“Oh,” for psaltery or keyboard, is brief, diatonic, freely metered. It’s a simple stirring of the strings, often landing on sevenths and sixths; it’s as slight as I could make it. Here’s how it begins.
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Oh
June 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Oh
Never Shtup a Nutjob
June 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Never Shtup a Nutjob
White Knuckle Sandwich used to perform this lively number. I’ve resurrected it, added a viola part, and am now performing it with David Gold. And it begins in this way.
The Passing Clouds Mock the Sky’s Stasis and Purity
June 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment
This piece is written for the “cloudboard,” a keyboard instrument that generates clouds; naturally, it uses the standard symbols for cloud formations. Since the instrument does not exist, the piece cannot be performed. I regret the inconvenience. You have the first bit of the piece here. And now might be a good time to reread […]
Under the Weather
June 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Under the Weather
I wrote this glum little tune back in 1983, when I was staying in Nancy. It was choreographed by Pam Quinn for a concert at Dance Theater Workshop (in NYC) in 1985. Here’s the first part of it.
Mozart at the Cannery Works
June 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Mozart at the Cannery Works
This realization of Mozart’s “Musical Game in C” (K.516f) was written for an evening organized by the Cannery Works on Mozart’s birthday, January 27, 2005. Mozart’s piece gave the materials to construct minuets on the names of his friends; I applied it to “Cannery Works,” and harmonized the result.
Keyboard Music 1
June 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Keyboard Music 1
You can get 49 pages of my keyboard music in this photocopied dossier. Let me know if you want one. It contains excerpts from dance and theater scores, examples from lectures, harmonizations, Solrésol translations, occasional pieces, gags, and experiments. The pieces are: Stumbling Block Rameau’s Nephew Spang Aubade Rousseau’s Three-Note Tune The Party Next Door […]
Janus
June 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Janus
A round to see in a new year. It’s palindromic, except for that flickering F and F#.
A Grim Reckoning
June 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment
“A Grim Reckoning” is one of my more gothic offerings. It began its life as incidental organ music for “Misguiding Lights,” a dance/theater piece by Pam Quinn and Michael O’Connor. I reworked it for viola and electronic organ, and performed it on the “No Soap Radio” series at Dance Theater Workshop, in NYC, in 1996, […]
Election Day
June 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on Election Day
A round on a trenchant scrap of Yeats. Hear, hear!
Dirgette
June 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Dirgette
A funereal snippet, to illustrate a point of physical comedy in a performance with Bill Irwin, at the Walter Reade Theater (NYC) in 1999.