So far, I’ve written eighteen string quartets, although some are still not quite finished. Here are some descriptions.

<1: AH YOUTH. A few pieces from my teens that I thought worth saving.

1: EDDIE UNCHAINED. A suite drawn from my ventriloquial musical of that name.

2: ROUNDS. Four rounds.

3: ARETINO IN SOLRÉSOL. Five erotic sonnets by Piero Aretino translated into the universal musical language Solrésol.

4: CHORALES. Fourteen brief chorales.

5: TROWIE TUNES. Harmonizations of five “trowie tunes” from the Shetland Islands.

6: PALINDROMES. Palindromic rounds, with added bass lines, descant parts, and other embellishments.

7: VIOLAS. A chorale, round, and finale for four violas.

8: THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. An extension of a brief realization of the music of the spheres by Athanasius Kircher.

9: VIOLAS AND CELLOS. Four movements for two violas and two cellos.

10: SONGBOOK. Arrangements of songs from The Doug Skinner Songbook.

11: IN THREE PARTS. A revision of a quartet I wrote back in 1988.

12: MOZART’S HARLEQUIN. Mozart wrote music for a Harlequinade, but only the violin part remains; I provide the rest.

13: OPEN STRINGS. Music for retuned open strings.

14: ‘CELLOS. Four movements for four cellos.

15: ON MELODY IN SPEECH. Harmonizations of 19th century transcriptions of speech.

16: PIANO PIECES. Arrangements of some of my piano pieces.

17: LOCKDOWN. Two movements written during the pandemic.

18: BARON AARON. Based on interstitial music for an album of readings.