Roger Reynolds

Updated 6 December 2023

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Except for some works which remain in manuscript form in the Reynolds Archive, all compositions are published by or are on rental from Wise Music Classical, Part of Wise Music Group. In the case of certain works, viewers may be asked to contact the composer directly for information.


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ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V] (2018-2020), cf ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Piano, Real-time algorithmic transformation


Aether (1983) 22'
Violin, Piano
First performance: 29 October 1983
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
János Négyesy, Violin, Cecil Lytle, Piano
Commissioned by The McKim Fund in The Library of Congress

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Ambages (1965) 9.5'
Solo Flute
First performance: October 1965
Karen Reynolds, Flute
Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio

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Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago: II) (1986) 13'
Solo Marimba
First performance: 7 November 1986
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, Gordon Stout, Marimba
Commissioned by a National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Award

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The Behavior of Mirrors (1985-1986) 6.5'
Solo Guitar
First performance: 9 February 1986
92nd Street Y, New York, David Starobin, Guitar
Commissioned by David Starobin

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Colombi Daydream (2010) 7'45"
Solo Cello
First performance: 12 February 2011
Mystery Variations (31 short works based on the Chiacona by Giuseppe Colombi)
Anssi Karttunen, Cello
Festival Présences (Radio France), Théâtre du Châtelet
Paris

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A Crimson Path, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Cello and Piano


DICKINSON, cf. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) as well as SOLO
8 Poems by Emily Dickinson
First performance: 27 May 2020
Jonathan Nussman, Baritone and Almglocken
Wednesdays@7:00
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
UC San Diego, La Jolla


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Dream Mirror [SHARESPACE I], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Guitar, Real-time algorithmic transformation


Epigram and Evolution, cf. PIANO
Solo Piano


Fantasy for Pianist, cf. PIANO
Solo Piano


Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward... (1989) 11'
Solo Cello
First performance: 27 February 1992
Rohan de Saram, Cello
Merkin Concert Hall, New York

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Here and There (2018) 35", cf. PERCUSSION as well as SOLO
Speaking Percussionist
First performance: 27 February 2019
Steven Schick, Percussion 
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
La Jolla, California 

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imagE/cello & imAge/cello, cf. STRINGS
Solo Cello


imagE/contrabass & imAge/contrabass, cf. STRINGS
Solo Contrabass


imagE/guitar & imAge/guitar (2009), cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as SOLO
Solo Guitar
First performance: 3 March 2011
Pablo Gómez Cano, Guitar
The Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
May be performed separately.


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imAge/flute (2014)
Solo Flute
First performance: 19 November 2014
Rachel Beetz, Flute
XI FESTIVAL Internacional de MÚSICA NUEVA Monterrey 2014
Teatro del Centro de las Artes
Monterrey, México

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imagE/flute (2009)
Solo Flute
First performance: 9 May 2012
Rachel Beetz, Flute
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
La Jolla, California

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imagE/violin & imAge/violin, cf. STRINGS
Solo Violin


imagE/piano & imAge/piano, cf. PIANO
Solo Piano


The Image Machine, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Real-time interactive computer music


Islands of Archipelago:

Summer Island (Islands from Archipelago: I) (1984) 11'30"
Solo Oboe, Quadraphonic computer processed sound

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Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago: II) (1986) 13'
Solo Marimba

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Kokoro (1991-1992) 18'
Solo Violin
First performance: 30 January 1993
Le Botanique, Brussels, Irvine Arditti, Violin
Commissioned by Irvine Arditti with funds from the British Arts Council

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MARKed MUSIC [SHARESPACE II], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Contrabass, Real-time algorithmic transformation


Mosaic (1962) 10'
Solo Flute (Piccolo), Piano
First performance: 25 May 1962
ONCE Event, Michigan State University, Lansing
Karen Hill, Flute (Piccolo), Bob James, Piano


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OPPOrTuniTy, cf. PIANO as well as SOLO
Solo Piano
Text: "John"
First performance: 9 September 2012
Margaret Leng Tan, Pianist/Voice
National Gallery of Art, East Building Atrium
Washington, DC
Commissioned by the John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC

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The Palace [Voicespace IV] (1978-80) 16', SERIES OF WORKS as well as SOLO
(Modest staging) Bass Baritone, Quadraphonic
computer processed sound
Text: poem The Palace by Jorge Luis Borges
First performance: 28 February 1981
Contemporary Music Festival 1981, CalArts, Los Angeles
Philip Larson, Bass-Baritone
1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award

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PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Cello and Computer Musician


Shifting/Drifting [SHARESPACE IV], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Violin, Real-time algorithmic transformation


SKETCHBOOK (for The Unbearable Lightness of Being) (1985) 30'
Low female voice accompanying herself at the piano,
electronic processing
Text drawn from the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
First performance: 14 May 1985
Symphony Space, New York, Joan La Barbara

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Summer Island (Islands from Archipelago: I) (1984) 11'30"
Solo Oboe, Quadraphonic computer processed sound
First performance: 7 November 1984
Interlink Festival, Tokyo, James Ostryniec, Oboe
Commissioned by Randolph S. Rothschild


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Toward Another World: LAMENT [SHARESPACE III], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Clarinet, Real-time algorithmic transformation


Transfigured Wind I (1984) 9'
Solo Flute
First performance: 19 May 2003
Reiko Manabe, Flute
Mandeville Center for the Arts, University of California, San Diego

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[TW I and TW IV are the same flute part]



Transfigured Wind IV (1985) 18', cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Solo Flute, Quadraphonic computer processed sound


Variation, cf. PIANO
Solo Piano


Watershed I (1995) 27.5'
Solo Percussion
First performance: 1 December 1995
Manhattan School of Music, New York, Steven Schick, Percussion


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