Scores and recordings
This page contains links to selected scores and recordings. All my music is here; you can ignore the Browse items/collection/exhibits links at the top of the page. Most of the pieces listed below are original compositions; a few are arrangments. This site is a work in progress; I am adding scores and recordings as time allows. Last update: choral music: 4 scores/recordings uploaded 4/25/2013.
Selecting the link for a PDF will bring you to a page on the site that contains information about the piece and, at the bottom of the screen, a PDF of the score. Click on the magnifier at the top right of the PDF frame to enlarge the score so it's comfortable for you to read.
Selecting the link for the MP3 file will bring you to a page on the site that contains information about the piece and, at the bottom of the screen, a small player where you can elect to listen to the MP3.
All scores are under Creative Commons Non-commercial 3.0 Copyright (downloading and reproduction encouraged; no for-profit uses).
If you would like to download or print a score, after you select the link to PDF, scroll down the resulting screen of information until you come to the document viewer at the bottom. Click on the arrow at the top right of the file's display; the score will open up in a separate tab or window as a PDF. From there, click on the File menu in the upper left of the screen and select the Save or Print options.
If you would like any further information about the music on this site, please contact me at dlski@visi.com or see my St. Catherine University page for additional information and alternate contact options.
Choral music
- Lord's Prayer: PDF and MP3:
A choral setting (SATB, unaccompanied) of the Lord's prayer (traditional English text).Performance by the Minneapolis Vocal Consort, Karen Barrett, conductor.
- Hard times: PDF and MP3:
Unaccompanied SATB choral arrangement of Stephen Foster's song ("Let us pause in life's pleasures and count it many tears, While we all sup sorrow with the poor...While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay, There are frail forms fainting at the door..."). Performed by the Hamline University Choir, George Chu, conductor.
- Light and splendor: PDF and MP3
An unaccompanied SSATB choral setting of Leonard Cohen's poem Light and splendor. Both the poem and composition can be considered as abstract expressions of an event, process, or experience from beginning to end (e.g. as in Haydn's "Sunrise" quartet). Performance by the Minneapolis Vocal Consort, Karen Barrett, conductor.
- Come lovely and soothing death: PDF and MP3: Unaccompanied SATB choral setting of text selected from Whitman's "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd." Composed as a response to a close friend's suicide. Performance by the Dale Warland Singers, Dale Warland, conductor.
- Other choral works I hope to upload in the future include O taste and see (SATB part-song, text by Levertov); Fern Hill (SAB part-song, text, Dylan Thomas); Six service pieces (SATB with organ).
Other music I hope to add in the future (as I complete some long-needed editing and revision of these works):
Organ music
Chorale preludes on various hymn tunes, including Amazing grace, Aus teifer Not, In dulci jubilo, Nettleton, Silent night, and Variations on Veni Creator Spiritus.
Keyboard music other than organ
Fortepiano etudes, Fortepiano sonata, Suite for keyboard
Chamber music
Trio for violoin, viola, cello; Trio for clarinet, cello and piano; String quartet, Octet for string quatet and wind quartet
Music for large ensembles
Carolan's Concerto: concerto for recorder, baroque flute and string orchestra; Fantasy on three carol tunes, for choir with woodwing quintet; New Brighton, suite for orchestra; Transformation, for band.