Instrumental Music by Dean Crocker
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- 3 Haiku (2015)
- • String quartet. 7½′
- Three short pieces for string quartet
- 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
- Colloquy (2023)
- • Alto clarinet & bassoon. 4¾′
- A conversation, barely derived from a French cooking show.
- Coronach (2016)
- • Solo piano. 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!)
- 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′
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ornamenta Rationalia (1972)
- • Duet for oboe and piano. 3′
- Basic mid-20th century, lyrical, student serialism
- 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
- Rare and Curious Phenomenon, A (Phenomenological Pentiments) (2016)
- • Orchestra. 11′
- Orchestration of a 1993 piece originally written for synthesizer
- Requiescence Piece (2020)
- • String orchestra. 6½′
- An elegy on the year 2020
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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