Cats in song

[chickenfeet]

lisekit challenged me to find five songs with "cat" in the title. Leaving aside Mr. Lloyd-Webber's treatment of T.S.Eliot which alone has more than five such songs, I offer you the following selection:

* Jehan Alain: Chanson du Chat

* Beth Anderson: Cat Songs [baritone, piano or double bass]

* H.K. Andrews: When cats run home

* David Baker: Le chat qui peche [soprano, orchestra, jazz quartet]

* Claude Ballif: Le chat, from Le Cortege d'Orphée

* Samuel Barber: The Monk and His Cat, from Hermit Songs

* Jean-Joel Barbier: Chanson du chat gris

* Martin Boykan: The Owl and the Pussycat, from A Packet for Susan (2003) [mezzo-soprano]

* Benjamin Britten: For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey, from Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30 [alto, organ]

* David DeBoor Canfield: Cats (1976) [soprano; string quartet, harpsichord, tape of prerecorded cat sounds]

* Carson P. Cooman: My Cat, from Foolish Songs

* Aaron Copland: I bought me a cat, from Old American Songs, first set

* Robert Desnos: La petite chat qui ne ressemble a rien

* Alphonse Diepenbrock: Les Chats

* Gottfried von Einem: Katzenlied, from Vier Tierlieder

* Jean Françaix: Belaud, mon petit chat gris, from Trois Épigrammes (1961)

* Alberto Ginastera: Gato

* André Grassi: Le cat cure

* Michael Head: The Matron Cat's Song

* Johann Adam Hiller: Auf ein paar von der Katze erwürgte Lachtauben, from Lieder für Kinder

* Paul Kapp: A cat came fiddling, from A Cat Came Fiddling and Other Rhymes of Childhood

* Josephine Lang: Lied des Katers "Hiddigeigei", Op. 45 No. 5

* Peggy Lee/Sonny Burke: Siamese Cat Song, from The Lady and the Tramp

* Carl Loewe: Die Katzenkoenigin (Fabelballade), Op. 64 No. 3

* Wilfrid Mellers: Five Cat Songs [tenor]

* Darius Milhaud: Le Chat

* Stanislaw Moniuszko: Kotek

* Modest Mussorgsky: Kot Matros ("Sailor" the Cat), No. 7 from Detskaya (The Nursery)

* Lina Pizzuto: Le chat dans le nuit

* Betty Roe: An appeal to cats in the business of love, from Cat and Mouse: More Jazz Songs [soprano, double bass]

* Manuel Rosenthal: Le petit chat est mort, from Chansons du Monsieur Bleu

* Guy Sacré: Chat, from Six Poèmes de "Vocabulaire"

* Henri Sauguet: Chat, from Les Animaux et leurs Hommes

* Henri Sauguet: Le chat I, from Six Mélodies sur des Poèmes Symbolistes

* Henri Sauguet: Le chat II, from Six Mélodies sur des Poèmes Symbolistes

* Eric Satie: Chanson du chat, from Ludions

* J.C.S. (J.C. Seyfert?): Quodlibeticum: Wir haben drey Katzen [soprano; 2 violins, basso continuo]

* Seymour Shifrin: The Cat and the Moon

* Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: Les Chats

* Misha V. Stefanuk: Cat Songs, Op. 89 [soprano]

* Misha V. Stefanuk: Cat Haiku, Op. 73 [soprano]

* Igor Stravinsky: The Owl and the Pussycat

* Igor Stravinsky: Five Berceuses du Chat [alto, 3 clarinets]

* Flavio Testi: Cantata Quarta (Viens, mon beau chat), Op. 31

* Alfred Uhl: Hund und Katze, from Vier Lieder aus der heiteren Kantante "Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut"

* Peter Warlock: Oh, my kitten, No. 4 from Candlelight: a Cycle of Nursery Jingles

* Christoph E.F. Weyse: Cat Cavatina

* Geoffrey Wright: A Cradle of Cats (1968) [high voice]

* Juerg Wyttenbach: Von der Katze ein Stuecke [violin]

* trad. German: Der Vogel singt, die Katze schnurrt

* trad. French (chanson populaire du Vivarais): La vielle et le chat

* trad. (nursery rhyme): Ding dong dell, the pussy's in the well

* trad. (German nursery rhyme): A B C, die Katze lief im Schnee

* trad. (Scottish folk song): The Cameronian Cat (aka The Presbyterian Cat)

You may, if you so choose, ask me a word so you can play.

Comments

[knirirr.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=prd&src=list&pid=10255) may also be of interest.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

But why didn't you stop at five?!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

One can never have too many cats.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

As you have proved many times before!

[helianthas.livejournal.com]

Love Cats (the Cure) and Stray Cat Strut (the Stray Cats) are 2 of my fave songs...

[shezan.livejournal.com]

La Queue Du Chat by Les Frères Jacques (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D0DAFD5C71B1C0F7).

[shezan.livejournal.com]

And I shall refrain from adding the obvious...

... not: Magnificat.

*runs*

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Magnificat is, of course, the trusty sidekick of Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

ow!

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Johann Adam Hiller: Auf ein paar von der Katze erwürgte Lachtauben, from Lieder für Kinder

How gruesome! Especially as a Lied für Kinder! *ponders how cats would go about strangling doves*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

That's cool, for cats.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

All cats are cool, man

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

It's the kaftans that do it.

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

I'll have a word in return!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

wombat

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

here's another word, if you're still bored -- dunno if it's work: mountain

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Wild Mountain Thyme - trad

From Greenland's Icy Mountains - hymn

Pen Rhaw - Welsh trad

MacInnes' Mountain Patrol - Tom Patey

Smokey Mountain Rain - Ronnie Milsap