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


A Conversation Piece
10 performers in a living room tableau with a piano and numerous other props (1976)

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)

Ahmed Lives in Istanbul and Drives a Taxi
SATB chorus with tenor solo (1995)

Alice’s Music Box
harp, piano, xylophone, marinba (2017)

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 Dymn the Welkin
tenor solo, SATB chorus, piano, 2 electric guitars, percussion (1976)

Armies Of Mice
2 narrators, SATB chorus, juggler, harmonicas, recorder, flute, piano, rhythmatron, mousetraps (1982)

Autumn Attic
2 pianos (2004)

Baby Alice
alto voice, harp, harpsichord, piano, cello, tam-tam (2016)

Bassooner or Later
bassoon quartet (2003)

Best of the Bazaar
sound collages (1995-2006)

Big Sister
SATB actors, piano, synthesizer, cello, drum kit (1987)

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)

Cesta domov
B-flat clarinet and string quartet

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)

Concord Dance
string quartet (2024)

ContraDiction
double bass (2003)

Cowbellies
B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello (1995)

Cowbellies (vocal arrangement)
SATB chorus (1995)

Cowbellies [arranged for string quartet]
string quartet (1995-2008)

Crapsody For Orchestra
pick-up chamber orchestra (1970)

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)

Dandelion Wine incidental music
Midi instruments (2007)

des fourmis dans mes pantalons (ants in my pantaloons)
overdubbed two-track tape (2008)

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
B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 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 (2006/2008)

Fossick
B-flat clarinet, violin (1995)

Fred
string quartet (2006)

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)

Going Like Sixty
B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion (1997)

Grande Oeuvreture to Snoratorio
pick-up chamber orchestra (1970)

Green Town incidental music
(midi instruments (2007)

Heliotrophony
full orchestra

Hornblende
5 French horns (2006); brass quintet (2010)

Hunting Tuna
brass quintet (1994)

In Search of Clarity
violin, cello, piano (2020)

In the forest, 400 owls discover a giant badger; it’s raining
B-flat clarinet, piano (2003, revised 2013)

In-a-Gadda-da-Babylon
SATB chorus with drum machine (1992)

Incandescendence
string quartet (2003, revised 2013)

Incubus
4 overdubbed recorders (1974)

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)

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)

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)

McGuffy’s Diner
tolerant waitress and 5 raucous customers armed (admittedly not well) with percussion instruments (1975)

Mice
soprano, tenor, piano, harpsichord, mousetraps (1989)

Misery Loves Accompaniment
singer, spinning chorus of 6, piano, playback (1979)

Monadnocker
marimba, piano, harp, guitar, bass, drum kit, cowbell (2007)

O Solo Violo
viola + playback (2013)

O Vermont
B-flat trumpet, electric guitar, two violins, cello (2024)

Old
SATB chorus (1995)

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)

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. That’s too bad because it really deserves a chance to be heard outside of its midi universe.

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)