Solo voice with piano or chamber ensemble
Choral
Orchestral
Chamber
Keyboard
Electronic
Dramatic – please see the page for my opera, The Age of Innocence
Except where noted, all works are in one movement. A work title in blue indicates a link to a recording of the work.
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Solo voice with piano or chamber ensemble
Juliet (2004)
soprano, flute, harp
text: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
13 mins.
Where we are least alone (2008)
soprano, clarinet, violin, piano
text: Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, stanzas 89–90
5 mins.
I taste a liquor never brewed (2009)
tenor, piano
text: Emily Dickinson
3 mins.
Two Songs (2009)
baritone, piano
texts: Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “Old Adam, the Carrion Crow”; William Butler Yeats, “The Sorrow of Love”
15 mins.
Job (2011)
baritone, magnetic resonator piano
text: Book of Job (Old Testament); primarily in English (King James Version), with some sections in Hebrew
14 mins.
From the Valley of Baca (2016)
Song cycle, 9 mvmts.
baritone, piano
texts: Poems of Emma Lazarus (in English); 84th psalm (in Hebrew)
25 mins.
Three Poems of Emily Dickinson (2017)
soprano, piano
text: Emily Dickinson
8 mins.
Choral
Fredericksburg (2007)
baritone solo; SATB choir; flute (doubling piccolo); oboe; clarinet in B-flat; bassoon; horn in F; percussion (1 player: glockenspiel, chimes (E4 and E5), snare drum, suspended cymbal, crotales (sounding G6 and B6)); harp; strings
text: Psalm 129 (Vulgate); Walt Whitman, “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night”; Missa pro defunctis
19 mins.
Ave verum corpus (2014)
SATB choir
text: Liber Usualis, chant in honor of the Blessed Sacrament
2 mins.
Nunc dimittis (Lord, now let) (2016)
SATB choir
text: St. Luke 2:29–32.
1 ½ mins.
O Antiphons (2016)
SATB choir
text: Liber Usualis, seven antiphons for Advent
10 mins.
Vespers Responsory (2016)
SATB choir
text: Service for Advent and 2 Chronicles 20:17.
1 ½ mins.
Orchestral
Little Symphony (2009)
flute; oboe; clarinet in A; bassoon; horn in F; trumpet in C; trombone; percussion (1 player: glockenspiel, bass drum, claves); piano; strings
5 mins.
Prelude (2009)
piccolo; flute I, II; oboe I, II; english horn; clarinet I, II in B-flat; bassoon I, II; contrabassoon; horn I, II, III, IV in F; trumpet I, II in C; trombone I, II; bass trombone; tuba; timpani; percussion (2 players: glockenspiel, xylophone, bass drum, tam-tam); harp; strings
6 mins.
Diabolical Scherzo (2010)
flute; oboe; clarinet in B-flat; bassoon; horn in F; trumpet in C; trombone; percussion (1 player: claves, whip); harp; strings
5 mins.
The River in the Tree (2013)
piccolo; flute I, II; oboe I, II; english horn; clarinet in I, II in B-flat; bass clarinet in b-flat; bassoon I, II; contrabassoon; horn I, II, III, IV in F; trumpet I, II in C; trombone I, II; bass trombone; tuba; timpani; percussion (2 players: bass drum, cymbals, triangle, glockenspiel); harp; piano; strings
12 mins.
Chamber
Nocturne (2000)
guitar
4 mins.
Quartet (2007)
2 violins, viola, cello
5 mins.
Fantasia (2008)
violin, piano
11 mins.
Three Myths (2008)
bassoon
3 mvmts.
7 mins.
Pastorale (2009)
flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
5 ½ mins.
Sextet (2010)
oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello
4 mins.
Trio (2014)
violin, viola, cello
3 mvmts.
16 mins.
Romanza (2017)
cello, piano
7 mins.
Duo (2019)
alto saxophone, cello
4 mins.
Memoria (2019)
clarinet, piano
5 mins.
Keyboard
“Paul” Variations (1997–)
An ongoing work for piano. For his first birthday in 1997, I wrote a theme for my nephew, Paul, and each year since for his birthday I have written a variation on that theme. These variations are not meant to be played as a complete set; any number of them may be grouped together for a performance (though the theme is always to be played first).
Sonata (2015)
piano
3 mvmts.
16 mins.
Prelude and Fugue (2017)
organ
5 mins.
Electronic
Do Not Go Gentle: Concerto for Dylan Thomas (2008)
Recording of Dylan Thomas’s reading of his poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” manipulated in MetaSynth and sequenced in ProTools.
2 mins.
David Carpenter 