COMPOSITIONS BY EDDIE BASS
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Choral
 
 
Title Medium Text Duration
Vexilla Regis (1989)  Version 1: SATB, Trumpet, Keyboard (piano or organ)
Version 2: SATB, orchestra (1121/2221/str/timp/perc)
Latin hymn by Venantius Fortunatus 6'
The King of Love (1992)  SATB, organ, handbells  Psalm 23, metrical version  5'
I Died for Beauty (1993)  Version 1:  SSAA, wind quintet and piano or piano only 

Version 2: SATB wind quintet and piano or piano only 
Emily Dickinson  15'
With What Shall I Come Before the Lord (1996)  SATB, organ  Micah 6:6-8  5'
There Was a Naughty Boy (1998)  SSA, piano  Keats  5'30"

Solo Vocal
 
 
Title Medium Text Duration
Epitaphs (1983)  Version 1:  Mezzo-soprano or baritone and orchestra 
Version 2: Mezzo-soprano or baritone and chamber ensemble (flute, 'cello, percussion, piano) 

Version 3: Mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano 
Epitaphs from cemeteries in New England 14'
Five Songs (1995)  High voice, clarinet, viola, and piano  Yeats, William Davenant, Francis Beaumont, Shakespeare  15'

Instrumental Solo
 
 
Title Medium Duration
Windsongs, after Kenneth Grahame (1987)  Oboe and keyboard synthesizer or piano  Based on two episodes from The Wind and the Willows  9'
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1993)  Two movements  10'
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1997)  Three movements  15'
Sonata for Trombone and Piano (1997) Warwick Music UK Three movements  14'
New Time, New Space (1999) Oboe and Piano Two linked movements 9.30'

Chamber
 
 
Title Medium Duration
Brass Quintet (1982) Seesaw Music Corp. 
2067 Broadway 
New York, NY 10023
2 Trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba  Four movements  15'
Variations on a Shaped-Note Hymn (1984) 
Seesaw Music Corp. 
2067 Broadway 
New York, NY 10023
2 Trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba  On the hymn-tune "Woodville"  10'
Partite (1985)
Seesaw Music Corp. 
2067 Broadway 
New York, NY 10023
Trombone Choir 
(8 parts)
Variations on the chorale "Herzliebster Jesu" 10'
Georgia Fanfare (1987) 
Seesaw Music Corp. 
2067 Broadway 
New York, NY 10023
2 Trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba A fast, mostly loud, quick opener 3'
Pas de Quatre (1988) 
Warwick Music UK
Trombone Quartet (Winner, 1989 ITA Composition Contest) Five Movements 12'
Variations on a Gregorian Melody (1991)  Wind Quintet  On the hymn-tune "Adoro devote"  12'
House Band (1993)  Clarinet, violin, and piano  An evening in the life of a hotel trio; Tea-time concert (Overture and Salon Piece), Dinner Dance (Waltz, Fox-trot, Ragtime, Dixie, Klezmer cadenza, Serba)  16'
Three Medieval Carols (1996)  Brass Quintet  "Angelus ad virginem", "Song of the Nuns of Chester", As I laye on Yoles Night" 8'
Sextet (2000) Piano and Wind Quintet Three movements 16'
On Yonder Mountain (2001) Clarinet, viola, piano Settings of four Appalachian folk songs 15'

 

Brass Ensemble
 
 
Triptych (2001) 4/4/4/2/2, 4 percussion Three movements 19'

 

Wind Ensemble
 
 
Recollections (1987)  Four Movements 15'

Trumpet Ensemble
 
 
Imagin'd Corners of the Earth(1999) 
Warwick Music UK
16-part Trumpet Ensemble  Single movement    10'