John A. Hartmann - Composer

Selected Works
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Large Ensemble | Chamber & Solo
Choral & Vocal | Electroacoustic | Arrangements

Large Ensemble

Children's Dance (2003)
duration: 5 minutes

Monologion (2002)
* Master's Thesis from The University of Texas at Austin
duration: 18 minutes
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Chamber / Solo Music

Un livre des instruments non accompagnes (for solo instruments) (2008)
Commissioned by Susan Hatch Tomkiewicz, Rebecca Wexler,
      and Aurelien Petillot

duration: variable

Slap Happy Clappy (for percussion trio) (2008)
duration: 3 minutes

Lament (for solo bassoon) (2005)
duration: 3 minutes

Platypus in the Reeds (for bassoon octet) (2003)
Commissioned by the UT Bassoon Ensemble
duration: 7 minutes

A Book of Fanfares (for brass quintet) (2002-present)
duration: variable

the dark well (for string quartet) (2002)
duration: 18 minutes
* ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards finalist
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Prelude & Fugue in C minor (for solo piano) (2002)
duration: 4 minutes
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reflector (for string quartet) (2001)
duration: 6 minutes
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Mirrors for Percussion (1999)
duration: 9 minutes

Four Short Songs for Bass Clarinet and Piano (1998)
Commissioned by Zea Barker
duration: 5 minutes

Stream for Saxophone Quartet (1998)
duration: 6 minutes

Wheels (for indeterminate ensemble) (1998)
duration: variable

Refractions (for flute, clarinet, & bassoon) (1995)
duration: 7 minutes

Moods (for solo viola) (1995)
duration: 5 minutes

Dreams (for bassoon & piano) (1992)
duration: 4 minutes

Choral / Vocal Music

Agnus Dei (for SSATB and percussion) (2004)
duration: 4 minutes

Lux Aeterna (for mixed chorus and solo soprano saxophone) (2004)
Commissioned by the Yale Camerata
duration: 5 minutes

Personal Prayers (for mixed chorus and soloists) (2001)
duration: 13 minutes

Three Songs for Percussion and Female Voice (1996)
duration: 9 minutes

Electroacoustic Music

Dragons of the Deep (tape only) (2008)
duration: 9:14

tlimsps.23 (tape only) (2008)
duration: 4:35

Electroacoustic Lenten Vespers (for cantor, handbells, congregation, and taped sound) (2007)
Commissioned by the Lutheran Student Organization
      at Yale Divinity School

duration: 30 minutes

A day in life of? (tape only) (2007)
Commissioned by Palimpsest 5 (April 2007)
duration: 12 minutes

music for a baptism (tape only) (2006)
duration: 10:01

breathing spell ver. 2.1 (tape only) (2003, rev. 2006)
duration: 5:34
Published in Palimpsest 4 (April 2006)

Alarum Cu (tape only) (2004)
duration: 4:50
* Electronic Music Midwest 2004 juried selection
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breathing spell ver. 1.2 (tape only) (2003)
duration: 8:04
* SEAMUS 2004 juried selection
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wn experiment (tape only) (2003)
duration: 3 minutes

Thunder Crapck (tape only) (2003)
duration: 3 minutes

A Voice from New York City (tape only) (2002)
duration: 5:18
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Krell (tape only) (2001)
duration: 6:39
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Arrangements

Bolero (for bassoon octet) (2003)
Commissioned by the UT Bassoon Ensemble
duration: 8 minutes

And the Beat Goes On? (for English Handbell choir) (2002)
Commissioned by the James River Ringers
duration: 4 minutes