2024
| Fish Story (text by Charles Coe) | voice & piano |
2023
| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (text by Walt Whitman) | unaccompanied four part chorus or voice & piano |
| flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion, piano |
2022
| Another Day | violin and viola |
| oboe, clarinet, horn, 3 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos | |
| tenor, clarinet, and viola | |
| The Elephant in the Room (text by Kay Ryan) | voice and piano |
| The Lamb (text by William Blake) | unaccompanied four part chorus |
2021
| mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, and piano | |
| Vertue (text by George Herbert) | for four part chorus and organ |
| flute and viola | |
| Oboe, horn, triangle, 2 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos | |
| unaccompanied four part chorus | |
| Virelai | variable instrumentation |
| Sestina | variable instrumentation |
| chorus and piano | |
| A Supermarket in California (text by Alan Ginsberg) | voice and piano |
2020
| Carol (text by Donald Hall) | unaccompanied four part chorus |
| voice and piano | |
Distance from Loved Ones (text by James Tate) (from Confinement) |
voice and piano |
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (text by Amiri Baraka) (from Confinement) |
voice and piano |
| clarinet and piano | |
| oboe and viola | |
| piano solo | |
| cello solo | |
| variable instrumentation | |
| Two Poems of Robert Frost: Devotion, Lodged | unaccompanied voice |
| Vere languores nostros (text by T. S. Eliot) | unaccompanied four part chorus |
2019
| baritone, trumpet, bass trombone, and bass clarinet | |
| toy piano | |
| To a Waterfowl (text by William Cullen Bryant) | voice and piano |
| chorus and piano | |
| here, not alone, but with a world | cello solo |
| clarinet, violin, piano left hand | |
| oboe, bassoon, four violins, and four violas | |
| Wedded Words (texts by Thomas Hardy, James Drake, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams) |
narrator, clarinet, viola, and piano |
2018
| Wedded Words (texts by Thomas Hardy, James Drake, Virginia Woolf, Williams Carlos Williams) | narrator and guitar |
| elastic scoring | |
| Remembered In Spite of Ourselves | oboe, horn, bassoon, violin, three violas, two cellos |
| voice and piano | |
| Once by the Pacific (text by Robert Frost) | chorus and piano |
| clarinet, viola, and piano |
2017
| Brimmer Street (hymn) (text by Josiah Conder) | mixed chorus |
| Harvest (hymn) (text by Greville Philamore) | mixed chorus |
| Kyrie (to be performed with Christopher Tye's Missa Euge bone) |
mixed chorus |
| Lordy, I Hope There are Tapes | bassoon, horn, piano, two violins, two violas, and cello |
| voice and piano | |
| To the Republic (text by Frank Bidart) | chorus and piano |
| Tucket | flute and two violins |
| bassoon, vibraphone, cymbals, violin, viola, cello |
2016
| Measuring Worm (text by Richard Wilbur) | voice and piano / chorus and piano |
2015
| I Saw In Louisiana a Live Oak Growing (text by Walt Whitman) |
bass and piano |
| piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 alto saxophones, 2 percussionists | |
| speaking and singing violinist | |
| chorus and piano | |
| Vanishing Point (text by Lawrence Raab) | voice and piano |
| The Tune Without the Words | cello solo |
2014
| viola | |
| Christmas Fanfare (text by W. H. Auden) | chorus, organ, and brass quintet |
| This Is the Garden (text by e. e. cummings) | voice and piano / chorus and piano |
2013
| voice and piano | |
| To the Harbormaster (text by Frank O’Hara) | chorus and piano |
| Blest Be the Tie that Binds | hymn tune arranged for keyboard |
| two violins | |
| piano | |
| Kyrie: Gloria Tibi Trinitas (to be performed with John Tavener's Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas) | chorus |
| God Moves In a Mysterious Way (text by William Cowper) | Hymn tune London New, arranged for chorus and organ |
2012
| tenor, flute, clarinet, horn, flugel horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass | |
| The Lost Feed (text by Kenneth Koch) | voice and piano |
| The Lost Feed (text by Kenneth Koch) | chorus and piano |
| The Lost Feed (text by Kenneth Koch) | chorus, clarinet, trombone, piano, harp, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass |
2011
| A Downward Look (text by James Merrill) | voice and piano / chorus and piano |
2010
| Polar Bear Songs (text by William Jay Smith, Jack Prelutsky, Leland B. Jacobs) | mezzo-soprano, harp, celesta, and strings |
| The Bees (text by Virgil, translated by David Ferry) | voice and piano |
| chorus and piano | |
| violin, cello, and piano | |
| Lullaby | viola, with clarinet, alto saxophone, violin, cello, and piano |
| Dance of the Half Truths and Antinomies | piano |
2009
| voice and piano | |
| chorus and piano |
2008
| A Black Matter | violin |
| Lucky This Point (A Summer Night) | small orchestra |
| A Frog Went A Courtin’ | violin, viola, cello, and piano |
| Let Us Go Now (text from The Bible) | four part chorus |
| Detour | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, two violins, viola, and cello |
2007
| Dust Thou Art | clavichord and toy piano |
| A Pasture Poem (text by Richard Wilbur) | voice and piano |
| four part chorus and piano |
2006
| The Man Who Needed No One (text by Michael Blumenthal) | baritone and string quartet |
| Songs to Harvest (text by David Ferry) | soprano and piano |
| A Rainy Day | two violins |
| Just As My Fingers On These Keys | piano |
| Green (text by Richard Wilbur) | voice and piano |
| four part chorus and piano | |
| soprano, violin, and piano |
2005
| Dominus Tecum (text from The Bible) | mixed choir, unaccompanied |
| The Angel That Troubled the Waters (text by Thornton Wilder) | countertenor or alto, tenor, and baritone with piano |
| Promised Land | piano |
| Another Faith Based Initiative | bass clarinet and cello |
| Full Tide (text by Richard Crashaw) | five part mixed choir and organ |
| Our Revels Now Are Ended (text by William Shakespeare) | voice and piano |
| four part mixed choir and piano | |
| Prayer of Humble Access (text from Anglican Book of Common Prayer) |
four part mixed choir |
| On Prayer and Praying (text from The Bible) | voice and keyboard |
2004
| The Harvest According (text by Walt Whitman) | mixed choir and string orchestra |
| Stanza XV (text by Gertrude Stein) | voice and piano / mixed choir and piano |
| string quartet |
2003
| Thoughts on the War (text by William Shakespeare) | voice and piano |
| soprano and string orchestra | |
| A Walk After Dark | violin, cello, and piano |
| Stanza XVI (text by Gertrude Stein) | voice and piano / mixed choir and piano |
2002
| Stanza XXXVIII (text by Gertrude Stein) | voice and piano / mixed choir and piano |
| The Annunciation (text by W. H. Auden) | mixed choir |
2001
| Reading in a Boat (text by Ronald Bly) | voice and harp |
| When Threshing Time Ends (text by Ronald Bly) | voice and harp |
| voice and piano / mixed chorus and piano | |
| percussion ensemble | |
| For My Brother: Reported Missing In Action, 1943 (text by Thomas Merton) |
voice and piano |
2000
| two part treble chorus (or soloists) and organ | |
| i thank you, god (text by e.e.cummings) | eight part mixed chorus |
| Never Give All The Heart (text by W. B. Yeats) | unaccompanied mixed chorus |
| String | flute, violin, and cello |
1999
| He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven (text by W. B. Yeats) | mixed choir |
| voice and piano | |
| baritone and string quartet | |
| He’s Goin’ Away (folksong arrangement) | cello and piano |
1998
| Waly, Waly (folksong arrangement) | mixed choir |
| Herz, Schmerz | oboe, viola, and piano |
1997
| Lachrimae Verae (text by Geoffrey Hill) | mixed choir |
| O Mistress Mine (text by William Shakespeare) | mixed choir |
| Even So, Even We (text by George Meredith, Tennessee Williams, Randall Jarrell) | alto, viola, and piano |
| Swindles and Schemes | viola |
1996
| TNG: Starfleet Academy | clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano four hands |
| Jesu (text by George Herbert) | mixed choir |
| Someone To Watch Over Me (orchestration of the song by George Gershwin) | soprano and orchestra (flute, two clarinets, bassoon, and strings) |
| Who Could Ask for Anything (arrangement and orchestration of songs by George Gershwin [I've Got Rhythm and Nice Work If You Can Get It] and Stephen Sondheim [More]) | soprano and orchestra (flute, two clarinets, saxophone, bassoon, horn, trumpet, and strings) |
| I Can Cook Too (orchestration of the song by Bernstein, Comden, and Green) | soprano and orchestra (flute, two clarinets, saxophone, bassoon, horn, trumpet, and strings) |
| Show Me (orchestration of the song by Lerner and Loewe) | soprano and orchestra (flute, two clarinets, saxophone, bassoon, horn, trumpet, and strings) |
| What More Do I Need (orchestration of the song by Stephen Sondheim) | soprano and orchestra (flute, two clarinets, saxophone, bassoon, horn, trumpet, and strings) |
| Shennandoah (folk-song arrangement) | unaccompanied mixed choir |
| Envoy (for Hanna and Woody) | chorus and orchestra (two oboes, two horns, piano, and strings) |
| mezzo-soprano, flute (piccolo), clarinet, violin, cello, and piano | |
| Too Short To Be Use | flute, violin, and cello or two violins and cello |
| unaccompanied mixed choir |
1995
| unaccompanied mixed choir | |
| O Soft and Sunny Airs! | small orchestra (piccolo, flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, trumpet, percussion, harp, and strings) |
1994
| Cold Fusion | string quartet and two string orchestras |
| The Gate of Heaven (text from The Bible) | three part mixed choir |
| Sleeping In Air | small orchestra (piccolo, flute, two oboes, two basoons, two horns, trumpet, harp, percussion, and strings) |
| The Ballad of the Children of the Czar (text by Delmore Schwartz) |
mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, and piano |
| Lorica (Old Irish text) | voice and piano |
| On Our Lord's Baptism (text by F. Bland Tucker) | four part mixed choir |
| Soliloquy | cello |
| Aaron (text by George Herbert) | four-part mixed choir, organ, and glockenspiel |
| mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, and piano | |
| piano |
1993
| Softly and Tenderly | small orchestra |
| four part mixed choir, unaccompanied | |
| viola and piano | |
| The Bear's Lullaby | english Horn, harp, and strings |
| 'All Pieces Have Their End' | viola |
| Two Prayers (text by Randall Jarrell) | four part mixed choir, unaccompanied |
| The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ On the Cross | four part mixed choir, soloists, and organ |
| The Springs of Water Were Hallowed (text by Richard Crashaw & from the Bible) | four part mixed choir and organ |
| four part mixed choir and organ |
1992
| Snowflakes on the Pane (text by George Mackay Brown) | two part treble choir and harp |
| No Bird (text by Theodore Roethke) | four part mixed choir |
| tenor and piano | |
| Happy in the Same Way | violin and cello |
| Love's Delicious Fire (text by Richard Crashaw) | four part mixed choir and organ |
| Feldeinsamkeit | two violins, viola, and two cellos |
| House of Winter (text by George Mackay Brown) | two part treble choir and organ |
| Preces and Responses | four part mixed choir |
| Dwelling in Buelah Land | small orchestra ( piccolo, flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet, strings) |
| Across (text by Vikram Seth) | voice and piano |
| Soon (text by Vikram Seth) | voice and piano |
| two sopranos, tenor, oboe, horn, violin, and organ | |
| four part mixed choir |
1991
| Colors for Anna (text by Jack Larson) | a stage work for baritone, with flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, piano, violin, viola, and cello |
| Renewed Day by Day (text by St. Paul from II Corinthians) | voice and piano |
1990
| Autumn (text by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by David Ferry) | voice and piano |
| Another Imaginary Sheep Fact | piano |
| Weathers (text by Thomas Hardy) | mezzo-soprano, two clarinets, viola, and piano |
| folksong arrangement for three part treble choir | |
| Everness (text by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. by Richard Wilbur) |
voice and piano |
| The Day’s Mail | flute, viola, and piano |
| Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same | flute |
1989
| narrator and piano | |
| the meeting (text by e.e.cummings) | unaccompanied mixed choir |
| The Edinburgh Post Card Epic | clarinet and viola |
| Portraits and Prayers | two violins |
| folksong arrangement for mixed choir |
1988
| My Sex Experience With Randall Jarrell (text by Gary Ralph) | voice and piano |
| Time to Plant Tears | viola and cello |
| unaccompanied mixed choir | |
| The Ghosts of James and Peirce in Harvard Yard (text by Delmore Schwartz) | mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, and piano |
| voice and piano | |
| At Undressing in the Evening (text by Christopher Smart) | mixed choir and organ |
1987
| unaccompanied mixed choir | |
| Harvest Hymn (Old American Hymn) | unison chorus and organ |
| Inglorious Fourth (text by John Hollander) | mezzo-soprano and orchestra (piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, trumpet, percussion (2), harp, and strings) |
1986
| Lonely (text by Jack Larson) | voice and piano |
| men’s chorus and organ | |
| The Oxen (text by Thomas Hardy) | men’s chorus and orchestra (piccolo, flute, two oboes, bassoon, two horns, harp, and strings) |
| The Oxen (text by Thomas Hardy) | men’s chorus and piano four hands |
| voice and piano | |
| Jesus Loves Me | small orchestra (piccolo, flute, oboe, two clarinets, two bassoons, trumpet, and strings) |
| The Fountain (text by G. M. Hopkins) | four part mixed choir, unaccompanied |
| The Little Frame (text by George Herbert) | tenor and English horn |
| Trying to Figure Out (text by Frank O’Hara) | unaccompanied men’s chorus |
1985
| Roses for Thornes (text by Richard Crashaw) | tenor with English horn and viola |
| Where I Say Hours | clarinet and string quartet |
| Jesus Loves Me | organ |
| Prelude: Imaginary Gardens | piano |
1984
| At Last Going (text by John Donne) | four part mixed choir, unaccompanied |
| viola alone or violin alone | |
| voice and piano | |
| Half of Life | bass clarinet, cello, and piano |
| A Summer Night (A Certain World, Book I) (text by W. H. Auden) | baritone and orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, harp, percussion (2), and strings |
| The Unfamiliar Name | violin and piano |
| A Variation on “To Say To Go To Sleep” (text by Randell Jarrell, after Rilke) | voice and guitar |
1983
| voice and piano | |
| this round o of faithfulness or in sickness and in health | two clarinets |
| Days and Nights Pass (text by Po Chu-i, translated by Arthur Waley) | mezzo-soprano and clarinet |
| The Proof (text by Richard Wilbur) | four part unaccompanied chorus |
| Mass (Wondrous Love) | four part unaccompanied mixed chorus |
| flute, Eb clarinet, English horn, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, marimba, harp, two violas, cello, and contrabass |
1982
| The Owl and the Pussycat (text by Edward Lear) | soprano and piano / soprano with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, guitar, and marimba |
| voice with violin, clarinet, and piano | |
| Lana Turner Has Collapsed (text by Frank O’Hara) | men’s chorus and piano |
| Three Portraits by Virgil Thomson (Orchestration) | full orchestra |
| unaccompanied mixed chorus | |
| A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (text by Frank O’Hara) | baritone with three clarinets, marimba, violin, viola, and cello |
1981
| voice and piano | |
| Like an Ever Rolling Stream | two clarinets and piano |
| Insomnia (text by Elizabeth Bishop) | voice and guitar |
| A Little Cowboy Music Too | flute, clarinet, violin, cello, marimba, and piano |
1980
| Though the Night Is Gone (A Certain World, Book II) (text by W. H. Auden) | baritone and piano |
| violin, clarinet, contrabass, and piano | |
| The Bluejay’s Lullaby (text by Peter S. Beagle) | soprano, violin, clarinet, and contrabass (or cello) |
1979
| when god lets my body be (text by e.e. cummings) | unaccompanied mixed chorus |
1978
| Alex (berceuse du chat) | violin, clarinet, and piano |
| voices with (alto) flute, (bass) clarinet, oboe, trombone, viola, cello, and contrabass | |
| voice and harp | |
| J. S. Bach--Prelude and Fugue in D major (W.T.C. II) (Orchestration) | three clarinets, marimba, violin, viola, cello |
| Bird Song (text by William Shakespeare) | soprano with violin, clarinet, and contrabass (or cello) |
1977
| The Wuggly Ump (text by Edward Gorey) | treble chorus with recorders, percussion, and piano |
| The Lesson (text by Robert Lowell) | mezzo-soprano, three clarinets, piano, and crotales |
| Joseph’s Suspicion (text by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Spender) | baritone with English horn, bass clarinet, trombone, viola, cello, and contrabass |
1976
| Housekeeping Song (text by Arthur Williams) | voice and guitar |
1975
| The Breaking (text by George Herbert) | countertenor, tenor, and baritone, with oboe, trombone, viola, cello, and organ |
| Thank God It’s Friday (text by Christopher Smart) | children’s chorus, recorders, percussion, and piano |
| Nowe Welcom, Somor (text by Geoffrey Chaucer) | countertenor with flute, oboe, violin, cello, and harpsichord |
| A Christmas Prayer: hommage to T. Tertius Nobel (text by G. M. Hopkins) | unaccompanied mixed chorus |
1974
| The Shepherd (text by William Blake) | unison children’s chorus, recorders, percussion, and piano |
| Taller To-day (text by W. H. Auden) | soprano with flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, and cello |
| Adam Lay Ybounden (anon. text) | children’s chorus, recorders, and piano |
| The Second, Part III (a hum..) (text by Walt Whitman) | baritone with alto flute, clarinet, English horn, trombone, percussion (2), harp, viola, and contrabass |
1973
| Agreeably of Love (text by W. H. Auden) | soprano and piano |
| The Foil (text by George Herbert) | unaccompanied four part mixed chorus |
| Nuns Fret Not (text by William Wordsworth) | soprano with flute, clarinet, trumpet, harp, vibraphone, viola, and contrabass |
| The Bell Doth Tolle (text by George Herbert) | bass, with oboe, trombone, viola, and vibraphone |
| My World and Welcome To It--Book I | contrabass |
1971
| Music for a While | flute, oboe, and piano |