List of compositions by Dane Rudhyar

This is a list of musical works by the composer Dane Rudhyar. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Compositions

Orchestral works

• Trois Poëmes Ironiques (1914–1919)
• Vision Végétale (1914–1919)
• Four Symphonic Poems (For Métachorie) (1914–1919)
• Dithyrambs (1919)
• Soul Fire (1920)
• Unfoldment (1920)
• Syntony #1 (From the Unreal Lead Us to the Real), a symphonic trilogy (1919–1921)
• The Warrior, a tone poem for piano and orchestra (1920)
• The Surge of Fire (Symphonic Trilogy), for small orchestra (1921–1923)
• Five Stanzas, for string orchestra (1926)
• The Human Way (1927)
• Ouranos, for chamber orchestra (1927)
• Sinfonietta, transcribed from a piano sonatina (1928, rev 1979)
• Threnody (1929)
• Hero Chant (1930)
• Desert Chant (1932)
• Eclogue (1934)
• Epithalamium (1934)
• Threshold of Light (1934)
• Emergence, for string orchestra (1948)
• Triphong (1948, rev 1977)
• Dialogues (1950–57, rev 1977)
• Thresholds, orchestrated in 1975 by George Champion (1954–1955)
• Poems of Youth, trilogy for orchestra (1921–1933, entirely rewritten 1983–1984)
• Cosmic Cycle, trilogy for large orchestra (1981)
• Encounter, a dramatic sequence in five scenes for piano and orchestra (1977)
• Out of the Darkness (Syntonic Drama in Five Acts) (1982)

Chamber music

• Three Melodies, for flute, piano and cello (1918, rev 1974)
• Piano Quintet (1919)
• Three Poems, for violin and piano (1919–1920)
• Three Songs (without words), for flute, violin and piano/harp (1919)
• Violin Sonata (1920)
• Dark Passage, for string quartet (1941)
• Solitude, string quartet (transcribed from Tetragram #4, for piano) (1926)
• Barcarolle, for violin and piano (1954)
• Allehuia, for carillon (1976)
• Nostalgia, for alto flute, piano, and three strings (1979–83)
• Advent (String Quartet #1) (1978)
• Crisis and Overcoming (String Quartet #2) (1979)

Piano works

• Trois Poëmes (1913)
• Cortège Funèbre (1914)
• Tango D'Antan (1914)
• Mosaics, a tone cycle (1918)
• Dithyrambs (1919)
• Spanish Rhythms, for a dance drama (1920)
• Catharsis (1923)
• Moments, 15 tone poems (originally 22) which later became the first three Pentagrams (1924–26)
• Granites: Three Paeans (1925-27)
• Tetragram #1, The Quest (1920)
• Tetragram #2, Crucifixion (1926)
• Tetragram #3, Rebirth (1927)
• Tetragram #4, Adolescence (1925)
• Tetragram #5, Solitude (1927)
• Tetragram #6, Emergence (1929)
• Tetragram #7, Tendrils (1924)
• Tetragram #8, Primavera (1928)
• Tetragram #9, Summer Nights (1967)
• Pentagram #1, The Coming Forth (1924)
• Pentagram #2, The Enfolding (1924)
• Pentagram #3, Release (1926)
• Pentagram #4, The Human Way (1926)
• Syntony (1919–34, rev 1967)
• Thresholds (1954–55)
• Theurgy (Tone Ritual in Five Movements) (1976)
• Transmutation (1976)
• Autumn (1977)
• Three Cantos (1977)
• Epic Poem (1978)
• Rite of Transcendence (1981)
• Processional (1983)

Vocal music

• Trois Chansons de Bilitis, for contralto and harp (1918, rev 1981)
• Trois Poëmes Tragique, for contralto and piano (1918, rev 1979)
• Poem (1918)
• Commune, for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano (1929)
• Nazaria, scenic music for the "Pilgrimage Play" for piano (1922)
• Affirmation (1930, rev 1981)
• Two Affirmations (1931)
• Three Invocations, for baritone and piano (1939–41)

References

1. "Dane Rudhyar: Musical, Artistic & Written Works". Rudhyar Archival Project. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
2. "Dane Rudhyar - ACE Publications". American Composers Alliance. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
3. Ertan, Deniz (2009). Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought, and Art. University of Rochester Press. pp. 247–248.