Scenario (2003-4)
for theatrical soprano and virtual orchestra (soundfile); text by S.J. Perelman, "Scenario"; 17 minutes
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The Hudson River Trilogy: Cinderella's Bad Magic, Painting Shadows, The Watermelon Cargo:
Painting Shadows (chamber opera; work in progress, 2004)
Libretto by Jeffrey Sichel; two singers (Mezzosoprano, Baritone), flute, three synthesizers, fretless bass
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The Watermelon Cargo (chamber opera; 2002-3)
Libretto by Jeffrey Sichel; four singers (SATB), chorus, flute, three synthesizers, fretless bass, drums; 42 minutes
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Cinderella's Bad Magic (2002; opera)
Libretto by Jeffrey Sichel; five singers (SSABarB), flute, three synthesizers, fretless bass; 43 minutes
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| MP3 | Scenes 3, 4, and 5
Custer and Sitting Bull (1997-99)
Incidental Music for Alice in Wonderland (1991-92)
Chorus:
my father moved through dooms of love (2005)
Transcendental Sonnets (2001-2)
Orchestra:
Sunken City (Concerto for Piano and Winds in memoriam New Orleans; 2007)
The Disappearance of All Holy Things from this Once So Promising World (1998)
Chamber Music:
The Planets (Astrological Studies) (1994-2008)
Composure (2007)
Kierkegaard, Walking (2007)
Implausible Sketches (2006)
The Day Revisited (2005)
Minute Symphony (2004)
Love Scene (2003)
New World Coming (2001)
Hovenweep (2000)
"Last Chance" Sonata (1999)
Arcana XVI: Homage to Joan Tower (Tuning Study No. 5) (1998)
Snake Dance No. 2 (1995)
Snake Dance No. 1 (1991)
Chicago Spiral (1990-91)
Cyclic Aphorisms (1988)
I'itoi Variations (1985)
Hesapa ki Lakhota ki Thawapi ("The Black Hills Belong to the Sioux") (1984/9)
Cherokee Songs (1983)
Baptism (1983)
Mountain Spirit (1982-83)
As the Day Is Long (1982)
Long Night (1980-81)
Oil Man (1981)
Song of Acceptance (1980)
Tempo Canon (1979)
Lord Thomas and Fair Annie (1978)
Siren (1978)
Untitled, 1977 (1977)
Satie (1975)
Solo Piano:
On Reading Emerson (2006)
Triskaidekaphonia (Tuning Study No. 6) (2005)
Private Dances (2000/4)
Time Does Not Exist (2000)
Desert Sonata (1994-95)
Paris Intermezzo (1989)
The Convent at Tepoztlan (Homage to Nancarrow: Canon 23:24) (1989)
Sweeney Out West (Five Vacation Mishaps for Piano) (1987-89)
Windows to Infinity (1987)
The Question Answer'd (1983)
The Mercy of the Storm (1981)
Other Solo Instrument:
Olana (2007)
Fugitive Objects (Tuning Study No. 7) (2007)
Laredo (1988)
Dakota Moon (1982)
Desert Flowers (1979)
Works for Disklavier and other mechanical instruments:
Unquiet Night (Mechanical Piano Study No. 10) (2004)
Petty Larceny (Mechanical Piano Study No. 9) (2003)
Imaginary Island (2003)
Tango da Chiesa (Mechanical Piano Study No. 8) (2002)
Das Knaben Wunderklavier (2000-2001)
Cosmic Boogie-Woogie (Mechanical Piano Study No. 7) (2000-2001)
Bud Ran Back Out (Mechanical Piano Study No. 6) (2001)
Texarkana (Mechanical Piano Study No. 5) (2000)
Folk Dance for Henry Cowell (Mechanical Piano Study No. 4) (1999)
Nude Rolling Down an Escalator (Mechanical Piano Study No. 3) (1997/99)
The Waiting (Mechanical Piano Study No. 2) (1997)
Despotic Waltz (Mechanical Piano Study No. 1) (1997)
Electronic Works:
Charing Cross (Tuning Study No. 8) (2007)
How Miraculous Things Happen (Tuning Study No. 4) (1997)
Fractured Paradise (Tuning Study No. 3) (1995)
Homage to Cowell (Tuning Study No. 2) (1994)
So Many Little Dyings (1994)
Ghost Town (1994)
Superparticular Woman (Tuning Study No. 1) (1992)
Canso (1981)
for speaking voice and computer tape; 35 minutes
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Tuning chart for Custer: "If I Were an Indian..."
Tuning chart for Sitting Bull: "Do You Know Who I Am?"
Tuning chart for the Sun Dance.
Tuning chart for Custer's Ghost.
Score available from Frog Peak Music
Sitting Bull MP3
flute, clarinet, electronics (keyboard sampler and synthesizer)
for SATB chorus, violin, piano; text by e. e. cummings; 12 minutes
Chorus, two soloists, and orchestra (2, 2, 2, 2; 2, 2, 1 [no tuba]; perc [timp, glock]; strings; soprano and tenor soloists; SATB; also version for chorus and piano) - commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir; poems by Jones Very (1813-1880); 34 minutes
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Faith MP3 The Word MP3
for piano solo with flute, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, 3 trumpets, horn, 3 trombones, bass; 25 minutes
for orchestra (winds 2221, 2 hns, 1 trp, 1 perc, strings); 11 minutes
Score (PDF)
for flute, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, synthesizer, percussion (tom-toms, cymbals, vibraphone), viola, and double bass (movements performable separately); 75 minutes
commissioned by the Relache Ensemble
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Book I available from Frog Peak Music
Performed by the Relache ensemble
Venus: MP3
for four electric guitars; 14 minutes
commissioned by Tim Brady
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello; 16 minutes
commissioned by the Seattle Chamber Players
for piano, four hands; 25 minutes
for flute, clarinet, keyboard sampler, synthesizer, electric bass (microtonal, 27-tone just-intonation scale); 13 minutes
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello; 1 minute
for string quartet in just intonation (based on Act III of The Watermelon Cargo); 6 minutes
for solo bassoon with flute (or oboe), violin (or viola), and piano; 6 1/2 minutes
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Score (PDF)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; 11 minutes; commissioned by the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
Score (PDF)
for clarinet and piano; 19 minutes
Score available from Frog Peak Music
Scores (PDF): 1st mvmt. 2nd mvmt. 3rd mvmt. 4th mvmt.
MP3s: 1st mvmt. 2nd mvmt. 3rd mvmt. 4th mvmt.
Performed by Meighan Stoops (1,4) and Sara Philips (2,3), clarinet, and Bari Mort, piano
for three synthesizers (24-tone scale); 7 minutes
See the program notes and tuning chart for Arcana XVI
for percussion quartet with optional sampling keyboard; 12 minutes
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percussion quartet with optional keyboard sampler; 12 minutes
for flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone (or three flutes), drums, violin, viola, cello, and synthesizer; 9 minutes
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Performed by Dinosaur Annex
MP3 Score (PDF)
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for violin and piano; three movements; 8 minutes
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for two pianos; 26 minutes
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MP3
Performed by Double Edge (Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann)
for flute, trumpet (or saxophone), synthesizer (or accordion), and drum; 9 minutes
for soprano and percussion; 12 minutes
for two flutes, two drums, glockenspiel, and synthesizer; 12 minutes
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MP3
for two flutes, two drums, and synthesizer; 12 minutes
for flute, synthesizer, drums, and computer tape; 13 minutes
MP3
for three pianos; ca. 22 minutes
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MP3
Katy Elsey, Mary Slaughter, Kyle Gann, pianos
for 2 flutes, clarinet, piano, drums; text by Kyle Gann from letters by Marvin Gann
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for three female voices, flute, French horn, trombone, tuba, celeste, two violins, and cello; length indeterminate; texts from Lao-Tzu, Walt Whitman, and Ecclesiastes
for harp, piano, and harpsichord
for alto flute, clarinet, viola, harpsichord, celesta
for five flutes
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for two flutes, marimba, violin, contrabass
for female voice, violin, flute, harp, celesta; texts by Erik Satie
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Score (PDF) MP3
for piano; 8 minutes
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for (electronically simulated) microtonal piano; 5 minutes
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for piano; 25 minutes
No. 1 Score (PDF) No. 2 Score (PDF)
for piano; 16 minutes
Score (PDF)
for piano; two movements; 19 minutes
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See a page from the first movement, "Wind"
See a page from the second movement, "Night"
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for toy piano; 6 1/2 minutes
for piano and computer tape, or two pianos; 7 minutes
for piano
for piano; 11 minutes
for piano; 4 minutes
Score (PDF)
for piano; 11 minutes
Score (PDF)
for vibraphone; 8 minutes
commissioned by Andrew Bliss
for keyboard sampler in just intonation; five minutes
for snare drum; five minutes
for clarinet
for flute
for Disklavier; 16 minutes
for Disklavier; 6 minutes
for nine computerized toy pianos; 2 minutes
for Disklavier; 6 minutes
for live pianist and Disklavier, or Disklavier alone; 7 minutes
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for Disklavier; 8 minutes
for Disklavier; 3 minutes
MP3 Score (PDF)
for Disklavier; 4 minutes
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for Disklavier; 2 minutes
MP3
for Disklavier; 5 minutes
See a page from Nude Rolling Down an Escalator
MP3
for mechanical piano (Disklavier); 7 minutes
for mechanical piano (Disklavier); 2 minutes
for keyboard sampler in just intonation, and soundfile; 8 minutes
for synthesizer (24-tone scale) and tape; 11 minutes
***Hear a 1:51 audio sample of How Miraculous Things Happen.
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for synthesizer (16-tone scale) and tape; 4 minutes
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for keyboard sampler (just-intonation scale); 5 minutes
for keyboard sampler; text (and sampled voice) by Kenneth Patchen; 6 minutes
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MP3
for synthesizer (seven-limit just-intonation scale) and computer tape; 10 minutes
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synthesizer (22-tone scale) and computer tape; 4 minutes
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computer tape; 3 minutes
