Petty Larceny (Mechanical Piano Study No. 9) (2003)
Imaginary Island (2003)
Love Scene (2003)
The Watermelon Cargo (chamber opera; work in progress, 2002-3)
Cinderella's Bad Magic (chamber opera; 2002)
Transcendental Sonnets (2001-2)
Tango da Chiesa (Mechanical Piano Study No. 8) (2002)
Das Knaben Wunderklavier (2000-2001)
Cosmic Boogie-Woogie (Mechanical Piano Study No. 7) (2000-2001)
New World Coming (2001)
The Planets (Astrological Studies) (1994/2001)
Bud Ran Back Out (Mechanical Piano Study No. 6) (2001)
Hovenweep (2000)
Texarkana (Mechanical Piano Study No. 5) (2000)
Private Dances (2000)
Time Does Not Exist (2000)
Folk Dance for Henry Cowell (Mechanical Piano Study No. 4) (1999)
Nude Rolling Down an Escalator (Mechanical Piano Study No. 3) (1997/99)
"Last Chance" Sonata (1999)
Custer and Sitting Bull (1997-99)
The Disappearance of All Holy Things from this Once So Promising World (1998)
Arcana XVI: Homage to Joan Tower (Tuning Study No. 5) (1998)
The Waiting (Mechanical Piano Study No. 2) (1997)
Despotic Waltz (Mechanical Piano Study No. 1) (1997)
How Miraculous Things Happen (Tuning Study No. 4) (1997)
Fractured Paradise (Tuning Study No. 3) (1995)
Snake Dance No. 2 (1995)
Desert Sonata (1994-95)
Homage to Cowell (Tuning Study No. 2) (1994)
So Many Little Dyings (1994)
Ghost Town (1994)
"Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service" (1985/93)
Superparticular Woman (Tuning Study No. 1) (1992)
Incidental Music for Alice in Wonderland (1991-92)
Snake Dance No. 1 (1991)
"I Slept and Dreamed that Life was Beauty" (1991)
Chicago Spiral (1990-91)
Paris Intermezzo (1989)
The Convent at Tepoztlan (Homage to Nancarrow: Canon 23:24) (1989)
Sweeney Out West (Five Vacation Mishaps for Piano) (1987-89)
Laredo (1988)
Cyclic Aphorisms (1988)
Windows to Infinity (1987)
I'itoi Variations (1985)
Hesapa ki Lakhota ki Thawapi ("The Black Hills Belong to the Sioux") (1984/9)
"Faith" (1984)
"In the Busy Streets" (1983)
Cherokee Songs (1983)
Baptism (1983)
Mountain Spirit (1982-83)
The Question Answer'd (1983)
Dakota Moon (1982)
As the Day Is Long (1982)
The Mercy of the Storm (1981)
Canso (1981)
Long Night (1980-81)
Oil Man (1981)
Song of Acceptance (1980)
"The Hippopotamus" (1979)
Desert Flowers (1979)
Lord Thomas and Fair Annie (1978)
Siren (1978)
Untitled, 1977 (1977)
Satie's Dream (1975)
Redeemable Juvenilia:
Commentary on Hope and Meaninglessness (1973)
Adagio (1972)
Fantasy on Two Protestant Hymns (1972)
Arrangements/Transcriptions:
Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting," by Charles Ives (2000-1)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, by Edvard Grieg (1983)
for Disklavier; 6 minutes
for nine computerized toy pianos; 2 minutes
for string quartet in just intonation (based on Act III of The Watermelon Cargo); 6 minutes
Libretto by Jeffrey Sichel; four singers (SATB), chorus, flute, three synthesizers, fretless bass, drums
Libretto by Jeffrey Sichel; five singers (SSABarB), flute, three synthesizers, fretless bass; 43 minutes
Read the program notes.
See the tuning chart.
Read the libretto by Jeffrey Sichel.
Chorus, two soloists, and orchestra (2, 2, 2, 2; 2, 2, 1 [no tuba]; perc [timp, glock]; strings; soprano and tenor soloists; SATB; also version for chorus and piano) - commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir; poems by Jones Very (1813-1880); 32 minutes
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for Disklavier; 6 minutes
for live pianist and Disklavier, or Disklavier alone; 7 minutes
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for Disklavier; 8 minutes
for solo bassoon with flute (or oboe), violin (or viola), and piano; 6 1/2 minutes
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for flute, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, synthesizer, percussion (tom-toms, cymbals, vibraphone), viola, and double bass (movements performable separately); 46 minutes; commissioned by the Relache Ensemble
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Book I available from Frog Peak Music
for Disklavier; 3 minutes
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; 11 minutes; commissioned by the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
for Disklavier; 4 minutes
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for piano; 7 minutes
for piano; 16 minutes
for Disklavier; 2 minutes
for Disklavier; 5 minutes
See a page from Nude Rolling Down an Escalator
for clarinet and piano; 19 minutes
Score available from Frog Peak Music
****Listen to MP3s of movements one and four, beautifully played by Meighan Stoops and Bari Mort
for speaking voice and computer tape; 35 minutes
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***Hear a 1:35 audio sample of Custer: "If I Were an Indian...".
See the tuning chart for Custer: "If I Were an Indian..."
***Hear a 1:38 audio sample of Sitting Bull: "Do You Know Who I Am?".
See the tuning chart for Sitting Bull: "Do You Know Who I Am?"
See the tuning chart for the Sun Dance.
***Hear a 1:50 audio sample of Custer's Ghost to Sitting Bull.
See the tuning chart for Custer's Ghost.
Score available from Frog Peak Music
for orchestra (winds 2221, 2 hns, 1 trp, 1 perc, strings); 11 minutes
for three synthesizers (24-tone scale); 7 minutes
See the program notes and tuning chart for Arcana XVI
for mechanical piano (Disklavier); 7 minutes
for mechanical piano (Disklavier); 2 minutes
for synthesizer (24-tone scale) and tape; 11 minutes
***Hear a 1:51 audio sample of How Miraculous Things Happen.
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for synthesizer (16-tone scale) and tape; 4 minutes
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for percussion quartet with optional sampling keyboard; 12 minutes
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for piano; two movements; 19 minutes
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See a page from the first movement, "Wind"
See a page from the second movement, "Night"
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for keyboard sampler (just-intonation scale); 5 minutes
for keyboard sampler; text (and sampled voice) by Kenneth Patchen; 6 minutes
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for synthesizer (seven-limit just-intonation scale) and computer tape; 10 minutes
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See the tuning chart.
female voice and piano; text by T. S. Eliot
synthesizer (22-tone scale) and computer tape; 4 minutes
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flute, clarinet, electronics (keyboard sampler and synthesizer)
percussion quartet with optional keyboard sampler; 12 minutes
female voice and piano; text by Ellen Sturgis Hooper
for flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone (or three flutes), drums, violin, viola, cello, and synthesizer; 9 minutes
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for toy piano; 6 1/2 minutes
for piano and computer tape, or two pianos; 7 minutes
for piano
for snare drum; five minutes
for violin and piano; three movements; 8 minutes
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for piano; 11 minutes
for two pianos; 26 minutes
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for flute, trumpet (or saxophone), synthesizer (or accordion), and drum; 9 minutes
for female voice and piano; text by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
for female voice and piano; text by Henry David Thoreau
for soprano and percussion; 12 minutes
for two flutes, two drums, glockenspiel, and synthesizer; 12 minutes
Available from Frog Peak Music
for two flutes, two drums, and synthesizer; 12 minutes
for piano; 4 minutes
for clarinet
for flute, synthesizer, drums, and computer tape; 13 minutes
for piano; 11 minutes
computer tape; 3 minutes
for three pianos; ca. 22 minutes
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for 2 flutes, clarinet, piano, drums; text by Kyle Gann from letters by Marvin Gann
for three female voices, flute, French horn, trombone, tuba, celeste, two violins, and cello; length indeterminate; texts from Lao-Tzu, Walt Whitman, and Ecclesiastes
for baritone and piano; text by T.S. Eliot
for flute
for alto flute, clarinet, viola, harpsichord, celesta
for five flutes
Available from Frog Peak Music
for two flutes, marimba, violin, contrabass
for female voice, violin, flute, harp, celesta; texts by Erik Satie
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for piano; 2 minutes
for orchestra
for handbells; 3 minutes
also in 1973 arrangement for symphonic band
for piano
for clarinet and string quartet
