Chamber Music for Winds and Brass

Cripple Creek Counterpoint (rev. 1995)
Instruments: Woodwind Quintet
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate
Price: $12.25

An arrangement, with the composition of a new part for the bassoon, of the original version for flute quartet. Available from Frank Warren Music Service (W-063).
Habanera Chromatique (1994)
Instruments: Oboe and Marimba
Optional Clarinet or Soprano Sax
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: Challenging?
Price: $5

Marimbist also plays (with mallets) on a mounted set of bongos; oboist also plays a small shaker. No 4-mallet playing. C minor, much chromaticism. Slow and rhythmic; oboe part includes lyrical phrases and ornate, shawm-like passages. Good encore number. Oboe part available arranged and transposed to Bb for clarinet or soprano sax (specify).
Cripple Creek Counterpoint (1992)
Instruments: Flute Quartet
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate
Price: $8

Sections of unison, tutti, quasi-minimalism, and imitative polyphony. Good parts for all players. Improvisational ending. Named for a small stream of dubious purity that runs behind the Fine Arts Center.
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Propagatia (1989)
Instruments: Bass Trombone and Piano
Duration: 3 minutes
Difficulty: Challenging
Price: $8

Turbulent, moody; most material derived from first measure of piano part. Available from TAP Music Sales (TB-PR10). This also exists in a version for electric bass and piano, available directly from me.
Five (1981)
Instruments: Brass Quintet
Duration: 11 minutes
Difficulty: Challenging
Price: $30

Five short, interrelated movements: "Introduction," theme 1 (1:10); "Recitative," theme 2 (1:50); "Tarantella-Humoresque," theme 1 (2:00); "Lyric Palindrome," theme 2 (2:15); "Rondo-Retrospective," themes 1 and 2 (2:07) . Free atonality, octatonic scales used extensively. Alternate part for 1st trumpet in C provided. Available from Editions BIM.
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Unisons (1981)
Instruments: 3 Flutes and Piano
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: Challenging
Price: $5

All players play simple parts on cymbals, and pianist also plays temple blocks; some flute passages are piccolo optional. Serialized; obsessed with issues of texture: flutes explore different ways and degrees of being in unison, while piano shifts between support and complete independence. Performance may be facilitated by using a conductor.
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Three Romances (1976, revised 1981)
Instruments: Flute and Piano
Duration: 10 minutes
Difficulty: Challenging
Price: $6

An early work of which I am still fond, composed while studying at Western Michigan University. Three movements: slow (2:35) - mysterious and intense; fast (2:38) - free atonality with occasional tonal suggestions; moderate (3:56) - romantic, but without programs or titles.
Two Floot Loops (1979)
Instruments: Flute and Piano
Duration: 8 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Price: $6.99

(1979), "Zeed" (a lullaby, about 2:45) and "Letters Home" (a ballad, about 3:00). Jazzy. There are actually 5 Floot Loops, and there is hope that the publisher will put out the rest later. Available from Little Piper Music Publications.


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