title: Joseph Baber
text: # Joseph Baber
  
  Joseph Wilson Baber Jr. (September 11, 1937 – March 19, 2022) was an American composer, violist, and composition teacher living in Lexington, Kentucky.
  
  ## Life
  
  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.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  Information from and.
  
  * 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
     * 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
  * 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)
  * 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)
  