Sally Reid, composer, ASCAP

Composition Catalog

Chamber Works Chorus Electro-Acoustic Works (tape and soloist): Electronic Works (tape alone) Opera

Orchestra Piano Unaccompanied Instrumental Vocal Works Wind Ensemble/Symphonic Band

Unless otherwise noted , works below are published by Elm Creek Music.

title / Instrumentation / composition date/ audio:

Orchestra

• Sorrow's Moment:
  a rhapsody for orchestra and digital sounds 1991 (revised 1999)

Vocal Works:

Voice and Clarinet (1994-96)

• The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska for mezzo-soprano and clarinet 1994-96

Voice, Piano and English horn

• I Shall Wear Purple for soprano, piano and English horn (or saxophone)

Voice and Piano

Five Haiku for mezzo-soprano and piano 1973 I. The Old Clock II. Drifting into Sleep III. Voices of the Young IV. A Dewdrop V. The Pearl of Great Price

Tear on a Child's Cheek, setting of five haiku by Joy Shieman for mezzo and piano 1987 soprano version, 1988 I. Low Shadow-Leaf II. Tear on a Child's Cheek III. The Old Circus Clown IV. Christmas Melts Slowly V. From Whence Butterflies?

• Lullaby Song for voice and piano 1986 (pub. Southern Music, 1987)
  
• Let it Take Years, setting of texts by Chris Willerton for mezzo and piano 1987
  soprano version, 1988; soprano, violin and piano version, 2000.
  I. Child's Song: My Backyard
  II. A Lullaby
  III. Song on Small Fingers

Opera

• Arias From Chamber Opera, Healing: in progress
  These scenes can be performed with piano or an 8-piece chamber ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, electric bass, synthesizer and percussion).
  
  Scene 1: "The Unjust Judge" for soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone
  Scene 2: "In My Time" for opera cast ensemble
  Scene 3: "I Will Soar" for mezzo-soprano and baritone (or concert aria for mezzo-soprano)
  * Scene 4: "I Have Seen", for baritone and bass/baritone(or concert aria for bass/baritone)
  Scene 5: "Life is not Yours to Give" for mezzo-soprano and baritone
  * Scene 6: "I Will Arise" (concert aria for bass/baritone)* (AIFF sample)
  * Scene 7: "Everything" for baritone and mezzo-soprano (or concert aria for mezzo-soprano)*
  Scene 8: "All Who Suffer" for opera cast ensemble
  
  * scenes which have received performances

Chorus

• I Cry Out in the Night: Psalm 88 for chorus and tape 1988
• Jesus, Redeemer, Messiah for chorus, brass, percussion and organ 1997

Solo instrumental

• Elegy for clarinet (or oboe) and piano 1996
• Air for Horn (piano accompaniment) 1972
  
• Lullaby for oboe alone, played into amplified piano 1986 (unaccompanied)
• Reflections and Frolic: a trumpet soliloquy 1988(unaccompanied)

Chamber Works

A Carousel Fantasy for brass quintet with synthesized carousel 1993 Fiuggi Fanfare for five saxophones (quartet plus soprano sax) 1996 Fiuggi Fanfare for saxophone quartet 1997 Braxton for piano and percussion 1974

Sketches for two oboes and english horn 1972 Sketch I Sketch II Note the Silence for voice, brass quintet, piano and percussion 1975 Escape Wheel for Five for piano, string bass and three clarinets 1976

Piano

Suite for the Ears of a Child 1985 I. March II. Lullaby III. Waltz

From Whence Butterflies?: a romance for piano and tape 1986 (resynthesized 1992) Braxton for piano and percussion 1974

Electronic Works (Tape Alone)

Improvised Sketch #1, 1978 Study Based on a Schumann Romance, 1978 Gyrospace 1979, The Eagle is Born to Soar 1980 Celebration in Sound and Space 1981 Incidental Music for Humbledowne 1981 Ballet of the Thirteen Clocks 1982

Ten Miniatures 1983 Miniature I Miniature II Miniature III Miniature IV Miniature V   Miniature VI Miniature VII Miniature VIII Miniature IX Miniature X

Electro-Acoustic Works (Tape and Soloist)

• Etude for Oboe and Tape 1983 (resynthesized 1988)
• Miniature for English Horn and Tape 1984 (resynthesized 1987)
• Miniature for Violin and Tape 1984
• Miniature for Alto Saxophone and Tape 1985
• Gabriel Cometh for trumpet and tape 1986 (euphonium version 1988)
• From Whence Butterflies?: a romance for piano and tape 1986 (resynthesized 1992)

Wind Ensemble/Symphonic Band

• New Manchester Suite 1969
  • Movement I
  • Movement II
  • Movement III
• Wasatch Symphony 1970
• Fanfare and Celebration 1981
• Fiuggi Fanfare 1997

Some scores are made available with assistance from the Abilene Christian University Council on Research and Creative Activity. Contact the composer at 130 Burford Music Center, ACU Box 28274, Abilene, TX 79699, USA (reid@acu.edu). Others are available through the American Music Center or the publisher (as marked).

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