JDevor Music

James A. Devor — Composer – Sound Artist – Double Bass

works

List of Works

Opera/Theatre

  • Fairies: Found & Lost: micro-opera written for Opera from Scratch — medium voice and piano — 2024— 12:00
  • After the Race: a staged dramaturgy for actor, baritone, four voices, chamber ensemble, & live electronics — 2022-23 — 30:00

Large Ensemble

  • Prints — string orchestra — ongoing — 6:30
    • Immersion and Revelation performed as collected music for string orchestra
  • Revelation — string orchestra — 2024 — 3:30
  • Germinal Observation: a chamber sinfonietta — chamber orchestra, & live electronics — 2022 — 5:00
  • Contemplative Contemplation — orchestra — 2020, rev. 2021 — 4:30
  • Immersion — string orchestra — 2020 — 3:00
  • Rococo Fanfare — orchestra — 2019 — 5:00
  • Industrial Beast — wind ensemble (or full orchestra) — 2018 — 5:00
  • The Muse — orchestra — 2017 — 6:45

Educational

  • Fantasia on an Old Hymn — Band (Grade 2-3) — 2021 — 3:00
  • Spacequakes — Band (Grade 1-2) — 2017 — 2:15

Chamber

  • dear delightful hollow square — clarinet in A/E♭ Sop., amplified contrabass, and electronics — 2024— 10:00
  • Speckled Lens — flute/piccolo, clarinet in A/E♭ Sop., and violoncello — 2024 — 6:00
  • Kinnear Rising — two percussionists — 2023 — 6:30
  • Onward Great Maintainer — percussion and amplified double bass — 2023 — 5:00 (available for purchase here)
  • Suite from “The Wolves” — clarinet, bassoon, harp, piano, violin, viola, and violoncello — 2023 — 12:00
  • Impure Liturgy — string quartet — 2022 — 8:00
  • Trio — three contrabasses — 2021-22 — 11:00 (available for purchase here)
  • Explorational Planes — oboe (or sop. sax.), clarinet, violin, and violoncello — 2021 — 5:30
  • Spasmodic Omens — piano four-hands (opt. toy piano) — 2021 — 4:00
  • Distanced Thoughts — reed quintet — 2020 — 5:30
  • a part yet to gether — clarinet, violin, viola, and violoncello — 2020 — 5:30
  • Silver, Sylva, Sliver — flute/piccolo, clarinet in A, and percussion — 2020 — 4:15
  • Cambrian Travels — trumpet (or horn) and harp — 2019 — 4:30
  • String Quartet No. 2: “Austria” — 2019 — 4:15
  • Four Hymns for String Quartet — 2018 — 4:00
  • desciende el espiritu à buscar — string quartet — 2018 — 5:45
  • Gusts of Zephyr — clarinet, euphonium, and percussion — 2018 — 3:30
  • Windswept Chasm — violin and violoncello — 2018, rev. 2021 — 7:30
  • fifty nights — woodwind quintet and percussion — 2017 — 10:00
  • The Troupe — xylophone, guitar, and contrabass — 2017 — 8:00

Solo Instrumental

  • Scenes past a window pane — prepared alto saxophone — 2023 — 6:30
  • Pellets in the Groove (from “After the Race”) — amplified field drum — 2023 — 2:30
  • Theurgy — electric viola and live electronics — 2022 — 11:30
  • Expanding Noise(s) — double bass and opt. live electronics — 2022 — 4:30
  • Partita in the form of five etudes — guitar — 2022 — 6:00 (available for purchase here)
  • The Power of Names — flute — 2021 — 2:30
  • Building Circles — violoncello — 2021 — 4:30
  • Rousing Riptides — horn — 2021 — 3:15
  • Coming Together — amplified double bass and fixed media — 2020 — 4:30 (available for purchases here)
  • Lament — E♭ clarinet and piano — 2020 — 6:30
  • Three Chorales — guitar — 2019-20 — 6:00 (available for purchase here)
  • inertial oscillations — B♭ clarinet — 2019 — 6:30
  • I’m With You — double bass — 2018-19, rev. 2020 — 8:30

Solo Keyboard

  • Chorale Prelude on Cadet Rousselle (from “After the Race”) — organ — 2022 — 6:30
  • Suite from “Spasmodic Omens” — toy piano — 2021 — 2:30
  • Little Dance Pieces — organ — 2020 — 9:00 (available for purchase here)
  • Prelude Around G — organ — 2020, rev. 2022 — 4:30
  • Craters Ringing — carillon (or piano) — 2019, rev. 2022 — 6:00
  • Tomb of the Unknown Solider — organ — 2018, rev. 2020 — 5:00

Vocal: Songs and Cycles

  • upcoming: song cycle written for MNSong Mentorship — 2024-25
  • I once was flesh, but now I’m bone — coloratura soprano and violoncello — 2024 — 10:00
  • Advice for Young Ladies — soprano and piano — 2024— 6:00
  • Moonflower Fragments — mezzo-soprano and harp — 2024 — 12:00
  • Penyeach Songs — baritone and string quintet (or piano) — 2023 — 10:00
  • A Service: in two parts — soprano and piano — 2022 — 8:30
  • Deer in Headlights — medium voice and piano — 2022 — 2:30
  • Voices of Silk and Satin — solo soprano and mixed chamber ensemble — 2022 — 6:00
  • Three Unaccompanied Frost Songs — high voice — 2021 — 8:30
  • Songs of the Wood — high voice and piano — 2020 — 15:00
  • The Maid Freed from the Gallows — soprano and piano trio (vln., vlc., pno.) — 2019 — 6:15
  • “Hope” is the thing with Feathers — voice (versions for high or low) and piano — 2016 — 2:15

Choral

  • The eyes are not here — SATB voices and piano — 2024 — 5:00
  • My Cross! — SAB choir, trumpet and tuba — 2023 — 2:30
  • Here and Now: a collection of five secular hymns — SATB choir and/or organ — 2022
  • Good-bye, proud world! — a cappella SSA or TTB — 2021 — 3:30
  • Alight, of Stars — SATB choir and clarinet in B♭ — 2020 — 4:00
  • I saw no temple — SATB choir — 2020 — 3:30
  • Teach Me — SSAA or SATB vocal quartet — 2018 — 6:30
  • Senex puerum portabat — SATB choir — 2018 — 3:30

Electronic Music

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