Music

Education & Reference

How to Write a 12-Tone Composition

2004
Instructions on how to create a 12-tone row, how to generate a palette from that row, and how to write a composition based on your palette.

Music Literacy

2001
Have you ever wanted to learn to read music? This course will take you through the basics of reading notes on a staff, identifying pitches and understanding rhythms, so that you can take these principles and apply them to the instrument of your choice.
Piano Solo

Koenscherzo

1996
A "flashy bangy" classical piano solo in honor of a good friend.

Toward Evening

2006

Prelude #1

1993

The Ripple

2007
Commissioned work to accompany a Japanese poem.

Prelude #2

1994

The Gathering of Wool #1

1989

The Gathering of Wool #4

1989

Bridges

1991

Days and Distance

1992

Without Things

1993

Joshua

1986
Thoughtful with a hint of jazz.

Sunsoaked

1987

Clouds

1986

First Rain

1986

On a Bright Morning

2010

Divertimento in G for Solo Piano

2009
Instrumental / Ensemble

Fugue in C for 3 Voices

2010
Fugue for 3 recorders... or winds... or strings... or whatever players you have on hand!

Playing in the Garden

2010
Recorder duet with guitar accompaniment.

Once in a Dream

2010
4-part waltz.

Autumn Dance

1998
Recorder duet with guitar accompaniment.

Glen Hollow

1998
Recorder duet with guitar accompaniment.

Snapdragon

1998
Recorder duet.

April Frolic

1998
Recorder duet.
Vocal / Choral

Let God Arise!

2022
An early musical setting of Psalm 68:1-4 with mensural notation.

Why Do the Nations Rage?

2024
A musical setting and illumination of Psalm 2.

King's Lament

1997
A king grieves the loss of his two sons. Baritone solo with accompaniment.

Beloved Fox, Rejoice!

2013
Choral SATB, with keyboard accompaniment.

Name Above All

2022
Plainchant based on Philippians 2:9-11.

Psalm 13

2010
Choral SATB, a capella.

Precatio pro Perditis

2012
Choral SSA with accompaniment.

Plainchant

2003
A setting of Ephesians 3:20 in the style of a Medieval plainchant.
Electronic

Exploration

2012

Origin

1994
An imaginative representation of the creation of the universe, from superheated subatomic particles to twinkling stars in the night sky.

Nucleotides

1994
Instrumental work based on a pentatonic theme, representing the five elements that make up our DNA.

I will sing of Your strength;
in the morning I will sing of Your love,
for You are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble.

O My Strength, I sing praises to You,
for You, O God, are my defense,
my loving God,
my God of mercy.

— Psalm 59:16-17