Ursula Mamlok

Ursula Mamlok

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Publishers: C.F. Peters, American Composers Edition, E.C. Schirmer. Recorded by: Opus One, CRI, Grenadilla, Access, Leonarda. NEA grants. American Academy Arts and Letters awards including Walter Hinrichsen award. ACA/Opus One recording award. Koussevitzky Foundation commission. 1990 San Francisco Symphony commission.

Confluences

Year: 2001

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Comm: Continuum

2000 Notes

Year: 2001

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Commissioned by Sarah Cahill, Marcia Eckert

In Celebration

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Constellations

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: strs Commissioned by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt, Music Director. Premiered February, 1994: five performances planned Feb. 9 - 13, 1994. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806

Five Intermezzi For Guitar

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: premiered by League ISCM concert, Weill Hall, New York City, 1991. "Striking addition to the repertory, modulates strikingly between gentle and rambunctious spiky textures." Allan Kozinn, N. Y. Times, 4/2/91. P67435. Recording on Music and Arts CD 1032

Music For Stony Brook

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by SUNY-Stony Brook, Premiered 4/28/90, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC.

Girasol (Sunflowers)

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation. "...a...first-rate Koussevitzky commission, iridescent sonorities, strong but elegant narrative logic." Richard Buell, Boston Globe. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806 C.F. Peters

Sonata For Violin And Piano

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Commissioned by Eastman School of Music for Catherine Tait. Premiered 10/11/90 Village Variations Series, Greenwich House Music School, NYC. Recording on Gasparo GS CD 300 (1995)

Rhapsody For Clarinet, Viola And Piano

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/Premiered Earplay, SF 89; Parnassus, 90. Rec Gasparo CD, Centaur CRC 2274 (1996). "...fetching, craggy strong minded gives way to tender speculative middle" Kosman SF Chron. "Textures...assertive phrasing...each instrument demonstrates what it can do best - effortlessly appealing." SF Chron. "Substance" "Weight" Holland NY Times. P67341.

Die Laterne

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/Premiered Schoenberg Institute USC, 1/25/1989; L. Shelton, sop, Da Capo Chamber Players; text is previously unset Pierrot poem. P67279.

Bagatelles

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by Inoue Ensemble, Weill Hall, at Carnegie Hall NYC, 10/17/88. P67278; 3 scores needed for performance. "By turns spooky and playful." Allan Kozinn, New York Times. CRI 864 ("Soloflights," 2000)

Concertino For Ww Quintet, String Orch & 4 Percussionists

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: cl, bn, hn, 4 perc, strs (sections: vn, va, vc, cb) P67277; rental only. "Work of high skill, expression, forms complex, errorless interactive patterns." Jose, Mercury- "bustling...extroverted energy" SF Examiner. "Elegy" recorded on Leonarda LE 327 (1987)

3 Bagatelles

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/premiered by Alaria Ensemble, Nancy Garniez, Weill Recital Hall, NYC, 1987. P67262.

Der Andreas Garten

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered Jubal Trio, all Mam,lok concert Merkin Hall NYC, 1987, winner ACA/OPUS ONE recording award (LP). "Yes, it's that Andreas (fault) to which Mamlok and husband's poetry refer...invites comparison to Pierrot but impressive on its own. Splendid achievement." SF Chron. P67224, 3 scores for perf. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806 and Opus One (1988; LP) ACA 50th Anniversary Recording Award

Alariana

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: commissioned/Premiered Alaria Ensemble, "a quintet of 5 tiny movements, made distinctive, its modernism distilled by the sweet reedy sound of recorder" Page, Newsday. "Lovely brief elegant motifs animated sensitively." Page, NY Times.

Recital Pieces For Young Pianists

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Merkin all Mamlok concert,'87, D. Stanley; mod. advanced students. "I particularly admired Rec. Pieces. There is a dearth of good music for junior pianists, the sonorous challenging pieces deserve place in repertory." Page NYT Times. Casia # "

6 Recital Pieces For Children

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: students; in 5 finger position entire keyboard range.

4 Recital Pieces For Young Pianists

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: performed by Merkin Hall, NYC all Mamlok concert, 1987, D. Stanley,pn. For moderately advanced students. "I particularly admired 4 Recital Pieces. There is"

Fantasie Variations For Solo Cello

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: premiered by Dawn Buckholz, NYC. Recorded by Camilla de Souza on Sacral LP Germany, available from Frauenmusikvertrieb, Hardtstr. 25, D-4000, Dusseldorf, West Germany.

From My Garden

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: premiered by David Sills, va, 83. Violin version recorded on True Media (1993) and Gasparo GS CD 300

Panta Rhei (Time In Flux)

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by SAI; Group Contemp Music, 82; CRI 518 (1984; LP), Access 101 (1984; LP), Music and Arts CD 933 (Contemporary Piano Trios, 1996); parts; P66885; "Mamlok has a songful, lyrical sense, her poignant music ranges widely from sprightly waltz, to motionless sustained, to powerful motivic rhythms." Fanfare.

When Summer Sang

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: DA CAPO '81; CRI 480, Am Acad Arts Let Aw; P66981; $36.65. "Mamlok is a master of moods-impressed with idyllic solitude." New Records. "alluring, skilled, assured and inspired,very special recommend without reserve." Fanfare. C.F. Peters

Festive Sounds

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/Premiered SAI. "Disarming, self-assurance, lively, individual musical character." Peter G. Davis, NY Times. P66769

Sextet

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Parnassus 1977; CRI 480; American Acadamy Arts & Letters Award. "...pleasures of the lucid with interplay of wit and tenderness, of comedy and seriousness, that charges this music with implicative richness." Richard Swift MTA Journal. P66768; $27.95.

Oboe Concerto

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: chamber orch. Also for full orch: ob, 3233; 4331, 2 perc, hp, cel, mand, strs - "The most intriguing work was Ursula Mamlok's angular Oboe Concerto." Elliott Schwartz, Musical America. See also ob, perc, 2 pn.

Polphony Ii

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Variations And Interludes

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered L.A., J. Cable, sop., 1989. "This song proved that romantic music is alive and well. LA Times.

Sintra

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Carnegie Rec Hall, NYC, 1970; Pagano, fl, Forbes, vc. "sinuous" "of bristling structure" Peter G. Davis, New York Times.

Mosaics

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: soli from ch. ACA - American Composers Alliance

5 Capriccios For Oboe And Piano

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered J. Martin, ob, J. Tower, pn, 1968. 2 scores needed for performance; P66497.

Polyphony For Solo Clarinet

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: premiered by Jack Kreiselman, Group for Contemporary Music, 1969.

Haiku Settings

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Tully, NYC, l. Doherty, sop, D. Gilbert, fl; 1972; recorded Grenadilla, Jubal Trio,L. Shelton,sop,S. Kahn, fl. "Lee Dougherty and David Gilbert gave a sensitive performance of Mamlok's excellent Haiku Settings." Henahan NYTimes. Recording on Grenadilla GS 1015 (1977; LP, out of print)

Movements

Year: 1966

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Tangelwood Fromm Fest, 1967.

Sonar Trajectory

Year: 1966

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: elect tape

Temporal Interrelations

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Bennington Composer Conference (1965).

Music For Viola & Harp

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: commissioned/Premiered S. Jolles, hp, J. Glick, va - Carnegie Recital Hall. ACA -

Sculpture I

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered J. Tower, 1965.

Concert Piece For 4

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Music in Our Time, Kaufman Aud, NYC, 1964. "A work with careful, even elegant charm." Eric Saltzman, N. Y. Herald Tribune.

For Seven

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Bennington Conf 1963. "..composition has articulation of sharp images that had graphic impact on the ear.. rather tense rhythm lent to total sharpness of piece." Dwyer, N. Bennington.

Five Songs From Stray Birds

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered Group for Contemporary Music, recorded CRI 301: P. Bryn-Julsen, sop, F. Sherry, vc, H. Sollberger, fl. Winner of Walter Hinrichsen Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1989. P67257. "The music has the quality of elegy, of tenderness, of remorse." Louis R. Guzzo, The Seattle Times, 12/8/64.

String Quartet

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: ISCM conc, 1963. "...great deal of character, strong intense first movement, scherzo which has remarkable literal repeat of its main section that works, way such repeats used to work, a strong piece" Salzman NY Herald Trib. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806

Designs For Violin & Piano

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Composers Forum, Matthew Raymondi, pn, Robert Helps, pn, 2/63. "Mamlok's Designs has a touching expressiveness and a really solid competence behind it." Michael Steinberg, Boston Globe. REcording on Gasparo GS CD- 300(1995)

Composition For Solo Cello Or Solo Viola

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: composed for and premiered by Joel Krosnick of Group for Contemporary Music, 1962.

Variations For Solo Flute

Year: 1961

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: premiered by Harvey Sollberger, 1962. "A gentle piece of considerable appeal was Ms. Mamlok's Variations, which were developed with ingeniousness." Raymond Ericson, N.Y. Times. Recorded CRI cassette #212, Opus One 72 (1980; LP)McGinnis & Marx

8 Easy Duets For Two Clarinets

Year: 1958

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: for 2 beginning students; for use by teachers. E.C.SCHIRMER

Divertimento

Year: 1958

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: first prize Fawick Competition, National Youth Orch Assoc. For use by students or amateur orchestra, Premiered William & Mary College, Williamsburg, VA, 3/29/89.

Sonatina For 2 Clarinets

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered NYC 1957.

Lament

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 2/4/90 Greenwich House, NYC, Bowery Cellists.

Grasshoppers

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: 6 short "humoresques"; Premiered Aviva Players, 1977; concert moderately advanced students. Casia # 09207a, $8.95. CASIA PUBLISHING "

4 German Songs

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: text Herman Hesse; prem: L. Shelton, sop.; Aviva Players, M.Spektor, director, 1978. "There was an evocative song cycle by Ursula Mamlok." John Rockwell, New York Times.

Quintet For Wind Instruments

Year: 1956

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered The Dorian Quintet, 1976. Composition has a beautifully serene andante tranquillo set between a pair of playful, energetic movements." (Allan Kozinn, N.Y. Times).

Psalm 1

Year: 1956

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Piano Piece

Year: 1952

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Parakeet's Slumber Song With Words

Year: 1948

Duration (in minutes): Parakeet'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: for 1 beginning student. "Gently swaying tempo lulls a sleepy parakeet to dreamland." Grade 1-1/2 (Presser Piano Music).

Daybreak

Year: 1948

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered L.A., J. Cable, sop., 1989. "This song proved that romantic music is alive and well. LA Times.

Scherzo

Year: 1947

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered U. Mamlok, Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

Children's Suite

Year: 1947

Duration (in minutes): Children'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: for use by students, same as Children's Suite 193 for 2 pn.

Children's Suite No. 2

Year: 1943

Duration (in minutes): Children'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: moderate difficulty for advanced students. For more advanced recital pieces. ACA -

Children's Suite No. 1

Year: 1943

Duration (in minutes): Children'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: moderate difficulty for students." 3 short numbers in about second grade. Both pianos sharing in melody and accompaniment.. tinged with a chromatic quality which gives them a modern taste. Recommended." Music Teachers Quarterly.

BIOGRAPHY
Publishers: C.F. Peters, American Composers Edition, E.C. Schirmer. Recorded by: Opus One, CRI, Grenadilla, Access, Leonarda. NEA grants. American Academy Arts and Letters awards including Walter Hinrichsen award. ACA/Opus One recording award. Koussevitzky Foundation commission. 1990 San Francisco Symphony commission.
COMPOSITIONS

Confluences

Year: 2001

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Comm: Continuum

2000 Notes

Year: 2001

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Commissioned by Sarah Cahill, Marcia Eckert

In Celebration

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Constellations

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: strs Commissioned by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt, Music Director. Premiered February, 1994: five performances planned Feb. 9 - 13, 1994. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806

Five Intermezzi For Guitar

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: premiered by League ISCM concert, Weill Hall, New York City, 1991. "Striking addition to the repertory, modulates strikingly between gentle and rambunctious spiky textures." Allan Kozinn, N. Y. Times, 4/2/91. P67435. Recording on Music and Arts CD 1032

Music For Stony Brook

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by SUNY-Stony Brook, Premiered 4/28/90, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC.

Girasol (Sunflowers)

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation. "...a...first-rate Koussevitzky commission, iridescent sonorities, strong but elegant narrative logic." Richard Buell, Boston Globe. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806 C.F. Peters

Sonata For Violin And Piano

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Commissioned by Eastman School of Music for Catherine Tait. Premiered 10/11/90 Village Variations Series, Greenwich House Music School, NYC. Recording on Gasparo GS CD 300 (1995)

Rhapsody For Clarinet, Viola And Piano

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/Premiered Earplay, SF 89; Parnassus, 90. Rec Gasparo CD, Centaur CRC 2274 (1996). "...fetching, craggy strong minded gives way to tender speculative middle" Kosman SF Chron. "Textures...assertive phrasing...each instrument demonstrates what it can do best - effortlessly appealing." SF Chron. "Substance" "Weight" Holland NY Times. P67341.

Die Laterne

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/Premiered Schoenberg Institute USC, 1/25/1989; L. Shelton, sop, Da Capo Chamber Players; text is previously unset Pierrot poem. P67279.

Bagatelles

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by Inoue Ensemble, Weill Hall, at Carnegie Hall NYC, 10/17/88. P67278; 3 scores needed for performance. "By turns spooky and playful." Allan Kozinn, New York Times. CRI 864 ("Soloflights," 2000)

Concertino For Ww Quintet, String Orch & 4 Percussionists

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: cl, bn, hn, 4 perc, strs (sections: vn, va, vc, cb) P67277; rental only. "Work of high skill, expression, forms complex, errorless interactive patterns." Jose, Mercury- "bustling...extroverted energy" SF Examiner. "Elegy" recorded on Leonarda LE 327 (1987)

3 Bagatelles

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/premiered by Alaria Ensemble, Nancy Garniez, Weill Recital Hall, NYC, 1987. P67262.

Der Andreas Garten

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered Jubal Trio, all Mam,lok concert Merkin Hall NYC, 1987, winner ACA/OPUS ONE recording award (LP). "Yes, it's that Andreas (fault) to which Mamlok and husband's poetry refer...invites comparison to Pierrot but impressive on its own. Splendid achievement." SF Chron. P67224, 3 scores for perf. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806 and Opus One (1988; LP) ACA 50th Anniversary Recording Award

Alariana

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: commissioned/Premiered Alaria Ensemble, "a quintet of 5 tiny movements, made distinctive, its modernism distilled by the sweet reedy sound of recorder" Page, Newsday. "Lovely brief elegant motifs animated sensitively." Page, NY Times.

Recital Pieces For Young Pianists

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Merkin all Mamlok concert,'87, D. Stanley; mod. advanced students. "I particularly admired Rec. Pieces. There is a dearth of good music for junior pianists, the sonorous challenging pieces deserve place in repertory." Page NYT Times. Casia # "

6 Recital Pieces For Children

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: students; in 5 finger position entire keyboard range.

4 Recital Pieces For Young Pianists

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: performed by Merkin Hall, NYC all Mamlok concert, 1987, D. Stanley,pn. For moderately advanced students. "I particularly admired 4 Recital Pieces. There is"

Fantasie Variations For Solo Cello

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: premiered by Dawn Buckholz, NYC. Recorded by Camilla de Souza on Sacral LP Germany, available from Frauenmusikvertrieb, Hardtstr. 25, D-4000, Dusseldorf, West Germany.

From My Garden

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: premiered by David Sills, va, 83. Violin version recorded on True Media (1993) and Gasparo GS CD 300

Panta Rhei (Time In Flux)

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by SAI; Group Contemp Music, 82; CRI 518 (1984; LP), Access 101 (1984; LP), Music and Arts CD 933 (Contemporary Piano Trios, 1996); parts; P66885; "Mamlok has a songful, lyrical sense, her poignant music ranges widely from sprightly waltz, to motionless sustained, to powerful motivic rhythms." Fanfare.

When Summer Sang

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: DA CAPO '81; CRI 480, Am Acad Arts Let Aw; P66981; $36.65. "Mamlok is a master of moods-impressed with idyllic solitude." New Records. "alluring, skilled, assured and inspired,very special recommend without reserve." Fanfare. C.F. Peters

Festive Sounds

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: commissioned/Premiered SAI. "Disarming, self-assurance, lively, individual musical character." Peter G. Davis, NY Times. P66769

Sextet

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Parnassus 1977; CRI 480; American Acadamy Arts & Letters Award. "...pleasures of the lucid with interplay of wit and tenderness, of comedy and seriousness, that charges this music with implicative richness." Richard Swift MTA Journal. P66768; $27.95.

Oboe Concerto

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: chamber orch. Also for full orch: ob, 3233; 4331, 2 perc, hp, cel, mand, strs - "The most intriguing work was Ursula Mamlok's angular Oboe Concerto." Elliott Schwartz, Musical America. See also ob, perc, 2 pn.

Polphony Ii

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Variations And Interludes

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered L.A., J. Cable, sop., 1989. "This song proved that romantic music is alive and well. LA Times.

Sintra

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Carnegie Rec Hall, NYC, 1970; Pagano, fl, Forbes, vc. "sinuous" "of bristling structure" Peter G. Davis, New York Times.

Mosaics

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: soli from ch. ACA - American Composers Alliance

5 Capriccios For Oboe And Piano

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered J. Martin, ob, J. Tower, pn, 1968. 2 scores needed for performance; P66497.

Polyphony For Solo Clarinet

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: premiered by Jack Kreiselman, Group for Contemporary Music, 1969.

Haiku Settings

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Tully, NYC, l. Doherty, sop, D. Gilbert, fl; 1972; recorded Grenadilla, Jubal Trio,L. Shelton,sop,S. Kahn, fl. "Lee Dougherty and David Gilbert gave a sensitive performance of Mamlok's excellent Haiku Settings." Henahan NYTimes. Recording on Grenadilla GS 1015 (1977; LP, out of print)

Movements

Year: 1966

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Tangelwood Fromm Fest, 1967.

Sonar Trajectory

Year: 1966

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: elect tape

Temporal Interrelations

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Bennington Composer Conference (1965).

Music For Viola & Harp

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: commissioned/Premiered S. Jolles, hp, J. Glick, va - Carnegie Recital Hall. ACA -

Sculpture I

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered J. Tower, 1965.

Concert Piece For 4

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Music in Our Time, Kaufman Aud, NYC, 1964. "A work with careful, even elegant charm." Eric Saltzman, N. Y. Herald Tribune.

For Seven

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Bennington Conf 1963. "..composition has articulation of sharp images that had graphic impact on the ear.. rather tense rhythm lent to total sharpness of piece." Dwyer, N. Bennington.

Five Songs From Stray Birds

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Premiered Group for Contemporary Music, recorded CRI 301: P. Bryn-Julsen, sop, F. Sherry, vc, H. Sollberger, fl. Winner of Walter Hinrichsen Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1989. P67257. "The music has the quality of elegy, of tenderness, of remorse." Louis R. Guzzo, The Seattle Times, 12/8/64.

String Quartet

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: ISCM conc, 1963. "...great deal of character, strong intense first movement, scherzo which has remarkable literal repeat of its main section that works, way such repeats used to work, a strong piece" Salzman NY Herald Trib. Recording on Composers Recordings, Inc. CRI CD 806

Designs For Violin & Piano

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Composers Forum, Matthew Raymondi, pn, Robert Helps, pn, 2/63. "Mamlok's Designs has a touching expressiveness and a really solid competence behind it." Michael Steinberg, Boston Globe. REcording on Gasparo GS CD- 300(1995)

Composition For Solo Cello Or Solo Viola

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: composed for and premiered by Joel Krosnick of Group for Contemporary Music, 1962.

Variations For Solo Flute

Year: 1961

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: premiered by Harvey Sollberger, 1962. "A gentle piece of considerable appeal was Ms. Mamlok's Variations, which were developed with ingeniousness." Raymond Ericson, N.Y. Times. Recorded CRI cassette #212, Opus One 72 (1980; LP)McGinnis & Marx

8 Easy Duets For Two Clarinets

Year: 1958

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: for 2 beginning students; for use by teachers. E.C.SCHIRMER

Divertimento

Year: 1958

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: first prize Fawick Competition, National Youth Orch Assoc. For use by students or amateur orchestra, Premiered William & Mary College, Williamsburg, VA, 3/29/89.

Sonatina For 2 Clarinets

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered NYC 1957.

Lament

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 2/4/90 Greenwich House, NYC, Bowery Cellists.

Grasshoppers

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: 6 short "humoresques"; Premiered Aviva Players, 1977; concert moderately advanced students. Casia # 09207a, $8.95. CASIA PUBLISHING "

4 German Songs

Year: 1957

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: text Herman Hesse; prem: L. Shelton, sop.; Aviva Players, M.Spektor, director, 1978. "There was an evocative song cycle by Ursula Mamlok." John Rockwell, New York Times.

Quintet For Wind Instruments

Year: 1956

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered The Dorian Quintet, 1976. Composition has a beautifully serene andante tranquillo set between a pair of playful, energetic movements." (Allan Kozinn, N.Y. Times).

Psalm 1

Year: 1956

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Piano Piece

Year: 1952

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Parakeet's Slumber Song With Words

Year: 1948

Duration (in minutes): Parakeet'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: for 1 beginning student. "Gently swaying tempo lulls a sleepy parakeet to dreamland." Grade 1-1/2 (Presser Piano Music).

Daybreak

Year: 1948

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered L.A., J. Cable, sop., 1989. "This song proved that romantic music is alive and well. LA Times.

Scherzo

Year: 1947

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered U. Mamlok, Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

Children's Suite

Year: 1947

Duration (in minutes): Children'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: for use by students, same as Children's Suite 193 for 2 pn.

Children's Suite No. 2

Year: 1943

Duration (in minutes): Children'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: moderate difficulty for advanced students. For more advanced recital pieces. ACA -

Children's Suite No. 1

Year: 1943

Duration (in minutes): Children'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: moderate difficulty for students." 3 short numbers in about second grade. Both pianos sharing in melody and accompaniment.. tinged with a chromatic quality which gives them a modern taste. Recommended." Music Teachers Quarterly.

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