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The prices listed are suggested; scores are available free of charge. Please email contact@deanrosenthal.org.

Instrumental Music

Chamber:

• Your Fine Promises (1997)
  Music to Kenneth Rexroth’s translation of Fujiwara no Mototoshi’s poetry. For piano and soprano – 10
• Underpinnings (1998)
  A chamber orchestra plays ascending chromatic scales out of phase, describing a painting by American painter Jasper Johns – 18; with parts, 30
• Embodied Naked (1998)
  Music to poetry by Kabbalah scholar Eliott Wolfson: for soprano or tenor voice, piano, oboe, and cello, with a prelude and a postlude for string trio – with parts, 20.   Prelude and postlude may be played on their own, separately or together, as two movements – with parts, 10
• Castles and Arias (1999)
  A melody plays itself out over one movement according to a simple formula.  For chamber orchestra – 18; with parts, 25
• Songs from the Japanese (1999–2000)
  Music for many Japanese poems, each sung briefly, for soprano and violin; about 18 minutes.  May be sung as a song cycle or performed in groupings, or as solos – with parts, 20
• In Just Spring… (2003)
  A setting of e.e. cumming’s famous poem for two violins and voice – with parts, 15
• This Is My Message to the World (2003)
  A setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem for guitar and voice – 7
• Ariel (2003, arr. 2009)
  Also available as a choral work, this movement for string quartet is based on the rhythms and cadences of the American poet Sylvia Plath's poem "Ariel" – 15; with parts – 25
• I Think So, Too (2009)
  A six by six modular multiplication table is the basis of a twelve and a half minute treatment of expressions, developments, and variations, scored for wind sextet – 35; with parts, 50

Solo:

• One for Karin  (undated)
  A short, sprightly piece for piano, with an American sensibility – 4
• Organ Music  (2002)
  A virtuoso piece for organ consisting of many arpeggios and multiple canons – 10
• December  (2003)
  A very short, sensitive, meditative piece for piano solo – 4

Choral and Voice

• Ariel (2003)
  SATB – Choral music for Sylvia Plath’s poem of the same name. Also available in arrangement for string quartet – 12; with parts, 22
• Our Gazes (2009)
  A round in three (3) voices. Words by Henry Lyman – free download

Electronic

• Ear Trainer (1996)
  A structured sound environment for tape – Inquire
• Portraits (1997)
  A suite of biographical miniatures for tape commissioned by Morton Subotnick for the radio station KUNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Each miniature also available separately for playback and multimedia performance. Like all music, these pieces can accompany animation, film, dance, and so forth. – Inquire

• Luciano Berio: "Sinfonierien" (Sinfonia/Cathy Berberian)
• Thomas Buckner: "Buddhist Spouting Sadness on the Train"
• John Cage: "Kansas Has This About It"
• Cornelius Cardew: "1959 to 1969"
• Henry Cowell: "Antinomy"
• Morton Feldman: "For Morton Feldman"
• Glenn Gould’s Goldberg, 1955: "A Gouldberg Variation"
• Lou Harrison: "It Would Enter Invisibly…"
• Erik Satie: "Satieated"