Complete List of Works

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS

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INSTRUMENTATION

Instrumentation for each piece is described using the following template:

Winds - Brass - Percussion - Keyboard/Harp – Strings (Order of instrumental families)

fl.ob.cl.bsn - hn.tpt.tbn.tba - vln1.vln2.vla.vlc.cb (Order of instruments within each)

Additional instruments are cited using common abbreviations.

If no number is stated before an instrument, the indication is for one performer.

PUBLISHING

* Published by Universal Edition:

** Published by G.Schirmer Inc.

*** Published by B. Schott

† Published by The Earle Brown Music Foundation

Detailed contact information for each can be found here

HOME BURIAL (1949)†

To a poem by Robert Frost. For piano.

THREE PIECES FOR PIANO (1951)***

MUSIC FOR VIOLIN, CELLO, AND PIANO (1952)*

FOLIO (1952-1953)**

Graphic and open form works for variable instrumentation

PERSPECTIVES ( 1952)***

For piano.

OCTET I (1952-53)†

For eight independent tracks of tape and eight loudspeakers surrounding the audience.

OCTET II (1953)†

The score exists but has never been realized. Same technical setup as OCTET I.

INDICES (1954)†

Commissioned by Merce Cunningham for the dance “Spring Weather and People”

fl - hn, tpt - 4 perc - pf, elec. guit - 2.0.0.2.2

piano reduction also available

MUSIC FOR CELLO AND PIANO (1954-55)**

FORGOTTEN PIECE (1954)†

Originally sketches for a four piano piece, which were arranged for solo piano by David Arden as part of his recording of the complete works for piano. Commissioned by Harmonia Mundi.

FOUR SYSTEMS (1954)*

Written for David Tudor as a birthday present, but performable by any instrument or group of instruments.

FOUR MORE (1956)†

For one or more pianos

THE KIND OF BIRD I AM: FOR MAX ERNST (1957)

For orchestra

PENTATHIS (1957-1958)***

fl, bcl, tpt, tn tbn, hrp, pf, vln, vla, vcl

HODOGRAPH I (1959)**

For flute, piano, percussion.

AVAILABLE FORMS I (1961)**

1.1.2(Eb,Bb).1.bcl - 1.1.1.0 - 2 perc (orch.bells, mar, 2 timp, xyl, vib) - pf, hp - 1.1.1.1.1

LIGHT MUSIC (1962)†

This piece was never realized. It was designed as a complex lighting panel, all aspects of sound being represented and visible to an orchestra, the composition being controlled by the composer at a lighting panel.

AVAILABLE FORMS II (1962)**

98 Players divided into two orchestras - 2 Conductors

NOVARA (1962)*

fl, bcl - tpt - pf - 2.0.1.1.0

TIME SPANS (1963)*

4.3.4.3 - 4.4.4.2 - 2 vib, 2 mar - 2 pf, 2 hp - 16.14.12.10.8

FROM HERE (1963)*

For SATB chorus (optional) and 20 instruments

1.1.3.1 - 1.1.1.1. - 2 perc - amp guit, hp, pf - 2.0.1.1.1

CORROBOREE (1964)*

For 3 or 2 pianos

STRING QUARTET (1965)*

NINE RAREBITS (1965)*

For harpsichord

CALDER PIECE (1963-66)†

For Calder Mobile and four percussionists. 100 percussion instruments needed.

MODULES I + II (1966)*

Modules are independent works playable alone or simultaneously

Module I: 2.1.1.0 - 2.2.1.1 - 2.2.2.2.2

Module II: 1.1.1.1.eng hn.dbn - 2.2.1.1 - 2.2.2.2

EVENT: SYNERGY II (1967/1968)*

For ensemble and two conductors

2 fl, 2ob, eng hn, Eb cl, 2 Bb cl, bcl, 2 bn - 4 vln, 2 vla, 2 vlc

Alternate configurations:

Ø fl, ob, eng hn, Bb cl, bcl, bn - string quartet;

Ø fl, ob, Eb cl, Bb cl, bn -string quartet;

Ø 2 fl, 2 ob, eng hn, Eb cl, 2 Bb cl, bcl, 2 bn;

Ø 4 vln, 2 vla, 2 vlc

MODULE III (1968/1969)*

2.1.2.1 - 1.2.1.0 - 3 perc: xyl, vib, mar - hp, pf - 2.2.2.2.2

SMALL PIECE FOR LARGE CHORUS (1969-1970)*

SYNTAGM III (1970)*

fl, bcl - hp, pf / cel, vib, mar, vln, vlc

NEW PIECE (1971)†

For four or five small (3-5 instrument) spatialized ensembles and conductor.

Several versions with different instrumentation exist.

NEW PIECE LOOPS (1972)*

2.1.2.2 - 2.2.3.1 - 2 perc - 2 hp, 2 pf - 24.0.10.8.6

chorus: 12s.12a.12t.12b in 3 or 4 groups

SIGN SOUNDS (1972)*

1.0.1.1, bcl - 0.1.1.0 - glock, xyl, vib, mar - cel, hp, pf - 2.0.1.1.1

CENTERING (1973)*

For solo violin and ensemble

1.0.1.1 - 1.1.1.0 - pf - 1.0.1.1.0

CROSS SECTIONS AND COLOR FIELDS (1972-1975)*

3 fl, afl, ob, eng hn, 2 cl, bcl, ssax, 2 bn, dbn - 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, 2 tba –

6perc: glock, xyl, vib, mar, tb chimes, timp - 2 hp, cel, pf –

16 vln1, 14 vln2, 10 vla, 8 vlc, 6 db

WIKIUP (1979)†

Installation/performance piece for 6 cassette players suspended on ropes and pulleys playing endless loop cassettes. 3 have sounds recorded by EB while 3 are "re-recorded" by members of the "audience." Members of the audience can reposition the cassette players by pulling on the ropes, allowing them to "conduct" the spatialization.

WINDSOR JAMBS (1980)†

Mezzo voice, fl, bcl - perc - vln, vlc

SOUNDER ROUNDS (1982-1983)†

1.2.2.1.alto fl,eng hn, bcl, cbsn - 4 perc - pf, hp - 4.6.2.1 - 2.2.2.2.2

TRACER (1985)†

For four channels of tape flute, clarinet, bass clarinet: violin, cello, and contrabass.

“OH, K” (1992)†

fl, ob, cl, bcl - perc - pf - vln, vlc

TRACKING PIERROT (1995)†

fl, cl / bcl - perc - pf - vln, vlc

SUMMER SUITE '95 (1995)†

13 short pieces for piano.

SPECIAL EVENTS (1998-1999)†

For cello and piano