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Chamber Music * Music Theater * Solo Piano * Songs * Orchestral * Choral * Disklavier
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.
Chamber Music:
Music Theater:
Choral:
Solo Piano:
Orchestral:
Disklavier:
Songs:
-- Kyle Gann
(All selections copyright 2003 Kyle Gann)
Composure for four electric guitars (2007-8) - 13 minutes
Olana for solo vibraphone (2007) - 9 minutes
Kierkegaard, Walking for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2007) - 16 minutes - Performance rights reserved to the Seattle Chamber Players through January 2009
Implausible Sketches for piano four hands (2006) - 25 minutes
The Day Revisited for flute, clarinet, two keyboard samplers, and fretless bass in 29-pitch just intonation (2005) - 13 minutes
Love Scene for string quartet (2003) in just intonation; see guide to the tuning notation here - 6 minutes
Listen to the tuning in a MIDI realization here
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
From The Planets for flute, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, synthesizer, percussion, viola, and contrabass
Performed by the Relache ensemble
Venus: MP3
"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
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 harsichord (1979) - 5 minutes
Siren for five flutes (1978) - 8 minutes
Desert Flowers for solo flute (1979) - 7 minutes
Satie for soprano, flute, violin, vibraphone, celeste, and harp (1975) - 10 minutes
Performed by the Real Time ensemble
Satie: MP3
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 (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
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
Unquiet Night for Disklavier (2004) - 16 minutes
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Sermon for soprano and piano (1985/93) - text by T. S. Eliot
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
