op. 7 Hol. 81B / Six Melodies-Original version. BA 5784-90: Vocal score (original keys with alternatives of 2) and 3) in higher keys). 1: Villanelle A major (mezzo-soprano or tenor voice). 2: Le spectre de la rose B major (contralto voice; alternative provided in D major for high voice). 3: Sur les lagunes F minor (baritone or contralto or soprano voice; alternative provided in G minor for high voice). 4: Absence F sharp minor (mezzo-soprano or tenor voice). 5: Au cimetière D major (tenor voice). 6: L’îsle inconnue D major (tenor voice). Full scores and parts available for hire contain both versions of2) and 3) enabling the complete song cycle to be performed in concert by a single vocalist.

Sixteen songs and seven arias for high voice and Piano composed over a fifteen-year period from 1989 to 2004 with texts in English French German and translations from German Portuguese and Russian. Texts from theBible Shakespeare Mozart Rimbaud Fernando Pessoa and Paul Celan and by living writers Roger Pulvers Kevin Power Victoria Hardie and Michael Hastings. While the original text-free version of Life's Chaos appeared aspart of the musical accompaniment to Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera there are songs from three of his film scores: The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover Prospero's Books and The Diary OfAnne Frank and from four song cycles: L'Orgie Parisienne Six Celan Songs Cycle of Disquietude and Acts Of Beauty. There are arias from two stage operas Facing Goya and Man and Boy:Dada and a TV opera Letters Riddles and Writs.