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with
recordings. Contact me if you
need parts or notice any corrections to be made. Opus numbers listed here
Scores that can be
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VOCAL MUSIC
Smut
(a.k.a. Chorea Lascivia) (opus 10)
song cycle of Medieval and Latin love poetry, dedicated to Robert
Mapplethorpe & David Wojnarowicz
for two mezzosopranos, two
electric guitars, trumpet, trombone, two percussionists
The
Apotheosis of John Brown (opus 8)
text from Frederick Douglass
narrator, singers, strings, continuo, percussion
The War Prayer
(opus 12)
cantata fom Mark Twain
for organ and singers: solo tenor, solo bass/baritone
and solo or group soprano, alto, tenor, bass/bartitons
Ice-9 Ballads(opus 14)
songs from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
for narrator, tenor, 3 sopranos, cl, sax, trombone, harmonica, 3
violins (one mandolin double), guitar, harp, synthesizer, bass, two
percussionists
The
People's Choice: Music (opus 15)
The Most Wanted Music and The Most Unwanted
Music
for large and unusual chamber group
Naked Revolution (opus 16)
a socialist realist opera drawn from immigrant dreams
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
solo piano
Belvedere
Fanny Brice
Five Little Monsters
Fractals on the Names of Bach & Haydn (opus
24)
girl with a hat in a car
Hockets & Inventions (opus 6)
Letter to Gil Evans (opus 25)
Letter to Skip James
organ
Hockets & Inventions (organ solo) (opus 6)
Organum Book I (organ solo) (opus 23)
The War Prayer (cantata from Mark Twain) for organ and singers
(opus 12)
solo violin
Chorale: a boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim
Duo for violin & Meade Lux Lewis
woodwind
solo
Utah Dances (flute, clarinet, oboe, or saxophone) (opus
7)
Little Andre (bass flute)
Duo for or clarinet & Meade Lux Lewis
violin & piano
The Complete Victrola Sessions (book) (opus 20)
including:
Prelude
Li Yuen
The Unfolding Opium Poppy
Mata Hari, balerina de Java
Alegria en la cueva vieja
Surf's Up (arrangement of Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks)
Bricktop
Togetherness Blues
accordion
To Spike Jones in Heaven (opus 5)
accordion & CD
Sontag in Sarajevo (accordion & 3 players)
(opus 13)
Five Little Monsters
baroque ensembles
Clever Hans sonata (violin cello harpsichord) (opus
19)
A Year for a Pomegranate (2 violins, recorder, cello, harpsichord)
string quartet
Sequence Girls (quartet with drum) (opus 1)
String Quartet #1 "The Impossible" (opus
3)
String Quartet #2 "Bambatta Variations"
(opus 11)
String Quartet #3 "The Essential"
(opus 21)
Three Delta Blues (Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton,
Skip James) (opus 2)
Sojourner Truth Here Comes the King (arrangement of Raymond Scott)
East St. Louis, 1968 (with CD) (opus 17)
Water Babies ( arrangement of Wayne Shorter)
Five Little Monsters (with drums)
In Time (arrangement of Sly Stone)
Something Sweet, Something Tender (arr. of Eric Dolphy, with flute)
Belvedere (for solo piano, 5-6 min, 1984)
portrays Maurice Ravel's ghost walking through his house, examining his
mechanical toys. Score
Performed by Chrisopher O'Riley.
Hockets and Inventions (solo
piano, 30 minutes, 2010) Opus 6b
twelve highly polyphonic pieces influenced in the medieval style Score
Performed by Steven Beck.
Letter to Skip James (solo
piano, 4 min, 1987, rev. 2012) opus 25 Score
Letter to Gil Evans (12
minutes, 2012) opus 26 Score
Utah Dances (solo flute or other woodwind, 12 min,
1990)
opus 7 are five dances, inspired by baroque dance suites. Cortijo is
named for a favorite conga player, and a Forty-niner is a dance in the
Southwest. It was a present for the 90th birthday of composer Otto
Luening. The dances are Jig, Fugue in One Voice, Cortijo, Allemande,
and Forty-niner and Double. Score.
Performed by Michael Swartz on the alto saxophone.
solo bass flute
Little Andre (3 minutes, 1986) was
inspired by a very young breakdancer I met working on an early hiphop
musical. Score.
Performed by Robert Dick.
solo clarinet
Score for Duo for Clarinet and Meade Lux Lewis (3:17
minutes, 1990) from Ice-9 Ballads download
Meade Lux Lewis's track (mp3)
Performed by Suzanne Gekker with Kurt Vonnegut's
voiceover
The Complete Victrola Sessions (55
min, 92 pages) opus 20
contains piano and violin parts for Mata Hari ballerina de Java Bricktop Togetherness Blues Alegria en la cueva vieja Belvedere Brian's Lament (a.k.a. Surf's Up) Prelude Duo for violin & Mead Lux Lewis Li Yuen (Fountain of Beauty) A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim The Unfolding Opium Poppy book
with piano and violin parts piano
score only
listen to performances by Rebecca Cherry, violin, with
Steven Beck (Unfolding Opium Poppy) or William Hobbs (the other pieces)
The Unfolding Opium Poppy (6
min, 1996)
Prelude (4 min, 2008)
Alegria en la cueva vieja (6 min, 2008)
Mata Hari, balerina de Java (6
min, 2008)
Togetherness Blues (3 min, 2008)
Li Yuen (6 min, 2008, needs a gong)
Bricktop (5 min, 2008)
Surf's Up (6 min, 2008)
arrangement of the song by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks
Dean Swift's Satyrs for the Very Very Young (40 min, 2011)
opus 22
Vocal (low soprano / baritone), flute, viola, harp
No recording yet. Score
(December 2011 version) Parts
Smut
(also known as Chorea Lascivia) (25 min, 1991)
Eight Gothic Rock songs in medieval Latin
dedicated to Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz
opus 10
2 mezzosopranos, baritone, 2 electric guitars, trumpet, trombone, two
percussionists (trap set, bs dr, tamborine, dumbek, 2 triangles, small
gong) Score and
Parts
Recording
by Napua Davoy,
Wilbur Pauley,
Tiye Giraud, vocals: Dave Soldier, Bob Bannister, guitars; Ben Neill
trumpet; Rob Bethea, trombone; Jim Pugliese, Samm Bennett, percussion;
Richard Auldon Clark, conductor.
Ice-9
Ballads (opus 14, 1995)
songs from Cat's Cradle from Kurt Vonnegut
for narrator, tenor, 3 sopranos, cl, sax, trombone, harmonica, 3
violins (one mandolin double), guitar, harp, synthesizer, bass, two
percussionists score
Performed by Kurt Vonnegut, Jimmy Justice, and the Manhattan Chamber
Orchestra, Valerie Naranjo balophone soloist
Naked Revolution (1 hour, 1997) opus 16
a socialist realist opera drawn from immigrant dreams
libretto by Maita di Niscemi
artistic conception by Komar & Melamid
no recording
score
Clever Hans (12 min) opus
19 score
with violin and cello parts This recording by Rebecca Cherry (vln), Michael Mizrahi
(hpschd), Karlos Rodriguez (cello) features the 6 movements in a
different order for a ballet: the score faciliates the scordatura
(re-tuning the strings)
A
Year for a Pomegranate (7 min, 2010)
for 2 violins, recorder, cello, harpsichord: not recorded
Hockets & Inventions (30 min, 1990)
opus 6
in two and three parts that could be played by any instruments, but all
written to be played by organ. score. Performed by Walter Hilse on an Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Organum Book 1 (32 min, 2011) opus 23 Five pieces inspired by nature The Crayfish La Conchiglia A year for a pomegrantate (After Ramon Montoya) Olivia Porphyria (a fractal on the name of Haydn) A year for a baobab score
with all
five pieces
Performed by Walter Hilse
The War Prayer(14
min, 1994, revised for organ 2011) opus 12
a cantata with text from Mark Twain
church organ, soprano (solo or group), alto (solo or group), tenor
solo, men singers (baritone or mixed group), bass/baritone solo score
unrecorded
Sequence Girls (1985, 7 min) opus 1
for amplified quartet and trap set drums
or acoustic quartet and hand percussion score
parts
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
String Quartet #1 "The Impossible" (1987, 25 min) opus 3
for amplified quartet and trap set drums
or acoustic quartet and hand percussion score
parts
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
String Quartet #2 "Bambatta Variations" (1992 for Ken Butler's T-Square Quartet, revised for prepared violins,
viola, and cello, 2011) opus 11 score
and parts
no recording available
String Quartet #3 "The Essential" (2011)
opus 21
cowritten with Brad Garton, mathematical transformations of
Schoenberg's second quartet
for amplified quartet and prerecorded loops
the electronics can be triggered manually or from electroencephalograms score parts
download
prerecorded soundclips to be triggered in the first
movement
Version perfromed by Mari Kimura, Curtis Stewart, LiuhWen Ting, Greg
Hesselink
Three Delta Blues (quartet,
9
minutes, 1986, 1990) opus 2 scores
and parts Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
includes Preachin' Blues (Robert Johnson), Moon Goin' Down (Charlie
Patton), Twenty Twenty Blues (Skip James)
Sojourner Truth (quartet, 7
minutes, 1990) score and
parts Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
Here Comes the King (quartet with opt. percussion, 5 min)
arrangement of a piece by Raymond Scott score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
East St. Louis, 1968 (9 min, for quartet and CD, 2000) opus 17
Has not been recorded, but the version for viola and CD can be heard above
Water Babies (quartet, 5 minutes)
arrangement of piece by Wayne Shorter score
There is no recording of the quartet version, but here is quartet,
flute (Robert Dick), and rhythm section
Five Little Monsters (6-7 minutes, string quartet & rock
drums, 1984). score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet performing Five Little Monsters
with Michael Suchorsky on drums
Bo
Diddley (6 min, string quartet & improvised vocals)
Vocals are unscored since they are not expected to read music score parts Performed by the Soldier String Quartet with Tiye'
Giraud singing, multitracked
Michael Callen (quartet, one tenor or soprano, and 3 backup
singers) score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet with vocals by the late great
Jimmy Justice and Laura Cantrell.
Ugly (quartet with singer)
arrangement of song by Robert Pete Williams
Vocals are unscored since they are not expected to read music score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet with Tiye'
Giraud singing, multitracked
In Time (quartet with optional percussion)
arrangement of song by Sly and the Family Stone score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
string quartet with flute
Something Sweet, Something Tender arrangement of music by Eric Dolphy
Performed by Soldier String Quartet and Robert Dick with rhythm section
Sontag in Sarajevo (11 min, 1994) opus 13
for four players
accordion (standard or Strad)
chordal instrument (guitar, piano)
treble melody (violin, clarinet, trumpet, etc.),
bass (cello, bass, trombone, tuba, bassoon)
Performed by Ann de Maranis (accordion), Regina Carter (violin), Dave
Soldier (guitar), Dawn Avery cello
The score for 1st movement, Fluor,
Phosphor, Lumen, and Candle
Five Little Monsters (6 min,
2010), Score The Apotheosis of John
Brown
(40 min, 1990)
opus 8
Text from Frederick Douglass Score
Parts
Performed by Robbie McCauley (narrator), Mary Lee Kortes, Napua Davoy,
Jason White, Napua Davoy, Laura Seaton (vln), Manhattan Chamber
Orchestra, conducted Richard Auldon Clark
My arrangement of Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony
for large school marching band with the Thai Elephant Orchestra: can be
played simply by marching band Score
Performed by the Lampang, Thailand junior high school orchestra with
the Thai Elephant Orchestra at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center.
Ultraviolet Railroad (1991-1992, 24 min) opus 9
Double concerto for violin and cello Score
solo
violin part
solo
cello part
Performed by Mark Feldman (violin), Erik Friedlander (cello), Neil
Kirkwood (piano) and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra conducted by
Richard Auldon Clark
Thung
Kwian Sunrise
opus 27, 2012, 6 minutes
Symphony Orchestra (fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn, tpt, trmb, perc, piano,
strings)
from the Thai Elephant Orchestra (with original performance transcribed
by Wade Ripka) Score
Performed by the Composers Concordance Orchestra, concert December
2012, Thomas Carlo Bo conductor
