Compositions

Transorchestia Enigmatica: the small hopping crustaceans known only to the muddy shores of Lake Merritt (2025)

Wind Ensemble 

piccolo, flutes 1 & 2, oboe, clarinets 1-6, bass clarinet, bassoon, 4 saxophones (satb), horns 1-4, trumpets 1-6,  trombones 1 & 2, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, drum set, percussion 1 (triangle, vibraphone, large gong), percussion 2 (glockenspiel, xylophone), percussion 3 (marimba)

Audio Demo & Further Information

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East Bay Contrapunctus (2024)

4 clarinets (Bbsoprano, Eb alto, Bb bass, Eb contralto/Bb bass), 4 marimbas, piano, double bass, drum set

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Two Polymetric Pieces (c. 1974, revised 2024)

4 marimbas, cello, double bass, drum set

1. Red Rock Island Shuffle

2. Riffin' On An Old Medieval Tune

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The Little Bug That Could (1969, revised 2024)

Big Band

woodwind 1 (piccolo/alto flute or flute), woodwind 2 (flute/alto sax), woodwind 3 (flute/clarinet/tenor sax), woodwind 4 (clarinet/tenor sax), woodwind 5 (bass clarinet/bari sax), 4 trumpets, flugelhorn, 4 trombones , bass trombone, guitar (optional), piano, bass, drums

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Contrapuntal Variations for Marimba Quartet: Freedom Jazz Dance by Eddie Harris (c. 1974, revised 2024)

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Snakes, Lizards & Bugs (2012)

piccolo, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano (doubling electric piano)

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Listening (2012)

Ten Players: 6 percussionists, electric bass, 2 electronic keyboards, piano

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Variations On An Old Wittgensteinian Folk Song (1981, revised 2013)

solo saxophone  

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Slug (c. 1974, revised 2012)

clarinet quartet (sssb)

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Quartet 1972

Any 4 Instruments, with or without conductor

 

COPYRIGHT OFFICE
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, DC. . 20540

May 4, 1972

Dear Mr. Mathias:

I apologize for the long delay in writing to you about the work entitled QUARTET (1972). The nature of the work required an unusually detailed examination, which took some time.

...In indeterminate music, where the various parameters of the sounds and the order of their appearance are only imprecisely indicated and latitude is given the performer in interpreting and realizing the score, we must be certain that the composer has retained enough control so that at least a minimal amount of the final sounds are reduced to a tangible form of expression. Works that carry the principles of indeterminancy to their extreme (i.e., works that consist solely or predominately of textual matter explaining in very general terms only the method of performance, describing only the concept of a work, outlining only the general idea or plan for a musical production or providing only the rule matrix or basic performance materials) and that fix few or none of the actual or approximate sound pregressions, are not copyrightable in Class E.

The copy deposited of this work consists of four pages of text and a diagram or chart. The text includes a key identifying the various symbols,." such as a triangle for "type of attack" and a square for "amount of activity.' However, there is no indication of exactly what kinds of attack and activity take place. Neither the text nor the symbols on the chart fix a progression of specific or even approximate musical sounds. What we apparently have here is a plan or rule matrix for a composition...

Sincerely yours, ...

 

Arrangements for Wind Quintet

David Baker: Dance

flute, English horn, clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Nadia Boulanger: Trois Improvisations

I. Prelude, II. Petit Canon, III. Improvisation

flute, English horn, clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Martin Bresnick: Willie's Way

flute, oboe/English horn, clarinet in Bb & A/bass clarinet, horn, bassoon

Published by Carl Fischer

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George & Ira Gershwin: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Dick Hyman: Thinking About Bix

flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Vicente Lusitano: Chromatic Motet, from Introductione facilissima et novissima de canto ferma, 1553

bass flute, English horn, bass clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Marian McPartland: Kaleidoscope (Theme from NPR's "Piano Jazz" )

flute/piccolo, oboe, bass clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Robert Moran: Waltz, In Memoriam Maurice Ravel

alto flute, English horn, bass clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Maurice Ravel: Menuet, sur le nom d'Haydn

flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Stephen Sondheim: Any Moment / Moments in the Woods, from Into the Woods

flute, English horn, clarinet (in Eb & Bb), horn, bassoon

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Ivan Tcherepnin: Valse Perpétuelle, the 45 R.P.M.

flute, English horn, clarinet, horn, bassoon

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Michael Torke: Overnight Mail

1. Priority

flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon

 

 

Arrangements for Clarinet Quartet

Donald Cobb: Three Pieces for Woodwind Quartet

(Eb, Bb, Bb, bass)

Henry Cowell: Nine Ings

#2. Frisking, #3. Fleeting (sssb)

#7. Whisking (ssss)

Kyle Gann: Dance of Indeterminate Ethnicity, from "Last Chance" Sonata (ssbb)

Halim El-Dabh: Nawakht (ssss)

Mauricio Kagel: Ragtime, from Die Stücke der Windrose: Westen (sssb)

György Ligeti: Hungarian Rock, Chaconne (ssbb)

Mike Nock: Land of the Never-Never (ssbb)

Laura Nyro: Map to the Treasure (ssbb)

Paul Salerni: Hugging the Shore(ssbb)

Michael Torke: The Blue Pages, from Telephone Book (sssb)