Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Waiting (2024), 3’30”, piano solo

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: a sort of loose variation form

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: words by Sara Teasdale published in 1911; the Christmas story. also available for chorus

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, bass voice, piano, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The Christmas Story as told by Sara Teasdale published in 1911. Also available for solo voice with piano.

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: piano, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words King James Bible Acts 2:1-12
abridged by the composer

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: a sort of loose variation form. Airy, light, the flute as butterfly.

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: piano, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text by William Shakespeare (The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1), dedicated to Jo-Ann Krestan,

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1922)

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text by Sara Teasdale

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text by Sara Teasdale

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text by Dorothy Parker published in Enough Rope in 1926.

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: bassoon, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Jazzy, lyrical, dreamy, expressive

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: oboe, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A swale is a meadow or a marsh where a lot of wild plants grow together in profusion. I use it to mean a musical collage of newly composed ideas. This one is lyrical and jazzy and playful, all cut together. It ends with "light rain".

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The Rainbow (2023), 1’, soprano and piano, words by Walter de la Mare

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: clarinet, flute, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: December Swale (2023), 5’, flute, clarinet and piano, commissioned by the Palisades Virtuosi. Celebration of all December holidays.

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Recuerdo (2023), 3’40”, soprano and piano, words by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The Look (2023), 1’, soprano and piano, words by Sara Teasdale

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Swan Song (2023), 1’, soprano and piano, words by Dorothy Parker

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A Fairly Sad Story (2023), 2’35”, soprano and piano, words by Dorothy Parker,
and a new 3’ version for soprano, alto sax and piano

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: alto saxophone, piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A Fairly Sad Story (2023), 2’35”, soprano and piano, words by Dorothy Parker, and a new 3’ version for soprano, alto sax and piano

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: From (2023), 2’35”, soprano and piano, words by Beth Anderson. Concerns the history of the composer's family.

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano saxophone

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Greta Garbo Waltz (2023), 3’15”, new version for soprano sax and piano; THE RECORDING ON YOUTUBE IS OF THE ORIGINAL PIANO SOLO VERSION. THE DUET HAS NOT YET BEEN PERFORMED.

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Once (2023) 1’5”, soprano and piano, words by Dorothy Parker (PD)

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Fair Enough (2023), 2’5”, soprano and piano, words by Dorothy Parker (PD)

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Epitaph For A Darling Lady (2023) 2’, mezzo and piano, words by Dorothy Parker (PD)

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: woodwind ensemble

Instruments: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This piece involves two scales. 1. is a scale from Maquam. 2. is Mela Sadvidhamargini from the Carnatic tradition. They alternate and interact. They have three pitches in common which creates a resolution. The scales (1. and 2.) are marked in the score.

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published 1849; a good church anthem

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: words by Dorothy Parker published 1926

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: alto saxophone, mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text by Dorothy Parker published 1924, funny

Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: organ, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Text is attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi published in the USA in 1927

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Good Day (2022, 2’30s, soprano and piano, words by Charles Shere. Concerns the peculiarities of critics from the point of view of another critic. Funny.

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo brass instrument

Instruments: horn

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Tale #5 (2022), 1’, french horn solo

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: flute

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Moment (2022), 1’, flute solo

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string instrument

Instruments: cello

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Beside The Point (2022), 1’, cello solo

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 1

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: clarinet

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Anthropod (2022). 1’. clarinet solo

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, bass voice, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: O, How I Love Thee (2022), 4’, SATB chorus acapella, words by Shakepeare

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: O, How I Love Thee (2022), 3’, soprano and piano, words by Shakespeare

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: alto saxophone, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Tale #1-4 (2022) revised from 2013 for alto saxophone and piano; the Youtube performances are not the versions for saxophone and piano. The sax version has not yet been performed. And Tale #4 is not recorded.

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: string orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: October Swale (2022), 10’, string orchestra.
Also available for saxophone and string orchestra.
Not yet performed.

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Remember (2022), 2’30”, alto voice and piano, words by Christina Rossetti, premiered 2023 by Francois VanHecke in Belgium

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: alto saxophone, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Indigo Swale (2022), 6’30”,
alto saxophone and piano,
or
flute and piano,
premiered 4/29/23 by Javier Orviedo/Classical Sax Project at DiMenna Center, NYC

Year: 2022

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: a sort of loose variation form. Premiered by Andrew Bolotowsky at Greenwich House Music School, NYC

Year: 2019

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: woodwind ensemble

Instruments: clarinet, Eb clarinet, other

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: November Swale, (2019), 7’30”, five clarinets,
E flat Clarinet
B flat Clarinet I
B flat Clarinet II
Alto Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
premiered by the San Diego Clarinet Quintet 2019. On YouTube.

Year: 2019

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Instruments: organ

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Prelude on St. Patrick’s Breastplate (2019), 5’, organ solo; commissioned by Ellen Wright, premier All Saints Episcopal in Brooklyn 6/16/19. On YouTube.

Year: 2018

Duration (in minutes): 9m30s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: cello, satb chorus, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words by Wendell Berry and Emily Dickinson on the topic of hope. “Commissioned for the Lafayette College Chamber Singers
under the direction of Jennifer Kelly. Commission was made
possible with support from The Hearst Foundations and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.”Premier is April 28, 2018 in Easton, PA.

Year: 2018

Duration (in minutes): 60

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: narrator/speaker

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Namely (2018), 1 hour, text-sound single voice, available on CD, Namely, by Other Minds in 2019.
Names of composers/artists important to the composer are the basis of the piece.
The first YouTube url above is a video of just the women's names in the project performed in Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Mount Prospect Park.
The second Youtube video includes just John Cage, Julius Eastman, Charles Amirkhanian, John Giorno performed at the Drom, NYC in 2023
There are 65 names in all.
It is not necessary to perform all of them together.

Year: 2017

Duration (in minutes): 1m45s

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, piano

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: text from the Catholic prayer book

Year: 2014

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: It is a very short history of music beginning c. 1200 to today. It implies that history is a large circle. Performeed by Joseph Kubera and Marvin Rosen.

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 5 miniutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by the New Jersey Music Teachers Association for advanced students. The weirwood is a species of sacred tree found all over Westeros in George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire. The leaves and the sap of weirwoods are red, while the bark and wood are white. Some of them, called heart trees, have faces carved in the bark. Greenseers and the gods of the Old Faith watch events over millinium through these carved eyes.

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 10 minutes

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, harp, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble. A fairly sparse piece about walking in the snow, having conversations, playing games, meditating, yearning for Spring.

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 4 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: Commissioned by the New Jersey Music Teachers Association for medium to advanced students. The violin part is full of riffs from Indian music. The piano part is full of modern jazz 'chords'and 7/4 rhythm.

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: organ, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: lyrics by Francis Rowe (c. 1613-1649)

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 3m55s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: Commissioned by the New Jersey Music Teachers Association. also available for flute and piano. Based on an Indian raga with a mildly discordant accompaniment.

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 2 minutes

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by the New Jersey Music Teachers Association for intermediate students. The YouTube performance is of a piano with a flute doing an improv over it.

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 1 minute

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: Commissioned by the New Jersey Music Teachers Association for elementary students (players of Bach Minuets, for example).

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 1 minute

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any female voice, piano

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: The Bird of Time is set to four lines from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam concerning the enjoyment of life and the shortness of life. It begins in B-flat, goes to C, and ends in E-flat—all in 50 seconds. A little like life. It was composed July 14, 2012.

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 18

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument quartet

Instruments: cello, flute, harpsichord, recorder

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Skate Suite (revised 2012), 18’, new arrangement for flute, recorder, cello and harpsichord, recorded by Brooklyn Baroque, available from MSR on MS1434. On YouTube.

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 4m30s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: flute, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: based on a poem by Pramila Venkateswaran;
commissioned by String Poet; also available for violin and piano;

also available for flute and piano;
premier on Long Island, New York.
about a group of women doing a traditional Indian dance.
The pianist plays in the traditional way and also claps.
sung and danced to during festival season.

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, tenor voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist (2011) 1’30”, voice and piano, words by Longfellow.

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, tenor voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Angel Songs (2011) 4’, voice & piano, 3 songs,
Be Not Forgetful,
Israfel,
The Angel of The Darker Drink,
words by Omar Khayyam,
Hebrews 13:2,
E.A. Poe.

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 6m

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: commissioned by Airi Yoshioka, some knocking on the piano lid, some creating the sound of bells, a little feeling of gamelon, some helter skelter, some meditation

Year: 2009

Duration (in minutes): 3 minutes 45 seconds

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: alto, bass voice, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Description: SSAATB; commissioned by Acapellago;
I chose Walter de la Mare ‘s poem because of its gentle, magical nature and its description of the world in terms of light, as if it were the first day of creation. The piece begins and ends in a rocking lullaby alternating between D and C. Owls call and lions roar. Near the end, the words and some of the music are cut into small pieces and inserted among other small pieces. The bass section has the last solo, as a father might who is reading this ‘bedtime story’. One person from each section whispers the last words as elves might in the dark after the story is complete and the light is extinguished
A bit more technical description if it is wanted:
The piece begins gently alternating between “sunlight” (in d-minor) and “moonlight” (on the major flat-seven C chord as the dominant substitute). The voices enter group by group. There is a bit of word painting on the “owl calling”. “In a wood of oak and May” is in the playful key of C-major. The words ‘no light’ are set to a great pile of fourths. The lions begin in F-major and roars on a B-diminished-minor-seventh. Roar! That kind of chord continues thru their “wrath” and their being “far away”. When the “elf-light” appears the music returns to the gentle d-minor lullaby of the beginning.
The small face that appears is in d-minor but the smile is a major-minor seventh on B-flat and then a minor-minor seventh on A. (b-flat, d,f,a=smiling—to a,c,e,g=minor-minor seventh).
Near the end, the words and some of the music are cut into small pieces and inserted among other small pieces. The bass section has the last solo, as a father might who is reading this ‘bedtime story’. One person from each section whispers the last words as elves might in the dark after the story is complete and the light is extinguished
--
the poem:
Dream-song
by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) , from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, published 1913.
Sunlight, moonlight,
Twilight, starlight --
Gloaming at the close of day,
And an owl calling,
Cool dews falling
In a wood of oak and may.
Lantern-light, taper-light,
Torchlight, no-light:
Darkness at the shut of day,
And lions roaring,
Their wrath pouring
In wild waste places far away.
Elf-light, bat-light,
Touchwood-light and toad-light,
And the sea a shimmering gloom of grey,
And a small face smiling
In a dream's beguiling
In a world of wonders far away.

Year: 2009

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Dream Song (2009) 3’45”, SSAATB or SATB choral, commissioned and premiered by Archipelago near Chicago 2009

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 9m 45s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, tenor voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A song that children love about a mouse that meets various animals and learns a life lesson.

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 14 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A group of tonal songs with easy accompaniments:

A Puffin (Words by Florence Page Jaques (1890-1972)
The Wise Old Owl (all the rest have words by Jo-Ann Krestan)
Itty Bitty Dog
The Woodpecker
Dearie's Lament
The Butterscotch Bear
Barnacle Pete

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: clarinet, soprano, viola

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Night Song (2005) 4’30”,
The YouTube performance is of the soprano with clarinet and viola version.
soprano, viola (or cello or flute) and piano (or harp), words by David Mason; commissioned by Francoise Vanhecke, premiered 2006 Festival Lysight in Brussels, Belgium.
Available for soprano with viola and piano.
or
soprano with viola and clarinet
or
soprano with cello and piano or harp
or
soprano with flute and piano or harp

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Winter Solstice (2005) 2’30”, soprano and piano, premiered Greenwich House, New York City, words by Ann Silsbee

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string trio

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Jasmine Swale (2005) 9’, violin, viola, cello, premiered by the Jade Trio at St. Joseph's College. Based on a Chinese folk song and bird songs.

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: narrator/speaker, percussion

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Killdeer and Chicory (2005) 5’ variable duration, text-sound with improvised percussion, premiered in Geneva, Switzerland at Roaratorium, a text-sound festival. The Youtube performance is from the 4/14/ 2018 Other Minds text-sound festival in San Francisco, so to view it, you need to pull down to 4/14/18 events.

Year: 2004

Duration (in minutes): 9m15s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: contrabass, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The score is available from the composer. It is recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.
It is for two string bass and piano.

Year: 2004

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Purchase score URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wQMJq1dsY0

Description: Swimmers on the Shore (2004) 4’, baritone and piano, commissioned by the West Chester University Poetry Conference, premiered by Randall Scarlatta at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, words by David Mason. Deals with dimentia and parent/child relationship.

Year: 2004

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Dark Songs (2004) 8’45”, mezzo-soprano, contralto and piano, 3 songs, premiered Greenwich House, New York City, words by Dana Gioia and David Mason, commissioned by Gesine van der Grinten/Marcellina van der Grinten/Jorg Ritter.

Year: 2004

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, baritone voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Text by Jo-Ann Krestan. Has been sung as a solo anthem in church.

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 3 minutes

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: COMMENT is a series of variations on a theme derived from setting the words to Dorothy Parker’s four line poem of the same name. The poem compares life to song and experiences that happen by chance and makes fun of the idea that relationships are likely to succeed. We are unable to reprint the poem in these notes due to copyright restrictions but the poem is available in collections and is all over the internet due to various poets’ interest. The music begins cheerfully but very soon there is a little theme signifying that sadly love has gone wrong (dotted half-notes a Major sixth up and then a minor second down). This is followed by a variation on the cheerful section and an older but wiser variant (with one note missing and a minor second down). Then the “love has gone wrong” theme with longer note values (in augmentation) is followed by a hyperactive variant of the lost love idea and an inverted variant because life is sometimes upside down. The “love has gone wrong” theme is now upside down, depressed (Major sixth down followed by minor second up; inverted). The soloist trills and slides down to the lowest note on the flute, middle-C. There is a manic variant with lots of running around followed by an introspective variant with longer note values. The next one is a variant entitled “tensely cheerful despite all odds”. The last comment is “appearing calm while getting ready to be hysterical” within 6 bars of the end. It has been recorded twice. Available on Points of Entry, a Capstone CD and on MSR-CD, The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird.

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 3 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This is a hymn that works for Sunday School as well as the congregation. Words by Emerson. With or without piano or organ.
The first verse is
"For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh and sweet; For song of bird and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear and see, Father in Heaven, we thank Thee! "

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: woodwind quintet

Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: August Swale (2003) new arrangement for woodwind quintet) 8', fl, ob, cl., bn, hn
Premiered by the Calico Winds at Hole Memorial Auditorium, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA who commissioned the arrangement

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The Seneca Falls Follies (2003)
SSA and piano) 4’, Premiered 2003 at the National Theatre in Washington D.C., Lyrics by Beth Newburger and John B. Weinstein

Year: 2002

Duration (in minutes): 9m30s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The score is available from the composer. It is recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC. It includes the songs: Lazy Pussy; Kilkenny Cats; Tyger Tyger; Hey Diddle Diddle; She Sites A Bird; The Widow and Her Cat; and the optional The Good Christmas Cat. Various poets. Composed for Keith Borden.

Year: 2002

Duration (in minutes): 10m

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: baritone voice, contrabass, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The score is available from the composer. It is recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC. Various poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Composed for Keith Borden. Includes Song; Southern Roads; Tableau; and While You Love Me.

Year: 2002

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: words by the composer concerning a relationship with a wide age difference

Year: 2001

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Not yet performed

Year: 2001

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: not yet performed; also available for string orchestra

Year: 2001

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble

Instruments: soprano saxophone, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Toledo Swale (2001) 10', 2 violins and soprano sax, also available for 2 violins and flute; not yet premiered

Year: 2001

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: harpsichord, viola

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: April Swale (2001) 11', viola and harpsichord
Commissioned and premiered by Marlow Fisher with Kathleen McIntosh in 2002

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;40'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Description: First performed by Mary Rowell and Denman Maroney and recorded by the Belgian radio March, 2000. The score is available from the composer.

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: First performed by Mary Rowell and Denman Maroney and recorded by the Belgian radio March, 2000. It is out on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC performed by Ana Milosavljevic.

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: First performed by Mary Rowell and Denman Maroney and recorded by the Belgian radio March, 2000. It is out on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC performed by Ana Milosavljevic.

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: First performed by Mary Rowell and Denman Maroney and recorded by the Belgian radio March 2000. It is recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: SATB accapella or wityh harp or piano; I can make whatever version you would like for your choir. It was recorded, and sung repeatedly in Denmark where it was often requested to be repeated on the concerts.
THE GOOD CHRISTMAS CAT
By Jo-Ann Krestan
"What's that?" said the cat from his place by the fire. "It's a tree as tall as a church's spire. It's red and it's green and there's glitter and light. They're trimming it, stringing it, making it bright."
"What's that?" said the cat "Why it's quite absurd, a tree in a house, not a single bird. When the night grows cold and it starts to snow, where will the sweet little chick-a-dees go?"
The cat crept out on velvet paws, until he saw the chick-a-dees. He showed no teeth. He hid his claws. He begged them sweetly to come in, please. "I swear I will not touch a feather. I'll keep you safe from nasty weather."
Through an open window and up in the tree, the chick-a-dees flew; he counted twenty-three." That's that," said the cat as he sat by the fire. "It's a Christmas tree that I can admire. And I hope they'll sing to their hearts' desire, for chick-a-dees make such a heavenly choir."

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 3 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: organ, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This is an anthem accapella or with either piano or organ. Words by Jo-Ann Krestan.
The first part of the lyrics:
"On this day may we ever mindful be. Each day is born by God's grace. And when the sun again lights the East-ern sky, God's love is touching evr'y face. On this earth may be ever mindful be and harm no creature alive. May gentleness and love overspread the earth, for only then will we survive."

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 3 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: soprano

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: Words by Jo-Ann Krestan; available as SSA with organ or piano, and also as a solo song with piano.
Lyrics:
"Who is this Jesus that his birth should make us long for peace? Cry peace through all the earth. Who is this Jesus that his birth called Kings to travel far to reach that distant star? The lambs and donkey lay beside the Christ child on his bed of hay. The cattle lowing in the field felt something sweet that holy day. And on that welcome Christmas morn all hearts were peaceful, hope re-born. Who is this Jesus that his birth gave promise that we'll be redeemed in eternity

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Available on New World CD, Swales And Angels. This is the string quartet version. There is also one for string orchestra and it is part of Three Swales. I have listed both versions above from youtube and soundcloud.

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 20

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Three Swales (2000) 20'; string orchestra
October 20, 2001 premiered in Antwerp, Belgium by the Collegium Musicum Carinthia conducted by Alexei Kornienko at the Festival of Flanders. Includes
Kentucky Swale,
Bluebell Swale and
March Swale.
These may be performed as single movements.

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: words by Jo-Ann Krestan; available with and without piano accompaniment; also available as a solo song; This piece has been performed yearly in Denmark where it is loved.

Year: 2000

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: In The Company Of Women (2000) 3'; SATB with or without piano or organ; words by Jo-Ann Krestan, premiered 7/22/01 by The Vlaams Radiokoor in De Haan (Vlissegem) Belgium conducted by Ludwig Van Gijsegem

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Description: First performed at De Rode Pomp in Ghent, Belgium, September 1999 and recorded by the Belgian radio March 2000.

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: baritone voice, contrabass, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: From the song cycle, Harlem Songs.
Words by Gwendolyn Bennett. Topic: the black experience in song/the cry of a soul.
Commissioned by Keith Borden.
The song is out on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: baritone voice, contrabass, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Part of the song cycle, Harlem Songs.
Words by Sterling Brown.
Topic: the thoughts of a black male prisoner on a chain gang.
Commissioned by Keith Borden.
The song is out on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: baritone voice, contrabass, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Part of the song cycle Harlem Songs.
Words by Countee Cullen.
Topic: mixed racial friendship.
Commissioned by Keith Borden.
The song is out on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: baritone voice, contrabass, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: part of the song cycle, Harlem Songs
Words by Georgia Douglas Johnson.
Topic: the desire to be loved and to die prior to love loss.
Commissioned by Keith Borden.
It is recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 3 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Tonal solo song for Christmas; Words by Jo-Ann Krestan;
Lyrics:
"Christmas eve and a fam'ly was shopping for magic, a Christmas tree and hope. Two trees were left and the lot would be closing at midnight. One would wear angels. The other would stay there alone. Perfect tree with a shape that a young child could copy. A Christmas tree of hope. The tree beside it was small and its branches uneven. That tree was lonely with no one to give it a home. Then the wind from the north brought storms from the mountains. Driving snow and fear thru the hearts of birds in their flight.. But there was reprieve on this cold Christmas Eve, as the tree welcomed them in the night. From on high came a rushing, a promise of angels. The little tree felt joy. The birds found shelter and soon were asleep in his branches. Christmas was magic. The tree and the birds did believe.

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: organ, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Translation from Enriching Our Worship published by the Episcopal Church.
also available for various other groups SS or SA or SAT

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The words are by W. H. Auden. Dedicated to Ned Rorem. SONGS IN TRANSIT: An American Expedition Soprano Melanie Mitrano recorded Lullaby (words by Auden) and Beauty Runs Faster (words by the composer) for her CD on Capstone CPS-8756.
Visit Melanie at melaniemitrano.com
This song was also recorded by Francis John Vogt & Ginger Yang Hwalek available on Capstone Records CDS-8702 entitled The Truth About Love: music and the poetry of W. H. Auden.

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 3 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This is a hymn that has been performed as an anthem but works well for congregational singing. With or without piano or organ. Words by Jo-Ann Krestan. There are multiple verses. Here is the first:
In the company of women,
in the presence of God's grace,
like the dove with wings of silver,
like the joy on Mary's face.
We are soft'ned by compassion
when we listen with our souls.
And our circle becomes wider and the world becomes more whole.

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: alto, cello, harpsichord, percussion, tenor voice, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Qoheleth (1998) 11'; Contralto, Tenor, 2Violins, Viola, Cello, Harpsichord, Percussion; an operetta commissioned by The Soho Baroque Opera; Words by Royce Dendler; not yet performed

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: concertos, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players

Instruments: cello, percussion, piano, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This piece is tonal/modal, very American and rather grand.
It is based on a previous piece and grew out of my experiences as a pianist including a little bit of rock and gospel, some ballet accoompaniment, Moussorsky from piano recitals, and those starry night themes I love. Near the end these ideas are cut into each other.
Out on the New World CD entitled SWALES & ANGELS.
Premiered by Joseph Kubera.

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: any voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words by Stephen Paul Miller.

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano

Instruments: cello, flute, guitar, harpsichord, other, piano, violin

Publisher: Antes Bella Musica distributed by Edition 49

Publisher website: https://www.edition49shop.de/instrumentalmusik/gitarre/2201/september-swale-fuer-mandoline-und-gitarre?number=e49-90009-01

Purchase score URL: https://www.edition49shop.de/instrumentalmusik/gitarre/2201/september-swale-fuer-mandoline-und-gitarre?number=e49-90009-01

Description: available as a piano or harpsichord solo
as a duet for mandolin and guitar
and as a duet for violin or flute or cello and piano
A version of this piece composed for different instruments was commissioned and premiered by the University of the Redlands New Music Ensemble/Barney Childs.
It combines various oriental scales with Satie-like lyricism.
performed by Elaine Comparone at Beucker & Harpsichords;
also performed at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio;
at Richmondtown Branch Library on Staten Island and
80 Langdon Street in San Francisco by Joseph Kubera;
This piece has been recorded as a mandolin and guitar duo (Daniel Ahlert & Birgit Schwab on Chilli Con Tango on Antes Edition CD) in Germany
and as a piano solo by Nancy Boston. It is published by a German firm and available from an online distributor.

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: First performed by Elaine Comparone at Buecher & Harpsichord; commissioned by Bobby Buecher. This piece begins with a Phrygian folk-tune which ends with a turn (BCBAB). This is followed by a lochrian tango and a aeolian melody in which the harpsichord sings words whose text remains mysteriously hidden under the music ending with a turn (ABAGA). The text is derived from an English translation of the Heine poem, Auf flugeln des gesanges (;On Wings of Song); as loosely condensed and paraphrased by Jason Serinus.

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Instruments: satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The words are by Jo-Ann Krestan and Beth Anderson.
The lyrics concern memories of old time hymns, life threatening experiences, survival as a woman composer, the search for love, perfect bliss and a descriptive critic.
The music is a collage of American styles. It was commissioned and produced by Eclectix Inc. on November 15, 1997 at Cami Hall in New York City and sung by The Accidentals.
It was also sung at a choral competition in Spain.

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A swale is a meadow or a marsh where there is nourishment and moisture and therefore, a rich diversity of plant life. This swale is made from swatches which are reminiscent of this diversity and give a sense of a tour through the various flute styles - Irish, jazz, rhythmic, lyrical... Flute Swale was composed for Andrew Bolotowsky who premiered it in New York City.

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Available on New World CD, Swales & Angels performed by the Rubio String Quartet.
First performed by the Clearwater String Quartet.
This is a swale that includes a lot of partying framed by a theme going forwards at the beginning and backwards near the end, a Janus. Because it was written with cellist Carol Buck and her children, there is a small children's theme just after the introduction that runs in and out later on in the piece. An aeolian alleluia interupts and returns later a half-step down. It ends with a feeling of a starry night at the original tonal center.

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: cello, flute, percussion, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Available on the New World CD, Swales & Angels.
Commissioned/premeried by Music Under Construction.
Evocative of the various regions of NM. Includes some percussion improvisation.
(A swale is a meadow or a marsh where a lot of wild plants grow together. The composer discovered the word when a horse named Swale won the Kentucky Derby in 1984. Since her work is primarily collage of newly composed musical swatches, she has used the name extensively.)

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string instrument

Instruments: viola

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A swale is a meadow or a marsh where wild plants grow together. I use it to mean a kind of musical collage of newly composed ideas. This one was commissioned by Mimi Dye.

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: guitar, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned/premiered by the University of the Redlands New Music Ensemble for two acoustic guitars. Combines oriental scales with Satie-like lyricism. The youtube video is from a performance with violin and guitar.

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, horn, oboe, percussion, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned/premiered by the Minnesota Synphonia with Jay Fishman conducting and recorded for Opus One in 1995 in Bratislava by the Slovak Radio Symphony.
Available on the Opus One CD, New Music For Orchestra.
(A swale is a meadow or a marsh where a lot of wild plants grow together. The composer discovered the word when a horse named Swale won the Kentucky Derby in 1984. Since her work is primarily collage of newly composed musical swatches, she has used the name extensively.)
This swale includes an improvised percussion cadenza.
Performed by Pasadena Symphony Orchestra's Sinfonia Ensemble conducted by Pin Chen and the Wellesley College Orchestra conducted by Joel Suben.

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument sextet, woodwind quintet

Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This piece also exits as a sextet for flute, oboe, French horn, cello, violin and viola.
The swatches in this piece are in a variety of styles and feeling states including anxious modernity, cheerful Americanism, passion, gypsiness and a round with a modal resolution--a sort of life cycle. This swale was composed for and premiered at the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College where the composer was in residence. Performed in June 1999 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. at its annual concert.Also performed at Music Under Construction. Performed by Calico Winds in Los Angeles and by Quintet of the Americas in New York City.

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: any voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This round is published in round-meister Sol Weber's 1994 collection, Rounds Galore!
My Laughing Child words by Nye Ffarrabas.
(Ms. Ffarrabas, minister/poet/healer/quilt maker/water monkey, has worked in child protective services and is training to help those touched by HIV. )
This is a song that will never end. / It's never too late for my heart to mend / and my laughing child / to be my friend.

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: brass quintet

Instruments: horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Premiered by the Saturday Brass Quintet.
Contains some vernacular influences.

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any high voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words by Robert Louis Stevensen. About a sick child in bed with toys and the world created on the bed.

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 45

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Instruments: any medium voice, drum set, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: "Anderson's postminimal music can be charming and deeply felt to the point of Romanticism."--The Village Voice 4/23/91.
Words by Jo-Ann Krestan.
Book by Anderson and Krestan.
The story is that three women go to a health spa. One is extremely overweight and very outgoing, one is 40 pounds overweight and depressed, and one is currently slender due to bulemia. The three meet the handsome exercise instructor and he falls for the heaviest woman. It is an exploration of the issue of weight with songs such as:
Big Bones
Food Food Magical Food
Premiered at Greenwich House Music School. Also performed at Caffe e Dolce in Asbury Park, NJ. Directed by George Hansel. Selections performed by Golden Fleece at Theatre 22, New York City.

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any medium voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words by Stephen Paul Miller. It has a rock and roll feel.

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: available for low or high voice. Words by Stephen Paul Miller.
Text: The view is made of colors which repeat the fog ad infinitum. / Where did I get caught up? I think in the idea of work. / Was I kidding? I even said real work/ But this is work, I feel strongly about it: / It's even a kind of track, a bridge, a crossing. / There are millions of people on it.

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any medium voice, piano

Description: Words by Stephen Paul Miller. The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any medium voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words by Stephen Paul Miller. Partial text: I'd like to take this opportunity / to unveil to you our / plans for the New Tompkins / Square Park. / The fiberglass park benches are / being placed on the mideast quadrant / of Ninth Street, near the / Nuclear Reactor, far removed from / the faultline which runs / on a northeast diagonal from / Seventh to Eighth Street.
A song about politics and public renovation.

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: brass ensemble, brass quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: euphonium, trombone, trumpet

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: 2 B-flat trumpets, trombone and baritone horn.
Tonal. Commissioned/Premiered by the University of the Redlands' New Music Ensemble.
(A swale is a meadow or a marsh where a lot of wild plants grow together. The composer discovered the word when a horse named Swale won the Kentucky Derby in 1984. Since her work is primarily collage of newly composed musical swatches, she has used the name extensively.) This is a brass quartet.

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: cello, harp, percussion, soprano, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: for soprano with string quartet, harp and celeste
Words by Hans Christian Andersen and Anthony Calabrese.
Premiered at Shore Festival of Classics, in Ocean Grove, NJ;
"...superbly appropriate...pleasing music...suggesting celestial flight"- Asbury Park Press 7/15/88 .
Recorded on the New World CD entitled SWALES & ANGELS.

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Instruments: piano, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: the first video above is choral.
The second video listed is the solo song.
also available for SATB with piano or choral version a cappella;
from a cycle of three solo songs, DREAMING FIELDS
words by Eugene Field.
These may be sung singly or together.
1. THE SUGARPLUM TREE
2. THE DUEL
3. WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD
Recorded as a solo song on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.
Only this song, of the three, is arranged for chorus.

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: DREAMING FIELDS (song cycle of 3 medium voice songs with piano) words by Eugene Field.
These may be sung singly or together.
1. THE SUGARPLUM TREE
2. THE DUEL
3. WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD
Recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: DREAMING FIELDS (song cycle of 3 medium voice songs with piano) words by Eugene Field.
These may be sung singly or together.
1. THE SUGARPLUM TREE
2. THE DUEL
3. WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD
Recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC.

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Dedicated to Rosalie Calabrese and named for her.
Premiered Soldier String Quartet;
"...most compelling music...directness...stubborn simplicity...melting, softening that carries us from the pastoral into the city...sweetness." - Ear Magazine 3/90.
It is available on the New World CD entitled SWALES & ANGELS.

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: string quartet

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The youtube videos are part one and two of the piece. In performance the piece is not to be divided.
Premiered by the Soldier String Quartet;
"...genteel modesty - full of drones and melodies from our English past." - The New York Times 10/23/85. Out on the New World CD entitled SWALES & ANGELS performed by the Rubio String Quartet.

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 21

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by Daniel McCusker Dancers;
"...pools of stillness set off against a rhythmic undercurrent...haunting."- The Berkshire Eagle 7/27/85.

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bassoon, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, harp, horn, oboe, percussion, trombone, trumpet, viola, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Rec Opus One Records; Premiered Richmond Symphony; ...Americanized Gypsy dance...appeal is immediate; - Richmond Times Dispatch 1/28/85.
It is available on an LP from Opus One #100 recorded by the Richmond Symphony in Virginia.
Also performed by the Baltimore Women's Symphony, and the New Britain Symphony in Connecticut.
There is also an octet version.

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: flute, guitar, viola

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Composed for Andrew Bolotowsky and friends. In manuscript.

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This is a companion piece to Belgian Tango.

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, piano

Instruments: alto saxophone, piano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: A series of rhythmic variations originally commissioned as a sextet by the Commotion Dance Company for contact-improvisation. A few years later a shorter version of that piece for piano solo was commissioned by choreographer Donna Oberstein for Montclair State College.
The original tune was augmented and extended creating rhythmic surprises and a powerful rhythmic drive. The harmony is based on a I-v-I cadence and the melody is reminiscent of a Spanish folk melody. The introduction foreshadows the tonal centers of the first seven variations while changing meter from 8/4 to 7/4 to 6/4 and so on.
This piece is also available as a sextet for 4 saxophones and 2 keyboard instruments which was performed at the University of Wisconsin, on Meet The Woman Composer series in NYC, and in Iceland.
Recorded on North/South CD, Two By Three Music By Women, performed by Mary Kathleen Earnst.
Also performed by Joseph Kubera and Artis Wodehouse.

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by Yvan Mikashoff as a piano solo
There is also a four-hand version.
performances at Bard College & Nell's in NYC;
also available for violin, accordion and piano, and recorded in that version by The Tango Project for Newport Classics (CD) in 1992.
The violin and piano version was first performed by Mary Rowell and Denman Maroney and recorded for the Belgian radio March 2000.
It is recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC by Ana Milosavljevic.
It is recorded on Feminae In Musica by Aleksandra Maslovaric.

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble

Instruments: alto saxophone, clarinet, contrabass, electronics, percussion, piano, trombone, trumpet, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by Univ. of Redlands New Music Ensemble, Barney Childs, conductor.
This piece is also available for orchestra and was recorded on Opus One by the Richmond Symphony, c. 1984.

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 25

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by Daniel McCusker Dancers;
"...faintly familiar yet ultimately unidentifiable folk songs...the sweetness of her music helped emphasize that Mr. McCusker's dancers were members of a community, as well as figures in a design."
It is available on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC. performed by Joseph Kubera.
Also performed by Artis Wodehouse.

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 60

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Instruments: any medium voice, contrabass, percussion, piano, satb chorus

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: book and lyrics by Jo-Ann Krestan
"..some dynamite songs, especially "There's a Different World which deserves to become an anthem for the entire liberation movement."- The Lavendar Express, Feb. 1984.
About four gay women and the high church Episcopalian mother of one of them, her priest who is also gay and his boyfriend who is trans.

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 55

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by Bonnie Schiebman Dancers; performed by the composer at the Merce Cunningham Studio.
"...a folk dance flavor...lively, repeating, upbeat rhythms."
Part Two was performed by Joseph Kubera on an Eccentrics concert in NYC.

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: piano

Description: Commissioned by Staten Island Symphony; "...references to folk material...pretty musical textures..." - Staten Island Advance 1/30/82. The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: alto saxophone, any saxophone, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: alto saxophone, any saxophone, flute, oboe, piano, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice

Year: 1981

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Instruments: any voice, contrabass, percussion, piano

Description: Musical. NYV CHOR.

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Recorded on Poetry Music Quilts from Widemouth tapes;
commisioned by Andrew Bolotowsky;
...fascinating forays into ethnicity - The Villager 12/8/83.

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: narrator/speaker, percussion

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text-sound;
Recorded on Poetry Music Quilts onWidemouth tapes #8619;
recorded for NPR broadcast;
available on the Pogus CD, PEACHY KEEN-O
about walking around on my grandmother's farm in Kentucky and noticing plants and ideas.

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Description: The music has a child like quality with Baroque and Pop influences. The song deals with a relationship. Knots has words by R. D. Lang, the eminent psychotherapist. They are take from his book, "Knots" (1971). In his introduction he writes, "The patterns delineated here have not yet been classified by a Linnaeus of human bondage. They are all, perhaps, strangely, familiar." The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Rhapsodic. Passionate. Available on CD , Two by Three from North/South Consonance (1998).
For either flute, cello and piano
or
violin, cello, piano.

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo string with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: cello, flute, oboe, piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: the flute with piano version, and the violin with piano version are on Youtube.
One night in 1980 I had a very bad dream about Dr. Blood stealing my blood. I woke up and wrote what felt like the antidote to this dream-- a kind of underwater lullaby with mermaids and a music box. Since the imaginary Dr. Blood was the “cause” of the dream, I gave him credit in the title. I felt much better afterwards.
It is recorded on the Albany CD entitled QUILT MUSIC performed by Ana Milosavljevic, violin.
Also on the MSR CD The Praying Mantis and The Bluebird with Andrew Bolotowsky, flute.
also performed by the Aviva Players in NYC

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, harpsichord, oboe, piano, recorder, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This is a quartet with various possible instrumentations. It is a mostly mixolydian hora and lullaby. It was performed at the ISCM in Brussels in 1981 and at The Kitchen in NYC. The video is of Baroque flute, alto recorder, cello and harpsichord but C-flute/violin/oboe could easily substitute for the upper winds.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: flute, harp, piano, violin

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird for Andrew Bolotowsky
This is the first piece I composed for Andrew in 1979. He is the bluebird. The accompaniment is the mantis. It has a few melodic quotes imbedded in it, including "Nearer My God To Thee". See if you can find others. It may also be performed with any C- instrument and harp.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, baritone voice, cello, flute, harp, harpsichord, piano, recorder, violin

Publisher: Self-Produced

Description: Performed at the ISCM World Music Days, Brussells. May be performed Fl or Vln, Cl or Ob, with cello and either piano or harpsichord.
The Eighth Ancestor is a character that I read about in a Zen book entitled SELLING WATER BY THE RIVER. This ancestor's message is that it does no good to be angry. The music, in an attempt to reflect this message, is not angry music. It resembles a lullaby and a hora. There are cut-ups of newly composed music and the general feeling is mixolydian- a white-key scale beginning on G. Composed later in 1980, it was my first giant step away from the decoding and magic squares of the avant-guarde aesthetic that had permeated my earlier work. I considered it melodic minimalism because the material was cut-up and rearranged and I called myself an avant-guarde romantic. The first performance was by the Del Barton Baroque Ensemble. It was also performed by The International Society of Contemporary Music in Brussels, Belgium. Brooklyn Baroque has recorded it for an MSR CD entitled "The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird" to be released 2013.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Instruments: flute, piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This is the first large section of quartet The Eighth Ancestor which consists of a lullaby and hora.
This a duo for either flute or violin and piano.
Available on MSR CD The Praying Mantis And The Bluebird with Andrew Bolotowsky, flute.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: clarinet, contrabass, drum set, flute, organ, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: There are three arrangements of this piece.
The quartet version is available in Skate Suite.
The mixed sextet was performed at Experimental Intermedia ( Phil Niblock's loft) with Julius Eastman conducting.
The duet for violin and cello was performed at the Kitchen in New York City.
It was commissioned by and choreographed by Diane Jacobowitz.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 20

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, harpsichord, recorder

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Premiered The Kitchen c. 1976; Commissioned by Diane Jacobowitz Dancers;
available for various instrumentation but recorded by Baroque flute, Baroque Cello, Alto Recorder and harpsichord
Originally for violin, cello, mezzo soprano and one movement with electric bass as well as an underlying tape recording.
All pitches are derived/decoded from various definitions of the word skate.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: narrator/speaker

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The YouTube video includes Kitchy and Crackers & Checkers. Text-sound.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: narrator/speaker, percussion

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Available on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O. Ocean Motion Mildew Mind, Wish'in Titian Swish'in...
OMMM.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words by the composer. It is about a dance teacher arguing about an upcoming section of a dance class that she believes is in a different time signature than her accompanist.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): Sally'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano

Description: Piano is improvisatory. The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Words by the composer. Pitches and rhythms decoded from the text; using a pentatonic scale. Also known as TWINKLE TONIGHT. The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 4 minutes

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute, other

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Preparation for the Dominant: outrunning the inevitable is for ocarina solo originally but can be played on any C instrument; This is a process piece concerned with different ways of arriving at the dominant (V) in C#. The primary pitches are C#. D#, G#; D, D#, G#; E, D#, G#; A#, D#, G#. The performer chooses one pitch to omit throughout the piece and whenever that pitch is reached; the performer must hold the preceding pitch the duration of the omitted tone plus the preceding tone’s original duration. That is the source of the rhythmic changes within the piece. Otherwise all the tones would be of the same duration except for the final pitch. The etude-like quality derives from a filling in of the space between the primary pitches with other ones in various ways. When the end is reached, the tonic (I) may no longer sound like the tonic.

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: flute, harp, piano, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: This is a duet for either flute or violin with either harp or piano. The Youtube video is flute and piano. It is recorded on the MSR Classics CD of the same name.

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works

Instruments: tape

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: any voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: It is a round. Text: If you have a thought in your head / and you don't understand what it means, / then nobody else does either. / No, nobody else does either. Words by the composer. May be available in a print collection entitled Rounds Galore.

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: narrator/speaker, percussion

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Out on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O. Also Recorded on Poetry Music Quilts from Widemouth tapes.
Score available from the composer.

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Text: Beauty runs faster than the liquid of our souls / Beauty rares up, shakes its mane and is gone / down the steep mountain path to the sea. / Life takes a turn for the better when its gone.
SONGS IN TRANSIT: An American Expedition Soprano Melanie Mitrano recorded Lullaby (words by Auden) and Beauty Runs Faster (words by the composer) for her CD on Capstone CPS-8756. Jonathan Woolf at MusicWeb International says: ...Beauty Runs Faster is ...delicious... You can hear parts of the songs at: capstonerecords.org Visit Melanie at melaniemitrano.com

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works

Instruments: electronics, tape

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works

Description: tape

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: narrator/speaker

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: text-sound; one of my pieces derived from a magic square process.

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 2

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: narrator/speaker

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: a text-sound piece derived from a magic square process

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: piano, tape

Description: Premiered The Kitchen, NYC; "...a text describing a wedding is delivered on tape, while the piano plays a musical decoding of it."' - The Village Voice 3/22/77. The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works

Instruments: tape

Description: recorded on Poetry Music Quilts from Widemouth tapes.
Available on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O.
This is a tape piece dedicated to my father that uses the auctioneer, Spec Edwards' voice in part.

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Description: making countrapuntal rhythms.

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: narrator/speaker, percussion

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: available on LP on Finders Keepers Record, 2024.
available on CD on Peachy Keeno-O CD from Pogus.
recorded on Sugar, Alcohol & Meat a Dial-A-Poem Poets LP 1980.
available on a 45 RPM privately produced 1979.
"Is there a more basic scream than that of B.A.'s I Can't Stand It; or is this just one more Dadaist provocation...?"--Whitney Museum: Nonsense exhibit 11/17/90.

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works

Instruments: electronics

Description: Rec "Poetry Music Quilts": Widemouth tapes. Available from the composer.

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: clarinet, tape

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Premiered San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble. Also performed at The Kitchen in NYC.
For two clarinets and a tape. Typed pitches decoded from a text.

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: narrator/speaker

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: recorded on Black Box from Breathing Space/77 & Poetry Music Quilts. A text-sound piece that wonders what I would say if I were a poet.

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;10'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any string, any voice, any woodwind

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Premiered at The Kitchen, NYC c. 1975. Two-part improvisational mantra. Text from the Bible; Incline Thine ear to me / and save me.

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any voice, tape, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: The pitches in this pieces were decoded from a letter in Q.E.D. by Gertrude Stein.
The two violins play the pitches with rules governing the direction of the leaps between pitches. The singer reads the text and uses multi-phonics. The tape is of a reading of Kathy Acker's The Black Tarantula. The Acker reveals the unspoken feelings of the Stein.
Performed at 1750 Arch Street on Stein's 100th birthday in 1974 in Berkeley, CA
and at The Kitchen in NYC
and at The Cabrillo Festival in Aptos, CA where Mitch Miller insisted that the performance be repeated
and at Mills College.
M.A. thesis: Mills College.

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 19

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: baritone voice, other, soprano, tenor voice

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Commissioned by Cabrillo Music Fest;
"..more a map or set of tonal clues.. relocation of the musicians throughout the theatre...evocative... modal...political" - The Santa Cruz Sentinel 8/23/74.
It is an oratorio on Joan of Arc. The words are from her trial as translated from Latin, to Old French, to French and into English.
There is a coloratura soprano to sing the saints, a soprano to sing Joan, a tenor to sing the clergy, and a baritone to sing the Burgundian knights. The orchestra is divided into five parts in the shape of a cross throughout the hall. Scaffolding is erected on stage and a dancer dances the part of the people outside the trial above everyone. Conducting is done by color cues projected. The score consists of decoded text that modulates from an ABCDEFG code to ABCDEF code and eventually to ABAB code. Aa A is audible to keep everyone in tune and a ring modulator affects the voice of Joan.

A recording of the instrumental parts only performed on the piano is available on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O.

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 30

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, tape

Publisher: available from the composer

Publisher website: www.beand.com

Description: the cello improvises based on the tape material which was made from the vowels in the song Bye Bye Blackbird. The vowels were recorded as multi-phonics (Bonnie Barnet) and varispeeded at the Mills College Tape Center. A very long cloth is wrapped around the audience by a dancer as the cellist performs.
Premiered 1750 Arch St, Berkeley.

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: ..a tender vocal line and quiet; steady piano chords... - The Village Voice 3/22/77. Words by Ana Perez. The score is available from the composer. Duration is variable because of the optional repeats.

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, piano

Instruments: piano, tape

Publisher: available from the composer

Publisher website: www.beand.com

Description: Joan was an oratorio based on the life of Joan of Arc. This is a performance of all the parts done with tape and piano. It could be performed by five pianists live. The text is decoded into a modulating code that moves from ABCDEFG to ABCDEF to ABCDE to eventually AB. The pitches are typed with instructions for use and the rhythms are improvised. The oratorio was commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival in Aptos, California with funds from the California Arts Commission. The piano version was performed at The Kitchen, NYC. It is available on the Pogus CD entitled Peachy Keen-O.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: harp, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Graphic score. Improvisation. The score is available from the composer.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: electronic and computer works, piano

Instruments: piano, tape

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: graphic score. For piano and tape. Composed for my student, Ann Marie Mooney who performed it on a Mills College pre-college recital.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any voice, narrator/speaker, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Radio opera that was performed live several times in New York City. Requires, at minimum, two speakers, one of whom sings and a pianist. Text-sound and rock-ish songs.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 60

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Instruments: baritone voice, flute, mezzo soprano, tape, violin

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Premiered Mills College, Opera. Tape, Video, Dancers, A mezzo, a soprano and a baritone with a small orchestra that used accordion to fill in the middle voices. About the Swedish queen, 1626-1689, her lady in waiting, Bella, and Descarte, who spent 1949-1950 in her court. The opera deals with her birth, coronation, and abdication.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ, tape

Publisher: available from the composer

Publisher website: www.beand.com

Description: Graphic score.
Premiered by Linda Collins at the Mills College Chapel in 1973.
It is out on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 45'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works

Instruments: any voice, percussion, tape

Description: 1st broadcast KPFA, Berkeley.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: narrator/speaker

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Avaialble on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O
and also on the CD from Other Minds entitled 10+2=12 American Text-Sound Pieces.
Recorded originally on 1750 Arch Records in the shorter form.
"...humanitarian, simple, touching domesticity of the homely, often funny stories in T.P..." - Oakland Tribune 5/16/83;
"...a duo work comprising a humorous narration...to wordless vocal gyrations" - Berkeley Gazette 5/16/83.
Text-sound
one speaker reads the phonemes derived from a Paint-By-Numbers scroll of a torero.
the other speaker performs a story craeted by the speaker re the most dramatic event or relationship in that person's life. In the recorded versions (short and long) my mother discussed her relationship with me.
Other performers have discussed playing topless cello on TV, the death of one's father, a baseball game, etc.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: electronics, guitar, narrator/speaker, organ, percussion, tape, vibraphone

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Premiered Mills College 3/3/73. Available on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O. Graphic score requires interpretation. Use CD recording as a guide to realization.

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: alto flute, bass clarinet, cello, clarinet, contrabass, organ, tape, tenor saxophone, tenor voice, timpani

Publisher: available from the composer

Publisher website: www.beand.com

Description: tenor voice, alto flute, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, string bass, cello, organ, timpani, tape
commissioned and performed by The San Francisco Conservatory's New Music Ensemble, John Adams, conductor
numeralogically derived instrumentation
pitches are decoded from a lecture about Jupiter
graphic score
tape based on lecture regarding Jupiter at Chabot Observatory in Oakland, California
also performed Cabrillo Festival 1974 in Aptos, California
published in a book entitled ED VOGELSANG-"VIEWS BESIDE..." edited by Fritz Balthaus, Berlin 1982

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any medium voice, piano

Description: Words by the composer. First performance: University of Kentucky; also performed at The Kitchen, NYC. Available for medium voice and 2 flutes.

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any medium voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

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Description: Text: Today is such a lovely day / It really lifts my spirit. / Today is such a lovely day / If I had a job I'd quit it.
first performance at the University of Kentucky; A Day was also performed at The Music At DelBarton Series; The Kitchen; and the Soho Baroque Opera Company.
A Day is not meant to be heard by anyone's employer. Available from the composer.

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any medium voice, piano

Publisher: available from the composer

Publisher website: www.beand.com

Description: Text: How are you? / I am Fine. / It has rained here every day. / I wish that you were here. Available from the composer.