Udo Kasemets

WORKS FOR THE STAGE

Musical and/or drama and/or dance works for stage

• Duchampera

  music theatre piece
  1987
  90'
  any number of voices, any number of speakers, any number of actors, piano, ensemble of glass instruments, chess players
  Text: Udo Kasemets after Marcel Duchamp
  Fp: July 28, 1987; Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Lugu kolmest õest (Story of the Three Sisters), Op. 9

  Music for Mahta Söödor's play
  1947
  soloists, choir, orchestra
  

WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA

Works for symphony orchestra

• 777

  Seven Hundred And Seventy Seven Pulses in Seventy Parts on Seven Times Seven Harmonics
  1998
  13'
  symphony orchestra: 3221, saxophone, 2221, 3, harp, piano, strings
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Preludio sinfonico, Op. 23

  1950
  symphony orchestra
  

Works for chamber orchestra

• Requiem renga

  For the victims of wars and violence of our time
  1992
  41'
  chamber orchestra: percussion (2), strings
  Commissioned by: Chamber Players of Toronto
  CD „Udo Kasemets. Requiem Renga; Palestrina on Devil's Staircase; The Eight Houses of I Ching“, Koch International Classics (1994); Lyra Borealis Ensemble, conductor Paavo Järvi
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Sinfonietta

  1959
  14'
  chamber orchestra: 1111, 2110, strings
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• Estonian Suite

  4 miniatures to Estonian folk-tunes
  1950
  chamber orchestra
  

Works for string orchestra

• The Eight Houses of the I Ching

  The structure of this music is based on the special arrangement – The Eight Houses – of the 64 hexagrams of the ancient Chinese oracle I Ching. Each of the eight sections of the score represents one house, each four-measure segment stands for one hexagram. The pitch material of the piece is the harmonic series based on the lowest E of the double bass (with some poetic licence in the higher registers); each player uses a limited gamut of eight or fourteen notes of the complete spectrum.

  For Paavo Järvi
  1. Waterhouse
  2. Mountainhouse
  3. Thunderhouse
  4. Windhouse
  5. Firehouse
  6. Earthhouse
  7. Lakehouse
  7. Heavenhouse
  1993
  25'
  string orchestra
  CD „Udo Kasemets. Requiem Renga; Palestrina on Devil's Staircase; The Eight Houses of I Ching“, Koch International Classics (1994); Lyra Borealis Ensemble, conductor Paavo Järvi
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Recitative and Rondino, Op. 36

  on songs of the Copper Eskimos
  1954
  8'
  string orchestra
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  

WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENT(S) AND ORCHESTRA

Works for violin and orchestra

• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 41

  1. Toccata
  2. Elegy
  3. Chaconne
  1957
  26'
  solo violin, symphony orchestra: 3333, 4331, 1+1, strings
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  

Works for two or more soloists and orchestra

• Passacaglia

  1959
  10'
  solo flute, solo violin, symphony orchestra: 1222, 0330, 1+1, strings
  Commissioned by: Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  

WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE

Duos

• Vertical Music

  in remembrance of Morton Feldman
  1988
  piano in four hands
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Christmas Carols

  1. What Child Is This?
  2. Good Christian Men Rejoice
  3. Deck the Halls
  4. O Little Town of Bethlehem
  5. Jeanette, Isabella
  6. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
  7. Silent Night
  8. The First Nowell
  9. The Holly and the Ivy
  10. Susanni
  11. Joy to the World
  12. Good King Wenceslas
  13. Coventry Carol
  14. Angels and Shepherds
  15. Adeste Fideles
  16. The Huron Carol
  17. Away in a Manger
  18. Czech Carol
  1965
  10'
  soprano recorder, piano
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• 1+1

  Twelve Easy Duets for Two Recorders
  1. London Bridge
  2. Ladybird
  3. Twinkle, Twinkle
  4. One, Two, Three
  5. Three Blind Mice
  6. Little Jack Horner
  7. Ten Little Indians
  8. Mary Had a Little Lamb
  9. Old MacDonald
  10. Polly-Wolly-Doodle
  11. Early One Morning
  12. Au Clair De La Lune
  1964
  2 recorders (SS or SA)
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• 5√5 (Fifth Root of Five)

  1963
  8'
  two pianos with percussion played by the pianists
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• Squares

  1962
  4'
  piano in four hands
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• Logos

  1960
  flute, piano
  
• Ecclesiastical suite, Op. 44

  Kyrie
  Chorale „Mit Fried und Freud“
  Spiritual „He never Said a Mumblin’ Word“
  1955
  viola da gamba and harpsichord, or violoncello and piano
  
• Recitative and Fugue, Op. 41a

  1955
  8'
  2 cellos
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Capricious pastorale, Op. 29 No. 1

  1952
  clarinet, piano
  
• Duo, Op. 22 No. 1

  1950
  flute, clarinet
  
• Concert Music for Solo Clarinet, Op. 14, No. 1 [Kontsertmuusika sooloklarnetile op. 14 nr. 1]

  1948–1949
  clarinet, piano
  
• Sonaat in e, Op. 10

  1948
  violin, piano
  

Trios

• Canonic Soundflower

  The structure of Canonic Soundflower is derived from the fascinating system (called Phyllotaxis) by which nature organizes the growth of many spieces of plantlife, e.g. the sunflower. Numbers of the Fibonacci series are most prominently featured in the phyllotactic patternings. Consequently the values 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13 undelie all structural decisions pertaining to the shaping of Soundflower.
  The pitch material of Soundflower consists of the first eight odd harmonics of A and their mirror series based on g#4. Combined they produce 64 unique pairs corresponding with the 64 hexagrams of the I CHING. How the phyllotactic and I CHING systems are brought together to provide the structure for Soundflower is described in a separate, more elaborate essay.

  1995
  24'
  3 pianos
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Trio for Strings, Op. 33

  Metamorphoses on an Estonian folk-tune
  1953–1954
  violin, viola, cello
  Fp: 1956
  Publisher: New York Independent Music Publishers
  

Quartets

• Hexagram 16

  A Yi Jing Jitterbug Pianoctet
  1989
  two pianos (four pianists, eight hands)
  
• Sonata concertante, Op. 50

  I Lento, allegro vigorosos
  II  Molto adagio
  III Allegro rustico
  1957
  piano, violin, viola, cello
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

String quartets

• palinDRONE

  The score of palinDRONE is an outline of playing process, its details to be realized, according to the instructions, by the musicians.

  2008
  15’–20’
  string quartet
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Two JOYanCEs

  Composed for the Madawaska Quartet
  I the problem of the Quadrature of the Circle
  II the Tetraktys of the 10 Hundredlettered words of perfect language
  2002
  string quartet
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• The Eight Houses of the I Ching

  1. Waterhouse
  2. Mountainhouse
  3. Thunderhouse
  4. Windhouse
  5. Firehouse
  6. Earthhouse
  7. Lakehouse
  7. Heavenhouse
  1990
  25'
  string quartet
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• First String Quartet, Op. 45

  1956–1957
  string quartet
  

Quintets

• SoUNdFLOWER Quintet

  The structure of SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET is derived from the fascinating system (called Phyllotaxis) by which nature organizes the growth of many species of plantlife, e.g. the sunflower. Numbers of the Fibonacci series are most prominently featured in the phyllotactic patternings. Consequently the values 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13 underlie all structural decisions pertaining to the shaping of SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET.
  The pitch material of SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET consists of the first eight odd harmonics of A and their mirror series based on g#4. Combined they produce 64 unique pairs corresponding with the 64 hexagrams of the I CHING. How the phyllotactic and I CHING systems are brought together to provide the structure for SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET is described in a separate, more elaborate essay.
  SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET is a scored for five harps, or five marimbas, or five harpsichords, or five other keyboard instruments with a minimum range from A to g#3, or any combination thereof.

  1995
  five harps and/or marimbas and/or keyboards
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Wind quintets

• Koch curves

  1992
  wind quintet
  
• Wind Quintet, Op. 48

  1957
  8'
  wind quintet
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  

Sextets

• Quantumechanical Duologues

  2003
  clarinet, trumpet, violin, double bass, piano, percussion
  Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto,Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Septets

• Piece for Peace

  Sonetinas with Toward Peace
  2003
  instrumental ensemble
  Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  
• Portrait

  Music of the twelve moons of the I Ching. The Fifth Moon
  1988
  gamelan ensemble (7 musicians)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Works for large ensemble (8+)

• SoUNdFLOWER Quintet

  The structure of SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET is derived from the fascinating system (called Phyllotaxis) by which nature organizes the growth of many species of plantlife, e.g. the sunflower. Numbers of the Fibonacci series are most prominently featured in the phyllotactic patternings. Consequently the values 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13 underlie all structural decisions pertaining to the shaping of SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET.
  The pitch material of SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET consists of the first eight odd harmonics of A and their mirror series based on g#4. Combined they produce 64 unique pairs corresponding with the 64 hexagrams of the I CHING. How the phyllotactic and I CHING systems are brought together to provide the structure for SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET is described in a separate, more elaborate essay.
  SoUNdFLOWER QUINTET is a scored for five harps, or five marimbas, or five harpsichords, or five other keyboard instruments with a minimum range from A to g#3, or any combination thereof.

  1995
  five harps and/or marimbas and/or keyboards
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENT

Works for clarinet

• Portrait

  Music of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Fourth Moon
  Written for Robert Stevenson
  1988
  clarinet
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Works for percussion

• Calendaround

  Rixax
  2001
  percussion, video
  Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  
• Portrait

  Music of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Third Moon
  Written for Beverly Johnston
  1988
  percussion
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Vertical Taps for Morty

  1987
  snare drum
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Works for violin

• EGAD

  EGAD: a continuous drone on an open string with complementary patterns of 2 or 3 or 5 or 7 or 11 tones on adjacent strings.

  a string theory for solo violin
  For Malcolm Goldstein
  2004
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  violin
  
• Calendar Round

  Malcgolmdstein
  1990
  violin
  Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Works for cello

• Portrait

  Music of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Second Moon
  Written for Richard Armin
  1988
  amplified cello (RAAD cello)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Sonata da camera, Op. 40

  1955
  cello
  

Works for piano

• Skyscape

  of the 88 constellations; as represented by the 88 keys of the pianoforte
  2007
  piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Two-ludes

  2006
  20'
  piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Thousand and One Thunderletters Make Ten Hundredlettered Words

  A musical representation of the ten hundredletter thunderwords in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. Each thunderword music appears in two forms: first, a musical/statistical count of the alphabet letters of the word; second, a canonic reading of the letters in the order of their appearance in the given word. Each of the ten thunderwords is scored in its own range, different from the other nine. Thunders V and VI are played simultaneously.

  2002
  10'
  piano
  
• Echoes of a Life

  ECHOES OF A LIFE is a celebration of the life and poetry of Robert Creeley
  CHRONOLOGUE is a solo for piano derived from select words in AUTOBIOGRAPHY containing the letters of the writer's name in their given order;
  it may be performed in its entirety (One)
  as a solo (preferably preceded by the reading of the complete original text)
  or combined with the performance of (One and one, two)
  SOLILOGUE readings of a selection of poems from the total oeuvre of the poet or combined with the performances of both (One and one, two, three)
  SOLILOGUE readings of selected poems and
  DUOLOGUE spoken/sung/played musics illuminating select texts

  Chronologue
  1999
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  piano
  
• Mus(ost)ic for Barbara

  For Barbara Pritchard
  1997
  piano
  
• Stanstars

  1997
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• 80 Flowers

  80 separate piano pieces for the 80 poems by Louis Zukofsky
  1996
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  piano, multimedia installation (slides)
  Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano); January  7, 1996 Music Gallery, Toronto
  
• 3/7 D'un Morceau en Forme de Poire

  • Video

  1995
  3'
  piano
  CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Feigenbaum Cascades

  • Video

  1995
  15'
  piano
  CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
  
• Music of the First Eleven Primes

  • Video

  1995
  4'
  piano
  CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Pythagoras Tree

  • Video

  For Stephen Clarke
  1994
  15'
  piano
  CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
  
• Tangovariables On The Word Tango

  • Video

  Tangovariables on the Word Tango are based on the notes which correspond with the letters in the word TANGO in my musical alphabet [B-A-Ab-G-Bb]. The performance consists of playing the 16 gestures on any one of the 8 left hand pages in combination with the 16 gestures on any one of the 8 right hand pages on the condition that no combination of the left and right hand should be repeated – neither when practicing, nor when performing – until the cycle is complete.

  1986
  17'
  piano
  Commissioned by: Ivar Mikhashoff
  CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Portrait

  Music of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Sixth Moon
  Written for Gordon Monahan
  1969
  piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Trigon

  Realization for solo piano
  1965
  piano
  
• 1+1

  Volume 2: 20 Piano Studies for Beginners
  1964
  piano
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• 1+1

  Volume 2: 10 Piano Pieces on Well-known Songs
  1. London Bridge
  2. Ladybird
  3. Twinkle, Twinkle
  4. One, Two, Three
  5. Little Jack Horner
  6. Three Blind Mice
  7. Mary Had a Little Lamb
  8. Old MacDonald
  9. Polly-Wolly-Doodle
  10. Au clair de la lune
  1960–1964
  piano
  CD-l "Canadian compositions for young pianists. Compositions canadiennes pour jeunes pianistes", Studea Musica (2000); Elaine Keillor (piano) (only "Old MacDonald" and "Au clair de la lune")
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• Two Fancies for Fingerboard

  Dedicated to Tõnu Kalam
  1. Little Goat's Song
  2. Dance of Two Goats
  1959
  piano
  
• 6 Preludes, Op. 30

  "To my great helper and friend Reginald Godden with compliments."

  Meditations to 12-tone-serial, rhytmical and metrical questions
  1. Andante commodo
  2. Con spirito
  3. Deciso
  4. Presto
  5. Grave
  6. Giocoso
  1952
  piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Piano sonata, Op. 24, No. 1

  1951
  piano
  
• Concert Music for Piano [Kontsertmuusika klaverile]

  Sonatina No. 2, Op. 14, No. 2
  1948–1949
  piano
  
• Crossing the Ninth Wave

  A piano solo derived from the graph by David von Schlegell, the late husband of the American poet Susan Howe, printed as part of the latter’s poem The Liberties.
  
  The music may be included in the audio-visual presentation of Udo Kasemets pOemPERA, The Liberties of Susan Howe at its assigned place in the part titled Book of Stella, or may be performed as an independent solo.

  piano
  Fp: Stephen Clarke (piano); 14.03.2008, The Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Works for accordion

• Satan’s Swing

  1993
  accordion
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Works for other instrument

• Portrait

  Music of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching: The First Moon
  1988
  columbine and amaranth (invented instruments)
  

VOCAL AND CHORAL MUSIC

Works for mixed choir and orchestra

• Serenata Dolorosa

  1952
  alto, mixed choir, strings, piano
  Text: Jyri Kork, Kalju Lepik, Karl Rumor
  Fp: conductor Olav Roots; March 1952, Stockholm, Sweden
  

Works for mixed choir and instrument(s)

• Suur on, jumal, su ramm, Op. 11 (God, Great is Thy Power)

  cantata
  1948
  tenor, mixed choir, organ
  Text: Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
  
• Koldeviisid (Hearth Songs), Op. 21

  • Audio

  • Targa rehealune / Female Choir of Estonian Choral Conductors, conductors Andrus Siimon, Õnne-Ann Roosvee

  -

  +

  /

  series of Estonian folksongs
  1. Laulu mõju
  2. Orjalaul
  3. Muhulane
  4. Vaeslapse laul
  5. Poiste kutse
  6. Targa rehealune
  7. Pulmalaul
  youth choir (SAB), solo voice, piano
  Text: folklore
  CD „Lumen tuum“, Female Choir of Estonian Choral Conductors (2012); Female Choir of Estonian Choral Conductors, conductors Andrus Siimon, Õnne-Ann Roosvee (only "Targa rehealune")
  

Works for female choir and instrument(s)

• Vahimees (Watchman)

  cantata
  1949
  tenor, female choir, 2 pianos
  Text: Henrik Visnapuu
  Fp: Runo Choirs, conductor Udo Kasemets; December 10, 1949, Geislingen, Germany
  

Works for voice(s) and orchestra

• Poetic Suite, Op. 37

  1. The Goddess (rondo)
  2. The World (interlude)
  3. Passion (passacaglia)
  1954
  20'
  voice, piano, string orchestra
  Text: Kathleen Raine
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• Visions, Op. 31

  I Variations
  II Danse macabre (fugue)
  III Song of the desert (epilogue)
  1953
  35'
  narrator, chamber orchestra: 2220, 0000, 2, piano/celesta, strings
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre

Works for voice(s) and instrument(s)

• Reading John Cage

  A musical projection of the poem of Octavio Paz
  For Susan Layard
  1994
  voice, instrument
  

Works for voice(s) and piano

• 80 Flowers M(e)[u]sostics

  1995/2008
  reader, piano
  Text: Louis Zukofsky (fragments)
  Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Zodiacalendar

  Robert Creeley' mälestuseks
  2008
  16'
  voice, piano
  Text: mesostics derived from Robert Creeley's poem „A Calendar“ from „Memory Gardens“, Latin and English titles of each Zodiacal constellation (along with the names of the corresponding months)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• "88" Fibonaccian Melody

  Any public performance of the combined "88" and FIBONACCIAN MELODY consists of two readings of the text and music.
  
  Listeners are to be instructed during one of the readings/playings to focus unequally on the sound of both, the voice of the reader as well as of the piano (disregarding the meanings of the words), and during the other readings/playings to concentrate entirely on the language of the words. Listeners, themselves, decide at which reading/playing to focus on sounds, and at which to concentrate on words.
  
  The pianist prepares a performance score by distributing the 88 pitches notated on the matrix page among the 88 dotted places on the score page, each pitch appearing once, and all 88 pitches represented. Any mathematical or acoustical logic, or a chance operation may be used to determine the sequence of the pitches. Both, the pianist and the reader pace the peformance in accord with clocktime.

  for piano solo to be played in conjunction with a reading of "88"
  2007
  12'
  piano, reader
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Solo for Two Voices of Octavio Paz

  realization for singer/speaker and pianist
  2007
  voice, piano
  Text: Octavio Paz (fragments)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Act Without Words I

  A mime for one player by Samuel Beckett translated into a music for one player by Udo Kasemets
  2006
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  reader, piano
  Fp: Udo Kasemets (reader, piano), Susan Layard (reader); November 5, 2006, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Phrases of bpNichol

  musigraphics for speaker and piano
  To the memory of Louis Zukofsky
  2004
  Indeterminate duration / määratlemata kestus
  voice, piano
  Text: bpNichol
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• XXVI fungal threads

  of Jay Millar
  2004
  26'
  voice, piano
  
• Gamut

  of Louis Zukofsky
  For Susan
  2003
  voice, piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Canto XLIX of Ezra Pound

  vocal solo with parallel piano and ideogrammatic interludes
  2002
  voice, piano
  Text: Ezra Pound
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Love’s Hour

  30 minutes of Nobbynotes (excerpts of Norman O. Brown's 1974 Wesleyan lecture) for speaker and singer, superimposed on 30 minutes of Musi(sti)cs (derived from John Cage's Cheap Imitation (derived from Erik Satie's Socrates) for a pianist, to be performed in simultaneity.

  we connect Norman O. Brown with John Cage (with Erik Satie)
  2002
  reader, piano
  Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Fireline

  The title of Fireline is derived from the title of an architectural composition from 1988 by Daniel Libeskind. The letters of the vocal part spell the seven last words of Metaphysics (Energia, Created Being, Idea, Will to Power, Subject, Spirit, Being) which make up the texts of the eight books in the "Reading Machine" of Daniel Libeskind's Three Lessons In Architecture (exhibited at the 1985 Venice Biennale).

  music of the first thirteen primes
  2001
  6'
  voice, piano
  
• Airs and Mirrors

  Airs and Mirrors of Robert Creeley with music of Udo Kasemets are DUOLOGUES for a singer/speaker and a pianist to be performed independently or in conjunction with the CHRONOLOGUE: Echoes of a Life. The two AIRS and five MIRRORS are musical illuminations of the poet's texts, with all musical materials derived from the alphabetic contents of the words.

  of Robert Creeley with music of Udo Kasemets
  Airs:
  Air: The Love of a Woman
  Air: Cat Bird Singing
  Mirrors:
  Oh Love
  Wind Lifts
  Elements
  Oh
  Song
  2000
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  voice, piano
  Text: Robert Creeley
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Sixteen stills

  of bp Nichol
  1996/2000
  piano, reader
  Text: bp Nichol
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Ariannaira

  Uses texts from The House of Asterion by Jorge Louis Borges and fragments of Metamorphoses by Ovid. Includes music from The House of Daedalus by Udo Kasemets and Lamento d'Ariana by Claudio Monteverdi

  A verbal / musical scenario with words of Jorge Luis Borges and Ovid and musics of Claudio Monteverdi and Udo Kasemets
  1999
  voice-speaker, piano, visual medium ad libitum
  
• Numbers/Digits

  A musichoreograhy for ten digits on eighty eight keys
  For Robert Creeley
  1999
  speaker, piano
  
• Quantumatrix for Merce Cunningham

  „Quantumatrix“ is a solo for a reader, and a solo for a pianist, to be performed either singly, or simultaneously, but, save for a jointly established timeframe, entirely independently of each other. (Any number of readers and/or pianists may participate.)

  1999
  solo piano and/or solo reader
  Text: Text is extracted from five Merce Cunningham sections of the John Cage renga/mesostics „Themes and Variations“
  Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Useful knowledge

  For Ulla E. Dydo
  1. Music of the First Hundred Natural Numbers (for piano, 1999)
  2. BiB – Business in Baltimore (for narrator and piano, 2000)
  1999-2000
  narrator, piano
  Text: Gertrude Stein
  
• SoUNdFLOWER Triplet

  The structure of SoUNdFLOWER TRIPLET is derived from the fascinating system (caned Phyllotaxis) by which nature organizes the growth of many species of plantlife, including the sunflower. Numbers at the Fibonacci series are most prominently featured in the phyllotactic patternings. Consequently
  the values 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 and 55 underlie an structural 'decisions pertaining to the construction and timings of the vocal and piano parts. Purely pentatonic. Vocalises derived from the rhyming words:
  summer
  sight
  shimmer
  sound
  shower
  sun
  flower

  in remembrance of Octavio Paz
  1998
  8’–10’
  voice, piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Fractal Epitaph

  for John Cage
  1992/1995
  voice, piano
  Text: different vowels
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Hexagram 14

  A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet
  for John Cage
  1991
  10'
  voice, piano
  
• Hexagram 50

  A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet
  For Avrom Isaacs
  1991
  voice, piano
  
• Calendar Round

  Calendar Round is the calendar of the ancient Maya combining: 52 solar cycles: each cycle consisting of 18 months (...) of 20 days each, plus 5 extra (unlucky) days (...), all adding up to 365 days; with 73 ritual cycles: intermeshing rotations of 20 day names (...) and numbers 1 to 13, adding up to 260 days so that the same combinations of month and day names and numbers recur only in 52 years.
  
  The music of Calendar Round may be performed in full or part, in real time (over 52 years) or compressed time (at any chosen scale). In the latter case there has to be a definitive correlation between the Mayan calendar and the actual performance day.

  Megalcides
  For Meg Sheppard and Alcides Lanza
  1989
  13'
  singer/speaker and keyboardist/speaker (a keyboardist/speaker may substitute for pre-recorded tapes)
  Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
  Fp: Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano); April 24, 1990, McGill University, Canada
  CD „Transmutations“, Editions Shelan Publications (1996); Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• 19NooN61

  A musical collage
  1961
  voice, piano
  Text: Walter Hickling
  
• Three Songs from Atlantic Provinces

  1959
  voice, piano
  
• Three Miniatures, Op. 46

  I To the moon
  II A widow bird sate mourning
  III Music, when soft voices die
  1956
  6'
  voice, piano
  Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• Two Symphonic Songs

  1. In the beginning
  2. And death shall have no dominion
  1956
  voice, piano
  Text: Dylan Thomas
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• The Thousand Nights and One Night, Op. 39

  music for voice and piano to anonymous Arabian lyrics from the thirteenth century
  1. The power of love
  2. The beautiful boy
  3. Love
  4. Birds
  5. Dates
  6. Drinking song
  1954
  voice, piano
  Text: Anonymous Arabian lyrics from the thirteenth century (in English, translated by E. Powys Mathers)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Choreolae Gaudiae, Op. 32

  four old English Christmas carols
  1. The Salutation Carol
  2. All in the Morning
  3. Coventry Carol
  4. Wassail Song
  1952
  soprano, alto, tenor, piano
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Alphabets & Algorithms: Vowels & Primes

  with a Sappho fragment from „eros the bittersweet“ of Anne Carson
  voice, piano
  Text: Anne Carson (fragments)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Armulaul (Loev Song)

  voice, piano
  Text: Henrik Visnapuu
  
• Uinulaul (Slumber Song)

  voice, piano
  

Works for voice(s) and other instrument(s)

• E and T S T and B – Einstein & Tagore Seeking Truth and Beauty

  Einstein & Tagore Seeking Truth and Beauty is derived from the CONVERSATION ON THE NATURE OF REALITY held in the afternoon of July 14, 1930 between Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore at Einstein's home in Kaputh, Germany (a short distance from Berlin).
  The two streams of mesosticts (developed from the reprint of the conversation in The Kenyon Review 2001 Spring issue) have as their spines one, the name of the scientist, the other, the name of the poet. Four further streams of mesostics (two each derived from the texts of both name-based streams) have as their spines the words TRUTH and BEAUTY. By using the PrimePhonetic Musicaß the latter four streams of Mesostics have been translated into notation for music in four parts. The performance materials consist of 8 text pages, and 9 music pages.

  double/sextuple mesostics for two voices and music in four parts
  2001/2003
  2 voices, any 4 players
  Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Signs

  2001
  2 speakers, any 2 players
  Text: Robert Creeley
  
• AnarchArt QuantuMandala

  QM 4x7+7x4 (for cello solo, 1998. For Margaret Gay)
  QM 7x4x7 (for viola solo, 1998)
  QM 4x7x4 (for violin solo, 1998. For Marc Sabat and Malcolm Goldstein)
  QM 8x11+11x8 (for piano solo, 1998. For Stephen Clarke)
  QM 4x9=6x6 (for B-flat clarinet solo, 1999. Note: The performer may choose to play some pages on the bass clarinet)
  QM 4x9=6x6 (for flute solo, 1999. Note: The performer may choose to play some pages on flutes of varied ranges (piccolo, alto, bass)
  QM 4x9=6x6 (for vibraphone solo, 1999. For Richard Sacks)
  QM 4x13x4 (for marimba solo, 1999. For Richard Sacks)
  QM 2x13x2 "Anarchy Really Does Have a Future" (for speaksinger solo, 2000. For Paul Dutton)
  QM 2x13+13x2 (for accordion solo, 2000. For Tiina Kiik)
  1998-2000
  
• OPazERA

  Cumulative work; its seven sections may be performed separately:
  John Cage/Octavio Paz Conjunction (voice, piano), 1996
  Joan Miró/Octavio Paz Conjunction (speaker, percussion, film, slide projections), 1996
  The Constellation of Virgo (voice, piano, vibraphone, marimba) 1996
  Sunstone (voice, pianoharp [invented instrument], percussion, film, slide projections), 1996
  Blanco (female voice, male voice, 2 pianos, percussion), 1997
  OPJreSCTnga (clarinet, violin, cello, piano), 1997
  Homage and Desecrations (voice, speaker, piano, prepared piano, percussion), 1997
  1996–97
  Text: Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Fractal Epitaph

  for John Cage
  1992/1995
  6'
  voice, string quartet
  Text: different vowels
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• 15 (to the power of) 2

  Based on fifteen fifteen-word pronouncements on peace by Black Elk, Lao-Tzu, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King

  A peacewordchant
  For Andrus and Eero Voitk
  1994
  baritone, cello
  
• Monolloygue

  a soliloquy about sixteen sucking stones for an actor and a bassoonist
  For Shannon Peet and Todd Duckworth
  1994
  Flexible duration / Kestus varieerub
  actor, bassoon
  Text: Text from „Molloy“ by Samuel Beckett
  Fp: Shannon Peet (bassoon), Todd Duckworth (actor); September 16, 1995, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Sappersong

  1994
  voice, cello
  Text: Daniel Hartford
  CD „Songs for cello and baritone. New songs by Lembit Avesson, Udo Kasemets, Kaljo Raid“, A. Voitk; Andrus Voitk (baritone), Eero Voitk (cello)
  
• Mikesnowflakes

  The structure of Mikesnowflakes is derived from the fractal called Koch snowflake. The singer’s part is to be vocalized on the syllables of the various words pertaining to 'snow' in Inuit dialects of the Canadian North.

  A tribute to Michael Snow
  1993
  2 pianos (4 pianists), voice, mallet percussion
  Fp: Andrew Burashko (piano), Stephen Clarke (piano), Leslie Dala (piano), Henry Kucharzyk (piano), Rick Sacks (marimba/speaker), Susan Layard (vocalist, speaker), Udo Kasemets (conductor, speaker); May 15, 1994, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Palestrina on Devil’s Staircase

  A construction based on the fractal set of George Cantor
  Written to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 1994 of Palestrina's death
  1993
  3 voices, 3 violins, 3 cellos
  CD „Udo Kasemets. Requiem Renga; Palestrina on Devil's Staircase; The Eight Houses of I Ching“, Koch International Classics (1994); Lyra Borealis Ensemble, conductor Paavo Järvi
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• lOOking fOr jacksOn maclOw in the cOncise OxfOrd dictiOnary

  pOemusic fOr a sOlO reader with OptiOnal vOcal andOr instrumental OstinatO and Organum accOmpaniment
  A belated celebration of Jackson MacLow’s sixtieth birthday
  1983
  reader, organ, optional vocal and/or instrumental ostinato
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• In Memoriam Nelson Small Legs Jr.

  Uses texts from "Touch the earth: a self-portrait of Indian existence" compiled by T. C. McLuhan

  Rites of Rites 1
  1976
  1 to 10 readers, any number of drummers, and optional visual projections
  
• Music for Everything

  The Advance and Retreat of the Dragon
  1974
  8 strings (and/or winds, and/or keyboards), percussion, 16 voices, 4 moving bodies, 4 channel tape, conductor
  
• In memoriam M. D.

  1969?
  voice, autoharp and toy piano
  
• Communications

  The master score of Communications is the poetry of e.e.cummings. The numbers in this collection are not musical compositions per se, but merely audio-visual realizations of the manifaceted formal and poetic devices used by the poet to present his ideas and images. Whatever has been added by the non-composer to the words of the poet, serves only one purpose: to illuminate the subtleties of the poetry, its layout on the paper, its typography, punctuation, symbolism, verbal counterpoint etc., etc. No attempt has been made to, quote, musically interpret, unquote, cummings’ poetry. It speaks for itself. It is music.
  
  A performance of Communications may include any desired number of poems from this collection in any desired order. Additional realizations of other poems may be added by the non-composer from time to time.

  A non-composition for singer(s), speaker(s), instrumentalist(s), dancer(s), et cetera
  To Catharine
  1964
  singer(s), speaker(s), instrumentalist(s), dancer(s)
  Text: e.e.cummings
  Publisher: BMI Canada
  
• Triv and Quad

  A realization (Trio concertante) of Trigon
  1964
  voice, flute, keyboard
  
• Haiku

  1. Moon
  2. Winds
  3. Frogs
  4. Seasons
  5. On the temple bell
  6. Insects
  7. Canons
  8. Interludes
  1961
  18'
  voice, flute, piano, cello
  Text: Classical Japanese poetry, translated by Harold G. Henderson
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
  
• 4 for 4

  1. Never two songs the same
  2. Moon rondeau
  3. Daybreak
  4. Be ready
  1958
  voice and string trio
  Text: Carl Sandburg
  
• Canciones, Op. 42

  To my friend Harry Somers
  1. El canto quiere ser luz (The Song Wishes to Be Light)
  2. Claro de reloj (Pause of the Clock)
  3. La guitarra (The Guitar)
  1956
  6'
  voice, flute, guitar
  Text: Federico García Lorca (English words translated from Spanish poems)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• As the hart panteth, Op. 18, No. 1b

  1949
  voice, organ
  

Works for mixed choir a cappella

• Las kasvame (Let Us Grow)

  1948
  mixed choir
  Text: Gustav Suits
  Fp: Mixed choir „Runo“, conductor Udo Kasemets; November 27, 1948, Jahnhalle, Geislingen, Germany
  
• Lätsi küllä (I Went to Visit)

  1948
  mixed choir
  Text: folklore (Setu tune and lyrics)
  
• Oi, sünnimaa (Oh, Birthland)

  1947
  mixed choir
  Text: Udo Kasemets
  
• Ta lendab mesipuu poole (He Flies Towards the Beehive)

  Dedicated to Geislingen Estonian Choir
  1947
  mixed choir
  Text: Juhan Liiv
  
• Oh Jumal, laota armutiivad (Oh God, Lay the Wings of Grace)

  1946
  mixed choir
  Text: Philip Aleksander Tammaru
  
• Rändaja õhtulaul (Wandere's Evening Song)

  1946
  mixed choir
  Text: Ernst Enno
  
• Jõuluöö (Christmas Night)

  mixed choir
  Text: Valdeko Saksen
  
• Kuu kahvatu

  mixed choir
  Text: Eino Leino
  

Works for female choir a cappella

• Mägede põues (In the Bowels of the Mountains)

  1947
  female choir
  Text: Anna Haava
  
• Eideratas (Spinning Wheel)

  female choir
  Text: folklore
  

Works for male choir a cappella

• Two Songs

  Death, be not proud (John Donne)
  The falcon (Anonymous)
  1957
  7'
  male choir
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Noore suve muinasjutt (An Early Summer's Fairytale)

  1948
  male choir
  Text: Ernst Enno
  
• Rändaja õhtulaul (Wandere's Evening Song)

  1946
  male choir
  Text: Ernst Enno
  

Works for solo voice

• Silencesong

  Litany for Lily
  In memoriam Lily Maley
  1974
  reader
  

ELECTRONIC, ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC AND MULTIMEDIA WORKS

• The Liberties of Susan Howe

  2007
  singer/speaker, 2 female speakers, piano, fixed media, video (by Pierre Tremblay)
  Libretto: Susan Howe
  
• Yi Jing Jitterbug

  For David Jaeger
  1991
  sine-wave oscillators and mixing devices
  
• Harmonices mundi of Johannes Kepler

  Written for Adele Armin
  1990
  12'
  violin, pre-recorded tape
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Hexagram 16

  Written for James Tenney
  1990
  piano with 8 sine-wave oscillators, mixing devices and loud speakers
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Lun(h)armonics

  • Audio

  • Lun(h)armonics / Estonian Electronic Music Society's Ensemble

  -

  +

  /

  Lun(h)armonics may be performed as a solo musical performance; or a musical performance combined with visual projections and/or Tai-Chi -based choreography; or either or both of the above in conjunction with performances of other Calendar musics (e.g., Zodiacacoustics, Calendar Round, etc.).

  For Chris Devonshire
  1990
  8'
  6 sine-wave oscillators, mixing devices and loudspeakers
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Timetrip to Big Bang, Big Bang and Back

  • Video

  Inspired by Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time

  1990
  multimedia theatre for dancers, visuals, live and pre-recorded voices, instruments, and elecro-acoustic devices
  CD „Udo Kasemets With Chris Devonshire. Timetrip To Big Bang, Big Bang And Back“, Artifact Music ‎(1994); Richard Sacks (percussion), Chris Devonshire (technician, electronics), Adele Armin (violin), Marc Sabat (violin), Susan Layard (voice)
  
• Calendar Round

  For John Kamevaar and Thomas Handy
  1989
  guitar, percussion, wind instruments, pre-recorded tape
  Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Calendar Round

  Calendar Round is the calendar of the ancient Maya combining: 52 solar cycles: each cycle consisting of 18 months (...) of 20 days each, plus 5 extra (unlucky) days (...), all adding up to 365 days; with 73 ritual cycles: intermeshing rotations of 20 day names (...) and numbers 1 to 13, adding up to 260 days so that the same combinations of month and day names and numbers recur only in 52 years.
  
  The music of Calendar Round may be performed in full or part, in real time (over 52 years) or compressed time (at any chosen scale). In the latter case there has to be a definitive correlation between the Mayan calendar and the actual performance day.

  For Meg Sheppard and Alcides Lanza
  1989
  13'
  singer/speaker and keyboardist/speaker (a keyboardist/speaker may substitute for pre-recorded tapes)
  Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
  Fp: Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano); April 24, 1990, McGill University, Canada
  CD „Transmutations“, Editions Shelan Publications (1996); Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Marce(ntennia)l Circus C(ag)elebrating Duchamp

  1987
  Text: John Cage
  
• Spectrascapes

  sound installation
  1987–1988
  
• Geo(sono)scope

  Geo(sono)scope was conceived by Udo Kasemets as an ongoing acoustic inventory of the sounds, natural and man-made, environmental and communicative, of the planet. It is an installation that presents both visually and aurally the various soundscapes in our world.
  
  Geo(sono)scope consists of a geodesic globe circled by 15 chains of lights which are controlled by a programmed computer. The programme also controls a quadrophonic sound playback system which continuously plays sound and their mixes fed into it from 15 input channels, each corresponding to a chain of lights. The light chain travels around the globe in 12 minute sequences triggering sounds specifically related to the geographic area of the globe (world map) that they cross.

  an acoustic atlas of the global village
  1986
  Fp: Udo Kasemets, Chris Devonshire, Chris Eddy, Gerard Leckey, Gary Murphy, Ron Salapatek; March 1987, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
  Commissioned by: Hamilton Artists Inc.
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• 4-D I Ching

  1984
  computer and tape
  
• Yi Jing Jitterbug

  • Audio

  • Yi Jing Jitterbug / Ensemble of Estonian Electronic Music Society

  -

  +

  /

  Yi Jing Jitterbug Soloctet
  
  Inspired by John Cage, the Chinese Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) has an important place in Udo Kasemets’s oeuvre. Kasemets was fascinated both by the mathematical beauty and the ancient wisdom of the I Ching: for millennia, the divination system has enabled people to communicate with the world. The Yi Jing predictions are based on hexagrams of six lines which in turn can be subdivided into lower and upper trigrams. There are a total of eight possible trigrams (hence the “octet” in the title) and 64 combinations between them. Yi Jing Jitterbug is a series of works where a similar principle applies in different ways. Kasemets has matched the trigrams with different musical elements, playing patterns and other parameters. There are 64 different variations of each piece.
  
  Jitterbug is a term used by the American mathematician and engineer Buckminster Fuller to describe his equilateral shape-changing geometric constructions with a mathematical model very similar to the Yi Jing.
  
  Soloctet (1984) was written for solo instrument and eight recording devices (originally cassette recorders), which record and play back the soloist’s performance according to a certain system.
  According to the score, before the performance, the oracle of the Yi Jing is to be consulted: a hexagram is to be drawn up using coins, straws of yarrow, or other method; a corresponding prediction is to be read out, a performance plan is to be drawn up according to the lower and upper trigrams, and a piece consisting of 2 x 8 musical units is to be presented focusing on the text and the specific musical material.
  
  Tarmo Johannes
  (Text from the booklet of Estonian Music Days 2023)

  1984
  9'
  wind or bowed string player with one or more assistants operating 8 cassette decks
  Fp: David Mott; May 3, 1986, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  FpEst: Ensemble of Estonian Electronic Music Society; April 18, 2022, Estonian Public Broadcasting, 1. studio, Estonian Music Days
  CD „Musicworks 57“, Musicworks ‎(1993)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Counterbomb Renga

  Multi-media performance, a collaboration of over 100 poets and musicians from Canada and the US in a poetical/musical statement, conceived and coordinated by Udo Kasemets
  1983
  Text: Jonathan Schell
  Fp: March 8, 1983, Bloor St. United Church, Toronto, Canada
  
• Earthspin

  Earthspin: a timescape
  the 88 celestial constellations as represented by the 88 piano keys, the solar cycle as represented by the prerecorded cluster of the complete piano range.

  1982
  piano, electronics
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Celestial Timescapes

  1980
  computer, fixed media
  
• Whole Earth Music

  1978
  48 h
  Continuous playback of 64 recordings distributed between eight separate listening stationsand a mixing systems programming and processing centre
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• David & David & Larry & James

  Uses materials derived from the I Ching hexagrams

  1977
  33'
  4 performers using voices, acoustical instruments, microphones, mixers, synthesizers with keyboards, amplifiers and speakers, with optional pre-recorded tape or tape delay system
  Commissioned by: Canadian Electronic Ensemble
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Watearthundair

  1976
  peakers and mixed media
  
• Mikemusics

  Mikemusics (1977)
  Mikemusic I (1973-1975)
  Mikemusic II, III, IV (1975-1976)
  Sh! - Mikemusic IV (1975)
  Mikesong I (1975)
  Eighty-eight keys - Mikesong II (1975-1976)
  1973–1977
  reader with a deck of cards, 1-4 pianos, and electroacoustic music
  
• Wordmusic/Interface (any dictionary)

  1973
  readers, tape recorders, mixers at diverse geographical locations using postal, air-express, radio, or telecommunication
  Fp: November 7, 1973, Toronto, Canada
  
• Music for Nothing

  Pendulum sounds are fed into a cybernetic sound-system, where they are allowed to interact with words on "nothing" by Samuel Beckett, Norman O. Brown, and John Cage.

  1971
  for card and pendulum manipulators, tape recorder operators, and readers
  
• Tt

  • Video

  The contents of this composition are aural and visual presentations and illuminations (by means of speech, recordings, slide projections, films, sculptural constructions, etc.) of words ideas and images of B. Fuller, M. McLuhan and J. Cage.

  1968/1969
  electronics
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Octode

  1967
  fixed media
  
• Variations (on variations on [variations])

  I Le bonheur
  II The charge
  III Spring
  based on „Variations done for Gerald van de Wiele“ by Charles Olson
  1966/1967
  12'
  optional singer, 1 or 2 optional instrumentalists playing one or more instruments, 1 or 2 optional prepared tapes, and recording equipment
  Text: Charles Olson (in English)
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
  

UNSPECIFIED INSTRUMENTATION

• Caves

  In memoriam Robert Creeley
  2006
  30'
  any musicians plus reader
  Text: Robert Creeley
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• EMIT (EnergyMassInteracT)

  • Audio

  • EnergyMassInteracT / NYYD Ensemble

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  +

  /

  Music, as any physical phenomenon, is a result of a continuous series of energy transformations from certain specific states to other specific states; the determinate phase of this energy-shifting pricess takes place in the listening humen’s ear and brain.
  The initial energy of music is also located in the human brain: in the memorybank and imagination horizon of the musician.
  Whatever impulse
  activates
  the musician’s
  memory and/or imagining
  energies,
          these
          energies
          are transferred into
          energies producing
          physical actions (with or without the aid of external objects, i.e. musical instruments)
          of varied nature (vocalizing, blowing, percussive, frictional, etc.)
          in order to set into motion
          energies of
          complex waves
          travelling through (any elastic medium, including)
          air molecules
          which the listener’s (including the musician’s)
          interactive ear/brain
          energies
          interpret as
          music.
  
  Certain kinds of musician’s
  memory and/or imagining
  energies
  occur separately
  in time and space
  from actual musicking,
  and are transformed
  through brain/hand interaction
  into
  music.

  2005
  30'
  for any number of musicians using any choice of instruments and/or voices
  Fp: NYYD Ensemble; March 24, 2006, Von Krahl Theatre, Tallinn, Estonian Music Days Festival
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Nomelos

  NOMELOS – nome (Italian for 'name') + melos (Greek for 'melody')
  
  for any number of instrumentalists using pitched instruments
  
  based on musicalphabetic transliteration of the name
  Reginald Peter Godden
  and the first nine prime numbers

  remembering Reginald Godden
  2005
  for any number of pitched instruments
  Fp: Canadian Brass, Robert Aitken, Jack Behrens, Casey Sokol; September 14, 2005, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Primeku

  PRIME (numbers: 2 3 5 7 11 13 17) + (hai) KU (classical Japanese 17 syllable poem)

  2004
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  any number of musicians using any instruments or sound-producing means
  Fp: Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• 90+ (4'33"³) Memoryechoes of John Cage

  90+
  (= 4'33"³)
  memroyechoesof john cage
  is a musical celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of John Cage, derived from the text of DIARY: HOW TO IMPROVE THE WORLD (YOU WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE), and from the scores of:
  4'33'"
  Amores
  Cheap Imitation
  Chorales
  Dream
  Experiences No 2
  Songbooks #35
  Songbooks #45
  Songbooks #47
  The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
  
  90+ may be performed by any number of musicians using any instruments (if possible including strings and/or winds capable of producing microtonal intervals), and/or any number of speakers/vocalists, and (optionally) an operator of a compact disc playback system.
  
  90+ may be performed in its entirety; duration: 90'60",
  or in fragmentary segments of durations:
  9'06"
  18'12"
  27'18"
  36'24"

  2001
  91'
  any number of musicians using any instruments and/or any number of speakers/vocalists, and (optionally) an operator of a compact disc playback system
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Agnes/Linda in Linda/Agnes

  2001
  any number of readers and any number of musicians
  Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Linda Smith (reader), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
  
• MusiXenia

  2001
  any 6–10 players
  
• 4'33" Fractals

  • Video

  2000
  4'33''
  any number of players
  Text: James Joyce
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• 4'33" PrimeTimeFractals

  2000
  any number of voices/players
  Text: James Joyce
  
• 4'33"2

  2000
  instrumental or vocal quartet
  Text: James Joyce
  
• Diaries and Letters of R. C. Seeger

  A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer/writer/diarist.
  
  Three continuous sections:
  1. Prologue: Diary entry from August 26, 1927
  2. Diaries and letters: New York jottings from 1930, letter to Edgard Varese, May 22, 1948
  3. Eclogue: "WHY DON'T THEY EAT CAKE?," 1938

  2000
  Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
  two female narrators and any number of instrumentalists
  Text: Ruth Crawford Seeger
  
• FUTURE is PAST is NOW

  FUTURE     is     PAST
           is            is
               NOW
  
  Music for four or more musicians performing as one (or more) interconnected quartet(s)/quintet(s) and/or sextet(s)/septet(s)

  1996
  for four or more musicians
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Marklewake

  1990
  Structured improvisation for one (or preferably) more instrument(s) and voice(s)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Counterpoints for Philip Corner

  1988
  for unspecified performers
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Vertical Music

  in remembrance of Morton Feldman
  1987
  for any seven instruments, most preferably of identical family
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Piece for Peace

  1985-1986
  any number of chanters, any number of speakers, any number of instruments capable of sustained tones
  Text: Mahatma Gandhi, Laozi, Albert Einstein, Black Elk (in English)
  
• Yi Jing Jitterbug

  Written to honour James Tenney on his 50th birthday
  1984
  for 8 winds and/or bowed strings
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• conNotations

  Poems, graphic notation and musical symbols based on personal names and idiograms from the I Ching.

  For Anne Bourne, Chris Devonshire, Gordon Monahan, Kim Ratcliffe, Stephen Donald, and Tina Pearson
  1983
  for unspecified performers
  Commissioned by: New Music Co-operative
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Ragtime

  1981
  One group of instrumentalists plays instruments of Asian/Indian origin; the other, instruments of European/North American origin
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Zodiacanons

  To be performed as an independent piece or in conjunction with Celestial Timescapes and/or Terrestrial Texts and/or other appropriate materials.

  For Don Druick
  1980
  for 1-12 instrumentalists (playing chormatically tuned instruments) and/or vocalists
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• In support of Justice Thomas Berger

  1977
  for unspecified number of participants playing found percussion instruments
  Text: from „The past and future land“ by Martin O’Malley (in English)
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Elaborations on Erratum musical of Marcel Duchamp

  In memoriam Lily Maley
  1975
  for unspecified performers
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Guitarmusic for John Cage

  In collaboration with Mike Nash (graphics and slides).
  Idea conceived in 1972
  Concept revised in 1974
  Score completed in 1975
  
  “The enclosed version was premiered under the co-leadership of the Cuban guitarist Leo Brouwer in 1975 at the international Guitar Conference, although most participants in this performance were classical guitarists, the score allows or rather encourages, the participation of guitarists of many persuasions: folk, rock, jazz, country western; flamenco, classical, etc. A natural for an ‘amateur’ event.”

  1975
  Kestus varieerub / Variable duration
  any number of guitarists (any style) and one leader using projectors and chance operations to direct the performance
  Fp: Participants of Guitar '75, conductor Leo Brouwer; June 26, 1975, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto, Toronto
  Commissioned by: Guitar Society of Toronto
  Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
• Voicemusic for John Cage

  1972
  any number of voices
  
• Trigon

  To Bertram Turetzky
  1963/1969
  for 1, 3, 9, or 27 instrumentalists and/or sound-producing media and/or dancers
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
  
• Octagonal octet and/or ode

  Dedicated to William Kilbourn
  1967/1968
  Octet: for 8 performers using any media
  Ode: for 1, 2, 4, or 6 performers using any media
  Text: from Ezra Pound’s „Confucian Odes“ (optional)
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
  
• Calceolaria

  1966/1967
  For any number of performers in any media
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
  
• Contactics

  a choreography for musicians and audience
  1966/1967
  for any number of musicians and participating audience or dancers
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
  
• Timepiece

  • Video

  To Paul Kilburn
  1964/1967
  For solo performer using one or more instruments. May also be used by more than one performer
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
  
• Cascando

  Cascando
  Radio play
  VII
  XXIII
  For Catherine
  1963-1965
  any player/any number of players
  Text: Samuel Beckett
  
• Cumulus

  1963–64
  any solo instrument or instrumental ensemble, 2 tape recorders
  

MUSIC FOR CHILDREN

Songs for children

• Five Songs for Children

  1. Eletelephony (Laura E. Richards)
  2. The monkeys and the crocodile (Laura E. Richards)
  3. A swing song (William Allingham)
  4. What do they say? (Christina Rossetti)
  5. Who has seen the wind? (Christina Rossetti)
  1964
  voice, piano
  Text: Laura E. Richards, William Allingham, Christina Rossetti (in English)
  Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.