List of Compositions By Gregory Short - Piano Sonatas

Piano Sonatas

• "Fantasy" Sonata No. 1 (1956–58): in one movement
• "Ballad" Sonata No. 2 (1960)
  1. Kemberly
  2. Shiobhan
• "Etude" Sonata No. 3 (1972, from sketches of 1966-68)
  1. Allegro dramatico
  2. Adagio cantabile
  3. Con brio
• "American Bicentennial" Sonata No. 4 (1976)
  1. When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Chester (William Billings)
  2. The Sow Took The Measles and She Died In the Spring, My Sweetheart's A Mule In the Mine, Froggie Went A Courtin'
  3. Holy Song (Lakota people), Song of Healing (Navajo), Death, Ain't You Got Not Shame, Everybody Loves the Spring (China), Lullaby (Mexico)
  4. The Ballad of John Henry
• "Spirituals" Sonata No.5 (1980) in one movement - Swing Low Sweet Chariot, The Gospel Trains a Comin', Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Heav'n Heav'n, Give Me That Old Time Religion, I Couldn't hear Nobody Pray
• "Women Out West" Sonata No. 6 (1986)
  1. Darlin' Cory, Hang Town Gals, Women's Song of Rejoicing (Pawnee)
  2. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, The Riddle Song (I gave My Love a Cherry), Single Girl
  3. Sweet Betsy from Pike, Sally Goodin', Sally Ann
• "Ghost Dance" Sonata No.7 (1987)
  1. Medicine Song (Apache)
  2. Song of the Fox (Cheyenne), Bird (Seminole), Song of the Fox Society (Lakota people)
  3. Ghost Dance (Pawnee), Ghost Dance (Arapaho), Song of the Earth Maker
  4. Love Song (Lakota people), Love Song (Wabanaki Confederacy), Love Song (Ho-Chunk)
• "Mountain" Sonata No.8 (1988, unfinished)
• "Washington Centennial" Sonata No. 9 (1989) based on Songs about Washington State; Commissioned by the Washington State Music Teachers Association for the Washington State Centennial Celebration of 1989.
  1. Western Washington - Welcome Song (Samish), Traveling Canoe Song (Samish), Song of Namu the Killer Whale (Gregory Short), The Old Settler, My Home In Cathlamet, Go Way Back and Sit Down, The Climb (quote: Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" by Seattle resident Alan Hovhaness)
  2. Scherzo - Blackball Ferry Line Up In Seattle, San Juan Pig, Gooey Duck Song
  3. Eastern Washington - Our State of Washington, Walla Walla Is My Home Town, When Its Blossom Time In the Yakima Valley, Apple Picker's Reel, Roll On Columbia (quote: "Secrets" from Mountain Symphony No. 1 by Spokane resident Michael E. Young)
  4. Finale: The year 1889 represented in a rhythmic pattern - Welcome Song (reprise) (Sammish), Hail Washington, Shalom Aleichem (fugue), My Dreydl, Zero Dacus, Godzilla Ate Tukwilla, Washington My Home