Projects & Scores of Christopher DeLaurenti

Projects & Scores

The links above lead to additional work in live performance, radio, visual art, sound, and the web.

Below you'll find a few of my scores in Adobe's free Acrobat Reader .pdf format. Some use traditional notation while others employ text and graphics.

Some of the scores have additional components including pre-recorded sound, supplementary directions, and so forth, so contact me if you're interested in performing (or have questions about) any of these pieces.

Anthem for bass-baritone or tenor solo (2003)

Anthem intermingles and transposes various lyrics and melodic fragments from several patriotic songs: The Star Spangled Banner, My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Battle Hymn of the Republic, America the Beautiful, and The Marines Hymn.

Anthem remains unperformed, though I did spend a week wrecking my bass-baritone voice trying (and failing) to hit the upper Ds and Fs; I transposed it into my range only to realize that I have become a poor singer! Get the .pdf version for tenor or bass-baritone.

grey angel for electric guitar and prerecorded sound (2002)

Commissioned and premiered by Michael Nicolella, grey angel demands a different kind of virtuosity. Unlike the million-notes-a-minute guitar pieces so common today, this piece requires the guitarist to make two long sustained notes meaningful. The term prerecorded sound is my solution to the obsolete titling of "for [insert instrument] and tape" pieces. Get the .pdf

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Reading This You Are Performing This Score So Give Me 50 Cents

By Reading This You Are Performing This Score So Give Me 50 Cents (1999)

Perhaps my lone musical innovation: the mail-order score. Readers, by filling out a coupon and mailing me 50 cents, perform the piece. No doubt inspired by James Tenney's Postcard Pieces as anthologized in Roger Johnson's book Scores, this was originally published in the Tentacle's October 1999 issue and reappeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Musicworks in their Visions of Sound section. Get the .pdf

Illustration of
a frothing Messiah by Michael O'Connor

Illustration by Michael O'Connor.

"I am the Messiah!" for one performer (2001)

Composed in honor of John Cage, "I am the Messiah!" is a monodrama which may be performed live or recorded for playback over loudspeakers. The duration is limited to 4'33" not only as a tribute to Cage's landmark piece, but to preserve your body and voice. I've recorded it twice; once in my kitchen, another time in the Fort Worden Cistern, which features one of the world's longest natural reverberation decays (50 to 90 seconds). Get the .pdf

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