Potential Titles: Musical Works & Styles [Category]

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Anthem.

Antiphon:
In the antiphony of afterglow and rising full moon - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Aria.

Ballad.

Birdsong.

Blues.

Canticle:
Can still evoke the canticles of rage - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"

The echo and whine of a canticle - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

Uplifts their voice in canticle to moon and sun - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"

Carol:
Where the gray linnets carol - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Ascend in ceaseless carol - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"

The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"

Chant.

Chantey:
Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"

Concert:
As of dogs that howl in concert - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"

In concerts of harmonious joy - William Somerville "The Chase"

Cryptic concert in their wake - May Swenson "Three Jet Planes"

Under the concerted stare of stars - Adolf Wolff "Byron"

Concerto:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"

Dirge.

Disco:
In the forgotten astronomies of disco - Adrian Matejka "Map to the Stars"

Duet:
Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"

A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Etude:
From the solitary etudes of the soul - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Fanfare.

Fugue.

Hip-Hop:
Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"

Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"

Hosanna:
Reluctant hosannas - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"

The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"

Hymn.

Jazz.

Jig.

Jingle.

Knell.

Lament.

Litany.

Lullaby.

Lyric.

Madrigal:
Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

Spill mirth in tangled madrigals - Don Marquis "October"

Mambo:
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

Medley:
A dreary medley of weary days - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

In a medley of tongues - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"

Melody.

Muzak:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"

Nocturne:
A nocturne of toxic manufacture - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Compose a nocturne of cinders - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Obbligato/Obligato:
Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

Ode:
Made grand odes of tempest - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"

Where the country has an ode's jagged edges - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

Opera.

Overture:
Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"

Prelude:
The prelude of approaching storms - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Psalm.

Rag-Time:
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Recital:
Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"

Refrain.

Requiem.

Rhapsody:
The rhapsodic seep and spray of sea grasses - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"

The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

The wind a wordless rhapsody - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell

Serenade:
Serenades us with explosive flares - Sue Budin "Totality"

As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author

Solo:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

My heart does a solo - Willie Perdomo "Hustler's Song"

Who can play a solo symphony - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 33 1/3"

Sonata:
Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"

The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

Turning bones into sonatas - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"

Song.

Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

Symphony.

Tango:
No tango in its Rorschach - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Self"

Tango in the hot, ochered light - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

Te Deum:
Sing a blasphemous Te Deum - Iris Tree "[You pass as in a drugged delirium]"

Threnody:
Who march to a weird threnody - Ardelia Maria Barton "Life's Music"

Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Replied in threnodies through bones - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Who wove their threnody with foot & flute - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"

Toccata:
Breaks into chaos toccatas & fugues - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"

Tocsin:
Strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Torch Song:
Singing the torch song of the amnesiac - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

The glass key of a torch song - John Wieners "Forthcoming"

Tune.

Verse.

Waltz.

Work-Song:
The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"


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