Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

Music Available in New Editions 1997-8

Frog Peak Music

Westleaf Edition

Quamby Books

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Solo

• Rough Edges piano solo / 30 minutes / six continuous movements / No. W873
• Windows on the Moon cello solo / 15 minutes / four movements / No. W861
• Sonata contrabass solo / 10 minutes / three movements / No. W721
• 8 Pooners performance piece for clarinetist / 30 minutes / No. W9310
• Thièle violin solo / 20 minutes / three movements / No. W914
• Fodor Fugue violin solo / 5 minutes / No. W876
• The Moon male or female vocal solo / 5 minutes / No. W925
• Honey & Hops clarinet solo / 10 minutes / No. W902
• The Herd piano solo / 5 minutes / No. W915
• Variations piano solo / 7 minutes / No. W7212
• Llama Butter performance piece for tuba & tape / 20 minutes / No. W933

Chamber Ensemble

• The Big Drag wind quartet / 6 minutes / No. W981
• Gardens, A Love Song English horn & string quartet / 8 minutes / No. W963
• Hoots & Honks string quartet / 25 minutes / No. 962
• Emerald Canticles, Below violin, cello, clarinet & piano / 15 minutes / No. W938
• Murkee's Lament 2 pianos, cello quartet, double bass quartet / 7 minutes / No. W955
• Kibble & Timbrals 2 mewbowls, Eng.setter, basset hound, Tom bone / 4 minutes / No. W956
• Aurora Cagealis 12 performers / variable time / No. W926
• Binky Plays Marbles contrabass & viola / 20 minutes / No. W923
• Melisma voice & small ensemble / 5 minutes / No. W9316
• Build, Make, Do vn., clar., marimba, & 2 keyboards / 10 minutes / No. W944
• Falling Into the Sun Again two violins / 4 minutes / No. W953
• Grand Mirliton bass clarinet & horn / 10 minutes / No. W905
• MixMaster's Revenge extended viola & guitar / 7 minutes / No. W934
• Roundelay brass quintet / 5 minutes / No. W744
• Dancing Despite Despair brass quintet / 3 minutes / No. W941
• McFwang's Allstep & Swag reed, brass, bass, & drums / 7 minutes / No. W9315
• Quartet for Winds fl., ob., clar., & bsn. / 10 minutes / four movements / No. W702
• Graag ob., e.hn., clar., fr.hn., b.clar., & bsn. / 15 minutes / No. W952
• Unisons violin, clarinet, marimba, percussion / 10 minutes / No. W943
• Bang the Rocks Together voices, violin, rocks, drums, & bass / 5 minutes / No. W892
• Brand 9 from Outer Space alto sax, bassoon, piano / 5 minutes / No. W947
• Cat Dances for vn., vla. & vcl., or sax trio ATBr / 10 minutes / No. W94C(sax), 94D(strs.)
• Almost Not in Progress two flutes, clarinet, & cello / 6 minutes / No. W916
• Wedding Changes three flutes (two C, one G) / 15 minutes / No. W853/904/954
• Variations on Justin Morgan's 'Amanda' violin, two cellos, & harpsichord / 15 minutes / No. W891
• Wormholmusik tuba quintet/12 minutes / three movements / No. W744
• Seven Chocolate Eclems violin & cello / 5 minutes / No. W928
• Withered solo voice & percussion / 10 minutes / No. W714
• A Glass Clown 5 songs for voice & piano / 10 minutes / No. W852
• The Big Fipple 26 pieces for recorder ensembles / No. W936
• A Booklet of Performance Bits 30 performance pieces, 1972-1994 / No. W950

Large Ensemble

• Softening Cries orchestra / 20 minutes / No. W913
• Northern Lights orchestra / 8 minutes / No. W893
• Exequy on the Death of Igor Stravinsky wind ensemble / 7 minutes / No. W712
• Hang Time timpani & orchestra / 11 minutes / No. W951
• Missingen March band / 3 minutes / No. W961
• Two Generic Marches The Galley & The Blowout / easy band / 3 minutes each / No. W917/875

Hand-Inked

Solo

• Somnambula (recorder & tape)
• *Csárdás (piano) (recorded on Ursa Minor)
• *Pianaroll (piano & tape)

Chamber Ensemble

• *A Time Machine (vn, clar, vcl, 2 kb, perc, voice)
• Mouth Piece (Peace) (voices, tuba, trombones)
• *The Pretty Songs (alto sax & voice)
• *Four Sharks (string & wind quartets, piano)
• *Triple Quartet (string quartets)
• Ash Wednesday (voices & instruments)

Large Ensemble

• *Yçuré (orchestra)
• *The Lily and the Thorn (orchestra)
• Mantra Canon (chorus & orchestra)
• Winter (mezzo-soprano & orchestra)
• Concerto (piano, winds & electric bass)
• *Lithuanian Liniment March (band)
• Syrian Saucers (orchestra)
• Car Horn Symphony (cars with horns)

Voice

• *Super Flumina Babylonis (SATB)
• *Jubilate Deo (SATB)
• *Psalm 84 (SATB)
• *Puer Natus in Bethlehem (SATB)
• Plasm over ocean (chamber opera)
• *Beepers (cabaret, with piano)

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

• Csárdás: "Immediately compelling ... The almost demonic qualities and grand proportions of the work evoke memories of ... Franz Liszt."
• Exequy: "A dark and powerful homage ... a strident brass shell driven from within by quieter, more complex and precise sounds."
• Somnambula: "The best works [at the New York Avant-Garde Festival] were the biggest and the smallest... [The composer] sat far out in a field playing a recorder, accompanied by a tinny cassette machine... The effect was like a Chinese Pan."
• The Lily and the Thorn: "The audience warmly applauded the difficult and modern work ... after the concert, people could be heard talking about the new work throughout the hall."
• A Time Machine: "Composer Dennis Kitsz went for broke with [the] ambitious work for nine musicians that alternates sung verse with orchestral improv, ancient sounds and avant-garde ones."
• Thièle: "Clearly the work that stretched its audience the most was Kitsz's powerful Thièle for quarter-tone violin. [It] took some getting used to. People do get used to it: Some even thought that the slow movement was traditionally whole- and half-tone..."
• Emerald Canticles, Below: "There is an ethereal quality to the accompaniment resulting in an effect that is indeed surreal. But, rather than atmospheric, the work is made of clearly delineated lines that, with the work's tightly knit rhythms, lead it to a dramatic climax and coda. The new work proved difficult listening..., but ultimately fascinating."
• Llama Butter: "Nothing even comes close to the uniqueness of Llama Butter... It is a fascinating study in multi-media for the tuba... New music fans would love this work and it deserves more performances."