Michael Murray
Compositions
Note: All audio files are in mp3 format.
- Four Songs of Solomon (2007-09)
- tenor and orchestra
I. Oh, You are beautiful
II. Beautiful as Tirzah
III. Your love is beautiful
IV. How beautiful are your sandaled feet
- Psalm 121 (2008)
- SATB Chorus and solo viola
- Nurse's Song (for Pearl Yeadon) (2008)
- SATB Chorus
- Nether Music (2008)
- viola, cello, bass
I. Allegro energetico
II. Tranquillissimo
III. Scherzo, allegro
IV. Presto
- Songs of War (1996/revised 2007)
- baritone, string quartet
1. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak
2. In the Prison Pen
3. War Is Kind
- The Merchant of Venice (2005) (incidental music for theater)
- digital audio, soprano
Song: Tell me, where is fancy bred?
Belmont
Venice
- Fantasia Concertante on Old American Tunes (2004)
- solo viola, piano, string orchestra
I. Wondrous
II. Fly
III. Plenty
- The Wild Winds Weep (2004)
- soprano, horn, piano
I. To a Child dancing in the Wind (Yeats)
II. Nightpiece (Joyce)
III. Mad Song (Blake)
- What Is It For? (2003)
- trumpet, organ
I. Prelude
II. Elegy
III. Chaos
- Translations (2002) (incidental music for theater)
- digital audio, soprano, bodhrain
- After the Fall (2002)
- SATB choir
I. After the Fall
II. We
III. Changing Home
- Blindness (2002) (incidental music for theater)
- digital audio, soprano, piano
audio excerpts:
radio song
the Minister's speech
rape
- Five Blake Songs (2001)
- soprano, clarinet
I. The Smile
II. I heard an Angel singing
III. The Fly
IV. Holy Thursday
V. The Little Vagabond
- The Tempest (2000) (incidental music for theater)
- tenor, SSA choir, digital audio
- Drei lebendes bilder (2000)
- soprano, violin, cello
I. Ich liege wo am Wegrand
II. Leb wohl, Frau Welt
III. Wie grau es auch regnet
- Psalm 92 (1999)
- baritone solo, SATB chorus, orchestra
- On the Beach at Night Alone (1999)
- soprano, tenor, piano
- The Lover Mourns (1998)
- tenor, horn, viola
I. He Tells of a Valley Full
of Lovers
II. The Lover Tells of the
Rose in his Heart
III. The Lover Mourns for the
Loss of Love
- An Unforeseen Remedy (1997)
- marimba solo
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
- Two Crane Songs (1996)
- SATB chorus
I. Should the Wide World
II. In a Place of Blackness
- Blackened Variations #2 (1996)
- computer-generated tape
- Come, thou Holy Spirit (1996)
- SAB chorus, organ
- Variance in a Box (1995)
- multi-media installation
- Agnus Dei (1994)
- SATB chorus
- Dialectic/Teem Spirit (1994)
- collaborative gallery installation
- String Quintet (1992)
- two violins, two violas, cello
- In The Penal Colony (1990-92)
- chamber opera, based on the story by Franz Kafka
- Three Tableaus for Solo Viola (1991-94)
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- Communion (1990)
- vibraphone, viola, cello
- Rhubarb (1989)
- viola, computer-controlled synthesizer
- Five Movements for Brass Quintet (1989)
- two trumpets, horn ,trombone, tuba
- Three Joyce Songs (1988)
- soprano, oboe, viola, piano
- Music for Three (1988)
- flute, clarinet, marimba/xylophone
- Two Songs (1988)
- alto, flute, clarinet, violin, cello
- Festive Overture (1987)
- orchestra
- Sextet (1986)
- flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello
- Piano Sonata (1985)
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- Kingfisher (1984)
- soprano, piano
Michael Murray