Works Catalogue
Choral
Joyful, Joyful (short and long versions)
3:30, 4:00 ©2008, August; revised ©2009, March
SATB Choral fugue
Words adapted from a poem by Henry Van Dyke(1852-1933).
Performance on April 29, 2009 by the Temple University Singers on their Spring Concert.
See the Sunrise
5:50 ©2009, November
SATB with piano accompaniment
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Recorded by The Composers' Choir
Let Us Seek Nature
3:40 ©2011, February
SATB with piano accompaniment
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
From scenes of How We Saved the World
Ode to the End of Oil
©2013
SATB or TTBB with piano accompaniment
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Performance in Bloomington, IN by members of the Quarryland Men's Chorus on 2017/03/02 at the event Cabaret and Cabernet.
What if...
©2013
SATB with piano accompaniment
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
We Are Nature
©2013
SATB with piano accompaniment
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Orchestral
The Reef
7:00 ©2009, January; rescored ©2012, May
Chamber Orchestra
Clarion
4:30 ©2009, December
Chamber Orchestra
Our Children and other moments
7:40 ©2013, February
Chamber Orchestra
Stage
How We Saved the World
A Multimedia Musical Drama
2:06:00 ©2013, March
21 piece orchestra, 14 singers, 8 dancers, audience
Orchestra includes audio and video.
Libretto by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Chamber
Solos
Cintariarna
8:22 ©1984, March revised 1985, January
Guitar solo
Tinguiretoamna
9:04 ©1985, December
Guitar solo
Fanfore Barbfare
4:00 ©1990, June
Trumpet solo
The Attic
1:00 ©2006, September
Piano interlude
Encounter
6:40 ©2008, October
Violin solo
Another Way
7:15 ©2010, October
Horn solo
Solos with Accompaniment
Wings By Morning
3:00 ©2012, February
Piccolo, fixed audio
Haste
3:30 ©2012, August
Flute, fixed audio
Seeking You
4:30 ©2009, September
Baritone or Contra-Alto Voice, Piano
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Nights Alone Yearning
7:00 ©2010, October; revision of Lost Wings Fly Free
Voice, Flute, Cello
Text is 4 poems by Chinese poet Li Bai (701-762).
Lost Wings Fly Free
7:00 ©1983, May; revised 1984, January
Voice, Flute, Cello
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
A Cephied Sonata
5:00 ©1983, September
Oboe, Piano
Duets
For Dianne
Won 3:00 ©2005, June
Too 3:30 ©2006, June
Free 3:00 ©2007, June
Flute duet
Pebbles
6:40 ©2009, March
Violin, Cello
Pebbles: Neural Winter
6:40 ©2009, April
Violin, Cello, fixed audio
Cloven Pebbles
6:50 ©2010, December
Clarinet, Violin
Just Is
3:30 ©2011, August
Trumpet in Bb, Horn in F
Trios
Home
7:15 ©2010, April
2 Guitars, Bass Guitar, fixed audio
Cycles
6:50 ©2010, April
Clarinet, Cello, Marimba, fixed audio
Quartet
Earthquake!
18:45 ©2010, 2011
i. Victims' Lament 5:00 ©2010, March
ii. The Search 5:40 ©2010, November
iii. What is Lost—What is Found? 4:20 ©2010, December
iv. Release 3:15 ©2010, December
2 Flutes, Cello, Piano
Quintets
Sea Anenome
7:00, 7:00 ©1984, February
2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Tuba
Taturn
6:00 ©2009, March
Percussion Ensemble, 5 players
Diversive Canon
4:20 ©2010, September
Glockenspiel, Crotales, Vibraphone, Tub. Bells, Organ
Septet
Sit Still
3:40 ©2010, March
Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Piano, Violin, Cello, Percussion, optional fixed audio
Electro-acoustic Works
Hey God!
2:54 ©1985, June
Text, Voice, Recordings, Sounds, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Animation by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
S0637
8:22 ©1985, spring
Sounds and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Street Meditations
4:25 ©1987, March
Synthesizer and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Pandoras Box
7:00 ©1987, March
Sounds, Recordings, Synthesizer, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Bonnie Brooks.
Closing On Midnight
9:00 ©1990, December
Sounds, Recordings, Synthesizer, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Anita Cheng.
Echowan
4:53 ©1998
Synthesizer: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Pattergonias
6:00 ©2005, November
Cello: Sarah Reneer
Sound Processing and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Animation by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Mass Murderization
8:40 ©2005, December
Poem and Guitar from public performance at Nuke Test Site: Sunfrog.
Sounds, Sound Processing, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Meadoweave
15:30 ©2006, July
Flute parts are from For Dianne Won and Too.
Sounds, Sound Processing, Recordings, Flute, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Ethereal
:30 ©2006, September
Sounds, Synthesizer, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Hinterspace
6:10 ©2008, November
Sounds, Synthesizer, Flute, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Shara Harad and Colleen McNally.
Birds
10:30 ©2008, December
Sounds, Sound Processing, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Neural Winter
7:50 ©2009, April
Sounds, Sound processing, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Perfected
6:10 ©2009, May
Includes samples from Sarah Reneer cello (Pattergonias); Bob Firestone guitar (Tinguiretoamna); Paul Miller violin (Encounter); Steve Anderson and Nancy Taylor trumpet (Sea Anenome); Deanna Endsley voice, Rodolfo Murillo, flute, Susan Clark cello (Lost Wings Fly Free); Antiga George and Lynn Johnson singing (Animal Spirits invocation); and juvenalia song transcribed by Cecil E. Tozier (Hal's Swing Song).
Sounds, Sound processing, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Elizabeth Reynolds.
Composition for Merian Soto's Postcards from the Woods
54:00 ©2009, September (6 channel: 3x stereo); ©2011, November (5.1 surround)
Some sounds courtesy of Merian Soto.
Most sounds, Sound processing, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Merian Soto.
My Plastic Body
8:00 ©2009, November
Sounds, Sound processing, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
Sit Still
3:40 ©2010, March
Conductor: Adam Vidiksis;
Flute: Jocelyn Crosby;
Clarinet: Joe Dvorak;
Horn: Bert Hill;
Percussion: Victor Pablo;
Piano: Yu-Wen;
Violin: Liz McPeak;
Cello: Emily Carroll;
Recording: David Pasbrig;
Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Video by Dan Cole.
Cycles
6:50 ©2010, April
Clarinet: Gi Lee;
Cello: Rajli Bicolli;
Percussion: Elliot Beck;
Sounds, Recordings, and fixed audio Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Whitney Weinstein,
Ariana Lunderman,
Jessica Stos,
Angelica Spilis.
Home
7:15 ©2010, April
Guitars: Jarek Ervin, Jordan Perry;
Bass guitar: BJ Cantlupe;
Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
I Saved This for You
17:15 ©2010, September
Incorporates the entirety of Home:
Guitars: Jarek Ervin, Jordan Perry;
Bass guitar: BJ Cantlupe;
Additional Guitar, Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
Inside Out / Tell Me How You Really Feel
5:05 ©2010, December / 23:30 ©2011, March
Text and Voice Colleen Hooper, Nikki Roberts;
Synthesized parts for Piano, Organ, Trumpet, Trombone,
Recorded percussion, Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
Surrounded
10:05 ©2010, December; revision ©2011, October
5.1 surround audio, fixed media
Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Eight Modules for Beau Hancock's Poor Lost Sometime Boys
35:15 ©2012, January
first module: 10:50 (audio)
second module: 3:05 (audio - voices) text, 1st part
third module: 3:05 (percussion, audio)
fourth module: 4:00 (2 flutes, trumpet, viola or alto voice, cello or baritone voice, audio)
fifth module: 3:25 (2 trumpets, 2 trombones, audio)
sixth module: 4:10 (audio, voice) text, 2nd part
seventh module: 2:40 (flute, horn, organ, string quartet, audio)
eighth module: 4:00 (audio)
Text by Beau Hancock
Synthesized instruments, Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Beau Hancock.
Five Compositions for Merian Soto's SoMoS
5:20:00 ©2012, October
5.1 surround audio, fixed media
Most of the Sounds and Recordings: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Sound Processing and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Aditional Sounds courtesy of Merian Soto and Freesound.org
Choreography by Merian Soto.
Songs
Seeking You
4:30 ©2009, September
Baritone or Contra-Alto vocal solo with piano accompaniment.
Nights Alone Yearning
7:00 ©2010, October; revision of Lost Wings Fly Free
Voice, Flute, Cello
Text is 4 poems by Chinese poet Li Bai (701-762).
Lost Wings Fly Free
7:00 ©1983, May; revised 1984, January
Voice, Flute, Cello
Text by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis
Our Water is Poisoned
2:30 ©1999
Voice and Hoop Drum
Missiles and Bombs
3:30 ©1987, November
Voice and Guitar
Written for and sung at a vigil fall 1987 outside the Federal Penitentiary in Milan, MI where Father Carl Cabot was being held for a plowshares action to disarm missiles.
Radioactive Waste
©1995
Voice and Guitar
Did You Hear
©1995
Voice and Guitar
Television
Your Children Are Watching
:30 ©1987, December
Synthesizer, Voice, Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis
Video: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis
Peace Insight Intro
:1:00 ©1988, May 25
Singing and Text: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis
Melody: traditional (Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose)
Voice over: Carol (I have lost her last name)
Video and sound from footage shot Nov. 15, 1986 in Washington DC by Harold Brokaw
Recording and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis
The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament
Peace Insight program produced for Ann Arbor, MI Public Access Television
29:00 ©1988, July 26
Video and sound from footage shot Nov. 15, 1986 in Washington DC by Harold Brokaw
Recording and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis
Peace Dragenz
1:00 ©2006, December
Alto Sax, Trumpet, Horn, Tuba, Snare drum, Violin, Cello;
Intro Music for a hypothetical TV program.
Video and Animation
Expand
2:54 ©1984, Fall - 16mm film and audio
Fife, Voice, Synthesizer, Recording, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Animation: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
This is not a Test
14:00 ©1985, February - 16 and 8 mm films accompanied by Gates of Delirium by Yes.
Animation: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis and other Ohio State University students.
Pet Dance (I and II)
2:54, 2:54 ©1985, March - 16mm film and audio
Synthesizer, Recording, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Animation: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Hey God!
2:54 ©1985, June - 16mm film and audio
Voice, Drum Machine, Synthesizer, Recording, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Animation: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
See Dreem
4:38 ©1987, January
Synthesizer, Recording, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Animation: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
An Animation accompanied by Eleanor Rigby by the Beetles
2:10 ©1988, May
Animation: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis and Mike Knight
An Animation accompanied by La Villa Strangiato by Rush
8:25 ©1989, January
Animation: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Virtual Geodesy: Birth of the Elements
15:30 ©2005, October
Sound Effects: Javier Martinez Jimenez;
Sounds, Synthesizer, Recording, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Animation by Mohammed Aziz Chafchaouni, Javier Martinez Jimenez, and H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Pattergonias
6:00 ©2005, November, visual component ©2008, October
Cello: Sarah Reneer
Sound Processing and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Six Improvisations with a MAX patch
ca. 6:00 - 9:00 each ©2009, May
Interactive Visual Music Improvisations
Dance: Laura Zimmerman;
Keyboard: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis;
MAX/MSP/JITTER patch by Cicada and Laura.
Lava Bubbles
©2010, March
Pd Patch for interactive video and movement/dance by H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Used by Laura Zimmerman in her solo performance: Dis/connect.
Sit Still
3:40 ©2010, March
Conductor: Adam Vidiksis;
Flute: Jocelyn Crosby;
Clarinet: Joe Dvorak;
Horn: Bert Hill;
Percussion: Victor Pablo;
Piano: Yu-Wen;
Violin: Liz McPeak;
Cello: Emily Carroll;
Recording: David Pasbrig;
Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Video by Dan Cole.
Written With/For Choreographers
Pandoras Box
7:00 ©1987, March
Sounds, Recordings, Synthesizer, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Bonnie Brooks.
Closing On Midnight
9:00 ©1990, December
Sounds, Recordings, Synthesizer, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Anita Cheng.
Hinterspace
6:10 ©2008, November
Sounds, Synthesizer, Flute, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Shara Harad and Colleen McNally.
Perfected
6:10 ©2009, May
Includes samples from Sarah Reneer cello (Pattergonias); Bob Firestone guitar (Tinguiretoamna); Paul Miller violin (Encounter); Steve Anderson and Nancy Taylor trumpet (Sea Anenome); Deanna Endsley voice, Rodolfo Murillo, flute, Susan Clark cello (Lost Wings Fly Free); Antiga George and Lynn Johnson singing (Animal Spirits invocation); and juvenalia song transcribed by Cecil E. Tozier (Hal's Swing Song).
Sounds, Sound processing, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Elizabeth Reynolds.
Composition for Merian Soto's Postcards from the Woods
54:00 ©2009, September (6 channel: 3x stereo); ©2011, November (5.1 surround)
Some sounds courtesy of Merian Soto.
Most sounds, Sound processing, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Merian Soto.
My Plastic Body
8:00 ©2009, November
Sounds, Sound processing, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
Cycles
6:50 ©2010, April
Clarinet: Gi Lee;
Cello: Rajli Bicolli;
Percussion: Elliot Beck;
Sounds, Recordings, and fixed audio Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Whitney Weinstein,
Ariana Lunderman,
Jessica Stos,
Angelica Spilis.
Home
7:15 ©2010, April
Guitars: Jarek Ervin, Jordan Perry;
Bass guitar: BJ Cantlupe;
Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
I Saved This for You
17:15 ©2010, September
Incorporates the entirety of Home:
Guitars: Jarek Ervin, Jordan Perry;
Bass guitar: BJ Cantlupe;
Additional Guitar, Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
Inside Out
5:05 ©2010, December
Fixed Audio: Text and Voice Colleen Hooper, Nikki Roberts;
Synthesized Instruments, Percussion, Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Dancers: Kavin Grant, Frances Gremillion, Beau Hancock,
Colleen Hooper, Nikki Roberts
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
Tell Me How You Really Feel
23:30 ©2011, March
Fixed Audio: Text and Voice Colleen Hooper, Nikki Roberts;
Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Conducting, Laptop and Mixer: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis;
Trumpet: Chris Stevens;
Trombone: Kelvin Grant;
Percussion: Joe Veltri;
Piano: Abigail LaVecchia;
Dancers: Jimena Alviar, Molly Jackson, Ashleigh Penrod, Elizabeth Reynolds.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
The Castle
14:00 ©2011, April
trumpet, trombone, tenor sax, 2 percussionists
Music adapted from Tell Me How You Really Feel
Conducting: Cicada Brokaw;
Trumpet: Nosh Hocker;
Trombone: Jeff Molush;
Tenor sax: Kenan Serenbetz;
Percussion: Billy Ricci, Drake Tyler;
Narrator: Chris Stokes;
Dancers: Colleen Hooper, Shailer Kern-Carruth,
Becca Weber, Megan Mizany.
Choreography and Story by Tatyana Grechina
Revolving Spaces
9:30 ©2011, August
i. Discovery
ii. Celebration
SATB (or AABB) chorus, a capella
Dancers: Colleen Hooper, Frances Gremillion, Saroya Corbett.
Singers: Geoff Ednie, Steve Stratoti, Sonia Williams, Natalie Malawey-Ednie.
Choreography by Colleen Hooper.
Eight Modules for Beau Hancock's Poor Lost Sometime Boys
35:15 ©2012, January
first module: 10:50 (audio)
second module: 3:05 (audio - voices) text, 1st part
third module: 3:05 (percussion, audio)
fourth module: 4:00 (2 flutes, trumpet, viola or alto voice, cello or baritone voice, audio)
fifth module: 3:25 (2 trumpets, 2 trombones, audio)
sixth module: 4:10 (audio, voice) text, 2nd part
seventh module: 2:40 (flute, horn, organ, string quartet, audio)
eighth module: 4:00 (audio)
Text by Beau Hancock
Synthesized instruments, Sounds, Recordings, and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Dancers: Beau Hancock, Scott McPheeters
Choreography by Beau Hancock.
Five Compositions for Merian Soto's SoMoS
5:20:00 ©2012, October
5.1 surround audio, fixed media
Most of the Sounds and Recordings: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Sound Processing and Mix: H.E. Cicada Brokaw Dennis.
Aditional Sounds courtesy of Merian Soto and Freesound.org