List Of Compositions By Gregory Short

This is a list of compositions by composer Gregory Short (August 14, 1938 – April 1, 1999). Recorded works are marked with an asterisk (*).

Chamber music

*'' "Blue Dawn" for Violin, Clarinet and Piano'' - Original music imitating three American musical personalities
**Violin is Appalachian fiddle music
**Clarinet is Blues
**Piano is classical avant-garde music
*''“Dialogue" for Violin and Mallet Percussion'' (Vibraphone/Marimba)
*# Dialogue (Violin/Vibraphone)
*# Dumpin' It In (Marimba solo)
*# Intermezzo (Violin solo)
*# Perpetual Motion (Violin/Xylophone)
*''“Duo Sonata” for Flute and Piano''
*# Intertwined
*# For Old Times’ Sake
*# Voices Form Within
*# Resolution
*''"In Praise of Darkness" for Tuba and Piano''
*# Frightening
*# Of Dreams
*# Night Life
*''"Metaphors" for String Quartet No. 1''
*# Portrait
*# Soaring
*# Declamation
*# Waltz
*# Epilogue
(For more chamber music, see Sonatas In Tribute)

Choral

*''"A Cradle Hymn" Multiple Division Chorus and Organ'' (Isaac Watts)
*''"Welcome Carol" Women’s Voices'' (Richard Crashaw)
*''"Mass (liturgy)" Large Chorus and Percussion including hand bells''
**Kyrie eleison
**Gloria
**Credo (with congregation/audience participation)
**Sanctus
**Hosana
**Agnus Dei (with electronic tape delay and congregation/audience participation)

Concerti

*''"American" Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra''
*# In Tribute to George Gershwin
*# In tribute to Henry Cowell
*# In tribute to Edward MacDowell
*# In Tribute to Charles Ives
*''"Sequoia" Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Wind Ensemble''
*# Song of the Rain (Navajo), Mocking Bird (Yuma), Steal-Each-Other Dance (Creek)
*# Oh Great Forest (Seneca)
*# Rain Song (Hopi), Crow dance Song (Arapaho), Song of Rejoicing and Thanksgiving (Pawnee)
*''"Concerto" for Symphonic Wind Ensemble''
*# March (tutti)
*# Lament for Wood Winds
*# Toccata for Brass
*# Sounding for Percussion
*# Serenade for Saxophones
*# Finale (tutti)

Instrumental Solo

*''"A Passing of the Sun" for Solo Viola''
*''"Apotheosis of Saint Paul" for Toccata for Organ''
*''"Dragon Child" for Harp''
*''"I Heard the Owl" for Solo Flute''
*''“Rhapsody” for Solo Cello''
*''“Soliloquy” for Solo Contrabass''
*''"Tears of Heaven" Organ''
*''"Vistas" for Low Brass Instruments'' (4 euphonium, 4 trombone, 4 tuba)

Orchestral Poems

*''“Farewell Duet” Orchestra'' based on Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran from a projected opera
*''"Fog Woman" for Orchestra'' (Tlingit story)
*# Raven Is Fishing
*# Mist and Fog Woman's Song
*# Raven and Fog Woman
*# Becoming As One
*# Dance of Sparkling Salmon
*# The Relationship Sours
*# Raven's Fit of Rage and Fog Woman's Resolve
*# Final Song
*# Fog Woman Dissolves
*''"From Dust We Came...." for Wind Ensemble, Rock/Folk/Jazz Ensembles, Reader, Audience Participation and Delay (audio effect)''
*''“Germany” Large Orchestra with Organ'' based on German classical, folk and popular melodies
*# Rhine River
*# Oktoberfest
*# Cathedrals
*# Schwartzwald
*''“Hobbit Preludes” Large Orchestra'' based on The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (Book 1)
*# Middle Earth and Bilbo's Long Expected Party
*# Dwarves March
*# Spiders of Mirkwood
*# Crossing the Misty Mountains
*# Mines of Moria
*# Lothloraine
*''Northwest Tetralogy for Orchestra''
*# ''* “Mount Tacoma, Mount Takhoma” Orchestra''
*# ''* "The Raven Speaks" Suite for Orchestra'' based on Northwest Coastal Forest Native American Songs and Dances: I. Coastal Forest and Raven: Cradle Song (Kwakiutl), Totem Pole (Kwakiutl); II. Totem Pole (Haida); III. Hat game (Tlingit); IV. Love Song (Tlingit); V. Grandmother Rock and the Little Crabs (Lummi); VI. Northern Lights and Raven: Lullaby for a Boy (Tsimshian), She Will Gather Roses (Tsimshian)
*# ''* "Bridge of the Gods, The Warrior Who Became A Mountain" Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, plus Piano Transcription'' (Nisqually) - Pahto's Call, Wyeast's Challenge, Newit's Warning, Combat, Pahto's Death, Newit's Lament, Mountain Transfiguration, Spirits Within
*# ''"Chief Seattle" Orator and Orchestra with Folk Instruments:'' - Chief Seattle's 1854 speech recited while the orchestra presents its ideas and images in sound.
*''“Salute: To the Men and Women of the American Armed Forces” for Band'' arranged from the first movement of the "American Bicentennial" Sonata No. 4 for Piano
*''”Tehame” Suite for Band - Based on Native American Songs and Dances'' suitable for high school and college band
*# Round Dance (Kiowa)
*# Duck Dance (Seminole)
*# Riding Song (Navajo)
*# Night Is Here (Cherokee)
*# Totem Pole (Haida)

Piano Solo

*''"American Sonatinas"''
*# Folk Sonatina - Thanks for My Pony ( Cheyenne), Cotton-Eyed Joe ( Afro-American), Song of the Three 'Nots' ( Guizhou Province, China), Skip to My Lou
*# Northeast Sonatina - Chester ( William Billings), Blow the Wind Southerly, Yankee Doodle, Battle Hymn of the Republic
*# Southeast Sonatina - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child ( Afro-American), Old Blue, Mister Rabbit ( Afro-American), The Fox
*# Midwest Sonatina - The Bigler, Buffalo Gals, Little Prairie Dog (Hopi), Indian Christmas Carol (French)
*# Northwest Sonatina - Totem Pole (Haida), Hat Game ( Thlinget), Love Song ( Thlinget), Lullaby ( Quinault (tribe)), Grandmother Rock and the Little Crabs ( Lummi), Totem Pole ( Kwakiutl)
*# Southwest Sonatina - Riding Song (Navajo), Chiapanecas (Mexico), The Cowboy's Lament: Streets of Laredo, Git Along Little Doggies
*''"Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"''
*# On A White Horse
*# On A Red Horse
*# On A Black Horse
*# On A Pale Horse for amplified piano
*''The Man Who Married The Eagle'' (Haida) for Piano
*''Transcriptions for Students''
**Carnival of the Animals (suite), Camille Saint-Saëns
**Overture to the Flying Dutchman, Richard Wagner
**Chorus of Dervishes from The Ruins of Athens, Ludwig van Beethoven
**Classics for Piano (Volume I, early)
**Classics for Piano (Volume II, intermediate)
**Classics for Piano (Volume III, advanced)
*''Twenty-Four Tonal Preludes'' in all keys (1965–1966)

Piano Sonatas

*''"Fantasy" Sonata No. 1'' (1956–58): in one movement
*''"Ballad" Sonata No. 2 '' (1960)
*# Kemberly
*# Shiobhan
*''"Etude" Sonata No. 3'' (1972, from sketches of 1966-68)
*# Allegro dramatico
*# Adagio cantabile
*# Con brio
*''"American Bicentennial" Sonata No. 4'' (1976)
*# When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Chester ( William Billings)
*# The Sow Took The Measles and She Died In the Spring, My Sweetheart's A Mule In the Mine, Froggie Went A Courtin'
*# Holy Song ( Lakota people), Song of Healing (Navajo), Death, Ain't You Got Not Shame, Everybody Loves the Spring (China), Lullaby (Mexico)
*# The Ballad of John Henry
*''"Spirituals" Sonata No.5'' (1980) in one movement - Swing Low Sweet Chariot, The Gospel Trains a Comin', Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Heav'n Heav'n, Give Me That Old Time Religion, I Couldn't hear Nobody Pray
*''"Women Out West" Sonata No. 6'' (1986)
*# Darlin' Cory, Hang Town Gals, Women's Song of Rejoicing ( Pawnee)
*# Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, The Riddle Song (I gave My Love a Cherry), Single Girl
*# Sweet Betsy from Pike, Sally Goodin', Sally Ann
*''"Ghost Dance" Sonata No.7'' (1987)
*# Medicine Song (Apache)
*# Song of the Fox ( Cheyenne), Bird ( Seminole), Song of the Fox Society ( Lakota people)
*# Ghost Dance ( Pawnee), Ghost Dance ( Arapaho), Song of the Earth Maker
*# Love Song ( Lakota people), Love Song ( Wabanaki Confederacy), Love Song (Ho-Chunk)
*''"Mountain" Sonata No.8'' (1988, unfinished)
*''"Washington Centennial" Sonata No. 9'' (1989) based on Songs about Washington State; Commissioned by the Washington State Music Teachers Association for the Washington State Centennial Celebration of 198

*# Western Washington - Welcome Song ( North Straits Salish language, Samish), Traveling Canoe Song ( North Straits Salish language, Samish), Song of Namu the Killer Whale ( Gregory Short), The Old Settler, My Home In Cathlamet, Go Way Back and Sit Down, The Climb (quote: Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" by Seattle resident Alan HovhanessJames Bush, Encyclopedia of Northwest Music, (1999), pp. 282-3)
*# Scherzo - Blackball Ferry Line Up In Seattle, San Juan Pig, Gooey Duck Song
*# Eastern Washington - Our State of Washington, Walla Walla Is My Home Town, When Its Blossom Time In the Yakima Valley, Apple Picker's Reel, Roll On Columbia (quote: "Secrets" from Mountain Symphony No. 1 by Spokane resident Michael E. Young)
*# Finale: The year 1889 represented in a rhythmic pattern - Welcome Song (reprise) (Sammish), Hail Washington, Shalom Aleichem (fugue), My Dreydl, Zero Dacus, Godzilla Ate Tukwilla, Washington My Home

Sonatas in Tribute

*''" Anwar Sadat" Sonata for Cello and Piano'' - Based on Egyptian Songs
*# Pretty Little Dove, Village Song
*# Camp David: What Wants This Lad (Egyptian), Let Us Be Friends Again (Israeli), Going to Georgia (American)
*# Return, What Wants this Lad (reprise)
*# Riesa Sadat's Lament, A Love Song,Wedding Processional
*''" George Catlin" Sonata for Viola and Piano'' - Based on Native American Songs:
*# Paddling Song ( Lummi)
*# Dance Song (Sioux), Quail Song ( Cherokee)
*# Hunting Song (Navajo), Buffalo Dance ( Kiowa), Song of the Horse (Navajo), Antelope ( Kiowa), Blue Bird (Pima), Song of the Hare (Ho-Chunk), Viola cadenza: Geronimo's Song (Apache)
*# Ribbon Dance (Cayuga)
*''" John F. Kennedy" Sonata for Violin and Piano:''
*# Camelot
*# Elegy: The Riderless Horse
*# Eternal Flame
*''"Korean Air Flight 007" for Flute, Viola and Harp'' - Based on Korean Songs:
*# Jinando Arirang
*# Song of the Broad Bell Flower
*# Song of the Birds
*''" Martin Luther King Jr." Sonata for Piano Four Hands'' - Based on Spirituals
*#In Bright Mansions Above,We Shall Overcome
*# Wayfaring Stranger, Wondrous Love, O' Freedom, We Shall Overcome
*# Great Day, Sit Down Servant, We Shall Overcome
*''" Robert F. Kennedy" Sonata for Trumpet and Piano''
*# Slowly and majestically, fast and rhythmic - quotes the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts," slowly
*# Dirge
*# Hymn: Confess Jehovah
*# Finale ("Simple Gifts" reprise)

(For more sonatas, see Chamber Music)

Songs and Song Cycles

*''"Earth's Miracles" Cycle for Soprano and Piano''
*# A Spider's Web in the Sun (Azlyn Stanfield)
*# Cricket (Raymond Jarvi)
*# Night Crow ( Theodore Roethke)
*# The Cow - with a double udder ( Theodore Roethke)
*# The Eagle and the Mole (Eleanor Wylie)
*# Earth's Miracles (Gwen Trastic)
*''"Lines for Winter, Song for Soprano, French Horn and Piano'' ( Mark Strand) poet
*''“The Pilgrim” Cycle for Tenor, Piano and Percussion'' poetry by fifteenth-century Korean monk Kim Si-seup (trans. David Mesler)
*# The Pilgrim's Way, Climbing the Mount of Saints, Wandering to Madness
*# When One Gazes Into the Distance, Growing Old, To Whom Shall I Make Known?, Self Portrait
*''“Silver Moon” Cycle of Seven Songs for Tenor and Piano''
*# Silent Moon ( Walter De la Mare)
*# The Donkey (G. K. Chesterton)
*# Milk for the Cat ( Harold Monro)
*# The Wild Duck (John Mansfield)
*# The Snare (James Steven


*# The Birds ( Hilaire Belloc)
*# Silver Wind ( Amy Lowell)
*''“Summer Dawn” Cycle for Soprano and Piano'' based on Native American poetry
*# Neither Spirit nor Bird (Shoshone: trans. Mary Austin)
*# Calling One's Own (Ojibwa: trans. Charles Fenno Hoffman)
*# The Wild Woman's Lullaby (trans. Constance Lindsay Skinner)
*# Summer Dawn (trans. Constance Lindsay Skinner)

Symphonies

*''Symphony No. 1 for Large Orchestra'' (four movements played without pause, parts not written)
*''Symphony No. 2 for Brass and Percussion''
*# Allegro drammattico
*# Scherzo: Vivace
*# Andante cantabile
*# Allegro moderato - Allegro - Presto
*''Symphony No. 3 for Symphonic Wind Ensemble''
*# Allegro energico
*# Scherzo for jazz ensemble
*# Molto adagio
*# Finale: Variations

References

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