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Student Compositions

The following tables list, for each student, composition name, year composed, a hyper-link to the music manuscript (if one exists, and a hyperlink to a live recording of the composition (if one exists).  If you have not yet installed the Sibelius Scorch for Windows plug-in module, you will not see the Score, but you will be provided with instructions on how to download the plug-in.

Pre-College students:
Pieces are listed at the age music was composed -

Marc Macauley
David Youk
David Wish

Adult students:

Karen Coates
Elizabeth Strauss
Ron Sonntag

Student: Ron Sonntag
Age: Adult
Enrollment: Adult composition classes (literature & music)

Composition
Composed
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Invention #1 - C Major
February 1999

Play


Performed By: Marc Macauley

Invention #2 - G minor
February 1999

Play


Performed By: Marc Macauley
Invention #3 - B-flat Major
February 1999

Play


Performed By: Marc Macauley
Invention #5 - D Major
February 1999

Play


Performed By: Marc Macauley
Motet #1 - 14th century counterpoint style
December 1998

Play

 
Irene's Fugue
August 1998
 
Symphony #1 in G Major, First Movement (unfinished)
1998 - 1999
 
Performed By: JV 1080 Synthesizer
March and Variations for Piano
1998
 
Performed By:
Sonntag
Ants for Piano Synthesizer
1998

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Performed By:
JV 1080 Synthesizer

 

Student: Marc Macauley
Age: 13
Enrollment: Full Program

Composition Name
Composed
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Sonatina for Piano
1999
 
Chaconne on a Cantus of Fux
1998
 
Midnight Fury
1998
 
Prelude, Ricecar, and Fantasia for Lute
1998
 

Student: Morgan Benfield
Age: 17
Enrollment: Full Program

Composition Name
Composed
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Piano Sonata - Second Movement
1999
 

Student: Karen Coates
Age: Adult
Enrollment: Adult composition classes (Literature & Music), Ear Training

Composition
Composed
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Prelude for Guitar
1999
 

Après Paris for Flute and Piano
May 1998

Two Preludes for Piano
May 1998
 

Student: Elizabeth Strauss
Age: Adult
Enrollment: Adult composition classes (Literature & Music)

Composition Name
Composed
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Melobius Trip - for Saxaphone Trio
1999
 
Surprise Invention - for Saxophone Trio
1999
 

Student: David Youk
Age: 13
Enrollment: Full Program

Composition Name
Composed
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Four Short Pieces for Piano
1999
 

Student: David Wish
Age: Adult
Enrollment: Graduate

Composition Name
Composed
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Theme and Variations for Solo Violin
1998
 
States of Mind for Solo Violin
1998
 
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