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Legacy Works
Scores from Don's Early Years - 1963-1969

With exception to my "Moments Avant de Partir" and one of the two pieces in the "Yin and Yang Quintet," all of this music is discordant, the product of my two years of negative music (1967 and 1968) that I created while living in New York City and studying with 20-century composer Morton Feldman. After I realized that discordant music only breeds discord, I stopped writing this kind of music completely. I never planned to release these scores or listen to them being performed. However, in 2011, I made the decision to begin publishing them because they are a part of my process of musical evolution that I cannot leave out of my equation. As these works become available, I will put their links on this page.

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Last Piece - for instrumental ensemble

By Don Robertson

My "Last PIece" was my last duochord composition. It took me a year to write, and I worked on it with my teacher, Morton Feldman.

LS-0001 Year: 1968

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Two Duochord Pieces - for piano

By Don Robertson

Two short and difficult piano pieces.

LS-0002 Years: 1967-1968

    Score    Piece No. 1 - MP3 Demo

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Duochord Piece - for Piano

By Don Robertson

In two parts. These second part is written in graph notation.

LS-0015 Years: 1968

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Duochord Sonata - for Solo Violin

By Don Robertson

A challange, that is for certain.

LS-0016 Year: 1968

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Constructions - for flute, guitar and contrabass

By Don Robertson

When I finished this piece, Morty (as I called my teacher Morton Feldman) sent it to the great bass player Bertram Turetzky in San Diego, and he performed it with a trio in concert. I wished I could have been there.

LS-0003 Year: 1967

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Five Piano Pieces

By Don Robertson

These five pieces, which I carefully created a beautiful score for, represented my dedication to sparsity and simplicity. They were probably the last pieces that I wrote before I moved completely into the rhelm of the duochord.

LS-0004 Year: 1967

    Score

    No. 1    Midi Mockup MP3 Demo
    No. 2    Midi Mockup MP3 Demo
    No. 3    Midi Mockup MP3 Demo
    No. 4    Midi Mockup MP3 Demo
    No. 5    Midi Mockup MP3 Demo

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Two Piano Pieces

By Don Robertson

New forms of music for piano.

LS-0005 Year: 1967

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Music For Clarinet and Piano

By Don Robertson

My second "map" composition.

LS-0006 Year: 1967

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MU - For Horn and Piano

By Don Robertson

My first "map" composition was for Horn and Piano and was performed by me and a clarient player (the horn player couldn't make it) in a concert given at Julliard. This was perhaps some of the most sparse music ever created at that time.

LS-0007 Year: 1967

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    Midi Mockup MP3 Demo
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Glissandi - for quartet of strings

By Don Robertson

Performed in class at Julliard. Another completely novel approach - the players play glissandi according to the visual interpretation of the music score.

LS-0008 Year: 1967

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Murchana - for chamber ensemble

By Don Robertson

This is a completely original piece of music using systems of notation pretty much invented by me (as in the case of the parts that are "maps"), or by my teacher Morton Feldman (in the case of graphs).

LS-0009 Year: 1967

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A Dream - For Signal Generator, Percussion, Piano and Celeste

By Don Robertson

LS-0010 Year: 1966

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Card Music - for chamber ensemble

By Don Robertson

I wrote the instructions for this piece of music on white 3x5 cards which I passed to the musicians as they entered the classroom at Julliard, where the piece was performed.

LS-0011 Year: 1967

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The Yin and Yang Quintet

By Don Robertson

Two pieces: one concordant and romantic, the other discordant and frantic.

LS-0012 Year: 1966

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Babar - For Piano, Percussion and Speaker

By Don Robertson

I used sentances from a child's story called "Babar" mixed with other texts for this discordant work.

LS-0013 Year: 1966

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Moments Avant de Partir - for orchestra

By Don Robertson

A Youthful composition on guitar in Navy with not yet any formal training in music. LB SYM

LS-0014 Year: 1964

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These are recordings that I made in New York City on my Roberts reel-to-reel 1/4" tape recorder that I had purchased in Hong Kong when I was in the Navy.

8 Legacy New York City 1960's Home Recordings

By Don Robertson

    No. 1    "The Truck" (1967)
    No. 2    Concerto for FM Radio and Noise Elements (1967)
    No. 3    Duochord Improvisation No. 1 (1968)
    No. 4    Duochord Improvisation No. 2 (1968)
    No. 5    Intensities (1968)
    No. 6    "Rondo" (1968)
    No. 7    "Sonata" (1968)
    No. 8    Soundtrack for Warmth (1967)

LR-0001 through LR-0008 Yeasr: 1967 and 1968

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