I. Albums & Song Cycles
from SONGS WITHOUT WORDS
(2018)
Music by Louis Rosen
No. 1 - A Day Next Week
No. 2 - Dreamdust
No. 3 - Nonette
No. 4 - Trust Silence
No. 5 - Together
No. 6 - Her Trapeze
(2016-2020)
Music & Lyrics by Louis Rosen (except where indicated)
(2020 release, Di-Tone Records)
Before the Window Closes
Unknown Name, Unknown Numbe
The History of Friendship
Kathleen O’Toole (Lyric by Louis Rosen & Arthur Perlman)
Morning Soul (1973/2016)
Guru, Please Tell Me
Slow Goes the Night
What are the Odds? (Lyric by Louis Rosen & Arthur Perlman)
I Sing This Song for You
Then Came You
In the Hour of Her Leaving
My Third Act
I Don’t Know Anything
Limitless World
Acquainted With Night (Song Without Words)
Later Than Never (Song Without Words)
Not included on the album:
Lost in Love
All songs © 2020 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP, except "Kathleen O'Toole" and "What are the Odds?", © 2020 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, and Arthur Perlman, Forest Knoll Music, ASCAP, All Rights Reserved.
from DUST TO DUST BLUES
(2017)
Music and Lyrics by Louis Rosen (except where indicated)
(2017 release, Di-Tone Records)
Dust to Dust Blues
I Found You
Faith in Doubt
I've Seen This Movie
Peace With You (Music & Lyric by LR & Thom Bishop, 1975/2011)
Everything's For Sale
Every Soul (Music & Lyric by LR & Thom Bishop, 1975/2011)
Garden Days
Where are the Traces? (Music by LR, Lyric by Thom Bishop)
There For You
In Her Quiet Way
A Soft Place to Fall
The Left Side, Not the Right
Song for Charlotte (1993)
All Songs © 2016 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP, or Louis Rosen & Thom Bishop, Lullwater Music ASCAP/Wireless Music, BMI. All Rights Reserved.
from TIME WAS
Music by Louis Rosen (and Lyric Adaptations as indicated)
(2013 release, Di-tone Records)
John Evereldown (words by Edwin Arlington Robinson)
Time Was (words by Edwin Arlington Robinson, adapted by LR)
The Host of the Air (words by William Butler Yeats)
The Man Hunt (words Madison Cawein, adapted by LR)
Silence ("Night Song of Amalfi," words by Sara Teasdale)
Cabin in the Woods ("Carolina Cabin", words by Langston Hughes)
Richard Cory (words by Edwin Arlington Robinson, adapted by LR)
The Sea-Side Cave (words by Alice Cary, adapted by LR)
The Song (words by John Erskine, adapted by LR)
The Watchers (words by William Stanley Braithwaite)
In the Valley of the Shadow (words by Edwin Arlington Robinson, adapted by LR)
We'll Go No More A-Roving (words by Lord Byron)
Not included on the album:
Lulu (“Seeking Religion," words by A. Sterling Brown)
Acquainted With the Night (words by Robert Frost)
All Songs © 2012 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
Music & Lyrics by Louis Rosen (except as indicated)
(2009 release, Di-Tone Records)
How You Gonna Save 'Em? (Poetry by Nikki Giovanni)
I Want to Live to Love You
The Ache of Possibility
The Middle Class (Used to Be) Blues
Winter Daze
Love in Short Supply (“A Statement on Conservation,” Poetry by Nikki Giovanni)
On That Day
Choices (Poetry by Nikki Giovanni)
I Need You
Don’t Hold Me Back (Poetry by Nikki Giovanni)
A Lover’s Melody
Love of Song
Not included on the album:
Maya is Illusion
A Poem of Friendship (Poetry by Nikki Giovanni)
All Songs © 2009 by Louis Rosen/Louis Rosen & Nikki Giovanni, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from ONE OUNCE OF TRUTH: The Nikki Giovanni Songs
Music by Louis Rosen, Poetry by Nikki Giovanni
(2008 release, PS Classics Records)
The World
Telephone Song
The Moon Shines Down
I Wrote a Good Omelete
At the Ball ("Convenient Haystacks")
I Want to Sing
You Were Gone
All I Gotta Do
Kiss a Frog
The Black Loom ("The Genie in the Jar" for Nina Simone)
One Ounce of Truth
That Day
Things That Go Together
All Songs © 2008 by Louis Rosen & Nikki Giovanni, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from SOUTH SIDE STORIES
Music & Lyrics by Louis Rosen
(2006 release, Rosecap/Di-Tone Records)
Lucky, Lucky Girl
The South Side
Troubled Children
Mae’s Chevrolet
South Side Blues
Fast
When They Dance
Family Business
If I Were a Reincarnationist
Many Ghosts at the Party
The Peace That Comes
Lullabye for Teddy
All Songs Copyright 2006 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from PHENOMENAL WOMAN: The Maya Angelou Songs and Songs Without Words (2005/2018)
Music by Louis Rosen
Lyrics by Maya Angelou
(2018 release, Di-Tone Records)
Come, And Be My Baby
They Went Home
Preacher, Don’t Send Me
My Life Has Turned to Blue
A Good Woman Feeling Bad
No Loser, No Weeper
Poor Girl
When I Think About Myself
Alone
Caged Bird
Phenomenal Woman
Cut from final version of cycle:
On a Bright Day, Next Week
In a Time
© 2005 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music & Caged Bird Legacy, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from IT IS STILL DARK: Songs of Exile (“Songs for Sondra”) - (2003)
Lyrics by Celso Gonzalez-Falla
Premiere: Great Hall of Cooper Union, 2006. Vocalist—Darius de Haas
I Live In My Own World
Jade’s Song
It is Still Dark
Emergency
It Was Jazz Music
What Do We Tell?
All Songs © 2003 by Louis Rosen and Celso Gonzalez-Falla, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from DREAM SUITE: Songs in Jazz and Blues (2002)
on poems by Langston Hughes
(2016 release, Di-Tone Records)
Premiere: Great Hall of Cooper Union, 2006. Vocalists—Alton Fitzgerald White & Capathia Jenkins; Pianist: Kim Grigsby. Tenth Anniversary concert: Birdland, 2016
Harlem Night Song
Lullaby: For a Black Mother
Life is Fine
Song for Billie Holiday
Exits
Love Song for Lucinda
Hurt
Juke Box Love Song
Dimout in Harlem
Soledad: A Cuban Portrait
Blues at Dawn
Monotony
Dream Suite
Gold and Brown (College Formal: Renaissance Casino)
Not included in final cycle:
Nonette
All Songs ©2005 by Louis Rosen & Langston Hughes, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
TWO SONGS on Poems by EDGAR ALLAN POE
(2000/2014)
Annabel Lee
Eldorado
"Poe Songs" © 014 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from A CHILD’S GARDEN SONG SUITE (1994)
a song cycle on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson from “A Child’s Garden of Verses.”
Music by Louis Rosen
Private Recording, 1994, Vocalist Phillip Officer
Introduction/The Swing
My Shadow
The Wind
The Moon
Land of Counterpane
Shadow March
Escape At Bedtime
Land of Nod
Block City
To Any Listener
All Songs © 1994 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from FIVE RIVERSONGS (1985)
on poems by Edgar Lee Masters,
for soprano and baritone and piano, 4 hands.
Music by Louis Rosen
Dual Premiere: The Museum of the City of New York and The Lincoln Center Library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium, 1985. Vocalists: Barbara Peters and Peter Stewart
Hare Drummer (duet version)
Hortense Robbins
Andy the Nightwatch (solo version)
Pauline Barrett
Fiddler Jones
All Songs © 1980/85 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from RIVERSONGS, a choral song cycle on poems by Edgar Lee Masters (1980, revised 1984)
Music by Louis Rosen
The Hill
Hare Drummer
Jonathan Houghton
Edith Conant
Lucinda Matlock
Andy the Night Watch
All Songs © 1980/84 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from FOUR SONGS (1983)
Music by Louis Rosen
Premiere: American Society for Jewish Music concert, 92nd Street Y, NY, 1985. Vocalist: Barbara Peters
Red and White (Poem by Carl Sandburg)
Lost (Poem by Carl Sandburg)
Round (Poem by Layle Silbert)
To Olga (Poem by Alena Synkova)
All Songs © 1983 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
II. Songs from Musical Theater
from THE PEARL a musical theater piece (2010)
Music by Louis Rosen
Book and Lyrics by Arthur Perlman,
based on the John Steinbeck novella, “The Pearl”
Act I:
Song of the Family
My Little Coyotito
Pass Him By
Song of the Sea
Juana’s Song (Song of the Sea: Parts II and IV)
Song of the Pearl Divers (Song of the Sea: Part III)
Perfect as the Moon (Song of the Sea: Part V)
Pearl of the World
I Can See
So It Will Begin
The Prayer
Song of Hiding/A Doctor Must Have Patience
Lullaby
Act II:
The Morning of Mornings
What Is It Worth? (The Pearl Dealers’ Tango)
Not for Sale
Monster of Strangeness
What I Do (For You)
Gone
Fire
The Wind Blows / Song of the Trackers
Lullaby
Cut songs: Civilized Living - We Will Go - To the City - Pass Him By
All Songs from "The Pearl" © 2011 by Louis Rosen & Arthur Perlman. All Rights Reserved.
from A CHILD’S GARDEN
a musical theater piece (2000)
Music, Lyrics Adaptation & Co-Libretto by Louis Rosen
Co-Libretto by Arthur Perlman and Charlotte Maier (based on autobiographical writings and poems by Robert Louis Stevenson). Premiere: Melting Pot Theater, Off-Broadway, December 2000
Prologue - Sing Me a Song
Morning:
The Swing
Good and Bad Children
Foreign Lands/Travel
Afternoon:
Home Is Home Here
Pirate Story
My Shadow
The Wind
Keepsake Mill
Evening:
The House Beautiful
Autumn Fires
Quintet: Land of Counterpane/Land of Story Books/Requiem
Night:
Escape At Bedtime
A Stormy Night Approaches
Shadow March
Windy Nights
The Sick Child
Next Morning:
Marching Song
To My Cousins / To Louis
Block City
To Any Reader
Cut from final version:
Where Go the Boats?
My Kingdom
Good Night
In Port
Armies in the Fire
All Songs from "A Child's Garden" © 2000 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from BOOK OF THE NIGHT
a musical theater piece (1991/1997)
Music by Louis Rosen
Lyrics by Thom Bishop and Louis Rosen (individually and collaboratively as indicated)
Additional Music by Thom Bishop (as indicated)
Premiere: Goodman Theater (Mainstage), 1991. Revision Premiere: Greenwich Street Theater, Off-Broadway, 1997.
Part One:
Opening—Rhythms of a Summer Night (Lyric by TB & LR)
Seventeen On Mars (Lyric by TB & LR)
Saturday Night/Two Wishes (Lyric by LR)
Women in Their Summer Dresses (Lyric by LR)
Covered By the Night (Lyric by TB & LR)
Things That Go Bump In the Night (Lyric by TB & LR)
Empty Arms Hotel (Lyric by TB & LR)
Just Say Yes (Lyric by TB & LR)
Alone Tonight (Lyric by LR)
North of the Border (Lyric by TB)
Part Two:
Someone Else's Dream (Music & Lyric by TB)
Midnight Bar and Grill (Lyric by TB & LR)
See You in the Dark (Lyric by TB & LR)
Watching Her Sleep (Lyric by TB)
Straight Soda With A Lemon Twist (Lyric by TB & LR)
Who’s This Stranger? (Lyric by TB & LR)
Kill the Beast (Lyric by LR)
Changing Channels (Lyric by TB & LR)
Peace in the Night (Lyric by LR)
Where It Goes When It's Gone (Music & Lyric by TB)
In the Dark Before the Dawn (Lyric by LR)
Cut from final version:
When the Big Hand's on the Dozen (Music by LR, Lyric by TB & LR)
Half the Bed (Music by LR, Lyric by TB & LR)
On the Verge of Love (Music & Lyric by LR)
You All Remember Jack? (Music & Lyric by LR)
Dreams (Music by LR, Lyric by TB & LR)
Never Is Now (Music by LR, Lyric by TB & LR)
In the Middle of Nowhere (Music & Lyric by LR)
All songs from "Book of the Night" © 1991/1997 by Louis Rosen & Thom Bishop, except "On the Verge of Love" and "In the Middle of Nowhere," Copyright 1991 by Louis Rosen. All Rights Reserved.
from THE UGLY DUCKLING
a one-act musical (1983/1984)
Music and Lyrics by Louis Rosen
Book by Alan Rosen, based on the play by A. A. Milne
Premiere: The Ann Arbor Summer Arts Festival, 1989
She’s Nice
Another Prince
Happy Ever After
Like a Princess
He Has Secrets
Everyone Was Fooled
A Wedding Today
All songs from "The Ugly Duckling" Songs © 1984 by Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
III. Selected Miscellaneous Songs
Music and Lyrics by Louis Rosen (unless otherwise indicated)
TWO BY GEORGE: Mountain Shadows, Green Sexology (Poems by George Petty, 2008)
Copyright 2008 by Louis Rosen & George Petty. All Rights Reserved.
Invitation to GG (for Gerry Gutierrez’s memorial service, text adapted by LR from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, 2004)
So Good (1985)
Running Away (Lyric by Thom Bishop, 1979)
Love Me a Little Tonight (1977)
A Quiet Place (1977)
Start to Stop Loving You (Music & Lyric by Thom Bishop & LR, 1977)
Bundle of Grief (Music & Lyric by Thom Bishop & LR, 1975)
Every Soul's a Circus (Music & Lyric by Thom Bishop & LR, 1975/2011)
Strange and Changing Love (Music by LR, Lyric by Thom Bishop & LR, 1975/2011)
Ages Since the Last Time (1975)
Two Daydreams Behind (1975)
Still Another Lullaby (1973)
Open Wings (1972)
(and dozens more affectionately -- and some not so affectionately -- forgotten…)
All Songs © Louis Rosen, Lullwater Music, ASCAP, or Louis Rosen & Thom Bishop, Lullwater Music, ASCAP and Wireless Music, BMI. All Rights Reserved.
IV. Songs from Plays (selected)
from PEER GYNT
by Henrik Ibsen(translated by Kenneth McLeish)
Music by Louis Rosen
The Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D.C., 1998, directed by Michael Kahn
Peer’s Song
Song of the Herdgirls
Song of the Thieves
The Lord Has Come
Winter and Spring
The Feast is Set
Solveig’s Lullaby
"Peer Gynt" songs © 1998 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare
Music by Louis Rosen
The Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D.C., 1997, directed by Laurence Boswell
Under The Greenwood Tree
Blow, Blow Thy Winter Wind
What Shall He Have That Killed the Deer?
A Lover and His Lass
Wedding Song
"As You Like It" songs © 1997 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
by Bertolt Brecht, translation by Haniff Kureishi
Music by Louis Rosen
The Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D.C., 1993, directed by Michael Kahn
Song of Mother Courage
Song of the Woman and the Soldier
Song of Fraternisation
Song of the Hours
Song of the Great Capitulation (Translation Adaptation by LR)
Song of the Soldier
Song of Mother Courage II
Song of Great Men
Song of Shelter (Translation by LR)
Lullabye (Translation by LR)
"Mother Courage and Her Children" songs, © 1993 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from THE WINTER'S TALE
by William Shakespeare
Music by Louis Rosen
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, 1992, directed by Doug Hughes; and The Court Theater, Chicago, 1978, directed by Michael Maggio
When Daffodils Begin to Peer
Come Buy
Will You Buy Any Cake?
"The Winter's Tale" songs © 1978 & 1992 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
Music by Louis Rosen
Seattle Repertory Theater, 1991, directed by Doug Hughes
O Mistress Mine
Come Away, Death
I Am Gone, Sir
The Wind and the Rain
"Twelfth Night" songs © 1991 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens, adapted by David Thompson
Music by Louis Rosen
McCarter Theater, Princeton, 1991-99, directed by Scott Ellis
Wake, Awake
Christmas Brings Joy
"A Christmas Carol" songs © 1991 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from THE TEMPEST
by William Shakespeare
Music by Louis Rosen
Goodman Theater, Chicago, 1987, directed by Robert Falls
Come Unto These Yellow Sands
Full Fathom Five
Sleep Song
Wedding Song
Where the Bee Sucks
"The Tempest" songs © 1987 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from GALILEO
by Bertolt Brecht, translation by Adrian Hall and James Schevill
Music by Louis Rosen
Goodman Theater, Chicago, 1986, directed by Robert Falls
On the Joy of Beginning
Scene Ten: The Horrendous Doctrine and Teaching of Galileo Galilei
The Bishop and the Tailor
Epilogue of the Scientists
"Galileo" Songs © 1986 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.
from THESMOPHORIASOUZAE: Ladies’ Day
by Aristophanes, translation by D. Nicholas Rudall
Music by Louis Rosen
Court Theater, Chicago, 1977, directed by D. Nicholas Rudall
Prologue (Words by Jonathan Abarbanel)
Prayer
Light the Torches
Song to Athena
Song to Bacchus
All Songs © 1998 by Louis Rosen and D. Nicholas Rudall, Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.