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Scores

Music by Barry R. Morse. The following scores are available in PDF form for purchase. Simply email me at barryrmorse@hotmail.com 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

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