Scott Worthington

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compositions

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Almost every piece is available for purchase* or for free.** Please contact me if you are interested in any of these scores.

*price list
**free for students, guaranteed ASCAP licensed performances, or other reasonable reasons

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u r a bus (2024)
lead sheet
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If You Want (2024)
lead sheet
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Talking of Michelangelo (2024)
lead sheet
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Firestorm (2024)
lead sheet
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Hold the Roses (2024)
lead sheet
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Mountains (2023)
lead sheet
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Sort Anywhere (2023)
lead sheet
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Cassini (2020/ongoing) — generative computer program for improvisation
any instrument(s) and electronics
works using this system:
Interlude (2017, 5')
electronic
listen
SILENCE (every spell is muted) (2017/2024, 9')
two versions:
- soprano and trumpet
- baritone and bass clarinet
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A Flame That Could Go Out (2016, 20')
two five-string electric basses
listen
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The Landscape Listens (2016, ca. 18')
string quartet
listen performed by the Isaura String Quartet

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For Alvin Lucier (2016, 25' or indefinite)
sine waves
listen
Or Bitter Wren Sing (2016, 25')
violin and playback
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NOISE (the air has been ill) (2016, 12')
soprano, tenor, electric guitar, viola, percussion, and playback
listen live performance by wasteLAnd

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A Time That Is Also a Place (2015, 12')
flute and playback
listen
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Space Administration (2014-15, 63')
double bass, playback, and projected text
watch (excerpt)

Unphotographable (2015, 3')
trombone and playback
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With No Surroundings There Can Be No Path (2014, 10')
double bass, field recordings, and sine tones
listen
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A Different Infiniteness (2013, 9')
bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, baritone, and playback
watch
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Reflections (2012, 10')
double bass and electronics
listen
*Score and software available for performance.
Still Life (2012, 12')
trumpet and electronics
listen
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Even the Light Itself Falls (2011-12, 85')
clarinet, percussion, and double bass
listen
Quintet (after Feldman) (2011, 5')
five double basses
listen

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At Dusk (2010, 15')
double bass and digital resonances
listen
*Score and software available for performance
A Few Kites (2010, 4')
trumpet, violin, and electronics
listen
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Prism (2010, 10')
three double basses
listen
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Frozen Landscapes (2009, 12')
percussion and optional electronics
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Infinitive (2009, 8')
bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and baritone
listen listen at New Focus Recordings
listen on Spotify
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In(verse)Fragments (2009, 10')
two clarinets, soprano, and string trio
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Six Shades of Gray (2009, 10')
flute, guitar, and double bass
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Or (2009, 4')
tuba or bass trombone
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GS 1 and 2 (2008, 2')
2-channel playback
listen audio of GS I

Three Notions (2008, 3')
alto flute
listen live performance by Deidre Huckabay

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Abstraction II (2008, 11')
piano and electronics
listen live performance by Zuzanna Szewczyk Kwon

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Opacity (2008, 3')
violin
listen live performance by Sara Ballance

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Abstraction I (2007, 9')
carillon and electronics
listen live performance by Tiffany Ng

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Four Instances (2007, 5')
guitar
listen live performance by Dieter Hennings

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