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Frog Peak Music is an artist-run composers\' collective dedicated to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works by its member artists, and is committed to the idea of availability over promotion. Frog Peak Music is a not-for-profit organization in which member artists determine the form and content of their own work.

Eric Richards

Composer

NY-based Eric Richards is a little-known but tremendously influential and important composer. His works are uniquely available thru Frog Peak, and also from the Frog Peak Lingua Press collection.

CDs

• Thump Music. A CD of work for two pianos performed by the Thump Piano Duo (Drew Krause and Paul Marqaurdt), including work by Frog Peak composers Eric Richards, Drew Krause, Eric Lyon, and Paul Paccione. FP13. $15.
   
  Music for Percussion and Piano. The Unravelling of the Field and ringrang by Eric Richards; Planxty Cage by Paul Paccione. Pac51. $15.
   
  The Consent of Sound and Meaning: Music of Eric Richards. Includes recordings of: A Fanfare for Diebenkorn; Wingsets; The Mouth of Night; Rocks, Gardens; Owls, Too; Fire! Fire!; Hymn to Santa Muerte (Rotting Christ); The Consent of Sound and Meaning. New Focus Recodings, 2021. Ric39. $15.
   

Books

• Richard Miller: in memoriam. "A Collection of Reminiscences" about composer Richard Miller (b.1930 d.2004) edited by Eric Richards with contributions by David Brown, Rhys Chatham, Conor Dowling, Brian S. Pearson, Eric Richards, Richard Sanford, and Paul Schiavo. Includes an insert of Miller\'s piece Seven X Seven: Book of Little Fables. Ric19. $15.
   

Scores

• Great Bass. Solo violin. Ric10. $15.
   
  Rocks; Gardens. Trumpet and piano. Ric11. $15.
   
  Wingsets. Baritone solo, chorus and instruments. Ric12. $15.
   
  The Consent of Sound and Meaning.10 doublebasses and 7 trumpets, or multi-tracked doublebass and trumpet. Ric01. $15.
   
  Conch Music. Oboe(s) in 11 parts. Ric02. $15.
   
  Ringrang. Two pianos. Ric03. $15.
   
  after sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding. Chorus of women\'s voices with handbells. Ric04. $15.
   
  though under medium. Mixed chorus. Ric05. $15.
   
  Chicken Pull. 72 clarinets and four whistlers, or clarinet and tape. Ric06. $15.
   
  Fellow-Strung. Double a capella mixed chorus and two alto soloists. Ric07. $15.
   
  The Unravelling of the Field. Piano solo. Ric08. $15.
   
  The Unravelling of the Field (revised edition). Piano solo or percussion quartet (crotales, glockenspiel, vibraphone and song bells). Ric08a. $15.
   
  My Great Aunt Julia. Bass-baritone solo. Ric09. $15.
   
  The Mouth of Night. One or twelve breathers. Ric13. $30.
   
  Between a Rock...Rock band and solo lute. Ric14. $15.
   
  harte\'s bels. Any solo voice and electronics. Ric15. $20.
   
  the bells themselves (and my memory of the bells). 3 Tibetan tingsha. Ric16. $40.
   
  The Bells Themselves: Jonathan Edwards and the American Songbook. 3 pianos. Ric17. $25.
   
  Time\'s Racing (But Measured by What We Do). 2 players and 2 vibraphones, 2 metal gyils and 2 crotales (d\'"), or 1 player, metal gyil, crotale (d\'\'\') and an accompanying tape or other recorded medium to be made by the performer in question. Ric18. $25.
   
  The Echoes of Light: Music for Rollins Chapel. Flute, Bb clarinet, marimba, 5 voices (2 soprano, counter tenor, tenor and baritone). Ric20. $35.
   
  finalbells. 16 suspended brass cowbells (almglocken) tuned from the f below middle c to the g # above; some parts need to be pre-recorded. Ric21. $50.
   
  In the Pocket. Two Pianos. Ric22. $35.
   
  gawainquest. Film music for flute, three trumpets, two violins, two violas, two cellos, chorus, tenor soloist and narrator. Ric23. $35.
   
  Lovers, Loners, and Losers. Hammered dulcimers. Ric24. $25.
   
  The News from El Prado. Solo guitar. Ric25. $20.
   
  By Vogelsang. Solo piano. Ric26. $20.
   
  Sleeping With Neanderthals. Bowed psaltery. Ric27. $20.
   
  Landscape on Fire. Four pianos. Ric28. $30.
   
  Headlights:: an installation for winds, brass and piano. 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in b-flat, 2 bassoons, 4 trumpets in C, 2 horns in F, 2 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 tuba, piano. Ric29. $25.
   
  the search for the blue flower. Ten 7-string bass viols (a\' =415Hz). Ric30. $25.
   
  Owls, Too. Six women\'s voices with tape and/or electronics. Ric31. $25.
   
  for dancers, moving under water. Four violins, two violas, two cellos, one double bass. Ric32. $25.
   
  Fire! Fire!. Baritone solo, clarinet in B-flat, trumpet in C, and trombone. Ric33. $25.
   
  Czech Owls, Too (after Jancek). Solo piano. Ric34. $20.
   
  Himno para la Santa Muerte. Six cuicas and two baritones. Ric35. $15.
   
  Outside Looking In (score only). Solo viola, oboe, bassoon, horn in F, and string quartet. Ric36s. $15.
   
  Outside Looking In (score and parts). Solo viola, oboe, bassoon, horn in F, and string quartet. Ric36. $25.
   
  the discourse of insects. Solo percussion. Ric37. $15.
   
  I: fons et origo. Five trumpets. Ric38. $15.