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    Mr. Dalton was first-place winner
    in the 1997 Toronto Camerata Composition Competition
    for "The Rocky Road to Dublin."


    Instrumental Solo


    Mandolin

  • Gifts of the Bard (published by Wolfhead Music)
  • Sonata
  • Etudes Book 1 (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Guitar

  • Toccata
  • La Tombeau de M. Hedges
  • Three Impromtus
  • Two Etudes
  • Flute

  • Supplication
  • Organ

  • Canonic Variations and Fugue on "Free at Last" (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • The Merrimack Valley Prelude Book (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Sestina (for G.F.H.)
  • Piano

  • 3 Palindromes
  • Eight Studies
  • Percussion

  • 2 Fractals for Frame Drum
  • The Secret Knock (for temple blocks)
  • Pascal's Triangle
  • Suite for Solo Frame Drum
  • Thunder (after Joyce) for timpani
  • Euphonium / Tuba

  • Variations on "I will Bow and Be Simple" (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Carillon

  • Thoughts on Golden Rain (published in the Albany Carillon Book)
  • Tolling Secrets
  • Prelude on "Nettleton" (published in Carillon 2002 by Fenwick Parva Press)
  • La Tombeau de Lawson
  • Vocal Solo


  • The Willow Song (high voice and guitar) (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Song Cycles

  • Clear Full Moon (high voice and guitar)
  • 3 Songs for Charlie (high voice and alto sax)
  • Chamber Ensembles


  • Thoreau Epigrams (clarinet, violin, cello and piano)
  • Slip Jig (string quartet or mandolin quartet) (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Wind Trio (oboe, clarinet and bassoon)
  • Four Vexatious Dances (viola, clarinet (bass clarinet), bassoon, trombone,
      tenor banjo (mandolin) and percussion)
  • M'illumino D'immenso (clarinet, violin, cello and piano)
  • Canon (four electric guitars, bass and drums)
  • Three Inventions (two mandolins or two guitars) (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Kotekans (violin and viola)
  • Brass Ensembles


  • 3 Chorale Preludes (2 trumpets and 2 trombones)
  • Flourish (2 trumpets)
  • Brass Quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba) (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Fanfare (trombone ensemble)
  • Percussion Ensembles


  • Paper Fugue
  • Compas Phase
  • Even Minimalists Get the Blues (mallet percussion)
  • Choral


  • Psalm 137 (SATB and strings)
  • Adoramus Te (SATB)
  • Laudate Dominum Omnes Gentes (SATB and oboe)
  • 3 Motets (SSA)
  • When I Heard the Learned Astronomer (SATB) (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Puer Natus (SAB and percussion)
  • The Rocky Road to Dublin (SATB) (published by Singing String Music Publications)
  • Wind Ensemble


  • Concerto for Alto Sax and Wind Ensemble
  • Slip Jig for Band
  • Orchestra


  • ...to brag as lustily as Chanticleer in the morning (in progress)
  • Music for Dance

  • Anjali (violin, 2 percussion and overtone singing)
  • Spring (Irish ceili band)
  • Frangible Entity (oboe, vibes and guitar)
  • The Mirror (alto sax, didgeridoo and marimba)
  • Demeter's Sorrow (cello solo)
  • Music for Theater

  • Incidental music for Taming of the Shrew (recorder, oboe, trumpet, guitar and percussion)
  • Music for Film

  • Film score for United Way of Bennington County, Vermont



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