Last updated:  May 28, 2009

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Supplement to Vita (Lyle Neff)

• Original musical compositions
• Transcriptions of other composers' compositions
• Musical repertory performed in public
• Writings and research not listed in vita
• Translations
• Vita proper

List of Musical Compositions by Lyle Neff (ca. 1974-present, each category in approximate ascending chronological order)

(* = performed)

• Stage

1. *Starbottle for the Plaintiff, opera in three scenes based on Bret Harte's story

• Orchestra & Band

1. Veni Emmanuel, variations for band
2. *The Sea Bell, for string orchestra
3. *Processional March, for band, based on the Augusta College Alma Mater

• Solo with orchestra

1. Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
2. Introduction and Fugue, for flute and string orchestra

• Instrumental chamber music
  

1. Little Sonata for Violin and Piano
2. Little Suite for Violin, Viola, and Piano
3. Movement for brass sextet
4. *Suite for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Harpsichord
5. *Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
6. String Quartet
   
7. *Sonata for Horn and Piano
8. *Three Memories, for bassoon and piano
9. *Four Pieces for Horn and Piano
10. Suite for Two Baroque Recorders


• Choral
  

• Sacred
  

1. *"Ein' feste Burg", for unison chorus and organ
2. *"Prayer" ("God , our father, hear our prayer") on a Russian folk tune
3. *"Praise Ye the Lord", for mixed chorus and organ, published by Doxology Music Press (Aiken, S.C.) under pseudonym "Kevin Lyle"
4. *"In the Beginning", for mixed chorus and organ, published by Doxology Music Press (Aiken, S.C.) under pseudonym "Kevin Lyle"
5. "Beatitudes," for mixed chorus and piano or organ (arr. from song)
6. "The Greatest is Love," for mixed chorus and piano
7. Psalm 151 (English tr.), for mixed chorus, trumpet, and two harps
8. "Gloria," for mixed chorus and organ
9. *"O Sing unto the Lord," text from Psalm 96, for mixed chorus and piano
10. *"The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want" (adapted from organ hymn setting)
    
11. "He Leadeth Me," combined hymn texts from Henry W. Baker and Joseph H. Gilmore, for mixed chorus and piano
12. *"Show Me the Way," for mixed chorus a cappella (published by Augsburg Fortress; click here for information, including an MP3)
13. Requiem, for SATB soloists, mixed chorus, and chamber orchestra (including harp and organ)
1. Introit:  "Requiem aeternam ... Te decet hymnus" (Soprano solo, chorus)
2. Kyrie (SATB solos, chorus)
3. Gradual:  "Requiem aeternam" (Chorus a cappella)
4. Tract:  "Absolve, Domine" (Soprano solo)
5. Sequence:  "Dies irae" (Bass and alto solos, chorus)
6. Offertory:  "Domine Jesu Christe" (Tenor solo, chorus)
7. Sanctus (Chorus)
8. Agnus Dei (Chorus)
9. Communion:  "Lux aeterna" (Chorus)
10. Absolution:  "Libera me" (Alto solo, TB chorus)
11. Burial:  "In paradisum" (Chorus)
14. "To Ev'rything There's a Season," text adapted from Ecclesiastes 3, for mixed chorus and piano
15. "Miracle Worker," for vocal quartet or mixed chorus a cappella (to be published by GIA Publications)
    
16. "Take My Life," hymn text by Fran­ces R. Havergal, for mixed chorus and organ
17. "Come and Walk in the Light," for mixed chorus and piano (published by Augsburg Fortress; click here for information, including an MP3)
18. "God Is There," for mixed chorus and piano
    

• Secular

1. Voice of a New Nation, cantata for soloists, chorus, and orchestra
2. "A Farewell," for vocal quartet or mixed chorus, a cappella

• Piano Solo
  

1. *Sonata for Piano
2. Three Pieces for Piano
   

• Organ Solo
  

• *Organ pieces on various hymns (in alphabetical order by tune name; titles in boldface have been accepted for publication by Augsburg Fortress in 2009))
  

1. Aberystwyth (Parry) -- "Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
   
2. St. Anne -- "O God, Our Help in Ages Past"
3. Converse -- "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"
4. Dix -- "For the Beauty of the Earth"
5. Es ist ein Ros' -- "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming"
6. Un flambeau -- "Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella!"
7. Gordon -- "My Jesus, I Love Thee"
8. Hankey -- "I Love to Tell the Story"
9. He Leadeth Me
10. In Dulci Jubilo
11. Italian Hymn -- "Come, Thou Almighty King"
12. Kelvingrove -- "
    
13. Kingsfold -- "O King of Glory, David's Son"
14. Kirkpatrick -- "He Hideth My Soul"
15. Lasst uns erfreuen / Divinum mysterium  -- "All Creatures of Our God and King"/ "Of the Father's Love Begotten"
16. Laudes Domini -- "When Morning Gilds the Skies"
17. Leoni -- "The God of Abraham Praise"
18. Lord, I'm Coming Home -- "I've Wandered Far Away from God
19. Morris -- "Nearer, Still Nearer"
20. Need -- :"I Need Thee Every Hour"
21. Pisgah -- "The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want" (adapted later as a choral anthem)
    
22. Russian Hymn -- "God the Omnipotent"
23. The Sheltering Rock -- "There is a Rock in a Weary Land"
24. Stories of Jesus -- "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus"
25. Sussex Carol  -- "On Christmas Night All Christians Sing"
    
26. Thaxted -- "I Vow to Thee, My Country"
27. Thompson -- Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
28. To God Be the Glory
29. Trentham -- "Breath on Me, Breath of God"
30. Valley -- "We Shall Walk through the Valley in Peace"

• "Meditation"
• "Doleful Procession"
• "Intrada in Classic Russian Style"
• Toccatina on "Hyfrydol"
• Sonata Movement in Mozartean Style (G Major)
  

• Solo voice with instruments (piano unless otherwise indicated)
  

1. "The Spirit of the Lord" (text from the Liturgy)
2. "After the Dazzle of Day" (Walt Whitman)
3. *Three Songs (Sidney Lanier)
4. *"I Heard the Voice of Jesus" (hymn text by Horatio Bonar)
5. *"Beatitudes" (arr. also for mixed chorus)
6. *My Last Duchess (Robert Browning), for baritone voice, recorder/flute, gamba/cello, harpsichord, and percussion
7. *"There Was a Lady Loved a Swine," for mezzo-soprano and wind quartet
8. *"Western Wind," for mezzo-soprano, flute, and clarinet
9. *"Photography Extraordinary" (Lewis Carroll), for mezzo-soprano
10. Miss Edith Makes Another Friend (Bret Harte), for soprano
11. Kamei (Cameos) (Lev Mej), for baritone voice, flute, violin, English horn, trombone, percussion, piano, 3 horns, and tuba
12. *Four Songs from Sidney Lanier's The Marshes of Glynn

Transcriptions of other composers' compositions (for organ unless otherwise indicated)

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004
• "Sheep May Safely Graze" from Cantata No. 208
• Sinfonia from Cantata No. 12
• Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29, arr. for organ with piano accompaniment
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• March in B-flat Major (originally for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons)
• Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin
• "Chorus of Praise" from Prince Igor (i.e., opening of Prologue)
• In Central Asia
• Moderato from Symphony No. 3, 2nd movement
• Theme from String Quartet No. 1, 1st movement
• Theme from String Quartet No. 2, 1st movement
• Cesar Antonovich Cui
• "A la chapelle," from A Argenteau, Op. 40
• "Gloria Patri and Wedding Recessional," from the opera The Saracen
• Andrea Gabrieli
• Ricercare del 12o tono
• Franz Joseph Haydn
• Allegretto (2nd movement) from String Quartet, Op. 54, No. 1
• Theme and Variations from String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3
• Guillaume de Machaut
• Osanna and Benedictus from Messe de Notre Dame
• Jules Massenet
• Meditation from Thais
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Terzett (A Major) from The Magic Flute
• Vasilii Pashkevich
• Aria (D Major) from The Miser
• Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov
• Introduction to the opera Mlada
• Heinrich Schuetz
• Sinfonia from The Seven Last Words
• Petr Il'ich Tchaikovsky
• Theme from Elegy, from Suite No. 3 for orchestra
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Largo from Violin Concerto, F. 1, No. 180

Additional (unpublished) major writings, mostly term papers:

• "The Function of Dialect in Tobacco Road" (Spring 1978)
• "An Analysis of Ives' 'Thoreau'" (June 1981)
• "The Establishement of String Quartet Texture: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven" (Fall 1981) (a study of motivic construction using the first movements of Haydn's op. 33, Mozart's "Haydn" quartets, and Beethoven's op. 18)
• "The Free Fantasias of J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, and C.P.E. Bach" (a comparison of their works, using the principles in C.P.E. Bach's Versuch as a measurement)
• "Computer Composition in the 1980's" (spring 1986) (a study of the [then] current status of using the computer for composition [as opposed to mere sound production])
• "Rhythmic Gesture in the Masses of Haydn and Mozart" (a search for the implications of meter and rhythm in sacred music, especially as regards dance, with Allanbrook as a starting point)
• "The Multiple Lives of 'Felix Namque'" (May 1987) (a look at the English organ settings of this chant in the Renaissance)
• A Catalog of the Musical Compositions of Cesar Cui (ever in progress), with the concommitant development of a database format in the style of MARC for maintaining such a catalog
• Liner notes (completed by February 2003) for volumes 2-6 of a 6-CD set of Cui's collected piano music, performed by Osamu Nakamura (now Osamu de Kanazawa); CDs 2-6 still not issued as of Aug. 2005

Translations:

Translations of prose:

• César Cui
• Articles included in the appendices to my dissertation (Story, Style, and Structure in the Operas of César Cui, Indiana University, 2002)
• "C. A. Cui's First Steps in Composition" (1909)
•  "From My Reminiscences about Opera" (1899-1900, abridged)
• "A Few Words about Contemporary Operatic Forms" (1889)
• "Flibustier in Paris" (1894)
• "A Day at Liszt's" (1876)
  
• The Bayreuth Music Festival (1876, originally a series of newspaper articles, reissued monographically in 1889 and 1909 under the title "The Ring of the Nibelungs," Richard Wagner's Trilogy: a Musico-Critical Sketch)

Reading translations of libretti:

• Petr Tchaikovsky
• Vakula the Smith (original version of Cherevichki)
  
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Pan Wojewoda
• Mlada
• César Cui
• The Mandarin's Son (sung portions)
  
• William Ratcliff

Singing translations of libretti:

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• May Night
• The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga
• The Tale of Tsar Saltan
  
• César Cui
• Mademoiselle Fifi
• Mateo Falcone
• Feast in Time of Plague
• Little Red Riding-Hood
• The Captain's Daughter