Composing Music
Exploring Rhythm:
- Listening Log №1 – Olivier Messiaen – Le Banquet Céleste (1928)
- Listening Log №2 – Carlos Chávez – Toccata for Percussion Instruments (1942)
- Listening Log №3 – Boris Blacher – Orchestral Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 26: Variation 2 (1947)
- Listening Log №4 – Alberto Ginastera – Cantata para América Mágica (1960)
Exploring Melody and Scales:
- Listening Log №5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras 6 (1938)
- Listening Log №6 – Jacques Ibert – Pièce (1936)
- Listening Log №7 – Robin Walker – A Rune for St. Mary’s (2003)
- Listening Log №8 – Benjamin Britten – Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, No. 4: Bacchus (1951)
- Listening Log №9 – Alan Hovhaness – Lament (1935)
- Listening Log №10 – Paul Creston – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Op.19 (1939)
- Listening Log №11 – Kaija Saariaho – Asteroid 4179, Toutatis (2005)
- Listening Log №12 – Willson Osborne – Rhapsody for Bassoon (1952)
- Listening Log №13 – Carla Bley – ‘And Now, the Queen’ and ‘Violin'(1976)
Rounds, descants, polyphony
- Listening Log №14 – Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan [Round] (1612)
- Listening Log №15 – Henry Purcell – ‘An ape, a lion, a fox, and an ass’ (17th c.)
- Listening Log №16 – Tania León – Indígena (1991)
- Listening Log №17 – John Church – ‘Poor Owen’ [Round/Canon] (17th c.)
- Listening Log №18 – William Byrd – ‘Tristitia et anxietas – Sed tu Domine’ [Motet] (1580)
- Listening Log №19 – Astor Piazzolla – Four, for Tango (1988)
- Listening Log №20 – Thomas Tallis – Spem in Alium [Motet] (1570)