MONROE GOLDEN

A STILL SUBTLER SPIRIT
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ALABAMA PLACES
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Reviews:
Sonoloco
Birmingham News
Bixobal Magazine/American Record Guide
Sequenza 21
New Music Connoisseur
All Music Guide
KZSU Zookeeper

LIST OF COMPOSITIONS
Scores and media available from composer

Chamber Ensemble | Choral and Vocal | Solo Instrumental | Electroacoustic

Chamber Ensemble   top

  • Moving the Center for piano trio
  • If Dogs Have a Heaven for soprano sax and piano
  • Bundling Dawn for soprano sax, bassoon, marimba, and piano (for The Blair Collective)
  • Lament for Lost Children for bagpipes and vibraphone (for Trent Bradford and Seth Noble)
  • Oma for gamelan (for Gamelan Yowana Sari)
  • Commingle for violin and viola
  • Progress is rarely a straight line for woodwind quintet
  • Winona's Lesson for violin duo (for Miolina)
  • Beyer Flights for percussion quartet (for Iron Giant)
  • Home to a Place for soprano, flute, and harp
  • Some Day for brass quintet
  • Vestiges for percussion quartet (for Iron Giant)
  • So I Can See Willy for 4-hand piano
  • Twine 'mid the Ringlets for string quartet (for Amion Quartet)
  • Helical March for chamber orchestra
  • Out of Context for almglocken, marimba, and microtonal keyboard (for Ensemble Sirius)
  • 43 Commas for flute, piano, and soundfile (for Donnie Ashworth and Adam Bowles)
  • Ten Strings for violin and guitar
  • Alabama Places for piano and microtonal keyboard (for Ellen Tweiten and Kurt Carpenter)
    • Section 16 * Coosa Basin * Piedmont * Tensaw * Natchez Trace * In Pell City * Montevallo * Iron Road (Tannehill) * North Shelby * Demopolis * 2365 Cahaba Road (original Unitarian Church) * Scarham Creek
  • Poems of Life and Bliss for mezzo, flute, cello, and piano (for The BAMA Players)
  • Tracking Minotaurs for saxophone quartet (for Ara Saxophone Quartet)
  • Cheaha for four-hand microtonal piano and handcrafted chimes
  • Grind for three electric grinders and sundry percussion
  • Music for Nine Pieces of Metal
  • Leaven for quarter-tone guitar and marimba
  • Drift for two pianos
  • Vegan Permaculture for microtonal guitar quartet (for the Birmingham Guitar Quartet)
  • String Quartet
  • Three in the Morning for three tenor saxophones
  • By Nary for amplified alto flute, handcrafted chimes, microtonal piano, and trombone

Choral and Vocal   top

  • In the Wilderness for SATB choir and piano
  • In Pell City for reader, piano, and microtonal keyboard (text by Linda Frost)
  • Poems of Life and Bliss for mezzo, flute, cello, and piano (for The BAMA Players)
  • Walden Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano (for Kathryn Venable)
  • Two Psalms for SATB choir

Solo Instrumental   top

  • Mono-no Aware for hichiriki and MAX/MSP processing (for Thomas Piercy)
  • Meander for trombone and MAX/MSP processing (for Jacob Elkin)
  • Madam I'm Adam for piano (for Adam Bowles)
  • Tenkenas for bassoon (for Johnny Reinhard)
  • I'm Worried Now for remapped/retuned piano (for Aron Kallay)
  • Liberal Hands and Spirits Free for clarinet and fixed media
  • Dies Tempestatis for piano
  • Incongruity for piano and soundfile
  • Pinhoti for cello and soundfile (for Craig Hultgren)
  • 81 for piano (for Kurt Carpenter)
  • Reform for flute and soundfile, with optional video by John Burns (for Donnie Ashworth)
  • Drift for piano

Electroacoustic   top

  • Mono no Aware for hichiriki and MAX/MSP processing (for Thomas Piercy)
  • Meander for trombone and MAX/MSP processing (for Jacob Elkin)
  • I'm Worried Now for remapped/retuned piano (for Aron Kallay)
  • Liberal Hands and Spirits Free for clarinet and fixed media
  • Progress for soundfile
  • Incongruity for piano and soundfile
  • Pinhoti for cello and soundfile (for Craig Hultgren)
  • Turkey Branch for soundfile
  • Out of Context for almglocken, marimba, and microtonal keyboard (for Ensemble Sirius)
  • 43 Commas for flute, piano, and soundfile (for Donnie Ashworth and Adam Bowles)
  • Alabama Places for piano and microtonal keyboard (for Ellen Tweiten and Kurt Carpenter)
    • Section 16 * Coosa Basin * Piedmont * Tensaw * Natchez Trace * In Pell City * Montevallo * Iron Road (Tannehill) * North Shelby * Demopolis * 2365 Cahaba Road (original Unitarian Church) * Scarham Creek (Sand Mountain)
  • I Go Home for soundfile, poetry and reading by Penny Arnold
  • Reform for flute and soundfile, with optional video by John Burns (for Donnie Ashworth)
  • Drift for player piano