David Heuser

Works

Click on individual work for further information about the music.
All works are published by Non-Sequitur Music except those marked with a #.

Orchestra:

Three Lopsided Dances (orchestra - 2008) audio available

Something Miraculous Burns (orchestra - 2007)

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky (orchestra - 2005) audio available

Two Songs for String Orchestra (2005)

Elegy, September 11 (string orchestra - 2001) audio available

Cauldron (orchestra - 1995) audio available

Moon Cycles (orchestra - 1995, rev. 1998) audio available

Band and Wind Ensemble:

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky (band - 2012) audio available

Three Places in the Texas Hill Country (concert band - 2010)

Fever Tokens (wind ensemble - 1992) audio available

Dragons (wind ensemble - 1987) audio available

Opera:

A Brief History of Root Vegetables (a comic opera in three acts - 2010) audio available

The Golden Ax (an opera in one act for soprano, baritone, and woodwind quintet - 2006) audio available

Mixed Chamber Ensembles:

A Sentimental Song (clarinet, cello, piano - 2013; 1')

Seven or Eight Short Things About My Mother (clarinet, violin, cello - 2012; 10’)

The Silence After Us (clarinet, violin, cello, piano - 2012; 5’)

Catching Updrafts (cl, vln, vcl, pno - 2000) audio available

Ceremony (2 fls, 2 tpts, 2 tbns, 4 perc - 1994) audio available

Carnivore (amplified pno, synthesizer, elec guitar, elec bass, 2 perc - 1994) audio available

Ocean (fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno, perc. - 1993) audio available

Chaoborus (14 players - 1993) audio available

The Sun, the Plough and the Hazel Tree (fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno - 1992) audio available

Piano Music:

Three Short Piano Pieces (2008)

November Sonata (2004) audio available

Piano Sonata (2001) audio available

Twelve Miniatures for Piano (1999) audio available

Orbits (pno - 1995)

Skallagrimsson (pno and tape - 1993) audio available

Piano Solo No. 8 - Skallagrimsson (1989) audio available

String Music:

Thin Green Traces (vln, pno - 2006) audio available

Small Blue Marble (string quartet - 2004) audio available

Piano Trio (1997) audio available

Spoon (vcl, cb - 1997)

3,127 Notes for Solo Viola (1996) audio available

Wheel (vln and pno - 1993) audio available

Te Po-teki (vln - 1992) audio available

Vital Signs (2 vlns, vcl - 1991) audio available

Regicide (vcl - 1990)

String Quartet No. 1 (1988) audio available

Music for Winds:

crashing into the sun (alto sax, pno - 2012)

For a While (solo flugelhorn or trumpet - 2010)

(Another) Three Movements for Saxophone Quartet (2008)

To Light (double brass ensemble - 2008)

borne by constellations of green birds (alto sax, pno - 2006) audio available

Flood (fl, marimba/vibes [1 player] or cl, marimba/vibes [1 player] - 2005) audio available

Dusty Red Sphere (horn - 2004) audio available

Deep Blue Spiral (alto sax, tape - 1998) audio available

Cutting the Circle (ob, pno - 1997) audio available

Octet (fl, cl, 2 bsns, 2 tpts, 2 trbs - 1997) audio available

Still Life with Fruit (fl, perc - 1996) audio available

Spork (bsn and cbsn - 1995) audio available

The Old Voice of the Sea (cl - 1993) audio available

Senddef (bass cl - 1989)

Morfran (bass cl - 1987) audio available

Percussion Music:

Five Views of the River (two marimbas - 2013)

Not here, but there (12 percussionists - 2006) audio available

Flood (fl, marimba/vibes [1 player] or cl, marimba/vibes [1 player] - 2005) audio available

Flood (marimba, vibes [2 players] - 2005) audio available (audio is from flute and percussion version)

Baby Toys (perc quartet - 2003) audio available

Going to Vermont (amplified marimba, tape - 2003) audio available

Still Life with Fruit (fl, perc - 1996) audio available

Blow-up (perc solo - 1996)

Blow-up (MIDI perc solo - 1996)

Secrets (percussion sextet - 1991) audio available

Totem (percussion sextet - 1989) audio available

The Way of the Animal Powers (percussion sextet - 1989) audio available

Vocal:

Numbers from the opera A Brief History of Root Vegetables:
- Joy’s Aria ("I used to love coming here") (soprano, piano) 5’ audio available
- Faye’s Aria ("I knew coming back here was a mistake") (soprano, piano) 5’ audio available
- Oh, To Speak (baritone, piano) 5’
- Mine Trio (soprano, soprano, baritone, piano) 4’ audio available
- Since I Was Young (Pemmie's Aria) (tenor, piano) 4'30" audio available
Arrows (baritone, piano or baritone, clarinet, cello and piano, 2006) audio available

#Woman Ironing (soprano, piano or soprano, flute, piano, 2005)

#In Sad Hotels (voice, piano or soprano, flute, piano - 2005)

#O The White Towns (voice, piano - 2003) audio available

#The Darkness in My Pockets (soprano, piano - 2002) audio available

Animals (voice, piano - 2000)

The Stars (voice, piano - 2000)

Sonnet (voice, piano - 2000)

#Immaculate, Bored, Off-key and Vain (baritone, fl, cl, vln, vcl, vibes - 1999; rev. 2004) audio available

#Immaculate, Bored, Off-key and Vain (baritone, fl, ob, cl, vln, vla, vcl - 1999) audio available

#Immaculate, Bored, Off-key and Vain (baritone and pno - 1999) audio available

#Egil's Songs (baritone and pno - 1991) audio available

#from the Aztec Ceremonial Calendar (tenor, alto fl, pno, 2 perc - 1988) audio available

Choral:

#The Cuckoo and the Moon (SATB - 2004) audio available

#The Breathing Night (SSAA, piano - 2002; SATB, piano version - 2002) audio available

#Woman Ironing (SSAA, piano - 2001) audio available

Hecuba's Lament (SSAA, piano - 2000) audio available

#Clouds (SATB - 1999) audio available

#Gawain's Leave-Taking (SATB - 1985)

Electronic and Computer Music:

Here's the Shot (computer music - 2005)

Going to Vermont (amplified marimba, computer music - 2003) audio available

#Cúchulainn's Warp-Spasm (spoken voice, tape - 2001) audio available

Deep Blue Spiral (alto sax, tape - 1998) audio available

Homage to "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (Part 1 - Paranoia) (tape - 1998) audio available

Blow-up (MIDI perc solo - 1996)

Skallagrimsson (pno and tape - 1993) audio available

Birds (tape - 1993) audio available

Home Life (tape - 1992)

An Evil Wind... (tape - 1991)