JDevor Music

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

works

List of Works

Large Ensemble/Theatre

  • After the Race: a staged dramaturgy for actor, baritone, four voices, chamber ensemble, & live electronics 2022-23 30:00
  • Germinal Observation: a chamber sinfonietta chamber orchestra, & live electronics — 2022 — 5:00
  • Contemplative Contemplation — orchestra — 2020, rev. 2021 — 4:30
  • Immersion string orchestra — 2020 — 2:30
  • 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

  • Speckled Lens flute/piccolo, clarinet in A/Eb Sop., and violoncello 2024 6:00
  • Kinnear Rising two percussionists 2023 6:30
  • Onward Great Maintainer percussion and amplified double bass — 2023 — 5:00
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Studies in Line fixed media (stereo) or live electronics 2023
  • tall ceilings fixed media (stereo) 2021

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