SELECT COMPOSITIONS
CHAMBER
For solo violin, 3’30” minutes
Comic Symphony (2012) for clarinet and piano
for clarinet and piano, 17 minutes
Available from Potenza Music Publishers
for oboe, viola, and cello, 15 minutes
for string quartet, 6 minutes
for string quartet, 20 minutes
String Quartet #2 Five Portraits (1997)
for string quartet, 24 minutes
Symphony for Two
Doublebasses (2012)
for two doublebasses, est. 20 minutes [in
progress]
for clarinet quartet, 10 minutes
for flute, oboe, and clarinet, 11 minutes
for flute, oboe, and clarinet, 2 minutes
SONG
Five songs for bass and piano to poems of A. E. Housman, 12 minutes
Four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano to poems of William Carlos Williams, 13 minutes
In the Night Without End (1994)
Extended song for tenor, English horn and piano to a poem of Mark Strand, 18 minutes
Four songs for high voice and violin to poems of Walt Whitman, Edward Sanford, Emily Dickinson, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, 15 minutes
Three songs for high voice and piano on texts from the Laudis Corona Hymnal of 1885, 10 minutes
Four songs for high voice and piano to poems of Henry Howard, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hardy, Augste Mignon (John A. Darling), 12 minutes
Pills to Purge Melancholy (1988)
Five songs for high voice and piano to texts from Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy, 13 minutes
Two songs for high voice and piano to biblical texts, 7 minutes
Two setting of a text of Andrew Marvell for high voice and piano, 7 minutes
CHORAL
Concerto for Cello and Vocal Orchestra (2009)
for SATB and cello solo, 20 minutes
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (2004)
for SATB and children’s chorus, and chamber orchestra, 46 minutes (A setting of Lewis Carroll’s epic nonsense poem of the same name)
Risseldy, Rosseldy: an encore song (2006)
for SATB and chamber orchestra or piano, 7 minutes
Slumber Songs from from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003)
for SATB chorus, soprano solo, and piano, 7 minutes
Express: a bus ride in one act (1983)
opera in one act, 45 minutes. Libretto by the composer
Unfinished Sermons; a parable for church performance (2009)
opera in one act, 75 minutes. Libretto by Phil Grace
The Alleviations of Monogamy: a comic opera in one act (2012)
opera in one act, approximately 40 minutes. Libretto by Maurice Saylor based on George Bernard Shaw’s Overruled. [in progress]
Musical Theater
A Doctor in the House (1991)
musical in two acts, full evening. Book by Philip Wright. Lyrics by Philip Wright and Maurice Saylor
Vaněk Unleashed (2014)
An absurd musical fantasy in one act, 50 minutes. Book by Susan Galbraith. Lyrics by Susan Galbraith and Maurice Saylor
ORCHESTRAL
orchestra: 2(picc)22+bcl.2/4220/timp.2perc/pf/str, 26 minutes
chamber orchestra: 1111/1110/str, 26 minutes
WIND BAND
Wind ensemble: 2+picc.22+bcl.2/a-Sax/t-sax/Bari-sax/4221+bar./timp.2perc, 26 minutes
MUSIC FOR SILENT FILM
Bad Boy (music for the 1925 Hal Roach comedy staring Charley Chase) (2009)
Number of players: 5 Scoring: Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, alto saxophone, 2 melodicas, trumpet, alto trombone, tenor trombone, xylophone, percussion, harp, piano, and Harmophone. Timing: 18:24
Big Red Riding Hood (music for the 1925 Hal Roach comedy staring Charley Chase) (2009)
Number of players: 4 Scoring: Eb
clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, 2 bass clarinets, contra-alto clarinet,
contrabass clarinet, melodica, slide whistle, ocarina, guitar, saw, percussion,
and piano. Timing: 9:51
Black Imp (Diable Noir) (music for the 1905 Georges Méliès Fantasy) (2009)
Number of players: 4 Scoring: Eb clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 melodicas, percussion, piano and toy piano. Timing: 4:02
Boobs in the Wood (music for the 1925 Mack Sennett comedy staring Harry Langdon) (2007)
Number of players: 4 Scoring: piccolo, flute, sopranino recorder, oboe, English horn, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, 2 melodicas, banjo, percussion, accordion, piano, and toy piano. Timing: 19:52
Fiddlesticks (music for the 1927 Mack Sennett comedy staring Harry Langdon) (2007)
Number of players: 5 Scoring: Eb clarinet, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, soprano saxophone, 3 melodicas, trumpet, guitar, percussion, piano, 2 toy pianos, and string bass. Also available for bass and piano. Timing: 19:55
Fighting Fluid (music for the 1925 Hal Roach comedy staring Charley Chase) (2009)
Number of players: 4 Scoring: Eb clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, 2 melodicas, saw, pop gun, percussion, and piano. Timing: 9:56
The Funnymooners (music for the 1926 Mack Sennett romantic comedy staring Ralph Graves) (2010) Number of players: 4 Scoring: Eb clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, 2 bass clarinets, contra-alto clarinet, percussion, and piano. Timing: 20:05
The Goat (music for the 1921 Buster Keaton comedy)
Number of players: 5 Scoring: 2 bass clarinets, contra-alto clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 2 melodicas, 3 harmonicas, guitar, percussion, accordion, toy piano, and piano. Timing: 23:15
The Luck o' the Foolish (music for the 1924 Mack Sennett comedy staring Harry Langdon) (2007) Number of players: 4 Scoring: Eb clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, 2 bass clarinets, melodica, ocarina, slide whistle, saw, percussion, and piano. Timing: 21:13
The Matinee Idol (1928) (music for the 1928 Frank Capra romantic comedy staring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker) Number of players: 6 Scoring: piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, Eb clarinet, 3 Bb clarinets, 2 bass clarinets, contra-alto clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, percussion, violin and piano. Timing: 56:00
One of the Family (music for the 1924 Hal Roach comedy staring Charley Chase) (2009) Number of players: 4 Scoring: Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, ocarina, 2 melodicas, slide whistle, percussion, piano, and Harmophone. Timing: 10:14
Outdoor Pajamas (music for the 1924 Hal Roach comedy staring Charley Chase) (2009)
Number of players: 4 Scoring: alto saxophone, 2 melodicas, percussion, and piano. Timing: 8:52
Publicity Pays (music for the 1924 Hal Roach comedy staring Charley Chase) (2009)
Number of players: 5 Scoring: piccolo, oboe, english horn, Eb clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, melodica, saw, percussion, and piano. Timing: 9:59
Remember When? (music for the 1925 Mack Sennett comedy staring Harry Langdon) (2007)
Number of players: 4 Scoring: Eb clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, 2 melodicas, trumpet, ukulele, percussion, piano, and 2 toy pianos. Timing: 19:04
The Reward of Courage (music for the 1921 American Society for the Prevention of Cancer drama) (2011) Number of players: 6 Scoring: flute, English horn, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, zither, glockenspiel, guitar, percussion, violin and piano. Timing: 30:16
Saturday Afternoon (music for the 1926 Mack Sennett comedy staring Harry Langdon) (2007) Number of players: 4 Scoring: piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, 3 melodicas, slide whistle, percussion, piano, and 2 toy pianos. Timing: 27:12
Sittin' Pretty (music for the 1924 Hal Roach comedy staring Charley Chase) (2009) Number of players: 4 Scoring: Eb clarinet, Bb clarinet, 2 bass clarinets, contra-alto clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, melodica, trumpet, percussion, and piano. Timing: 10:30
Smile Please (music for the 1924 Mack Sennett comedy staring Harry Langdon) (2007)
Number of players: 3 Scoring: Bb clarinet, guitar, and bass. Timing: 18:32
Teddy at the Throttle: A Silent Opera (music for the 1917 Mack Sennett comedy staring Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, and Wallace Beery) (2006) Scoring: SATB, sop solo, bar solo, oboe, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, sop sax, bari sax, ukulele, percussion, and piano. Time: 30:00
There It Is! (music for the 1928 Charlie Bowers comic fantasy) (2005) Number of players: 5 Scoring: picc, sopranino rec, 2 sop recorders, ocarini, oboe, English horn, Eb clarinet, Bb clarinet, 2 Bass Clarinets., contrabass clarinet, banjo, slide whistle, saw, glockenspiel, percussion, toy piano, 3 melodicas, accordion, and piano. Timing: 20:00
