Music for Choral/Vocal by Joseph Ott
Agnes Dei
Date: 1989
Instrumentation: Soprano and Alto Voice
Alma Mater
Date: 1984
Instrumentation: Song, unison melody with accompaniment; arranged for band and orchestra
Notes: Emporia State University school song
Choices
Date: 1971
Instrumentation: SATB; 8 live performers or 4 live and 4 prerecorded performers
Church House Moan
Date: 1980
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus, a cappella
Crucifixus
Date: 1989
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus and Synthesizer
Dare to Excel
Date: 1985
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
Literary Source: Words based on speech given by Emporia State University President, Robert Glennen
Duration: 3’
Daylight
Date: NA
Instrumentation: NA
Five songs from Rilke
Date: 1967
Instrumentation: Soprano with Piano
Literary Source: Rilke
Duration: 17’
Notes: Five movements: People by Night, Autumn, Lament, Autumn Day, Remembering.
For the Celebration of Life
Date: 1967
Instrumentation: Double SATB Chorus, Soprano, Narrator, and Organ.
Literary Source: Various
Duration: 30-35’
Notes: Commissioned by Milton College in honor of its 100th year (1867-1967). Seven movements.
“Grapes”
Date: 1957
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
Literary Source: Pushkin
How Like A Winter
Date: 1969
Instrumentation: Solo Voice and Piano
Literary Source: William Shakespeare
I Cannot Be Concerned
Date: 1981
Instrumentation: Voice and Piano
I Know
Date: 1966
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
I Lived to Bury My Desires
Date: NA
Literary Source: Pushkin
Notes: Incomplete
If I Loved You Ever
Date: 1981
Instrumentation: Voice and Piano
In the Last Days
Date: 1957
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus, a cappella
A Little Blues
Date: 1979
Instrumentation: SSAA Chorus, a cappella
Lux Aaterna
Date: 1988
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
A Mass of Textures
Date: 1969
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
Notes: Six movements. “Sanctus” only published by Bourne Company, NYC.
The Moon Rising
Date: 1956
Instrumentation: Voice and Piano
Literary Source: from The Book of Songs, Chinese poems
O God We Praise Thy Name
Date: 1956
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus, a Cappella
Literary Source: Bible
People Have No Tears
Date: 1953
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
Literary Source: Pushkin
Popularia
Date: 1981
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus with Piano
Literary Source: Vocalise
Psalm
Date: 1960
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus with Piano
Literary Source: Bible
Songs of Praise
Date: 1969
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus with Piano
Literary Source: Bible
Duration: 13’
Notes: Commissioned by the Edgerton High School Choir, Wallace Tews, Director, Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Sonnet
Date: 1971
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus with Piano and Percussion.
Duration: 4’
The Student
Date: 1957
Instrumentation: NA
There Was A Voice
Date: 1961
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus, a cappella
Literary Source: NA
This Is My Affliction
Date: 1955
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
Literary Source: T. S. Eliot
This Is the Day
Date: 1983
Instrumentation: SSA Chorus, a cappella
Literary Source: Bible
The Three Witnesses
Date: 1958
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus
Literary Source: Coventry Patmore
Triumphal March
Date: 1956
Instrumentation: Male Voice and Piano
Literary Source: T. S. Eliot