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chorus and vocal ensemble
voice and piano
electronic

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chamber

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

Big Bad Wolf
  • 
3 trumpets, piano, harp, string quintet  •  1996

Dark Days
  •  flute, string quartet  •  2016

Dark Mother
  • 
piano trio  •  1999

Elbow
  • 
saxophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, 5 percussion, electric guitar, electric bass  •  2003

Epithalamium
  • 
flute, guitar, vibraphone, violin  •  1979

Fabrication 4: Device
  • 
double wind quintet  •  2009

Fabrication 6: Pretext
  •  
flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2011

Fabrication 8: Semblance
 
 •  string trio or string trio and violin sextet  •  2008

Fabrication 15: Amplification
  •  flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2013

Fabrication 16: Misstatement
  • 
clarinet, bass clarinet, guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello  •  2016

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

Fabrication 22: Smoke
  •  flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, violin, electric bass  •  2015

Fabrication 25: Carbon  •  flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2019

Fabrication 26: Subterfuge  •  flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2019

Fabrication 29: Spiel  •  double string quartet  •  2019

Fabrication 30: Imitation
  •  clarinet, guitar, piano, violin  •  2015

Fanfare
  •  brass quintet  •  2014

\\House
  •  flute, clarinet, piano, cello  •  1981

Humming Harvest Gone Snow Motor
  •
 flute, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello    1983

Lampligher Reveal  • 
string quartet  •  2016

MJ
  •  
clarinet, saxophone, piano  •  2010

Nightlife
  •  saxophone, piano, cello  •  2000

\\Offcourse  •  wind quintet  •  1981

Often
  •  flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, viola, cello, playback  •  2003

\\Parrots
  • 
2 recorders, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, percussion, string quartet  •  1984

Piano Trio  •  piano trio  •  1989

Quartet No.1
  •  string quartet  •  1990

Quartet No.2
  •  string quartet  •  1993

Quartet No.3
  •  string quartet  •  1997

Quartet No.4: Pulse
  •  string quartet  •  2016

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

\\Quartet Movements
  •  string quartet  •  1982

Rhinestones Pinecones Telephones
  • 
flute, piano (4 hands), marimba, violin, cello  •  1996

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

\\Solos and Duets
  •  oboe, clarinet, celeste, percussion, viola, cello  •  1978

Stop Sliding
  •  flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, cello, doublebass  •  1981

Suite
  •  flute, tuba, piano  •  1987

The Bluenote  •  flute, piano, cello  •  1993

This That
  •  percussion sextet  •  1998

Trunkles
  •  piano trio  •  2009

Umberhulk
  •  flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2000

\\Unhinging  •  piccolo, 2 trumpets, percussion, 2 violins, doublebass, electronics  •  1979

Urban Affair
  •  piano trio  •  2000

Weegee
  •  clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, piano, percussion, cello  •  1996

What I Can’t Kick
  •  piano quartet  •  2003

Wind Quintet  •  wind quintet  •  1988

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Air Baby
  •  soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, violin  •  2001

American Folk Songs, Book 2
  •  soprano, piano, string quartet  •  1996

A Supermarket in California
  •  baritone, string quartet  •  2013

\\Black Flag  •  soprano, 3 clarinets  •  1982

Brillig
  •  soprano, tenor, flute, piano  •  1989

Coatsworth Songs
  •  soprano, clarinet, piano  •  1991

Corso Songs
  •  soprano, piano, doublebass  •  1990

Drowning/In the Bus/Ask For Nothing
  •  3 voices, ml saw, crotale, 2 mbiras, 4 vc  •  2007

Fabrication 7: Apologue  • 
soprano, tenor, 2 clarinets, 2 doublebasses  •  2012

Fabrication 27: Romance  •  tenor, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 pianos  •  2019

Five Fantasias on Two Laments
  •  mezzo-soprano, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, harp  •  1982

Five Little Fly Stories
  •  soprano, flute, clarinet, 2 percussion, string quartet  •  1989

\\Flowers, Fish, and Prophecy  •  high voice, oboe, harpsichord, percussion  •  1980

Forgot
  •  soprano, flute, clarinet, prepared piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2005

Goback Goback
  •  baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet, piano, harp, percussion, str. quintet  •  2003

Hard Songs
  •  soprano, cimbalom  •  2016

Head Down Legs Up  •  tenor, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello  •  1985

Hog-tied and Bled Dry
  •  mezzo-sop, 2 panpipes, 2 sax, 3 synths, mba, e.gtr, e.bs  •  1996

I Am You
  •  soprano, guitar, cello  •  1999

Kleine Mechanische Tänze
  •  soprano, flute, 2 clarinets, piano, violin, cello  •  1986

Life in Avondall
  •  mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, horn, piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2012

Objects and Intervals
  •  soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, harp, string quartet  •  2008

Passage  •  countertenor, theremin, harp, celeste, 3 cellos  •  2005

Rejoice
  •  soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello  •  1979

Something Coming Our Way
  •  soprano, 4 violins  •  2015

Songs of Loneliness
  •  soprano, viola  •  1990

The Bee in the Champaka Flower  •  soprano, percussion  •  1988

The Master Nailer
  •  soprano, flute, piano  •  1978 

The World, the World, and the World  •  bar., 1.0.0.1, 1.1.1.1, synth, perc, guitar  •  1989

\\Transitive
  •  soprano, harp, 2 percussion  •  1984

Vanishing Cream
  • 
narrator, piccolo, clarinet, harpsichord, childrens' percussion group  •  2002

What's That Buzzing Sound
  •  soprano. baritone, 25 instrumentalists on five stages  •  2007

When I Looked Down From the Bridge
  •  mezzo-soprano, oboe, string quartet  •  1989

\\Ziigwang, Niibing, Dagwaaging, Biboong  •  soprano, flute, harp  •  1992

duo
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Aubade
  •  violin, cello  •  2017

Bad Weather
  •  2 pianos  • 
1999

Bubble  •  flute, piano  •  2003

Cello Sonata  •  cello, piano  •  1990

Fabrication 3: Dodge  •  clarinet, violin  •  2008

Fabrication 3a: Dodge  •  clarinet, violin  •  2008

Fabrication 10: Itch  •  bass clarinet, marimba  •  2012

Fabrication 14: Lookalike
  •  piano, percussion  •  2017

Fabrication 20: Assemblage  •  2 violins  •  2014

Fabrication 28: Artefact  •  2 pianos  •  2015

\\Flatlands  •  violin, piano  •  1977

Flute Sonata
  •  flute, piano  •  1990

Four Scenes  •  violin, cello  •  2016

\\Horses for Courses
  •  clarinet, piano  •  1980

Kreutzette  •  violin, piano  •  2003

Lemonsauce  •  flute, guitar  •  2007

Magritte, Magritte  •  oboe, horn  •  2002

Oboe Sonata  •  oboe, piano  •  1992

Totentanz  •  2 pianos   •  1991

Up  •  2 pianos  •  1979

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

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Approach  •  flute, playback  •  2007

Arch  • 
cello  •  2009

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
  • 
piano  •  1998

Fabrication 1: Cover  • 
trombone  •  2008

Fabrication 2: Cut  • 
tuba  •  2008

Fabrication 18: Fairyland  • 
vibraphone  •  2012

Fabrication 23: Offshoot  • 
percussion  •  2009

Fabrication 24: Upshot  • 
snare drum  •  2008

\\Four on Holiday  •  piano  •  1984

Intérieurs  •  piano    2005


Interlude  •  piano  •  2014

Jug Jug  •  viola  •  1979

Many Returns  •  piano  •  2024

Near and Far
  • 
cello  •  2011

Piano Sonata No.1  •  piano  •  1981

\\Piano Sonata No.2  • 
piano  •  1981

\\Piano Sonata No.3  • 
piano  •  1985

Piano Work  •  piano  •  1977

Preludes  •  piano  •  2003

Rivulet  • 
doublebass  •  2006

\\Robertson
  •  flute  •  1981

\\Rotation/Tao  •  piano  •  1992

Say It • vibraphone  •  2005

Slow Peacherine Rag  •  piano  •  2006

Snapshots for Fred  • 
guitar  •  2004

\\The Great Hoop
 
 •  organ

Two Elegies  •  piano  •  2014

Underwater
  •  guitar  •  1992

\\Violence
  •  violin  •  1981

Wetherby Nocturne
  •  piano  •  1991



opera and music theater
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Chrononhotonthologos  •
  4 principals, 4 or more small roles, clarinet, saxophone, percussion,
         violin, electronic playback, optional satellite ensemble, optional chorus
  •  2017

Freshwater  •  6 roles, 1.1.1.1, 2.1.1.0, piano, harp, percussion, strings    1994

\\From the Record of Ancient Matters  •  narrator, soprano, tenor, SATB chorus, clarinet, 2 trombones,
          synthesizer, 2 percussion, cello  • 
1992

Leif
  •  soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello  •  2008

No Exit  • 
4 roles, saxophone, percussion, 2 violas (or solo), 2 cellos (or solo)    2007

\\Over the River  •  5 roles, women's chorus, 2 pianos  •  1988


orchestra and large ensemble
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\\Aggravating Ideas  •  2.2.2.2, 4.3.3.1, 3 percussion, piano, strings  •  1981

Antimphony
  •  2.2.2.2, 4.2.2.1, 2 percussion, strings  •  2006

Big Bad Wolf  •  2.2.2.2, 2.3.3.0, percussion, strings  •  1996

Bull Dancer  •  2.2.2.2, 4.2.3.1, piano, harp, 3 percussion, strings  •  1997

Fabrication 9: Disposition  •  2.2.2.2, 0.0.0.0, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, doublebass  •  2012

Fabrication 11: Cast  •  2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.0, 2 percussion, strings  •  2008

Fabrication 12: Grapevine
  •  0.2.2.0, 2.2.0.0, 3 pc, 2 pnos, strings  •  2019

Fabrication 13: Monster  •  2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.0, 2 percussion, strings  •  2008

Fabrication 21: Earful  • 
string orchestra  •  2009

Fabrication 32: Manouevre  •  2.2.2.2, 2.2.1.1, 3 pc, 2 pnos, strings  •  2019

\\Gloss  •  1.1.1.1, 1.2.0.0, 5 percussion, 2 pianos, strings  •  1977

G Major
  •  2.2.2.2, 4.2.2.1, 2 percussion, strings  •  2003

Grand Monadnock Measures
  •  wind ensemble  •  2013

Hammer and Darkness, Mirror and Knife  •  2.2.0.2, 2.3.2.0, 2 perc, 2 basses  •  1986

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

Negotiations
  •  wind quintet, string quintet  •  2017

Promenade  
  2.2.2.2, saxophone quartet, 2.2.2.1, timpani, strings  •  1988

Sinfonietta  • 
2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.1, 2 percussion, celeste, harp, strings  •  1989

Thick  • 
string orchestra  •  2005

Twistification  •  3.3.3.3, 4.3.3.1, piano, harp, 4 percussion, strings  •  1988

(Two Fabrications)  • 
2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.0, 2 percussion, strings  •  2008

Xylophonic  •  3.3.3.3, 4.3.3.1, timp, 3 percussion, 2 harps, piano, strings  •  2016

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Actaeon  •  solo cello, 2 horns, strings  •  1997

An Other I  •  solo violin, 3.2.2.2, 4.2.3.0, 2 percussion, strings  •  2005


Dark River  •  solo violin, 2.2.2.2, 2.1.1.0, harp, celeste, 3 percussion, strings  •  1996

Drive  • 
solo violin, 3.3.3.3, 4.2.3.1, 2 percussion, harp, piano/celesta, strings  •  2015

Me and the Devil  • 
solo piano, 2.0.4.2, 2.1.10, banjo, harp, celeste, 2 perc, strings  •  1998

Violin Concerto  • 
solo violin, 1.1.1.1, 2.1.1.0, 3 percussion, strings  •  1982

with voice

Fabrication 19: Slant  •  soprano, tenor, 2.2.2.0, 2.0.0.0, 3 pc, strings  •  2019

Fabrication 31: Fiction  •  soprano, tenor, 2.2.2.2, 2.2.1.1, 2 pc, strings  •  2019

Seven Dream Bagatelles
  •  vocal quartet, 3.2.0.0, 0.2.3.0, prep pno, pno, 4 pc, strings  •  1985

The Pleasure of Departing  •  tenor, baritone, 0.0.0.0, 4.0.3.1, 2 percussion, strings  •  2014

Uncertainty Is Beautiful  • 
soprano, 2.2.2.2, 2.2.0.0, timpani, strings  •  2004


chorus and vocal ensemble
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A New Shepherd's Calendar  •  vocal sextet  •  1991

Entrenched  • 
male vocal quartet, piano, 2 cellos  •  2015

Eccho and Narcissus  •  vocal quartet  •  1995

Fabrication 5: Spinach
  •  soprano, tenor  •  2008

Five Ambo Ghost Songs
  •  SATB chorus  •  1986

Four British Folk Songs  • 
children's chorus, piano  •  1993

Four Housman Settings
  •  SATB chorus  •  2007

Get a Transfer
  • 
men's chorus, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, piano, 2 perc  •  2002

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

Haunted  • 
vocal quartet, piano  •  1997

Hex  • 
women's chorus (or 4 female voices), 4.4.4.4, 6.4.3.2, 3 percussion, harp, strings  •  2004

I Heard My Lover Knocking  • 
SATB chorus (or vocal octet), 2 flutes, string quartet  •  1996

Illumination  • 
soprano, women's chorus, piano  •  1989

In Childhood's Thicket
  •  soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, looping pedals, playback  •  2017

\\Meditation Upon 'Canticles'  •  SATB chorus, organ  •  1990

Natural Selection
  •  double SATB chorus, 0.3.0.0, 0.3.0.0, organ, timpani, strings  •  2009

Nuts  •  SATB chorus, obbligato violin  •  1992

\\Separation  •  SATB chorus, 4.2.0.2, 0.0.4.0, timpani, percussion, strings  •  1997
      
Sh'ma  •  tenor, SATB chorus, piano, 2.0.2.0, 0.0.0.1, percussion, strings  •  1995

Spencer the Rover  •  SATB chorus, 3 cornets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, euphonium, tuba  •  2016

Sugar Float  •  SATB chorus, 4.4.6.6, 4.4.4.2, 4 percussion, 2 harps  •  1987

The Book of Aphrodite  •  women's chorus (or 3 female voices), 2 flts, 2 tpts, vib  •  1992

The Bridge  •  children's chorus, flute, clarinet, 2 tpts, tbn, pno, perc, doublebass  •  2002

The Burning Babe  •  SATB chorus, organ, snare drum, strings  •  1995

The Good Moolly Cow  •  SATB chorus  •  1989

The Red Shoes  •  women's chorus  •  2006

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

Travelers' Tales  •  SATB chorus  •  1989

World Wheel  •  soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, 2.3.1.2, 2.3.3.0, 2 perc, synth, strings  •  1999


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A Dream Deferred baritone, piano • 2009

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

Before You Came  •  baritone, piano  •  1997

Boy Mad  •  baritone, piano  •  1995

Cleopatra  •  soprano, piano  •  1990


Five American Songs  • 
soprano, piano  •  1988

Household Tales  • 
soprano, piano  •  1988

My Papa's Waltz soprano, piano • 2010

Ode to Clothes
baritone, piano • 2011

Panic  •  baritone, piano, playback  •  2012

Return to a Place  • 
baritone, piano  •  1988

Sisters by a River  • 
soprano, piano  •  1988

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

Songbook 1  •  voice, piano  •  1978–1982
  Les Colchiques • 1976
  Sweet Peg • 1978
  Christopher Boyce's Suicide Note • 1982
  Two Levertov Songs • 1982
  Three Old French Songs • 1982
  Two Stevens Songs • 1982
  On Chloris Walking in the Snow • 1982
  Three Arp Songs • 1982
  Five Ambo Ghost Songs • 1982
  Mu'tazz Songs • 1982


Songbook 2  • 
voice, piano  •  1986–2015
  Three Queneau Songs • 1986

  Happy Birthday 1 • 1987
  Happy Birthday 2 • 1987
  Noon • 1987
  If You Imagine • 1987
  Louis XVI Goes to the Guillotine • 1987
  Les Vrais Miracles • 1987
  Three Apollinaire Songs • 1987
  Susie Asado • 1987
  Three Soupault Songs • 1987
  Wild Geese • 1992
  Three Songs from 'Paris Spleen' • 2015

T'ang Poems
  •  soprano, piano  •  1989

The Language of the Garden
  • 
mezzo-soprano, piano  •  1989

The Little Box  •  soprano, piano  •  1987

The Rainy Summer  • 
baritone, piano  •  1990

The Reckless Heart  •  soprano, piano  •  1998

Traveling Through the Dark
  •  tenor, piano  •  1988

Wasserabstieglieder  • 
soprano, piano  •  1992

Welsh Songs  • 
baritone, piano  •  1992


electronic

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aah  •  playback  •  2001

Often  •  video soundtrack  •  2003

On Site
  •  video soundtrack  •  2001

On Site Remix  •  playback  •  2001

One Head
  •  video soundtrack  •  2001

One Head Remix  •  playback  •  2001

Rita's Lucky Summer  •  video soundtrack  •  1997

Won't Get Fooled Again  •  video soundtrack  •  2001

Won't Get Fooled Again Remix  •  playback  •  2001

 

chronological

2024 _____________________________________________________________________


Many Returns  •  piano

2019 _____________________________________________________________________

Fabrications
Fabrication 12: Grapevine  • 
0.2.2.0, 2.2.0.0, 3 pc, 2 pnos, strings
Fabrication 19: Slant
  • 
soprano, tenor, 2.2.2.0, 2.0.0.0, 3 pc, strings
Fabrication 25: Carbon  • 
flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Fabrication 26: Subterfuge  • 
flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Fabrication 27: Romance  • 
tenor, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 pianos
Fabrication 29: Spiel  •  double string quartet
Fabrication 31: Fiction  •  soprano, tenor, 2.2.2.2, 2.2.1.1, 2 pc, strings
Fabrication 32: Manouevre  •  2.2.2.2, 2.2.1.1, 3 pc, 2 pnos, strings


2017
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Aubade  •  violin, cello
Chrononhotonthologos  •  4 principals, 4 or more small roles, clarinet, saxophone, percussion,
         violin, electronic playback, optional satellite ensemble, optional chorus
Fabrication 14: Lookalike  •  piano, percussion
In Childhood's Thicket  •  soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, looping pedals, playback
Negotiations  •  wind quintet, string quintet
Quartet No.5: Confirmation Bias  •  string quartet

2016 ____________________________________________________________________

Dark Days  • 
flute, string quartet
Fabrication 16: Misstatement  • 
clarinet, bass clarinet, guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello
Four Scenes  •  violin, cello
Hard Songs  •  
soprano, cimbalom
Lamplighter Reveal  •  string quartet
Quartet No.4: Pulse  •  string quartet
Sleep. House. Field.  •  flute, viola, harp
Spencer the Rover  •  SATB chorus, 3 cornets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, euphonium, tuba
Xylophonic  • 
3.3.3.3, 4.3.3.1, timp, 3 percussion, 2 harps, piano, strings

2015 ____________________________________________________________________

Drive  • 
solo violin, 3.3.3.3, 4.2.3.1, 2 percussion, harp, piano/celesta, strings
Entrenched  •  male vocal quartet, piano, 2 cellos
Fabrication 22: Smoke  •  flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, violin, electric bass
Fabrication 28: Artefact
  •  2 pianos
Fabrication 30: Imitation  •  clarinet, guitar, piano, violin
Something Coming Our Way  •  soprano, 4 violins

2014 ____________________________________________________________________

Fabrication 20: Assemblage  • 
2 violins
Fanfare  •  
brass quintet
Interlude  •  piano
The Pleasure of Departing  •  tenor, baritone, 0.0.0.0, 4.0.3.1, 2 percussion, strings
Two Elegies  •  piano

2013 ____________________________________________________________________

A Supermarket in California  • 
baritone, string quartet
Fabrication 15: Amplification
  •  flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Grand Monadnock Measures  •  wind ensemble

2012 ____________________________________________________________________

Fabrication 10: Itch  •  bass clarinet, marimba
Fabrication 18: Fairyland  •  vibraphone
Fabrication 7: Apologue  •  soprano, tenor, 2 clarinets, 2 doublebasses
Fabrication 9: Disposition  •  2.2.2.2, 0.0.0.0, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, doublebass
Life in Avondall
  •  mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, horn, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Panic  •  baritone, piano, playback

2011 ____________________________________________________________________

Fabrication 6: Pretext  •  
flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Near and Far  • 
cello

2010 ____________________________________________________________________

Fabrication 17: Stunt  •  clarinet, piano, violin
MJ  •  clarinet, saxophone, piano

2009 ____________________________________________________________________

Arch
  • 
cello
Fabrication 23: Offshoot  •  percussion
Fabrication 21: Earful  •  string orchestra
Fabrication 4: Device  •  double wind quintet
Natural Selection  •  double SATB chorus, 0.3.0.0, 0.3.0.0, organ, timpani, strings
Trunkles  •  piano trio

2008 ____________________________________________________________________

Fabrication 1: Cover  • 
trombone
Fabrication 2: Cut  • 
tuba
Fabrication 3: Dodge  •  clarinet, violin
Fabrication 3a: Dodge  •  clarinet, violin
Fabrication 5: Spinach  • 
soprano, tenor
Fabrication 8: Semblance  • 
string trio or string trio and violin sextet
Fabrication 11: Cast  • 
2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.0, 2 percussion, strings
Fabrication 13: Monster  • 
2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.0, 2 percussion, strings
Fabrication 24: Upshot  • 
snare drum
Harmonie du Soir  • 
women's chorus, string orchestra
Leif  •  soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Objects and Intervals  •  soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, harp, string quartet

2007 ____________________________________________________________________

Approach  • 
flute, playback
Drowning/In the Bus/Ask For Nothing  • 
3 voices, ml saw, crotale, 2 mbiras, 4 vc
Four Housman Settings  •  SATB chorus
Lemonsauce  •  flute, guitar
No Exit  •  4 roles, saxophone, percussion, 2 violas (or solo), 2 cellos (or solo)
What's That Buzzing Sound  •  soprano. baritone, 25 instrumentalists on five stage


2006 ____________________________________________________________________

Antimphony  • 
2.2.2.2, 4.2.2.1, 2 percussion, strings
Rivulet  •  doublebass
Slow Peacherine Rag  •  piano
The Red Shoes  •  women's chorus

2005 ____________________________________________________________________

An Other I  • 
solo violin, 3.2.2.2, 4.2.3.0, 2 percussion, strings
Forgot  • 
soprano, flute, clarinet, prepared piano, percussion, violin, cello
Intérieurs  • 
piano
Passage  •  countertenor, theremin, harp, celeste, 3 cellos
Say It  •  vibraphone
Thick  •  string orchestra

2004 ____________________________________________________________________

Hex  • 
women's chorus (or 4 female voices), 4.4.4.4, 6.4.3.2, 3 percussion, harp, string
Snapshots for Fred  • 
guitar
Uncertainty Is Beautiful  • 
soprano, 2.2.2.2, 2.2.0.0, timpani, strings

2003 ____________________________________________________________________

Bubble  • 
flute, piano
Elbow  • 
saxophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, 5 percussion, electric guitar, electric bass
G Major  •  2.2.2.2, 4.2.2.1, 2 percussion, strings
Goback Goback
  •  baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet, piano, harp, percussion, string quintet
Kreutzette
  •  violin, piano
Often  •  flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, viola, cello, playback
Often
  •  video soundtrack
Preludes
  •  piano
What I Can’t Kick
  • 
piano quartet 

2002 ____________________________________________________________________

Get a Transfer  • 
men's chorus, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, piano, 2 perc
Magritte, Magritte  •  oboe, horn
The Bridge  •  children's chorus, flute, clarinet, 2 tpts, tbn, pno, perc, doublebass
Vanishing Cream  •  narrator, piccolo, clarinet, harpsichord, childrens' percussion group

2001 ____________________________________________________________________

aah  • 
playback
Air Baby  • 
soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, violin
On Site  •  video soundtrack
On Site Remix  • 
playback
One Head
  •  video soundtrack
One Head Remix
  •  playback
Won't Get Fooled Again  • 
video soundtrack
Won't Get Fooled Again Remix  • 
playback

2000 ____________________________________________________________________

Barely Without Wings a Drink for the Birds in my Head  • 
horn, violin, cello
Nightlife  •
 saxophone, piano, cello
Six Songs on Poems by Margaret Atwood  • 
mezzo-soprano, piano
Umberhulk
  • 
flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Urban Affair
  • 
piano trio

1999 _____________________________________________________________________

Bad Weather  • 
2 pianos
Dark Mother  • 
piano trio
I Am You  •  soprano, guitar, cello
World Wheel  •  soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, 2.3.1.2, 2.3.3.0, 2 perc, synth, strings

1998 _____________________________________________________________________

Me and the Devil  • 
solo piano, 2.0.4.2, 2.1.10, banjo, harp, celeste, 2 percussion, strings
The Reckless Heart  • 
soprano, piano
This That  • 
percussion sextet 

1997 _____________________________________________________________________

Actaeon  •  solo cello, 2 horns, strings
Before You Came  • 
baritone, piano
Bull Dancer  •  2.2.2.2, 4.2.3.1, piano, harp, 3 percussion, strings
Haunted  •  vocal quartet, piano
Quartet No.3  •  string quartet
Rita's Lucky Summer  •  video soundtrack
Separation  •  SATB chorus, 4.2.0.2, 0.0.4.0, timpani, percussion, strings

1996 _____________________________________________________________________

American Folk Songs, Book 2  • 
soprano, piano, string quartet
Big Bad Wolf
  • 
3 trumpets, piano, harp, string quintet
Dark River  •  solo violin, 2.2.2.2, 2.1.1.0, harp, celeste, 3 percussion, strings
Hog-tied and Bled Dry
  • 
mezzo-sop, 2 panpipes, 2 sax, 3 synths, mba, e.gtr, e.b
I Heard My Lover Knocking  • 
SATB chorus (or vocal octet), 2 flutes, string quartet
Rhinestones Pinecones Telephones  • 
flute, piano (4 hands), marimba, violin, cello
Weegee
  • 
clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, piano, percussion, cello

1995 _____________________________________________________________________

Boy Mad  • 
baritone, piano
Eccho and Narcissus  • 
vocal quartet
Sh'ma  • 
tenor, SATB chorus, piano, 2.0.2.0, 0.0.0.1, percussion, strings
The Burning Babe  • 
SATB chorus, organ, snare drum, strings
Wild Geese
  • 
mezzo-soprano, piano

1994 _____________________________________________________________________

Freshwater  • 
6 roles, 1.1.1.1, 2.1.1.0, piano, harp, percussion, strings
Music for Bach to Walk to Hear Buxtehude By  
 wind quintet, pno, perc, str quintet

1993 _____________________________________________________________________

Four British Folk Songs  • 
children's chorus, piano
Quartet No.2  • 
string quartet
The Bluenote
  • 
flute, piano, cello

1992 _____________________________________________________________________

From the Record of Ancient Matters  • 
3 roles, chorus, cl, 2 tbns, synth 2 perc, cello
Nuts  • 
SATB chorus, obbligato violin
Oboe Sonata  • 
oboe, piano
Rotation/Tao  •  piano
The Book of Aphrodite
  • 
women's chorus (or 3 female voices), 2 flts, 2 tpts, vib
Underwater 
 •  guitar 
Wasserabstieglieder  • 
soprano, piano
Welsh Songs  •  baritone, piano
Ziigwang, Niibing, Dagwaaging, Biboong  •  
soprano, flute, harp

1991 _____________________________________________________________________

A New Shepherd's Calendar  • 
vocal sextet
American Folk Songs, Book 1  • 
tenor, piano
Coatsworth Songs
  •  soprano, clarinet, piano
Totentanz  • 
2 pianos
Wetherby Nocturne  •  piano

1990 _____________________________________________________________________

Cello Sonata  • 
cello, piano
Cleopatra  •  soprano, piano
Corso Songs  •  soprano, piano, doublebass
Flute Sonata  •  flute, piano
Meditation upon 'Canticles'  •  SATB chorus, organ
Quartet No.1  •  string quartet
Songs of Loneliness  •  soprano, viola
The Rainy Summer  •  baritone, piano
Violin Sonata "Emma Lee"  •  violin, piano

1989 _____________________________________________________________________

Brillig  • 
soprano, tenor, flute, piano
Five Little Fly Stories  • 
soprano, flute, clarinet, 2 percussion, string quartet
Illumination  •  soprano, women's chorus, piano
Piano Trio  • 
piano trio
Return to a Place  •  baritone, piano
Sinfonietta
  • 
2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.1, 2 percussion, celeste, harp, strings

T'ang Poems  • 
soprano, piano
The Good Moolly Cow  
 SATB chorus
The Great Hoop
 
 •  organ
The Language of the Garden
  • 
mezzo-soprano, piano
The Wind and the Harvest  • 
SATB chorus, 3 percussion 
The World, the World, and the World  • 
baritone, 1.0.0.1, 1.1.1.1, synth, perc, guitar
Travelers' Tales  • 
SATB chorus
When I Looked Down From the Bridge  • 
mezzo-soprano, oboe, string quartet

1988 _____________________________________________________________________

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose  • 
piano
Five American Songs  • 
soprano, piano
Household Tales  • 
soprano, piano
Over the River  •  5 roles, women's chorus, 2 pianos
Promenade  • 
2.2.2.2, saxophone quartet, 2.2.2.1, timpani, strings
Sisters by a River  •  soprano, piano
The Bee in the Champaka Flower  •  soprano, percussion
Traveling Through the Dark  •  tenor, piano
Twistification  •  3.3.3.3, 4.3.3.1, piano, harp, 4 percussion, strings
Wind Quintet  •  wind quintet

1987 _____________________________________________________________________

Songbook 2  • 
voice, piano
Sugar Float  • 
SATB chorus, 4.4.6.6, 4.4.4.2, 4 percussion, 2 harps
Suite  •  flute, tuba, piano
The Little Box  • 
soprano, piano
Three Apollinaire Songs  • 
soprano, piano

1986 _____________________________________________________________________

Five Ambo Ghost Songs  •  SATB chorus
Hammer and Darkness, Mirror and Knife  • 
2.2.0.2, 2.3.2.0, 2 perc, 2 doublebasses
Kleine Mechanische Tänze  •  soprano, flute, 2 clarinets, piano, violin, cello
Three Queneau Songs  •  soprano, piano
Three Soupault Songs  • 
mezzo-soprano, piano

1985 _____________________________________________________________________

Head Down Legs Up  • 
tenor, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello
Piano Sonata No.3
  • 
piano
Seven Dream Bagatelles  • 
vocal quartet, 3.2.0.0, 0.2.3.0, prep pno, pno, 4 perc, strings

1984 _____________________________________________________________________

Four on Holiday  • 
piano
Parrots  •  
2 recorders, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, percussion, string quartet
Transitive  • 
soprano, harp, 2 percussion

1983 _____________________________________________________________________

Humming Harvest Gone Snow Motor  •
 flute, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello
Songbook 1  • 
voice, piano

1982 _____________________________________________________________________

Black Flag  • 
soprano, 3 clarinets
Five Fantasias on Two Laments  • 
mezzo-soprano, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, harp
Quartet Movements  • 
string quartet
Violin Concerto
  
  solo violin, 1.1.1.1, 2.1.1.0, 3 percussion, strings

1981 _____________________________________________________________________

House  •  
flute, clarinet, piano, cello
Offcourse •  
wind quintet
Piano Sonata No.1  •  piano
Piano Sonata No.2  •  piano
Robertson  •  flute
Stop Sliding  •  flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, cello, doublebass
Violence  • 
violin

1980 _____________________________________________________________________

Flowers, Fish, and Prophecy  • 
high voice, oboe, harpsichord
Horses for Courses  • 
clarinet, piano

1979 _____________________________________________________________________

Epithalamium  
  flute, guitar, vibraphone, violin
Jug Jug 
 •  viola
Rejoice  •  s
oprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello
Unhinging  • 
piccolo, 2 trumpets, perc, 2 violins, ring-modulator, doublebass
Up 
 •  2 pianos

1978 _____________________________________________________________________

The Master Nailer 
 •  soprano, flute, piano

1977
_____________________________________________________________________
Aggravating Ideas  •  2.2.2.2, 4.3.3.1, 3 percussion, piano, strings
Flatlands  •  violin, piano
Gloss  •  1.1.1.1, 1.2.0.0, 5 percussion, 2 pianos, strings
Solos and Duets •  oboe, clarinet, celeste, percussion, viola, cello
Piano Work  •  piano

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