Compositions
“The music of Gardner Read is a wedding of structure and expressivity. It is lean, tightly knit, with no padding. It captures the attention of our minds as well as our ears, making us always eager to know what’s coming next. The listener will find no musical cliches here.” Mary Ann Dodd
This is a selected list of compositions, with their source (publishers or the composer). The location of the publishers is included at the end of this page. A complete list of compositions, through 1996, is available in Gardner Read: A Bio-Bibliography from Greenwood Press (ISBN 0313293848).
Major Orchestral Works
Arioso Elegiaca for Strings; Peters
Concerto for Piano; Read
Concerto for Violincello; Read
First Overture; Read
Music for Piano and Strings; Read
Night Flight; Peters
Pennsylvaniana Suite; Belwin
Prelude and Toccata; Kalmus
Symphony No. 1; Presser
Symphony No. 2; Read
Symphony No. 3; Belwin
Symphony No. 4; Read
The Temptation of Saint Anthony; Read
Toccata Giocosa; Presser
Vernal Equinox; Read
Major Chamber Works
Five Aphorisms (violin and piano); Peters
The Hidden Lute (soprano, alto flute, harp, and percussion); Read
Los Diosos Aztecas (percussion ensemble); Cole
Nine by Six (woodwind quintet and trumpet); Peters
Piano Quintet; Read
Quiet Music for Strings; Seesaw
Six Intimate Moods (violin and piano); C. Fischer
Sonata Brevis (violin and piano); Seesaw
Sonoric Fantasia No. 1 (celesta, harp, and harpsichord); Presser
Sound Piece for Brass and Percussion; Leduc
String Quartet No. 1; Read
Threnody for Flute and Piano; Seesaw
Works for or with Organ
A Christmas Pastorale (with violin); Seesaw
“and there appeared unto them tongues as of fire”: Gray
“Bare ruin’d choirs”; Media
Chorale-Fantasia on “Good King Wenceslas”; Gray
De Profundis (with horn or trombone); Leduc
Elegiac Aria; J. Fischer
Eight Preludes on Old Southern Hymns; Gray
Invocation (with trombone); Leduc
Little Pastorale; Galaxy
Galactic Novae (with percussion); Media
Passacaglia and Fugue in D minor; Gray
Phantasmagoria (with oboe, oboe d’amore, and English horn: one player); Media
Quiet Music; Media
Sinfonia da Chiesa (with brass quintet); Peters
Six Preludes on Old Southern Hymns; Gray
Sonoric Fantasia No. 4 (with percussion); C. Fischer
Suite for Organ; Read
Selected Choral Works
A Shepherd Lone Lay Fast Asleep (viola and organ); Gould
By-Low, My Babe (flute, English horn, and harp); Read
Epistle to the Corinthians (brass choir and organ); Media
The Golden Harp (a cappella); J. Fischer
Jesous Ahatonia (organ); Gould
The Reveille (winds, percussion, and organ); Seesaw
River Night (piano); Gould
The Magic Hour (piano); Gould
When Moonlight Falls (piano); Gould
Selected Keyboard Works
Dance of the Locomotives (piano); Seesaw
Driftwood Suite (piano); Read
Fantasy-Toccata (harpsichord); Vivace
Sonata da Chiesa (piano); Seesaw
Touch Piece (piano); Seesaw
Selected Vocal Works
A White Blossom (medium voice and piano); Schirmer
All Day I Hear (medium voice and piano); Boosey
At Bedtime (medium voice and piano); Southern
From a Lute of Jade (mezzo voice and piano); Read
It is Pretty in the City (medium voice and piano); Southern
Lullaby for a Man-Child (medium voice and piano); Galaxy
Nocturne (medium voice and piano); Boosey
Nocturnal Visions (baritone and piano); Boosey
Publishers
Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp., Miami, FL 33014
Books on Demand, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., New York, NY 10012
Carl Fischer, Inc., New York, NY 10012
C. F. Peters Corp., New York, NY 10016
Edwin F. Kalmus, New York, NY 10016
Galaxy Music Corp., Boston, MA 02215
Gardner Read, Manchester, MA 01944
Greenwood Press, Westport, CT 06881
G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, NY 10012
H. W. Gray Co., Miami, FL 33014
J. Fischer & Bro., New York, NY 10019
Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, New York, NY 10107
Leduc et Cie, Paris, France 75040 Cedex 01
Media Press, Inc., Champaign, IL 61806
M. M. Cole Publishers, Chicago, IL, 61806
Seesaw Music Publishers, New York, NY 10023
Southern Music Publishing Co., New York, NY 10019
Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., Marlboro, NJ 07746
Theodore Presser Co., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Vivace Press, Readville, WI 54969
