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| Raven's Ballad | All compositions available on this webpage are by Mike Shafto unless otherwise noted. |  Track 1 of Bedroom Birdwalk. |
| Minor Skunk | Track 2 of Bedroom Birdwalk. |
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| Crows Know | Track 3 of Bedroom Birdwalk. |
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| Where's My Taskbar? | All compositions available on this webpage are by Mike Shafto unless otherwise noted. | Track 1 of Potboilers. This piece is a wistful reminiscence about the years before May, 2025, those golden years when my Dell Inspiron 3880 ran Windows 11 like a champ. Since that fateful (up)date, I wonder what happened to my WiFi, my WIndows Start menu, and my display settings. For example, "Where's My Taskbar?" The wistfulness of those happy memories is underscored here by a musical allusion to Patti Page. (I'm well aware that I'm not the only Microsoft/Dell customer with these problems, so this one's for all of us.) |
| Juvenile Junco | Track 2 of Potboilers |
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| Las Chicas |
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| Read the Room |
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| Looking For Lunch (In All the Wrong Places) |
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| Cool Dry June | Our alternative name for the Cherry Mint Tonic cocktail |
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| Taskbar Returns | After 6 months of excruciating frustration and tenacious effort, the taskbar is back, along with some semblance of normal operation. This is not to say that confidence is restored, nor that our limited and no doubt temporary success did not require superpowers. Hence the complex time signatures and melodic allusions to Spiderman audible in this commemorative composition. |
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| Etholén | Track 8 of Potboilers. This is our first experiment using FluidSynth, Qsynth, and General User GS 2.0. The title is from a book, The Etholén Collection, by Pirjo Varjola et al. Helsinki: The National Board of Antiquities of Finland, 1990. |
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| Flickering | Track 9 of Potboilers. We continue using FluidSynth, Qsynth, General User GS 2.0, and other .sf2 libraries.. |
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| Kandinsky | Track 1 of Inventing Abstraction |
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| Picasso | Track 2 of Inventing Abstraction |
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| Klee | Rhythm and phrasing are based on Lucky's Monologue from Waiting For Godot, by Samuel Beckett. English translation, Grove Press, 1954, pp. 33-35. | |
| Mondrian Boogie | |
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| Schwitters Collage | |
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| Delaunay-Terk | |
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| Léger | |
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| van Doesburg | A bit more influenced by Nelly van Doesburg than by Theo. See also Nelly van Doesburg | |
| Goncharova | |
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| O'Keeffe | See also Georgia O'Keeffe's Favorite Music | |
| O'Keeffe 2 | Final track of Inventing Abstraction | |
| Desolation Row | Track 1 of Radar Base TX | The eponymous street is actually in Radar Base TX 78852. |
| Abbey Road | The eponymous road is actually in Radar Base TX, running parallel to Desolation Row. | |
| Fire Fly Lane | Like all the other track titles in this album, "Fire Fly Lane" refers to a road in or near Radar Base TX. | |
| Styx Street |
Veterans Day, early morning, cold, dark, foggy. A man -- he might be a ranch-hand -- walks alone, slowly, his gait unsteady. He crosses Monarch Path and continues south on Styx Street toward St. Anne Road. |
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| Monarch Path | ||
| Saint Annie Avenue | Representing Stannie Street and Saint Anne Road | |
| El Rico Arrinconado |
Representing Riconada Street, Rinconada Street, and Rinconada Road "Ser rico es nada mas que ser arrinconado." |
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| Maverick 2 | ||
| Del Rio Boulevard | ||
| Chaparral Run | ||
| Blair the Square | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 6 Basic ideas adapted from Arnold Schoenberg & Sonny Stitt |
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| SIster Brinley | ||
| Silesian Dawn | Inspired by Jimmy Wyble,
The Art of Two-Line Improvisation |
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| Transfiguration Blues | How fast can robots play? Almost this fast. |
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| The Hedge of Black Thorns | ||
| A Feast of Snacks (take 2) | ||
| Granny Salis | ||
| Bobo LeBorro | ||
| Zot! (take 4) | It's a UC Irvine thing. |
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| Tarskian Fantasy | referring to Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) |
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| Commentary | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 6 |
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| Joshua Tree | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 5 | |
| No Time Now | ||
| Knute's Canoe | ||
| Fizzy | ||
| Passers-by | ||
| Bergen Bounce | Solos based on Eric Dolphy, "Dahomey Dance", (Weimar Project transcription) | |
| Radiation | ||
| Lu's Cha Cha | ||
| Homino Idea | ||
| Cardinals' Inn | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 5 | |
| Funky Machine 2 | All compositions in Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 4 are written, performed, and produced by Jay Shafto | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 4 |
| WhataMelon | |
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| Frying Monkeys | |
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| Figments | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 3 | |
| Next To Godliness | ||
| Dusty Rails | ||
| Frozen Cookie | ||
| Sherry With a Cherry | ||
| The Missing Riff | ||
| Esther | ||
| Kiko the Kook | ||
| Mercer County | ||
| Verity | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 3 | |
| Revival 75 | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 2 | |
| Behind the Scenes | ||
| Cooking at Versace Slim's | ||
| Codex | ||
| Mambo 98 | Jay Shafto and Mike Shafto | Based on an etude by John McLaughlin |
| Mambo Pajambo | ||
| Encyclopedic | ||
| Hawking (no horns) | ||
| Hawking | ||
| Algeciras | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 2 | |
| Firmament | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 1 | |
| Music Mouse | ||
| Ornery Theology | ||
| Bird Suit | ||
| Apology | ||
| Pile of Pearls | ||
| Heptalogy | ||
| Sylviazation | ||
| Barbecue Blues | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 1 | |
| Assurance | Track 1 of Assured Aggregates |
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| Immer Denken | ||
| Yum Yum Sauce | Mike Shafto & Sylvia Shafto | |
| They Left It On Top Of My Tesla | ||
| Spangles | A tribute to the Spangles restaurants of Wichita, Kansas "Baby, a Spangles burger will never do you wrong. All those other nowheresville burgers? Those are for squares." |
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| Proximity | ||
| Aggregation | ||
| Fount of Ambiguity | ||
| Leviticus 19 | ||
| Romans 7 | ||
| Grey Dunes | Final track of Assured Aggregates |
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| Dogs Got Rhythm | Track 1 of Jazz Concentrate |
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| Tucumcari | |
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| Hard To Light | |
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| iThing | |
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| Poco Roboto | |
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| One For Erik | |
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| Concrescence | |
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| Entitled | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Blue Potato Blues | Final track of Jazz Concentrate |
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| Modern Narrative | Selected tracks from the album Next | |
| Good Faith Blues | ||
| Donuts and More | ||
| Extra Buttons | ||
| Circuit Breaker | ||
| I Remember Gerald | ||
| Laveyda | ||
| Three Shirts and a Coffee Maker | revised June 12, 2022 Last selected track from the album Next |
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| Committee For Nostalgia | Selected tracks from the album Quickies |
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| Cucumber Vine | ||
| El Hugo | ||
| Lion's Court | ||
| Lacking a Lady | ||
| Ray Ray 4U | ||
| Phroebe | revised June 10, 2022 | |
| Marblino | revised June 9, 2022 Last selected track from the album Quickies |
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| Vavau | First track of Selections from Shakedown Not Vava'u, the island group in Tonga. Vavau, the village in Upolu, Samoa. |
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| Parametric | ||
| The Library Song (781_655) | 781.655 is the Dewey Decimal code for Modern Jazz. | |
| Lake Tower Song Flower | ||
| Phosphine | Not phosphene. | |
| Stoking It | There's no "r" in "stoking". | |
| Nigel's Summer Home | Final track of Selections from Shakedown | |
| X43 | First track of selections from the album Sketches of Legrand Jazz, an homage to Michel Legrand's great album from 1958. | |
| Possible Birds | ||
| Angle of Attack | revised June 6, 2022 | |
| Latter Days | ||
| Dance Nuance | ||
| Pomona | ||
| Evasion | ||
| Baylands | ||
| Mid-Afternoon | Final track of Selections from Sketches of Legrand Jazz | |
| Dance for Five Angels | First composition of 2020 Five Angels Image by Giovanni di Paolo Condé Chantilly |
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| Tribute to Charles Ives | The only intentional intersection with Charles Ives's music is through allusions to and quotations of the hymn tune "My Faith Looks Up to Thee", pp. 67-68 in The Charles Ives Tunebook (Clayton W. Henderson, second edition, Indiana University Press, 2008). | |
| Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Based on the famous poem by Dylan Thomas | |
| James 5 | Based on James 5 (New Testament NRSV) | |
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, Part 1 | The eponymous poem is by John Ashbery | |
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, Part 2 | ||
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, Part 3 | ||
| The Ice Storm | The eponymous poem is by John Ashbery | |
| Etude No. 1 ("Aspects of 20th Century Music") | After examples in Aspects of 20th Century Music by Richard DeLone et al., ISBN 0-13-049346-5 | |
| Etude No. 2 ("Lament") | After Henry Purcell, Aria from Act III of Dido and Aeneas, "Remember Me" | |
| Etude No. 3 ("Adagietto") | After Mahler: "Adagietto," Fifth Symphony, 4th Movement | |
| Wagner 429 | Selected studies based on songs and motifs from Wagner's operas. 429 is based on Parsifal. |
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| Wagner 364 | Die Meistersinger | |
| Wagner 310 | Tristan und Isolde | |
| Wagner 251 | Götterdämmerung | |
| Wagner 191 | Siegfried | |
| Wagner 152 | Die Walküre | |
| Symphony 1 ("The Man With the Blue Guitar") in one movement | Based on the eponymous poem by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 2 ("Owl's Clover") in one movement | Based on the eponymous poem by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 1st Movement | Based on "Earthy Anecdote" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 2nd Movement | Based on "In the Carolinas" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 3rd Movement | Based on "Invective Against Swans" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 4th Movement | Based on "Of Mere Being" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 1st Movement | Based on
The Comedian as the Letter 'C'
by Wallace Stevens "The World without Imagination" |
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| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 2nd Movement | "Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 3rd Movement | "Approaching Carolina" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 4th Movement | "The Idea of a Colony" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 5th Movement | "A Nice Shady Home" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 6th Movement | "And Daughters with Curls" | |
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 1st Movement | ||
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 2nd Movement | ||
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 3rd Movement | ||
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 4th Movement | ||
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 1 ("Softly and Tenderly") | Based on the hymn by Will L. Thompson | |
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 2 | Variations on "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?" | |
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 3 ("I Know Where I'm Going") | Based on the Scottish or Irish folk song | |
| Symphony 18.5, Prelude to Movement 4 | ||
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 4 | Themes from Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, by Ethel and Chauncey O. Moore. University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. | |
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 5 | Using thematic material from The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (1940). New York: The Church Pension Fund | |
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), Prelude | Easter Image | |
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 1st Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 2nd Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 3rd Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 4th Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 5th Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), Postlude | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), Finale | ||
| Push | Jay Shafto | Legacy 1995. Composed for a Pomona College dance concert. Remastered from tape by Production Value Productions for Piltdown Music. |
| Studio Jam Drone original | Jay Shafto | Legacy undated |
| Studio Jam Drone piltdown | Jay Shafto | Legacy undated |
| Studio Jam Drone distortion | Jay Shafto | Legacy undated |
| Angular Momentum | ca. 1999 | |
| Kyrie | Unknown | Swing adaptation for 8-string guitar, ca. 1999 |
| Techno Thing | Jay Shafto | 2001 |
| Caine Plain | Based on a solo by Uri Caine. 2003 | |
| Cat Man Do | 2005 | |
| Calorita | 2006 | |
| Chocolate Sox | A new arrangement of a tune from the 1960s | |
| Jazz for Feldman | Legacy 2006 | |
| Geeks of Lacey Station (take 2) | Legacy 2006 |
