Virtuosic piano work begins with blues-alluded harmonies in slow introduction followed by fast 12/8 main section with motoric quality. Main section includes middle section with 5-against-3 Debussian piano writing. Piece comes to firm and vigorous conclusion. 5 min. Piano. Virtuosic. 8 pgs.
Score: $10.
"Two Poems for Quintet" (1989).
Late-Modernist atonal chamber work in two movements, each with a tonal center. First movement is sparse, with overlapping instrumental lines. Second movement a 5/8 motive with development. Gestures, especially in first movement, tend to be small, poetic. Second movement has more continual rhythmic motion. 10 min. Fl., clar., vln., cello, pno. Moderate to difficult. 18 pgs.
Score: $15, parts: $15.
"Canyon Suite" (1980-1989).
Magnum opus on the canyon country of Southern Utah and the surrounding Southwest. Tone painting on the landscape of the region. Movements: "Canyon", a recurring perfect-fifth motive which occurs four times as in the four cardinal directions; "Towers", a rapidly modulating sinuous rhapsody on the call of the indigenous canyon wren; "Kokopelli", a neo-tonal statement by the prehistoric Southwest Indian flute player, Kokopelli; and "Salt Creek Caprice", a neo-Debussian 6/8-ish motoric movement which comes to a dynamic conclusion. Programmatic notes included. 13 min. Flute. Difficult to virtuosic. 12 pgs.
Score: $15.
"Three Chacoan Images" (1990).
Orchestral triptych on the great Anasazi Indian ruins of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Movements: "Pueblo Bonito Overlook", "Casa Rinconada", "Penasco Blanco". Contemporary harmonies and spiritualistic extended tonality. 10 min. Large orchestra (ww's in 3s; full brass). Difficult. 40 pgs. Score only available at this time.
