“Spang” is an abridgement of a score I wrote for a dance by Virginia Mathews, back in 1978.  It was purely diatonic, all derived from the seven note set that begins it.  And here’s the first part of it.

Graphic scores were on my mind back in 1973; I came up with this way to make one that moved.

The “Air de Trois Notes” may not be Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s most memorable melody, but it’s a charming essay in restraint.  I harmonized it both in G and in C, setting off those three pitches with a maximum of contexts.  And here’s the first part of it.

Die-hard serialists will recognize the tone-row from Webern’s Concerto for Nine Instruments, op. 24. Others can simply watch those twelve tones rotate.

This is the only piece I ever wrote, or ever will write, in Beggs, Oklahoma.

This started out as a song, but soon settled into a piano piece.  I used it in some of the shows I did with Bill Irwin, particularly in The Clown Lecture.

2006 was a bad year for me.  I commented on it in this piano piece, in which a melancholy theme deteriorates.

I carried this strip in my head for years.  I finally drew it for a Valentine’s Day edition of R. Sikoryak’s “Carousel.”