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.

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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 […]

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A round to see in a new year. It’s palindromic, except for that flickering F and F#.

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“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, […]

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A round on a trenchant scrap of Yeats. Hear, hear!  

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A funereal snippet, to illustrate a point of physical comedy in a performance with Bill Irwin, at the Walter Reade Theater (NYC) in 1999.

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I’ve often performed this song on the ukulele. I recorded it with an obbligato for baritone uke; in performance, David Gold has joined me on viola. Here’s how it begins:

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A brief crab canon. I notated it in the style of a baroque puzzle canon; that saves ink.

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