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Gordon Rumson
COMPOSITIONS |
"Your pieces are treasures. Exciting, dramatic, melodic, but above all satisfying...The works you sent me are wonderful." Michael Habermann
Piano Solo | Orchestral and Chamber Orchestral Music | Solo Instrument and Orchestra | Ensembles | Organ | Choral Music |
Educational Works | Improvisations for Piano | MIDI/Electronic Music | Theatre Pieces | Arrangements and Transcriptions |
Unfinished or In-progress Works
Note: Sikesdi Press is in abeyance, but copies of some of these scores can be had from the composer.
| Piano Solo | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| In Memoriam | January 2003 | Lucy Black | Creston, BC February 2003 | |
| 4 Preludes (graphic score) | Summer 2001 | |||
| Variations on a theme of Beethoven | December 2000 | William E. Garlick | December 2000 | Sikesdi Press |
| 3 Sorabji-esque Debacles | March 1999 | Kenneth Derus | ||
| Chorale Prelude for S. Richter | 1997 | S. Richter | Sikesdi Press | |
| Meditation | June - August 95 | William Jones | Calgary 1997 | Sikesdi Press |
| Poem for Emil Gilels | July 3-25 1995 | Nathan Perelman | Calgary 1997 Hobart, Tasmania, 2006 |
Sikesdi Press |
| Iridescence | March 1995 | Iris Stowkes | Sikesdi Press | |
| Epithalamium | December 1994 | Nancy Black and John Patterson | Halifax 1994 Calgary 1997 |
Sikesdi Press |
| Sonata 'Medea' | April 1994 | Ronald Stevenson | Sikesdi Press | |
| Poem for Marjorie Barstow | August 1993 | Marjorie Barstow | ||
| 3 Preludes | July 1993 | Leo Ornstein | Detroit 1996 Rochester 1998 Calgary 2000 Recorded on "Four Degrees of Freedom" 2002 Calgary 2003 |
Sikesdi Press |
| 6 Runic Inscriptions |
Gyorgy Sandor | Sikesdi Press | ||
| Threnody for John Ogden |
Finished Nov. 17/1990 | November 18/1990 Calgary | Sikesdi Press | |
| Fantasy (1994) | 1990-1994 | Jacques Barzun | Virginia 1996 | Sikesdi Press |
| Hymn to the Cathari | 1990 | Gunnar and Lorraine Johansen | Sikesdi Press | |
| Troubadour's Song | 1990 | Claudia Knafo | Sikesdi Press | |
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15 Aphoristic Conceits
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1990 | Richard Johnston | August 1991 Calgary and Switzerland | Sikesdi Press |
| Piano Fantasy | 1987 | Gunnar Johansen | Detroit 1986 | Sikesdi Press |
| Piano Fantasy | 1986 | BGSU 1986 | ||
| Sonatina | 1983 | Calgary 1983 | ||
| Orchestral and Chamber Orchestral Music | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| Inukshuk (String orchestra) | 1999-2003 | Katie Black | Readings session, Saskatoon Symphony 2004 |
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| la petite bataille, (Variations on a famous theme with a theatrical surprise for orchestra) |
1995?-August 2000 | Sikesdi Press | ||
| Overture for an as yet unwritten opera (orchestra) | January 1994 | Blake Walter | Sikesdi Press | |
| Ozymandius* (orchestra) | 1989-91 | |||
| Noctus Sussuri (orchestra) | 1988 | Gordon E. and Barb Rumson | ||
| Suite for Chamber Orchestra+ | 1986 | 1986 BGSU | ||
| Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (small ensemble) | 1983-1991 | Paul Trapp Jr. | Sikesdi Press | |
| Solo Instrument and Orchestra | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| In Memoriam Alan Hovhaness for oboe and strings |
June 2000 | To the memory of a Great Artist | Yerevan, Armenia | Sikesdi Press |
| Dane County Variations piano and orchestra |
1993- (in progress) | Lorraine Johansen | ||
| Piano Concerto | 1986-87 | Gordon E. and Barb Rumson | ||
| Variations for Flute and String Orchestra |
1987-88 | Kerry Walker | Sikesdi Press | |
| "Silence and Twilight" Ondes Martenot and String Orchestra |
1984 | William Albright | Sikesdi Press | |
| Organ | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| Meditation 2 (based on Movement from Quinquepartite) | 2006 | |||
| Meditation 1 | ||||
| 7 Peripheral Preludes and Concluding Fugue | May, 2002 | Carson Cooman | ||
| 1 Variation on a theme of Richard the Lion Heart | 1991 | 1991 Calgary | ||
| Variations on a Gregorian Chant | 1989 | John Nelson | Sikesdi Press | |
| Chorale Prelude on Bethlehem (see songs) |
1988 | Glen Potter | Sikesdi Press | |
| Structural Fantasy | 1986 | Harvard | Sikesdi Press | |
| Choral Music | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| 4 Choral Amens | 2004 | 2004-5, Calgary | ||
| Psalm 23 (SAB) | 2003 | Ed Mansell | February 2004 May 2004 |
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| Alleluia (SAB) | 2003 | Fall 2004 Calgary | ||
| Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love (SAB) | 2002 | Lee Hoiby | ||
| Worldess Chorus (SAB) | 2002 | |||
| "Jesus, Can you hear me?" Children's Chorus | 2002 | 2002 Calgary | ||
| Kyrie for speaking voices | 2002 | 2002 Calgary | ||
| "How Brightly Beams..." (SATB and organ) |
1995 | |||
| Two Choral Fragments (SATB) | 1994 | Robert Fountain | Sikesdi Press According to reports this was Finalist in His Majesties' Clerkes Choral Composition Competition 1995 |
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| Kyrie (SATB) | 1988 | Calgary 1989 Calgary 1994 Lethbridge? Calgary 2001 |
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| Cum essum parvulus (SATB and organ) | 1989-91 | Alan Hovhaness | Sikesdi Press | |
| A Slumber did my Spirit Steal (SATB)+ | 1978-1989 | |||
| Wassail (SATB) + | 1988 | |||
| Educational Works | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| Suite for solo violin | 1996 | Wanda B. Boyer | ||
| The Broken Ring (violin and piano) | 1995? | Margaret Avison | Studio recording October 1999 George Fenwick, violin |
Sikesdi Press |
| 3 Waltzes (piano) | 1994 | Merrill Rumson | #1 Waterloo Music | |
| Folklore (piano) | 1992? | Vi and Al Matheson | Sikesdi Press | |
| 4 Antiques (piano) | 1990 | Anne Black | Calgary October 1999 | Sikesdi Press |
| 10 Pieces for Children (piano) | 1988-90 | |||
| MIDI/Electronic Music | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| 11/09/01 (Electronic percussion) | ||||
| Overture for an as yet unwritten opera no 2 (electronic) | ||||
| Chord 1400 | September 1994 | |||
| The Diabolic Sign | October 16 1994 | |||
| "Untouched" Toccata (Part 1) | Completed January 1995 | Conlon Nancarrow | Sikesdi Press | |
| Suite for Violin, percussion and instruments in 3 movements (Improvised)+ | April 1995 | Mr. and Mrs. Carroway | ||
| Theatre Pieces | ||||
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| Title | Date | Dedication | Performance | Publication |
| Expectation | 1992-1995 | Wilfrid Mellers | Sikesdi Press | |
| Nose Hill Sound Poem for the Summer Solstice | June/Sept 1995 | R. Murray Schafer | Forthcoming | |
| Arrangements and Transcriptions | |||||
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| Title | Composer | Ensemble | Date of completion | Performances | Publication |
| Il Penseroso | Liszt | Organ | 2005 | Spring 2005 | |
| Dominus Regnavist | Josquin de Prez | Organ | |||
| In Memory of Petofi | Liszt | Violin and Piano | |||
| Quintet | Rumson | Saxophone Quintet | Sikesdi Press | ||
| Funeral Music for Mosonyi | Liszt | Concert Band | 1994 | ||
| Toccata in the Phrygian Mode | Johansen | Orchestra | October, 1994 | ||
| 5 Hungarian Folksongs | Liszt | Small ensemble | 1995 | ||
| Chaconne | Pachelbel | Piano | 1994 revised 1999 | Calgary 1999 | Sikesdi Press |
| Indian Song Book | Busoni | Wood Wind Quintet | September, 1994 | ||
| Paul Bunyan Stalk | Johansen | Concert Band | August, 1994 | Sikesdi Press | |
| 3 Preludes | Rumson | Brass Quintet | August, 1994 | ||
| Souvenir de Porto Rico | Gottschalk | Sax Quintet | August 1994 | BGSU 1995 BGSU 1996 |
Sikesdi Press |
| Souvenir de Porto Rico | Gottschalk | Brass Quintet | June 1994 | Sikesdi Press | |
| 3 Preludes | Rumson | Wood Wind Quintet | May 1994 | ||
| Good Friday Chorale | Johansen | Concert Band | March 1994 | ||
| Danish Folksong | Johansen | Concert Band | February 1994 | ||
| Troubadour's Song | Rumson | String Orchestra | Fall 1993 | Sikesdi Press | |
| Fugue | Muzio Clementi | Saxophone Quartet | |||
| La Vision | Alkan | Flute and piano | Sikesdi Press | ||
| La Vision | Alkan | Alto Saxophone and piano | Sikesdi Press | ||
Awards and Recognition