Benjamin Boretz - Principal Compositions

Principal Compositions

• Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra (1954)
• Nocturne for String Orchestra (1955)
• Partita for Piano (1955)
• Divertimento for chamber ensemble (1955–56)
• Violin Concerto (1956)
• Overture to “Jezebel” (1956)
• String Quartet (1957–58)
• 2musics for lukas foss (piano 4 hands) (1957)
• Donne Songs for soprano and piano (1959)
• Group Variations I for chamber orchestra (1964–67)
• Group Variations II for computer (version 1, 1972; 2, 1994; 2.1, 2005)
• Liebeslied, for a pianist alone (1974)
• (“...my chart shines high where the blue milk’s upset...”) for solo piano (1976–77)
• Language, as a music / six marginal pretexts for composition for speaker, piano, prerecorded tape (1978)
• Passage, for Roger Sessions at 80 for piano (1979)
• Converge for ensemble (soundscore) (1980)
• Talk: If I am a musical thinker (paperpiece) (1982)
• Elie: The Dance (four-track tape) (1986)
• forM (a music) (four-track tape) (1986)
• to open I (four-track tape) (1986)
• please think (ensemble collage) (1986)
• to open II (piano, ensemble, tape) (1987)
• Invention (piano four hands) (1988)
• 30 Inter/Play realtime sound sessions (1981–88)
• ONE, eight pianosolo soundsessions (1985)
• Lament for Sarah (piano soundscore) (1989)
• Scores for Composers (1988–1992)
• Dialogue for JKR (piano soundscore) (1990)
• Kivapiece, for and about John Silber (textscore) (1991)
• The Purposes and Politics of Engaging Strangers (for 2 performers) (1991)
• gendermusic for computer (1994)
• music/consciousness/gender (live and recorded speakers, prerecorded music, video images) (1994)
• echoic/anechoic (soundscore for piano) (1997)
• Black /Noise I (for computer) (1998)
• Black /Noise III (video images, computer) (1998)
• Music, as a Music (performance piece for speaker and video) (1998(
• UN(-) for chamber orchestra (1999)
• I/O for two speakers (2001)
• O for piano (2001)
• O for electric guitar (arranged by Mary Lee Roberts) (2002)
• Ainu Dreams (piano soundscore) (2002)
• Postlude (Movement III of String Quartet) (2004-5)
• Downtime for piano and electronic percussion (2005)
• Backlight for the Cygnus Ensemble (2007-8)
• The Memory of All That. A Holy Sonnet of John Donne for Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) (2011)
• Qixingshan for String Quartet (2007–2008; 2010–2011)
• Caves (with dorota czerner) (2009)
• St. Andrews' Night (with dorota czerner) (2011)
• fireflies (with dorota czerner) (2012)
• With respect to George (a postcard for George Quasha at 70) for vibraphone solo (2012)