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==Selected works== Ward's music is largely published by Highgate Press, E.C. Schirmer, Associated Music Publishers, Peer International, Merrymount Music Press, C.F. Peters and Vireo Press. ===Opera=== * ''[[He Who Gets Slapped (opera)|He Who Gets Slapped]]'', original title: ''Pantaloon'', opera in 3 acts (1956); libretto by [[Bernard Stambler]] after the play by [[Leonid Andreyev]] * '''''[[The Crucible (opera)|The Crucible]]''''', opera in 4 acts (1961); libretto by Bernard Stambler after [[The Crucible|the play]] by [[Arthur Miller]]; '''recipient of the 1962 [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]]''' * ''The Lady from Colorado'' (1964); revised in 1993 as ''Lady Kate''; libretto by Bernard Stambler after the novel by [[Homer Croy]] * ''Claudia Legare'', opera in 4 acts (1977); libretto by Bernard Stambler after the play ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' by [[Henrik Ibsen]] * ''Abelard and Heloise'', Music Drama in 3 acts (1981); libretto by Jan Hartman * ''Minutes Till Midnight'', opera in 3 acts (1982); libretto by Daniel Lang * ''Lady Kate'', opera in 2 acts (1964, 1993); 2nd version of ''The Lady from Colorado''; libretto by Bernard Stambler after the novel by [[Homer Croy]] * ''Roman Fever'', opera in 1 act (1993); libretto by [[Roger Brunyate]] after the story by [[Edith Wharton]] * ''A Friend of Napoleon,'' operetta in 2 acts (2005); libretto by James [Doc] Stuart, based on the short story by Richard Connell ===Orchestral=== * ''Slow Music'' (1937) [withdrawn--reworked into ''Adagio and Allegro''] * ''Ode'' (1938) [withdrawn] * ''A Yankee Overture'' (1940) [withdrawn] * ''Andante and Scherzo'' for string orchestra (1940) [withdrawn] * '''Symphony No. 1''' (1941–1942) ''Winner of the Juilliard Publication Award, 1942'' * ''Adagio and Allegro'' (1944) * ''Jubilation, an Overture'' (1945); also for concert band * ''Aria'' (1946) [withdrawn--reworked into ''Symphony No. 2''] * '''Symphony No. 2''' (1947) * ''Concert Music'' (1948) * ''Serenade for Strings'' (1948) [withdrawn--reworked into ''Euphony, Night Music'' and ''Symphony No. 4''] * ''Night Music'' (1949) [withdrawn] * '''Symphony No. 3''' (1950) * ''Euphony for Orchestra'' (1954) * ''Prairie Overture'' (1957); original version for concert band * '''Symphony No. 4''' (1958, rev. 1977) * ''Divertimento for Orchestra'' (1960) * ''Hymn and Celebration'' (1962, rev. 1966) * ''Music for a Celebration (Trilogy for Orchestra)'' (1963) [Withdrawn as a 3-movement work. Movements published separately as listed below.] * ''Processional March'' (1963) [originally movement 3 of ''Music for a Celebration''. Later, also reworked into ''Symphony No. 5''.] * ''Invocation and Toccata'' (1966) [originally movements 1 & 2 of ''Music for a Celebration''] * ''Festive Ode'' (1966) * ''Hymn to the Night'' (1966) (Tone poem based on Longfellow) * Concertino for string orchestra (1973) * '''Symphony No. 5''' ''(Canticles of America)'' (1976) * ''The Promised Land (On Jordan's Stormy Banks)'', chorale prelude for orchestra (or organ), with optional congregational participation (1977) * ''Sonic Structure'' (1980) * ''Festival Triptych'' with opt. narrator (1986) * ''By the Way of Memories, Nocturne'' for orchestra (1987) * '''Symphony No. 6''' (1988) * ''5x5, Four Variations on a Five-Part Theme'' (1989) *''A Western Set'' (1992) (Suite from ''Lady Kate'') * ''The Scarlet Letter'' Ballet Suite (1994) * '''Symphony No. 7 ''(The Savannah)''''' (2003) * ''Beginnings, An Overture'' (2006) * ''City of Oaks'' for orchestra (2007) ===Concert band=== * ''The Rolling Seventh'' march for band (1943); written during military service [withdrawn] * ''Life of Riley'', musical revue for swing band, men's chorus and soloists (1942); written during military service [withdrawn] * ''Just As You Were'' for voice and swing band (1943); written during military service [withdrawn--tune reworked into mvt. 2 of the ''Concerto for Saxophone''] * ''Jubilation'', an overture (1946); original version for orchestra; transcribed for band by Robert Leist * ''Prairie Overture'' (1957); also for orchestra * ''Night Fantasy '' (1962) * ''Fiesta Processional'' (1966) * ''Music for a Great Occasion'' (1970) [withdrawn] * ''Antiphony'' (1973) * ''Four Abstractions'' (1977) :# Jagged Rhythms in Fast Tempo :# Color Masses and Luminous Lines in Dark Blue :# Curves and Points of Light in Motion :# Interweaving Lines ===Concertante=== * Concerto for piano and orchestra (1968) * Concerto for tenor saxophone and orchestra (1984) * Concerto for violin and orchestra (1993, revised 1994) * ''Dialogues, a Triple Concerto'' for violin, cello, piano and orchestra (1986–2002) ===Chamber music=== *String Quartet (1937) [withdrawn--movement 2 reworked into ''Andante and Scherzo''] *''Movement for String Quartet'' (1941) [withdrawn--reworked into ''Adagio and Allegro'' (1943)] *''Energetically'' (1941) [withdrawn--reworked into ''Jubilation Overture'' (1945)] * Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (1950) * ''Arioso and Tarantelle'' for cello (or viola) and piano (1954) * ''Fantasia for Brass Choir and Timpani'' (1956) for orchestral brass (3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, tuba) and timpani * String Quartet No. 1 (1966)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dramonline.org/albums/american-works-for-string-quartet-copland-ward-jaffe/notes|title=DRAM: Notes for "American Works for String Quartet: Copland/Ward/Jaffe"|website=www.dramonline.org}}</ref> [Movements 2 & 3 also reworked into the ''Concertino for Strings'' (1973)] * ''Dialogues'' for Violin, Cello and Piano (or orchestra) (1987) (earlier, shorter chamber version of ''Triple Concerto'') * ''Raleigh Divertimento'', woodwind quintet version (1986); Nonet version (2004) * ''Fanfare for Durham,'' for orchestral brass brass, timpani and percussion (1988) * Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1990) * ''Appalachian Ditties and Dances'' for violin and piano (1991) * ''Bath County Rhapsody'', piano quintet (1991) * ''Serenade for Mallarmé'' for flute, viola, cello and piano (1991) * ''Echoes of America'', trio for clarinet, cello and piano (1997) * ''Night under the Big Sky'', nocturne based on themes from ''Lady Kate'' for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano (1998) * ''Brass Ablaze'' for brass band (cornets, flugelhorns, horns, euphoniums and tubas) and percussion * Quintet for oboe and string quartet (2005) ===Keyboard=== * ''Song'' for piano (1941) [originally one of two movements for piano, later reworked into ''Sonatine;'' ''Adagio and Allegro;'' ''Hymn and Celebration'' and ''String Quartet No. 1''] * ''Lamentation'' (1946) [published with ''Scherzo''] * ''Sonatine'' (1948) [withdrawn--mvt. 3 reworked into ''Divertimento''] * ''Scherzo'' (1950 [published with ''Lamentation''] * ''The Promised Land (On Jordan's Stormy Banks)'', chorale prelude for organ (or orchestra), with optional congregational participation (1977) * ''Celebration of God in Nature'', suite for organ (1979) ===Vocal=== * ''Three Songs'' for high voice and piano (1934); text by Thomas S. Jones, Jr.: "I Know a quiet vale", "Daphne", "My soul is like a garden close" [withdrawn] * ''Fatal Interview'' song cycle for soprano and orchestra (1937); text by Edna St. Vincent Millay :# What thing is this :# Not in a casket cool with pearls * ''Epithalamion'' for high voice and piano (1937); text by Percy Blysse Shelley [withdrawn] * ''New Hampshire'' for 6 women's voices and string quartet (1938); text by T.S. Eliot [withdrawn] * ''First Harvest'' [title given to the group of five songs listed below, each originally written and published separately] :# ''Sorrow of Mydath'' for high voice and piano (1939); words by [[John Masefield]] :# ''As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing'' for high voice and piano (1940); words by [[Walt Whitman]] :# ''Rain has fallen all the day'' for high voice and piano (1940); text by [[James Joyce]] [tune reworked into ''By the Way of Memories Nocturne''] :# ''Anna Miranda'' for high voice and piano (1940); text by Stephen Vincent Benét :# ''Vanished'' for high voice and piano (1941); text by Emily Dickinson * ''Jonathon and the Gingery Snare'' for narrator and orchestra (1949); words by [[Bernard Stambler]] [also reworked into ''Festival Triptych''] * ''Sacred Songs for Pantheists'' for soprano and orchestra (or piano) (1951); words by [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]], [[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens]] and [[Emily Dickinson]] :# Pied Beauty (Hopkins) :# Little Things (Stephens) :# Intoxication (Dickinson) :# Heaven-Haven (Hopkins) :# God's Grandeur (Hopkins) * ''Three Pieces for Narrator and Piano'' (based on T.S. Eliot poems from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) 1957 [withdrawn] * ''Love's Seasons'', song cycle for high voice and piano (1994); words from ''Fatal Interview'' by [[Edna St Vincent Millay]] * ''In Praise of Science'' for soprano, brass, and percussion (2008); words by [[Anne Lynch Botta]] ===Choral=== * ''Hush'd Be the Camps Today (May 4, 1865)'' for mixed chorus and orchestra (or piano) (1940); words by [[Walt Whitman]] * ''With rue my heart is laden'' for mixed chorus a cappella (1949); words by [[A. E. Housman]] * ''Concord Hymn'' for mixed chorus a cappella (1949); words by [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] * ''When Christ Rode Into Jerusalem'' for mixed chorus, soprano solo and organ (1956); text paraphrased from New Testament * ''That Wondrous Night of Christmas Eve'' for mixed chorus a cappella (1957) * ''Earth Shall Be Fair'', cantata for mixed chorus (or double chorus), children's chorus (or soprano solo) and orchestra (or organ) (1960); Biblical text :# Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place :# Then the kings of the earth :# Thou changest man back to the dust :# Earth might be fair :# Search me, O God, and know my heart * ''Let the Word Go Forth'' for mixed chorus, brass, harp and string orchestra (1965); words from the [[inaugural address of John F. Kennedy]] * ''Sweet Freedom's Song: A New England Chronicle'', cantata for soprano, baritone, narrator, mixed chorus and orchestra (1965) :# Prelude :# It Was a Great Design :# O, Lord God of My Salvation :# Come, Ye Thankful People, Come :# Ballad of Boston Bay :# Damnation to the Stamp Act :# Epitaphs :# Let Music Swell the Breeze * '''Symphony No. 5 ''Canticles of America''''' for soprano, baritone, narrator, mixed chorus and orchestra (1976); words by [[Walt Whitman]] and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] :# Behold, America :# A Psalm of Life :# Hymn to the Night :# All Peoples of the Globe Together Sail * ''Images of God'', a Sacred Service including a Mystery Play for minister, soprano, baritone, mixed chorus, organ and players (1988–1989) :# ''In His Last Days, Jesus Came to Jerusalem'' for soprano solo, SATB chorus and organ :# ''Let Us Heed the Voice Within'' for SATB and organ * ''I Hail This Land'' (from ''Lady Kate'') for SATB and band (or piano) (1993) * ''Consider Well God's Ways'' for baritone solo and SATB chorus * ''Sacred Canticles'' for SATB chorus, trumpet, percussion and keyboard * ''Would You Be Glad'' for SATB chorus, children's chorus and organ * ''Cherish Your Land,'' for baritone solo, SATB chorus and chamber ensemble (or piano) (2001) * ''The Lamb'' for SA chorus and optional string orchestra (2009)
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