Musings on Melodies from Der Fluyten Lust-hof

This version is for viola d'amore and guitar:


and this version is for violin, viola, and guitar (or any two melody instruments)


You can find the music for both versions, including a treble part for the viola part of the version for trio, on this page of the IMSLP.

Birthday Piece No. 5 for Viola d'amore and Piano


April 7, 2013
You can find the a PDF of the music as well as a computer-generated recording here.

Transcriptions for String Quartet

I have a dropbox folder full of transcriptions of pieces for string quartet that I have made over the years:

Please send me an e-mail message, and I'll invite you to join the folder.

New Divisions on Green Sleeves to a Ground


February 2, 2013

This is part of Daniel Wolf's The New Division. You can download a PDF of this Division here. There's a computer-generated recording of it here.

Daybreak



January 28, 2013

This is a setting of a 1921 poem by William Carlos Williams. You can get the music here.

New Year's Greeting for Viola d'amore (or Viola) and Guitar

December 24, 2012

Happy New Year for 2013! You can get the score and parts for this New Year's Greeting here.

Goldman Fantasie



This is an instrumental adaptation of some of the music from the first act of EMMA, an opera I wrote in 2005 that is based on the play by Howard Zinn. The score and parts are available here, and you can also listen to it here.

Trio for Violin, Viola, and Piano

November 5, 2012

You can get the score and parts and listen to a computer-generated recording here.

New Divisions on an Old Italian Ground

October 26, 2012

This is part of a project coordinated by Daniel Wolf that involves 24 composers writing new divisions on top of 24 Grounds found in John Walsh's 1706 The Division Flute. You can download the music and listen to a recording (of me playing both parts--with a few foibles and a bit of erratic intonation in the beginning) here. [UPDATE] Daniel Wolf's complete publication is here.

Transcription: Pleyel Adagio in B flat



September 14, 2012

You can get the score and parts on this page of the IMSLP, where you can also listen to a computer-generated recording.

Transcription: Pictures at an Exhibition for Strings




I made a transcription of numbers one through nine of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for five violas d'amore, and a transcription of "The Old Castle" for string orchestra (three violins, two violas, and cello). You can get the five viola d'amore set here and "The Old Castle" for strings here.

You can also find them on this page of the Petrucci Library.

Transcription: Pastime With Good Company



You can get a PDF of the score and parts for this string orchestra arrangement of Henry VIII's magnum opus here.

El Hotel Electrico for Recorder, Oboe, and Bassoon



May 5, 2012

This piece can be used to accompany Segundo de Chomón's 1908 Film El Hotel Electrico, and a second oboe can play the recorder part (as written) if a recorder player is not available. The score and parts are available here.

Birthday Piece No. 4



April 8, 2012

These are the first two pages of my annual Birthday Piece for viola d'amore and piano. This year's piece has 53 measures. You can download the music here and listen to it here. I look forward to the chance, some day, to hear this piece and my other viola d'amore music played by a better viola d'amore player than the one I have in house (which would be me).

Prelude and Aria for String Quartet




March 20, 2012

You can listen to a recording and download the score and parts here.

Autumn Leaves for Two Violins

Here is the final installment of the seasonal violin duets I have spent the past year writing for Marjorie Kransberg-Talvi and Ilkka Talvi. You can get the complete score and the parts for this season here, and can listen to a computer-generated recording here.






November 29, 2011

Transcription: Susato Bass Dance



You can get the score and parts here, and you can listen to a performance of it here.

Transcription: Janacek Music for Club Swinging Exercises



You can download the score and parts of this transcription for string orchestra here, and listen to a recording of a performance here.

Learn more about club swinging here!

Six Summer Games for Two Violins



You can listen here, and get the music here.

1. Jump Rope
2. Baseball
3. Synchronized Swimming
4. Tennis
5. Hopscotch
6. Running Races

Four Spring Dances for Two Violins





July 2, 2011

This is the Spring segment of the seasonal collection of violin duets I'm writing for Marjorie Kransberg-Talvi and Ilkka Talvi. This Spring was severely compromised by the hatching of 13-year periodic cicadas, so they have the last word in "Magicicada Brood XIX."

You can listen to it (and watch a slide show) here, and you can get the music here.

Der Seelensucher




January 2, 2011
This is a setting of a letter written by Sigmund Freud on January 9, 1921. You can access an easier-to-read (and print) PDF here or here.