Brian Cobb, d.m.a.

Compositions

(Please come back, score examples and sound excerpts will be coming soon)

Steady (2006, revised 2010)

            Music for Crosstalk

Safety First (2009)

            Music for the Tom Baker Quartet (Dedicated to Lincoln Cobb)

"from so simple a beginning..." (2009)

            Music for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord (Composed for Salvatore Macchia)

D & A (2009)

            Music for flute & viola (Dedicated to Domingos Robinson & Anjali Lind)

Knoll (2008)

            Music for the Tom Baker Quartet

dear s., (2008)

            Music for solo piano (dedicated to Stephanie Deshaies on our 10th Wedding Anniversary)

Valor (2007)

           Fanfare for Brass and Percussion

Caged: an adaptation of Charles Ives' "The Cage" (2007)

            Music for Crosstalk

Four Quarters (2007)

            Indeterminate Composition for the Tom Baker Quartet

Canterburied (2006)

            Music for the Tom Baker Quartet (Dedicated to Jesse Canterbury)

Campfire Songs (Dissertation, 2006)

            Song Cycle for mezzo-soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet, guitar, banjo, violin, cello, & percussion
                     (Dedicated to Stephanie L. Deshaies)

            i.    Pioneers, O Pioneers!

            ii.   Joys of the Trail

            iii.  The Prairie-grass Dividing

            iv.  Missing the Trail 

            v.   Song of a Man About to Die in a Strange Land

            vi.   The Way West

Metamorphosis Happens (2005)

            Music for the Tom Baker Quartet (Composed in celebration of Tom Baker's 40th birthday)

Family of Four (2005)

            Music for the Tom Baker Quartet (Dedicated to the family unit)

sCatterEd  (2004)

            Music for solo flute (Composed for Danijela Djakovic)

in a far country (2003, revised 2006)

Music for soprano/alto saxophone and piano

 (Commissioned by Chien-Kwan Lin for the 2003 World Saxophone Congress)

dripping a drip (2002)

            for computer-realized sound

poem by Brian Cobb & narrated by Doug Niemela

amongst the woods in the dead of winter (a spirit passes through) (2002) 

            for computer-realized sound

the woodmen (revised) (2001-2002)

            for two double basses

            i. working

            ii. finding the song in themselves

            iii. follow me (the footsteps of the weak and starving)

beyond the distant hill (2001)

            for computer-realized sound

tree (the presen(t)ension between green and red) (2000)

            for oboe, bassoon, violin, viola and violoncello

from whence it came… (1999)

            for wind orchestra and piano

purity of unity (1999)

            for solo bassoon

The Tell-Tale Heart (1997)

            Film music (String quartet, percussion and two soprano voices)

dust (1997)

            Piece for soprano voice, flute, piano and percussion

the assassin (1996)

            Song for soprano voice and orchestra

Big Bad Gus (1996)

Music for a small improvising ensemble

Nice Piece (1996)

Music for small jazz ensemble

leaf (1995)

Sonata for violoncello and piano

three songs for baritone voice and piano (1994)

I. Visions

II. the Seconds

III. Monotone