Dwight Winenger's Catalog of Works
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Scores..."Structural Variations On Two Obscure Themes"
for Solo Violoncello (commissioned by Serban Nichifor, University of Bucharest, Romania)
by Dwight Winenger © 2001
(license by BMI applied for)
TOTAL DURATION: (7:00 min.) "Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes delighted with its inventive and playful reminiscences"
--MICHAEL HUEBNER, News staff writer, Birmingham News"Votre piece pour cello solo - que j'avais presente le 16-XI a l'AMERICAN CENTER de BUCHAREST - a eu un GRAND SUCCES ! FELLICITATIONS !....En vous remerciant une fois de plus pour votre magnifique musique."
--Serban Nichifor - World Premiere - American Cultural Center, Bucharest, Romania, 2001cassette and MP3 recordings of performance available as below
"Second Psalm" for Soprano with Piano accompaniment
vocal setting for the words of David, King of Israel
by Dwight Winenger © 1966 (revised 1999) (licensed by BMI)TOTAL DURATION: (7:15 min.) World Premiere by Karen Altabet, soprano, and Eunee Yee, piano,
Living Music 2000 Concert at Los Angeles Harbor College, California, USAcassette and MP3 recordings of performance available as below
"Phonistic Numerals"
"Eminently playable"--Craig Hultgren, Music Director, Amion String Quartet
(based on three phone numbers from the Palm Springs phone book)
String Quartet No. 2, in the Chromatic Key of B
by Dwight Winenger ©1984 (revised 1997) (licensed by BMI)
Subtitled "Phonistic Numerals"
Movement 1. Not too fast (5:22 min.)
Movement 2. Slow (8:45 min.)
Movement 3. Quite Fast (1:51 min.)
World Premiere - University of Bucharest, Romania, 1999
"String Quartet No. 2" (Phonistic Numerals) by Dwight Winenger © 1997 (version)
all rights reserved StrQu2_1-3.MID orchestrated by Dwight Winenger © 1997 (version) on Trax for Yamaha CBX-T3
I. Not too fast... 22,470 bytes (5:38 min.) StrQu2_1.MIDII. Slow... 8,586 bytes (9:00 min.) StrQu2_2.MID
III. Quite fast... 11,059 bytes (2:16 min.) StrQu2_3.MID
cassette and MP3 recordings of performance available as below
cassette and MP3 recordings of performance available as below
"Modal Disentanglements on Popular Tunes"
by Dwight Winenger ©1986 (licensed by BMI)
Scored for: 1) piano 2) 2 trumpets and bass trombone
alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones
traps 3) 3 brass
Bb clarinet, oboe, and
bassoon and traps
Movement 1. "Hello, My Baby" (3:15 min.)
Movement 2. "Sentimental Journey" (3:00 min.)
Movement 3. "Night Train" (1:25 min.)
Movement 4. "Moon River" (2:20 min.)
"The Raven, a reading for trombone"
by Dwight Winenger ©1990 (licensed by BMI)
Score for 1) tenor trombone
2) wind machine
3) thunder sheet and staged lightning
TOTAL DURATION: (12:00 min.)
cassette and MP3 recordings of trombone part performed by the composer
"Recurrent Ordinals"
by Dwight Winenger © 1990 (licensed by BMI)
Aleatoric Scores for 1) 7 assorted instruments and conductor
2) videotaped score for theater projection
to both audience and ensemble w/ conductor
TOTAL DURATION: (varies as alarm clock setting)
cassette and MP3 recordings available as below with composer at piano
"Not Vivaldi"
by Dwight Winenger ©1988 (licensed by BMI)
Scores for 1) two violins 2) "Vivaldi Sandwich" version
small orchestra similar ensemble with
harpsichord movements from
Antonio Vivaldi's
"Concerto in C minor"
Movement 1. "Allegro ma poco e cantabile" (Vivaldi)
1a) "Allegro" (Winenger)
Movement 2. "Andante Molto" (Vivaldi)
2a) "Andante" (Winenger)
Movement 3. "Allegro" (Vivaldi)
3a) "Allegro" (Winenger)
TOTAL DURATION: (unperformed, est. 20:00 min.)
rehearsal comments, "Winenger segments better than Vivaldi's"
--Ms. Helen Miller, conductor, Chamber Orchestra of the Desert
"Double Bass Trio"
(Small String Quartet--No. 1)
by Dwight Winenger ©1957 (revised 1992) (licensed by BMI)
Score for 1) violin, viola, cello, double bass
Unlicensed works...
Movement 1. Not too fast (5:22 min.)
Movement 2. Slow (8:45 min.)
Movement 3. Quite Fast (1:51 min.)
TOTAL DURATION: (15:58 min.)
cassette recording of performance available as below
"Breeze for Band" (Fantasy on a Spanish theme)
by Dwight Winenger © 1957
Score for 1) full wind ensemble
TOTAL DURATION: (15:58 min.)
cassette recording of performance available as below
"Concerto For Double Bass"
(arrangement with piano accompaniment for Barry Johnstone)
(original sketch for small orchestra accompaniment)
by Dwight Winenger ©1981
Score for 1) Solo Double Bass with notated piano accompaniment
In One Movement: dotted eighth = 80
TOTAL DURATION: (unperformed. no est.)
"In Search Of the Natural Man"
by Dwight Winenger ©1984
Scores for 1) Oakland Chamber Orchestra Version:
for small orchestra
2) Original Version with solo improvisations
(uses natural harmonics for strings)
TOTAL DURATION: (unperformed, est. 15:00 min.)
"Intervallic Etude" For Eight Flutes or Flute Choir
by Dwight Winenger © 1984
Score for 1) eight flutes
Movement 1. Andante
Movement 2. Allegro
Movement 3. Vivace
Movement 4. Moderato
TOTAL DURATION: (unperformed, est. 10:00 min.)
"Narrowing Circles" Symphony No. 4 (For Small Orchestra)
by Dwight Winenger © 1985
Score for 1) strings with winds in pairs
Movement 1. Allegro
Movement 2. Andante
Movement 3. Allegretto
TOTAL DURATION: (unperformed, est. 10:00 min.)
dedicated to Neoma R. Knitter who doesn't like "weird music."
Her comment at rehearsal, "This isn't weird?,"
"The Pantagruelian Annals"
A good-humored history of music in the Western World
by Dwight Winenger © 1984
Score for 1) strings and piano
TOTAL DURATION: (unperformed, est. 10:00 min.)
"A Small Symphony For Small Orchestra" Symphony No. 3
for custom orchestra...
by Dwight Winenger © 1982
Score for 1) strings with harpsichord
flute, Bb clarinet, Tuba and percussion
Movement 1. Theme
Movement 2. Inversion
Movement 3. Retrograde
Movement 4. Retrograde Inversion
TOTAL DURATION: (unperformed, est. 10:00 min.)
"Structural Variations On Two Obscure Themes"
for Solo Violoncello (commissioned by Serban Nichifor, University of Bucharest, Romania)
by Dwight Winenger © 2001
(license by BMI applied for)
"Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes delighted with its inventive and playful reminiscences"
--MICHAEL HUEBNER, News staff writer, Birmingham News"Votre piece pour cello solo - que j'avais presente le 16-XI a l'AMERICAN CENTER de BUCHAREST - a eu un GRAND SUCCES ! FELLICITATIONS !....En vous remerciant une fois de plus pour votre magnifique musique."
--Serban Nichifor - World Premiere - American Cultural Center, Bucharest, Romania, 2001cassette and MP3 recordings of performance available
"Second Psalm" for Soprano with Piano accompaniment
World Premiere by Karen Altabet, soprano, and Eunee Yee, piano,
vocal setting for the words of David, King of Israel
by Dwight Winenger © 1966 (revised 1999) (licensed by BMI)
Living Music 2000 Concert at Los Angeles Harbor College, California, USA
cassette and MP3 recordings of performance available
"Modal Disentanglements on Popular Tunes"
by Dwight Winenger © 1986
Movement 1. "Hello, My Baby" (3:15 min.)
Movement 2. "Sentimental Journey" (3:00 min.)
Movement 3. "Night Train" (1:25 min.)
Movement 4. "Moon River" (2:20 min.)
TOTAL DURATION: (10:00 min.)
Performed by the Bakersfield Symphony Chamber Orchestra (CA)
Howard Quilling, Conductor and Music Director
also available in MP3 format
"The Raven, a reading for trombone"
by Dwight Winenger © 1990 (licensed by BMI)
Score for 1) tenor trombone
2) wind machine
3) thunder sheet and staged lightning
TOTAL DURATION: (12:00 min.)
Solo performed by Dwight Winenger, the composer, on tenor trombone,
no accompaniment or effects...
"Recurrent Ordinals"
subtitled: "Nightmare for assorted instruments and alarm clock"
by Dwight Winenger © 1990 (licensed by BMI)
Aleatoric Scores for 1) assorted instruments and alarm clock
2) videotaped score for theater projection
to both audience and ensemble w/ conductor
TOTAL DURATION: (varies as alarm clock set)
Performed by the College of the Desert Chamber Ensemble
Arnaldo Trujillo, Conductor and Music Director
also available in MP3 format
"Double Bass Trio"
(Small String Quartet--No. 1)
by Dwight Winenger © 1957 (revised 1992) (licensed by BMI)
Score for violin, viola, cello, double bass
In One Movement Not too fast
TOTAL DURATION: (5:58 min.)
Performance by The Singing Sycamores String Quartet,
Indiana State University, the original version.
Synthesized performance of revision.
"Breeze for Band" (Fantasy on a Spanish theme)
by Dwight Winenger © 1957
Score for full wind ensemble
TOTAL DURATION: (15:58 min.)
Performance by Indiana State University Symphonic Band
Joseph Gremelspacher, Conductor and Music Director
"Extremes for Strings,"by Dwight Winenger ©1996
3,295 bytes (1:59 min.) Extremes.MID
Performed by the Palm Strings with the composer at the sequencer.
"Somber Cotillion,"by Dwight Winenger ©1996
3,295 bytes (1:59 min.) Somber.MID
Performed by the Palm Strings with the composer at the sequencer."2WORLDS2--Fanfare to Megiddo"
by Dwight Winenger ©1990 (licensed by BMI)
Video/audio tape with computer graphics accompaniment
Some QBasic programs...
GRAFMUSI.BAS...Hands-on instructional piece for programming monophonic PC speaker music and color graphics in QBasic computer language. © Dwight Winenger 1994
FORMTYPE.BAS...Turn your printer into a typewriter using all built-in fonts
and styles to fill in forms. Complete with irritating
delay screen and subroutine for coding and decoding name strings.
© Dwight Winenger 1995
10APPLES.BAS...Graphics interactive program to help Britni add and subtract.
Not entirely finished because Britni learned to add and subtract before I
could get "Dancing Apples" and the fancy parts done. © Dwight Winenger 1994
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Dwight Winenger
c/o Living Music
P.O. Box 173
Desert Hot Springs CA 92240.
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extremes.MID was orchestrated by Dwight Winenger (BMI)
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06/20/06