Compositions by David Jason Snow

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Woodwinds • Brass • Strings • Keyboards • Percussion • Mixed ensembles • Large ensembles • Songs with piano • Songs with instrumental ensemble • Choral music • Stage works • Performance art/Meta-art/Anti-art •

Chamber music

Woodwinds
- Elephants exotiques for four bassoons SCORE
- Fun zaydeleh's lied buch (co-composed with Fred DeChristofaro) for solo woodwinds (bass clarinet, flute, alto sax) and recorded sound SCORE
- Das Lakritzequartett
  - for clarinet quartet SCORE
  - for saxophone quartet SCORE
- Hasana tanz
  - for clarinet trio (E♭, B♭, bass). Available from Woodwindiana
  - for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon SCORE
- The hieland clinch for Scottish smallpipes (adapted from Hasana tanz) SCORE
- Nukular shrubdance: in memoriam Molly Ivins
  - for saxophone quartet SCORE
  - for flute, cello, and double bass SCORE

Brass
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - for tuba trio SCORE
  - for trombone quartet SCORE
- Brass quintet, 1974 for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and bass trombone. Score and parts available from Subito Music Corp.
- The Brass Ring for trumpet and piano. Score and parts vailable from qPress
- Dance movements for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and bass trombone SCORE Commerical recordings available from Summit Records, The Urban Brass Quintet, and The Lyric Brass Quintet
- Dear Rozenkavalier: I feel your pain for tuba and piano or fixed media accompaniment SCORE
- Ditch Plains for trumpet and audiovisual fixed media SCORE • VIDEO ACCOMPANIMENT (mp4)
- Elephants Exotiques for tuba quartet. Score available from Cimarron Music Press
- Fanfare for Varian Fry for brass quintet SCORE
- I gaze upon crystal effusions for horn and piano SCORE
- Poor Mr. Cabbage! for two tubas (or bass trombones) and percussion SCORE
- Santa's entrance into Valhalla for double brass quartet (2 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones) and 3 percussionists SCORE
- Sonatina for trumpet and piano SCORE
- Winter for trumpet and piano. Score and parts available from the composer. Commercial recording available from Albany Records
Strings
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - for violin and viola SCORE
  - for 3 double basses SCORE
- Broadway boogie-woogie (etude after Mondrian)
  - for violin and viola SCORE
  - for violin and piano SCORE
- Deep space radio for string quartet and recorded sound SCORE
- Hasana tanz
  - for violin SCORE
  - for 5-string electric violin SCORE
  - for cello SCORE
- Layde Aurora's Jigge for cello and double bass SCORE
- How lovely thy sanctuaries (“Ma tovu ohalecha”) for viol consort SCORE
- Nuclear pigdance (also known as Nukular shrubdance) for string quartet SCORE
- A night in Jakarta for 5-string electric violin and recorded sound (adapted from Jakarta for violin, oboe, and percussion ensemble) SCORE
- Pasando por los movimientos: el tango del autoengaño for violin and piano SCORE
- String trio for violin, viola and cello SCORE
- Winter for violin and piano SCORE
- Total harmonic distortion for violin and recorded sound SCORE
- Midcentury modern: two movements for string quartet SCORE
Keyboards
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - for MIDI-controlled organ
  - for toy piano SCORE
- Etude after Mondrian for piano (commissioned for the Renée B. Fisher Competition, middle-school level) SCORE
- Groupons-nous et demain for 2 pianos 4 hands SCORE
- Hommage, ragtime for piano SCORE
- Passacaglia for piano SCORE
- Pavane and galliard for carillon SCORE
- Studies for two MIDI-controlled pianos
  - Onde sulla spiaggia
  - Raging libido
  - Defrag
- Timor Timur for piano and recorded sound (adapted from Jakarta for violin, oboe, and percussion ensemble) SCORE
- The velvet gentleman: ballet indigeste for 2 MIDI-controlled pianos
Percussion
- Assault and battery for 3 percussionists SCORE
- Man with hammer for solo percussionist (adapted from Poor Mr. Cabbage) SCORE
Mixed ensembles
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik for clarinet, 3 double basses and percussion SCORE
- Baym rebns tisch (At the rebbe's table) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano SCORE
- Effluvia, a chamber concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and piano SCORE
- Hasana tanz for flute, clarinet and cello SCORE
- Muted suggestions
  - for trumpet and marimba. Score and part available from Ensemble Publications
  - for trombone and bass marimba SCORE
- Nice girls don't for violin, cello, piano and recorded sound SCORE
- Poor Mr. Cabbage! for two tubas (or bass trombones) and percussion SCORE
- Quintet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano SCORE
- Trio for alto flute, double bass, and piano SCORE

Large ensembles

Buddha breath for solo cello and orchestra SCORE
Carter's complaint for orchestra and audio fixed media SCORE
Concordia formae for chamber orchestra SCORE
Fanfare for Varian Fry for orchestra SCORE
Guernica for two brass quintets and concert band SCORE
Hasana tanz
- for solo 5-string electric violin and orchestra SCORE
- for solo violin and orchestra SCORE
On Clearwater Mountain
- for solo trumpet and chamber orchestra SCORE
- for solo flute and chamber orchestra SCORE
- for chamber orchestra SCORE
Jakarta
- for violin, oboe and percussion ensemble SCORE
- for violin, viola and percussion ensemble SCORE
Sinfonia concertante for horn, piano, percussion, and winds SCORE

Vocal music

Songs with piano
- Aubade/Nocturne for soprano and piano SCORE
- Merkabah for high voice and piano SCORE
- Mirele for high voice and piano SCORE
- The cynic in springtime for medium voice and piano SCORE
Songs with instrumental ensemble
- Aubade for high voice and string quartet SCORE
- Aubade/Nocturne for high voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano SCORE
- Reflections for medium voice, horn, and piano SCORE
- Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg
  - for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello and piano SCORE
  - for soprano, flute, violin, cello and piano SCORE
Choral music
- El Adon for cantor and 2-part children's chorus SCORE
- The holy knot for SATB chorus and percussion SCORE
- Ma tovu
  - for SATB chorus and solo cantor (tenor) SCORE
  - for SATB chorus SCORE
  - for SATB chorus and orchestra SCORE
  - for mezzo-soprano, alto, and tenor voices SCORE

Stage works

Marriage at work, a musical comedy. Music by Paul Stregevsky and David Jason Snow VOCAL SCORE
Robert's rules of order, a monologue (non-musical) PLAYSCRIPT

Performance art/Meta-art/Anti-art

1955: Le maitre sans marteau for narrators, chorus and any ensemble SCORE
Die alte Frau for flute, viola and piano SCORE
Canzoni d'amore SCORE
- Part 1, The joy of cooking, for solo double bass
- Part 2, The joy of sex, for heavy metal tuba and recorded sound
Chanson de bucherons (The lumberjack song) for solo cello SCORE
Concertino Marcel Duchamp for any instrument(s) except banjo SCORE
Dave Hurwitz goes postal for voices, percussion, piano, and strings SCORE
Eat this for dancers and percussionist SCORE
Grande liturgie situationniste for voice SCORE
Heilbaddame aus Hölle for soprano and boombox SCORE
Less than zero for piano SCORE
The lumberjack song (original version) for solo double bass SCORE
Pianiste en fourrures for toy piano and "prepared pianist" SCORE
Psychodrama: three invitations to an encounter for conductor-therapist and neurotic ensemble SCORE
Requiem for the millennium for SATB chorus and organ SCORE
Six Chinese dishes for voice, flute, viola, roto-toms, and celesta SCORE
Tanets poleznogo idiota = Danse de l'idiot utile = Tanz des nützlichen Idioten, for violin and piano SCORE
Le tombeau de M. Satie for clavichord commentary and score
Viola bastarda
- for violin, cello, and glockenspiel SCORE
- for cello SCORE
Zwei Deutschen Lieder for medium voice and string quartet SCORE
Zweite Meinung aus den sieben Tagen for any number of musicians SCORE