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