good day good day bad day bad day
Pushing my thumb through a plate
Dream Horse
664 Love Songs guaranteed to cure heartache
Sexton Blakes
Hand coloured
NEZINĀMAIS NEZINĀMAIS
Medusa
Craquelure
Grinding Bust turning
Blue sky sprites
A day at the spa
>Coughsyrup
& more.
Works – Oliver C Leith
For queries – oliverleith@me.com
Unconducted (2+)
good day good day bad day bad day
Piano/synthesizer and percussion
40 minutes
2018
Grinding Bust Turning
Clarinet, Cello and Piano
5 min 30 secs
2017
Little Boy Fat Man
Alto Saxophone and Piano
6 minutes
2016
664 Love songs guaranteed to cure heartache
Bass Flute, Violin, Violoncello, Synthesizer and Video Projector (Conductor preferable but possible unconducted)
14 minutes 30 seconds
2016
Blue-Sky Sprites
Violin,Violoncello and Harpsichord
9 minutes
2015
A day at the spa
Saxophone quartet (sop, Alto, sop/tenor, sop/bari)
c. 8 minutes
2015
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Accordion, Violin, Cello, Double Bass –
cues needed
5-6 minutes
2014
Haecceity
Bb Clarinet/ Bass Clarinet, Percussion:Vibraphone/Gong, Piano with E-bow Paper Wood, Violin and Violoncello
c.4 minutes 30 seconds
2014
After Image
Prepared Cello and Piano
c.5 minutes 30 seconds
2014
Zoetrope
String quartet with electronics
c.5 minutes (minimum- as long as possible)
2013
Shima
Violin, Viola and Toy Piano
c.6 minutes 30 seconds
2013
A sound of thunder
Piano duet (two pianos – not possible as four hands)
c.4 minutes
2013
Greedy Cummings
Violin, Viola and Piano
c. 2 minutes
2012
Conducted
Dream Horse
Singers : Soprano and Baritone. Alto Flute, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, Trombone 1, Trombone 2, percussion (minimal), Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola 1, Viola 2, Cello 2, Cello 2, Double Bass.
15 minutes
2018
Sexton Blakes
VIDEO WORK
Bass Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass.
10 minutes
2017
664 Love songs guaranteed to cure heartache
VIDEO WORK
Bass Flute, Violin, Violoncello, Synthesizer and Video Projector (Conductor preferable but possible unconducted)
14 minutes 30 seconds
2016
Craquelure
Bass Flute/ Piccolo, Bb Clarinet/ Eb clarinet, Horn in F. Percussion: Bell Plates,/Tuned Gongs,/Crotales (two octave+D.B Bow)/Bass drum, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass (five string)
10-11 mins
2015
Hand Coloured
Flute/picc, Bass Clarinet/Bb Clarinet, Bb Flugelhorn (with straight mute and cup), Mezzo Soprano OR soprano, Percussionist (2 8ve Crotales, Double Bass Bow(s), Marimba, soft & hard mallets, Glockenspiel, wire brushes) Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello and Double Bass.
c. 10 mins -
n.b Can be played as separate pieces, 6 mins (veil) and 4 mins (imitation)
2014
Taxa
3 flute (1 dbl picc.), 2 Bb Clarinet, 1 Bass clarinet, 4 Horn (f), 3 Bb Trumpet (straight mutes x 3), 2 Trombone (CD mute and straight mute), 1 Bass Trombone 3 percussionists (Timpanist, Perc 1 and 2)(Timpani with superball/flumi, Bass Drum with soft mallet, Tibetan Bowl, White noise from a Radio on Longwave, Gong with superball/f!umi) Strings- minimum (4,4,6,8,6)
c.8-12 minutes
2013
Vocal and Choral
Folk’s Question’s
Tenor, Baritone and Piano
10 minutes
2016
(recording available upon request)
‱ (words - Robert Kiely)
Mezzo-Soprano, Cello, Bb Clarinet
c.5 minutes 30 secs
2014
Mexico city blues – (words - J Kerouac)
SSAATTBB - conductor
c.8 minutes
2012
Solo
Squeezing a wine glass stem
Viola
c.5 minutes
2017
Pushing my thumb through a plate Harp
c.7 minutes
2017
Xilitla
Marimba and clamps
c. 10 minutes
2016