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String Quartet * Other Chamber Music * Music Theater * Orchestral * Choral
Many of my scores can be ordered from Frog Peak Music. Others are available here as PDF files. If anyone is interested in performing something and needs instrumental parts, shoot me an e-mail at kgann@earthlink.net and I'll oblige.
Percussion * Solo Piano * Songs * Disklavier * Microtonal
String Quartet:
Other Chamber Music:
Music Theater:
Choral:
Solo Piano:
Orchestral:
Percussion:
Disklavier:
Songs:
Microtonal (Synthesized) Works:
-- Kyle Gann
(All selections copyright 2003 Kyle Gann)
Concord Spiral for string quartet (2010) - 8 1/2 minutes
Hudson Spiral for string quartet (2010) - 13 minutes
The Light Summer Land for string quartet (2010) - 25 minutes
Love Scene for string quartet (2003) in just intonation - 6 minutes
Listen to the tuning in a MIDI realization here
Street Music for clarinet, tenor sax, optional voice, drum(s), violin, cello (2009) - 4 minutes
The Planets for flute, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, synthesizer, percussion, viola, and contrabass (1994-2008) - 75 minutes
Performed by the Relache ensemble
Venus: MP3
Composure for four electric guitars (2007-8) - 13 minutes
Kierkegaard, Walking for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2007) - 16 minutes
Implausible Sketches for piano four hands (2006/2011) - 32 minutes
The Day Revisited for flute, clarinet, two keyboard samplers, and fretless bass in 29-pitch just intonation (2005; score in Ben Johnston's JI notation) - 13 minutes
New World Coming for solo bassoon with flute (or oboe), violin (or viola), and piano (2001) - 6 and 1/2 minutes
Hovenweep for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (2001) - 11 minutes
Minute Symphony for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2004) - 80 seconds
"Last Chance" Sonata for clarinet and piano (1999) - 19 minutes
Clarinet Part
Performed by Meighan Stoops (1,4) and Sara Phillips (2,3), clarinet, and Bari Mort, piano
MP3s: 1st mvmt. 2nd mvmt. 3rd mvmt. 4th mvmt.
Chicago Spiral for flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone (or three flutes), tom-toms, synthesizer, violin, viola, cello (1990-91) - 8 minutes
Performed by Dinosaur Annex
Chicago Spiral: MP3
The Convent at Tepoztlan (Canon 23:24) for two pianos or piano and tape (1989) - 7 1/2 minutes
Cyclic Aphorisms for violin and piano (1988) - 8 minutes
I'itoi Variations for two pianos (1985) - 26 minutes
Hesapa ki Lakhota ki Thawapi (The Black Hills Belong to the Sioux) for flute, soprano sxophone (or trumpet), accordion (or synthesizer), and drum (1984/9) - 8 minutes
Baptism for two flutes, two drums, glockenspiel, and organ (harmonium or electric keyboard) (1983) - 11 minutes
Performed by Kyle Gann and Musicians
Baptism: MP3
Long Night for three pianos (1980-81) - circa 25 minutes
Tempo Canon for harp, piano, and harpsichord (1979) - 5 minutes
Desert Flowers for solo flute (1979) - 7 minutes
Could Ye Loan Me Ten Pence? for singer and two melody instruments (1978) - 2 minutes
Siren for five flutes (1978) - 8 minutes
Lord Thomas and Fair Annie for alto flute, clarinet, viola (or violin), harpsichord, and celeste (1977-8) - 8 minutes
Satie for soprano, flute, violin, vibraphone, celeste, and harp (1975) - 10 minutes
Performed by the Real Time ensemble
Satie: MP3
Fantasy on Protestant Hymns for handbell choir (1972) - 3 minutes
Custer and Sitting Bull for actor, synthesizer, and electronic background (1995-1999) - text assembled by Kyle Gann from historical sources - 35 minutes (warning - 322 pages, 146 MB)
Transcendental Sonnets for SATB chorus, soprano and tenor soloists, and orchestra (2005-6) - text by Jones Very - 35 minutes
My father moved through dooms of love for SATB chorus, solo violin, and piano (2005-6) - text by E.E. Cummings - 12 minutes
Performed by the Dessoff Choir, James Bagwell conducting
My father moved through dooms of love: MP3
On Reading Emerson for piano (2006) - 8 minutes
Private Dances (2000/04) - 25 minutes
Time Does Not Exist for piano (2000) - 16 minutes
Desert Sonata for piano (1994) - 19 minutes
Paris Intermezzo for toy piano (or regular piano) (1989) - 7 minutes
Windows to Infinity for piano (1987) - 12 minutes
Performed by Kyle Gann
Windows to Infinity: MP3
The Question Answer'd for piano (1982) - 4 minutes
The Mercy of the Storm for piano (1981) - 11 minutes
Commentary on Hope and Meaninglessness for piano (1973) (written when I was 17)
Sunken City (Concerto for piano and winds in memoriam New Orleans) for solo piano, flute, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, horn, three trumpets, two trombones, bass trombone, and electric bass (2007) - 25 minutes
The Disappearance of All Holy Things from This Once So Promising World for orchestra with solo viola (1998) - 11 minutes
Snake Dance No. 1 for four percussionists (1991) - 9 minutes
Snake Dance No. 2 for four percussionists (1995) - 10 minutes
Coming soon: Snake Dance No. 3 for four percussionists, two microtonal keyboards, and fretless bass (or third microtonal keyboard) (2010) - 11 minutes
Olana for solo vibraphone (2007) - 9 minutes
Despotic Waltz for Disklavier (1997) - 2 minutes
The Waiting for Disklavier (1997) - 7 1/2 minutes
Nude Rolling Down an Escalator for Disklavier (1997/9) - 5 1/2 minutes
Folk Dance for Henry Cowell for Disklavier (1999) - 2 minutes
Texarkana for Disklavier (2000) - 4 minutes
Bud Ran Back Out for Disklavier (2001) - 3 minutes
Bud Ran Back Out: MP3 Cosmic Boogie-Woogie for Disklavier (2000-2001) - 9 minutes
Tango da Chiesa for Disklavier (2002) - 6 minutes
Petty Larceny for Disklavier (2003) - 5 minutes
Imaginary Isle for nine computerized toy pianos (2003) - 2 minutes
Unquiet Night for Disklavier (2004) - 16 minutes
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Sermon for soprano and piano (1985/93) - text by T. S. Eliot
In the Busy Streets for female voice and piano (1984) - text by Henry D. Thoreau
The Hippopotamus for baritone and piano (1979) - text by T. S. Eliot
Faith for soprano and piano (1984) - text by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I Slept and Dreamed that Life Was Beauty for soprano and piano (1991) - text by Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Solitaire for keyboard sampler and soundfile (2009; score in Ben Johnston's JI notation) - 14 minutes
New Aunts for retuned keyboard sampler (2008) - 5 minutes
Charing Cross for retuned keyboard sampler and soundfile (2007) - 8 minutes
Fugitive Objects for retuned keyboard sampler (2007) - 7 minutes
Triskaidekaphonia for retuned keyboard sampler (2005) - 4 minutes
How Miraculous Things Happen for keyboard sampler and soundfile (1997; score in Ben Johnston's JI notation) - 11 minutes
Fractured Paradise for keyboard sampler and soundfile (1995) - 4 minutes
So Many Little Dyings for keyboard sampler and (1994) - 6 minutes
Superparticular Woman for keyboard sampler and soundfile (1992; score in Ben Johnston's JI notation) - 4 minutes
