Works – Page 2 – Patricia Wallinga

Songs of Days Past

2014 | for medium voice and piano | 9’ Songs of Days Past is a collection of three songs for medium voice that pair texts from three different poetic periods with music meant to evoke[…]

little girl blue

2015 | for solo harp or marimba | 6’ little girl blue is a piece composed entirely of melodies. In theory, the four melodies that comprise this piece are of equal importance. In practice, however,[…]

Full of Grace (Thursday’s Child)

2015 | for SATB vocal quartet | 5’ This piece, written in collaboration with choreographer Sydney Harmon, is born of a mutual fascination with lullabies— the motions and melodies used across generations to soothe a[…]

WARP

2015 | for modified Pierrot ensemble | 4′ WARP is the score to an experimental short film of the same name by Tyler Strzelecki and Exsenet Esler, created and premiered as a collaboration for the[…]

Swallow the Stars

2014 | a one-man concert opera for baritone, oboe, violoncello, and piano | 35’ Swallow the Stars is a one-man concert opera in five scenes, written for a solo baritone accompanied by oboe, cello, and[…]

Brooms of Steel

2014 | for SATB choir and Nordic fiddle | 3’ Brooms of Steel is a strophic adaptation of an Emily Dickinson poem that illustrates and celebrates the harsh stillness of winter. I’ve long admired Dickinson’s[…]

Dreams in War Time

2014 | for high voice and piano | 15’ Amy Lowell’s “Dreams in War Time” is an evocative series of seven loosely connected images, published shortly after the end of World War I. In setting[…]

Portraits of Wartime

2013 | for SATB choir w/divisi, SATB incidental soloists, and violoncello | 7’ The 21st century is a fascinating and terrifying time to be a young adult. The world is more interconnected— and more fraught[…]

Hex

2013 | for solo flute | 5’ Hex is a concert etude for unaccompanied solo flute, meant to exhibit a wide variety of extended techniques. The piece’s combination of ancient and modern sound worlds lend[…]

Labyrinth

2013 | for solo double bass | 3’ Labyrinth is a short solo piece for double bass inspired by Portugese artist Jorge Queiroz’ 2012 painting of the same name. In classical design, a labyrinth is[…]