Instrumental Music by Jackson Hill

·       MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA

• Variations for Orchestra (1964)
  2222 4331 T 2perc strings
• Mosaics (1965)
  2222 4331 T 2perc pft strings
• Paganini Set (1973)
  1201 (or 1111) 2000/strings
• Ceremonies of Spheres (1973)
  3333 4321 T 2perc pft strings
• Sangraal (1977)
  2222 4231 T 2perc hp strings
• Chambers (1988)
  1121 1000 pft strings
• Toccata Nipponica (1989)
  2222 2210 1perc pft strings
• Secrets (Himitsu) 1990)
  1121 1000 pft strings
• Symphony No. 1 (Sinfonia Nipponica) (1988-90)
  2222 2210 pft strings
• Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonia Canonica) (1986-90)
  2222 4321 perc strings
• Symphony No. 3 (1997)
  2222 4231 perc strings
  (recipient Hon. Ment. Nissim Prize, 1998)

·       MUSIC FOR BAND

• Anathema for Jazz Band and Percussion (1965)
• Fanfare for The Eagle (1969)
• Procession with Fanfares (1974)
• A Bucknell Fantasy (2008)

·       ENSEMBLE MUSIC

• Miniature for Henry V (1966) fl / hn / vla
• Synchrony (1967) fl / clar / vn / vcl / pft / prc
• Serenade (1970) fl / vln / vcl / pft

Listen to Serenade

• Entourage (1973) saxophone quartet
• Music for The Bacchae (1974) 3 ob / 3 perc
• Music for Minamata (1982) fl / vln / koto / perc
• Remembered Landscape (1984) vln / vla / vcl / pft

Listen to Remembered Landscape

• Contrafactum III (1987) brass quintet
• Abeunt omnia in mysterium (1987) brass ensemble
• Gothic Shadows (1989) fl / ob / vcl
• Introspections (1989) wind quintet/perc
• Tholos (1991) fl / ob / cl / vln / vcl / pft / prc
• Trio da Camera (1993) fl / ob / vcl
• Threnody (2005) horn & string quartet
• Ghosts (2010) string quartet

·       MUSIC FOR STRINGS

• Elegy for Strings (1959)
• Three Violin Duets (1959)
• Episode for Violin & Piano (1959)
• Poem for Strings (1959)
• Cortege (1961) vln / pft
• Adagio (1962) vln / pft
• Improvisation and Dance (1964) vln
• Four Studies (1964) vln / pft
• Sonata (1966) Violin Unacc.
• Enigma Elegy (1987) vcl / pft
  (also versions for vln / pft; vla / pft)

Listen to Enigma Elegy

• Third Elegy (1974, 1988) string orch

·       MUSIC FOR SOLO WINDS

• Fissions I (1965) solo flute
• Four Studies (1968) trt / pft
• Whispers of the Dead (1976) solo flute
• Rhapsody for Flute and Piano (1990)
• Three Transparencies (1990) shakuhachi
• Hikyoku (1990) solo flute
• Sky of Birds (2005) solo flute

·       PIANO MUSIC and HARPSICHORD MUSIC

• Three Fantasies for Piano (1966)
• Three Sketches (for children) (1967)
• Sonata: Super flumina Babylonis (1976)
• Toro Nagashi (Lanterns of Hiroshima) 1977) two pianos
• Nocturne: Azabu-Juban (1977)
• Tango-no-Tango (1985)
• Contrapuntal Images I-III (1988)
• Polyphonies for Harpsichord (1989)
• Petrus (1989)
• Warrior Fantasy (Toccata for Piano) (1989)
• Skolion (1991)
• Bridge of Whispers (2007)
• Alone beside the river of birds (2007)
• Klavierstücklein für Kai (2008)

·       MUSIC FOR ORGAN

• Fugue on Wie Schoen Leuchtet (1966)
• Three Mysteries (1973)
• Grand Fanfare: Ecce sacerdos (1973)
• Iam Christus astra (1973)
• Dark Litany (1973) organ & tape
• Five Zen Fragments (1979)
• Fanfare and Alleluia (1979) org / brass quartet
• Abeunt omnia in mysterium (1983)
• Labyrinth of the Trinity (1995)
• Gothic Echoes (1996)

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