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Mark Rimple:  Compositions, Writings and Recordings.

All compositions (c) Nuova Corda Music (ASCAP) are available by email request.

Chamber Music:

Anxious Dreams and Moonlit Sighs for Big Band (for WCU Criterions Ensemble), 2023.

3 Pieces for String Quartet (for the Dali Quartet), 2021.

Mystic Fragments (CHAMBER ENSEMBLE VERSION) for clarinet/bass clarinet, guitar, violin, viola, and cello (2019)

Standing or Running for Baroque Cello and Lute (or Cello and Piano) (2018)

Politic Bodies for three perfomers (2017):

Concordia discors for any three singers or instrumentalists

Speravimus for two singers and one instrumentalist (cello, guitar, harp, marimba)

O Vos Omnes for solo alto, baritone, and cello

Antipodes for piano duo (2017)

Triple Duo:  At Sixes and Sevens for flute/alto flute, oboe/English horn, 2 guitars (2nd=mandolin), violin and cello (2014).

Mystic Fragments for Baroque violin and archlute (2014).

Five Bagatelles for Bb clarinet and guitar (2013).

Sonata Circumdederunt Me for viola da gamba and harpsichord (2010).

Four Canons for clarinet and English horn (2008).

Partita 6.2.2. for flute, violin, viola da gamba, cello, and harpsichord (2008).

Deux Chanson-Ballades for French horn, cello, and harp (2008).

L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle for flugelhorn (or clarinet), violin and piano (2007).

The Solemn Waits for trumpet and horn (2006).

Bluestrophes for soprano saxophone, acoustic bass and marimba (2006).

Hermes in Retrograde for alto saxophone, piano and vibraphone (2001).

Portrait of a Dying Empire for soprano saxophone and harpsichord (2001).

Gradus for trumpet, guitar, percussion, violin, viola, cello (2000).

Time Pieces no. 1 & 2 for 3 guitars (1997).

Two Transcended for guitar and piano (1995).

Constellations for flute, cello and piano (1994).

 

Solo Instrumental:

Spectral Congeries for solo guitar (2023).

Essay for cello solo (2019).

Barnstorm for cello solo (2014).

DisOrders for archlute solo (2013). 

Sonata Malcontento for piano solo (2011 – 2012).

Preludes for piano (2002).

Lute Suite no. 1 (1996) revised and adapted as Suite "Synchretique" for archlute (2014).

Partita for solo piano (1997).

Five Bagatelles for unaccompanied clarinet (1997).

Reflections for guitar (1995).

 

Vocal and Choral:

 

Pitagoras (ballade):  for three voices (2023).

O, America:  Song cycle for high tenor and piano, text by Wendy Steiner (2018).

Antiphon:  O Sapientia/O luce (Dante) - SSATB Chorus and soli, organ, 2 vlns, 2 vlas, vcl, cb (2015).

To Golias for countertenor and electric guitar (2009).

Three Songs for baritone and Piano (2009).

Nouvelle Chant des Oiseaux for SATB choir and soloists, with optional interludes for Renaissance wind band (2004). 

     (Version with plecturm lute (2011).)

Songs on Romantic Texts for countertenor and piano (2003).

Dona nobis pacem for two countertenors (2002).

Missa Brevis for SSA soloists, medieval lute and harp, SATB choir, and organ (2002).

Ave Maris Stella for two voices and baroque organ (2001).

Three Odes to Music for countertenor and archlute (2000).

Tota pulchra es for SATB, countertenor and 3 viols (2000).

Vidi Aquam for four voices, a motet in the ancient style (2000).

Cibavit Eos for SATB chorus, Renaissance Winds, and Organ (1999).

 

Dramatic:

 

Austerity, a scena for soprano, tenor, baritone, and piano (2012).

Incidental Music for Love’s Fire (2010).

Incidental Music and songs for King Lear (2004).

Songs for Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s  Life’s a Dream (2001).

 

Orchestral:

 

Elegy in the Form of a Symphony (1998).

               

Electronic:

 

West Chester Troper for gittern, electronically altered sounds and improvising plucked instruments (2013).

Motet for computer media (1997).

Landscapes for computer media (1995).

Scholarly Articles, Reviews, and Book Chapters:

 

With Alexander Rozin:  A Perceptual Approach to Music Theory - A ground-breaking textbook that puts perception at the center of undergraduate music theory, and that expands theory to encompass all musical repertoires.  Work in progress.

“Hildegard of Bingen: Lifeline. Angels Share Records, 2022 [review].” Music & Musical Performance: An International Journal. Issue 3 (February 2023), article 8: 1–3.

"Think Subtilior/Cercle des Fumeux/Songs and Sounds, Santenay (Julla von Landsberg, voice & organetto; Elodie Wiemer, recorder; Szilárd Chereji, vielle; Orí Harmelin, lute), Ricercare RIC386 (2014)—51 minutes," Music & Musical Performance: : Iss. 1 (2022) , Article 7.
 

“Hearing Boethius in the Music and Rhetoric of Guillaume de Machaut,” Carmina Philosophiae 19 (2010), 25 - 48.

 

“The Persistence of Boethian Harnony.” in A Companion to Boethius in The Middle Ages, Noel Howard Kaylor and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30 (Leiden:  Brill Academic Publishers, March 2012).

 

“Echoes of Boethius in the Italian Cinquecento,” Carmina Philosophiae 15 (2006), 13 – 62.

 

“Boethius and the Mensural Experimentation of the Ars Subtilior” Carmina Philosophiae 12 (2003), 1 – 48.

 

“Rhetoric, Discant, and the Faenza Codex:  An Introduction to the Plectrum Lute,” Lute Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXIX/2 (2004).

 

Selected Recordings:

"Mystic Fragments" on Rebecca Harris, A String Mysterious (Private release, June 2018)

Musica Humana Vocal Consort:  De Profundis (Private release, 2018)

Mark Rimple, Lutes and Archlute: Tre Liuti (CDBaby, Dec. 2017)

(On cittern) Seven Times Salt:  Courtiers and Costermongers (private release, 2017).

January:  Songs & Chamber Music of Mark Rimple (Furious Artisans FACD 6814, 2016).

Mark Rimple:  "Four Canons" on Duo del Sol, Windward (Centaur CRC 3422, 2015).

Mark Rimple:  "Partita 622" on Mélomanie, Flouresence (Meyer Media).

Trefoil:  Fleur de Valeur:  A Medieval Bouquet (Bridge 9419).

Trefoil:  Masters, Monsters and MazesTreading the Medieval Labyrinth (MSR 1096).

Trefoil:  Christo e Nato:  Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Italy (MSR 1094).

The Newberry Consort:  Puzzles and Perfect Beauty (Noyse Productions).

Early Music New York:  A Medieval Christmas (Ex Cathedra).

 

 

 

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