Almost all of these pieces use between 20 and 39 pitches per octave (The Insomnia of Lilacs uses 58), and all are in just intonation
except for Two Creatures, a quarter-tone piece. About half the scores here use Ben Johnston's
just-intonation notation, with new accidentals for 7th, 11th, and 13th harmonics and subharmonics, usually explained
in the preface to the score. Those are mostly 11-limit or 13-limit, although Whisper #4 goes up to
23-limit. Most of the rest give merely MIDI information, so that you can't tell what pitches are
intended without consulting the pitch key, usually also in the preface to the score. My only microtonal work not yet
included here is my chamber opera The Watermelon Cargo.
The Aardvarks' Parade (MIDI score) for microtonal keyboard and soundfile (2009) - 10 minutes; recording
Amateur California Prune-Picker for Partch instruments (2018/2022) - 10 minutes
Anaconda (MIDI score) for microtonal keyboard (2022) - 17 minutes; recording
Arcana XVI (MIDI score) for three keyboards (1998) - 8 minutes
Charing Cross for keyboard and soundfile (2007) - 8 minutes; recording
Cinderella's Bad Magic for five singers, flute, three electronic keyboards, and fretless bass (2002) - 43 minutes
Custer and Sitting Bull for actor, keyboard, and electronic background (1995-1999) - text assembled by Kyle Gann from historical sources -
35 minutes; recordings here
The Day Revisited for flute, clarinet, two keyboard samplers, and fretless bass in 29-pitch just intonation (2005) - 13 minutes; recording
Echoes of Nothing (2011) - 2 movements, 14 minutes; 1. Nothing; 2. Something;
Fractured Paradise for keyboard sampler and soundfile (1995) - 4 minutes; recording
Fugitive Objects for retuned keyboard sampler (2007) - 7 minutes; recording
Ghost Town (keyboard score only) for soundfile (1994) - 10 minutes; recording
Homage to Cowell for keyboard sampler (1994) - 5 minutes; recording
How Miraculous Things Happen for keyboard sampler and soundfile (1997) - 11 minutes; recording
Hyperchromatica for three retuned Disklaviers (2015-17; 2020-21); total duration 3 hours, 23 minutes; recordings here
Study scores in Johnston notation:
Andromeda Memories- 8:21
Futility Row- 8:53
Orbital Resonance - 11:30
Pavane for a Dead Planet - 9:07
Star Dance- 6:39
Ride the Cosmos- 6:15
Dark Forces Signify - 8:14
Busted Grooves - 7:12
Rings of Saturn - 13:31
Pulsars - 10:24 (revised)
Spacecat - 4:21
Extravehicular Activity - 9:10
Reverse Gravity - 5:56
Romance Postmoderne - 8:32
Geometry - 17:14
Galactic Jamboree - 7:16
Videos with scores
MIDI scores for three pianos:
Andromeda Memories- 8:21
Futility Row- 8:53
Orbital Resonance - 11:30
Pavane for a Dead Planet - 9:07
Star Dance - 6:39
Ride the Cosmos - 6:15
Dark Forces Signify - 8:14
The Lessing Is Miracle - 9:38
Busted Grooves - 7:12
Rings of Saturn - 13:31
Pulsars - 10:24 (revised)
Delta Oracle - 9:03
Neptune Night - 14:11
Spacecat - 4:21
Extravehicular Activity - 9:10
Reverse Gravity - 5:56
Romance Postmoderne - 8:32
Geometry (Homage to Schillinger) - 17:14
2.7 Kelvin - 12:37
Liquid Mechanisms - 13:20
Galactic Jamboree - 7:16
The Insomnia of Lilacs for soundfile (2018) - 31:16; recording
Love Scene for string quartet (2003) - 6 minutes; MIDI version recording
Mystic Chords for soundfile (2012) - 6:20; recording
New Aunts for retuned keyboard sampler (2008) - 5 minutes; recording
Nursery Tunes for Weird Children for three retuned pianos (2012/15) - 10 minutes;
recordings:
1. Down to the End of the Town
2. Up the Hill and Up Again
3. Tiger, Tiger, Turning Right
4. The Cracked Bells of St. Swithun's
5. Jack Ate a Blackbird
Romance Postmoderne, version for two keyboards (2012) - 9 minutes; recording
Snake Dance No. 3 for four percussionists, two microtonal keyboards, and fretless bass (or third microtonal keyboard) (2010) - 11 minutes; recording
Solitaire for keyboard sampler and soundfile (2009) - 14 minutes; recording
So Many Little Dyings for keyboard sampler (1994) - 6 minutes; recording
Superparticular Woman for keyboard sampler and soundfile (1992) - 4 minutes; recording
Triskaidekaphonia (MIDI score) for retuned keyboard sampler (2005) - 4 minutes; recording
Two Creatures for quarter-tone accordion (2015/8) - 9 minutes; recordings:
1. Reticent Behemoth
2. Affable Denizen
Two Random Microtonal Studies for retuned keyboard (2020) - 10 minutes
Study No. 1
Study No. 2
The Unnameable for keyboard sampler and soundfile (2012) - 12 minutes; recording
Whispers for retuned keyboard (2020-21), in study score or performance score - 42 minutes; recording
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