Scores
Music by Barry R. Morse. The following scores are available in PDF form for purchase. Simply email me at with your request(s) and I will reply with a mailing address for your check. When the check is received I will email your score to you.
Music for Massed Theremins
Xeriscape for multiple theremins (2005): Indeterminate graphic notation and relative pitch make it easy for beginning thereminists to create massed microtonal soundscapes. All players read from the same part/score. $20.00 US PDF
Xeriscape live performance:
Xeriscape 2 for multiple theremins and multiple percussion (2006): Indeterminate graphic notation and relative pitch make it easy for beginning thereminists and
percussionists to create massed microtonal soundscapes. All players read from the same part/score. $20.00 US PDF
Xeriscape 3 for multiple theremins, multiple percussion and concert band (2006): Indeterminate graphic notation and relative pitch make it easy for beginning
thereminists, percussionists and wind players to create massed microtonal soundscapes. All players read from the same part/score. $20.00 US PDF
Theregraphs for multiple theremins (2010): Indeterminate graphic notation and relative pitch. More individualist playing than Xeriscape series. $30.00 US PDF
Theregraphs live performance:
A Separate Plate for My Pickle for theremin ensemble (2011): Indeterminate graphic notation and relative pitch. More individualist playing than Xeriscape series. A fun theremin ensemble piece with a rock beat and player solos. $30.00 US PDF
Textures and Techniques: seven short etudes for multiple theremins (2011): Indeterminate graphic notation and relative pitch. For virtuosic ensemble performance. $35.00 US PDF
Textures and Techniques live performance: Part I
Textures and Techniques live performance: Part II
And There Are Others for multiple cellos, trombones and theremins (2011): Indeterminate graphic and traditional notation. For virtuosic ensemble performance.
Performance score only. $35.00 US PDF
Music for Sliding Instruments for slide whistles, trombones, violins, 'cellos and theremins (2012): Indeterminate graphic notation. For virtuosic ensemble performance. Performance score only. $35.00 US PDF
Ashes and Iron for amplified solo soprano saxophone, amplified saxophone ensemble, electro-acoustic percussion boards, amplified flower pot xylophones, theremin ensemble and electronic effects (2013): Virtuosic performance for solo soprano saxophone; graphic indeterminate notation for theremins; homemade percussion instruments; amplification with live electronic effects; quarter tone notation for saxophones. Conductor's score and individual parts. $80.00 US PDF
Music for Massed Woodwinds (the "Bug" series)
Butterflies for two or three flutes (1986): A musical follow-the-leader game in which players make choices "on the fly" which affect other players' musical routes through the piece. Traditional notation but indeterminate length. Performance score only. $30.00 US PDF
Butterflies with film by Barry R. Morse:
Dragonflies for two or three clarinets (2008): A musical follow-the-leader game in which players make choices "on the fly" which affect other players' musical routes through the piece. Traditional notation but indeterminate length. Performance score only. $30.00 US PDF
Dragonflies with film by Barry R. Morse:
Grasshoppers for two or three tenor saxophones (2008): A musical follow-the-leader game in which players make choices "on the fly" which affect other players' musical routes through the piece. Traditional notation but indeterminate length. Performance score only. $30.00 US PDF
Grasshoppers live performance:
Centipedes for two or three bassoons (2009) : A musical follow-the-leader game in which players make choices "on the fly" which affect other players' musical routes through the piece. Traditional notation but indeterminate length. Performance score only. $30.00 US PDF
Gnats for two or three oboes (2012) : A musical follow-the-leader game in which players make choices "on the fly" which affect other players' musical routes through
the piece. Traditional notation but indeterminate length. Performance score only. $30.00 US PDF
Gnats live performance:
Music for Other Chamber Groups
The Lost Observations from the Micrographica for oboe ensemble (2013): For eight (8) oboes and two (2) English Horns (transposed); traditional notation, quarter tones, multiphonics. Full score only. $60.00 US PDF
Stompetition for multiple euphoniums (2014): A musical game involving playing and stomping. Performance score. $30.00 US PDF
Passages in the Solar Wind for several small analog synthesizers and mixer (2011): Tablature score for Thingamagoop II, Bit Blob, Jr., Nebulophone, Pico Paso, Monotron electronic instruments and mixer. Performance score only. $30.00 US PDF
A Thoreau Triptych for keyboard instrument (2014): For piano, harpsichord and or organ. Keyboardist also recites text while playing. Text taken from quotes by Henry
David Thoreau on topics of Man, Nature and Myth. $30.00 US PDF
Knots and Tangles on a Line for large improvisational ensemble, drum kit and dancers (2011): Experimental, free-form piece of indeterminate length; events are triggered ad lib by random players. Performance score only. $20.00 US PDF
Music for Chorus
Four Indeterminate Songs for Chorus (SATB) (2008): Unspecific, graphical notation for unaccompanied mixed chorus. Texts were randomly generated. Performance
score only. $30.00 US PDF
Under the Double Moons (SATB) (2012): For large unaccompanied chorus, two narrators, and two soloists using Sprechstimme. Micropolyphonic with harmonic clusters.
Text is an original fantasy-horror story in the style of H.P. Lovecraft. $40.00 US PDF
Music for Concert Band
Monsters with Little Dogs for concert band, organ, free drummer, amplified double bass and conducted improvisation (2014): For unspecified instrumentation, widely inclusive percussion, jazz bassist and free drummer. Conductor uses traditional "metrical" method and improvisational ("conduction") methods using hand signals.
No parts: transposed performance score only. $80.00 US PDF
Some Curious Notions Regarding Topography for concert band, free drummer, improvising bassist and conducted improvisation (2014): Unspecified instrumentation, large percussion forces, jazz-style bassist and free drummer with conductor using traditional "metered" methods and improvisatory gestures. Performance score only: transposed for players to read from directly. "I have never seen a piece like this before. Bravo!" ---Vinko Globokar (2015) $90.00 US PDF