Works Performed by Essential Music
The following is a list of all works performed by Essential Music since it's inception in 1987 through the spring of 1996
Charles Amirkhanian
Duet for Ratchets (1978)
George Antheil
Piano Sonata No. 2, "The Airplane" (1922)
Robert Ashley
in memorium . . . KIT CARSON (opera) (1963)
Morton Feldman Says (1965)
Odalisque (1984)
Revised, Finally (1961-1973) for Gordon Mumma
Trios (White on White ) (1963)
Larry Austin
Beachcombers (1983)
John J. Becker
Two Poems of Departure (1927)
Johanna M. Beyer
Dissonant Counterpoint (1936)
IV for Percussion (1935)
Gebrauchs-Musik (1934)
March for 30 Percussion Instruments (1939)
Movement for Double Bass and Piano (1936)
Music of the Spheres (1938)
Percussion Suite (1933)
String Quartet No. 1 (1934)
String Quartet No. 2 (1936)
Suite for Clarinet (1932)
Three Movements for Percussion (1939)
Three Songs (1933)
Three Songs for Soprano and Clarinet (1934)
Paul Bowles
Concerto for Two Pianos, Winds, and Percussion (1947)
Sonata for Two Pianos (1945)
Herbert Brün
Infraudibles for Percussion and Tape (1994)
John Cage
0¹00² (1962)
4¹33² (1952)
59 1/2² (1953)
Amores (1943)
Apartment House 1776 (1976)
Aria (1958)
Atlas Eclipticalis (1961)
Bacchanale (1940)
Branches (1976)
But What About the Noise of Crumpling Paper...(1986)
A Chant With Claps (n.d.)
Cheap Imitation (1969)
Child of Tree (1975)
The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942)
Composed Improvisations (1990)
Credo in US (1942)
Eight Whiskus (1985)
Etudes Australes (1975)
Europera 5 (1991)
Fads and Fancies in the Academy (1940)
Five (1988)
Fontana Mix (1958)
Forty-Nine Waltzes for Tokyo (1977)
Four
3
(1991)
Four Dances (1942)
Freeman Etudes (1977/1990)
The Greek Ode (1932)
Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (March No. 2) (1951)
Imaginary Landscape No. 5 (1952)
In a Landscape (1948)
Inlets (1977)
Jazz Study (n.d.)
Living Room Music (1940)
Metamorphosis (1938)
Mirakus
2
(1985)
Music for... (1985)
Music for Piano 2 (1953)
Nocturne for Violin and Piano (1947)
Nowth Upon Nacht (1985)
Ophelia (1946)
Pastorale No. 1 (n.d)
The Preacher (1932)
Prelude in A minor (1946)
Quest (1935)
Radio Music (1956)
Roaratorio (musical excerpts) (1979)
Six Melodies (1950)
Sixty-Two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham (1971)
Sonata for Clarinet (1933)
Song Books (1970)
Sounds of Venice (1959)
Souvenir (1984)
Speech (1955)
Suite for Toy Piano (1948)
Thirteen (1992)
Tossed As It Is Untroubled (1943)
The Unavailable Memory Of (1944)
Two
2
A Valentine Out Of Season (1944)
Water Music (1952)
Williams Mix (1952)
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942)
Cornelius Cardew
The Great Learning (1968-1971)
10,000 nails in the coffin of Imperialism (1971)
Mitchell Clark
A Fine Day for the Curious (and Wet) (1987)
"Cobbling Hymn" Tune (1996)
Dwelling Places (1981)
Harbor (1988)
Oh! my Hyacinth (1989)
piano solo (1988)
Regarding Some Instances of Rarefied Air Ascending (1993)
The Pool (1994-96)
Thirteen Tops (1994)
Three (or more) Summer-come-early Weeds (1985)
Three Pieces for a Percussionist (1980)
Two Pieces for Accordion (1988)
Two Sounds (1978)
Two Waltzes (1986)
Umbrae (1986)
Vision Among Clouds at Sea (1988)
Wake (1989)
Wood (1981)
Bill Cook
Baudelaire in Brussels (1987)
Henry Cowell
The Aeolian Harp (ca. 1923)
Ensemble for Strings and Thundersticks (1924)
Ostinato Pianisimo (1934)
Return (1939)
Snows of Fujiyama (1924)
The Voice of Lir (1917)
Andrew Culver
Five Pages (1992)
Ocean (1994)
Walter DeMaria
Piece for Terry Riley (1960)
Jody Diamond
Kenong (1990)
William Duckworth
Gathering Together (1992)
Revolution (1993)
Morton Feldman
Between Categories (1969)
For Samuel Beckett (1987)
The King of Denmark (1964)
David First
The Upcell Dog Parades (1993)
Kyle Gann
Baptism (1983)
The Convent at Tepoztlan (1989)
Custer's Ghost (1995)
Cyclic Aphorisms (1988)
Desert Flowers (1979)
Ghost Town (1994)
Hesapa ki Lakhota ki Thawapi (1984)
Homage to Cowell (1994)
Mountain Spirit (1983)
Paris Intermezzo (1989)
Snake Dance (1991)
Snake Dance No. 2 (1995)
So Many Little Dyings (1994)
Sweeney Out West (1987)
Peter Garland
A Green Pine (1990)
Another Sunrise (1995)
Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage (1978)
Drinking Wine (1989)
Goddess of Liberty (1989)
I Have Had To Learn The Simplest Things Last (1993)
Love Songs (1993)
Matachin Dances (1981)
Obstacles of Sleep (1973)
The Roque Dalton Songs (1988)
Three Songs of Mad Coyote (1973)
The Three Strange Angels (1973)
Walk in Beauty (1989)
Malcolm Goldstein
The Seasons: Vermont (1980-1982)
V.J. Gunhük
Unearthed Discrepancies (1995)
Lou Harrison
Fugue (1944)
La Koro Sutro (1973)
Song of Badarshan (1968)
Suite for Violin and American Gamelan (1973)
Varied Trio (1987)
Sorrel Hays
Dreaming the World (1993)
Robert Janz, John Kennedy, Charles Wood, Jo Ann Wood
In Making Time (1989)* Mixed Media Collaboration
Fred Ho
Chickens Coming Home To Roost (1996)
Arthur Jarvinen
Trio With Time Machines (1990)
John Kennedy
The Big Hurt (1995)
Chant (1988)
Collective Sentiments II (1991)
Exigencies of Inner Rythm (1997)
Fanfare for the Common Gun (1994)
Full Measures of Devotion (1997)
Nostalgic Patterns (1995)
Sacred Spaces (1989)
Sounds Heard (1995)
Splendid Noises (1992)
Summum Bonum (1994)
The Winged Energy of Delight (1997)
Jin Hi Kim
Komungo Improvisations (1990)
Jerome Kitzke
The Character of American Sunlight (1996)
The Paha Sapa Giveback (1993)
Eric Kivnick
Asteria Visits (1986)
The Jugs (1992)
Livin in Dese Times (1995), with David Pleasant
New Moon Dances (1989)
Alison Knowles
Nivea Cream Piece for Oscar Williams (1962)
Annea Lockwood
Thousand Year Dreaming (1990)
Alvin Lucier
Chambers (1968)
Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (1988)
David Mahler
A Rose Blooming for Charles Ives (1971/1976)
La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles (1980)
Ty Cobb (1982)
Dary John Mizelle
Interplay (1979)
Lake Mountain Thunder (1981)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1985)
Polyphonies I (1976)
Preponderance (1981)
Radial Energy I (1967....)
Six Pieces for Violin and French Horn (1963)
Suite (1997)
Through A Glass... (1987)
Transmutations and Metamorphosis (1993)
Violin Fantasy (1988)
David Pleasant
Livin in Dese Times (1995), with Eric Kivnick
Larry Polansky
Four Voice Canon No. 5 (1985)
Parting Hands (1996)
Steve Reich
Pendulum Music (1968/1973)
Wendy Reid
Tree Piece #8 (1984)
William Russell
Chicago Sketches (1940)
Four Dance Movements (1933/1990)
Made in America (1936)
March Suite (1936/1984)
Music for Minsky (1940)
Ogou Badagri (1933)
Prelude, Chorale & Fugue (1932/1985)
Three Cuban Pieces (1935)
Trumpet Concerto (1937/1990)
Kurt Schwitters
Ursonata (1932)
Bernadette Speach and Jeffery Schanzer
From Death Row, This is Mumia Abu-Jamal
James Tenney
deus ex machina (1982)
Glissade (1982)
(night) (1971)
Quiet Fan for Eric Satie (1973)
Rune (1988)
Three Indigenous Songs (1979)
Three Pieces for Drum Quartet (1974)
Three Rags (1985)
Edgard Varèse
Dance for Burgess (1949)
Etude for Chorus, Percussion, and Piano, revised (1947)
Emmitt Williams
For LaMonte Young (1960)
Christian Wolff
Aina gonna study war no more (1993)
Double Song for JRN and CMAW (1969)
For One, Two, or Three People (1964)
Merce (1993)
Charles Wood
Another Kind of Silence (1991)
Between Any Two Creatures, All Creation Exists As A Bond (1994)
How to Lie With Statistics (1986)
" . . . i puros machetazos! . . ." (1996)
Land's Shadow, Visible World (1988)
Lay With Me (1996)
Nine Fires (1987)
"Nothing Lives Long, Only the Earth & Mountains" (1987)
Red Grass Appearing (1988)
Return of the Agent (1995)
Rivulet (1995)
Secrets of the Solar Track, Sparks of the Supersolar Blaze (1990)
Stones (1988)
Three Fields to a Tree (1987)
Time is Change (1989)
Two Popplestone Pieces (1987)
Donel Young
Leda and the Swan (1991)
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