Music by Dean Crocker
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- 3 Haiku (2015)
- • String quartet. 7½′
- Three short pieces for string quartet
- 3 Hansenlieder (1987)
- • Solo voice and piano. [English] 5½′
- Settings of three slightly surreal poems by David C. Hansen. Fairly easy
- 3 Secular Anthems from The Sacred Harp (2020)
- • TTBB Choir, a cappella. [English] 11–12′
- Arrangements of early 19th-century American patriotic verses from the classic “Shape Note” tradition
- 3 Shakespeare Sonnets (2010-2023)
- • SATB choir & piano. [English] 8′
- A long-abandoned project refreshed, refined, and regenerated. (Settings of sonnets 12, 97, and 60.)
- 3 Wisconsin Sonnets (2015)
- • SATB choir, a cappella. [English] 6½′
- Texts from Wisconsin Sonnets by Charles H. Winke (1917)
- 9/4 Ground (1987)
- • Electronic. 4¾′
- Improvisation over a bass line
- Apocatastasis (2015)
- • 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, alto clarinet or basset horn, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons. 13′
- Reconstitution, restitution, or restoration to the original or primordial condition
- Arion Rides the Dolphin (2012)
- • Electronic. 4′
- A dolphin carried a poet from Lesbos safely back to shore
- As the Living Father Sent Me (1980)
- • SATB choir and organ. [English] 2¼′
- Communion meditation or anthem for church use. Fairly easy
- At Midnight (2013)
- • Voice and piano. [English] 8½′
- Short settings of five poems by Sara Teasdale
- Avalon (2023)
- • Electronic. 3¾′
- An island in Arthurian legend.
- Brooklyn Rain (1987)
- • Electronic. 23′
- A slow rain in Brooklyn provides a lesson in English bell-ringing
- Chasing the Horizon (2007)
- • Electronic. 26½′
- Inspired partly by Stephen Crane’s poem I saw a man pursuing the horizon and partly by some very particular horizon-chasing by friends, this piece could use a good choreographer. Anyone interested?
- Cognitive Dissonance (2008)
- • Electronic. 3½′
- Dick Cheney was never impeached
- Collective Effervescence (2008)
- • Electronic. 4′
- The energy of the people creates the beliefs of the people?
- Colloquy (2023)
- • Alto clarinet & bassoon. 4¾′
- A conversation, barely derived from a French cooking show.
- Coronach (2016)
- • Piano solo. 8′
- Elegy for friends no longer here
- Coruscating Ephemerons (2011)
- • Flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, trumpet in C, trombone. 11′
- A flash in the pan? (Look—something shiny!)
- Cultural Dissonance (2008)
- • Electronic. 2¾′
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- Sometimes things just don’t seem to make sense anymore
- Dance for Cathy (1972)
- • Flute, alto sax, trumpet in C, horn, trombone, vibraphone, piano. 4¼′
- Very slow and serene without implied movement
- De Rerum Natura (2019)
- • Orchestra, Baritone voice and SATB choir. [Latin] 31′
- A setting of selected texts from the poem by Lucretius
- Dichtung und Wahrheit (1970)
- • Tenor voice and flute. [German] 6¼′
- Setting of four short poems by Goethe. Rather difficult
- Donnybrook Fair (2016)
- • Electronic. 10′
- A bit of a free-for-all
- Drinking Music (1976)
- • Electronic. 9¼′
- Three cheers for that big, old Moog sequencer!
- Droplets in the Cloud (2014)
- • Electronic. 2½′
- It’s almost a memory…
- Elucubration—Élucubrations (2011)
- • Electronic. 6′
- An elaborately wrought fantasia; or mayhap, studious rantings
- Eris sui generis (2022)
- • Electronic. 4′
- A 1975 exercise in computer-assisted algorithmic composition resurfaced and turned into a nice little synthesizer ditty
- Even Bedford Falls Has A Potter’s Field (2013)
- • Electronic. 3′
- A little macédoine before you jump back on that bridge?
- from Hamlet (2005)
- • SATB choir with flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano. [English] 4′
- Originally written in 1976; greatly revised in 2005
- Gallimaufry (2022)
- • Woodwind ensemble & percussion 7′
- Band piece without the brass
- Goodbye My Friend (1985)
- • Solo voice (or unison choir) and piano. [English] 3′
- Christmas ballad, originally written for a musical for children
- Harvest Home (1989)
- • TTBB choir with strings. [English] 2′
- Based on Henry Purcell‘s Your Hay It Is Mow’d, this piece is well suited for Thanksgiving or harvest-time. Very traditional, rousing male glee club number
- I Believe In An America (2016)
- • 3 equal voices (or choir), a cappella. [English] 1′
- A short Round (or canon) based on one of Mitt Romney‘s more circuitous statements in 2012
- Laetabundus – Nusquam (2024)
- • English horn, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet. 6′
- A short, simple septet, loosely based on the Laetabundus, an 11th-century sequence for Christmas that was dropped from the Roman missal in 1570
- Late Heavy Bombardment, The (2016)
- • Electronic. 8′
- Very early music?
- Magnum nomen Domini (1978)
- • 2-part choir and organ. [Latin] 1½′
- Arrangement of a 14th century Christmas carol. Very easy
- Marching Machine (2022)
- • Electronic 9½′
- Can you keep a beat? Where?
- Music Film (1975)
- • Electronic. 4′
- A disturbing student score for a disturbing student film.
- Ornamenta Rationalia (1972)
- • Oboe and piano. 3′
- Basic mid-20th century, lyrical, student serialism
- Orpheus ∶ Morpheus (2015)
- • Electronic. 5′
- When the musicians need a nap…
- Ouroboros (2018)
- • Electronic. 7′
- The worm turns
- Palimpsest (2011)
- • Electronic. 4½′
- A setting of Le Dormeur du val by Arthur Rimbaud
- Pandiculation (2020)
- • Electronic. 5′
- “Stretching and stiffening one‘s self when sleepy, fatigued, or after awakening”
- Paucity of Reason (2022)
- • Electronic. 4′
- Abundance of fallacy?
- Poscimur (2009)
- • SATB choir with piano. [Latin] 3½′
- Choral setting of Horace’s Ode I:32.
- Precipitous Perambulation (2019)
- • Electronic. 7½′
- This all began one day walking home from the dentist…
- Prepostronomics (1969)
- • Horn, percussion, piano. 6½′
- A little bit Hindemith; a little bit rock’n’roll. Revised and sanity-checked in 2002
- Quartet vignettes (2003)
- • String quartet. 18¾′
- Subtitled “Daughters of Mnemosyne,” this is a suite with one movement for each of the Muses
- Quartets vignettes (2010)
- • Saxophone quartet. 19′
- A “reimagining” of my 2003 string quartet
- Raoul 1975a
- • Electronic. 1¼′
- Bleeps, bloops and blops quickly move from one speaker to another!
- Raoul 1975b
- • Electronic. 3¼′
- I have always found this little piece to be suprisingly relaxing. Maybe you will too
- Raoul 1977
- • Electronic. 6½′
- Ah, the Mighty Moog… ☺
- Raoul 1986
- • Electronic. 22¾′
- This was an attempt to write “New Age” music. I was told it was too interesting…
- Rare and Curious Phenomenon, A (original version, 1993)
- • Electronic. 10½′
- Put together with Finale® and a Roland Sound Canvas, this piece eventually became orchestral ↓
- Rare and Curious Phenomenon, A (Phenomenological Pentiments) (2016)
- • Orchestra. 11′
- Orchestration of a 1993 piece for synthesizer ↑
- Requiescence Piece (2020)
- • String orchestra. 6½′
- An elegy on the year 2020
- Scintillations (2024)
- • Electronic. 5′35″
- Flashes of brilliance?
- Slow Spring Sprung (1987)
- • Electronic. 2¼′
- Quick little number with no particular purpose
- Snowball Earth (2014)
- • Electronic. 30′
- The original chill
- Songs from Mortimer Collins (2022)
- • Tenor voice, string trio, oboe, clarinet, bassoon. (Piano reduction provided.) 13′
- A setting of seven poems by English novelist, journalist and poet, Mortimer Collins (1827-1876)
- SONNETS to Sundry Notes of Music (2020)
- • Soprano voice, string trio, oboe, clarinet, bassoon. (Piano reduction provided.) 17′
- A setting of five poems that were published in a 1599 collection entitled The Passionate Pilgrim
- Study (1987)
- • Electronic. 3½′
- A little number exploring the many possibilities of a Casio CZ-5000, if you can believe that!
- Suite Nothings (2007)
- • Electronic. 10¾′
- Perhaps you would like a little after-dinner suite?
- Synthesizer Madness (1986)
- • Electronic. 4½′
- Some people hate synthesizers. Could this be why?
- Theme for 4 Clarinets (1976)
- • Quartet for clarinets. 4′
- I think it would be wonderful played on four basset horns, but sometimes I’m a bit less practical than others
- Thus spake Arjuna… (1973)
- • Organ solo. 5–6′
- Very spacious piece which makes use of the organ‘s ability to hold notes forever, its tendency to be slightly out of tune, and its affinity for large, reverberant halls
- Triode (1993)
- • Clarinet, violoncello, piano. 4½′
- Traditional, middle-of-the-road 20th century lyricism
- Tropistic Daze (2020)
- • Electronic. 8′
- Involuntary realignment based on external stimuli—a song for our time
- Walrus and the Carpenter, The (2005)
- • SATB choir, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano. [English] 9½′
- A jolly (yet dramatic!) setting of Lewis Carroll’s famous poem
- Way Lies Before Us, The (1974)
- • Flute/piccolo, acoustic guitar, prepared piano. 8½′
- A very quiet piece for a very live room
- Beethoven—Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives (1988)
- • Orchestration for 10-piece ensemble [Fl, Ob, Cl, Bsn, Hn, Tpt, String quartet]. 6′
- Useful for festive church performances on a budget, this arrangement is to be used with the normal choir editions.
Choral scores are NOT provided
- Handel—Hallelujah from Messiah (2016)
- • SSATTB choir, a cappella. [English] 3½′
- The Hallelujah Chorus arranged for 6-part a cappella choir (or sextet?)
Inspired by an anonymous arrangement published in The Singing School Companion (1856)
- Hawthorne—Whispering Hope (2008)
- • Solo voice (or unison choir) with string quartet, oboe and piano. [English] 3¼′
- A fresh look at the popular 1868 hit by Alice Hawthorne, who was actually a man named Septimus Winner
- Mahler—Symphony no. 1 (2001)
- • Arrangement for small concert band or wind ensemble. Picc, fl, ob (opt), bn (opt), cl 1/2, bs cl, a sx 1/2, t sx, b sx, hp (opt), cnt 1/2, hn 1/2, tbn 1/2, euph, tuba, timp, 2 perc.
- (Well, I guess someone had to do it.)
New edition (2013) adds several corrections, cleaned-up percussion parts, and new, optional parts for oboe, bassoon, and harp
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