Instrumental Chamber Music

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SOLOS AND  SOLOS WITH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT:

ARIA for Violin & Piano, written for Helen (1950) Score at MSU Library

TOCCATA for Organ written for AGO convention in Denver, Colorado (1951) Score at MSU Library

SONATA NO. 1  for Piano  for Pierre Luboschutz in residence (1954) at Michigan State University. Score at MSU Library

PRELUDE for Organ : See “The Conqueror Mounts in Triumph” in The Parish Organist, Part 12, ed. Willem Muddha.  Originally published by Concordia Publishing House (1966)

JUBILUS for Organ & Piano written for dedication of new organ at St Thomas Aquinas Church in East Lansing (1968) Score at MSU Library

DULCIANA for Alto Recorder & Piano , in  Collection Panorama (1996) Published by Gerard Billaudot Editeur , Paris France

DIALOGUE for Viola & Piano in collection Panorama (1997) Published by Gerard Billaudot Editeur, Paris France

ARIA AND RONDO for Violin & Piano for Janssen Todorov (1997) premiered  in Sophia, Bulgaria.  Score at MSU Library

SONATA  for Oboe & Piano written for Howard (1999)  
Score at MSU Library

FOUR VIGNETTES for Clarinet & Piano (2003)
Published by Brotons & Mercadal Edicions, Barcelona, Spain

SOARING for Solo Clarinet (2006) Published by Brotons & Mercadal Edicions  Musicals, S.L. Barcelona, Spain

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CANTO for Double-bass & Piano  written for Alan Schenkel (2005) Score at MSU Library

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POCO A POCO FUOCO for Double Bass & Piano, written for Alan Schenkel (2006) Score at MSU Library

DUOS:

SONATA for Violin & Viola,  for Jim and Helen (1999) Score at MSU Library

THREE MINIATURES for Oboe & Cello (1998) for Howard Niblock, Lawrence University. Score at MSU Library

ODILON REDON SUITE for Viola & Cello  commissioned by Don Pash for WMSB  Public Television, MSU (1957)  Score at MSU Library

WE, a short encore-type piece for Violin and Clarinet written for Walter & Elsa (2002) Score at MSU Library

TRIOS: (Violin, Clarinet, Piano) 

The following group of compositions were commissioned by and written expressly for  the MSU Verdehr Trio. 
All are recorded by Crystal Records and published by MSU Press:

“Arrangement” of Mozart’s Piano Sonata for Four Hands, K358, for Violin, Clarinet, & Piano

TRIO for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1980)

IL PENSEROSO E ALEGRO for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1994)

TERZINA for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1995)

MEDIEVAL SUITE for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1996)    

PALINDROME for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1997)

PAGANIANA for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1997)

TRIO FANTASY for Violin, Clarinet & Piano based on Dvorak’s Romanza (1990) Score at MSU Library

MSU Fight Song arranged for Violin, Clarinet & Piano for Verdehr Trio (1995) Score & parts at MSU Library


OTHER TRIOS:

PENTANGLE for Flute, English Horn and Guitar (2001) premiered at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI  Score at MSU Library

QUARTET, QUINTETS, AND LARGER GROUPS:

STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (1955) written for and premiered by Eastman School of Music Faculty String Quartet . Score & parts at MSU Library

STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (1960) written for Beaumont String Quartet  (MSU) and premiered at Midwest Music Conference, Chicago, IL. Score & parts at MSU 

Arrangement of MSU “Fight Song” written for Julliard String Quartet while they were in residence at MSU (1995) Score & parts at MSU Library

QUINTET for Oboe, Horn, Violin, Viola & Cello (1973) written  and played for Public Television  MSU.  Score & parts at MSU Library

QUINTET for String Quartet & Five & Seven Tempered Piano written for Professor Owen Jorgenson’s new piano tuning system (1979) Performed at MSU. Score & parts at MSU Library

COLLOQUY for Clarinet, Trumpet, Piano & Percussion written  (1998) for “Pastiche” at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, La.  Score & parts at MSU Library

MARGO EVAN'S TAPESTRIES for Flute, Violin, Cello, & Harp written  and performed for  Public Television  MSU (1956) Score & parts at MSU Library.

QUARTET FOR FOUR TROMBONES written for MSU  Prof. Curtis Olsen (1985) Score & parts at MSU Library

SEXTET for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn & Piano (1949) written and performed for Public Television. Score & parts at MSU Library

OCTET for Eight Trumpets  (1996) for Gary Mortenson at Kansas State University. Score & Parts at School of Music Kansas State University and at MSU Library

TRIPTYCH for Brass Choir and Timpani (1959) Published by Wingert-Jones Inc., Kansas City, Mo

PETITE CONCERTANTE for Solo Trumpet & Brass  Quintet  (2003)  for Gary Mortenson, Kansas State University. Score & parts at Kansas State University and Michigan State University

QUARTREDECATET for fourteen clarinets, (2003) Commissioned by Elsa Verdehr for Clarinet Conference at MSU and Published by Brotons & Mercadal Edicions Musicals, S.L.Barcelona, Spain

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