Joseph Baber

Baber was born in 1937 in Richmond, Virginia, and died in Lexington, Kentucky. He was a Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of Kentucky from 1971 to 2021, and the longtime principal violist of Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra.[1]

Information from [2] and.[3]

• Op. 1: Duos for Violin and Viola
• Op. 2a: Longfellow Songs
  • "It Is Not Always May"
  • "The Aftermath"
  • "Serenade"
  • "The Rainy Day"
  • "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
  • "Snow-flakes"
• Op. 2b: Emersonian Hymns
  • "The Informing Spirit"
  • "Compensation"
  • "Thine Eyes Still Shined"
  • "Thought"
  • "Terminus"
  • "To Ellen"
  • "Nature"
• Op. 3: Miscellaneous Instrumental (1960)
• Op. 4: Wise Men And Shepherds, Christmas cantata (1951)
• Op. 5: Instrumental Works for Winds
  • Sonnet for Solo Oboe, Flute and String Orchestra
  • Meditation for Solo Bassoon
  • Sketches for Flute and Piano
• Op. 6: Cavalier Lyrics (1960)
  • "Song (Sedley)"
  • "Why So Pale and Wan" (Sir John Suckling)
  • "Take, O Take Those Lips Away" (Shakespeare)
  • "The Constant Lover" (Sir John Suckling)
  • "To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her" (Sir George Etherege)
  • "Of the Last Verses in the Book"
  • "To Blossoms" (Robert Herrick)
• Op. 7: Serenade for String Orchestra
• Op. 8: Serenade for String Trio (1975)
• Op. 9: Shakespearean Madrigals
  • "Fie on Sinful Fantasy"
  • "Tell Me Where"
  • "I Am Gone, Sir"
  • "Who Is Sylvia?"
  • "When Icicles Hang By the Wall"
  • "Weep No More, Ladies"
  • " Mistress Mine"
  • "It Was a Lover and His Lass"
  • "Under the Greenwood Tree"
• Op. 10: Overture to As You Like It
• Op. 11: Kingdom of the Heart's Content for Piano (Seasonal Sketches)
• Op. 12: American Songs (1957)
  • "Words" (John Hay)
  • "The Dying Lover" (Richard Henry Stoddard)
  • "The Dark Hills" (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • "Nancibel" (Bliss Carman)
  • "To a Golden Haired Girl in a Louisiana Town" (Vachel Lindsey)
  • "(Mysteries)" (Emily Dickenson)
  • "Terminus" (Emerson)
  • "Evening Song" (Sydney Lanier)
  • "The Runner in the Skies" (James Oppenheim)
  • "Force" (Edward Rowland Sill)
• Op. 13: Bagatelle-Preludes (for piano)
• Op. 14: Incidental Music (Michigan)
  • Music for the play Tiger at the Gates (Jean Anouilh)
  • Music for the play Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
  • Honor's Concert Prize piece, Music for String Orchestra
  • Castelnuovo-Tedesco Variations for Piano
  • Sketchbooks: impressions in shorts score of mid-western scenes
  • Preludes for Piano, written for Virginia Bodman (1959–1962)
• Op. 15: Two Sonatas for Viola and Piano
• Op. 16: Twelve American Pastorals for SSA and Cello Ensemble (Harmonium)
  • Afternoon on a Hill (Edna St Vincent Millay)
  • On a Dayward Height
  • Valley Song (Carl Sandberg)
  • (Indian Summer) (Emily Dickenson)
  • Wind in the Sunlit Trees (Conrad Aiken)
  • Former Barn Lot (Mark Van Doren)
  • Wild Peaches (Elinor Wylie)
  • A Winter Piece (William Cullen Bryant)
  • Daisies (Bliss Carman)
  • The Road (John Gould Fletcher)
  • Meadowlarks (Sara Teasdale)
  • The Spice Tree (Vachel Lindsey)
• Op. 16a: Five Pastorals for Soprano and lower strings
• Op. 17: The Klausli Service (Music for Richard Klausli and the Plymouth Congregationalist Church)
• Op. 18: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
  • Eldorado (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • The Traveller (Vachel Lindsey)
  • "A Boy's Will" (Longfellow: Stanzas 1 & 2 of My Lost Youth)
  • I Will Build a House
  • In the Train (Teasdale)
  • A Vagabond Song (Bliss Carman)
  • The First Snow-fall (Lowell)
  • Wood Song (Teasdale)
  • Afternoon on a Hill (Millay)
  • A Winter Piece (Bryant)
  • Meadowlarks (Teasdale)
• Op. 19: Shakespearean Songs for high voice and piano
  • Full Fathom Five
  • Willow Song
  • Take, O Take Those Lips Away
  • Under the Greenwood Tree
  • Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
  • The Master, The Swabber, The Boatswain
  • Take, O Take Those Lips Away (second version)
  • It Was a Lover and His Lass
  • Blow, Blow, Thy Winter Wind
• Op. 20: Organ Preludes on Protestant Hymn Tunes
• Op. 21: Trio for Violin, Viola and Violoncello
• Op. 22: Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra
• Op. 23: Sonata for Violin and Piano
• Op. 24: Overture: The New Land
• Op. 25: Trio for Oboe, Viola and Piano
• Op. 26: Concerto No. 1 for Viola and String Orchestra
• Op. 27: Psalms for Chorus SATB
• Op. 28: Concerto No. 2 for Viola and Orchestra
• Op. 29: Songs of Love and Loss
  • Pity Me Not (Edna St Vincent Millay)
  • The Net (Sara Teasdale)
  • Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom (Louise Bogan)
  • This Quiet Dust (Emily Dickenson)
  • Where No Thoughts Are (Anna Hempstead Branch)
• Op. 30: String Quartet
• Op. 31: Incidental Music (Illinois)
  • Keyboard Toccatas (for Dwight Peltzer) (1969)
  • Scherzo for Viola and Piano (1969)
• Op. 32: Divertimentos
• Op. 33: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
  • Go and Catch a Falling Star (John Donne)
  • In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (Thomas Hardy)
  • The Widow's Song (Pinkney)
  • Up-Hill (Rossetti)
  • Mnemosyne (Trumbull Stickney)
  • Cradle Song of the Infant Jesus for Soprano, Viola and Organ (Old French Noel) (2012)
• Op. 34: Works for Unaccompanied String
• Op. 35: Music from the Kansas College Co-operative Composers Project
  • Prelude for Band (1970–1971)
  • Scherzo for Chamber Orchestra (1970)
  • Carol (SATB)
  • Alleluias (SATB)
  • To Everything There Is a Season (SATB)
  • I Beseech You, Therefore, Brethren (SATB) (1971)
• Op. 36: Three Madrigals on Lyrics by Thomas Campion for Solo Voices
  • "I Care Not for These Ladies"
  • "Rose-cheek'd Laura, come"
  • "Now winter nights"
• Op. 37: Mephisto Rhapsody for Violin and Piano (1971)
• Op. 38: Partita for Keyboard (1975–2008)
• Op. 39: "Fox and Bear" – A Children's Guide to the Orchestra for Narrator and Orchestra
• Op. 40: Frankenstein: Opera in 4 Acts (with John Gardner) (1969–1980)
• Op. 41: Five Fantasias on Finnish Folk Songs for SATB and Piano 4-hands
  • Kalliole Kukkulalle
  • Minun Kultani
  • Lapsuuden Ystavalle
  • Ranalle-Istaja Neito
  • Rukkaset
• Op. 42: Rumpelstiltskin: Opera in 2 Acts (with John Gardner)
• Op. 43: Landscapes for Soprano and Nine 'Cellos (T.S. Eliot)
• Op. 44: Missa Brevis for Women's Chorus SSA and Organ
• Op. 45: Rhapsody for Two 'Cellos and Orchestra
• Op. 46: Symphony No. 1 in E minor (1979)
• Op. 47: Six Sinfonias for Piano
• Op. 48: Music for St. Michaels (Church of St Michael the Archangel, Lexington)
• Op. 49: Three Fantasias for String Quartet
• Op. 50: Ere We Be Young Again (Robert Louis Stevenson)
  • Good and Bad Children
  • Looking Forward
  • Whole Duty of Children
  • At the Seaside
  • Singing
  • Rain
  • Where Go the Boats
  • The Swing
  • My Bed Is a Boat
  • Envoy
• Op. 51: Two Marches in the American Style for Orchestra (1981–1991)
• Op. 52: Samson and the Witch, Opera in 1 Act (with John Gardner) (1995)
• Op. 53: Songs from Shakespeare
  • When Daisies Pied
  • How Should I Your True Love Know
  • Where the Bee Sucks
  • Come unto These Yellow Sands
  • You Spotted Snakes
  • Orpheus with His Lute
  • Who Is Sylvia
• Op. 54: Requiescat for Violin and Orchestra (1983) – in memoriam of John Gardner
• Op. 55: 'The Wild Swans at Coole' and other songs on poems of William Butler Yeats (1986)
  • The Wild Swans at Coole
  • Brown Penny
  • Made Quiet
  • First Love
  • Remorse for Intermperate Speech
  • Tom O'Roughley
  • To a Child Dancing in the Wind
  • Two Years Later
  • When You Are Old
  • The Lake Isle of Innesfree
• Op. 56: Songs for School Children (c. 1984)
  • Some One (Walter de la Mare)
  • How Doth the Lowly Crocodile (Lewis Carroll)
  • Ariel's Song (William Shakespeare)
  • Who Has Seen the Wind (Christina Rossetti)
• Op. 57: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
  • A Lover Pleads with His Friends for Old Friends (Yeats)
  • Beloved Rivers (Marjorie England) (1987–1989)
  • And That Is Life (Paul Laurence Dunbar) (1990)
  • Full Moon (Sara Teasdale)
  • The Philosopher (Millay)
  • Home-Coming (Leonie Adams)
• Op. 58: 'Dark of the Moon' for mezzo-soprano (Sara Teasdale)
  • Winter
  • September Night
  • Wisdom
  • Low Tide
  • "She Who Could Bind You"
  • Foreknown
  • At Tintagil
  • The Fountain
  • Epitaph
• Op. 59: Symphony No. 2 in D (1987–1991)
• Op. 60: Shiloh, for tenor, horn, and piano[4]
  • The Portent
  • Misgivings
  • Malvern Hill
  • Shiloh
• Op. 61: The Shepherd's Calendar, suite for solo English Horn
• Op. 63: Heartland: A Runaway Summer Overture for Orchestra (1990)
• Op. 64: Steel Town, Capriccio for Chamber Orchestra (1990)
• Op. 65: Summer Music: Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano
• Op. 66: The Kentucky Suite for Orchestra
• Op. 67: St Louis Suite for Clarinet and Piano
• Op. 68: Fantasia for String Quartet
• Op. 69: Organ Preludes (1995)
• Op. 70: Songs for Our Children
• Op. 71: "Echo" and "The First Spring Day" for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet and String Orchestra
• Op. 72: Two Songs for a Christening for Soprano and Organ or Strings
• Op. 73: Heartland: September Towns[4]
• Op. 74: Madrigals from Shakespeare (1997)
  • Under the Greenwood Tree
  • How Should I Your True Love Know
  • It Was a Lover and His Lass
  • Willow Song
  • Take, O Take Those Lips Away
  • O Mistress Mine
• Op. 75: Songbook: Miscellaneous Uncollected Songs
• Op. 80: An American Requiem (1999–2003)[4]
• Op. 81: Introduction and Allegro for Six Cellos
• Op. 89: Two Movements Concertante for Oboe and Small Orchestra (2003)
• Op. 90: Sonata for Three Cellos and Piano (2006)
• Op. 91: Album of American Ghosts (2006)
• Op. 94: Suite Concertante for flute and string orchestra
• Op. 99: River of Time: An Opera in 2 Acts (with Jim Rodgers) (2009)[5]

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