Here’s a list of my music for various ensembles, in ascending number of instruments. There’s no point in giving dates, since I’ve often reworked them:
ZERO
Eleven Silent Études
ONE
FLUTE
Wall Piece
PSALTERY
Oh
ZITHER (MICROTONAL)
Melody in A
Interlude in C
Study in wet tuning (diatonic)
Study in wet tuning (chromatic)
TWO
SLIDE WHISTLE AND TROMBONE
Duet for Slide Whistle and Trombone
GARKLEIN RECORDER AND TUBA
Duet for Garklein Recorder and Tuba
Bb TIN WHISTLE AND PERCUSSION
Hiatus
TWO VIOLINS
Six Violin Duets
VIOLIN AND ‘CELLO (OR KEYBOARD)
A Slot Machine for Wooden Nickels (7 pieces)
TENOR RECORDER AND VIOLA (OR KEYBOARD)
Maybe Those Hornets Would Like These Posies (11 pieces)
SHOFAR AND VIOLA
Shofar Bells
TWO MONOCHORDS
Music for Two Monochords: Primes
Music for Two Monochords: Sixes and Sevens
Music for Two Monochords: Elevens
Music for Two Monochords: Sophie Germain and Safe Primes
TUBA AND PIANO
Cinderella’s Glass Eye
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Save a Dollar
BASS RECORDER AND PIANO
Casting Pearls Before Oysters
VIOLIN AND PIANO
Salvo
GLOCKENSPIEL (OR VIBRAPHONE) AND PIANO
Gegenschein
VIOLA AND KEYBOARD
A Grim Reckoning
Doze
Kibosh
Lullabilious
Nocebo
Onus
Parget
Qualm
Respite
Stint
Zibeline
THREE
TWO MELODY INSTRUMENTS AND KEYBOARD
Crimp
SOPRANINO RECORDER, PIANO, AND DESK BELL
Yet
FLUTE, ‘CELLO, AND PIANO
Two Moments
FOUR
FLUTE, ‘CELLO, AND PIANO 4-HANDS
Squall
FLUTE, CLARINET, BASSOON, AND OFFSTAGE VIOLIN
Trio
TREMOLOA, VIOLA, TUBA, AND GUITAR
Twilight in the Sinkhole
VIOLA, BARITONE HORN, TUBA, AND GUITAR
The Fussbudgets’ Ball
STRING QUARTET
<1: AH YOUTH. A few pieces from my teens that I thought worth saving.
1: EDDIE UNCHAINED. A suite drawn from my ventriloquial musical of that name.
2: ROUNDS. Four rounds.
3: ARETINO IN SOLRÉSOL. Five sonnets by Piero Aretino in the universal musical language Solrésol.
4: CHORALES. Fourteen brief chorales.
5: TROWIE TUNES. Harmonizations of five “trowie tunes” from the Shetland Islands.
6: PALINDROMES. Palindromic rounds, with added bass lines, descant parts, and other embellishments.
7: VIOLAS. A chorale, round, and finale for four violas.
8: THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. An extension of a brief realization of the music of the spheres by Athanasius Kircher.
9: VIOLAS AND CELLOS. Four movements for two violas and two cellos.
10: SONGBOOK. Arrangements of songs from The Doug Skinner Songbook.
11: IN THREE PARTS. A revision of a quartet I wrote back in 1988.
12: MOZART’S HARLEQUIN. Mozart wrote music for a Harlequinade, but only the violin part remains; I provide the rest.
13: OPEN STRINGS. Music for retuned open strings.
14: ‘CELLOS. Four movements for four cellos.
15: ON MELODY IN SPEECH. Harmonizations of 19th century transcriptions of speech.
16: PIANO PIECES. Arrangements of some of my piano pieces.
17: LOCKDOWN. Two movements written during the pandemic.
18: BARON AARON. Based on interstitial music for an album of readings.
SIX
THREE TRUMPETS AND THREE TROMBONES
Prologue
SEVEN
SIX GAME CALLS AND BUZZER
Music for Six Game Calls and Buzzer
NINE
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, ‘cello, bass)
Grout
2 responses so far ↓
1 Mamie // Dec 4, 2022 at 10:22 pm
You’re very prolific.
2 Doug // Dec 5, 2022 at 11:51 am
Most of these are short pieces.