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Composers Bureau
Will Gay Bottje
Biography
BS, MS, Juilliard. DMA, Eastman School of Music.
1957-1981 - Southern Illinois University.
Member American Composers Alliance.
Compositions
Beginning about 1992 a project to revise and reformat pieces with
an ENCORE program was begun. New composition has also continued. The
following list is selected only from the works that have been done
in this way. The composer will be happy to supply further details.
None of these listings are microtonal! List of microtonal tapes available
on request.
Other compositions still exist published or manuscript. All below
are available from the American
Composers Alliance, 170 W. 74th St., New York, NY 10023.
Orchestral
- Commentaries for Guitar & Small Orchestra (also piano reduction)
- Concertino for Piccolo & Orchestra (piano reduction Zalo)
- Concerto for 2 Flutes & Orchestra (Piano vers. J/P publication)
- Concerto for Horn & Orchestra (also piano reduction)
- Concerto for Oboe, Violin & Orch (small)
- Flavors (Community or select high school)
- Full Circle
- Opener
- Sinfonia for Young String Orchestra
- Sounds From the West Shore
- The Ballad Singer
Vocal and Choral
- A Sentence Once Begun - Soprano, Str Quartet (Ch. Fry) (piano
reduction)
- Cantata for the 53rd Sunday ( A Prayer for Middle Age) - SATB,
3 solos, keyboard, soprano obligato instrument
- Carol (from Wind In the Willows) - SATB
- Credo (R. Roland) - SSAATTBB
- Diptych (Rilke) - SSAATTBB, part 2 with keyboard
- Exhortation of the Dawn - SATB and Brass Ensemble or keyboard
- In Caverns All Alone (7 songs on mind) - Soprano or Tenor, flute,
bassoon and piano
- In Praise of Music (5 songs) (Elizabethan texts) - Mezzo-Soprano
and String Quartet (Rev. 1997-98)
- Last Minute Message for a Time Capsule - SATB, ten dr
- Quests of Odysseus (Kazantzakis) - tenor and piano (8 songs)
- Radiant Musings (N. Cousins) - SATB and keyboard, 11 short settings
which can be done as a whole, in part, or individually
- Thrush Song - SSAATTBB, solos & flute
- Wayward Pilgrim (5 songs) (E. Dickinson) - Soprano or Mezzo-soprano
& Piano
Chamber Music
- Brief Acquaintances - Oboe, Clarinet, Cello
- Brief Candles - Flute and Guitar
- Chorale and Allegro - four trumpets
- Concerto for Tuba - Tuba & Piano (also in ms. orch version)
- Country Wife-Suite (5 dances for Wycherly play) - flute, oboe,
clarinet and bassoon.
- Dances: Real & Imagined - Guitar & String Quartet
- Designs- 2 flutes, cello, piano
- Diversions (Settings of Jim Thurber texts) - narrator, flute,
oboe, bassoon, clarinet, horn and piano
- Dune Music - flute, oboe, cello and piano
- Duo Sonatina - 2 Euphoniums, piano (a vers. with 14 piece ensemble,
also)
- Fireflies - Oboe, Harpsichord & String Quartet
- Incidental Music for a Restoration Comedy - clarinet, viola
and cello
- Lighter Strings - Guitar & Harpsichord
- Litanies, Refrains & Alleluias - Trombone and piano
- Little Sonata No.1 - Flute and organ
- Little Sonata 5 - Clarinet and organ
- Little Sonata No.7 - Trumpet and organ
- Lyric Sonata (rev. 1998) - Bassoon and piano
- Music for a Joyous Occasion III - 2 flutes (or violins), and
cello
- Prelude & Fugue - Tuba and piano
- Quintet for Flute & Strings
- Quintet for Clarinet, bassoon, french horn, violin, and contrabass
- Quintet Nr. 2 For Winds - flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and
french horn
- Ready, Set-- 3 cellos, or 3 bassoons, or 3 Clarinets
- Recitative, Arioso & Finale - Trombone and piano
- Serenade - Wind quintet and string quartet
- Sextet for Strings - 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos
- Sonata for 2 Cellos
- Sonatas 1,2, and 3 - cello and piano
- Sonata for Flute & Piano
- Sonata for Guitar
- Sonata for Trumpet & Piano
- Sonata for Violin & Piano
- Song and Dance (1998) - Violin and Piano
- Soundings - Oboe and Harpischord
- Sprites & Phantoms - flute, oboe, clarinet, cello and piano
- String Quartets Nrs. 2, 4 & 5
- Symphony for Cello and Piano four-hands (rev. 1998)
- Three Flared Bells - trumpet, french horn and trombone
- Three Miniatures - flute and piano
- Tides - two pianos
- Trio - flute, cello and piano
- Trio (rev. 1998) - violin, cello and piano
- Triple Play- Clarinet & Piano
- Variations & Fugue - 4 trombones (400)
- Well-Tempered Flutes - 43 Preludes & Fugues from Bach WTC, arr
for 2 flutes
- Wonders of the Night Sky - 8 piano ensemble
Further Information
Contact Information
12871 Lakeshore Dr.
Grand Haven, MI 49417
E-mail: WillJoy@egl.net
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