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Titles marked * are available from American Gamelan Institute/Frog Peak Music. For all others, contact the composer.

Chamber music | Opera/operetta | Gamelan music

Chamber music: solo, duo, and larger ensemble

Barang
for like or unlike sustaining melody instruments.
Four movements for solo, duo and indeterminate ensemble.
*Aural Shoehorning, 1997
for woodwind, percussion, and gamelan
Exlasega, xxxx
for concert band
Tintinnalogia, 1995
trio for violin, piano, and percussion
Downtown Steel, 1993
for mixed ensemble, percussion and winds
Sun On Snow, xxxx
for one or two vocalists, mixed ensemble of percussion and woodwinds
*Systems, 1973-1993
a collection of 19 pieces, improvisatory structures for mixed ensemble
(3 to 10 players, instrumental or vocal)

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Opera/operetta

*Wayang Esther: A Javanese Purimspiel HERE Performing Arts Center, 2001
*Karna, a Shadow Puppet Opera La MaMa E.T.C., 1994
The Only Jealousy of Emer (Yeats) La MaMa E.T.C., 1966
Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (Stein) Storytime Theatre, Paramus, New Jersey, 1970

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Javanese and Balinese gamelan pieces

  • Imbal-Imbal-Sambal
  • Hot-Rolled Steel
  • *Slendro Steel
  • Lelambatan Meows
  • Memorial (Melt the Bells)
  • Angklung Rag (A Rag for Han)
  • Tango Jenny
  • *Four Weddings, No Funeral
  • The Tempest Suite

*Gamelan Works, vols. 1-4

Anthology of new music work for Javanese gamelan percussion ensemble. A collection of 28 pieces in 4 volumes composed 1974-1994.

Contents:

vol. 1 The Braid Pieces
vol. 2 Satires
vol. 3 Pieces in a Single Tuning
vol. 4 Seven Pieces in Mixed Tuning

Index

Number = volume. (s) = sléndro, (p) = pélog, (m) = mixed tunings, (s/p) = either/or.

A Rag for Deena - 2 (p)
Backtracking Braid - 1 (s)
Bendrong Blues - 2 (p)
Braid Piece - 1 (p)
Bungkuk - 3 (s/p)
Cantor's Row - 3 (s/p)
Convergence - 3 (s/p)
Counter-Braid - 1 (p)
Dragon Toes - 1 (s)
Eliahu - 3 (s)
The Falls of Richmond - 2 (m)
Gending Kental-Kental - 2 (s)
Gong Fanfare - 3 (s/p)
Hells Bells - 69 (m)
Imbal-Imbal - 4 (m)
In Scrolls of Leaves - 3 (p)
Macrame - 1 (p)
The Moon Gang Goes East - 3 (p)
Mostly Sléndro Passacaglia - 4 (m)
Plainsong - 3 (s)
Sambal - 4 (m)
Sharon (for Karen) - 4 (m)
Sleeping Braid - 1(P)
Tock - 3 (s/p)
Vancouver - 2 (m)
Woodstock - 4 (m)
Yudishthira's Quartet - 4 (m)