Song Catalog

Opera

  • 3 children's operas: The Churkendoose; Rachetty Pachetty House, Herman Ermine in Rabbit Town (1942)
  • The Lowland Sea (1952)
  • Miss Chicken Little (1953)
  • Sunday Excursion (1953)
  • Kittiwake Island (1954)
  • The Long Way (1955)
  • The Impossible Forest (1958)
  • The Truth about Windmills (1973)
  • The Tattooed Countess (1974)
  • The Opening (1975)

Large ensemble

  • A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra (1954). Text by Marshall Barer. A musical primer. Eighteen movements featuring individual instruments of the orchestra. [Ludlow]
  • Names from the War (1961), for narrator, chorus, brass quintet, and woodwind quintet
  • Children’s Plea for Peace (1968). Children's SSAA chorus, narrator and wind ensemble. Text by Wilder, adapted from writings of Avon, New York schoolchildren. Dedicated to Rev. Henry Atwell. [Margun]

Popular Songs (selected list)

  • "A Child Is Born" (lyrics only)
  • "A Long Night"
  • "Be a Child"
  • "Blackberry Winter"
  • "Ellen"
  • "Give Me Time"
  • "I'll Be Around"
  • "It's So Peaceful in the Country"
  • "Lovers and Losers"
  • "Mimosa and Me"
  • "Moon and Sand"
  • "Rain Rain"
  • "That's My Girl"
  • "The April Age"
  • "The Rose on the Wind"
  • "The Starlighter"
  • "The Winter of My Discontent"
  • "Trouble Is a Man"
  • "Walk Pretty"
  • "Where Do You Go"
  • "While We're Young"
  • “Who Can I Turn To"

Octets (1939–41) 

Flute/Clarinet 2, oboe/English horn/, clarinet 1, bass clarinet, bassoon, harpsichord, bass, drums:

  • Bull Fiddle in a China Shop
  • The Children Met the Train
  • Concerning Etchings
  • Dance Man Buys a Farm
  • A Debutante's Diary
  • Her Old Man Was Suspicious
  • His First Long Pants
  • House Detective Registers
  • It's Silk, Feel It!
  • Jack, This Is My Husband
  • Kindergarten Flower Pageant
  • Little Girl Grows Up
  • Little White Samba
  • Neurotic Goldfish
  • She'll Be Seven in May
  • Such a Tender Night
  • Walking Home in Spring

Musical

  • Pinocchio (1957)
  • Hansel and Gretel (1958)
  • Miss Chicken Little (1953).
  • Nobody’s Earnest (1978).

Film music

Chamber music and solo instruments

  • Air for Bassoon and Strings (1945). For Harold Goltzer
  • Air for Flute and Strings (1945). For Julius Baker
  • Air for Oboe and Strings (1945). For Mitch Miller
  • Brass Quintets:
    • No 1 (1959) For the New York Brass Quintet
    • No 2 (1961)
    • No. 3 (1970)
    • No. 4 (1973) For Harvey Phillips
    • No. 5 (1975) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
    • No. 6 (1977) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
    • No. 7 (1978) For Frances Miller
    • No. 8 (1980) For Frances Miller
  • Concerto No. 1 for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (1967). For Doc Severinson
  • Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra (1981; written in 1971). For Barry Kilpatrick
  • Effie Suite (1960) for Tuba, Vibraphone, Piano and Drums. For Harvey Phillips
  • Fantasy for Piano and Wind Ensemble (1974). For Marian McPartland
  • Hardy Suite for Piano
  • Jazz Suite for Four Horns (1951). Four horns with harpsichord, guitar, bass, drums.
  • Seven Duets for Horn and Bassoon
  • Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1960). For Donald Sinta
  • Sonata for Bassoon
    • No. 1 (1968)
    • No. 2 (1968)
    • No. 3 (1982)
  • Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano (1969). For George Roberts
  • Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1963). For Glenn Bowen
  • Sonata for Euphonium and Piano (1968)
  • Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1963). For Joe Wilder
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1965)
  • Sonata-Fantasy for Piano
  • Suite for Flute and Marimba (1977)
  • Suite for String Bass and Guitar (1980)
  • Suite for Unaccompanied Flute (1975). For Virginia Nanzetta
  • Suites for Piano, Nos. 1 to 4
  • Suite No. 2 for Tenor Saxophone and Strings (1966). For Zoot Sims. [Margun]
  • Suites for Tuba and Piano:
    • Suite No. 1 (1960) for Harvey Phillips
    • Suite No. 2 (Jesse Suite)
    • Suite No. 3 (Suite for Little Harvey)
    • Suite No. 4 (Thomas Suite)
  • Three Ballads for Stan [also exists in Wilder's piano reduction as Suite No. 1 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano] (1963). For Stan Getz. [Margun]
  • Twelve Duets for Horn and Bassoon
  • Twelve Mosaics for Piano
  • Un deuxième essai for Piano
  • Woodwind Quintets:
    • No. 1 (1954) For the New York Woodwind Quintet
    • No. 2 (1956)
    • No. 3 (1958)
    • No. 4 (1959) For Bernard Garfield;
    • No. 5 (1959)
    • No. 6 (1960)
    • No. 7 (1964)
    • No. 8 (1966) [also known as 'Suite For Non-Voting Quintet']
    • No. 9 (1969)
    • No. 10 (ca. 1968)
    • No. 11 (1971) For John Barrows
    • No. 12 (1975) For the Wingra Quintet
    • No. 13

Discography