Lyle K. Neff

Life

Born: 1959

Biography

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List of choral works

Sacred

• Ein' feste Burg, for unison chorus and organ
• Russian Prayer ("God, our father, hear our prayer") on a Russian folk tune  
• Praise Ye the Lord, for mixed chorus and organ, published by Doxology Music Press (Aiken, S.C.) under pseudonym "Kevin Lyle"
• In the Beginning, for mixed chorus and organ, published by Doxology Music Press (Aiken, S.C.) under pseudonym "Kevin Lyle"
• Beatitudes, for mixed chorus and piano or organ (arr. from song)
• 8 Choral Responses for Church Service, for mixed chorus a cappella (optional piano accompaniment for one item)
• The Greatest is Love, for mixed chorus and piano
• Psalm 151 (English tr.), for mixed chorus, trumpet, and two harps
• Gloria, for mixed chorus and organ
• O Sing unto the Lord, text from Psalm 96, for mixed chorus and piano
• The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want (adapted from organ hymn setting of "Pisgah")
• He Leadeth Me, combined hymn texts from Henry W. Baker and Joseph H. Gilmore, for mixed chorus and piano
• Show Me the Way, for mixed chorus a cappella (published by Augsburg Fortress; information, including an MP3)
• Requiem, for SATB soloists, mixed chorus, and chamber orchestra (including harp and organ)
  1. Introit: Requiem aeternam … Te decet hymnus (Soprano solo, chorus)
  2. Kyrie (SATB solos, chorus)
  3. Gradual: Requiem aeternam (Chorus a cappella)
  4. Tract: Absolve, Domine (Soprano solo)
  5. Sequence: Dies irae (Bass and alto solos, chorus)
  6. Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (Tenor solo, chorus)
  7. Sanctus (Chorus)
  8. Agnus Dei (Chorus)
  9. Communion: Lux aeterna (Chorus)
  10. Absolution: Libera me (Alto solo, TB chorus)
  11. Burial: In paradisum (Chorus)
• To Ev'rything There's a Season, text adapted from Ecclesiastes 3, for mixed chorus and piano
• Miracle Worker, for vocal quartet or mixed chorus a cappella (published by GIA Publications)
• Take My Life, hymn text by Frances R. Havergal, for mixed chorus and organ
• Come and Walk in the Light, for mixed chorus and piano (published by Augsburg Fortress; information, including an MP3)
• God Is There, for mixed chorus and piano

Secular

• Voice of a New Nation, cantata for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra
• A Farewell, for vocal quartet or mixed chorus, a cappella

List of works for solo voice with instruments (piano unless otherwise indicated)

• The Spirit of the Lord (text from the Liturgy)
• After the Dazzle of Day (Walt Whitman)
• 3 Songs to Poems by Sidney Lanier (Sidney Lanier)
  • Souls and Rain-Drops
  • The Palm and the Pine
  • Marsh Hymns. Between Dawn and Sunrise
• I Heard the Voice of Jesus (hymn text by Horatio Bonar)
• Beatitudes (arr. also for mixed chorus)
• My Last Duchess (Robert Browning), for baritone voice, recorder/flute, gamba/cello, harpsichord, and percussion
• Love and the Amplifier, for mezzo-soprano, French horn, vibraphone, and marimba)
• There Was a Lady Loved a Swine, for mezzo-soprano and wind quartet
• Western Wind, for mezzo-soprano, flute, and clarinet
• Photography Extraordinary (Lewis Carroll), for mezzo-soprano
• Miss Edith Makes Another Friend (Bret Harte), for soprano
• Kamei (Cameos) (Lev Mej), for baritone voice, flute, violin, English horn, trombone, percussion, piano, 3 horns, and tuba
• Four Songs from Sidney Lanier's The Marshes of Glynn
  • Glooms of the live-oaks
  • Oh, now unafraid
  • Ye marshes, how candid and simple
  • As the marsh-hen secretly builds

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External links

• Works by Lyle K. Neff in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)