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Chamber Music

November 16th, 2022 · 2 Comments

Here’s a list of my music for various ensembles, in ascending number of instruments. There’s no point in giving dates, since I’ve often reworked them:

ONE

FLUTE
Wall Piece

PSALTERY
Oh

ZITHER (MICROTONAL)
Melody in A
Interlude in C
Study in wet tuning (diatonic)
Study in wet tuning (chromatic)

TWO

SLIDE WHISTLE AND TROMBONE
Duet for Slide Whistle and Trombone

GARKLEIN RECORDER AND TUBA
Duet for Garklein Recorder and Tuba

Bb TIN WHISTLE AND PERCUSSION
Hiatus

TWO VIOLINS
Six Violin Duets

VIOLIN AND ‘CELLO (OR KEYBOARD)
A Slot Machine for Wooden Nickels (7 pieces)

TENOR RECORDER AND VIOLA (OR KEYBOARD)
Maybe Those Hornets Would Like These Posies (11 pieces)

SHOFAR AND VIOLA
Shofar Bells

TWO MONOCHORDS
Music for Two Monochords: Primes
Music for Two Monochords: Sixes and Sevens
Music for Two Monochords: Elevens
Music for Two Monochords: Sophie Germain and Safe Primes

TUBA AND PIANO
Cinderella’s Glass Eye
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Save a Dollar

BASS RECORDER AND PIANO
Casting Pearls Before Oysters

VIOLIN AND PIANO
Salvo

GLOCKENSPIEL (OR VIBRAPHONE) AND PIANO
Gegenschein

VIOLA AND KEYBOARD
A Grim Reckoning
Doze
Kibosh
Lullabilious
Nocebo
Onus
Parget
Qualm
Respite
Stint
Zibeline

THREE

TWO MELODY INSTRUMENTS AND KEYBOARD
Crimp

SOPRANINO RECORDER, PIANO, AND DESK BELL
Yet

FLUTE, ‘CELLO, AND PIANO
Two Moments

FOUR

FLUTE, ‘CELLO, AND PIANO 4-HANDS
Squall

FLUTE, CLARINET, BASSOON, AND OFFSTAGE VIOLIN
Trio

TREMOLOA, VIOLA, TUBA, AND GUITAR
Twilight in the Sinkhole

VIOLA, BARITONE HORN, TUBA, AND GUITAR
The Fussbudgets’ Ball

STRING QUARTET
<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 sonnets by Piero Aretino in 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.

SIX

THREE TRUMPETS AND THREE TROMBONES
Prologue

SEVEN

SIX GAME CALLS AND BUZZER
Music for Six Game Calls and Buzzer

NINE

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, ‘cello, bass)
Grout

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mamie // Dec 4, 2022 at 10:22 pm

    You’re very prolific.

  • 2 Doug // Dec 5, 2022 at 11:51 am

    Most of these are short pieces.