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MUSIC
In addition to the music on this site, music is also available for
download at:
http://www.myspace.com/galenbrown
and
http://music.download.com/galenbrown
CATALOG OF WORKS AND SCORES:
These
pieces are either currently considered fit for public consumption, or
were performed publicly at some point. Scores are available for most
performable pieces in .pdf format, and parts are available on request.
Download Acrobat Reader here
if you need it. Any performers or ensembles wishing to perform any of
these pieces should contact
me to let me know and to make arrangements.
| Waiting In The Tall Grass |
Flute, Oboe, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Viola, Bass,
Piano, Percussion
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2007
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Lots
of polyhythms and textural layering, structured with aperiodic tiling.
The first section is rich and lush, and the second switches
over
to a rock-out featuring a drumkit. "Waiting In The Tall
Grass"
was commissioned by Relâche, Inc. for the Relâche
Ensemble
with the generous support of The Philadelphia Music Project.
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| Command and Control |
Tape
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2006
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Conceived as a full-length album, and produced
using rock production techniques. A variety of instruments,
acoustic and electronic are featured. Total running
time is just over one hour.
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| Systems of Preference or Restraint |
Two Keyboard Instruments
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2005
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For two pianos, two harpsichords, two organs, or
two of any other keyboard instruments.
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Mercator Projection
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Piano, Oboe, Bassoon
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2005
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Composed for Hanover, NH's
“Classicopia.”
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| The State, Recumbent |
Bass Flute, English Horn, Trumpet, Violin (2),
Viola, Cello, Bass
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2004
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A nocturne of sorts, written for trumpet player
Jimi Michiel's Fall 2004 NEC recital.
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Two
Pages for Lee Hyla
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Piano
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2004
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A short piece dedicated to my NEC composition
teacher.
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Sarajevo
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Soprano. Alto, Tenor, Bass, Piano, Violin (2),
Viola, Cello, Bass, Tape
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2004
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The first act of a three act oratorio on Sarajevo
and Internationalism. Act II will be the 1984 Olympic Games, Act III
will be the siege of Sarajevo, and these will be followed by a short
Coda on the NATO Kosovo campaign.
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Pulse-Point
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Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone,
French Horn, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano
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2003
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Starts off with pulsating swells, and evolves into
overlapping melodies. All one movement, about 12 minutes in length.
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| String
Quartet |
String Quartet
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2003
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Three movements – fast, slow, fast.
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Invisible
Architecture
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Orchestra (double winds)
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2003
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Roughly 10 minutes long, for a medium sized
orchestra. Broken into three main sections, each of which features on
of the choirs. Sections are separated by big lush chorales.
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Chorale
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Two Player Pianos
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2003
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Somewhere between Nancarrow and Ligeti.
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Mille Regrets (After Josquin)
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Tape
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2003
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Stretched out recording of Josquin's "Mille
Regrets" layered with synthesized sounds and percussion.
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Short piece based entirely on shifting, evolving
tremolos.
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The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Piano, Violin (2), Viola,
Cello, Bass, French Horn, Tape
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2001
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Five movement Oratorio. The text is excerpted from
the book by William Blake, and the tape is recordings of two English
professors reading excerpts and discussing the meaning of the text.
Post-minimalist/romantic hybrid. These audio files are
excerpts only.
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Distance
Over Time
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Two Pianos
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2001
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Three movements. Post-minimalism infused with
romanticism.
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Slow, pretty piece with a granulized choral sample
as its basis.
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Stepwise Motion
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Tape
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2000
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Percussive piece composed at Dartmouth. The source
material is banging and stomping in a stairwell and on a fire escape.
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| Suite for Solo
Cello |
Solo Cello
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2000
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Three movements. The first is very fragmented and
employs many double and triple stops, the second is less fragmented and
all pizzicato, and the third movement arrives at a very cohesive and
vicious ostinato.
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Sacred/Profane
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Live electronics with Max/MSP
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1999
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Composed in Dartmouth's Bregman Studio, this piece
uses a line from a piece of Renaissance polyphony as its primary
source, and juxtaposes speech of Latin from the text against more
contemporary speech.
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the Cambridge
ladies who live in furnished souls
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Piano, Soprano
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1999
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Atonal lied with text by e.e. cummings (hence the
absence of capitalization in the title.)
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Piano Trio
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Piano, Violin, Cello
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1999
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One movement Brahms-esque piano trio
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Critical Mass
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String Orchestra
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1999
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Slow Romantic string orchestra piece with long,
flowing dramatic lines.
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Music, When Soft Voices Die
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Piano, Voice
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1998
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Romantic style lieder. Text by Shelley.
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| Scherzophrenia |
Solo Piano
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1998
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Three movement culmination of a study of atonal
technique. The first movement is based on a six note motif provided by
David Rakowski. Second movement is slow and pretty. Third movement is
based on continuously evolving ostinati. All of the movements
experiment with switching between non-tonal scales.
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