Songs Without Words (2004 & 2006)

for solo piano

Set No. 1 (2004)
Duration: 10’

Mélodie
Rain Day
Chickadee
Sunrise in the Adirondacks
Brooklyn Hoe-Down

Set No. 2 (2006)
Duration: 8' 

Preludette
Promenade
A Puzzle
Reverie
Irrepressible 

Both sets premiered by Matthew Quayle at New York University, in December 2004 and December 2006. Like Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words, these are not ordered suites so much as loose collections of short, melodic pieces.  

Featured on the 2015 album of original solo piano music Songs Without Words, Albany Records (TROY 1575).