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ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS FOR SOLO GUITAR
Pictures of the Moon for solo guitar 2020
Abstract work questioning form and disconnection based on Galileo
Abiquiu, The Walking Sadness for solo guitar 2019
A work inspired by the New Mexican landscape.
Wow Mountain for solo guitar 2018
Dense harmonic writing portrays a spiritual journey up a mountainside.
Waldeinsamkeit for solo guitar 2017
A work based on the German word for feeling one with the forest.
Gethsemane for solo guitar 2016
A short simple folk-like tune.
After Doullant for solo guitar 2015
A work that explores Renaissance composer John Dowland’s “Semper Douland, Semper Dolans” (Dowland is ever doleful). It traces styles from different eras, but is mainly inspired by Dowland’s lengthy chromatic fantasies for solo lute.
Flower Parts for solo guitar 2015
Five short pieces: Calyx, Style, Filament, Nectary and Pedicel.
Reliquishment for solo guitar 2014
Mysterious and tender music where much of the writing is above the 12th fret.
My Soul Knows Only Wind and Sun for solo guitar 2014
Movement 7 from the choral work From the Portuguese of Fernando Pessoa for SATT and guitar
The Split-Open Sky for
solo guitar 2012
animated by the words of Jesus, Buddha and
Monhammed. Based on the choral work of the same
name.
1/ Kindly Eyes
2/ Lord's Prayer
3/ Two Sparrows
4/ Yes and no
5/ The law
6/ Haste
7/ Keep awake
8/ In the fields
9/ Summer cloud
10/ Trust in providence
That Lonesome Trail
for guitar solo 2011
humor combined with serious music. It asks what
would the classical guitar be like in the Wild West
of yore.
1/ The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
2/ The Congregation of Wildflowers
3/ Thunder at Horse Canyon
4/ The Last Sunset
Minneapolis Idyll for
guitar solo 2011
smokey hued rumination on the transition from
summer to autumn
The Impossible Trees for
guitar solo (also guitar duet and flute /guitar
versions) 2010
lengthy, but fun work with some technical
challenge and French and Brazilian influences
LISTENING POINT for guitar
solo 2008
inspired by Sigurd Olson’s book of nature studies of
the same name
1/ Warming Colors
2/ Advantages of Solitude
3/ Hundred Thousand Years
Royale Rhythms and Accents for guitar
solo 2007
music for the landscape found on Isle Royale in
Lake Superior
1/ Inner Reef
2/ Dead Horse Rocks
3/ Starvation Point
4/ Mount Desor
5/ Ollie's Dog's Rocks
6/ Little Boat
Midwest Locations for
guitar solo 2005
based on street names in the quintessentially
Midwestern town of Galesburg, IL
1/ Losey Blues
2/ Prairie Solo
3/ Seminary Street
Superbliss Machine Embrace
for guitar solo 2001
a lengthy meandering work exploring the concept
of ultimate reality
The Gallant Dances for
solo guitar 1996
short and light harmonically colorful dances
1/ Tempiletta
2/ Parvenu
3/ Osceoliano
4/ Octaves
Silence is Thunder for
solo guitar 1995
harmonically dense but with much forward motion
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SOLO GUITAR TRANSCRIPTIONS
Paisje, Enrique Granados
Rumores De La Caleta, Issac Albeniz
Eight Poetic Waltzes, Enrique Granados
Prelude (Asturias) from Chants D'Espagne, Issac Albeniz
No. 3 Sevilla from Suite Espagnole, Issac Albeniz
Spanish Dance No. 11, Enrique Granados
Escenas Poeticas,
Books 1 & 2, Enrique Granados
The Quail's Impromptu, Enrique
Granados
Puerta de Tierra, Issac
Albeniz
Minuet, Handel
Adagio for Strings Op.11,
Samuel Barber
Un Bal from Symphonie
Fantastique, Hector Berlioz
Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis,
Ravel
Andantino, September, the
Andantino from the 3rd Symphony of Jean Sibelius
O Come, O Come Immanuel,
Traditional
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ORIGINAL GUITAR DUETS
LISTENING POINT for guitar duet 2011
inspired by Sigurd Olson’s book of nature studies of
the same name
1/ Warming Colors
2/ Advantages of Solitude
3/ Hundred Thousand Years
Poor Flowers for guitar duet 2011
a soft, impressionistic piece from my choral work on
Pessoa
The Impossible Trees for guitar duet 2010
lengthy, but fun work with some technical challenge
and French and Brazilian influences
(Available as guitar duet and for flute and guitar,
too)
Diggunim Trees for guitar duet, recording available
at online sources 2006
one guitar is notated, the other improvised.
Buddhist inspired meditations on landscape based on
Ajahn Chah quote: “Seeing Nature, one knows the
Dhamma”.
1/ Sun Concentration
2/ Grass Circle
3/ Ashes
4/ Diggunim Trees
5/ Blossoms and Shadows
6/ Flower Cut-Outs
7/ Twilight Clouds
8/ Snow Flying
9/ Numberless Days
10/ Taiga Thrum
11/ Metta (Loving-kindness)
12/ Karuna (Compassion)
13/ Mudita (Appreciative Joy)
14/ Upekkha (Equanimity)
15/ Te Mayam (All of Us)
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GUITAR DUET TRANSCRIPTIONS
Inventions 1, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, J. S. Bach
Pavane, Gabriel Faure
Eight Poetic Waltzes, Enrique Granados
Six Pieces from the motion picture
The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
1/ Children's Games
2/ Postcards
3/ Nothing Lasts
4/ Daisy's Ballet Career
5/ Sunrise on Lake Pontchartrain
6/ Bejamin and Daisy
March of a Marionette, Charles Gounod
famous theme from the television show The Alfred
Hitchcock Hour
Preludio, originally for organ, Polleri
Serenata, originally for piano, Polleri
Giovanni Polleri (1855-1923) is not a well known
Italian composer.
These scores, which were found at a garage sale, are
beautiful on two guitars.
Farewell to Stromness, Peter Maxwell Davies
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GUITAR WITH OTHER FORCES
LISTENING POINT for mandolin and guitar 2016 inspired by Sigurd Olson’s book of nature studies of the same name
1/ Tuning Up Around an Indian Camp
2/ Warming Colors
3/ Advantages of Solitude
4/ Cold Acid Medium
5/ Hundred Thousand Years
6/ The Long Blue Sentences
Daimonelix for mandolin and guitar, recorded for
"American Music for Mandolin and Guitar" on Naxos
label 2012
music evoking a mysterious landscape found in
Northwestern Nebraska
The Uses of Winter for mixed voices and guitar 2006
a positive view of winter from Henry David Thoreau’s
journal (1841–54)
The Impossible Trees for flute and guitar 2010
lengthy, but fun work with some technical challenge
and French and Brazilian influences.
(Available as guitar duet and guitar solo, too).
Agents of Memory and Loss for violin and guitar 1999
theme and variations form in a work showcasing
primitive moods and lush murmurs.
From the Portuguese of Fernando Pessoa, a setting of
nine poems for SATT and guitar 1998
innocent settings of Zen-like poems from the 1914
collection The Keeper of Sheep.
A Crown of Stars for mixed choir and guitar 1995
text combines the Magi story with seasonal nature
imagery
Anticipation, recollection, seven movements for
clarinet and guitar 1996
two dissimilar musical gestures stand side by side.
The points of contact between them can carry a
charge, and stimulate new ways of thinking and
feeling.
1/ Colloquy, Drinking Tea
2/ No Paradise in the East, No Paradise in the West
3/ Points of the Great Cedars, Broken Sound
4/ Thistle, Ancient Smile
5/ Poem by Gudo, the Green Ash Pail
6/ Telegraphic Trees, the Outside Steps
7/ Wayside, Raining
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CHAMBER
[transmission of light] for flute, oboe, clarinet,
French horn, bassoon, contrabassoon, cello and
contrabass 2000
the title is from the Japanese "denkoroku" meaning
the spiritual illumination transmitted from guru to
student, though in this case, nature is the “guru”
and we are the students
The Light of Asia for chamber orchestra 2020
Flower Parts for chamber orchestra 2020
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