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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 […]

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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#.

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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, […]

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Election Day

June 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on Election Day

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

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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.

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Buenas Noches, Little Roaches

June 14th, 2011 · 6 Comments

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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Circulation

June 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Circulation

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

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