Michael Murray, Composer

Vocal Chamber Music

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SOPRANO (mezzo, tenor, and baritone below)

Emily’s Bees (2024) – soprano, cello (Emily Dickinson)
PDF Score | score video on YouTube
    1. Bee! I’m Expecting You!
    2. Answer July
    3. Bees are Black
    4. Nature
    5. A Single Clover Plank
Andrena (2025) – soprano, double bass (adapted from Emily’s Bees)
PDF Score
1. Bee! I’m Expecting You!
    2. Answer July
    3. A Single Clover Plank

Genevieve’s Cats (2017) – soprano, piano
PDF Score | recording on Passages
    1. The Kitten (Wordsworth)
    2. The Cat and the Moon (Yeats)
    3. To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat (Keats)

Penny Whistles (2015) – soprano, clarinet, piano (Robert Louis Stevenson – A Child’s Garden of Verses)
PDF Score | recording on Passages
    1. From a Railway Carriage
    2. The Land of Nod
    3. Singing
    4. The Moon
    5. Windy Nights
    6. A Good Boy

The Wild Winds Weep (2004) – soprano, horn, piano
    1. To a Child dancing in the Wind (Yeats)
    2. Nightpiece (Joyce)
    3. Mad Song (Blake)

Five Blake Songs (2001) – soprano, clarinet (William Blake)
PDF Vocal Score | recording on Percipience | performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
    1. The Smile
    2. I heard an Angel singing
    3. The Fly
    4. Holy Thursday
    5. The Little Vagabond

Drei lebendes Bilder (2000) – soprano, violin, cello
    1. Ich liege wo am Wegrand (Else Lasker-Schüler)
    2. Leb wohl, Frau Welt (Hermann Hesse)
    3. Wie grau es auch regnet (Günter Eich)

Three Joyce Songs (1988) – soprano, oboe, viola, piano (James Joyce)
    1. She Weeps Over Rahoon
    2. Flood
    3. On the Beach at Fontana

MEZZO-SOPRANO

Butterfly Days (2020) – mezzo-soprano, piano (Robert Frost – New Hampshire)
PDF Score
    1. Blue-Butterfly Day
    2. Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
    3. Misgiving
    4. To Earthward | score video on YouTube

Three Donne Songs (2011) – mezzo-soprano, string quartet (John Donne)
PDF Score | recording on Percipience
    1. The Message
    2. Community
    3. The Prohibition

TENOR

The Lover Mourns (1998) – tenor, horn, viola (W.B. Yeats)
PDF Vocal Score
    1. He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
    2. The Lover Tells of the Rose in his Heart
    3. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love

The Lover Mourns 1. He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
The Lover Mourns 2. The Lover Tells of the Rose in his Heart
The Lover Mourns 3. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love

BARITONE

Neutral Tones (2013) – baritone, viola (Thomas Hardy)
PDF Score | recording on Percipience | performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
    1. The Self-Unseeing
    2. Looking Across
    3. The Robin
    4. Neutral Tones

Songs of War (1996, rev. 2007) – baritone, string quartet
    1. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak (Whitman)
    2. In the Prison Pen (Melville)
    3. War is Kind (Crane)