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Emily Doolittle -- Selected Compositions
Click on selected links to listen and to download PDFs of scores. If you download a piece and perform it please let me know!
Many of my scores are available on my site at the Canadian Music Centre. Feel free to contact me for any scores that are not available there. (emilydoolittle (at) gmail.com)
Orchestral Music
A Short, Slow Life (2011) (click under my name on the right-hand side of the page to hear the piece)
9:00; for soprano and orchestra; commissioned by Suzie LeBlanc for Suzie LeBlanc and Symphony Nova Scotia; based on a poem by Elizabeth Bishop
and some firewoks (2007)
i. reels
ii. air
iii. two jigs and some fireworks
14:00; for orchestra; commissioned by the Conseil des Arts de Montréal for the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
green/blue (2003)
12:00; for orchestra; commissioned by the Oregon East Symphony
Dance (2001)
6:30; for orchestra; commissioned by First Music for the New York Youth Symphony
green notes (2000)
7:00; for baroque orchestra; commissioned by CBC for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Chamber Music (Instrumental)
Folie à Deux (2011)
3:30; for flute and harpsichord; commissioned by Cléo Palacio-Quintin and Katelyn Clark
Reeds (2010)
36:00; for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and dancer; commissioned by the Umbrella Ensemble (Newfoundland Sound Symposium, 2010)
Sorex (2010)
7:00; for piano four-hands; commissioned by the Fung-Chiu Duo
Paths (2008)
11:00; for flute and harp; commissioned by Laurel Phillipson for Tacye Phillipson
col (2002)
5:30; for violin and marimba; commissioned by the Netherland-America Foundation for Entropy
falling still (2000/2001)
5:00; for baroque string orchestra or string quartet; commissioned by the Canada Council for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
four pieces about water (2000)
I. running water
II. salt water
III. frozen water
IV. rain water
11:00; for nine instruments; commissioned by the Nova Scotia Arts Council for Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal
Four Short Pieces for String Quartet (1999)
7:00; for string quartet
night black bird song (1999)
8:00; for two flutes and three percussion; commissioned by SCI/ASCAP for the New York University New Music Ensemble. Recorded on Capstone label. Purchase here.
suppose i was a marigold (1997)
4:45; for cello and piano; commissioned by Greg Homza
Chamber Music (With Voice)
The Wise Daughter (2009)
11:00; for narrator, violin, and piano; based on a Jewish folktale; commissioned by Talespin
Why the parrot repeats human words (2005)
19:00; for narrator, clarinet, viola, and percussion; based on a Thai folktale; commissioned by the Canada Council for Meduse
Le Loup, la chevre et le chevreau (2005)
9:00; text by Lafontaine; for soprano, tenor, 8 flutes, cello; commissioned by the Nova Scotia Arts Council for Alizé
all spring (2004)
I. five o'clock
II. all spring
III. have you
IV. ruffed grouse
V. just when
18:00; for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, bass (or cello), and percussion; text by Rae Crossman; commissioned by the Canada Council for the Motion Ensemble
Weather Songs (1996)
I. Lightning
II. Snow
9:30; for soprano, flute, violin, cello, piano, and percussion; text by Yves Bonnefoy, translations by John Naughton; recorded on Muziekgroep Nederland label. Purchase here.
Voice Solo or With One Instrument
Hatchlings (a set of six) (2009)
7:00; for baritone and piano; commissioned by Giles Herman
vocalise (for bees) (2008)
3:00; for solo mezzo-soprano; commissioned by Miranda Loud
Social sounds from whales at night (2007)
8:00; for soprano and electronics; commissioned by the Canada Council for Helen Pridmore.
Performance materials for Social sounds are here.
Childs Play (2002)
1. The Royal Staircase
2. Nicely
3. The Stone Carrier
12:00; for soprano and piano; texts by Erik Satie, translated Emily Doolittle; commissioned by the Nova Scotia Arts Council for Janice Jackson and Eve Egoyan (version for tenor and piano also available)
Virelais (2001)
Song; Breake of Day; Batter My Heart; Dance; Stay, O Sweet
12:00; for soprano and viola d'amore (or soprano and violin); texts by John Donne; commissioned by the Nova Scotia Arts Council for Janice Jackson and Thomas Georgi
Ruby-Throated Moment (1999)
3:30; for solo high soprano; for Wendy Humphries
Airs of Men Long Dead (1998/1999)
I. Waiting
II. Wolf
III. Song
IV. Sycamore
10:00; for soprano and piano; text by Forrest Pierce; for Patricia Green. Recorded on Blue Griffin label. Purchase here.
Two Hammarskjöld Songs (1994)
I. Thus It Was
II. Seven Weeks
7:30; for soprano and piano; text by Dag Hammarskjöld, translations by W. H. Auden
Choral
BURN (1997)
4:30; for 15 Womens Voices and Percussion; ancient Mayan text, translated by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno; for the Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
Solo Piano
Gliese 581c (2008)
4:00; commissioned by Rachel Iwaasa
minute etudes, book ii (2002)
fleeting; tranquil; frenzied; steadfast; glassy; hearty
6:00; for Ben Binder
minute etudes, book I (1998)
furtive; languid; lively; lonely; playful
5:00; for Ruth Rose. Downlad PDFs of furtive, languid, lively, lonely and playful here.
Other Solo Instrumental
Utah, 1996 (2009)
variable; for solo cello, based on transcriptions of a hermit thrush song, recorded by Kevin Colver; written for Tim Ingold
Nocturne (2008)
4:30; for solo alphorn; commissioned by Mike Cumberland
music for magpies (2003)
pied butcherbird; hoopoe lark; ringed river snike; pileated pocket grouse; green-rumped antstalker
7:00; for viola da gamba with quarter-tone frets (or cello or viola); for Karin Preslmayr
field music (1998)
4:30; for solo clarinet; for Jennifer Barlament
Aubade (1996)
2:30; for solo flute; for Ellen Waterman. Download a PDF here.
Electronic
Shimmering (2008)
1:00
Music for Children
I Am... (2006)
19 junior/intermediate level piano pieces, published by Oceanna music. Purchase here.
Turning (2006)
Included in Canadian National Conservatory of Music Northern Lights series, level IIB. Purchase here.
Tranquil (2002)
Included in Canadian National Conservatory of Music Northern Lights series, level IVB. Purchase here.