Udo Kasemets
- Works for the stage
- Works for orchestra
- Works for solo instrument(s) and orchestra
- Works for ensemble
- Works for solo instrument
- Vocal and choral music
- Electronic, electro-acoustic and multimedia works
- Unspecified instrumentation
- Music for children
WORKS FOR THE STAGE
Musical and/or drama and/or dance works for stage
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Duchamperamusic theatre piece
1987
90'
any number of voices, any number of speakers, any number of actors, piano, ensemble of glass instruments, chess players
Text: Udo Kasemets after Marcel Duchamp
Fp: July 28, 1987; Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Lugu kolmest õest (Story of the Three Sisters), Op. 9Music for Mahta Söödor's play
1947
soloists, choir, orchestra
WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA
Works for symphony orchestra
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777Seven Hundred And Seventy Seven Pulses in Seventy Parts on Seven Times Seven Harmonics
1998
13'
symphony orchestra: 3221, saxophone, 2221, 3, harp, piano, strings
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Preludio sinfonico, Op. 231950
symphony orchestra
Works for chamber orchestra
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Requiem rengaFor the victims of wars and violence of our time
1992
41'
chamber orchestra: percussion (2), strings
Commissioned by: Chamber Players of Toronto
CD „Udo Kasemets. Requiem Renga; Palestrina on Devil's Staircase; The Eight Houses of I Ching“, Koch International Classics (1994); Lyra Borealis Ensemble, conductor Paavo Järvi
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Sinfonietta1959
14'
chamber orchestra: 1111, 2110, strings
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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Estonian Suite4 miniatures to Estonian folk-tunes
1950
chamber orchestra
Works for string orchestra
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For Paavo Järvi
1. Waterhouse
2. Mountainhouse
3. Thunderhouse
4. Windhouse
5. Firehouse
6. Earthhouse
7. Lakehouse
7. Heavenhouse
1993
25'
string orchestra
CD „Udo Kasemets. Requiem Renga; Palestrina on Devil's Staircase; The Eight Houses of I Ching“, Koch International Classics (1994); Lyra Borealis Ensemble, conductor Paavo Järvi
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Recitative and Rondino, Op. 36on songs of the Copper Eskimos
1954
8'
string orchestra
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENT(S) AND ORCHESTRA
Works for violin and orchestra
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 411. Toccata
2. Elegy
3. Chaconne
1957
26'
solo violin, symphony orchestra: 3333, 4331, 1+1, strings
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
Works for two or more soloists and orchestra
WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE
Duos
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Vertical Musicin remembrance of Morton Feldman
1988
piano in four hands
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Christmas Carols1. What Child Is This?
2. Good Christian Men Rejoice
3. Deck the Halls
4. O Little Town of Bethlehem
5. Jeanette, Isabella
6. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
7. Silent Night
8. The First Nowell
9. The Holly and the Ivy
10. Susanni
11. Joy to the World
12. Good King Wenceslas
13. Coventry Carol
14. Angels and Shepherds
15. Adeste Fideles
16. The Huron Carol
17. Away in a Manger
18. Czech Carol
1965
10'
soprano recorder, piano
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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1+1Twelve Easy Duets for Two Recorders
1. London Bridge
2. Ladybird
3. Twinkle, Twinkle
4. One, Two, Three
5. Three Blind Mice
6. Little Jack Horner
7. Ten Little Indians
8. Mary Had a Little Lamb
9. Old MacDonald
10. Polly-Wolly-Doodle
11. Early One Morning
12. Au Clair De La Lune
1964
2 recorders (SS or SA)
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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5√5 (Fifth Root of Five)1963
8'
two pianos with percussion played by the pianists
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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Squares1962
4'
piano in four hands
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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Logos1960
flute, piano
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Ecclesiastical suite, Op. 44Kyrie
Chorale „Mit Fried und Freud“
Spiritual „He never Said a Mumblin’ Word“
1955
viola da gamba and harpsichord, or violoncello and piano
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Recitative and Fugue, Op. 41a1955
8'
2 cellos
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Capricious pastorale, Op. 29 No. 11952
clarinet, piano
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Duo, Op. 22 No. 11950
flute, clarinet
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Concert Music for Solo Clarinet, Op. 14, No. 1 [Kontsertmuusika sooloklarnetile op. 14 nr. 1]1948–1949
clarinet, piano
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Sonaat in e, Op. 101948
violin, piano
Trios
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1995
24'
3 pianos
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Trio for Strings, Op. 33Metamorphoses on an Estonian folk-tune
1953–1954
violin, viola, cello
Fp: 1956
Publisher: New York Independent Music Publishers
Quartets
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Hexagram 16A Yi Jing Jitterbug Pianoctet
1989
two pianos (four pianists, eight hands)
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Sonata concertante, Op. 50I Lento, allegro vigorosos
II Molto adagio
III Allegro rustico
1957
piano, violin, viola, cello
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
String quartets
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2008
15’–20’
string quartet
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Two JOYanCEsComposed for the Madawaska Quartet
I the problem of the Quadrature of the Circle
II the Tetraktys of the 10 Hundredlettered words of perfect language
2002
string quartet
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
The Eight Houses of the I Ching1. Waterhouse
2. Mountainhouse
3. Thunderhouse
4. Windhouse
5. Firehouse
6. Earthhouse
7. Lakehouse
7. Heavenhouse
1990
25'
string quartet
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
First String Quartet, Op. 451956–1957
string quartet
Quintets
Wind quintets
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Koch curves1992
wind quintet
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Wind Quintet, Op. 481957
8'
wind quintet
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
Sextets
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Quantumechanical Duologues2003
clarinet, trumpet, violin, double bass, piano, percussion
Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto,Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
Septets
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Piece for PeaceSonetinas with Toward Peace
2003
instrumental ensemble
Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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PortraitMusic of the twelve moons of the I Ching. The Fifth Moon
1988
gamelan ensemble (7 musicians)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
Works for large ensemble (8+)
WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENT
Works for clarinet
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PortraitMusic of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Fourth Moon
Written for Robert Stevenson
1988
clarinet
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
Works for percussion
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CalendaroundRixax
2001
percussion, video
Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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PortraitMusic of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Third Moon
Written for Beverly Johnston
1988
percussion
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Vertical Taps for Morty1987
snare drum
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
Works for violin
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a string theory for solo violin
For Malcolm Goldstein
2004
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
violin
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Calendar RoundMalcgolmdstein
1990
violin
Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
Works for cello
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PortraitMusic of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Second Moon
Written for Richard Armin
1988
amplified cello (RAAD cello)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Sonata da camera, Op. 401955
cello
Works for piano
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Skyscapeof the 88 constellations; as represented by the 88 keys of the pianoforte
2007
piano
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Two-ludes2006
20'
piano
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Chronologue
1999
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
piano
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Mus(ost)ic for BarbaraFor Barbara Pritchard
1997
piano
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Stanstars1997
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
piano
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
80 Flowers80 separate piano pieces for the 80 poems by Louis Zukofsky
1996
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
piano, multimedia installation (slides)
Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano); January 7, 1996 Music Gallery, Toronto
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3/7 D'un Morceau en Forme de Poire1995
3'
piano
CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Feigenbaum Cascades1995
15'
piano
CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
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Music of the First Eleven Primes1995
4'
piano
CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Pythagoras TreeFor Stephen Clarke
1994
15'
piano
CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
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1986
17'
piano
Commissioned by: Ivar Mikhashoff
CD „Pythagoras tree. Udo Kasemets. Works for Piano“, Hat Hut (1998); Stephen Clarke (piano)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
PortraitMusic of the Twelve Moons of the I Ching. The Sixth Moon
Written for Gordon Monahan
1969
piano
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
TrigonRealization for solo piano
1965
piano
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1+1Volume 2: 20 Piano Studies for Beginners
1964
piano
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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1+1Volume 2: 10 Piano Pieces on Well-known Songs
1. London Bridge
2. Ladybird
3. Twinkle, Twinkle
4. One, Two, Three
5. Little Jack Horner
6. Three Blind Mice
7. Mary Had a Little Lamb
8. Old MacDonald
9. Polly-Wolly-Doodle
10. Au clair de la lune
1960–1964
piano
CD-l "Canadian compositions for young pianists. Compositions canadiennes pour jeunes pianistes", Studea Musica (2000); Elaine Keillor (piano) (only "Old MacDonald" and "Au clair de la lune")
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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Two Fancies for FingerboardDedicated to Tõnu Kalam
1. Little Goat's Song
2. Dance of Two Goats
1959
piano
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Meditations to 12-tone-serial, rhytmical and metrical questions
1. Andante commodo
2. Con spirito
3. Deciso
4. Presto
5. Grave
6. Giocoso
1952
piano
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Piano sonata, Op. 24, No. 11951
piano
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Concert Music for Piano [Kontsertmuusika klaverile]Sonatina No. 2, Op. 14, No. 2
1948–1949
piano
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piano
Fp: Stephen Clarke (piano); 14.03.2008, The Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
Works for accordion
Works for other instrument
VOCAL AND CHORAL MUSIC
Works for mixed choir and orchestra
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Serenata Dolorosa1952
alto, mixed choir, strings, piano
Text: Jyri Kork, Kalju Lepik, Karl Rumor
Fp: conductor Olav Roots; March 1952, Stockholm, Sweden
Works for mixed choir and instrument(s)
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Suur on, jumal, su ramm, Op. 11 (God, Great is Thy Power)cantata
1948
tenor, mixed choir, organ
Text: Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
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Koldeviisid (Hearth Songs), Op. 21series of Estonian folksongs
1. Laulu mõju
2. Orjalaul
3. Muhulane
4. Vaeslapse laul
5. Poiste kutse
6. Targa rehealune
7. Pulmalaul
youth choir (SAB), solo voice, piano
Text: folklore
CD „Lumen tuum“, Female Choir of Estonian Choral Conductors (2012); Female Choir of Estonian Choral Conductors, conductors Andrus Siimon, Õnne-Ann Roosvee (only "Targa rehealune")
Works for female choir and instrument(s)
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Vahimees (Watchman)cantata
1949
tenor, female choir, 2 pianos
Text: Henrik Visnapuu
Fp: Runo Choirs, conductor Udo Kasemets; December 10, 1949, Geislingen, Germany
Works for voice(s) and orchestra
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Poetic Suite, Op. 371. The Goddess (rondo)
2. The World (interlude)
3. Passion (passacaglia)
1954
20'
voice, piano, string orchestra
Text: Kathleen Raine
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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Visions, Op. 31I Variations
II Danse macabre (fugue)
III Song of the desert (epilogue)
1953
35'
narrator, chamber orchestra: 2220, 0000, 2, piano/celesta, strings
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre
Works for voice(s) and instrument(s)
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Reading John CageA musical projection of the poem of Octavio Paz
For Susan Layard
1994
voice, instrument
Works for voice(s) and piano
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80 Flowers M(e)[u]sostics1995/2008
reader, piano
Text: Louis Zukofsky (fragments)
Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
ZodiacalendarRobert Creeley' mälestuseks
2008
16'
voice, piano
Text: mesostics derived from Robert Creeley's poem „A Calendar“ from „Memory Gardens“, Latin and English titles of each Zodiacal constellation (along with the names of the corresponding months)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
for piano solo to be played in conjunction with a reading of "88"
2007
12'
piano, reader
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Solo for Two Voices of Octavio Pazrealization for singer/speaker and pianist
2007
voice, piano
Text: Octavio Paz (fragments)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Act Without Words IA mime for one player by Samuel Beckett translated into a music for one player by Udo Kasemets
2006
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
reader, piano
Fp: Udo Kasemets (reader, piano), Susan Layard (reader); November 5, 2006, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Phrases of bpNicholmusigraphics for speaker and piano
To the memory of Louis Zukofsky
2004
Indeterminate duration / määratlemata kestus
voice, piano
Text: bpNichol
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
XXVI fungal threadsof Jay Millar
2004
26'
voice, piano
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Gamutof Louis Zukofsky
For Susan
2003
voice, piano
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Canto XLIX of Ezra Poundvocal solo with parallel piano and ideogrammatic interludes
2002
voice, piano
Text: Ezra Pound
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
we connect Norman O. Brown with John Cage (with Erik Satie)
2002
reader, piano
Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
music of the first thirteen primes
2001
6'
voice, piano
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of Robert Creeley with music of Udo Kasemets
Airs:
Air: The Love of a Woman
Air: Cat Bird Singing
Mirrors:
Oh Love
Wind Lifts
Elements
Oh
Song
2000
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
voice, piano
Text: Robert Creeley
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Sixteen stillsof bp Nichol
1996/2000
piano, reader
Text: bp Nichol
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
A verbal / musical scenario with words of Jorge Luis Borges and Ovid and musics of Claudio Monteverdi and Udo Kasemets
1999
voice-speaker, piano, visual medium ad libitum
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Numbers/DigitsA musichoreograhy for ten digits on eighty eight keys
For Robert Creeley
1999
speaker, piano
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1999
solo piano and/or solo reader
Text: Text is extracted from five Merce Cunningham sections of the John Cage renga/mesostics „Themes and Variations“
Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Useful knowledgeFor Ulla E. Dydo
1. Music of the First Hundred Natural Numbers (for piano, 1999)
2. BiB – Business in Baltimore (for narrator and piano, 2000)
1999-2000
narrator, piano
Text: Gertrude Stein
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in remembrance of Octavio Paz
1998
8’–10’
voice, piano
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Fractal Epitaphfor John Cage
1992/1995
voice, piano
Text: different vowels
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Hexagram 14A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet
for John Cage
1991
10'
voice, piano
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Hexagram 50A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet
For Avrom Isaacs
1991
voice, piano
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Megalcides
For Meg Sheppard and Alcides Lanza
1989
13'
singer/speaker and keyboardist/speaker (a keyboardist/speaker may substitute for pre-recorded tapes)
Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
Fp: Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano); April 24, 1990, McGill University, Canada
CD „Transmutations“, Editions Shelan Publications (1996); Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
19NooN61A musical collage
1961
voice, piano
Text: Walter Hickling
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Three Songs from Atlantic Provinces1959
voice, piano
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Three Miniatures, Op. 46I To the moon
II A widow bird sate mourning
III Music, when soft voices die
1956
6'
voice, piano
Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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Two Symphonic Songs1. In the beginning
2. And death shall have no dominion
1956
voice, piano
Text: Dylan Thomas
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
The Thousand Nights and One Night, Op. 39music for voice and piano to anonymous Arabian lyrics from the thirteenth century
1. The power of love
2. The beautiful boy
3. Love
4. Birds
5. Dates
6. Drinking song
1954
voice, piano
Text: Anonymous Arabian lyrics from the thirteenth century (in English, translated by E. Powys Mathers)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Choreolae Gaudiae, Op. 32four old English Christmas carols
1. The Salutation Carol
2. All in the Morning
3. Coventry Carol
4. Wassail Song
1952
soprano, alto, tenor, piano
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Alphabets & Algorithms: Vowels & Primeswith a Sappho fragment from „eros the bittersweet“ of Anne Carson
voice, piano
Text: Anne Carson (fragments)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Armulaul (Loev Song)voice, piano
Text: Henrik Visnapuu
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Uinulaul (Slumber Song)voice, piano
Works for voice(s) and other instrument(s)
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double/sextuple mesostics for two voices and music in four parts
2001/2003
2 voices, any 4 players
Fp: Arraymusic; November 29, 2003, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Signs2001
2 speakers, any 2 players
Text: Robert Creeley
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AnarchArt QuantuMandalaQM 4x7+7x4 (for cello solo, 1998. For Margaret Gay)
QM 7x4x7 (for viola solo, 1998)
QM 4x7x4 (for violin solo, 1998. For Marc Sabat and Malcolm Goldstein)
QM 8x11+11x8 (for piano solo, 1998. For Stephen Clarke)
QM 4x9=6x6 (for B-flat clarinet solo, 1999. Note: The performer may choose to play some pages on the bass clarinet)
QM 4x9=6x6 (for flute solo, 1999. Note: The performer may choose to play some pages on flutes of varied ranges (piccolo, alto, bass)
QM 4x9=6x6 (for vibraphone solo, 1999. For Richard Sacks)
QM 4x13x4 (for marimba solo, 1999. For Richard Sacks)
QM 2x13x2 "Anarchy Really Does Have a Future" (for speaksinger solo, 2000. For Paul Dutton)
QM 2x13+13x2 (for accordion solo, 2000. For Tiina Kiik)
1998-2000
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OPazERACumulative work; its seven sections may be performed separately:
John Cage/Octavio Paz Conjunction (voice, piano), 1996
Joan Miró/Octavio Paz Conjunction (speaker, percussion, film, slide projections), 1996
The Constellation of Virgo (voice, piano, vibraphone, marimba) 1996
Sunstone (voice, pianoharp [invented instrument], percussion, film, slide projections), 1996
Blanco (female voice, male voice, 2 pianos, percussion), 1997
OPJreSCTnga (clarinet, violin, cello, piano), 1997
Homage and Desecrations (voice, speaker, piano, prepared piano, percussion), 1997
1996–97
Text: Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger
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Fractal Epitaphfor John Cage
1992/1995
6'
voice, string quartet
Text: different vowels
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
A peacewordchant
For Andrus and Eero Voitk
1994
baritone, cello
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Monolloyguea soliloquy about sixteen sucking stones for an actor and a bassoonist
For Shannon Peet and Todd Duckworth
1994
Flexible duration / Kestus varieerub
actor, bassoon
Text: Text from „Molloy“ by Samuel Beckett
Fp: Shannon Peet (bassoon), Todd Duckworth (actor); September 16, 1995, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Sappersong1994
voice, cello
Text: Daniel Hartford
CD „Songs for cello and baritone. New songs by Lembit Avesson, Udo Kasemets, Kaljo Raid“, A. Voitk; Andrus Voitk (baritone), Eero Voitk (cello)
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A tribute to Michael Snow
1993
2 pianos (4 pianists), voice, mallet percussion
Fp: Andrew Burashko (piano), Stephen Clarke (piano), Leslie Dala (piano), Henry Kucharzyk (piano), Rick Sacks (marimba/speaker), Susan Layard (vocalist, speaker), Udo Kasemets (conductor, speaker); May 15, 1994, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Canada
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Palestrina on Devil’s StaircaseA construction based on the fractal set of George Cantor
Written to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 1994 of Palestrina's death
1993
3 voices, 3 violins, 3 cellos
CD „Udo Kasemets. Requiem Renga; Palestrina on Devil's Staircase; The Eight Houses of I Ching“, Koch International Classics (1994); Lyra Borealis Ensemble, conductor Paavo Järvi
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lOOking fOr jacksOn maclOw in the cOncise OxfOrd dictiOnarypOemusic fOr a sOlO reader with OptiOnal vOcal andOr instrumental OstinatO and Organum accOmpaniment
A belated celebration of Jackson MacLow’s sixtieth birthday
1983
reader, organ, optional vocal and/or instrumental ostinato
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Rites of Rites 1
1976
1 to 10 readers, any number of drummers, and optional visual projections
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Music for EverythingThe Advance and Retreat of the Dragon
1974
8 strings (and/or winds, and/or keyboards), percussion, 16 voices, 4 moving bodies, 4 channel tape, conductor
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In memoriam M. D.1969?
voice, autoharp and toy piano
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A non-composition for singer(s), speaker(s), instrumentalist(s), dancer(s), et cetera
To Catharine
1964
singer(s), speaker(s), instrumentalist(s), dancer(s)
Text: e.e.cummings
Publisher: BMI Canada
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Triv and QuadA realization (Trio concertante) of Trigon
1964
voice, flute, keyboard
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Haiku1. Moon
2. Winds
3. Frogs
4. Seasons
5. On the temple bell
6. Insects
7. Canons
8. Interludes
1961
18'
voice, flute, piano, cello
Text: Classical Japanese poetry, translated by Harold G. Henderson
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd
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4 for 41. Never two songs the same
2. Moon rondeau
3. Daybreak
4. Be ready
1958
voice and string trio
Text: Carl Sandburg
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Canciones, Op. 42To my friend Harry Somers
1. El canto quiere ser luz (The Song Wishes to Be Light)
2. Claro de reloj (Pause of the Clock)
3. La guitarra (The Guitar)
1956
6'
voice, flute, guitar
Text: Federico García Lorca (English words translated from Spanish poems)
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As the hart panteth, Op. 18, No. 1b1949
voice, organ
Works for mixed choir a cappella
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Las kasvame (Let Us Grow)1948
mixed choir
Text: Gustav Suits
Fp: Mixed choir „Runo“, conductor Udo Kasemets; November 27, 1948, Jahnhalle, Geislingen, Germany
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Lätsi küllä (I Went to Visit)1948
mixed choir
Text: folklore (Setu tune and lyrics)
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Oi, sünnimaa (Oh, Birthland)1947
mixed choir
Text: Udo Kasemets
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Ta lendab mesipuu poole (He Flies Towards the Beehive)Dedicated to Geislingen Estonian Choir
1947
mixed choir
Text: Juhan Liiv
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Oh Jumal, laota armutiivad (Oh God, Lay the Wings of Grace)1946
mixed choir
Text: Philip Aleksander Tammaru
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Rändaja õhtulaul (Wandere's Evening Song)1946
mixed choir
Text: Ernst Enno
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Jõuluöö (Christmas Night)mixed choir
Text: Valdeko Saksen
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Kuu kahvatumixed choir
Text: Eino Leino
Works for female choir a cappella
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Mägede põues (In the Bowels of the Mountains)1947
female choir
Text: Anna Haava
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Eideratas (Spinning Wheel)female choir
Text: folklore
Works for male choir a cappella
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Two SongsDeath, be not proud (John Donne)
The falcon (Anonymous)
1957
7'
male choir
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Noore suve muinasjutt (An Early Summer's Fairytale)1948
male choir
Text: Ernst Enno
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Rändaja õhtulaul (Wandere's Evening Song)1946
male choir
Text: Ernst Enno
Works for solo voice
ELECTRONIC, ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC AND MULTIMEDIA WORKS
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The Liberties of Susan Howe2007
singer/speaker, 2 female speakers, piano, fixed media, video (by Pierre Tremblay)
Libretto: Susan Howe
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Yi Jing JitterbugFor David Jaeger
1991
sine-wave oscillators and mixing devices
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Harmonices mundi of Johannes KeplerWritten for Adele Armin
1990
12'
violin, pre-recorded tape
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Hexagram 16Written for James Tenney
1990
piano with 8 sine-wave oscillators, mixing devices and loud speakers
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
For Chris Devonshire
1990
8'
6 sine-wave oscillators, mixing devices and loudspeakers
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
1990
multimedia theatre for dancers, visuals, live and pre-recorded voices, instruments, and elecro-acoustic devices
CD „Udo Kasemets With Chris Devonshire. Timetrip To Big Bang, Big Bang And Back“, Artifact Music (1994); Richard Sacks (percussion), Chris Devonshire (technician, electronics), Adele Armin (violin), Marc Sabat (violin), Susan Layard (voice)
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Calendar RoundFor John Kamevaar and Thomas Handy
1989
guitar, percussion, wind instruments, pre-recorded tape
Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
For Meg Sheppard and Alcides Lanza
1989
13'
singer/speaker and keyboardist/speaker (a keyboardist/speaker may substitute for pre-recorded tapes)
Text: Words from the Mayan calendar
Fp: Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano); April 24, 1990, McGill University, Canada
CD „Transmutations“, Editions Shelan Publications (1996); Meg Sheppard (voice), Alcides Lanza (piano)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Marce(ntennia)l Circus C(ag)elebrating Duchamp1987
Text: John Cage
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Spectrascapessound installation
1987–1988
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an acoustic atlas of the global village
1986
Fp: Udo Kasemets, Chris Devonshire, Chris Eddy, Gerard Leckey, Gary Murphy, Ron Salapatek; March 1987, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
Commissioned by: Hamilton Artists Inc.
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
4-D I Ching1984
computer and tape
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1984
9'
wind or bowed string player with one or more assistants operating 8 cassette decks
Fp: David Mott; May 3, 1986, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
FpEst: Ensemble of Estonian Electronic Music Society; April 18, 2022, Estonian Public Broadcasting, 1. studio, Estonian Music Days
CD „Musicworks 57“, Musicworks (1993)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Counterbomb RengaMulti-media performance, a collaboration of over 100 poets and musicians from Canada and the US in a poetical/musical statement, conceived and coordinated by Udo Kasemets
1983
Text: Jonathan Schell
Fp: March 8, 1983, Bloor St. United Church, Toronto, Canada
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1982
piano, electronics
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Celestial Timescapes1980
computer, fixed media
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Whole Earth Music1978
48 h
Continuous playback of 64 recordings distributed between eight separate listening stationsand a mixing systems programming and processing centre
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
1977
33'
4 performers using voices, acoustical instruments, microphones, mixers, synthesizers with keyboards, amplifiers and speakers, with optional pre-recorded tape or tape delay system
Commissioned by: Canadian Electronic Ensemble
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Watearthundair1976
peakers and mixed media
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MikemusicsMikemusics (1977)
Mikemusic I (1973-1975)
Mikemusic II, III, IV (1975-1976)
Sh! - Mikemusic IV (1975)
Mikesong I (1975)
Eighty-eight keys - Mikesong II (1975-1976)
1973–1977
reader with a deck of cards, 1-4 pianos, and electroacoustic music
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Wordmusic/Interface (any dictionary)1973
readers, tape recorders, mixers at diverse geographical locations using postal, air-express, radio, or telecommunication
Fp: November 7, 1973, Toronto, Canada
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1971
for card and pendulum manipulators, tape recorder operators, and readers
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Octode1967
fixed media
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Variations (on variations on [variations])I Le bonheur
II The charge
III Spring
based on „Variations done for Gerald van de Wiele“ by Charles Olson
1966/1967
12'
optional singer, 1 or 2 optional instrumentalists playing one or more instruments, 1 or 2 optional prepared tapes, and recording equipment
Text: Charles Olson (in English)
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
UNSPECIFIED INSTRUMENTATION
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CavesIn memoriam Robert Creeley
2006
30'
any musicians plus reader
Text: Robert Creeley
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
2005
30'
for any number of musicians using any choice of instruments and/or voices
Fp: NYYD Ensemble; March 24, 2006, Von Krahl Theatre, Tallinn, Estonian Music Days Festival
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
remembering Reginald Godden
2005
for any number of pitched instruments
Fp: Canadian Brass, Robert Aitken, Jack Behrens, Casey Sokol; September 14, 2005, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
2004
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
any number of musicians using any instruments or sound-producing means
Fp: Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
2001
91'
any number of musicians using any instruments and/or any number of speakers/vocalists, and (optionally) an operator of a compact disc playback system
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Agnes/Linda in Linda/Agnes2001
any number of readers and any number of musicians
Fp: Udo Kasemets (piano), Linda Smith (reader), Susan Layard (reader); Toronto, Canada
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MusiXenia2001
any 6–10 players
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4'33" Fractals2000
4'33''
any number of players
Text: James Joyce
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
4'33" PrimeTimeFractals2000
any number of voices/players
Text: James Joyce
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4'33"22000
instrumental or vocal quartet
Text: James Joyce
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2000
Kestus varieerub / Flexible duration
two female narrators and any number of instrumentalists
Text: Ruth Crawford Seeger
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1996
for four or more musicians
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Marklewake1990
Structured improvisation for one (or preferably) more instrument(s) and voice(s)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Counterpoints for Philip Corner1988
for unspecified performers
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Vertical Musicin remembrance of Morton Feldman
1987
for any seven instruments, most preferably of identical family
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Piece for Peace1985-1986
any number of chanters, any number of speakers, any number of instruments capable of sustained tones
Text: Mahatma Gandhi, Laozi, Albert Einstein, Black Elk (in English)
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Yi Jing JitterbugWritten to honour James Tenney on his 50th birthday
1984
for 8 winds and/or bowed strings
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
For Anne Bourne, Chris Devonshire, Gordon Monahan, Kim Ratcliffe, Stephen Donald, and Tina Pearson
1983
for unspecified performers
Commissioned by: New Music Co-operative
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Ragtime1981
One group of instrumentalists plays instruments of Asian/Indian origin; the other, instruments of European/North American origin
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
For Don Druick
1980
for 1-12 instrumentalists (playing chormatically tuned instruments) and/or vocalists
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
In support of Justice Thomas Berger1977
for unspecified number of participants playing found percussion instruments
Text: from „The past and future land“ by Martin O’Malley (in English)
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Elaborations on Erratum musical of Marcel DuchampIn memoriam Lily Maley
1975
for unspecified performers
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
1975
Kestus varieerub / Variable duration
any number of guitarists (any style) and one leader using projectors and chance operations to direct the performance
Fp: Participants of Guitar '75, conductor Leo Brouwer; June 26, 1975, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto, Toronto
Commissioned by: Guitar Society of Toronto
Distributor: Canadian Music Centre -
Voicemusic for John Cage1972
any number of voices
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TrigonTo Bertram Turetzky
1963/1969
for 1, 3, 9, or 27 instrumentalists and/or sound-producing media and/or dancers
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
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Octagonal octet and/or odeDedicated to William Kilbourn
1967/1968
Octet: for 8 performers using any media
Ode: for 1, 2, 4, or 6 performers using any media
Text: from Ezra Pound’s „Confucian Odes“ (optional)
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
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Calceolaria1966/1967
For any number of performers in any media
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
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Contacticsa choreography for musicians and audience
1966/1967
for any number of musicians and participating audience or dancers
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
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TimepieceTo Paul Kilburn
1964/1967
For solo performer using one or more instruments. May also be used by more than one performer
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.
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CascandoCascando
Radio play
VII
XXIII
For Catherine
1963-1965
any player/any number of players
Text: Samuel Beckett
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Cumulus1963–64
any solo instrument or instrumental ensemble, 2 tape recorders
MUSIC FOR CHILDREN
Songs for children
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Five Songs for Children1. Eletelephony (Laura E. Richards)
2. The monkeys and the crocodile (Laura E. Richards)
3. A swing song (William Allingham)
4. What do they say? (Christina Rossetti)
5. Who has seen the wind? (Christina Rossetti)
1964
voice, piano
Text: Laura E. Richards, William Allingham, Christina Rossetti (in English)
Publisher: Berandol Music Ltd.