My Music

Perform this music. If you see anything you like, perform it. If you don’t see anything that works for you but you like what you see, ask me to write something new for you. But definitely perform this music.

Stuff written for church choir (pre-2003)

Benediction #2 (“The Lord bless you and keep you”) [SATB]: a benediction that sounds as if it has been in the choir’s repertoire for years | score [pdf]

I was glad [SAB, piano]: a lilting round, perfect as a call to worship. | score [pdf]

Mass in C : A Simple Mass

O Alleluia [SAB, soprano solo, piano]: a Christmas canon, based on a melody by Henry Purcell. | score [pdf]

Psalm 91 [SAB, piano]: gentle, quiet, ruminative piece | score [pdf]

Psalm 125, “They that trust in the Lord” [SATB, piano]: a declamatory opening softens into an ethereal, contrapuntal statement of God’s protection. | score [pdf]

They that wait upon the Lord, [SATB, organ]: interesting polyrhythmical treatment of Isaiah’s “soar like eagles” text | score [pdf]

Trumpet in Zion [SAB, soprano solo, piano, 4 timpani]: text from Joel 2; very scary, almost cinematic piece; written for Ash Wednesday | score [pdf]

Other choral stuff (or post-2003)

When the boys get together: a fun piece for middle school boys’ chorus, spoofing their unwillingness to use their treble voices; available in E-flat, F, and G | score [pdf]

Shall We Go?: [SAB, piano] Same piece as Psalm 91 above, but with the original words by Georgiana Craven Salter. | score [pdf] | mp3

Frog Songs: A Song Cycle

A song cycle of strange texts with music to match.

Sonnet 18 [TTBB, two cellos]: a gentle, thoughtful setting of Shakespeare’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” | score (2005) [pdf] | SATB arrangement | YouTube performance

Sir Christémas: SATB chorus, organ, and percussion (2011) | score [pdf] | mp3

Not Really Bad: an opening number for a recent middle-school theatre workshop focusing on character development, with the theme of “villains” (2014) | score [pdf] | mp3

Your Beauty: a piece written for a young friend for his senior recital (2014) | score [pdf] | mp3

Dear Diary: an opening number for the summer’s middle-school theatre workshop, this time working with the concept of “unreliable narrator” along the lines of Jeff Kinney’s delightful series, The Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2015) score [pdf] | mp3

Instrumental Music

Suite from a Children’s Opera(2004)

1. Overture

2. A Cold Life

3. Requiem for a Violin

Pieces for Bassoon & String Quartet (2010)

I. Waltz | score [pdf] | mp3

II. Threnody | score [pdf] | mp3

III. Dialog | score [pdf] | mp3

Six Preludes (No Fugues) (2010)

I. Prelude (no fugue) No. 1 | score [pdf] | mp3

II. Prelude (no fugue) No. 2 | score [pdf] | mp3

III. Prelude (no fugue) No. 3 | score [pdf] | mp3

IV. Prelude (no fugue) No. 4 | score [pdf] | mp3

V. Prelude (no fugue) No. 5 | score [pdf] | mp3

VI. Prelude (no fugue) No. 6 | score [pdf] | mp3

Dance for Double Bass Duo & Marimba (2007) | score [pdf] | mp3

Cello Sonata No. 1 (2011)

I. Moderato | score [pdf] | mp3

II. Adagio | score [pdf] | mp3

III. Andante (Elegy) | score [pdf] | mp3

Ginny’s Valentine [piano] (1998) | score [pdf] | mp3

Horsefly Rag for piano (2014): written for Mike Funt, who wanted something around which to develop a clown piece based on a drawing by Moholy-Nagy called “Diary of a Fly” | score [pdf] | mp3

Five Easier Pieces (2015) ( a companion to, and a partial apology for, Six Preludes (no fugues))

I. No. 1 (Invention) | score [pdf] | mp3

II. No. 2 (Waltz) | score [pdf] | mp3

III. No. 3 (Étude Héroïque) | score [pdf] | mp3

IV. No. 4 (Tango) | score [pdf] | mp3

V. No. 5 (Sonatine) | score [pdf] | mp3

Random stuff

Bring a torch [handbells & soprano/flute] | score [pdf] | mp3

Stars on Snow (new age piece) | mp3

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My Music

See also

Stuff written for church choir (pre-2003)

Other choral stuff (or post-2003)

Instrumental Music

Random stuff

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