The arc of improving compositional quality control begins in 1992 and continues to this day. Music listed prior to that date should be reviewed with a grain of salt. Make that two grains.
Chamber Music // Duets // Flute Ensembles // Orchestral // Playback // Light Entertainments // Solo // Strings // Theater Music // Theater Pieces // Vocal (Unaccompanied) // Vocal (with Instruments) // Music That Distressed My College Teachers
Out Back
SAT recorders or other family of woodwinds (1985)
Out of Cahoots
2 pianos (1996, revised 2004)
Out of the Dark
B-flat clarinet, violin, keyboard synthesizer (1994)
Out of the Windwork [flute choir]
Flute choir [2 C flutes, 2 alto flutes, 2 bass flutes, contrabass flute[ (2025)
Out of the Windwork [wind quintet]
wind quintet (2025)
Pecos Lil deVille
2 alto voices (1995)
Phonographic Memories
piccolo, 4 C flutes, alto flute, bass flute, + optional contrabass flute (2015)
Pianomadic
piano (2005, revised 2013)
Pillar of Fire incidental music
midi instruments (2006)
Playball
oboe, B-flat clarinet, bassoon, harp, keyboard, synthesizer, violin, double bass (2009)
Pox Vobiscum
tenor, chorus, viola, cello, piano (1991)
Quibbling With Quokkas
B-flat clarinet, bassoon, marimba, cello, piano (2000) Essential Music commissioned this fine tune but disbanded before performing it. One hopes the latter wasn’t caused by the former.
Redoubt
3 automatous readers (1976)
Ricercarturo
violin, piano (2018)
Running Lights
B-flat clarinet, soprano sax, B-flat trumpet, marimba, violin, piano (1994)
Shebango
B-flat clarinet, violin, piano (1998)
Somewhere East of Topeka
B-flat clarinet, calliope (synthesizer) (1994)
Sonaga for 2nd French Horn, Piano and Page Turner
French horn, piano, page turner, string bass, trumpet, clarinet, another French horn, tuba (1970)
Streaming Consciousness
flute, piano (2017)
Sunrise Over Subilimayo
Six-part flute choir [three alto flutes, two bass flutes, contrabass flute] (2025)
Sunrise Over Suchilapilla
wind quintet (2025)
Suspenders
2 voices, soprano and alto recorders, alto and tenor krummhorns, mandolin, concertina, acoustic guitar, castanets, 2 Pakastani autohorns, Niederhorn, kitharette, p’tang (1978)
Tannerka
Bb clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2002, revised 2017)
Tempest Fugit
SATB chorus with solo (2004)
Terrible Twos Tango
acoustic guitar, xylophone, piano (2018)
The Boy Who Raced His Shadow
flute, clarinet, piano (2023)
The Conchoid of Nicomedes
flute, B-flat clarinet, bassoon, piano (2006, revised 2015)
The Fifth Universal Principle of Alignment
eight-part flute choir [piccolo, 4 C flutes, alto, bass, contrabass] (2012)
The Fourth Highway
flute, piano (2023)
The Giant Pecking Sparrows (les moineaux géants picotants)
flute and B-flat clarinet (2000)
The Help Me Rondo
Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello, gong, piano (1995)
The Help Me Rondo (for Flute Choir)
3 C flutes, 2 alto flutes, 2 bass flutes, contrabass flute, gong, piano (1995; rev. 2021) This reimagining of the Beach Boys’ celebrated “Help Me Rhonda” song was first realized 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?!
The Mesopotamian March and Mango
brass quintet and saw (1975)
The Mesopotamian March and Mango
brass quintet and saw (1975)
The Missing Inn March
B-flat clarinet, alto sax, bass clarinet, B-flat trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba, percussion (1996)
The New Hunting Tuna
woodwind quintet (2025)
The Runcible Constable Waltz
harmonica and piano (1992, rev. 2026)
The Third Highway
concert and alto flutes, violin, piano (2014)
The Troll’s Awful Curse
flute, oboe, 2 B-flat clarinets, bassoon, French horn, trombone, piano, narrator/tenor, witch (1972)
The View from Six Windows
flute, B-flat clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello (2016)
Through Maulden Wood
flute, viola, cello (2019)
TM2D
string quartet (2005)
Toast
alto saxophone, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, string bass, drum kit (2007)
Totalitoccata
Midi instruments (2007)
Transcendental Medication
alto sax, bass clarinet, cello, piano (2001)
Träumerei
wind quintet (2025)
Trio Incognito
2 alto saxophones + tenor saxophone; 2 B-flat clarinets + bass clarinet (2007)
Tu pauperum refugium
flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet, horn in F, bassoon (2025)
Two Old Crows
2 alto voices (1994)
Under the Hill
oboe, marimba, electric guitar, bass guitar, harp, piano, synthesizer, violin, viola, cello, double bass (2010)
Urban Renewaltz
full orchestra (2001)
Utopiano
piano (2004)
Wagadoo
2 alto voices (1994)