Alex Eddington: categorical list of musical works

as of March 4, 2008

Solo (unaccompanied)
Solo (with piano)
Solo (with orchestra)
Chamber
Orchestral
Solo vocal (accompanied)
Choral (unaccompanied)
Choral (accompanied)
Electroacoustic
Music-TheatreTheatre/dance scoring
Text pieces

[notes] - link to program/performance notes

[CMC sc] - score available from the Canadian Music Centre (click to borrow or purchase)

[CMC sc/pts] - score and parts available from the Canadian Music Centre (click to borrow, rent or purchase)

Other scores and parts are available from the composer

Solo (unaccompanied):

o Three lonely or angry pieces. Carillon. ca. 6’ (2007)

o So Joab blew a trumpet. Trumpet. 5’ (2007) [notes] [CMC sc]

o        ninety-nine notes from Bach. ‘Cello. ca. 3’ (2006)

o        ninety-nine notes from Paganini. Violin. 2’ (2006)

o        Eight Dudes. Trumpet. 10’ (2005)

o Static. Violin. 7’ (2005)

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Solo (with piano):

o       New Work. Bassoon and piano. 4’ (2008)

                                                §         Commissioned by Catherine Carignan.

o        Humoresque.   Viola and piano. 5’ (2000)

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Solo (with orchestra):

o Snowforms (revision). Soprano saxophone and string orchestra. 5’ (2006)

o Snowforms. Solo violin, string orchestra. 5’ (2001)

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Chamber:

o      New Work for String quartet. ca. 10’ (2008)

                                                §         Composed for the 2008 Quatuor Bozzini "Composers’ Kitchen" workshop

o        Reflections on a Medieval Tune. String quartet. ca. 10’ (2006)

o        Sin Mar a Bha. Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, ‘cello, bass, piano, percussion. 10’ (2006)

§ Composed for the 2006 National Arts Centre Young Composers’ Programme

o        Stoirnmfly Ewecatiheron. Saxophone quartet. ca. 8’30” (2005)

o        Open Cage. Chance/indeterminate piece for vocalist, flute, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, piano. ca. 15’  (2004)

o        Three Scottish Misappropriations. Brass ensemble. 4’ (2004)

o        Daeludium. Piano, clarinet, string quartet. 4’30” (2002)

o        Five Movements for Horn and Trombone. French horn, trombone. 10’ (1999)

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Orchestral:

o Reiteration. Orchestra. 7.5’ (2007/08)

§ Winner of the 2008 Orchestras Mississauga Emerging Composer Competition

§ Publicly read by the Mississauga Symphony: February 26, 2008

§ Will be performed by the Mississauga Symphony: March 28, 2009

o Fantasy on “In Dulci Jubilo”. Orchestra. 6’ (2004)

§ Publicly read by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra: December 19, 2005

o Dance Attack! Orchestra. 6’ (2004) [notes]

§ Finalist in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s “New Creations” young composers’ competition, 2004

§ Publicly read by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra: May 31, 2004

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Solo vocal (accompanied):

o        Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds (text by James McIntyre). Medium voice and piano. 4’ (2006)

o        Kiss Your Cancer Better (text by Charles Hayter). Cabaret song for baritone and piano. 3’ (2006)

o        five sequential haiku (text by the composer). Soprano, violin, small percussion. 3’ (2006)  [CMC sc]

o        A Christmas Carol (text by Charles Dickens, edited by the composer). Narrator and string quartet (also playing simple percussion instruments). 70’ (2004)

o        Two Verses Against War (texts by Ebenezer Elliot and Edward Fitzgerald). Soprano solo, SATB chorus, any instrumental ensemble (with percussion). 4’ (2004)

o        Sheep Fragments (song cycle, text by the composer) [unfinished]. Tenor, violin. 12’ (2003)

o        The Stolen Child (text by W.B. Yeats). Mezzo-soprano, oboe, piano. 5’ (2003)

o        Death to the Butterfly Dictator! (monodrama, libretto by Kristin Mueller). Soprano, multiple clarinets/alto sax, trumpet/flugelhorn, trombone, tuba, violin, viola, cello, percussion, conductor (theatrical role). 20’ (2003) [notes]

§ Received a SOCAN Award for Young Composers, 2004

o Testimonium Paupertatis (text by Wassily Kandinsky). Soprano, alto and bass clarinet, violin, viola, percussion. Variable length (minimum 5’) (2002)

o Eight Poems of Dennis Lee (song cycle, texts by Dennis Lee). Soprano and string quartet. 17’ (2002)

o The Tiger (text by William Blake). Mezzo-soprano and piano. 4’ (2002)

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Choral (unaccompanied):

o        Light Looked Down (text by Laurence Housman). SATB choir a capella. 5' (2008)

o        Rainbow (phonetic text by the composer). SSAATTBB choir a capella. 10’ (2005) [CMC sc]

o        Lyre (text by the composer). SATB choir with divisi. 6’ (2005, revised 2007) [CMC sc] [notes]

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Choral (accompanied):

o        Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds (text by James McIntyre). Unison (children’s) chorus and piano. 4’ (2006) [CMC sc]

o        Lyre (text by the composer). SATB choir with divisi, optional piano. 6’ (2005, revised 2007) [CMC sc/pts] [notes]

o        We See Him Come (Herrick’s carol) (text by Robert Herrick). SATB chorus, brass quintet. 4’ (2001)

§ Awarded a runner-up prize in the 2001 annual Amadeus Choir Christmas carol competition, Toronto

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Electroacoustic:

o Robert, Clara, Johannes (the piano remembers). MIDI-controlled acoustic piano (Yamaha Disklavier). 14’ (2007) [notes]

o Countdown. 2-track tape. 1’ (2006)

§ Selected by Vox Novus for their 2006 “Pacific Rim Mix”

o        Countup. 2-track tape. 1’ (2006)

o        People are not cars (phonetic suite). Suite of 5 short 2-track tape pieces using English phonemes. 7’ (2006) [notes]

o        The Phony Mobile. Live electronics, pre-recorded English phonemes. ∞’ (2006)

o        The Battle of Eddington. 2-track tape. 5’30” (2005)

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Music-Theatre:

o Old Growth (script by Alex Eddington). Music-theatre work for two actor/musicians. Flute, voice, hand percussion. ca. 60’ (upcoming, 2008)

o        The Fugue Code (script by Alex Eddington). Theatre work for solo actor and prerecorded organ music.  60’ (2007)

o        Adieu, Friedrich Lips (script/lyrics by Kristin Mueller-Heaslip). Theatre work for actor/accordionist, actor/soprano, and pre-recorded 2-track electronic tape. 55’ (20’ of music) (2005)

o        A Christmas Carol (text by Charles Dickens, edited by the composer). Narrator and string quartet (also playing simple percussion instruments). 70’ (2004)

o        Death to the Butterfly Dictator! (monodrama, libretto by Kristin Mueller-Heaslip.) Soprano, multiple clarinets/alto sax, trumpet/flugelhorn, trombone, tuba, violin, viola, cello, percussion, conductor (theatrical role). 20’ (2003) [notes]

§ Received a SOCAN Award for Young Composers, 2004

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Theatre/dance scoring:

o        Robert, Clara, Johannes (the piano remembers). MIDI-controlled acoustic piano (Yamaha Disklavier). 14’ (2007) [notes]

o        Kiss Your Cancer Better (text by Charles Hayter). Cabaret song for baritone and piano. 3’ (2006)

o        Equilibrium. Excerpted dance performance from Les Amants (2005), with a new score. Structured improvisation on accordion and toy instruments. 15’ (2006)

o        Prerecorded song accompaniments and sound design for The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom (6 original songs by Marc Downing, text by Eric Woolfe). 2-track tape. ca. 20’ of music. (2005)

o        Incidental music for The Typist. 2-track tape. ca. 15’ (2005)

o        Live incidental music for Les Amants (dance). Structured solo improvisations on piano, accordion and toy instruments. 50’ (2005)

o        Live incidental music for Heaven’s Mouth (drama). Structured improvisation on household/industrial objects (sand, cardboard, glass, water, metal…). Circa 55’ (2005)

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Text pieces:

o 5-minute window (text by the composer). Theatre composition for solo speaker and stopwatch. Exactly 5’ (2007)

o phonetic phone dream (text by the composer). Word-piece for solo live reader. ca. 8’ (2005)

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