Compositions by David Jason Snow

“Art and making things — particularly making things — are essential to our salvation. I come to work every day and I sit down and I feel so happy, because I’m capable of taking something that exists in my mind and making it a physical thing. Whether it’s good or bad or art or not is irrelevant. But the act of doing it has kept my brain intact. I always say that retirement is this horrible conspiracy to prevent people from being alive. My God, who invented that?”

— Milton Glaser

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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
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - arranged for alto flute, clarinet, and bassoon
  - arranged for 4 B♭ clarinets or bass clarinets
- A baker's tale (L’histoire du pâtissier)
  - arranged for clarinet and piano
  - arranged for English horn, clarinet, and piano
  - arranged for clarinet, bassoon, and piano
- Elephants exotiques
  - arranged for four bassoons
  - arranged for four saxophones
- Etude after Mondrian arranged for piccolo and piano
- Fun zaydeleh's lied buch (co-composed with Fred DeChristofaro) for solo woodwinds (bass clarinet, flute, alto sax) and recorded sound SCORE
- Hasana tanz
  - arranged for solo flute
  - arranged for solo B♭ clarinet
  - 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
- Das Lakritzequartett
  - for clarinet quartet SCORE
  - for saxophone quartet SCORE
- Ma tovu (How lovely thy sanctuaries) arranged for E♭ soprano clarinet, B♭ clarinet, E♭ alto clarinet, and bass clarinet
- A night in Absurdistan, for alto flute, clarinet, and recorded sound (adapted from Jakarta)
- Nukular shrubdance: in memoriam Molly Ivins for saxophone quartet
- La promenade du pâtissier, from A Baker’s Tale, arranged for clarinet, bass clarinet, and piano
- Tre danze rinascimentali for bassoon (adapted from Alla ricerca di Scarlatti and Hasana tanz)

Brass
- A baker's tale (L’histoire du pâtissier)
  - arranged for trumpet and piano
  - arranged for tuba and piano
- 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
  - arranged for 3 tenor trombones and bass tromobne
- From strength to strength: a fanfare for Michael Powell
  - for 2 trumpets, horn, 2 trombones, and tuba
  - arranged for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba
  - arranged for 6 trumpets
- I gaze upon crystal effusions for horn and piano SCORE
- Poor Mr. Cabbage! for two tubas (or bass trombones) and percussion SCORE
- La promenade du pâtissier, from A baker's tale, arranged for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, and bass trombone
- Santa's entrance into Valhalla for double brass quartet (2 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones) and 3 percussionists SCORE
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - for tuba trio
  - arranged for trombone quartet
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - for 3 tubas SCORE AND PARTS
  - arranged for 2 trumpets and bass tromobne
  - arranged for 3 tenor trombones and bass tromobone
- 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
- Alla ricerca di Scarlatti for harp
- American minutes arranged for string quartet
- L’apothéose de Tati
  - for 2 violins and harpsichord
  - for violin and keyboard
- A baker's tale (L’histoire du pâtissier)
  - arranged for 4 guitars
  - arranged for 2 violins, viola, cello, and piano
- Berceuse for 2 violins, viola, and cello
- 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
- Downward spiral (adapted from Toccata for guitar)
  - arranged for electric guitar
  - arranged for 3 electric guitars
- Een eiland niet meer for viola or violin
- Elegy for an old fart for guitar, 2 violins, viola, and cello
- Excited delirium: étude de concert for cello
- Grand galopade frénétique et réactionnaire for violin, cello, and piano
- Hasana tanz
  - arranged for violin SCORE
  - arranged for 5-string electric violin SCORE
  - simplified arrangement for viola
  - arranged for viola and piano
  - arranged for viola and cello
  - arranged for cello SCORE
  - arranged for cello ensemble
- How lovely thy sanctuaries (“Ma tovu ohalecha”) for viol consort SCORE
- It's the pizz for double bass (adapted from Toccata for guitar)
- Layde Aurora's Jigge for cello and double bass SCORE
- Ma tovu (How lovely thy sanctuaries)
  - arranged for cello ensemble
  - arranged for treble viol, 2 tenor viols, and bass viol
- Midcentury modern for 2 violins, viola, and cello
- 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
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - for violin and viola SCORE
  - for 3 double basses SCORE
- Sonatina arranged for violin and piano
- String trio for violin, viola and cello SCORE
- Winter for violin and piano SCORE
- Toccata for guitar
- Total harmonic distortion for violin and recorded sound SCORE
Keyboards
- Alla ricerca di Scarlatti arranged for harpsichord
- A baker's tale (L’histoire du pâtissier)
  - arranged for piano
  - arranged for 2 pianos
- Broadway boogie-woogie: etude after Mondrian for piano
- Deep space radio arranged for piano, organ, and recorded sound
- Deprecatio imperatori: maledictionem organi for organ
- Due danze rinascimentali: Pavane e Gagliarda “Le dita irrequiete della mia signora” for carillon (adapted from Alla ricerca di Scarlatti)
- La giga eroica for harpsichord
- 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
- How goodly are they tents, O Jacob for organ (adapted from Ma tovu)
- La mia famiglia for piano
- The “Mommy, wipe me!” rag for piano
- The Mozart effect for toy piano and recorded sound
- Passacaglia for piano SCORE
- Santa's entrance into Valhalla arranged for piano and recorded sound
- Sarabanda sentimentale e melodrammatica for harpsichord
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - for MIDI-controlled organ
  - for toy piano
- 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
- Beat me, mama, 29 to the bar for percussion (2 players)
- Cocoon for percussion and recorded sound
- Dance of the Red Tiger Devil for percussion
- Eat this for percussion (1 player) and dancers
- Gamelanadingdong for piano and percussion (adapted from Jakarta)
- Man with hammer for solo percussionist (adapted from Poor Mr. Cabbage) SCORE
- Raging libido for mallet percussion and piano (adapted from Dear Rozenkavalier)
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik arranged for percussion (2 players)
- Toccata for vibraphone (adapted from Toccata for guitar)
- Touch and go: toccata for marimba (adapted from Toccata for guitar)
- Wave dynamics for marimba 4-hands
Mixed ensembles
- A shaynem dank dir im pupik
  - arranged for clarinet, 3 double basses, and percussion
  - arranged for violin, bassoon, and tuba
- American minutes for flute, clarinet, horn, and bassoon
- At the rebbe's table (Baym rebns tisch) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
- Bagatelletagab for flute and guitar
- A baker's tale (L’histoire du pâtissier)
  - for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, and piano
  - arranged for flute, cello, and piano
  - arranged for flute, violin, cello, and harpsichord
  - arranged for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, and percussion
  - arranged for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello, double bass, and percussion
  - arranged for clarinet, horn, and piano
  - arranged for clarinet, trumpet, and piano
  - arranged for clarinet, trumpet, percussion
  - arranged for clarinet, violin, and piano
  - arranged for clarinet, 2 violins, viola, and cello
  - arranged for clarinet, cello, and piano
  - arranged for trumpet, violin, and piano
- Between the brook and hill for horn and percussion
- Broadway Boogie-Woogie (etude after Mondrian) arranged for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello, and piano
- Concordia formae: homagium Igor Stravinsky
  - arranged for flute, clarinet ,violin, viola, and cello
  - arranged for clarinet, English horn, trumpet, 2 trombones, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass
- Effluvia for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, and piano
- Görlitzer Freiheitstanz (adapted from Jakarta)
  - arranged for for clarinet, viola, and piano
  - arranged for for bass clarinet, cello, and piano
  - arranged for for tenor saxophone, marimba, and piano
- Hasana tanz
  - for flute, clarinet, and cello
  - arranged for clarinet, bass clarinet, and harp
- Muted suggestions
  - for trumpet and marimba
  - arranged for soprano saxophone and marimba
  - arranged for trombone and bass marimba
  - arranged for violin and marimba
- Nukular pigdance for piano, double bass, and drums
- Nukular shrubdance arranged for flute, cello, and double bass
- Poor Mr. Cabbage! for 2 tubas and percussion
- Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon
- Quintet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
- Santa's entrance into Valhalla
  - arranged for 2 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones, and percussion (3 players)
  - arranged for 6 trombones, 2 bass trombones, and percussion (3 players)
- Trio for alto flute, double bass, and piano

Large ensembles

A baker's tale (L’histoire du pâtissier)
- arranged for band
- arranged for chamber orchestra
- arranged for mandolin orchestra
- arranged for piano and string orchestra
- arranged for string orchestra
Buddha breath for solo cello and orchestra SCORE
Carter's complaint for orchestra and audio fixed media SCORE
Concordia formae: homagium Igor Stravinsky
- arranged for chamber orchestra, version 1 (flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings)
- arranged for chamber orchestra, version 2 (flute, English horn, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, and strings)
From strength to strength: a fanfare for Michael Powell arranged for orchestra
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
Jakarta
- for oboe, violin, and percussion ensemble
- arranged for violin and percussion ensemble SCORE
- arranged for violin, viola, and percussion ensemble
Midcentury modern arranged for string orchestra
On Clearwater Mountain
- for solo trumpet and chamber orchestra SCORE
- for solo flute and chamber orchestra SCORE
- for chamber orchestra SCORE
Santa’s entrance into Valhalla
- arranged for orchestra and recorded sound
- arranged for grade 5-level string orchestra
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
- On springtime in quarantine for SAB chorus and piano

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
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
Zwei Deutschen Lieder for medium voice and string quartet SCORE
Zweite Meinung aus den sieben Tagen for any number of musicians SCORE