reference:
Editions 75
interviews and talks:
December 1975
September 1981
April 1987
June 1997
May-July 1999
April 2003
March 2007
2011
2011
November 2012
December 2012
December 2012
Conversations avec Tom Johnson
articles:
Almost Nothing
Explaining my Music: Keywords
Found Mathematical Objects
I Want to Find the Music, Not Compose It
Minimalism in Music: in search of a definition
Music Metaphysics
Musical Questions for Mathematicians
Networks
On Form
Perfect Rhythmic Tilings
Self-Replicating Loops
Some Observations on Tiling Problems
Tiling in my Music
Tiling the Line in Theory and in Practice
books:
Imaginary Music
Looking at Numbers
Self-Similar Melodies
The Voice of New Music
pieces:
Action Music IV (1968)
Scene For Piano And Tape (1969)
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Spaces (1969)
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An Hour For Piano (1971)
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L’Opéra de quatre notes [The Four Note Opera] (1972)
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Failing, A Very Difficult Piece For Solo String Bass (1975)
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60-Note Fanfares For Four Antiphonal Trumpets (1976)
Private Pieces (1976)
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Shaggy Dog Operas (1978)
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Trinity (1978)
Monologue For Tuba (1978)
Dragons in A (1979)
Eight Patterns For Eight Instruments (1979)
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Nine Bells (1979)
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Triple Threat (1979)
Doublings for Double Bass (1980)
Movements (1980)
Rational melodies (1982)
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Harpiano (1982)
Counting Duets (1982)
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Self-Portrait (1983)
Predictables (1984)
Sopranos Only (1984)
Voicings (1984)
Bedtime Stories (1985)
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Talking (1985)
Infinite melodies (1986)
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Piano Problems (1986)
Melodie De Six Notes, Pour Orgue (1986)
Chord Catalogue (1986)
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Eggs And Baskets (1987)
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Music For 88 (1988)
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Riemannoper (1988)
Music And Questions (1988)
Counting Keys (1982-1989)
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Narayana’s Cows (1989)
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Deux cents ans (1989)
Alexandrins pour guitare (1989)
Symmetries (1981-90)
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Un’Opera Italiana (1991)
Maximum Efficiency (1991)
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Bonhoeffer Oratorium (1988-1992)
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Einstimmiger Polyrhythmus (1992)
Le choeur (1993)
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Sequenza minimalista (1993)
Septapede (1973-1993)
Composition With Descending Chromatic Scales In Eight-Voice Canon Played In Three Ways, Separated By Two Piano Interludes, Which Bring The Music Back Up To Its Starting Position (1993)
Formulas for string quartet (1994)
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Study for Player Piano #1 (1994)
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Cosinus For Piano (1994)
Trigonometry (1996)
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Descent (1996)
Simultaneous Progressions (1996)
Recycled Ostinato (1996)
Full Rotation Of 60 Notes Through 36 Positions (1996)
Automatic Music (1997)
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La vie est si courte (1998)
Two Curves (1998)
Loops for orchestra (1999)
Music with mistakes (1993-1999)
Organ And Silence (1999)
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32 Breaths (2000)
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Kientzy Loops (2000)
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Wesley’s Challenge (1982-2001)
Galileo (2001)
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Arpeggios for Guitar (2002)
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Organ And Silence For Piano (2002)
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1 2 3 (2002)
Combinations for string quartet (2003)
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Tilework series (2002-5)
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Radio pieces (1984-2004)
Same or different (2004)
360 chords (2005)
Kleine Choräle für kleines Klavier (2005)
Block Design for Piano (2005)
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Kirkman’s Ladies (2005)
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844 Chords (2005)
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Septet (2007)
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Networks (2007)
Vermont Rhythms (2008)
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Squares: didactic music for a solo instrument (2008)
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Twelve (2008)
55 Chords (2009)
Mocking (2009)
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Septet II (2009)
Septets [I to V] (2007-2010)
Ecoutez le temps (2010)
Orgelpark Color Chart
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Dialogues (2011)
Falling Thirds with Drum (2011)
Three notes for 3 jugglers (2011)
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Dropping Balls (2011)
BACK & FORTH (2012)
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Tick Tock Rhythms (2012)
Clarinet Trio (2012)
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Shake Up (in preparation)