Other Charts

Works for Voices

 

The Story of Christmas

Acapella Arrangement of an Original Christmas Song. Copyright 2012. This arrangement copyright 2020. This site will eventually have links to purchase PDF copies of all arrangements. In the mean time you can contact me about about obtaining copies.

 
 
 

Once the River Was

This began as a poem for a poetry contest focusing on sustainable development of the areas by the Wabash River in Terre Haute. The music for this art song was the first piece I wrote as a graduate student at Butler in Fall 2022. Isabelle Calkins sang it at a Butler Composers’ Orchestra concert in spring 2023, and it was one of 32 pieces (out of 550 submissions) selected for performance at the 2024 Tutti New Arts Festival at Denison University in Granville, OH.

 

CHAMBER MUSIC

A New Work in Progress: Three Row Rondo

In spring 202 I borrowed my son’s 12 sided D&D die and created several randomly generated pitch sets and rows. I have written three works so far based on this material. We performed one of them (Ostinaughties) at Butler in Fall 2023.

 
 

Bulldogs in the Park

The first movement of “Four Cartoons” for Woodwind Quintet. Performed by the Prevailing WInds Quintet from Minneapolis, MN in 2013.

 
 
 

Cats and Mouses

This piece was a finalist in the Instrumental Division of 2013 British Songwriting Contest. It is the second movement from my Four Cartoons for Woodwind Quintet. In 2020 I also arranged a Big Band version of this piece.

 
 
 

Reverie

Third movement from Four Cartoons. This is a bit of 19th century style. This performance is by the ISU Faculty Wind Quintet (April 2014).

 
 
 

A Day in the Life of a Squirrel

The final movement from Four Cartoons for Woodwind Quintet.

 
 

Dark Dance

This was originally written as a potential part of a movie being produced in Terre Haute. It was not chosen for the movie, but I expanded it, set it for Piano Quintet, and it became the first movement of a suite describing Trauma, Depression, and Recovery. This is a Finale realization.

 

Walking With Sorrow

This describes sadness and panic that can follow from traumatic experiences. There are “flashbacks” to the original trauma. This is also a Finale realization.

 

Moving Into Light

This describes the process of healing from trauma. Motives from the first two movements are still present, but their meaning has been transformed.

 

CONCERT BAND

The 3 Orders - I: Those Who Fight

Three settings for Concert Band of songs from The Ballad of Robin Hood. Each describes one of the “three orders” of medieval society. The nobility, the smallest segment of society, are those who fight. The music is not authentic to the period, but represents what historians call a “medievalism” - an attempt to represent aspects of the middle ages using contemporary signifiers.

 

II: Those Who Pray

The second order: the priesthood and those in holy orders (monks and nuns). The “medievalism” here is inspired by the typical statuary found on many Gothic Cathedrals depicting a last judgement, with the blessed going up and the damned going down.

 

III: Those Who Work

The majority of the medieval European population made up those who worked. Like the other movements, the music itself is not authentic to the historical period, but attempts to invoke a feel for the time through contemporary references, in this case a Celtic music feel for much of the movement.

 

Orchestra

A New Work: Ice Flow Adagio

This is a minimalist work based on a series of chord roots that I used to write a jazz tune while studying with Brent Wallarab. I decided to try and write a whole series of pieces with the overall title: From the Four Winds. This is the piece for the North wind. (The West Wind is more minimalism, the East wind is 3rd stream jazz, and the South Wind features 4 types of Latin/South American musical styles.)

 

Epic Journey Overture

An extended work that is essentially an ABA form, with each section also more or less in aba form.

 

Christmas Long Ago

This was a custom arrangement for the COVID depleted forces of the local community orchestra (the Sinfonietta Pops Orchestra) to fit the players available for an attempted Christmas Concert planned for December 2020. Due to COVID, the concert was canceled, but we were able to do it with a full sized orchestra in December 2021.