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chamber
Fabrication 25: Carbon   fl, cl, pno, pc, vn, vc   2019   •  NSG

Fabrication 26: Subterfuge   fl, cl, pno, pc, vn, vc   2019   •  NSG

Fabrication 29: Spiel   double string quartet   2019   •  NSG

Aubade   violin, violoncello   2017   •  NSG

Fabrication 14: Lookalike   piano, percussion   2017   ••  PG

Negotiations   wind quintet, string quintet   2017   •  NSB

Quartet No.5: Confirmation Bias   string quartet   2017   •  NSB

Dark Days   flute, string quartet   2016   •  NSB

Fabrication 16: Misstatement   cl, bs cl, gtr, pno, vn, va, vc   2016   •  NSG

Four Scenes   violin, violoncello   2016   •  NSG

Lamplighter Reveal   string quartet   2016   •  PB

Quartet No.4: Pulse   string quartet   2016   •  NSB

Sleep. House. Field   flute, viola, harp   2016   •  NSB

Fabrication 22: Smoke   fl, cl, tbn, pno, vn, e bass   2015   ••  NSB

Fabrication 28: Artefact   2 pianos   2015   ••  PG

Fabrication 30: Imitation   cl, gtr, pno, vn   2015   •  NSG

Fabrication 20: Assemblage   2 violins   2014   ••  PG

Fanfare   brass quintet   2014   •  PB

Fabrication 15: Amplification   fl, cl, pno, pc, vn, vc   2013   ••  PG

Fabrication 9: Disposition   2.2.2.2.  0.0.0.0.  4 vn, 2 va, 2 vc, db   2012   •  PG

Fabrication 10: Itch   bass clarinet, marimba   2012   ••  PG

Fabrication 6: Pretext   fl, cl, tpt, pno, pc, vn, vc   2013   ••  NSB

Fabrication 17: Stunt   clarinet, piano, violin   2010   ••  PG

MJ   clarinet, saxophone, piano   2010   •  NSG

Fabrication 4: Device   double wind quintet   2009   •  NSB

Trunkles   piano trio   2009   •  NSG

Fabrication 3/3a: Dodge   clarinet, violin   2008   ••  NSG

Fabrication 8/8a: Semblance   string trio   2008   ••  NSG

Lemonsauce   flute, guitar   2007   •  NSG

What's That Buzzing Sound   sop, bar, 25 instrumentalists on five stages   2007   •  PB

Bubble   flute, piano   2003   •  NSG

Elbow   sax, tpt, tbn, pno, 5 pc, electric gtr, e bass   2003   ••  NSG

Kreutzette   piano, violin   2003   ••  PG

Often   fl, bs cl, pno, pc, va, vc   2003   ••  PG

What I Can't Kick   piano quartet   2003   ••  PG

Magritte, Magritte   oboe, horn   2002   •  NSG

Barely Without Wings a Drink for the Birds in my Head   horn, violin, violoncello   2000   •  NSG

Nightlife   saxophone, piano, violoncello   2000   •  PG

Umberhulk   fl, bs cl, pno, pc, vn, vc   2000   ••  PG

Urban Affair   piano trio   2000   ••  PG

Bad Weather   2 pianos   1999   •  NSB

•• Dark Mother   piano trio   1999   ••  PG

This That   percussion sextet   1998   •  NSB

Quartet No.3   string quartet   1997   •  PG

Big Bad Wolf   3 tpt, pno, hp, string quintet   1996   •  NSB

Rhinestones Pinecones Telephones   fl, pno (4 hands), mar, vn, vc   1996   •  NSG

Weegee   cl, sax, tpt, pno, pc, vc   1996   ••  PG

Music for Bach to Walk to Hear Buxtehude By   wind quintet, pno, pc, string quintet   1994   ••  PG

Quartet No.2   string quartet   1993   ••  PG

•• The Bluenote   flute, piano, violoncello   1993   •  NSB

•• Oboe Sonata   oboe, piano   1992   ••  NSB

• Totentanz   2 pianos   1991   ••  NSB

•• Flute Sonata   flute, piano   1990   ••  NSB

•• Violoncello Sonata   violoncello, piano   1990   •  NSB

Quartet No.1   string quartet   1990   ••  NSG

•• Violin Sonata "Emma Lee"   violin, piano   1990   ••  PG

•• Piano Trio   piano trio   1989   •  PG

Wind Quintet   wind quintet   1988   •  NSG

•• Suite   flute, tuba   1987   •  NSB

Hammer and Darkness, Mirror and Knife   2.2.0.2. 2.3.2.0. 2 pc, 2 db   1986   ••  NSG

Humming Harvest Gone Snow Motor   fl, hp, vib, vn, va, vc   1986   ••  PG

Quartet Movements   string quartet   1982   PB

House   fl, cl, pno, vc   1981   PB

Off Course   wind quintet   1981   PB

Stop Sliding   fl, cl, pno, pc, vc, db   1981   ••  NSG

Horses for Courses   clarinet, piano   1980   PB

Epithalamium   fl, gtr, vib, vn   1979   •  NSG

Unhinging   picc, 2 tpt, pc, 2 vn, db, electronics   1979   PB

• Up   2 pianos   1979   •  NSG

Flatlands   violin, piano   1977   PB

Solos and Duets   ob, cl, cel, pc, va, vc   1977   PB


solo instrument
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• Many Returns   piano   2024   •  PG

• Interlude   piano   2014   •  NSG

• Two Elegies   piano   2014   •  NSG

Fabrication 18: Fairyland   vibraphone   2012   ••   PG

• Near and Far   violoncello   2011   ••  NSB

• Arch    violoncello   2009   •  NSG

Fabrication 23: Offshoot   percussion   2009   •  NSG

Fabrication 1: Cover   trombone   2008   •  NSG

Fabrication 2: Cut   tuba   2008   •  NSG

Fabrication 24: Upshot   snare drum  2008   •  NSG

Approach   flute, electronic playback   2007   ••  PB

Rivulet   doublebass   2006   •  PB

• Slow Peacherine Rag    piano   2006   •  PG

• Intérieurs   piano   2005   ••  NSB

• Say It   vibraphone   2005   •••  PG

• Snapshots for Frederick   guitar   2004   •  NSB

• Preludes   piano   2003   ••  PG

Rotation/Tao   piano   1992   •  PB

• Underwater  guitar   1992   •  NSB

• Wetherby Nocturne   piano   1991   ••  NSB

The Great Hoop  organ   1989   •  PB

• Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose   piano   1988   •  PG

Piano Sonata No.3   piano   1985   PB

Four on Holiday   piano   1984   •  PB

Piano Sonata No.2   piano   1981   PB

• Piano Sonata No.1   piano   1981   ••  NSG

Robertson  flute    1981   •  PB

Violence   violin   1981   PB

• Jug Jug  viola   1979   ••  NSB

• Piano Work   piano   1977   •  NSB


chamber with voice
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•• Seven Songs on Poems of Grace Paley   sop, pno, pc   2025   •  PG

•• The Vanity of Earthly Greatness   tenor, reed trio   2025   •  NSB

•• My Dead Boyfriend   mezzo-sop, ob, pno, 2 pc   2024   •  PG

Fabrication 27: Romance   tenor, 2 bn, 2 hn, 2 pnos   2019   •  NSG

•• Hard Songs   soprano, cimbalom   2016   ••  PG

•• Something Coming Our Way   sop, 2 fl, 2 vn   2015   •  NSB

•• A Supermarket in California   baritone, string quartet   2013   ••  NSB

Fabrication 7: Apologue   sop, tenor, 2 cl, 2 db   2012   •  NSG

•• Life in Avondall   mezzo-sop, fl, cl, hn, pno, pc, vn, vc   2012   ••  PG

•• Objects and Intervals   sop, fl, cl, pno, hp, string quartet   2008   ••  PG

•• Motet – Drowning/In the Bus/Ask For Nothing   3 voices, mus saw, crot, 2 mbiras, 4 vc   2007   •  NSG

•• Forgot   sop, fl, cl, prep pno, pc, vn, vc   2005   ••  PG

•• Passage   countertenor, theremin, hp, cel, 3 vc   2005   •  PG

•• Goback Goback   bar, fl, ob, cl, pno, hp, pc, string quintet   2003   ••  PG

•• Vanishing Cream   narrator, picc, cl, hpschd, children's pc group 2002   ••  PG

•• Air Baby   sop, fl, cl, pc, vn   2001   ••  PG

•• I Am You   sop, gtr, vc   1999   •  NSB

•• American Folk Songs, Book 2   sop, pno, string quartet   1996   •  PG

Hog-tied and Bled Dry   mezzo-sop, 2 panpipes, 2 sax, 3 synth, mar, e gtr, e bass   1996   •  PB

Ziigwang, Niibing, Dagwaaging, Biboong   sop, fl, hp   1992   PB

•• Coatsworth Songs  sop, cl, pno   1991   •  NSB

•• Corso Songs   sop, pno, db   1990   •  NSG

•• Songs of Loneliness   soprano, viola   1990   ••  PG

•• Brillig   sop, tenor, fl, pno   1989   ••  NSB

•• Five Little Fly Stories   sop, fl, cl, 2 pc, string quartet   1989   •  PG

•• The World, the World, and the World   bar, fl, bnc hn, tpt, tbn, tba, synth, pc, gtr   1989   ••  NSB

•• When I Looked Down from the Bridge   mezzo-sop, ob, string quartet   1989   ••  NSB

•• The Bee in the Campaka Flower   soprano, percussion   1988   •  NSB

•• Kleine Mechanische Tanze   sop, fl, 2 cl, pno, va, vc   1986   ••  NSB

•• Head Down Legs Up   tenor, fl, cl, pno, vn, vc   1985   ••  NSB

Transitive   sop, hp, 2 pc   1984   PB

Black Flag   soprano, 3 clarinets   1982   •  PB

•• Five Fantasias on Two Laments   mezzo-sop, 2 fl, 2 cl, hp   1982   ••  NSB

Flowers, Fish, and Prophecy   high voice, ob, hpschd  1980   PB

•• Rejoice   sop, fl, cl, vn, vc   1979   •  NSB

•• The Master Nailer   sop, fl, pno   1979   •  NSB


orchestra and large ensemble
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Fabrication 12: Grapevine   0.2.2.0. 2.2.0.0. 2 pnos, 3 pc, strs   2019   •  PG

Fabrication 32: Manouevre   2.2.2.2. 2.2.1.1. 2 pnos, 3 pc, strs   2019   ••  NSB

Xylophonic  3.3.3.3. 4.3.3.1. pno, 2 hps, 3 pc, strs   2016   ••  NSB

Grand Monadnock Measures   wind ensemble   2013   •••  PG

Fabrication 21: Earful   string orchestra   2009   ••  NSB

Fabrication 11: Cast   2.2.2.2. 2.2.2.0.2 pc, strs   2008   ••  PG

Fabrication 13: Monster   2.2.2.2. 2.2.2.0. 2 pc, strs   2008   ••  PG

Antimphony   2.2.2.2. 4.2.2.1. 2 pc, strs   2006   •  PG

Thick   string orchestra   2005   ••  NSB

G Major   2.2.2.2. 4.2.2.1. 2pc, strs   2003   ••  PG

Big Bad Wolf   2.2.2.2. 2.3.3.0. pc, strs   2000   •  NSG

Sinfonietta   2.2.2.2. 2.2.2.1. 2 pc, cel, hp, strs 1989   ••  PG

Bull Dancer   2.2.2.2. 4.2.3.1. pno, hp, 3 pc, strs   1997   •  NSG

Promenade  2.2.2.2. sax quartet, 2.2.2.1. timp, strs   1997   •  NSG

Twistification   3.3.3.3. 4.3.3.1 pno, hp, 4 pc, strs   1988   ••  NSB

Aggravating Ideas   2.2.2.2. 4.3.3.1. pno, 3 pc, strs   1981   PB

Gloss   1.1.1.1. 1.2.0.0 5 2 pnos, 5 pc, strs   1977   NSG


orchestra with solo instrument
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Drive   solo violin, 3.3.3.3. 4.2.3.1 2 pno, hp, 2 pc, strs   2015   ••  PG

An Other I   solo violin, 3.2.2.2. 4.2.3.0. 2 pc, strs   2005   ••  PG

Me and the Devil   solo piano, 2.0.4.2. 2.1.1.0. banjo, hp, cel, 2 pc, strs   1998   •  NSB

Actaeon   solo violoncello, 2 hn, strs   1997   ••  PG

Dark River   solo violin, 2.2.2.2. 2.1.1.0. hp, cel, 3 pc, strs   1996   •  NSG

Violin Concerto    solo violin, 1.1.1.1. 2.1.1.0. 3 pc, strs   1982   ••  NSB


orchestra with solo voice(s)
Fabrication 19: Slant   sop, tenor, 2.2.2.0. 2.0.0.0. s pc, strs   2019   •  NSB

Fabrication 31: Fiction   sop, tenor, 2.2.2.2. 2.2.1.1. 2 pc, strs   2019   •  NSB

The Pleasure of Departing   tenor, bar, 0.0.0.0. 4.0.3.1. 2 pc, strs   2014   •  PG

Uncertainty Is Beautiful   sop, 2.2.2.2. 2.2.0.0. timp, strs   2004   ••  PG

Young   voice, 2.2.2.2. 2.1.1.1. hp, pno, pc, strs   1988, orch 2025   •  NSB


opera
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Chrononhotonthologos   8+ roles, cl, sax, pc, vn, playback, opt. satellite ens, opt, chorus   2017   ••  PG

Leif   2 roles, fl, cl, pno, pc, vn, vc   2008   ••  PG

No Exit   4 roles, sax, pc, va, vc   2007   ••  PG

Freshwater   6 roles, 1.1.1.1. 2.1.1.0. pno, hp, pc, strs   1994   ••  PG

From the Record of Ancient Matters   3 roles, chorus, cl, 2 tbn, synth, 2 pc, vc   1992   •  NSG

Over the River  5 roles, women's chorus, 2 pnos   1988   NSG


chorus and vocal ensemble, unaccompanied
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• The Virtuous Life   vocal quintet: SATTB   2024   •  PG

•• In Childhood's Thicket   sop, bar, SATB, playback, looping pedals   2017   ••  PG
                                                       sop, bar, SATB, playback   2017, revised 2026   •

• Housman Settings   SATB   2007   •  PG

• The Red Shoes   women's chorus   2006, revised 2025   •  PG

• Eccho and Narcissus   vocal quartet: CtTTB   1995, revsed 2026  •  NSG

Nuts   SATB, violin   1992   PB

• A New Shepherd's Calendar   vocal sextet: SSATTB   1991   •  PG

• The Good Moolly Cow   SATB   1989   •  NSB

• Traveler's Tales   SATB   1989   •  NSB

• Five Ambo Ghost Songs   SATB   1987   •  NSG


chorus and vocal ensemble, accompanied
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•• Spencer the Rover   SATB, brass band   2016   •••  PG

•• Entrenched   male quartet, pno, 2 vc  2015   •  NSB

•• Natural Selection   double SATB, 0.3.0.1. 0.3.0.0 org, timp, strs   2009   ••  PG

Fabrication 5: Spinach   soprano, tenor, tpt   2008   •

•• Harmonie du Soir  women's chorus, string orchestra   2008   ••  PG

•• Hex   women's chorus, 4.4.4.4. 6.4.3.2. hp, 3 pc, strs   2004   ••  PG

•• Get a Transfer   men's chorus, 0.0.0.0. 4.4.3.1. pno, 2 pc   2002   •  NSB

•• The Bridge   children's chorus, fl, cl, 2 tpt, tbn, pno, pc, db   2002   •  PG

•• World Wheel   sop, bar, SATB, 2.3.1.2. 2.3.3.0. synth, 2 pc, strs   1999   ••  PG

• Haunted   vocal quartet, piano   1997   •  PG

• Separation   SATB, 4.2.0.2. 0.0.4.0. timp, pc, strs   1997   •  NSB

•• I Heard My Lover Knocking  SATB, 2 fl, string quartet   1996   ••  PG

•• Sh'ma   tenor, SATB, 2.0.2.0. 0.0.0.1. pc, strs   1995   ••  PG

•• The Burning Babe   SATB, org, sn dr, strs   1995   •  PG

• Four British Folk Songs   children's chorus, pno   1993   •  NSG

•• The Book of Aphrodite   women's chorus, 2 fl, 2 tpt, vib   1992   ••  PG

• Meditation upon 'Canticles'    SATB, organ   1990   ••  NSG

• Illumination   sop, women's chorus, pno,   1989   ••  NSB

The Wind and the Harvest  SATB, 3 percussion   1989   •  PB

Sugar Float  SATB, 4.4.6.6. 4.4.4.2. 2 hp, 4 pc   1987   •  PB

Seven Dream Bagatelles   vocal quartet, 3.2.0.0. 0.2.3.0. prep pno, pno, 4 pc, strs   1985   •  NSB


voice
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• Three Songs from 'Paris Spleen'   soprano, piano   2015   •  NSB

•• Panic   baritone, piano, playback   2012   •  PG

• Five Songs   voice, piano   1998–2012   ••  NSB

• Six Songs on Poems of Margaret Atwood    mezzo-soprano, piano   2000   ••  PG

• The Reckless Heart   soprano, piano   1998   ••  PG

• Before You Came   baritone, piano   1997   •  NSB

• Boy Mad   baritone, piano   1995 (revised 2025)   ••  NSB

• Wasserabstieglieder  tenor, piano   1992   •  PG

• Welsh Songs   baritone, piano   1992   •  PG

• American Folk Songs, Book 1   tenor, piano   1991   ••  PG

• Cleopatra   soprano, piano   1990   ••  PG

• The Rainy Summer   baritone, piano   1990   ••  PG

• Return to a Place   baritone, piano   1989   •  PG

• T'ang Poems   soprano, piano   1989   ••  PG

• The Language of the Garden   soprano, piano   1989   ••  PG

• Five American Songs  soprano, piano   1988   ••  PG

• Household Tales   soprano, piano   1988   •  PG

• Traveling Through the Dark   tenor, piano   1988   ••  PG

• The Little Box   soprano, piano   1987   ••  PG

• Songbook 2   voice, piano   1987 (revised 2025)  •  NSB

• Songbook 1   voice, piano   1982 (revised 2025)   •  NSB


electronic
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Often   video soundtrack   2003   ••  PG

aah   playback   2001   •  NSB

On Site   video soundtrack   2001   ••  NSB

On Site Remix   playback   2001   •  PG

One Head   video soundtrack   2001   ••  PG

One Head Remix   playback   2001   •  PG

Won't Get Fooled Again   video soundtrack   2001   ••  NSB

Won't Get Fooled Again Remix   playback   2001   •  NSB