: 30-Ecumentical-Responses-Clean-Sibelius-Score-1.pdf

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Description: Included among Thirty Ecumenical Responses – actually there are more! –are these two very brief, free-standing introits, appropriate for any English -language sacred service of any denomination of any monotheistic Western religion. (Although of course the amens have even wider applicability, since that single word belongs to many languages and religions.) Some are easier than others, some require fewer than four parts. Look them over – they may be useful alternatives to more familiar settings in worship services.

Two Amens

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Description: Two songs 1' each.

Cords

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument trio, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, contrabass, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

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Score PDF: Cords.pdf

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Description: Composed in the early 1970’s for contrabass virtuoso Bert Turetzky, as a paeon to the instrument and its players, Cords is a brief, hilarious duet for a brilliant bassist and an awestruck student accompanied by an adoring soprano who sings their praises and catalogues their alternate instrument names.

Movement For String Quartet

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/movement-for-string-quartet/

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Score PDF: 1968Movement-for-S-Q-score.pdf

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Description: Dating from Wallach's student days, this Movement for String Quartet is one of her oldest extant works, yet it already bears the hallmarks of Wallach more mature style in its fluidity and lyricism, its chromatic tonality, its idiomatic ensemble writing and emotional immediacy.

Moment for oboe solo

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 4'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, oboe, soprano saxophone

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/moment/

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Score PDF: Moment-recopied-2008.pdf

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Description: This brief lyrical work was composed for oboist Tom Crane as a study in phrasing and tonguing for a double reed.

Sepia Silhouette, a prelude from Through the Oval Window

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 2'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sepia-silhouette/

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Score PDF: SepiaSilhouette.pdf

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Description: Written in 1967, Sepia Silhouette is one of the earliest of Joelle Wallach’s piano preludes comprising “Through the Oval Window,” a collection of brief, evocative works for piano solo composed over a 50+ year period. Sepia Silhouette was composed in strict 12-tone technique yet sounds like a gentle impressionist lullaby.

Camel Lying on My Heart

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/who-is-that-stranger/

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Score PDF: Who-is-that-Stranger.pdf

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Description: A cycle of six songs of personal exile base d on the anonymous poetry of women of Yemen and the West Bank, Who is that Stranger?‘s six songs are based on the traditional anonymous oral poetry of Jewish women from Yemen and teh West Bank, translated from the Judeo-Arabic by Mishael Maswari Caspi. In each song, the singer yearns for home, for Paradise, for deliverance, for the end of her personal exile – an exile even within a community itself in exile. The imagery is that of ancient, ageless desert diaspora. Thirst is the overarching metaphor for longing, and each song is an invocation of the outcast’s craving for an almost imaginary home.

Although several of the songs call on Middle Eastern rhythmic modes, scales, and gestures, one, “I am Thirsty,” also appears to be a modern spiritual, invoking another exiled people’s cri du coeur.

Seven Soliloques of Small Birds

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, percussion, violin

Score PDF: Seven-soliloqueys-of-small-birds-SCORE-PARTS-.pdf

Description: A set of seven short ensemble “games” for clarinet, violin, cello and percussion, Seven Soliloquies of Small Birds, is engaging fun for audience and players alike with its improvisatory nature and just plain fun!

After My Little Light

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, contrabass, electronics, mezzo soprano, tape

Who is that Stranger?

Duration (in minutes): 7'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any medium voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/who-is-that-stranger/

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Score PDF: Who-is-that-Stranger-1.pdf

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Description: Who is that Stranger?‘s six songs are based on the traditional anonymous oral poetry of Jewish women from Yemen and teh West Bank, translated from the Judeo-Arabic by Mishael Maswari Caspi. In each song, the singer yearns for home, for Paradise, for deliverance, for the end of her personal exile – an exile even within a community itself in exile. The imagery is that of ancient, ageless desert diaspora. Thirst is the overarching metaphor for longing, and each song is an invocation of the outcast’s craving for an almost imaginary home.

Although several of the songs call on Middle Eastern rhythmic modes, scales, and gestures, one, “I am Thirsty,” also appears to be a modern spiritual, invoking another exiled people’s cri du coeur.

Take Home a Dog

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, bass voice, other, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/take-home-a-dog/

Score PDF: TakeHome-A-DoG-SCORE.pdf

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Description: Take Home a Dog was composed in 2015 for the Fairbanks Humane Society. It is a choral piece for mixed human chorus and singing dogs. The pooch parts distinguish this piece from all others in the choral genre:

At least four dogs – auditioned for their willingness to vocalize and their generally calm demeanor – sit between their handlers’ knees in front of the choir. The choir should begin singing when most of the dogs are as silent and calm as possible. In general, the dogs begin and end improvisatory, responsorial sections as they are moved to do so, but preferably during the sections indicated in the music preceded and encouraged by choral “woofs” or “arfs”. In the barking cadenzas, increasingly loud, enthusiastic canine participation is ideal. Each handler must be able to quiet his dog at a signal from the conductor as the chorus resumes after barking interludes.

Of course a special musical notation and auditory signals had to be invented for the dog stars…they appear intermittently in the score.

After Alcyon's Dream

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string instrument, solo string with piano, solo woodwind instrument, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: cello, clarinet, piano, viola

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

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Score PDF: AlcyonAnonTitleScoreNote.pdf

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Description: Although the myth is older still, the myth of Ceyx and Alcyone was first recorded by Ovid, the Roman poet born in 43 B.C:

Ceyx and Alcyone were king and queen of Trachis. One night while her husband was away, Alcyone had a nightmare-premonition of her husband’s death in a violent storm at sea. From that night on, Alcyone slept on shore looking over the water hoping for Ceyx’s return. But one night, Alcyone half-woke on the shore to find her husband’s body washed up before her. Alcyone’s grief was so great and her desire to be with Ceyx so intense, that Alcyone threw herself into the sea to join Ceyx in death as she no longer could in life.

Out of compassion, the gods transformed both Alcyone and her beloved husband Ceyx into a pair of kingfishers so that they could always be together again, flying just above the water, rather than beneath it. And once a year, each spring ever since, they still nest and mate and have a chance to raise their young, as they did not have a chance to do in life.

Alcyone’s father—Aeolus or Neptune—decreed that, to protect the couple’s annual nest, the winds be forbidden to blow for a week before and after the winter solstice. So to this day, the brooding time of the kingfisher has been a time of calm seas; and those weeks just before and after the winter solstice are called the “Halcyon Days,” an expression which has come more generally to mean a peaceful time. Halcyon, itself, has come to mean tranquil and free from disturbance or care, prosperous and golden like those two tranquil weeks of winter, warm and welcoming in the midst of storms.

We all know that in some years a winter respite does not arrive at all; and in fact the kingfisher does not nest on the water at all – some species construct colonies of hanging basket nests in trees, while others typically dig nesting burrows with their long beaks.

But the story of Ceyx and Alcyone is a myth, and Joelle Wallach’s trio After Alcyon’s Dream takes us into a private mythological realm where serene communion comes regularly as balm for nightmarish loss.

Year: 2012

The Nightwatch –
1. Assurance - Sam McKelton, tenor; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
2. The Nightwatch - Sam McKelton, tenor; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
3. Lagrimas y locuras, mapping the mind of a madwoman - Eva Polgar, piano

Sin mañanas, Three Spanish Songs
4. La Guitarra - Isabelle Ganz, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Vassiliades, piano
5. Desperte en Buenos Aires - Isabelle Ganz, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Vassiliades, piano
6. Los Ojos - Isabelle Ganz, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Vassiliades, piano
Two Songs from “Meow Mix”
7. Alleycat Love Song – Maria Therese Mattingly, soprano; Chie Watanabe, piano
8. PAX - Maria Therese Mattingly, soprano; Chie Watanabe, piano
A Revisitation of Myth
9. Icarus Swims – Megan Friar, Ching-Chen Jewel, viola, Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
10. Ms Lot - Megan Friar, Ching-Chen Jewel, viola, Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
11. Hymn to Eros - Megan Friar, Ching-Chen Jewel, viola, Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
12. Abraham and Orpheus - Megan Friar, Ching-Chen Jewel, viola, Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
13Organal Voices
14 Voices of the Iron Harp – Eva Polgar, piano
15. The Firefighters’ Prayer - Sam McKelton, tenor; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano

Composers: Joelle Wallach

Label: 4Tay

Label's Website: https://jamesarts.com/artists-archive/composer-joelle-wallach/

Product ID: CD-4035

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Year: 2012

1. The Cloths of Heaven: Steven Alexander Carroll, tenor; Stephen Harlos, piano
2. Assurance: Steven Alexander Carroll, tenor; Stephen Harlos, piano
3. The Nightwatch: Steven Alexander Carroll, tenor; Stephen Harlos, piano
4. Broken-faced Gargoyles: Steven Alexander Carroll, tenor; Stephen Harlos, piano
5.-8. String Quartet #2: The University of North Texas’ Conductors’ String Quartet:
Dayeon Hong & Ilyas Duissen, violins; Lacey Kesterkey, viola; Yu-ho Chang, ‘cello
9. Epistolary: Tess Mattingly, soprano; Chie Watanabe, piano
10. Close Your Eyes: Tess Mattingly, soprano; Chie Watanabe, piano
11. Making Love to the Milkman: Tess Mattingly, soprano; Chie Watanabe, piano
12-15. The Door Standing Open: Jeffrey Snider, baritone; Elvia Puccinelli, piano
12. On the Equator
13. Like a Girl
14. Vetus Flamma
15. With My God the Smith
16. When Lost in the Forest: Avis Stroud, mezzo-soprano; Steven Harlos, piano
17. Spiritual: Avis Stroud, mezzo-soprano; Steven Harlos, piano
18. From the Almanac of Last Things: Avis Stroud, mezzo-soprano; Steven Harlos, piano
19. Runes and Ritual: Felix Olschofka, violin; Susan Dubois, viola; Nikola Ruzavic, ‘cello; Pamela Mia Paul, piano
20. Let Evening Come: Avis Stroud, mezzo-soprano; Steven Harlos, piano

Composers: Joelle Wallach

Label: 4Tay

Label's Website: https://jamesarts.com/artists-archive/composer-joelle-wallach/

Product ID: CD-4034

Buy URL: https://www.allmusic.com/album/joelle-wallach-the-door-standing-open-mw0002442797

Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing

Music for Strings includes: String Quartet (1986), String Quartet (1995), String Quartet 1999,
Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing, a concerto for cello and orcehstra.
Featuring the Meridian Quartet, and the National Slovak Radio Orchestra, Joel Suben, conductor and Robert DeMaine, cello soloist.

Composers: Joelle Wallach

Label: Capstone Records

Product ID: CPS-8689

Buy URL: http://www.capstonerecords.org/CPS-8689.html

Buy URL 2: https://www.amazon.com/Wallach-Longing-Quartets-Meridian-Quartet/dp/B00005RGGZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2QV21SN3CZAJR&keywords=shadow+sighs+and+songs+of+longing&qid=1668979261&sprefix=shadow+sighs+and+songs+of+longing%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-1

Music from Six Continents - 1991 Series

Year: 1991

The Tiger's Tail, an orchestral overture
Conductor: Szymon Kawalla
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cracow Polish Radio/TV Symphony Orchestra

Composers: Joelle Wallach, and others

Label: Vienna Modern Masters

Label's Website: https://i.discogs.com/E_ArnQMkofNJ7CwexVSJVdx554mtamp06FtNJ4Pyh5k/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NTIy/MTU2LTE1NzYyNjk2/MTItOTY3NS5qcGVn.jpeg

Product ID: 3003

Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009J08/qid=1135889003/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-750371

Buy URL 2: https://i.discogs.com/E_ArnQMkofNJ7CwexVSJVdx554mtamp06FtNJ4Pyh5k/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NTIy/MTU2LTE1NzYyNjk2/MTItOTY3NS5qcGVn.jpeg

Joelle Wallach faculty recital at the University of North Texas.

Composer: Joelle Wallach

Description: Joelle Wallach (composer) faculty recital at the University of North Texas.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcFjWtcJLzM

BIOGRAPHY

COMPOSITIONS

The bossa nova of Gertrude Stein's poodle, Basket

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 4'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/basket-gertrude-steins-poodles-bossa-nova/

Score PDF: BASKET-COMPLETE-.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/basket-gertrude-steins-poodles-bossa-nova/

Description: One of Wallach's several songs capturing the voice of a pet, Basket is a dramatic and hilarious bossa nova in the voice of Gertrude Stein’s beloved poodle, Basket.

Elegy for Rosalie

Year: 2021

Duration (in minutes): 7'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: cello, piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/elegie-for-rosalie/

Score PDF: Rosalie-Elegy-Part-Score-Aug-25-2019.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/elegie-for-rosalie/

a musical meditation on the 23rd Psalm for violin solo

Year: 2021

Duration (in minutes): 3'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string instrument

Instruments: violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/beside-the-still-waters/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/beside-the-still-waters/

Score PDF: Beside-the-Still-Waters-Complete-Sept-11-2021.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/beside-the-still-waters/

Piececitos

Year: 2020

Duration (in minutes): 14'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: alto, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/piececitos/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/piececitos/

Score PDF: Piececitos-Score-2022-w-Title.pdf

Text PDF: Poems-pages.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/piececitos/

Suffrage Signatures

Year: 2020

Duration (in minutes): 14'25"

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, harp, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/suffrage-signatures/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/suffrage-signatures/

Score PDF: Suffrage-MAY-2022-Full-ScoreTitle-with-Prog-Note-p-2.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/suffrage-signatures/

La Madre Triste

Year: 2019

Duration (in minutes): 6'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-madre-triste/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-madre-triste/

Score PDF: Madre-Triste-Score-And-Parts-Treble-Choir-Oct-2019.pdf

Text PDF: Madre-Triste-Notes-and-Text.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-madre-triste/

Year: 2016

Duration (in minutes): 4'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/small-boat-of-stars/

Score PDF: A-SMALL-BOAT-OF-STARS-string-duo-COMPLETE-SCORE-PARTS.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/small-boat-of-stars/

for piano four hands

Year: 2015

Duration (in minutes): 11'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: multiple pianos, piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/summer-synchrony/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/summer-synchrony/

Score PDF: Summer-Synchrony-4-hands-FULL-score-TOTAL.pdf

Text PDF: Summer-Synchrony-4-hands-performers-score-TOTAL.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/summer-synchrony/

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: https://joellewallach.com/composition/pax/

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/pax/

Score PDF: PAX-score-choral.pdf

Text PDF: Pax-choral-PROGRAM-NOTE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/pax/

Description: One of Wallach’s Spiritual Speculations, PAX is a song of faith and spiritual life – that of Suri, Wallach’s angelic cat and mini-muse with a text by D. H. Lawrence.

Year: 2010

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, percussion trio, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-126/

Score PDF: Psalm-126-SCORE-DombekPart.pdf

Text PDF: psalm-126-PROGRAM-NOTE.doc

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-126/

Grieve Not

Year: 2009

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, Bass Trombone, mezzo soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/grieve-not/

Score PDF: GRIEVETitleTOTALJW.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/grieve-not/

Runes & Ritual

Year: 2009

Duration (in minutes): 12'44"

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string trio

Instruments: cello, piano, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/runes-and-ritual/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/runes-and-ritual/

Score PDF: Runes-and-RitualSCORE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/runes-and-ritual/

Wny the Caged Bird Sings

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 6'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra, piano, solo brass with piano, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano, string orchestra, string quartet, string quintet

Instruments: alto, any high voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, viola, violin

Publisher: E.C.Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/why-the-caged-bird-sings/

Score PDF: Caged-Bird-Combined-Scores.pdf

Text PDF: Caged-Bird-Combined-Scores-1.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

a collection of 7 works for SATB

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): each 4-5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/spiritual-speculations/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/spiritual-speculations/

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/spiritual-speculations/

Is not as nightlike as it seems

Year: 2007

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/mere-dark-is-not-so-nightlike-as-it-seems/

Score PDF: MereDarkTiteTextScore.pdf

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 4'30"

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone saxophone, baritone voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-cloths-of-heaven/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-cloths-of-heaven/

Score PDF: vqClothesScore.pdf

Text PDF: Cloths-TEXT-only.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-cloths-of-heaven/

(the eye begins to see)

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 8'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo brass with piano

Publisher: Potenza

Publisher website: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/in-a-dark-time-the-eye-begins-to-see/

Score PDF: DarkTimeScoreTitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

six refective songs for medium or low voice

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 19'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-dream-of-now-2/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-dream-of-now-2/

Score PDF: Dream-of-Now-TitleMusic.pdf

Text PDF: DreamTEXTS.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-dream-of-now-2/

Description: From THE DREAM OF NOW, a cycle of six reflective songs:

Let Evening Come
The Dream of Now
Reflections on Water Dreams
The Layers
When Lost in the Forest,
From the Almanac of Last Things

Post-Millenial Love Songs

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 5' each

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Description: Wallach’s Post-Millenial Love Songs glance and gaze at poems about love.

Close Your Eyes
The Clothes of Heaven
The Almanac of Last Things
Lullaby of Little Birds

V'Shamru

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/vshamru/

Score PDF: VShamru-SCORE-TRANSLATIONS.pdf

Text PDF: VShamru-Text-translation-transliteration.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/vshamru/

Description: V’Shamru is an a cappella setting of a traditional Hebrew psalm, often recited as part of the traditional Friday evening service, a joyous greeting for the arrival of the Sabbath.

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 3'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any medium voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/alleycat-love-song/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/alleycat-love-song/

Score PDF: GminorAlley.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/alleycat-love-song/

for voice and piano

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5.

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

Score PDF: Cloth.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/post-millennial-love-songs/

for chamber choir or vocal quartet

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, oboe, tenor voice

Publisher: G. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/37427/

Score PDF: Schirmer-Edition-TF-complete.pdf

Text PDF: Therefore-ProgramNote.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/37427/

PSALM 23

Year: 2004

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo woodwind instrument, string ensemble, string orchestra

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, cello, contrabass, flute, oboe, organ, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-xxiii/

Score PDF: PSALM-23-Both-orch-organ-ScoresTitles.pdf

Text PDF: Psalm-23-King-James-Text.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-xxiii/

A collection of songs about cats and dogs

Year: 2004-2023

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/meow-mix/

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 12'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1999/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1999/

Score PDF: String-Quartet-3-1999-SCORE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1999/

Loveletter (Postmark San Jose)

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo brass instrument, string ensemble, string orchestra

Instruments: any string, cello, contrabass, euphonium, tuba, viola, violin

Publisher: Potenza Music

Publisher website: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

Outside URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUF7v7oRBw

Score PDF: Loveletter-Euphonium-strings-Score.pdf

Text PDF: Loveletter-Piano-reduction.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://potenzamusic.com/potenza-artists/wallach-joelle/

Revisitation of Myth

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any voice, piano, viola

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-revisitation-of-myth/

Score PDF: A-Revisitatin-of-Myth-score-title-texts.pdf

Text PDF: revisitationtexts.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, piano, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, harp, horn, oboe, piano, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/nightwatch/

Score PDF: NIGHTWATCH-Joelle-Wallach-ORCH-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: Total-JW-Nightwatch-piano-NoY.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: high voice. Two tiny love songs with texts by Madeleine Tiger and William Stafford

In Memory the Heart Still Sings

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, horn, percussion, viola, violin

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/in-memory-the-heart-still-sings/

Score PDF: MemoryTitleInstOrchScore-.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

In This My Green, Green World

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any high voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Publisher website: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Outside URL: www.joellewallach.com

Score PDF: GreenMusicTitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Description: A cycle of seven verdent love songs with texts by poets Kenneth Patchen, e.e.cummings, Neal Bowers, William Stafford

String Quartet #2

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 13'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1995/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1995/

Score PDF: String-Quartet-2-1995-SCORE-.pdf

for voice and either saxophone, clarinet, heckelphone, or other woodwind

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 1'30"

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments, solo woodwind instrument

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/obligato-songs/

Score PDF: Obligato-Songs.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/obligato-songs/

The Wreath of Silver Birds

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 7'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute, piccolo

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-wreath-of-silver-birds/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-wreath-of-silver-birds/

Score PDF: Wreath-of-Silver-Birds-SCORE-.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-wreath-of-silver-birds/

from "The Nightwatch"

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo string with piano, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/nightwatch/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/nightwatch/

Score PDF: TotalNightwatchOrchScore-New-Ttle.pdf

Text PDF: TotalPianoScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/nightwatch/

Description: Wallach's song Assurance, part of her brief cycle of love songs called "The Nightwatch" is based on the poem William Stafford wrote for his wife just prior to his death.

Toward A Time Of Renewal

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 25'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/toward-a-time-of-renewal/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/toward-a-time-of-renewal/

Score PDF: Full2000ScoreTitleNotesText.pdf

Text PDF: TEXTN97.doc

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/toward-a-time-of-renewal/

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 3'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/verastich-li-lolam-a-biblical-a-love-song-from-hosea/

Score PDF: Verastich-li-Olam-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: Verastichli-Olam-PROGRAM-NOTE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/verastich-li-lolam-a-biblical-a-love-song-from-hosea/

Where Angels May Lie Down Down Among Us

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, harp, horn, oboe, percussion, timpani, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/where-angels-may-lie-down-among-us/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/where-angels-may-lie-down-among-us/

Score PDF: WHERE-ANGELS-ORIGINAL-VE-COMPLETE-PARTS.pdf

Text PDF: where-Angels-May-Placid-Complete-ScoreTitleInstrumenation-Optimized.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/where-angels-may-lie-down-among-us/

Sweet Briar Elegies (cello ensemble version)

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, solo woodwind instrument, string ensemble

Instruments: any saxophone, any woodwind, cello, piano, soprano saxophone

Publisher: To the Fore Publishers

Publisher website: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/composerindex/sweetbrairelegies.php

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sweet-briar-elegies/

Score PDF: SBElegiesSxCello-score-1.pdf

Text PDF: SBElegies-PianoScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/composerindex/sweetbrairelegies.php

Music For Manda

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble

Instruments: any string, guitar

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/music-for-manda/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/music-for-manda/

Score PDF: BMusicScoreTitle.pdf

Sweet Briar Elegies (cello ensemble version)

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano, string ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: cello, piano, soprano saxophone

Publisher: To the Fore Publishers

Publisher website: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/composerindex/sweetbrairelegiescellos.php

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sweet-briar-elegies/

Score PDF: SBElegiesSxCello-score.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sweet-briar-elegies/

Tiger's Tail, an orchestral overture, also available for piano 4-hands

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): Tiger'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, piano

Instruments: any string, bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, English horn, flute, harp, horn, oboe, percussion, piccolo, timpani, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/w/joelle-wallach.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-tigers-tail/

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/the-tigers-tale-full-score.html

Shadow, Sighs And Songs Of Longing

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo string instrument

Instruments: harp, percussion

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Shadow+Signs+and+songs+of+longing

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/shadow-sighs-and-songs-of-longing/

Score PDF: Joelle-Wallach-ShadowScoreTitleTotal.pdf

Text PDF: CompletePNO-SOLO-SHADOW.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Shadow+Signs+and+songs+of+longing

From The Forest Of Chimneys

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble

Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, horn, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/from-the-forest-of-chimneys/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/from-the-forest-of-chimneys/

Score PDF: ChimneysTitleScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/from-the-forest-of-chimneys/

Midnight Menageries

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/midnight-menageries/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/midnight-menageries/

Score PDF: MidnightMenagery-TREBLE-CHORUS-Total-Score.pdf

Text PDF: MidnightMenagery-TREBLE-CHORUS-Total-Score-1.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/midnight-menageries/

Sticky Grimaces, Toothy Grins

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, percussion ensemble, piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo percussion instrument

Instruments: marimba, percussion, piano, vibraphone, xylophone

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sticky-grimaces-toothy-grins/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sticky-grimaces-toothy-grins/

Score PDF: Sticky-Grimaces-Toothy-Grins-SCORE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sticky-grimaces-toothy-grins/

Songs For An Unborn Child

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Score PDF: Songs-for-an-Unborn-Child-ScoreTitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: A cycle of three songs with texts by Len Roberts reflecting the complex emotions of either parent after a miscarriage or abortion.

Shir Hamaalot - 126th Psalm in Hebrew

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 4'

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/shir-hamalot-psalm-126-in-hebrewa-grace-after-meals/

Score PDF: ShirHamalot.pdf

Text PDF: When-the-Lord-delivers-us-from-exile.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/shir-hamalot-psalm-126-in-hebrewa-grace-after-meals/

Ephemeris

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any high voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/ephemeris/

Text PDF: Ephemeris-Texts.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: Five songs of daily private life:
Waiting for the Moon
Insomnia
Angry at the Music
Death
A Clear Midnight

Love In The Early Morning

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Publisher website: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/love-in-the-early-morning/

Score PDF: MilkmentTotal.pdf

Text PDF: MILKMENTextContents.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcL9pdrQ44g

Door Standing Open

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-door-standing-open1/

Score PDF: DSOCompletetitleMusicTextsDrawing.pdf

Text PDF: DSO-TEXTS-only.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any brass, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, baritone voice, bassoon, cello, clarinet, horn, mezzo soprano

Publisher: potenza music

Publisher website: https://https://potenzamusic.com/?s=Joelle+Wallach&post_type=product

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/three-whitman-songs/

Score PDF: POTENZA-WALLACH-Three-Whitman-Songs-Score1.pdf

Text PDF: 3WHITMAN-SONGS-program-note.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://potenzamusic.com/?s=Joelle+Wallach&post_type=product

Piano Trio, A Triad Of Blessing

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, soprano, tenor voice

Description: also for sop (or ten), Bbcl or heckelphone.

William Carlos Williams' Songs (Portrait Of A Lady)

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): Williams'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any voice, any woodwind, clarinet

William Carlos Williams' Songs (The Term)

Year: 1988

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, mezzo soprano, oboe, percussion, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/simeni-kachotam-al-libbecha-set-me-as-a-seal-upon-your-heart/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/simeni-kachotam-al-libbecha-set-me-as-a-seal-upon-your-heart/

Score PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-optimized-for-Web-Score.pdf

Text PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-TEXT-ONLY.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/simeni-kachotam-al-libbecha-set-me-as-a-seal-upon-your-heart/

Woodwind Quintet, O Llama De Amor Viva

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet

Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe

Publisher: Potenza Music

Publisher website: https://potenzamusic.com/product/woodwind-quintet-o-llama-de-amor-viva/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/woodwind-quintet-o-llama-de-amor-viva/

Score PDF: WWTscore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://potenzamusic.com/product/woodwind-quintet-o-llama-de-amor-viva/

La Musica, Los Muertos Y Las Estrellas

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/la-musica-los-muertos-y-las-estrellas/

Score PDF: La-Musica-los-muertos-y-las-estrellas-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: MMEtexttitle.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Cantares De Los Perdis

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument trio, percussion trio, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bells, celesta, mezzo soprano, other, percussion, soprano, tenor voice, timpani, tuba

Publisher: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/cantares-de-los-perdis-2/

Score PDF: Cantares-Full-Score-Title.pdf

Text PDF: Cantares-poems-translations.pdf

Simeni Kachotam Al Libbecha

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Score PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-Score.pdf

Text PDF: Simeni-Kachotam-Al-Libbecha-TEXT-ONLY.pdf

12

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 12'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/voices-of-the-iron-harp/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/voices-of-the-iron-harp/

Score PDF: IronHarpScanned-SCORE-optimized.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/voices-of-the-iron-harp/

Greenbriar Grace

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-greenbriar-grace/

Score PDF: GreenbriarScore-scanned-and-Title.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/a-greenbriar-grace/

Description: Greenbriar Grace is a simple setting of a “Grace” prayer by playwright Maryatt Lee and set at her request for the men’s choir of Greenbriar, West Virginia.

String Quartet #1

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 14'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1986/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1986/

Score PDF: 1-String-Quartet-no-1-SCORE-1.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/string-quartet-1986/

Assent Of The Swallow

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 25'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any high voice, any medium voice, any voice, bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute, horn, narrator/speaker, oboe, percussion, soprano, trombone, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-assent-of-the-swallow/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-assent-of-the-swallow/

Score PDF: Assent-of-the-Swallow-optimized.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/the-assent-of-the-swallow/

Orison Of Ste Theresa

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: alto, any string, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, cello, contrabass, harp, satb chorus, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Publisher website: https://www.ecspublishing.com/orison-of-st-theresa-full-score.html

Score PDF: Orison-of-Ste-Theresa-COMPLETE-SCORE-String-Orch-HPAug-6.pdf

Text PDF: ORISON-complete-SCORE-SQ-H-Aug-6-2018.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.ecspublishing.com/orison-of-st-theresa-full-score.html or https://www.ecspublishing.com/orison-of-st-theresa-piano-choral-score.html

Oneiros, The Dream

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, piano, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/oneiros-the-dream-2/

Score PDF: OneirosTitleScore.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/oneiros-the-dream-2/

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/up-into-the-silence/

Score PDF: UpIntoTheSilence-SCORE.pdf

Text PDF: UpIntoTheSilence-Text-only.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Yeatsongs of a Fool

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, marimba, mezzo soprano, percussion, piano, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin, xylophone

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Score PDF: Yeats-Songs-of-a-Fool-Total-Chamber.pdf

Text PDF: YEATSONGS-OF-A-FOOL-TotalScanpiano.docx.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=d1444a4089303818da85016230dbf3e6

Description: Yeats' Songs of a Fool is a touching work for voice and EITHER piano OR string quartet and mixed percussion, based on three childlike poems by William Butler Yeats.

Plaint For A Prince And King

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: brass ensemble, choral, percussion ensemble, percussion trio, piano

Instruments: any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, horn, percussion, piano, tenor voice, trombone, trumpet, tuba

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/plaint-for-a-prince-and-king/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/plaint-for-a-prince-and-king/

Score PDF: Plaint-for-a-Prince-and-King-CompleteScoreBrassPerc.docx.pdf

Text PDF: Plaint-for-a-Prince-and-King-CompleteScore-Piano.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/plaint-for-a-prince-and-king/

Five American Echoes

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/five-american-echoes/

Score PDF: 5AmericanEchoes-Score-Title-Text.pdf

Text PDF: 5AE-title-and-text.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/five-american-echoes/

Turbulence, Stillness, And Saltation

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, harp, horn, oboe, percussion, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/turbulence-stillness-and-saltation/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/turbulence-stillness-and-saltation/

Score PDF: Turbulence-Stillness-and-Saltation-SCORE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/turbulence-stillness-and-saltation/

Kiss Of Anima Mundi

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, percussion ensemble, percussion sextet

Instruments: percussion

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/kiss-of-anima-mundi/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/kiss-of-anima-mundi/

Score PDF: Kiss-of-Anima-Mundi.pdf

Text PDF: Kiss-of-Anima-Mundi-NOTES.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/kiss-of-anima-mundi/

Organal Voices

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, percussion ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble

Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon, bells, marimba, percussion, vibraphone, xylophone

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/organal-voices/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/organal-voices/

Score PDF: Organal-Voices-.pdf

Of Honey And Of Vinegar

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: classical vocal reprints

Publisher website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/of-honey-and-of-vinegar/

Score PDF: HV-scan-with-holes-in-side.pdf

Text PDF: HV-text.pdf

Purchase score URL: www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Joelle+Wallach&sid=9de6f1d2fac864aace4b2004e2f866b6

Sin Mananas, Three Spanish Songs

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: Rx Silverscript Choice $40.70 505 deductable

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sin-mananas-three-spanish-songs-gemido-de-la-guitarra-sonando-suenos-de-tango-and-los-ojos/

Score PDF: SinMananasComplete.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://classicalvocalreprints.com/

Glimpses

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any brass, any string, bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute, harp, oboe, percussion, piccolo, timpani, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola

Publisher: Carl Fischer

Publisher website: https://www.carlfischer.com/cy1871f-glimpses.html

Score PDF: Glimpses-Complete-Score-Carl-Fischer.pdf

Text PDF: WISPS-SCORE.pdf

Purchase score URL: https://www.carlfischer.com/cy1871f-glimpses.html

Quartet For Saxophones

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto saxophone, any saxophone, any woodwind, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Publisher: To the Fore Publishers

Publisher website: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/quartets.php

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quartet-for-saxophones-2/

Purchase score URL: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/quartets.php

Mourning Madrigals

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, harp, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Classical Vocal Reprints

Publisher website: https:/https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Mourning-Madrigals-1980-Flute-Sop-Ten-Harp-14-100604.html

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/mourning-madrigals/

Score PDF: MourningMadrigalsSCOREPART.pdf

Text PDF: Mourning-Madrigals-TEXT.docx

Purchase score URL: https://www.classicalvocalreprints.com/search.php?search_type=composer&composer_id=1993&page=2

Three Short Sacred Anthems

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/three-short-sacred-anthems/

Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/three-short-sacred-anthems/

Score PDF: 3-Short-Sacred-AnthemsSCORE.pdf

Text PDF: 3-Short-Sacred-Anthems-Text-only.pdf

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Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach and C. F. Peters

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/three-whitman-visions/ OR https://www.edition-peters.com/product/on-the-beach-at-night-alone/ep66841

Score PDF: Three-Whitman-Visions-Clean-Scan-1.pdf

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Prayers Of Steel

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, bass voice, soprano, tenor voice

Description: Text by Carl Sandburg

On The Beach At Night Alone

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: alto, any high voice, baritone voice, bassoon, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: C.F.Peters

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Score PDF: Three-Whitman-Visions-Clean-Scan.pdf

Text PDF: On-the-Beach-Text.jpg

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Two Introits

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/30-ecumenical-responses/

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Score PDF: 30-Ecumentical-Responses-Clean-Sibelius-Score-1.pdf

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Two Amens

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Description: Two songs 1' each.

Cords

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument trio, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, bass voice, contrabass, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/cords/

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Score PDF: Cords.pdf

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Movement For String Quartet

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/movement-for-string-quartet/

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Score PDF: 1968Movement-for-S-Q-score.pdf

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Moment for oboe solo

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 4'30"

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, oboe, soprano saxophone

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/moment/

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Score PDF: Moment-recopied-2008.pdf

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Description: This brief lyrical work was composed for oboist Tom Crane as a study in phrasing and tonguing for a double reed.

Sepia Silhouette, a prelude from Through the Oval Window

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 2'

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/sepia-silhouette/

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Score PDF: SepiaSilhouette.pdf

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Camel Lying on My Heart

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, mezzo soprano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/who-is-that-stranger/

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Score PDF: Who-is-that-Stranger.pdf

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Seven Soliloques of Small Birds

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, percussion, violin

Score PDF: Seven-soliloqueys-of-small-birds-SCORE-PARTS-.pdf

After My Little Light

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, contrabass, electronics, mezzo soprano, tape

Who is that Stranger?

Duration (in minutes): 7'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any medium voice, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

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Score PDF: Who-is-that-Stranger-1.pdf

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Take Home a Dog

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, bass voice, other, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/take-home-a-dog/

Score PDF: TakeHome-A-DoG-SCORE.pdf

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After Alcyon's Dream

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string instrument, solo string with piano, solo woodwind instrument, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: cello, clarinet, piano, viola

Publisher: Joelle Wallach

Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/after-alcyons-dream/

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Score PDF: AlcyonAnonTitleScoreNote.pdf

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CDs

Year: 2012