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COMPOSITIONS

This is a partial chronalogical list of compositions and arrangements in various genres and instrumentations. Score samples and recordings available upon request

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Classical

2007 - String Quartet No. 2 (string quartet) 30 minutes

2005 - Sex Blues (solo bass) 9 mins

2005 - Song (soprano, piano, strings) 18 mins

*text by Allen Ginsberg

2005 - If The Sky Were Real (chorus, piano) 12 mins

2005 - Nobody Doubts He's an Evil Man (large orchestra) 12 mins

2005 - Ian and Charith's Wild Ride (viola, double bass) 6 mins

*with Charith Premawardhana, viola

2004 - I Just Got Mugged at 20th and Mission (solo viola) 5 mins

2004 - Youth Illusions (large orchestra) 34 mins

2004 - String Quartet No. 1 (string quartet) 20 mins

2004 - First/Last Meditation (acapella chorus) 5 mins

*text by Garcia Lorca

2003 - I Fear the New American Century (chamber orchestra) 8 mins

2002 - "Twelfth Night" Suite - theatrical score (chamber orchestra w/ mezzo soprano feature) 40 mins

*text by William Shakespeare

2001 - In Mind, In Blood, In Murder (string orchestra) 15 mins

2000 - 3 Themes in G Minor (bass and piano) 6 mins

1999 - Reign's Dereliction (mixed wind ensemble) 7 mins

Jazz Songs

2003 - She Made Me - (standard)

2003 - I Don't Think - (standard)

2001 - Contragroove - (standard)

2001 - Hangovers and Cellos - (standard)

2001 - The Bachensonian - (jazz quintet)

2000 - What She Does To Me - (standard)

1999 - 1964 - (jazz nonet and vocals)

1999 - Rockanova Review - (jazz nonet and vocals)

1999 - Run With Your Gun - (jazz nonet and vocals)

1999 - Love Jump Back - (jazz nonet and vocals)

1999 - Low City Heights - (jazz nonet and vocals)

1999 - Naked Time - (jazz nonet and vocals)

Jazz Chamber Works

2005 - San Francisco Blues (jazz quintet, string quartet, vocals, narrator) 50 mins

*text by Jack Kerouac

2004 - The Red Spectre - silent film score - (mixed jazz chamber ensemble) 7 mins

2000 - Railroad Square Suite (big band w/strings) 20 mins

Electronic

2006 - An Asphodel - (Rudager McBad/Allen Ginsberg)

2006 - In Back of the real - (Rudager McBad/Allen Ginsberg)

2006 - Wild Orphan - (Rudager McBad/Allen Ginsberg)

2006 - In the Baggage Room at Greyhound - (Rudager McBad/Allen Ginsberg)

2006 - Old Saint Rose - (Rudager McBad)

2006 - A Bold Superstition - (Rudager McBad)

2006 - Transcription of Organ Music - (Rudager McBad/Allen Ginsberg)

2007 - Middaythought - (Rudager McBad)

Jazz Arrangements

2005 - Ugly Beauty (jazz septet) by Thelonious Monk*

2005 - Amanda (jazz septet) by Duke Pearson*

2005 - Four In One (jazz septet) by Thelonious Monk*

2005 - Boo Boo's Birthday (jazz septet) by Thelonious Monk*

2005 - San Francisco Holliday (worry later...) (jazz septet) by Thelonious Monk*

2005 - Little Melonae (jazz septet) by Jackie McLean*

2005 - Beatrice (jazz septet) by Sam Rivers*

2005 - So Long Eric (jazz septet) by Charles Mingus*

2005 - Naima (jazz septet) by John Coltrane*

2005 - You Don't Know What Love Is (jazz septet) by Raye/DePaul*

2005 - Granted (jazz septet) by Joe Henderson*

2005 - Evidence (jazz septet) by Thelonious Monk*

2005 - Effendi (jazz septet) by McCoy Tyner*

2005 - Walkin' Up (jazz septet) by Bill Evans*

2005 - Johnny Come Lately (jazz septet) by Billy Strayhorn*

2005 - Daanoid (jazz septet) by Clifford Brown*

2005 - Jump Monk (jazz septet) by Charles Mingus*

2005 - One By One (jazz septet) by Wayne Shorter*

2005 - Fables of Faubus (jazz septet) by Charles Mingus*

2004 - String Quartet No. 10 (jazz septet) by Dmitri Shostakovich*

2003 - S' Wonderful (jazz nonet w/ voc.) by George Gershwin*

2003 - A Streetcar Named Desire (jazz nonet) by Alex North*

2003 - Inner Urge (jazz octet) by Joe Henderson*

2003 - Simone (jazz sextet) by Frank Foster*

2003 - Don't Go Away Mad/Black Coffee (big band w/ voc.) by Illinios Jacquet*

2003 - Sunny (big band w/ voc.) by Bobby Hebb*

2002 - Hush Little Baby (jazz quartet) by Unknown

2002 - Boogie Stop Shuffle (big band) by Charles Mingus*

2002 - Self Portrait in 3 Colors (big band) by Charles Mingus*

2002 - So Long Eric (big band) by Charles Mingus*

2001 - Mr. Lucky (jazz chamber orchestra) by Henry Mancini*

2000 - The Champ (big band) by Dizzy Gillespe*

*jazz septet arrangements are for trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, piano, bass, and drums. Big band arrangements vary from 3 trumpets, 3 bones, 4 saxes, and rhythm section to 5 trumpets, 5 bones, 5 saxes, and rhythm section.

All compositions and arrangements COPYRIGHT Ian Dickenson Music, ASCAP

Except where noted (*)

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