SCORES This page has scores for download, many with recordings. Contact me if you need parts or notice any corrections to be made. Opus numbers listed here
Scores that can be downloaded from this page
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 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
solo piano Belvedere
Five Little Monsters
Letter to Skip James
Fanny Brice
Mabel at the Wheel
Hockets & Inventions
(opus 6) Fractals on the Names of Bach & Haydn (opus 24)
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) baroque ensembles Clever Hans sonata (violin cello harpsichord) (opus 19)
A Year for a Pomegranate (2 violins, recorder, cello, harpsichord)
string quartet 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)
Double concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra Ultraviolet Railroad (opus 9)
Marching Band with Elephant Orchestra The Pastorale Symphony, 1st movement
solo piano Belvedere (for solo piano, 5-6 min, 1984) portrays Maurice Ravel's ghost walking through his house, pausing to play with his mechanical toys.
The score.
Performed by Chrisopher O'Riley.
Hockets and Inventions (solo piano, 30 minutes, 2010) Opus 6b
are twelve highly polyphonic pieces influenced by medieval styles.
The score.
Performed by Steven Beck.
Fractals on the Names of Bach & Haydn (solo piano, 4 min, 2011) Score
No recording
Five Little Monsters (solo piano, 6 min, 2010) is a 1980's punk rock Pictures at an Exhibition with each piece an impression of a culture on Avenue A. Has not yet been performed, but a string quartet version is below. Score
Letter to Skip James (solo piano, 4 min, 1985) is an homage to a favorite singer, guitarist and pianist.
The score
An earlier version performed by Christopher O'Riley.
Fanny Brice (solo piano, 4 min, 2009) is a tribute to a comedian. It has not yet been performed. Here is the score.
Mabel at the Wheel (2009) The score is temporarily withdrawn for editing.
solo saxophone, flute, or clarinet 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.
The 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.
The score.
Performed by Robert Dick.
solo clarinet Scorefor 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
Surf's Up (6 min, 2008)
arrangement of the song by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks
violin & cello Duo Sonata (21 min, 1987) Score (both parts in one book)
Recording by Laura Seaton & Erik Friedlander
violin, cello, and piano Piano trio: Ultraviolet Railroad (25 min, 2010)
No recording, but an orchestral version can be heard below. Score / piano part with attached violin and cello parts separate cadenza for violin and cello
harp trio & vocal 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
BAROQUE ENSEMBLES
violin, cello, and harpsichord 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
organ 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
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
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 mp3 of the CD track for download score
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
accordion 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
Marching band and elephant orchestra 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.
Violin, Cello, and Orchestra 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
