A Conversation Piece
10 performers in a living room tableau with a piano and numerous other props (1976)
A Short Encore
soprano, alto, tenor, bass voices (1970; rev. 2026)
A Song, a Dance and a Spizder
B-flat clarinet, alto sax, violin, cello, piano, finger cymbals, speaker, soprano, cicadas (1992)
A Suite of Piano Pieces for Unruly Children
piano, playback, butterfly net, tear gas (diluted!), cream pie, plus a handful of other appropriate props (1970)
A Tangoed Web
chamber orchestra with solo percussion (2002)
A-Round
12-part chorus (1986)
A-Round
12-voice chorus (1986)
Ahmed Lives in Istanbul and Drives a Taxi
SATB chorus with tenor solo (1995)
Along the Karakash
flute, B-flat clarinet, cello, piano (2016)
Alt Basalt
alto, alto, and bass flutes (2012)
And by and by a cloud takes all away
flute and string quartet (2022)
And Dymns the Welkin
tenor solo, pre-recorded SATB chorus, piano, 2 electric guitars, percussion (1976)
Armies Of Mice
2 narrators, SATB chorus, juggler, harmonicas, recorder, flute, piano, rhythmatron, mousetraps (1982)
Baby Alice
alto voice, harp, harpsichord, piano, cello, tam-tam (2016)
Baby Alice
Piano, harp, harpsichord, cello, gong, soprano (2016)
Best of the Bazaar
sound collages (1995-2006)
Big Sister
SATB actors-singers, piano, keyboard synthesizer, cello, drum kit (1986, 1989, 2026)
Billions of Brazilians
flute, alto sax, trumpet, French horn, trombone, marimba, string bass, percussion (billions of ’em) (1989)
Boondock
two performers on water glasses, analog synthesizers and voices augmented by taped water glasses and small percussion instruments (1975)
Boss à Nova
synthesizer, guitar, piano, bass guitar, drum kit (2006)
Boy Who Raced His Shadow (The)
flute, clarinet, piano (2023)
Brown Old Shoes
tenor solo, piano, string bass (1992; rev. 2026)
Canzona Oaza
flute, cello, piano (2025)
CD Liner Notes
CD Liner Notes
Cesta domov
B-flat clarinet and string quartet (2018)
Champagne and Other Spirits
2 alto voices (1993)
Circe
four-track tape (1975)
Comfort Me, Ye Yak
SAB chorus with F sharp, C, and D flat harmonicas (1979)
Comfort Me, Ye Yak
soprano, tenor, baritone voices and harmonica (1979; rev. 2026)
Compact Discs
Thumbnail descriptions of my compact disc releases are below.
Conchoid of Nicomedes (The)
flute, B-flat clarinet, bassoon, piano (2006, revised 2015)
Concord Dance
string quartet (2024)
Cowbellies
B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello (1995)
Cowbellies (vocal arrangement)
SATB chorus (1995)
Cowbellies [arranged for string quartet]
string quartet (1995-2008)
crasta nation
3 rappers, SATB chorus, boombox with drum and bass tracks (2007)
Custom Mary
solo violin (2008; rev. 2024)
Cyan Aura
flute-piccolo, B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2005, revised 2012)
des fourmis dans mes pantalons (ants in my pantaloons)
overdubbed two-track tape (2008)
Downriver
oboe, 2 bassoons, viola, cello (2004)
Earwigs
SAATB chorus (1998, rev. 2017)
Einfalt Basalt
alto flute, bass flute, contrabass flute (2018)
Ephemeron
flute, B-flat clarinet, violin, cello (2018)
Euphonicum Tangenturis
flute, clarinet, piano (2010; revised 2013)
Eventful Heroics
seven-part flute choir [piccolo, 4 C flutes, alto, bass] (2014)
Fall In Arches
seven-part flute choir [piccolo, 4 C flutes, alto, bass] (2012)
faux pastiche
B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2001)
Fifty Birds
2 bass clarinets, violin, cello (1999)
Flutes of our Labours
2 flutes, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass [also 2 flutes + piano] (2011)
Fogwalls
solo piano [but not really] (1997)
Foothills
synthesizer, piano, violin, electric guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, extra percussion (2008)
Forbidden Flute
flute, piano (2004, revised 2012)
Forbidden Kitchen
full orchestra with piano (2006)
Fossick
B-flat clarinet, violin (1995)
Frangipanika
viola and cello (2004)
Fugue State
flute, flute + piccolo, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons (2009, revised 2012)
Further Afield
flute and string orchestra (first + second violins, viola, cello, double bass) (2020)
Gestalt Basalt
alto flute, bass flute, contrabass flute (2018)
Giant Pecking Sparrows (The) [les moineaux géants picotants]
flute and B-flat clarinet (2000)
Going Like Sixty
B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion (1997)
Grande Eccentric Marche of the Repelicans
tenor voice, B-flat clarinet, piano, drum kit (1989, rev. 2026)
Grass Wood Water
flute, viola, piano (2026)
Green Town incidental music
(midi instruments (2007)
Heliolydium
full orchestra (2010; rev. 2023)
Help Me Rondo for Flute Choir (The)
3 C flutes, 2 alto flutes, 2 bass flutes, contrabass flute, gong, piano (1995; rev. 2021) I first reimagined the Beach Boys’ “Help Me Rhonda” for violin, cello, B-flat and bass clarinets, piano and gong (and here it is). When a flute choir from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex asked me to rearrange it for them, I thought … well, why not?! To my knowledge, they never performed it.
Hornblende
5 French horns (2006); brass quintet (2010)
Hunting Tuna
brass quintet (1994)
In Search of Clarity
violin, cello, piano (2020)
In-a-Gadda-da-Babylon
SATB chorus with drum machine (1992)
Incandescendence
string quartet (2003, revised 2013)
It’s always ourselves we find in the sea
piccolo, 2 violins, viola, cello (2017)
Katmandon’t
B-flat clarinet, baritone sax, B-flat trumpet, marimba, harpsichord, piano (1997)
Khartoumaraca
B-flat clarinet, marimba, cello (1994)
La Morenada Meadowbrook
2 guitars, harp, piano, harpsichord, drum kit (2015)
Leaf Peepers
SATB chorus 1 with soprano soloist + SATB chorus 2 (2010)
Les visions de Bellimar
flute, viola, piano (2013)
Leviathan ’99 incidental music
midi instruments (2007)
Lexanne
flute, B-flat clarinet, alto sax, bassoon (2012)
Little Twinkly Flutes
alto flute + three C flutes (2024)
Locomotives Stalking a Leopard
five percussionists playing instruments of their choosing plus playback (2007)
Locuslotus
oboe, guitar, chimes, kalimba, harp, piano, 2 synthesizers, cello, double bass (2013)
Lois
two-channel tape (2006)
Lois
tape playback (2008)
Lucille
string quartet (2007, revised 2014)
Lunar Mural 1
alto flute + playback (2009)
Lunar Mural 2
bass flute + playback (2011)
L’histoire du clarinette
B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, narrator, slide projector and screen, box of saltine crackers, foam core clarinet, and other props (1997)
Maple Leaf Rag
wind quintet [flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, horn in F, bassoon] (2025)
Mass of Mercury
SATB chorus, chamber orchestra augmented with tenor sax and drum kit (1999)
McGuffy’s Diner
tolerant waitress and 5 raucous customers armed (admittedly not well) with percussion instruments (1975)
Mesopotamian March and Mango (The)
brass quintet and saw (1975)
Missing Inn March (The)
B-flat clarinet, alto sax, bass clarinet, B-flat trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba, percussion (1996)