List of compositions by Yehuda Yannay


This is a '''List of compositions by Yehuda Yannay'''

Solo

  • Twelve Monophonic Dances for any wind instrument
  • Music for Piano
  • Permutations for solo percussion
  • Statement for flute
  • Continuum for piano Op. 15
  • Coloring Book for the Harpist
  • Seven Late Spring Pieces for piano
  • Im Silberwald for trombone, glass harmonica and tape
  • Between the Raindrops for solo guitar
  • Tangoul Mortii for contrabass solo
  • Tangoul Mortii version for cello solo
  • Tangoul Mortii version for viola solo
  • Piano Portfolio I for solo piano
  • The One-Legged Dancer for toy piano
  • Three Organic Pieces for organ
  • Hornology for horn
  • Piano Transplant
  • Double Transplant for piano
  • Three Postcards from Paris for piano, an excerpt from Midwest Mythologist
  • Incipit Vita Nova for accordion
  • The Exquisite Viola for viola solo
  • Bits into Pieces for piano and iPad electronics

Chamber music

  • Variations for 2 flutes
  • Interconnections for 14 instruments
  • Random Rotated for 4 wind instruments
  • Two Fragments for violin and piano
  • Mutatis Mutandis for 6 players
  • Per Se, chamber concerto for violin and 7 instruments
  • preFIX-FIX-sufFIX for bassoon, horn and cello
  • Squares & Symbols, Exits and Traps for keyboard and 1 to 3 wind and/or strings
  • Bug Piece with live insect notation
  • The Hidden Melody for cello and French horn
  • Brazilian Birdwhistle Event for Brazilian bird-whistle set
  • Trio, for clarinet, cello and piano
  • Three Jazz Moods, for solo trumpet and saxophone, and chamber ensemble with rhythm section
  • Nine Branches of the Olive Tree, for recorders, bass clarinet, guitar and percussion
  • M. My Dear, a ballad for jazz violin, guitar and bass
  • Duo for flute and cello
  • Five Pieces for Three Players for soprano saxophone, clarinet and marimba
  • Playing for Peace for three-part violin ensemble
  • Loose Connections for violin, clarinet and double bass
  • Marrakesh Bop for microtonal flute and guitar
  • Trio for violin, cello and piano
  • My Main Squeeze for trumpet, accordion and cello
  • Visions of Y for viola and piano
  • Psalm for a melody instrument and piano, completion of an unfinished composition by Alexander U. Boskovich
  • Bayannayab for two bayans or accordions
  • Note Traffic for violin and cello
  • Bayanette for two bayans and piano
  • Suite for mandolin and accordion
  • Two Alleys in Old Tel-Aviv for string quartet
  • Aprés Rameau: Les Poulets de Mequon/The Chickens of Mequon for 2 pianos
  • Aprés Rameau: Les Poulets de Mequon/The Chickens of Mequon for bayan and piano
  • Summer Ostinato for two accordions
  • Tandem Piece for horn and accordion or accordion and piano
  • The Center Does Not Hold for saxophone quartet

Chamber music with voice

  • Rubayat, song for voice and cello, text: Omar Khayyam
  • Spheres for soprano and 10 instruments, text: Yehuda Amichai
  • Incantations for voice, keyboard, and interior piano, text: W.H.Auden
  • Foregroundmusic for 6 instruments and speaker, for a poem by A. Ginsberg
  • At the End of the Parade, six poems by William Carlos Williams for baritone and six players.
  • Eros Reminisced, song cycle for singer/pianist, text: Constantine P. Cavafy
  • "Augentanz" and "Galgenlied" from Celan Ensembles for tenor and instruments, text Paul Celan
  • "In Madness There Is Order" from Celan Ensembles, for voice, projections and synthesizers, text: Paul Celan
  • "Spiegeltanz" from Celan Ensembles, for voice, horn, and 2 marimbas, text: Paul Celan
  • The Bogen Songs, six pieces for voice, flute, clarinet in B, violoncello and accordion, text: Don Bogen

Orchestra and concertante

  • Mirkamim, textures of sound for large orchestra,
  • Concerto for Audience and Orchestra, with audience operated portable radios
  • Five Songs for Tenor and Orchestra text: W.C. Williams.
  • Seven Late Spring Pieces for Orchestra
  • Concertino for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
  • Exit Music At Century's End for chamber orchestra
  • Piano Concerto for solo piano and 15 instruments
  • Rhapsody for alto saxophone and wind ensemble
  • Nuances Argentées for recorded voice and flute orchestra of 24 players
  • Plus Avec Moins – More From Less for solo accordion and 24 flutes

Choir

  • Mishnayot for solo voices and choir, text: Jewish prayer book.
  • Psukey Dezimra for solo voices and choir, text: Jewish prayer book
  • The Chain of Proverbs cantata for youth, text: Ibn Zabara
  • Coheleth, environment with mobile choir, microphones, wireless microphones and voice controlled filters, text: Ecclesiastes
  • Dawn for mixed choir, text: Arthur Rimbaud
  • Departure for nine voices and five instruments, text: Arthur Rimbaud
  • A Noiseless Patient Spider for women's choir or eight solo voices, text: Walt Whitman
  • Tombeau de Satie in memory of Thomas Trobaugh, text: Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Le Campane di Leopardi for mixed choir and tuned glasses, text: Giacomo Leopardi
  • Yigdal for cantor and choir followed by an organ variation, text: Hebrew prayer book
  • Three Hebrew Aphorisms from the Mishna and the Talmud for five-part unaccompanied mixed choir
  • The Wheel of Light for three choral or solo voices, text: Rabbi Naftali Hertz of Bacharach
  • Mayeem for five-part mixed chorus, harmonicas and Melodicas

Theater pieces and dance

  • Wraphap a theatre piece for actress, amplified aluminum sheet and Yannachord
  • Houdini's Ninth, a theatre piece for a double bass and escape artist
  • The Urbana Christal Lake Park Gathering for any number of mallet players
  • Autopiano, or Piano Minus Pianist for an actor and piano
  • The Vestibule Peep-In-Pipe-Out for a caged performer with an FM transmitter
  • Attic Songs and Betweens, electronic music for dance
  • American Sonorama, music for a ballet by Anna Nassif
  • The Decline and Fall of the Sonata in B-flat, a musicule for actors and pianists
  • Three Michael and Nancy Pieces for dancer and percussion
  • Genesis, music for a dance piece by Anna Nassif
  • All Our Women, chamber opera, text: Yehuda Yannay
  • Tableau One: "...in sleep one often finds solutions..." for actor, projections and synthesizers
  • Go Fearing for solo voice for "Geometry of Aloneness," a multimedia work by Marie Mellott
  • "Traum ist von Tat nicht so verschieden..." for tape and speaker
  • Insomnia in Havana, a theater piece for percussionist/actor, live electronics and projections, text: Virgilio Piñera
  • Midwest Mythologist, theater piece for a pianist, text and musical sources:Steve Nelson-Raney
  • ''Beware of Poison Mushrooms! Seven Illustrated Aphorisms and Short Stories by Roland Lampe''

Film, video, intermedia

  • Houdini's Ninth – a film. black and white and color, 16 mm film with sound produced in collaboration with Emory J. Clark
  • Charcoal and Pastel Music 1 to 52 visual music in form of a series of drawings
  • Jidyll, a film with music by Dick Blau and Yehuda Yannay
  • Windsuck, sound sculpture created in collaboration with Steve Pevnick
  • The Oranur Experiment Part I: "Journey to Orgonon", a music video, in collaboration with Jerome Fortier
  • Violoncello Solo for "I can't fathom it" for projection theater by Marie Mellott
  • Wilhelm Reich: Journey to Orgonon a documentary opera on CD-ROM in collaboration with Jerome Fortier
  • Percussion Fountain, sound sculpture in collaboration with Stephen Pevnick
  • Radiant, Inner Light for speaker, musical saw, metal percussion, percussion fountain, projections and calligrams Percussion instruments built in collaboration with Stephen Pevnick, calligrams created in collaboration with Marie Mellott, text: Rabbi Naftali Hertz of Bacharach
  • Only Gestures, electronic music for a video installation piece by Marie Mellott
  • A Noiseless Patient Spider for women's choir or eight solo voices a cappella, dance video version: Peter Sparling, text: Walt Whitman

Electronic music

  • Electronic Music.
  • *"Study #1
  • *"Study #2
  • *"Study #3
  • *"Phonomontage Pour Thérèse"
  • Milwaukee Brew Project, environmental tape composition on sounds of Milwaukee
  • Three Visions of the Age, collaborative composition for digital synthesizers and instruments with Jon Welstead and Joel Thome