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You may be pleased to know that these songs aren't rendered sloppily by amateur vocalists; they have synthesized voices singing the lyrics! This is possible because I bought software called VocalWriter.

Because these renditions are 100% computer-generated, printing the sheet music for them is relatively easy. Price for sheet music: you have to send me a tape of your performance! :-) Send me some e-mail about it; I'm Hugh at (what else?) emersonguys.com.

Click on the album cover
to see the lyrics for the songs on any of the albums below

	The first album (Hugh Emerson: Depressed)	Songs written from the junior high years up to the Kirksville years, 1972-1983. The album title is somewhat deceptive; the album isn't about being depressed. Contains my single biggest hit, "U.B."
	The second album (Hugh Emerson: Born Again)	Songs inspired by events from the years 1983-1995. Again, the album title is somewhat deceptive; not all the songs are spiritual in nature. The other two songs I contributed to the "composers in Columbia" contest, "Limbo" and "Shade of Magenta" are on this album.
	The third album (Requiem / Crime and Punishment)	Contains the two longest works to date: the Requiem in F (in Latin), possibly the happiest mass for the dead ever written, and the music from "Crime and Punishment: the musical".
	The fourth album (A Counterpoint Christmas)	There's kind of a game involved with most of these arrangements: this is a collection of familiar songs with other melodies going on at the same time. The point of the game is to guess what the familiar melody is going to be before it happens. In some cases, the countermelody is original, and in some cases, the countermelody is a familiar tune as well.
	The fifth album (Andy and his Magic Webcam)	Songs written since 1995. Not many ready yet.

• Five Nursery Rhymes for Kittens -- a short song cycle (has its own page)
  • Invitation
  • Not on the Bed
  • The Catnip Dance
  • Chimera
  • Run Kitten Run
• A trio of songs written for the Century Singers at Texas A&M in MP3 format:
  • Aggie Fugue Hullaballo, canneck, canneck and all that jazz. Live performance (TAMU Century Singers, 10/16/94)
  • Counties in Texas For lyrics, consult an atlas! :-) Live performance (TAMU Century Singers, 10/16/94)
  • Counterpoint of the Aggie Animals (Coyotes and frogs and cows. Oh my!) (lyrics)
• For some barbershop quartet arrangements/countermelodies, go here. You'll find:
  • Patriotic Songs
  • Church Songs
  • Christmas Songs
  • Other Songs
• Fraternity Songs I wrote for various Greek-letter organizations
  • Song for Omega Beta Chi
  • My Phi Mu Alpha Girl
  • My SAI Man (Sigma Alpha Iota)
  • Chapter Song for Epsilon Pi (Sigma Alpha Iota)
  • A Tasteful Catch (Phi Mu Alpha)
• Tiger, Tiger was written for the MU University Singers and is dedicated to the memory of AEE. It is in MP3 format.
• Dream Songs
  These are typically not very interesting, but I'm including them anyway; these are tunes that play in my dreams when I'm asleep that I remember when I wake up. Some are background music, and others are foreground (they're being performed in the dream). Many of them are repetitive to the point of monotonous.