Miniatures, Book 3

Improvisation No.3

Pageant Reader, Book 3

Fifty Etudes, Book 3

Piano Pageant, Book 3

New Recital Pageants, Book 3

175 Exertudes, Book 3: Late Intermediate

Andante and Variations : Sonata No. 3

Wonders of Christmas II: No. 3. The Stable

How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings : Psalms 84:1-3

Wonders of Christmas I : No. 3. Green Grow'th the Holly

I Will Praise Thee, O Lord

Brass parts include: 3 B-flat Trumpets, Trombone

Toboggan for Two

This romp in the snow is about the thrills involved in two people riding a toboggan downhill. The music paints the wintry scene with fun rhythms and melodies.Duration: 3:55

Toboggan for Two

This romp in the snow is about the thrills involved in two people riding a toboggan downhill. The music paints the wintry scene with fun rhythms and melodies.Duration: 3:55

Uphill

This reassuring Christina Rossetti text, which is actually a metaphor for life itself, has been set for two part treble voices and piano. Originally written for middle school voices, the choral writing is approachable and the piano part expansive and sonorous. Part of of the Darren Dailey Choral Series. Duration: 3:20

Uphill

This reassuring Christina Rossetti text, which is actually a metaphor for life itself, has been set for SATB voices and piano. Commissioned by and dedicated to the 2017 Middle Level Honors Choir (Mark A. Boyle, director,) the choral writing is approachable and the piano part expansive and sonorous. Part of of the Darren Dailey Choral Series. Duration: 3:20

Spring Carol

Based on text by Robert Louis Stevenson, the piece has a rousing melody set in compound duple meter. The music depicts the imagery of streamlets gushing and the many sounds of rejoicing nature that accompany spring. A brief section in simple meter portrays a scene of pastoral tranquility. The piece finishes with the intial melody accompanied by a soaring descant. Duration: 3:15

A Glimmering Girl: The Song of Wandering Aengus

A Glimmering Girl is a lyrical setting of Yeats's The Song of Wandering Aengus. It was composed for the composer's friend Dr. Elizabeth Pauly and the Choir at Minneapolis  Community and Technical College, which gave the premiere in May 2013. Composition of this work was supported in part by the American Composers Forum through the 2013 McKnight Composer Fellowship Program. Duration: 3:00

Nightscapes

Seven night-themed poems by the mother of the talented artist Malcolm Tuffnell became the basis for this piece. The poems are short and the piece is through-composed, unfolding like a night-blooming flower. The piano accompaniment is at times minimal, ethereal, and lyrical. Choral writing is rich and emotional, a fair amount of divisi occurs. Duration: ca. 3:00

A Babe Is Born, All of a Maid

Commissioned for Choral Arts Northwest who gave its premiere performance in 2011 under their artistic director, Robert Bode. The music is primarily contrapuntal in texture, and its tonal language features a certain level of dissonance but within a diatonically modal context. There is a textual climax about two-thirds of the way through, mirrored in the music: a short quieter section follows, leading to an ecstatic "Gloria" conclusion. Duration: 3:40

A Boy Is Born in Bethlehem

Written in 2010 in honor of the 30th anniversary season of Winchester (Virginia) Musica Viva, who gave its premiere performance under their music director, Kenneth Nafziger. The piece begins simply with an almost folk-like melody whose brief phrases are heard throughout, fragmented, varied, and recombined in counterpoint. The music builds to a satisfying climax before a quietly mysterious œalleluia ending, returning to the original simple melody. Duration: 3:50

Ad te clamamus

The Salve Regina, also known as the Hail Holy Queen, is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. The Salve Regina is traditionally sung at Compline in the time from the Saturday before Trinity Sunday until the Friday before the first Sunday of Advent. The Hail Holy Queen is also the final prayer of the Rosary. Duration: 3:40

Little Boy Blue

This setting of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme is a lullaby disguised as a ballad. The scoring is for mixed chorus and jazz trio, but it could be performed with just a piano (probably best with three hands). Primarily in four parts, the tight harmonies and relaxed rhythms make for a cool but passionate presentation. The text allows for introspection on the stages of life that can provoke a thoughtful response from singers and listeners alike. Duration: 3:15

Die Mainacht: (The May Night)

The second in a series of four songs from Brahms' opus 43, which he composed in 1866, at the age of thirty-three. Its form is ternary (ABA) in structure.This composion clearly lifts the folksong-like qualities of this title well into the realm of the Art Song. Even though some musicologists have found that Die Mainacht has a strong similarity to the Ukrainian folk song used in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera May Night. Duration: 3:39

Dusk : From I Will Sing To The Stars

Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text begins in unison. This verse structure is followed by a refrain and a canon between the two voices on the text, "the air is blue and sweet." The contrasting middle section allows the voices to become the focal point on the text, "let me sing like birds, sing before night." The third movement of the three-movement work, "I Will Sing to the Stars." Duration 3:40