Judith Shatin Judith Shatin
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  • ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple
    SATB Chorus (2:30)
  • ‘Tis You
    SSA Chorus, String Quartet (optional), Piano (6:00)
  • 1492
    Amplified piano and percussion (8:15)
  • A Line-Storm Song
    Soprano or Mezzo and Piano (4:10)
  • A Little Water Music
    Electronic playback, with optional video by Kim Yantis (3:04)
  • Adonai Ro’i
    SATB Chorus (2:00)
  • Akhmatova Songs
    Soprano or Mezzo, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano (13:10)
  • Alleluia
    SATB Chorus + brief soprano solo (4:00)
  • Amulet
    SSA Chorus (1:12)
  • And the Night Will Shine as Day
    Soprano and organ (6:00)
  • Arche
    Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (17:00)
  • Aseret Makot (The Ten Plagues)
    Three-part chorus, flute, cello, piano (3:00)
  • Assembly Line #1
    Oboe (8:00 +, variable)
  • Aura
    Orchestra: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1, 3 perc, strings (18:35)
  • Bagatelle
    Piano (1:14)
  • Baruch HaBa
    Voice (1:00)
  • Being in Time
    Wind Ensemble & Electronics (10:00)
  • Birkat Kohanim
    SATB Chorus (4:25)
  • Black Moon
    Orchestra: (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,6,5,4,3,2 (min) and electronics. (15:35)
  • Carreño
    Piano/Mezzo-soprano (one or two players, 20:00)
  • Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
    Piano (21:00)
  • Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing; After Hokusai
    Amplified clarinet and multichannel or stereo electronics (7:52)
  • Cinnamon
    Electronic music for 1:11 film
  • Cinqchronie
    Instrumentation: Wind Quintet (7:20)
  • Civil War Memories
    Electronic playback (4 movements, 19:00)
  • Clave
    Flute, Bb clarinet, tenor sax, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion (9:45)
  • COAL: A Folk Oratorio
    Chorus, Appalachian Ensemble, Synthesizer, Electronics (80:00, can be excerpted)
  • Commonwealth Salute
    Symphonic Band (3:30)
  • Coursing Through the Still Green
    Solo Flute (3:00)
  • Doxa
    Viola and piano (6:10)
  • Dreamtigers
    Flute and guitar (13:45)
  • Dust & Shadow
    Organ
  • Elijah’s Chariot
    String Quartet and electronic playback (19:45)
  • Entreat Me Not To Leave Thee
    Solo Voice (1:40)
  • Fantasía Sobre El Flamenco
    2 Trpt, 2 trmb, tuba or 2 trpt, 2 trmb, horn (9:45)
  • Fantasy on St. Cecilia
    Piano (16:40)
  • Fasting Heart
    Solo Flute (8:00)
  • Fledermaus Fantasy
    Violin and piano or Violin, viola, cello, contrabass and piano (19:00)
  • Follies and Fancies
    Soprano, Mezzo, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Piano (orchestrated version, with fl, bssn, vln, vcl, hpschd) (55:00)
  • For The Birds
    Amplified cello and electronic playback (14:00)
  • For the Fallen
    Versions for amp. clarinet, cello, flute, trumpet, soprano sax & stereo electronics (7:02)
  • Gabriel’s Wing
    Flute and piano (9:00)
  • Gazebo Music
    Flute and cello (6:00)
  • Glimmerings
    Electronic playback (1:00)
  • Glyph
    Solo viola, string quartet, piano *(18:00)
  • Gregor’s Dream
    Amp. piano trio & stereo electronics (10:15)
  • Grito del Corazón
    Any of the following, either individually or in combination, amplified: bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, mezzo, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, viola, cello, marimba, multi-percussion, piano + electronics and optional video) (5:11)
  • Hark My Love
    SATB chorus and piano (3:10)
  • Hearing the Call
    Instrumentation : 2 Trumpets (Bb) and 2 snare drums (2:00)
  • Hosech Al P’ney HaTehom
    Electronic playback (11:10)
  • Houdini: Memories of a Conjurer
    Cello, piano, percussion (Theater Piece) (55:00)
  • House Music
    Electronic playback (3:08)
  • I Am Rose
    SSA + electronic playback (3:00)
  • I Love
    SATB Chorus (5:00)
  • Icarus
    Violin and piano (18:00)
  • Ice Becomes Water
    String Orchestra + Electronics fashioned from field recordings of glaciers (12:00)
  • Ignoto Numine
    Piano Trio (15:00)
  • Jefferson, In His Own Words
    Narrator, 2 Fl (dbl picc), 2 ob (dbl Eng Hn), 2 cl, 2 bssn, 2 hrn, 2 trpts, 2 trmb, tba, tymp, 2 perc, strings (25:00)
  • Kairos
    Amplified flute, computer interface to run Max-MSP (version 5 or higher), foot pedal and stereo playback (16:00)
  • Khamsa
    Percussion Quintet (battery percussion) (6:30)
  • Ki Koleich Arev
    Soprano, flute and piano (1:00)
  • La Frontera
  • Long Story Short
    Piano Trio (4:45)
  • Lost Angels
    Trumpet, bassoon, piano (15:00)
  • Love Song
    Oboe and English Horn (3:45)
  • L’étude du Coeur
    Viola (6:30)
  • Marvelous Pursuits
    Vocal quartet and piano 4-hands (19:00)
  • Meridians
    Clarinet (9:00)
  • Monument in Brass
    Brass Quintet Fanfare (5:00)
  • Nun, Gimel, Hei, Shin
    Three-part chorus with optional piano accompaniment (3:00, variable repetition)
  • Ockeghem Variations
    Wind quintet and piano (18:00)
  • Patterns
  • Penelope’s Dream
    Cello (8:00)
  • Penelope’s Song
    Amplified viola & electronics from weaving sounds (9:07)
  • Piping the Earth
    Orchestra: 3 fl (3rd dbl picc), 3 oboes (3rd dbl eng hn), 3 cl, 3 bssn, 4 hns, 3 trpt, 2 trmb, tba, 3 perc, timpani, hrp, strings (8:30)
  • Piping the Earth
  • Plain Song
    Piano and electronics (12:00)
  • Quatrain
    Violin, viola, clarinet, bass clarinet (9:00)
  • Respecting the First
    Amplified String Quartet and electronic playback (14:55)
  • Respecting the First (Amendment)
    Instrumentation: String Orchestra and Electronics Duration: 14:30 Commission: San Jose Chamber Orchestra Premiere: 3/29/20 San José City Hall Rotunda San José , CA Program Notes:  The first amendment, with its protections of speech, religion, the press, and the right of people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances, lies at…
  • Rising on the Wings of Dawn
    Rising on the Wings of Dawn, for solo violin, embodies the rising shape in its melodic and structural design.
  • Rotunda
    Computer music video/film (HD or DVD available for presentation) (15:00)
  • Rotunda
    One day, in late spring 2005, I was sitting in my office, upstairs in Old Cabell Hall, looking at the flow of life on the Lawn. I had often been delighted by the feeling of life on the Lawn, and by the shifting weather patterns above it. But this time, I suddenly saw the scene ...
  • Round 3
    Trombone (variable duration)
  • Ruah
    Chamber Orchestra: 1111/111/str (23:00)
  • Run
    Piano Quartet (8:25)
  • Scirocco
    Piano (3:05)
  • Sea of Reeds
    Amplified clarinet, with pvc tube extensions, mics, and effects procesor (such as digitech tsr-24); Max-MSP version in process (13:45)
  • Secret Ground
    Flute, clarinet, violin, cello (14:00)
  • Selah
    Female vocal quartet or women’s chorus + harp (15:00)
  • Shapirit Y’fehfiah
    SSA Chorus (3:00)
  • Sic Transit
    Percussionist (2 Singing Bowls of different sizes, 5 temple blocks, med. sus. cymbal, 2 timbales, snare, 2 bongos, fingercymbal) and CADI (Configurable Automated Drumming Machine), (finger cymbal, high and low woodblock, high and low cowbell, tambourine) (9:00)
  • Singing Still
    Flute (5:00)
  • Singing the Blue Ridge
    Mezzo, Baritone, Orchestra (2,2, 2,2,2,2,2,1,2, strings) electronics (CD) made from indigenous wild animal calls (14:00)
  • Sister Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
    Soprano and viola, also available for soprano and clarinet (2:00)
  • Songs of War and Peace
    SATB Chorus + piano (also check out version for SATB + chamber orchestra) (16:30)
  • Spin
    Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Viola Cello (6:00)
  • Spring Tides
    Amp. fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno, interactive electronics (Max-MSP5 or higher)(11:00)
  • Storm
    Amp. tenor sax and electronics (6:50)
  • Stringing the Bow
    String Orchestra (15:00)
  • Study in Black
    Flute and Percussion (4:00)
  • Sursum Corda
    Cello (8:43)
  • Sweet Harmony
    Soprano and Piano (1:30)
  • Tape Music
    Stereo electronics (7:14)
  • Tape Music∞
    Small cardboard box, blunt pencil or similar object, packing tape on a dispenser with teeth, and stereo electronics (5:00)
  • Teruah
    Shofar (Yemenite style, Eb pitch), 3 hrns, 2 trpts, 2 trmbs, timpani (9:00)
  • The Best Angel in Heaven
    Instrumentation: Unison Chorus or soloist & piano Duration: 3:00 Date of Composition: 2020 Program Note: I composed The Best Angel in Heaven in the cruel month of April, 2020, in memory of Sandra Santos-Vizcaino, the wonderful third-grade teacher at PS 9 in Brooklyn, NY who passed away from Covid-19.  I did so because I was so touched by the memory page…
  • The God of Glory
    SATB Chorus (4:45)
  • The Jabberwocky
    TTBB (5:45)
  • The Janus Quartet
    String Quartet (12:00)
  • The Jumblies
    SSA + piano (5:51)
  • The Passion of St. Cecilia
    Solo piano, 2 fl (2nd dbl picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bssn, 2 tpts in C, 2 Hn, 2 trmb, 1 tba, 3 perc, strings (21:00)
  • The Wendigo
    SSA (14:00)
  • Three Summers Heat
    Mezzo or soprano and electronic playback (19:00)
  • Time To Burn
    Oboe and 2 percussion (2 bongos, 3 rototoms, tambourine, 2 timables, large and small brake drum, medium tamtam and bow)(2 bongos, claves, flexatone and bow, 1 maraca, slapstick, 5 temple blocks 2 tomtoms, vibraslap) (9:30)
  • To Keep the Dark Away
    Piano (11:00)
  • Tongue Twisters
    SSA Chorus and Piano (7:20)
  • Tower of the Eight Winds
    Violin and Piano (16:00)
  • Trace Elements
    2 Pianos & 2 Percussion (11:00)
  • Tree Music
    Interactive Electronics, Wireless Camera (variable duration)
  • unter soreles vigele
    Instrumentation: Mezzo and piano Duration: 4:00 Commission: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Premiere Performance: 6/30/2020 Evolution Program, Facebook & Youtube Presented by YIVO, Center for Jewish History, NYC Program Note: When Alex Weisser, Program Director of YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in New York, approached me about commissioning a song that would take one of…
  • Vayter un Vayter
    Bass (or Bass-baritone), clarinet, cello, piano (15:45)
  • View from Mt. Nebo
    Piano Trio (14:30)
  • Water Ways
    Electronic playback (1:00)
  • Watershed
    Instrumentation: Sop. Sax.. Trpt., Trmb, Vln, Vla, Vc, Perc, electronics Duration: 15:00 Commission: Michigan Technological University in collaboration with the Great Lakes Research Center Premiere: 10/2021 Note: Image credit: NASA/JSC Program Note: The Great Lakes, formed from receding glaciers, and holding 20+% of the volume of the world’s surface fresh water, provide habitat for all manner of flora…
  • We Bring You Peace
    SATB (2:00)
  • We Hold These Truths
    Chorus, brass quintet and timpani (15:00)
  • Wedding Song
    Soprano and english horn (or alto flute, or clarinet, or viola) (5:00)
  • Werther
    Flute (dbl picc), clarinet, violin, cello, piano (8:20)
  • When the Moon of Wildflowers is Full
    Flute and cello (3:30)
  • Why the Caged Bird Sings
    SATB Chorus + Piano (4:45)
  • Widdershins
    Piano (8:30)
  • Wind Songs
    Wind Quintet (12:00)
  • Zipper Music
    2 amplified zipper players with headphones for click track, Electronics performer for MIDI controlle with computer running MaxMSP, also mixer, stereo playback system
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