For purchase of scores and parts, email Pamela Madsen directly.

pmadsen@fullerton.edu

Multi-ensemble Collections

Fragments from the Wasteland (2024)
A multi-movement, multi-ensemble work

I. The Fire Sermon for vocal sextet and electronics
II. Death by Water for piano trio
III. Burial of the Dead for baritone voice, bass clarinet, trumpet, and trombone
IV. What the Thunder Said for alto saxophone and percussion

Why Women Went West (2023-24)
A two-act multimedia opera

Sacred Mountain (2023)
A one-act oratorio for vocal sextet, soprano soloist, mixed ensemble, and electronics

Oratorio for the Earth (2021-2022) - 62 minutes
For chorus, orchestra, ensemble and soloists

There Will Come Soft Rains (2017-2019)
Multi-movement, multimedia work for percussion, strings, voices, electronics, and video

I. Prologue - Wupatki: House of the Enemies (2018) for chamber ensemble
II. There Will Come Soft Rains for percussion and spoken voice
III. Land of Little Rain: Water Trails of the Ceriso (2018) for violin and cello
IV. Land of Little Rain: 57 Buzzards (2018) for violin and viola
V. 2026 (2018) for percussion quartet and recorded spoken-voice
VI. Postlude - Lost Horse Mine Lament (2018)

Luminous Etudes: Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat (2015-2016)
Oratorio for voices, piano, ensembles, electronics, and projected images

I. No. 1: Riverly is the Moon (2015) for solo clarinet (or piano or vibraphone) and video
II. No. 2 Mariam Matrem - Ah mm for vocalizing pianist
III. No. 3: Joy Unexpected Convalescence for piano duo
IV. I Find You Lord In All for loadbang and piano duo
V. No. 5: There Were Birds for piano duo
VI. I Am O Anxious One for loadbang and piano duo
VII. There Is Total Silence for loadbang and piano duo
VIII. How Surely Gravity’s Law for loadbang and piano duo
IX. Like the river with no end (2015) for flute and piano

Luminosity: The Passions of Marie Curie (2013-2016)
Multimedia and multi-ensemble opera

The Sexton Cycle (1999-2006) - 90 minutes
Multimedia drama for ensembles, voice, and electronics

I. Hutch: The moss of his skin (1997) for flute, clarinet, viola, percussion, and soprano
II. Red Shoes (1996) for percussion and spoken voice
III. Redcuts (1998) for electronics
IV. Demon for clarinet and electronics
V. Consorting with Angels (2000) for SONOR Ensemble and electronics

Opera

In America: Modjeska (in-progress)

Opera: Ghosts of Laguna (in-progress)

I. Part I: Ye Arch Beach Tavern

Sedna: The Women at the Bottom of the Sea (2008)
Multimedia opera for voice, ensemble and electronics

We are All Sibyls (2003-2004)
Concert-length interactive electroacoustic opera/installation for four voices, spatialized choir, flute, violin, cello, piano, two percussion and electronics

Orchestra / Large Ensemble

Oratorio for the Earth (2021-2022) - 62 minutes
For chorus, orchestra, ensemble and soloists

A California Song! (2020) - 5 minutes
for Deep Listening ensemble, two pianos, and spoken voice

Big Basin: Song of the Redwood Trees (2012/20)
For voice, piano, and large spatialized ensemble

There Will Be Stars (for Pauline Oliveros) (2016) - 8 minutes
For large-spatialized improvising Deep Listening ensemble

A Route of Evanescence, So Set its Sun in Thee, As I ebb’d (2015)
Three works for voices, cellos, accordion, winds, piano and spatialized percussion

Into the Heart of the Earth (2013-2014)
For spatialized concert band

Melting Away: Gravity (2011) - 8 minutes
For string orchestra, piano, percussion, voice, spatialized electronics and projection

Brokenheart (2009)
For improvisers and live electronics (Max/MSP)

Autumn Day, from Fallen (2009)
Cycle of works for SATB Chorus and piano

Chamber Music

What the Thunder Said (2014) from Fragments from the Wasteland
for alto saxophone and percussion

Burial of the Dead (2024) from Fragments from the Wasteland
for baritone voice, bass clarinet, trumpet, and trombone

Death by Water (2024) from Fragments from the Wasteland
for piano trio

Lost Borders (2024) from Why Women Went West
for voice, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion

I Mary, Mary by Herself (2023)
for soprano, cello, and piano

The Land of Little Rain Suite (2023)
For flute and cello

A Prayer for my Daughter (2022)
for soprano, violin, cello, and piano

Laguna Suite: From the Canyons to the Sea (2022) - 36 minutes
For jazz trio and voice

Journey to the Land of the Moon (2009/2020)
For flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion
OR for two percussion and piano

The Consecrating Mother (2019)
For cello and piano

Like the river with no end (2015)
For flute and piano

Each Life Converges (2015)
For chamber ensemble

Wupatki: House of the Enemies (2012) - 15 minutes
For ensemble, video and electronics

Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson Song Cycle (2012)
For voice, flute, trumpet, piano, and guitar

. . . and the wild, wild wind (2012)
For clarinet, cello, and piano (alternate version for Solo Piano)

Here the frailest leaves of me… (2011) - 8 minutes
For violin and piano

Sea Change (2009/2012)
For violin, clarinet, and piano (and spoken voice)

The Living Sea (2010)
For flute & electronics and piano (and IMAX film)

The Land of the Moon (2010)
Duo for prepared pianos

The Singing of the Waves…from the edges of the earth (2009)
For flutes (variable size), piano and spoken voice

Rope (2003)
For chamber ensemble

Red Vertical (2001-2002)
For clarinet or saxophone and percussion

O Mary: A Prayer for the Year of the Insane (2001) - 12 minutes
For string quartet

Pneuma-Phrenesis-Abyss (1996)
For piano trio

Vessel (1996)
For two pianos

Solo Performer

Proof and Disproof (2021)
Opera for performer alone

The Birds Here (from Why Women Went West) (2020) - 2 minutes
For piano and spoken voice

Owl’s Breath (2020)
For bass clarinet

Now the Hour Bows Down-Tenebrae (2019) - 8.5 minutes
For bass baritone and electronics

Why Women Weep: It is the Quickest Way to Rejoin the Ocean (2017-18)
For solo cello and electronics

Luminosity: Pierre’s Dissertation on Crystals (2016)
For bass-baritone and electronics

Luminosity: Polonium (2016)
For voice, piano, and video

Riverly is the Moon (2015) - 7 minutes
For solo clarinet and video

. . . and the wild, wild wind (2012)
For solo piano (alternate version for clarinet, cello, and piano)

The Singing of the Waves: Nereid’s Lyre (2011) - 1 minute
For solo voice

Prophecy of Place: On the Sofa at Vilnius (2011) - 12 minutes
For video and electronics