Music by Lynn Steele


CHAMBER MUSIC

Suite for Three Instruments in a Whimsical Mood
Flute, bassoon, piano; 5 movements.

Aquarelles
Flute, cello, piano; 6 movements.

Songs for a Champagne Flute
Flute, piano; 4 movements.

Some of Us
2 pianos.

Recuerdos
Violin, piano.

Three Views of the Charles
Flute, piano.

Two Scanian Etudes
Flute, harp, English handbells.

The Little Rooster and the Little Hen
Soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, piano.

And Banish All the World
Flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns,
trombone, tuba, timpani.

Walking Through the Heart
Mezzo soprano, flute/alto flute, oboe/English horn,
viola, cello, celesta, percussion. Text by Nancy Nowak.

Her Garden
English handbells.

Carillon de Nuit
English handbells

Violway
6 violas da gamba.

Fantasy for Bassoon and Viola




SOLO VOCAL MUSIC

Seven Songs of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mezzo soprano and piano.

Breviario
Soprano and English handbells (alternate verson with harp).
Text (in Spanish) from a poem found in a breviary owned by St. Teresa of Avila.

Three Sonnets from the Portuguese
Soprano and flute. Text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The Little Rooster and the Little Hen
Soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, and piano. Text based on a Czech folk tale.

Lord's Prayer
Soprano and harp (alternate version with piano).

Psalm 121
Mezzo soprano and organ.

Walking Through the Heart
Mezzo soprano, flute/alto flute, oboe/English horn, viola, cello, celesta, and percussion.
Text by Nancy Nowak.



CHORAL MUSIC

Requiem for Women's Voices and Handbells
In memory of Iva Dee Hiatt and Mary Gay Craig. Commissioned by The Reston Chorale.

Motet/Musette
SATB Chorus (a capella).

Haec est Dies
SATB Chorus and piano.

The Year's at the Spring
SATB Chorus and piano. Text by Robert Browning.

Jungle Songs
SATB Chorus and piano; 5 movements. Text by Rudyard Kipling.



LARGE INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLES

Sartre's Wall
Chamber orchestra.

Contrafactum
Wind ensemble of 35 performers,
including soloists on flute, English horn, clarinet, bassoon.

A Dark Water
Vocal (baritone) soloist and orchestra. Text by Sylvia Plath.



THEATRE MUSIC

Dominique
3-act opera with 6 solo singers and small chorus, from original libretto; piano score.

The Journey of Jonah
2-act stage play for young performers, script by Miriam d'Amato;
includes incidental music, choruses, solo songs;
scored for piano and percussion.



ELECTRONIC MUSIC

The Seventeenth Summer
Electronic tape based on frequency modulation.

Falling Snow
Electronic tape developed on E-mu synthesizer.

 

 

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