List of compositions by Yehuda Yannay

This is a List of compositions by Yehuda Yannay

## Solo[edit]

* Twelve Monophonic Dances for any wind instrument (1958)
* Music for Piano (1962)
* Permutations for solo percussion (1964)
* Statement for flute (1964)
* Continuum for piano Op. 15 (1966)
* Coloring Book for the Harpist (1969)
* Seven Late Spring Pieces for piano (1973)
* Im Silberwald (In the Silver Forest) for trombone, glass harmonica and tape (1983)
* Between the Raindrops for solo guitar (1984)
* Tangoul Mortii (Tango of Death) for contrabass solo (1996)
* Tangoul Mortii (Tango of Death) version for cello solo (1997)
* Tangoul Mortii (Tango of Death) version for viola solo (1997)
* Piano Portfolio I for solo piano (1994–2000)
* The One-Legged Dancer for toy piano (accordion or harpsichord (2001)
* Three Organic Pieces for organ (2004)
* Hornology for horn (2004)
* Piano Transplant (co-composed with Josh Schmidt) (2004)
* Double Transplant for piano (2004)
* Three Postcards from Paris for piano, an excerpt from Midwest Mythologist (2012)
* Incipit Vita Nova for accordion (2013)
* The Exquisite Viola for viola solo (2013)
* Bits into Pieces for piano and iPad electronics (2014)

## Chamber music[edit]

* Variations for 2 flutes (1960)
* Interconnections for 14 instruments (1965)
* Random Rotated for 4 wind instruments (1965)
* Two Fragments for violin and piano (1966)
* Mutatis Mutandis for 6 players (1968)
* Per Se, chamber concerto for violin and 7 instruments (1969)
* preFIX-FIX-sufFIX for bassoon, horn and cello (1971)
* Squares & Symbols, Exits and Traps for keyboard and 1 to 3 wind and/or strings (1971)
* Bug Piece with live insect notation (1972)
* The Hidden Melody (Nigun Haganuz) for cello and French horn (1977)
* Brazilian Birdwhistle Event for Brazilian bird-whistle set (1980)
* Trio, for clarinet, cello and piano (1982)
* Three Jazz Moods, for solo trumpet and saxophone, and chamber ensemble with rhythm section (1982)
* Nine Branches of the Olive Tree, for recorders, bass clarinet, guitar and percussion (1984)
* M. My Dear, a ballad for jazz violin, guitar and bass (1985)
* Duo for flute and cello (1991)
* Five Pieces for Three Players for soprano saxophone, clarinet and marimba (1994)
* Playing for Peace for three-part violin ensemble (1994)
* Loose Connections for violin, clarinet and double bass (1996)
* Marrakesh Bop for microtonal flute and guitar (1999)
* Trio for violin, cello and piano (2001)
* My Main Squeeze for trumpet, accordion and cello (2000)
* Visions of Y for viola and piano (2002)
* Psalm for a melody instrument and piano, completion of an unfinished composition by Alexander U. Boskovich (2006)
* Bayannayab (Choral) for two bayans or accordions (2006)
* Note Traffic for violin and cello (2008)
* Bayanette for two bayans (accordions) and piano (2009)
* Suite for mandolin and accordion (2011)
* Two Alleys in Old Tel-Aviv for string quartet (2013)
* Aprés Rameau: Les Poulets de Mequon/The Chickens of Mequon for 2 pianos (2013)
* Aprés Rameau: Les Poulets de Mequon/The Chickens of Mequon for bayan (accordion) and piano (2014)
* Summer Ostinato for two accordions (2015)
* Tandem Piece for horn and accordion or accordion and piano (2015)
* The Center Does Not Hold for saxophone quartet (2016)

## Chamber music with voice[edit]

* Rubayat, song for voice and cello, text: Omar Khayyam (1958)
* Spheres for soprano and 10 instruments, text: Yehuda Amichai (1963)
* Incantations for voice, keyboard, and interior piano, text: W.H.Auden (1964)
* Foregroundmusic for 6 instruments and speaker, for a poem by A. Ginsberg (1965)
* At the End of the Parade, six poems by William Carlos Williams for baritone and six players (1974).
* Eros Reminisced, song cycle for singer/pianist, text: Constantine P. Cavafy (1981)
* "Augentanz" (Eyedance) and "Galgenlied" (Hangman's Song) from Celan Ensembles for tenor and instruments, text Paul Celan (1986)
* "In Madness There Is Order" from Celan Ensembles, for voice, projections and synthesizers, text: Paul Celan (1988)
* "Spiegeltanz" (Mirrordance) from Celan Ensembles, for voice, horn, and 2 marimbas, text: Paul Celan (1989)
* The Bogen Songs, six pieces for voice, flute, clarinet in B♭, violoncello and accordion, text: Don Bogen (2010)

## Orchestra and concertante[edit]

* Mirkamim, textures of sound for large orchestra, (1967)
* Concerto for Audience and Orchestra, with audience operated portable radios (1971)
* Five Songs for Tenor and Orchestra text: W.C. Williams. (1976–77)
* Seven Late Spring Pieces for Orchestra (1979)
* Concertino for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1980)
* Exit Music At Century's End for chamber orchestra (1995)
* Piano Concerto for solo piano and 15 instruments (2002)
* Rhapsody for alto saxophone and wind ensemble (2005)
* Nuances Argentées (Shades of Silver) for recorded voice and flute orchestra of 24 players (2006)
* Plus Avec Moins (PAM) – More From Less(MFL) for solo accordion and 24 flutes (2012)

## Choir[edit]

* Mishnayot for solo voices and choir, text: Jewish prayer book (1961).
* Psukey Dezimra for solo voices and choir, text: Jewish prayer book (1961)
* The Chain of Proverbs cantata for youth, text: Ibn Zabara (1962)
* Coheleth, environment with mobile choir, microphones, wireless microphones and voice controlled filters, text: Ecclesiastes (1970)
* Dawn for mixed choir, text: Arthur Rimbaud (1970)
* Departure for nine voices and five instruments, text: Arthur Rimbaud (1972)
* A Noiseless Patient Spider for women's choir or eight solo voices, text: Walt Whitman (1975)
* Tombeau de Satie in memory of Thomas Trobaugh, text: Dona Nobis Pacem (1979)
* Le Campane di Leopardi for mixed choir and tuned glasses, text: Giacomo Leopardi (1979)
* Yigdal for cantor and choir followed by an organ variation, text: Hebrew prayer book (1985)
* Three Hebrew Aphorisms from the Mishna and the Talmud for five-part unaccompanied mixed choir (2007)
* The Wheel of Light(Galgal Haorot) for three choral or solo voices, text: Rabbi Naftali Hertz of Bacharach (2014)
* Mayeem (Water) for five-part mixed chorus (SSATB), harmonicas and Melodicas (2016)

## Theater pieces and dance[edit]

* Wraphap a theatre piece for actress, amplified aluminum sheet and Yannachord (1969)
* Houdini's Ninth, a theatre piece for a double bass and escape artist (1969)
* The Urbana (IL) Christal Lake Park Gathering for any number of mallet players (1968)
* Autopiano, or Piano Minus Pianist for an actor and piano (1970)
* The Vestibule Peep-In-Pipe-Out for a caged performer with an FM transmitter (1970)
* Attic Songs and Betweens, electronic music for dance (1975)
* American Sonorama, music for a ballet by Anna Nassif (1975–76)
* The Decline and Fall of the Sonata in B-flat, a musicule for actors and pianists (1970–76)
* Three Michael and Nancy Pieces for dancer and percussion (1978)
* Genesis, music for a dance piece by Anna Nassif (1979)
* All Our Women, chamber opera, text: Yehuda Yannay (1981)
* Tableau One: "...in sleep one often finds solutions..." (from Journey to Orgonon) for actor, projections and synthesizers (1992)
* Go Fearing for solo voice for "Geometry of Aloneness," a multimedia work by Marie Mellott (1996)
* "Traum ist von Tat nicht so verschieden..." (Dream and action are not so apart...) for tape and speaker (1998)
* Insomnia in Havana, a theater piece for percussionist/actor, live electronics and projections, text: Virgilio Piñera (2005)
* Midwest Mythologist, theater piece for a pianist, text and musical sources:Steve Nelson-Raney (2012)
* Beware of Poison Mushrooms! Seven Illustrated Aphorisms and Short Stories by Roland Lampe (2013)

## Film, video, intermedia[edit]

* Houdini's Ninth – a film. black and white and color, 16 mm film with sound produced in collaboration with Emory J. Clark (1973)
* Charcoal and Pastel Music 1 to 52 visual music in form of a series of drawings (1979)
* Jidyll, a film with music by Dick Blau and Yehuda Yannay (1984–90)
* Windsuck, sound sculpture created in collaboration with Steve Pevnick (1985)
* The Oranur Experiment Part I: "Journey to Orgonon", a music video, in collaboration with Jerome Fortier (1991)
* Violoncello Solo for "I can't fathom it" for projection theater by Marie Mellott (1993)
* Wilhelm Reich: Journey to Orgonon a documentary opera on CD-ROM in collaboration with Jerome Fortier (1997)
* Percussion Fountain, sound sculpture in collaboration with Stephen Pevnick (1998)
* Radiant, Inner Light for speaker, musical saw, metal percussion, percussion fountain, projections and calligrams Percussion instruments built in collaboration with Stephen Pevnick, calligrams created in collaboration with Marie Mellott, text: Rabbi Naftali Hertz of Bacharach (1998–2000)
* Only Gestures, electronic music for a video installation piece by Marie Mellott (2006)
* A Noiseless Patient Spider for women's choir or eight solo voices a cappella, dance video version: Peter Sparling, text: Walt Whitman (2010)

## Electronic music[edit]

* Electronic Music (1964–65).
* "Study #1
* "Study #2
* "Study #3
* "Phonomontage Pour Thérèse"
* Milwaukee Brew Project, environmental tape composition on sounds of Milwaukee (1979)
* Three Visions of the Age, collaborative composition for digital synthesizers and instruments with Jon Welstead and Joel Thome (1985)

## References[edit]

* Levy, Burt J. (2001). "Yannay, Yehuda". In Stanley Sadie; John Tyrrell (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers.

## External links[edit]

* Recorded sound and video samples