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(Some of my instrumental scores are not yet on this site, but available thru Frog Peak Music. I'm gradually archiving most of my scores here)


archival recordings (of some of these pieces)
list of compositions
other scores (by other people, arrangements, incidental pieces, etc.)



(update 7/30/08)

(Alphabetical)

3 Cello Tunes. Cello.

3 New Hampshire Songs. Choir.
Litany
Proposition
Doggerel
(bass, tenor, alto, soprano)
Notes
Title Pages

34 Chords (Christian Wolff in Hanover and Royalton)

3 Pieces for Bass and Psalterion
I. funquitood
II. Dismission (stretched)
III. doofunquitood
Title and notes


3 Pieces for Two Pianos (and optional interloods). For Joe Kubera and Sarah Cahill. Commisioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University.

5 Piano Haiku. Piano.

172 chords. Piano and optional other instruments.

51 Harmonies (instrumental part). Three percussionists, electric guitar, live computer systems.
score
notes

abetoods (for solo violin) (tooaytoods #12). Four pieces for solo violin.
abetood
atood
btood
e(h)tood
cover
al het (for the people's of nicaragua). voice and slendro gender/pelog gambang (one player).

all things, beings, equal. Sax. (for taimur sullivan) (part of "all things..." series).
note on the whole series

An Unhappy Set of Coincidences. Flute and bass; or solo keyboard; or low and high instruments.

approaching the azimuth...  Clarinet. (for matt ingalls) (part of "all things..." series)
cover page and notes
see all things, beings, equal

Bedhaya Sadra/Bedhaya Guthrie
. Clarinet, opt. gender and kemanak.
Arrangement by Dan Goode. Original version published in Perspectives of New Music

Choir (Empi's Solo). Voice and computer generated tape. Co-composed with Marie-Pauline Esguerra.

Christian Music. PDF files of the four colored large cards, designed in collaboration with Laura Grey. Fronts and backs. (These are available from Frog Peak Music, or contact me if you'd like a set).
Christian Music. (2-part round). Pencil sketch for edition of 2- and 4- part rounds. 2006-7.

cinderella. Flute. (for margaret lancaster) (part of "all things..." series).
see all things, beings, equal

Compassion. Electric guitar. arrangement of a Shaker four-part hymn.

days, weeks, months, years. Piano. (Jan., 2006).

edtoods. trumpet quartet.
edtood 1, edtood 2,  etood 3
transposed versions (1, 2, 3)
notes

Dismission (pianotood). Piano (Dec., 2006)

Dismission (pianotood) 2. Piano (Dec., 2006). Two versions (regular, stretched)

#[DoWhat?AllYes/No?(ok)Back]  (an ASL loan sign round for signers in 5 parts)

emoroundicon. (round with compassionate hocket)

Ensembles of Note

Essays for String Quartet
1. Don't You Hear the Lambs a' Crying?
2. v
3. Yitgadal, Yitgadal (rising)
Yitgadal and Yitgadal (rising) tuning charts
Performance Notes
Main Title Page, Individual Title Pages

explication, a celebratory round; and yet another round on the subject of tofurkey

for jim, ben and lou (3 pieces for guitar, harp and percussion).
title
I. Preamble (for Jim Tenney)
II. Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
III. The World's Longest Melody ("The Ever-Widening Halfstep") (for Lou Harrison)

Four Bass Studies (what do to when the night comes). String bass.

Four Pedagogical Rounds for Dan Rockmore
i. prime numbers ii. wonderment iii. memorias (too much of a good thing) iv. intuitionism

Four Voice Canon #4 . Four marimbas (new edition, October, 2005)

Four Voice Canon #7. Gamelan
Generic score. (Simple 6532 score)
(on the Cold Blue recording, the tempi used are voice 1 = 60; 2 = 17/12 = 85; 3 = 29/12 = 145; 4 = 43/12 = 215)

Four Voice Canon #22 (Yizkor for James Tenney)
FVC #22a. Six trumpets
FVC #22b. 12 brass instruments/players.
Title page and notes

Four Voice Canons (general)

freeHorn. (Java software and notes on the piece).

"...getting rid of the glue..."
. Classical guitar.

Hensley Variations
. Flute, viola, guitar.

Horn. French horn, tape (or live electronics).

iiiisiv joan (tooaytoods #14). Piano. Title page.
    practice midifiles for "joan's recent visit..."

ii-v-i .  Two electric guitars.

iiivxii (tooaytood #13). cellos and winds.

ivt. One or two pianos. for sarah cahill.

ivtoo. Multiple guitars or guitar(s) and taped guitar(s).

jargon. 12 cellos and winds.

k-toods. Two pianos or piano 4 hands.
1. Growth Spurt
2. Tween
3. Not in this house!
4. Baby Pictures
5. One thing at a time
title page
(One thing... example, One thing... example midifile)

Ladies Auxiliary
. Large ensemble. (Bb melody part, chords part). Notes and title.

locoRhythmicana. (an 8-part round for Nora Jacobson).

Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations).
Solo piano.

Miwakatood. Violin and small percussion. title page and notes.

Movement in E Major for John Cage
. Violin and piano.

Movement for Andréa Smith. (My Funny Valentine for just string quartet). 2 violins, 2 violas.

Movement for Lou Harrison. (for just bass quartet). Four string basses. (Graphic version).

Neighborhoods of Note.  Suzuki pianists. Cover and instructions, example. (This piece is an early "version" of Ensembles of Note).

Now My Dear Companions. 
Voices, flute/piccolo, clarinet, trombone, percusion, electric guitar. One of the Five Shaker Songs.

onceatoods
. Four computer composed pieces. Poojatood (tenor sax), tooguitartood (two classical guitars), sunday organ piece for church (organ), noratood (accordion).

Pardalotes, eucalypts, and lerps. Five rounds on texts by Sarah Lloyd.
Pardalotes, eucalypts and lerps
Lerps?
True Bugs
The Smallest and the Lightest
Pardalotes, eucalypts, and lerps (together)

Piano Study #1 (for Carl Ruggles)
Piano Study #2 (March in D)

Piker. Solo piccolo, or solo wind.

(p)safety. Solo piano.

Quartet in F For Paula Ravitz. Piano, viola, clarinet, trombone.

Five Rounds on Texts by Sarah Lloyd
leave logs for frogs!
Are Your Platypuses Healthy?
Fungimap. A round in four rounds (with underground chorale) (on a text by Lloyd et. al.)
Don't Tidy Up! (Version 1, Version 2)
It's Difficult Not to Love a Pelican

Sascha's Song (for the peoples of Chile). Instrumental/tape version. Score. Clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, violin, bass.

Sh'ma: Fuging Tune in G. Flute, alto flute, violin, viola, cello, bass, percussion.
Cover Page and Performance Notes
This is the new edition made by Dennis Kitsz and myself. Parts.
This piece was originally published in Soundings 11, edited by Peter Garland. Original manuscript.

Six Declarations. Clarinet and speaker.

Songs and Toods, 5 pieces for the Lou Harrison National Just Intonation Guitar (or conventional guitar)

tetherball. 6 percussionists (or any six performers).
Book I
Book II

Three Monk Tunes. Tap dancer and percussionist.
Title and Notes
Bemsha Swing
Round Midnight
I Mean You

The World's Longest Melody (ensemble)
. Electric guitar, bass, drums, and optional soloists.

Three Rimbaud Settings. Soprano and percussion.

tooaytoods 1-11. solo piano (two arranged for el. guitar duet; and #6 for el. guitar quartet).

toovviivfor. Electric guitar quartet.

Two Can Float as Cheap as One. Piano.

Two Children's Songs. Tuba and trombone; or two bass winds; or any two melody instruments.

Two Minute Warning. Solo trumpet. (for ed carroll) (part of "all things..." series).

vfty. Trumpet canon. Trumpets, or winds.

V'leem'shol.
Five flutes.

Will You Miss Me (solo version; transfer harp and untrained voice). (Some higher-rez, cleaner copies).

Yitgadal. Guitar, cello, violin, viola, harp, percussion, and any melody instruments.
Titles, notes
Tuning Chart
Ascending, Descending (actual pitch)
Ascending, Descending (tablature)


OTHER SCORES