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Aquí está el catálogo de Rzewski más actualizado de Internet. Hemos clasificado sus piezas según las distinas instrumentaciones: a) Piano; b) Más de un piano; c) Instrumento solo; d) Más de un instrumento; e) Grandes conjuntos; f) Piezas escénicas/performativas; g) Piezas electroacústicas.

PARA PIANO:

• Chain of Thought (1953)
• Tabakrauch (1954)
• Preludes (1957)
• Poem (1959)
• Study 1 (1961)
• Study 2 (Dreams), (1961)
• Falling Music, para piano o piano amplificado con cinta (1971)
• No Place to Go but around (1974)
• 36 Variations on ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!‘ (1975)
• Four Pieces (1977)
• Squares (1978)
• North American Ballads (1978-79)

• o 1.Dreadful Memories
• o 2.Which Side are You on?
• o 3. Down by the Riverside
• o 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

• The Housewife’s Lament (1980)
• Eggs (1986)
• Steptangle (1986)
• The Turtle and the Crane (1988)
• Mayn Yingele (1988)
• Fantasy (1989)
• Bumps (1990)
• Ludes (1990-91)
• Sonata (1991)
• Andante con Moto, variations on a theme without Beethoven (1992)
• De Profundis, para pianista recitante sobre textos de Oscar Wilde (1991-92)
• A Life (1992)
• Fougues (1994)
• The Road (1995-2003)

• o Turns (The Road, Parte 1) (1995)
• o Tracks (The Road, Parte 2) (1996)
• o Tramps (The Road, Parte 3) (1997)
• o Stops (The Road, Parte 4) (1998)
• o The Days Fly By (The Road, parte 5) (1998)
• o A Few Knocks (The Road, Parte 5) (1999)
• o Travelling with Children (The Road, Parte 6) (1999)
• o Final Preparations (The Road, Parte 7) (1999-2001)
• o The Big Day Arrives (The Road, Parte 8) (2002-03)
• o Stop the War! (The Road, Parte 8) (2003)

• Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (2003)
• Cadenza (con o senza Beethoven) (2003)
• Dust (2003)
• Ballad 5: It Makes A Long Time Feel Bad (1997-2004)
• Spells (Thinking of Jelly Roll Morton) (2004)
• Second Hand, or Finally Alone, para mano izquierda sola (2005)
• Nanosonatas (libros 1 y 2) (2006-07)
• WarSongs (2008)

PARA MÁS DE UN PIANO:

• Introduction and Sonata, para dos pianos (1959)
• Figura, para dos pianos (1959)
• Exchanges II, para cuatro pianos (1960)
• Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, para dos pianos (1980)
• A Machine, para dos pianos (1984)
• Night Crossing with Fisherman, para dos pianos (1994)

PARA UN SOLO INSTRUMENTO:

• Soliloquy, para violinista con discurso, sobre un poema de Frederic Rzewski (1960)
• For Violin, para violín (1962)
• Selfportrait, for one player (1964)
• Freud, para voz sola sobre un texto de Sigmund Freud de El Malestar en la Cultura (1970)
• The Housewife’s Lament, para clave (1980)
• Aria, para flauta (1981)
• Pennywhistlers, para flauta de pico (1981)
• Snacks, para voz sola con o sin coro e instrumentos, sobre el texto Consuming Passions de Peter Farbt (1981)
• Lost and Found, para percusionista recitante, sobre una carta de la teniente Marion Lee ‘Sandy’ Kempner (1985)
• To the Earth, para percusionista recitante, sobre el himno homérico “A la Tierra, madre de todo” (1985)
• Nostalgia, para ejecutante solo (1985)
• Don´t Have It Today, para contrabajo recitante, sobre un texto adaptado de Blaise Pascal (1986)
• Tinkleberries, a collection of ditties, para voz con o sin acompañamiento (1980-90)
• Shtick, para clarinete o saxo soprano (1990)
• Knight, para violoncello (1992)
• Ground Zero, para ejecutante solo (2000)
• Honk, para tuba (2003)
• Mollitude, para flauta (2006)

PARA MÁS DE UN INSTRUMENTO:

• Narcissus, para cuarteto de cuerda, percusión y piano (1953)
• Alborada del insomne, para voz y piano, sobre un poema de Dudley Fitts (1954)
• Sonata, para violín y piano (1955)
• Trio, para trompeta, violín y piano (1956)
• Two Songs, para voz y piano, sobre poemas de Rainer Maria Rilke (1956)
• Six Pieces, para dos violines y dos violoncellos (1956)
• Exchanges I, para oboe, violoncello y piano (1960)
• Three Rhapsodies, para dos silbatos (1962)
• Octet, para flauta, clarinete, trompeta, trombón, violín, contrabajo, piano y arpa (1962)
• Phi, para dos flautas, violoncello, piano y percusión (1963)
• Composition For Two Players, para dos intérpretes (1964)
• Ab ovo, para dos intérpretes o grupos de intérpretes (1964)
• Glass Piece, para cintas y un vaso amplificado (1964)
• Speculum Dianae, para 8 improvisadores cualesquiera, (1964)
• Words, para conjunto improvisador (1967)
• Spacecraft, para conjunto improvisador (1967)
• Work Songs, para conjunto improvisador (Ivan’s Piece, Impersonation 2, Symphony, Street Music) (1967-1968)
• My house, para conjunto improvisador (1968)
• Love Songs, para conjunto improvisador (1968)
• Soundpool, para conjunto improvisador (1968)
• Prose Pieces, para conjunto improvisador, (1967-68)
• Les Moutons de Panurge, para cualquier número de instrumentos melódicos (1968)
• Last Judgment, para trombón o cualquier número de trombones al unísono (1969)
• Jefferson, sobre las primeras frases de la Declaración de independencia, para voz y piano (1970)
• Coming Together, para narrador y conjunto instrumental variable, sobre una carta de Sam Melville (1971)
• Attica, para narrador y conjunto instrumental variable, sobre una frase de Richard X. Clark (1972)
• Drums and Guns, para conjunto improvisador (1972)
• Music for WBAI [First Structure], para dos improvisadores (1972)
• Second Structure, prose text for improvisation (1972)
• Apocaliptical Intellectuals, para voz y piano, sobre un poema de Otto René Castillo (1973)
• Lullaby: God to a Hungry Child, para voz y clarinete, sobre un poema de Langston Hughes (1973)
• Struggle Song, para voz y acompañamiento de conjunto instrumental variable, sobre una carta de Frederick Douglass (1973)
• What is Freedom?, para seis instrumentos (1974)
• Nothing Changes, para voz y piano, sobre un texto de Teilhard de Chardin (1976)
• Song and Dance, para flauta, clarinete bajo, contrabajo y vibráfono (1976)
• Thirteen Instrumental Studies, para conjunto instrumental variable (1972-77)
• Bitter-Sweet, para voz y piano, sobre un poema de George Herbert (1978)
• Variations on a Pope, para dos voces (1978)
• Moonrise with Memories, for bass trombone and any 6 soprano-range instruments (1978)
• Seascape, para conjunto jazz (1978)
• Three Pieces, para saxo soprano, trombone y piano (Now or Never, The Burrow, Walking in the Forest) (1979)
• The Price of Oil, para dos voces o dos grupos vocals, ocho grupos de gaitas amplificadas, dos conjuntos instrumentales parecidos, sobre recortes de periódico (1980)
• Ptahhotep, para voz y piano, sobre un texto egipcio (1981)
• Antigone-Legend, para voz y piano, sobre un poema de Bertolt Brecht [translated by Judith Malina]) (1982)
• The Liar, para voz y piano, sobre un texto del compositor (1983)
• Songs, para voz y piano (1973-83)
• Mayakovsky, para narrador, piano y cuarteto de cuerda, sobre el poema Order No 2 to the Army of the Arts de Vladimir Mayakowsky (1984)
• Mary’s Dream, para soprano, clarinete contrabajo, violoncello, percusión y piano, sobre un texto de Mary Shelley (1984)
• Wails, para clarinete bajo (también saxo sopranino en mi bemol), dos percusionistas y piano (1984)
• Ode to the Invincible Persian Army, para narrador, trombón (trompa) y piano, sobre un texto de Los persas de Esquilo (1984)
• Force, “Musikspiel” para dos oradores, uno o dos instrumentos de viento, uno o dos instrumentos de cuerda pulsada, una o dos matracas y una balanza ad limitum, sobre un texto de La Ilíada de Homero.
• Spots, trece piezas para cuatro instrumentos cualesquiera (1986)
• Love Song, para cualquier instrumento y voz (1987)
• Imitation Love, improvisation game for any two or three players (1987)
• To His Coy Misstress, para voz y piano, sobre un poema de Andrew Marwell (1988)
• Shakespeare Sonnets, para narrador y cualesquiera instrumentos (1988)
• The Waves, para narrador y conjunto instrumental variable, sobre un soneto de Shakespeare (1988)
• The Lost Melody, para clarinete, piano y dos percusionistas (1989)
• Roses, para flauta, clarinete, trompeta, tuba, percusión, violín, violoncello y acordeón (1989)
• Tinkleberries, a collection of ditties, para voz con o sin acompañamiento, (1980-1990)
• Aerial Tarts, para flauta, clarinete (o saxo), violín, violoncello, dos percusionistas y piano (1990)
• Whangdoodles, para violín, salterio a percusión (y otros instrumentos con macillos ad libitum) y piano (1990)
• The Burguers of Rostock, para voz y piano, sobre un artículo de periódico (1990)
• Holes, para 4-8 instrumentos cualesquiera (1993)
• Crusoe, para 4-12 instrumentos cualesquiera (1993)
• Histories, para cuarteto de saxos (1993)
• Whimwhams, para marimba y cuarteto de cuerda (1993)
• Snippets, for piano and speaking voice, on texts from “The Real Mother Goose” (1994)
• Family Scenes, para flauta, tres saxos, trompa, tres trompetas, dos trombones, trombón bajo, contrabajo o bajo eléctrico y piano (1995)
• Umbrellas, para conjunto improvisador (1995)
• Broken!, para conjunto improvisador (1995)
• Sticks, para conjunto improvisador (1995)
• Hopes, para conjunto improvisador (1995)
• Memories, para conjunto improvisador (1995)
• Another MEV Piece, para conjunto improvisador (1995)
• When the Wind Blows, para flauta, saxo soprano, saxo tenor, saxo barítono, fliscorno, trombón, guitarra, contrabajo o bajo eléctrico y piano (1996)
• Spiritus, para cuarteto de flautas de pico y percusión (1997)
• Logique para voz, flauta, cello y piano, sobre un texto de Paul Verlaine (1997)
• For Hanns, para flauta, clarinete, cello y piano (1998)
• Trio, para violín, cello y piano (1998)
• Main Drag, para nueve intérpretes cualesquiera (1999)
• Cradle Rock, para flauta, saxo soprano, saxo tenor, saxo barítono, fliscorno, trombón, guitarra, contrabajo o bajo eléctrico y piano (1999)
• Pocket Symphony, para flauta, clarinete, violín, violoncello, piano y percusión (1999-2000)
• 96, canon for five instruments (2003)
• Bring Them Home!, para dos pianos y dos percusionistas (2004)
• Spoils, para conjunto variable de hasta quince instrumentistas (2005)
• Fortune, para cuatro violistas recitantes y narrador, sobre un soneto de Shakespeare (2005)
• Snaps, para piano y cuarteto de cuerda (2006)
• The Fall of the Empire, act I: Angel Shoot, para saxo soprano y piano (2006)
• The Fall of The Empire, para percusión (2007)

• o Act I: Angel Shoot, para vibráfono
• o Act II: Monsters, para bombo, campana tubular y radio
• o Act III: Three Sons, para campanas tubulares
• o Act IV: Global Warming, for any four sounds
• o Act V: The Ground, for any five objects
• o Act VI: Sacrifice, para glokenspiel

PIEZAS PARA GRANDES CONJUNTOS:

• Hamlet, para orquesta de cámara (1954)
• The New Song, para coro y orquesta (1960) [inacabada]
• Requiem, Part 1, para narrador, coro masculino, piano, campanas tubulares, caja china, radio, bramadera, órgano (o simulación electrónica) y arpa judía; sobre el Segundo libro de Samuel, capítulo 12, versos 15-24 (1963-1967)
• Nature Morte, para orquesta de cámara (vientos, trompa, trompeta, arpa, violín, violoncello, piano, órgano y cinco percusionistas) (1964)
• Old Maid, para soprano y coro, sobre un poema de Peter Chotjewitz (1970)
• Struggle, para voz y orquesta de cámara, sobre una carta de Frederick Douglass (1973)
• La Quercia del Tasso, para Big Band (1978)
• A Long Time Man, for orchestra with piano (1979)
• Snacks, para voz sola con o sin coro e instrumentos, sobre el texto Consuming Passions de Peter Farbt (1981)
• Le Silence des espaces infinis, para solista, coro femenino, siete grupos orquestales y cinta, sobre textos de Blaise Pascal (de Pensées) (1980)
• Struggle Song, arreglo para coro (SATB) por Gregory Rose (1983)
• Satyrica, para guitarra, contrabajo, piano, sintetizador, percusión y banda sinfónica (1983)
• Una Breve Storia d’Estate, para tres flautas y orquesta (1983)
• Stop the War!, para coro (1995)
• Stop the Testing!, Canon in five parts for chorus (1996)
• Scratch Symphony, para orquesta (1997)
• Movable Types, para orquesta (1999)
• Bring Them Home!, para dos pianos y orquesta de cámara (2004)

PIEZAS ESCÉNICAS/PERFORMATIVAS:

• Portrait, para bailarín-cantante, luz, olores y generador de fotocélulas (1967)
• The Persians – Les Perses – Die Perser (obra de teatro musical, libretto de Frederic Rzewski, desde Esquilo), para cuatro cantantes, cinco actores, clarinete bajo (también clarinete contrabajo y saxo sopranino), dos percusionistas, trombone, contrabajo (también bajo eléctrico) y piano (1985)
• The Sphinx, performance piece for actress and four musicians (1986)
• Chains, Twelve “TV-operas”, for voice and six musicians, based on texts drawn from a variety of sources (1986)
• Desire, performance-piece for one or two people (1987)
• The Triumph of Death oratorio escenificado para cuatro voces y cuarteto de cuerda, basado en textos adaptados de Peter Weiss´ Die Ermittlung (1987-88)

PIEZAS ELECTROACÚSTICAS:

• Zoologischer Garten, para cinta electrónica (1965)
• Impersonation, para dos voces, cuatro cintas, dos manipuladores de cintas, dos intérpretes con generadores de fotocélulas, sobre un texto del compositor (1966)
• Projector Piece, para dos intérpretes con proyectores de diapositivas, cinta y dos intérpretes con generadores de fotocélulas (1966)
• Collection Music, para cinta (1971)

English version

Here you have the most updated Frederic Rzewski’s catalogue in the web! We have divided his works in: a) for piano, b) for more than one piano, c) for solo instrument, d) for more than one instrument, e) for big ensembles, f) stage/performative pieces, d) electroacustic

Piano:

• Chain of Thought (1953)
• Tabakrauch (1954)
• Preludes (1957)
• Poem (1959)
• Study 1 (1961)
• Study 2 (Dreams), (1961)
• Falling Music, for piano or amplified piano with tape (1971)
• No Place to Go but around (1974)
• 36 Variations on ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!‘ (1975)
• Four Pieces (1977)
• Squares (1978)
• North American Ballads (1978-79)
  • 1.Dreadful Memories
  • 2.Which Side are You on?
  • 3. Down by the Riverside
  • 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
• The Housewife’s Lament (1980)
• Eggs (1986)
• Steptangle (1986)
• The Turtle and the Crane (1988)
• Mayn Yingele (1988)
• Fantasy (1989)
• Bumps (1990)
• Ludes (1990-91)
• Sonata (1991)
• Andante con Moto, variations on a theme without Beethoven (1992)
• De Profundis, for speaking pianist on texts by Oscar Wilde (1991-92)
• A Life (1992)
• Fougues (1994)
• The Road (1995-2003)
  • Turns (The Road, Part 1) (1995)
  • Tracks (The Road, Part 2) (1996)
  • Tramps (The Road, Part 3) (1997)
  • Stops (The Road, Part 4) (1998)
  • The Days Fly By (The Road, Part 5) (1998)
  • A Few Knocks (The Road, Part 5) (1999)
  • Travelling with Children (The Road, Part 6) (1999)
  • Final Preparations (The Road, Part 7) (1999-2001)
  • The Big Day Arrives (The Road, Part 8) (2002-03)
  • Stop the War! (The Road, Part 8) (2003)
• Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (2003)
• Cadenza (con o senza Beethoven) (2003)
• Dust (2003)
• Ballad 5: It Makes A Long Time Feel Bad (1997-2004)
• Spells (Thinking of Jelly Roll Morton) (2004)
• Second Hand, or Finally Alone, for left hand (2005)
• Nanosonatas (libros 1 y 2) (2006-07)
• WarSongs (2008)

For more than one piano:

• Introduction and Sonata, for two pianos (1959)
• Figura, for two pianos (1959)
• Exchanges II, for four pianos (1960)
• Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, for two pianos (1980)
• A Machine, for two pianos (1984)
• Night Crossing with Fisherman, for two pianos (1994)

For solo instrument:

• Soliloquy, for violinist with speech, on a poem by Frederic Rzewski (1960)
• For Violin, for violin (1962)
• Selfportrait, for one player (1964)
• Freud, for voice solo, on a text by Sigmund Freud from Civilization and its Discontents (1970)
• The Housewife’s Lament, for harpsichord (1980)
• Aria, for flute (1981)
• Pennywhistlers, for recorder (1981)
• Snacks, for solo voice with or tithout chorus and instruments, on the text Consuming Passions by Peter Farbt (1981)
• Lost and Found, for speaking percussionist, on a leter by Lieutenant Marion Lee ‘Sandy’ Kempner of Galveston (1985)
• To the Earth, for solo speacking percussionist, on the homeric hymn “To the Earth Mother of All” (1985)
• Nostalgia, for solo performer (1985)
• Don´t Have It Today, for speaking contrabass, on a text adapted from Blaise Pascal (1986)
• Tinkleberries, a collection of ditties, for voice with or without accompaniment (1980-90)
• Shtick, for clarinet or soprano saxophone (1990)
• Knight, for cello (1992)
• Ground Zero, for solo performer (2000)
• Honk, for tuba solo (2003)
• Mollitude, for flute (2006)

For more than one instrument:

• Narcissus, for string quartet, percussion and piano (1953)
• Alborada del insomne, for voice and piano, on a poem by Dudley Fitts (1954)
• Sonata, for violin and piano (1955)
• Trio, for horn, violin and piano (1956)
• Two Songs, for voice and piano, on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (1956)
• Six Pieces, for two violins and two cellos (1956)
• Exchanges I, for oboe, cello and piano (1960)
• Three Rhapsodies, for two slide whistles (1962)
• Octet, for flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, contrabass, piano and harp (1962)
• Phi, for two flutes, cello, piano and percussion (1963)
• Composition For Two Players, for any two players (1964)
• Ab ovo, for any two players or groups of players (1964)
• Glass Piece, for tapes and amplified glass (1964)
• Speculum Dianae, for any eight players (1964)
• Words, for improvising ensemble (1967)
• Spacecraft, for improvising ensemble (1967)
• Work Songs, for improvising ensemble (Ivan’s Piece, Impersonation 2, Symphony, StreetMusic) (1967-1968)
• My house, for improvising ensemble (1968)
• Love Songs, for improvising ensemble (1968)
• Soundpool, for improvising ensemble (1968)
• Prose Pieces, for improvising ensemble, (1967-68)
• Les Moutons de Panurge, for any number of melody instruments (1968)
• Last Judgment, for solo trombone, or any number of trombones in unison (1969)
• Jefferson, on the opening sentences of the Declaration of Independence, for voice and piano (1970)
• Coming Together, for speaker and variable instrumental ensemble, on a letter by Sam Melville (1971)
• Attica, for speaker and variable instrumental ensemble, on a sentence by Richard X. Clark (1972)
• Drums and Guns, for improvising ensemble (1972)
• Music for WBAI [First Structure], for two improvising players (1972)
• Second Structure, prose text for improvisation (1972)
• Apocaliptical Intellectuals, for voice and piano, on a poem by Otto René Castillo (1973)
• Lullaby: God to a Hungry Child, for voice and clarinet, on a poem by Langston Hughes (1973)
• Struggle Song, for voice and variable instrumental accompaniment, on a letter by Frederick Douglass (1973)
• What is Freedom?, for six instruments (1974)
• Nothing Changes, for voice and piano, on a text by Teilhard de Chardin (1976)
• Song and Dance, for flute, bass clarinet, double bass and vibraphone (1976)
• Thirteen Instrumental Studies, for variable instrumental ensemble (1972-77)
• Bitter-Sweet, for voice and piano, on a poem by George Herbert (1978)
• Variations on a Pope, for two voices (1978)
• Moonrise with Memories, for bass trombone and any 6 soprano-range instruments (1978)
• Seascape, for Jazz ensemble (1978)
• Three Pieces, for soprano saxophone, trombone and piano (Now or Never, The Burrow, Walking in the Forest) (1979)
• The Price of Oil, for two voices or vocal groups, eight froups of amplified pipes, two similar instrumental ensembles, on newspaper clippings (1980)
• Ptahhotep, for voice and piano, on an Egyptian text (1981)
• Antigone-Legend, for voice and piano, on the poem by Bertolt Brecht [translated by Judith Malina]) (1982)
• The Liar, for voice and piano, on a text by Frederic Rzewski (1983)
• Songs, for voice and piano (1973-83)
• Mayakovsky, for speaker, piano, and string quartet, on the poem Order No 2 To the Army of the Arts by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1984)
• Mary’s Dream, for soprano, contrabass clarinet, violoncello, percussion, and piano, on a text by Mary Shelley (1984)
• Wails, for bass clarinet (also sopranito saxophone in E-flat), two percussion, and piano (1984)
• Ode to the Invincible Persian Army, for speaker, trombone (horn), and piano, on a text from The Persians by Aeschylus (1984)
• Force, “Musikspiel” for two speakers, single or double trio (plucker, blower, noisemaker), and weigher (opcional), on a text from The Iliad by Homer (1985)
• Spots, thirteen pieces for any four instruments (1986)
• Love Song, for any instrument and voice (1987)
• Imitation Love, improvisation game for any two or three players (1987)
• To His Coy Misstress, for voice and piano, on a poem by Andrew Marwell (1988)
• Shakespeare Sonnets, for speaker and any instruments (1988)
• The Waves, for speaker and variable instumental ensemble, on a Shakespeare sonnet (1988)
• The Lost Melody, for clarinet, piano and two percussion (1989)
• Roses, for flute, clarinet, trompet, tuba, persussion, violin, cello and accordion (1989)
• Tinkleberries, a collection of ditties, for voice with or without accompaniment (1980-1990)
• Aerial Tarts, for flute, clarinet (or saxophone), violin, cello, two percussion and piano (1990)
• Whangdoodles, for violin, hammered dulcimer (and other opcional mallet instruments) and piano (1990)
• The Burguers of Rostock, for voice and piano, on a newspaper article (1990)
• Holes, for any four to eight instruments (1993)
• Crusoe, fo any four to twuelve instruments (1993)
• Histories, for saxophone quartet (1993)
• Whimwhams, for marimba and string quartet (1993)
• Snippets, for piano and speaking voice, on texts from “The Real Mother Goose” (1994)
• Family Scenes, for flute, three saxophones, French horn, three trumpets, two trombones, bass trombone, double bass/bass guitar, and piano (1995)
• Umbrellas, for improvising ensemble (1995)
• Broken!, for improvising ensemble (1995)
• Sticks, for improvising ensemble (1995)
• Hopes, for improvising ensemble (1995)
• Memories, for improvising ensemble (1995)
• Another MEV Piece, for improvising ensemble (1995)
• When the Wind Blows, for flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flügelhorn, trombone, guitar, double bass or bass guitar, and piano (1996)
• Spiritus, for recorder quartet and percussion (1997)
• Logique for voice, flute, cello and piano, on a text by Paul Verlaine (1997)
• For Hanns, for flute, clarinet, cello and piano (1998)
• Trio, for violin, cello and piano (1998)
• Main Drag, for any nine players (1999)
• Cradle Rock, for flute, soprano saxopnohe, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flugelhorn, trombone, guitar, double bass or bass guitar and piano (1999)
• Pocket Symphony, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (1999-2000)
• 96, canon for five instruments (2003)
• Bring Them Home!, for two pianos and two percussion (2004)
• Spoils, for variable instrumental ensemble up to fifteen players (2005)
• Fortune, for four talking violists and speaker, on a Shakespeare sonnet (2005)
• Snaps, for piano and string quartet (2006)
• The Fall of the Empire, act I: Angel Shoot, for soprano saxophone and piano (2006)
• The Fall of The Empire, for percussion (2007)
  • Act I: Angel Shoot, for vibraphone
  • Act II: Monsters, for bass drum, tubular bell, and radio
  • Act III: Three Sons, for tubular bells
  • Act IV: Global Warming, for any four sounds
  • Act V: The Ground, for any five objects
  • Act VI: Sacrifice, for glokenspiel

For big ensembles:

• Hamlet, for chamber orchestra (1954)
• The New Song, for choir and orchestra (1960) [unfinished]
• Requiem, Part 1, for speaker, men’s choir, piano, tubular chimes, woodblock, radio, bull-roarer, organ (or electronic simulation) and jew’s harp, on the second Book of Samuel, chapter 12, verses 15-24 (1963-1967)
• Nature Morte, for chamber orchestra (winds, horn, trompet, harp, violin, cello, piano, organ and five percussion) (1964)
• Old Maid, for soprano and choir, on a poem by Peter Chotjewitz (1970)
• Struggle, for voice and chamber orchestra, on a letter by Frederick Douglass (1973)
• La Quercia del Tasso, for Big Band (1978)
• A Long Time Man, for orchestra with piano (1979)
• Snacks, for solo voice with or without chorus and instruments, on the text Consuming Passions by Peter Farbt (1981)
• Le Silence des espaces infinis, for soloist, women’s chorus, seven orchestral groups and tape, on texts from Pensées by Blaise Pascal (1980)
• Struggle Song, arrangement for chorus (SATB) by Gregory Rose (1983)
• Satyrica, for guitar, doublebass, piano, sintetizer, percussion and big band (1983)
• Una Breve Storia d’Estate, for three flutes and orchestra (1983)
• Stop the War!, for chorus (1995)
• Stop the Testing!, Canon in five parts for chorus (1996)
• Scratch Symphony, for orchestra (1997)
• Movable Types, for orchestra (1999)
• Bring Them Home!, for two pianos and chamber orchestra (2004)

Stage/performative pieces:

• Portrait, for dancer-singer, light, smell and fotocell mixers (1967)
• The Persians – Les Perses – Die Perser (music theater, libretto by Frederic Rzewski, based on Aeschilus, for four singers, five actors, bass clarinet (also contrabass clarinet and sopranito saxophone), two percussion, trombone, double bass (also e-bass) and piano (1985)
• The Sphinx, performance piece for actress and four musicians (1986)
• Chains, Twelve “TV-operas”, for voice and six musicians, based on texts drawn from a variety of sources (1986)
• Desire, performance-piece for one or two people (1987)
• The Triumph of Death, staged oratorio for four voices and string quartet, based on texts adapted from Peter Weiss´ Die Ermittlung (1987-88)

Electroacustic

• Zoologischer Garten, for electronic tape (1965)
• Impersonation, for two voices, four tapes, two tape manipulators, and two players with photocell mixers, on a text by Frederic Rzewski(1966)
• Projector Piece, for two players with slide projectors, tape and two players with photocell mixers (1966)
• Collection Music, for tape (1971)