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Composers Bureau Archives
Eric Stokes
Chamber Music
- Brazen Cartographies (1988) for brass quintet. 16 minutes.
4 movements.
- Nick Draws a Bead (1987) for string bass solo. 4 minutes.
- The Lyrical Pickpocket (1990), based on American folksongs,
for flute (piccolo, alto), oboe (english horn), bassoon, and piano
(toy piano). 14 1/2 minutes. 6 movements.
- Whittlings (1992) for 2 percussion, 1 keyboard (acoustic
& electric), and alto saxophone. 12 minutes.
- Song Circle (1993) for soprano, flute and harp. 15 minutes.
5 songs.
- The Pickpocket is Lyrical Two, for clarinet (sax), keyboard
(piano, electric) and two percussion. 12 minutes. 5 movements.
- Eldey Insel Erinnerungen for flute quartet. 7 minutes.
- Las Golondrinas (1995) for flute solo. 4 minutes.
- Susquehannas (1985) for clarinet (sax), piano and two
percussion. 16 minutes. 5 movements.
- Give & Take (1984) for oboe and cello. 2 1/2 minutes.
- Tintinnabulary (1983), music for 2 or more percussionists
in live or recorded performance. 11 1/2 minutes.
- Tag (1982), a theatre piece for three saxophones. 7 minutes.
- Wind Quintet #2 (1981), 15 minutes. 5 movements.
- Rock & Roll (1980), theatre piece for 5 performers with
rocks, etc. 9 minutes.
- Spring Song (1980) for 5 performers with spring instruments.
12 minutes. 6 movements.
- Caccia (1980) for 2 singers (soprano or tenor), cello
and two sound assistants (bird calls, etc.). 6 1/2 minutes.
- The Bob & Marjorie Music (1974) for clarinet and horn.
3-6 minutes.
- Circles in a Round (1972) for piano(s) and optional self-prepared
tape(s). 8-15 minutes.
- Eldey Island (1971) for solo wind instrument with self-prepared
tape. 7 minutes.
- Four Songs (1963) for oboe and high voice (soprano or
tenor)
- Trio (1955; revised 1963) for clarinet, cello and piano.
14 minutes. 3 movements.
- Tantamounts (1996) for four flutes (alto; bass) and string
quartet. 10-11 minutes.
- Shadows (1996) for two alto saxophones. 4 minutes. 2
movements.
Choral Works
- With Orchestra
- Smoke & Steel (Sandburg) (1989 - completely revised
version) for men's chorus, tenor solo, four horns, six trombones
and strings. 56 minutes.
- The River's Minute by the Far Brook's Year (Crane)
(1981) for SATB Chorus, narrator and orchestra. 20 minutes.
- Harbor Dawn & Proem (Crane) (1986) for SATB Chorus,
narrator, organ, 3-4 percussion and antiphonal brass choirs.
24 minutes.
- Hymns of the Burning Will (Greenberg) (1980) for
SATB Chorus, 2 keyboards (piano, organ, celeste), 1 percussion.
Optional: 2 flutes (piccolo), 2 clarinets (sax), 2 trombones
and strings. 43 minutes. From the opera, Horspfal.
- Mermaids Stand by the King of the Sea (Fulghum) (1991)
for SATB Chorus, narrator, and orchestra. 10 minutes.
- With accompaniment
- Wondrous World (Yeats) (1984) for vocal quartet (SATB)
with self-prepared tape. 14 1/2 minutes.
- What Eve Sang (MacLeish) (1980) for antiphonal chorus:
SAT-SAB with handbells. 6 1/2 minutes.
- Mata El Pajaro, Guarda El Canto (Bustos) (1984) for
SATB Chorus, with rattles and narrator. 3 1/2 minutes.
- Peppercorn Songs (Stokes) (1984) for SATB Chorus
with piano or optional ensemble. 6 minutes.
- Pied Beauty (Hopkins) (1997) for SATB Chorus, 2 trumpets,
2 horns, timpani and organ. 7 minutes.
- A Cappella
- Ivy is Good (1962) for SATB Chorus, 14th century
English text. 5 1/2 minutes.
- A Doomsday Carol (1966) for SATB Chorus, 14th century
English text. 5 minutes.
- When This You See, Remember Me (1970), Theatre piece
for 12 solo voices (SATB), 9-14 minutes.
- Firecho (1987) for 5 or more solo voices with optional
percussion. 10-12 minutes.
- Inversnaid (1991) for SATB chorus. 8 minutes.
Opera
- Horspfal (1969). Libretto: Alvin Greenberg. 1 hour and
50 minutes. 2 acts.
- Happ or Orpheus in Clover (1977) Libretto: Eric
Stokes. A micro-opera, birthday celebration. 6 singers with piano
or instruments with wild animal calls as used by hunters. 7 minutes.
- The Jealous Cellist (1979) Libretto: Alvin Greenberg.
1 hour and 55 minutes. 2 acts.
- Itaru the Stonecutter (1982) Libretto: Eric Stokes. Opera
for children and/or adults with narration, song and instruments.
40 minutes. 1 act.
- We're Not Robots, You Know (1986) Libretto: Keith Gunderson.
Musical in 9 scenes. 55 minutes.
- Apollonia's Circus (1994) Libretto: Alvin Greenberg.
2 hours (3 acts, one intermission)
- The Further Voyages of the Santa Maria, in progress.
Libretto: Alvin Greenberg.
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