List of compositions by Gregory Short

Chamber music

• "Blue Dawn" for Violin, Clarinet and Piano - Original music imitating three American musical personalities
• *Violin is Appalachian fiddle music
• *Clarinet is Blues
• *Piano is classical avant-garde music
• “Dialogue" for Violin and Mallet Percussion
• # Dialogue
• # Dumpin' It In
• # Intermezzo
• # Perpetual Motion
• “Duo Sonata” for Flute and Piano
• # Intertwined
• # For Old Times’ Sake
• # Voices Form Within
• # Resolution
• "In Praise of Darkness" for Tuba and Piano
• # Frightening
• # Of Dreams
• # Night Life
• "Metaphors" for String Quartet No. 1
• # Portrait
• # Soaring
• # Declamation
• # Waltz
• # Epilogue

  Choral

• “A Cradle Hymn” Multiple Division Chorus and Organ
• “Welcome Carol” Women’s Voices
• '' “Mass ” Large Chorus and Percussion including hand bells
• *Kyrie eleison
• *Gloria
• *Credo
• *Sanctus
• *Hosana
• *Agnus Dei

  Concerti

• "American" Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
• # In Tribute to George Gershwin
• # In tribute to Henry Cowell
• # In tribute to Edward MacDowell
• # In Tribute to Charles Ives
• "Sequoia" Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Wind Ensemble
• # Song of the Rain, Mocking Bird, Steal-Each-Other Dance
• # Oh Great Forest
• # Rain Song, Crow dance Song, Song of Rejoicing and Thanksgiving
• "Concerto" for Symphonic Wind Ensemble
• # March
• # Lament for Wood Winds
• # Toccata for Brass
• # Sounding for Percussion
• # Serenade for Saxophones
• # Finale

  Instrumental Solo

• "A Passing of the Sun" for Solo Viola
• "Apotheosis of Saint Paul" for Toccata for Organ
• "Dragon Child" for Harp
• "I Heard the Owl" for Solo Flute
• “Rhapsody” for Solo Cello
• “Soliloquy” for Solo Contrabass
• "Tears of Heaven" Organ
• "Vistas" for Low Brass Instruments

  Orchestral Poems

• “Farewell Duet” Orchestra based on Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran from a projected opera
• "Fog Woman" for Orchestra
• # Raven Is Fishing
• # Mist and Fog Woman's Song
• # Raven and Fog Woman
• # Becoming As One
• # Dance of Sparkling Salmon
• # The Relationship Sours
• # Raven's Fit of Rage and Fog Woman's Resolve
• # Final Song
• # Fog Woman Dissolves
• "From Dust We Came...." for Wind Ensemble, Rock/Folk/Jazz Ensembles, Reader, Audience Participation and Delay
• “Germany” Large Orchestra with Organ based on German classical, folk and popular melodies
• # Rhine River
• # Oktoberfest
• # Cathedrals
• # Schwartzwald
• “Hobbit Preludes” Large Orchestra based on The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• # Middle Earth and Bilbo's Long Expected Party
• # Dwarves March
• # Spiders of Mirkwood
• # Crossing the Misty Mountains
• # Mines of Moria
• # Lothloraine
• Northwest Tetralogy for Orchestra
• # * “Mount Tacoma|Mount Takhoma” Orchestra
• # * "The Raven Speaks" Suite for Orchestra based on Northwest Coastal Forest Native American Songs and Dances: I. Coastal Forest and Raven: Cradle Song, Totem Pole ; II. Totem Pole ; III. Hat game ; IV. Love Song ; V. Grandmother Rock and the Little Crabs ; VI. Northern Lights and Raven: Lullaby for a Boy, She Will Gather Roses
• # * "Bridge of the Gods, The Warrior Who Became A Mountain" Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, plus Piano Transcription - Pahto's Call, Wyeast's Challenge, Newit's Warning, Combat, Pahto's Death, Newit's Lament, Mountain Transfiguration, Spirits Within
• # "Chief Seattle" Orator and Orchestra with Folk Instruments: - Chief Seattle's 1854 speech recited while the orchestra presents its ideas and images in sound.
• “Salute: To the Men and Women of the American Armed Forces” for Band arranged from the first movement of the "American Bicentennial" Sonata No. 4 for Piano
• ”Tehame” Suite for Band - Based on Native American Songs and Dances suitable for high school and college band
• # Round Dance
• # Duck Dance
• # Riding Song
• # Night Is Here
• # Totem Pole

  Piano Solo

• "American Sonatinas"
• # Folk Sonatina - Thanks for My Pony, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Song of the Three 'Nots', Skip to My Lou
• # Northeast Sonatina - Chester, Blow the Wind Southerly, Yankee Doodle, Battle Hymn of the Republic
• # Southeast Sonatina - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Old Blue, Mister Rabbit, The Fox
• # Midwest Sonatina - The Bigler, Buffalo Gals, Little Prairie Dog, Indian Christmas Carol
• # Northwest Sonatina - Totem Pole, Hat Game, Love Song, Lullaby, Grandmother Rock and the Little Crabs, Totem Pole
• # Southwest Sonatina - Riding Song, Chiapanecas, The Cowboy's Lament: Streets of Laredo, Git Along Little Doggies
• "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
• # On A White Horse
• # On A Red Horse
• # On A Black Horse
• # On A Pale Horse for amplified piano
• The Man Who Married The Eagle for Piano
• Transcriptions for Students
• *Carnival of the Animals, Camille Saint-Saëns
• *Overture to the Flying Dutchman, Richard Wagner
• *Chorus of Dervishes from The Ruins of Athens, Ludwig van Beethoven
• *Classics for Piano
• *Classics for Piano
• *Classics for Piano
• Twenty-Four Tonal Preludes'' in all keys

  Piano Sonatas

• "Fantasy" Sonata No. 1 : in one movement
• "Ballad" Sonata No. 2
• # Kemberly
• # Shiobhan
• "Etude" Sonata No. 3
• # Allegro dramatico
• # Adagio cantabile
• # Con brio
• "American Bicentennial" Sonata No. 4
• # When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Chester
• # The Sow Took The Measles and She Died In the Spring, My Sweetheart's A Mule In the Mine, Froggie Went A Courtin'
• # Holy Song, Song of Healing, Death, Ain't You Got Not Shame, Everybody Loves the Spring, Lullaby
• # The Ballad of John Henry
• "Spirituals" Sonata No.5 in one movement - Swing Low Sweet Chariot, The Gospel Trains a Comin', Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Heav'n Heav'n, Give Me That Old Time Religion, I Couldn't hear Nobody Pray
• "Women Out West" Sonata No. 6
• # Darlin' Cory, Hang Town Gals, Women's Song of Rejoicing
• # Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, The Riddle Song, Single Girl
• # Sweet Betsy from Pike, Sally Goodin', Sally Ann
• "Ghost Dance" Sonata No.7
• # Medicine Song
• # Song of the Fox, Bird, Song of the Fox Society
• # Ghost Dance, Ghost Dance, Song of the Earth Maker
• # Love Song, Love Song, Love Song
• "Mountain" Sonata No.8
• "Washington Centennial" Sonata No. 9 based on Songs about Washington State; Commissioned by the Washington State Music Teachers Association for the Washington State Centennial Celebration of 1989.
• # Western Washington - Welcome Song, Traveling Canoe Song, Song of Namu the Killer Whale, The Old Settler, My Home In Cathlamet, Go Way Back and Sit Down, The Climb
• # Scherzo - Blackball Ferry Line Up In Seattle, San Juan Pig, Gooey Duck Song
• # Eastern Washington - Our State of Washington, Walla Walla Is My Home Town, When Its Blossom Time In the Yakima Valley, Apple Picker's Reel, Roll On Columbia
• # Finale: The year 1889 represented in a rhythmic pattern - Welcome Song , Hail Washington, Shalom Aleichem, My Dreydl, Zero Dacus, Godzilla Ate Tukwilla, Washington My Home

  Sonatas in Tribute

• "Anwar Sadat" Sonata for Cello and Piano - Based on Egyptian Songs
• # Pretty Little Dove, Village Song
• # Camp David: What Wants This Lad, Let Us Be Friends Again, Going to Georgia
• # Return, What Wants this Lad
• # Riesa Sadat's Lament, A Love Song,Wedding Processional
• "George Catlin" Sonata for Viola and Piano - Based on Native American Songs:
• # Paddling Song
• # Dance Song, Quail Song
• # Hunting Song, Buffalo Dance, Song of the Horse, Antelope, Blue Bird, Song of the Hare, Viola cadenza: Geronimo's Song
• # Ribbon Dance
• "John F. Kennedy" Sonata for Violin and Piano:
• # Camelot
• # Elegy: The Riderless Horse
• # Eternal Flame
• "Korean Air Flight 007" for Flute, Viola and Harp - Based on Korean Songs:
• # Jinando Arirang
• # Song of the Broad Bell Flower
• # Song of the Birds
• "Martin Luther King Jr." Sonata for Piano Four Hands - Based on Spirituals
• #In Bright Mansions Above,We Shall Overcome
• # Wayfaring Stranger, Wondrous Love, O' Freedom, We Shall Overcome
• # Great Day, Sit Down Servant, We Shall Overcome
• "Robert F. Kennedy" Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
• # Slowly and majestically, fast and rhythmic - quotes the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts," slowly
• # Dirge
• # Hymn: Confess Jehovah
• # Finale

  Songs and Song Cycles

• "Earth's Miracles" Cycle for Soprano and Piano
• # A Spider's Web in the Sun
• # Cricket
• # Night Crow
• # The Cow - with a double udder
• # The Eagle and the Mole
• # Earth's Miracles
• "Lines for Winter, Song for Soprano, French Horn and Piano poet
• “The Pilgrim” Cycle for Tenor, Piano and Percussion poetry by fifteenth-century Korean monk Kim Si-seup
• # The Pilgrim's Way, Climbing the Mount of Saints, Wandering to Madness
• # When One Gazes Into the Distance, Growing Old, To Whom Shall I Make Known?, Self Portrait
• “Silver Moon” Cycle of Seven Songs for Tenor and Piano
• # Silent Moon
• # The Donkey
• # Milk for the Cat
• # The Wild Duck
• # The Snare
• # The Birds
• # Silver Wind
• “Summer Dawn” Cycle for Soprano and Piano based on Native American poetry
• # Neither Spirit nor Bird
• # Calling One's Own
• # The Wild Woman's Lullaby
• # Summer Dawn

  Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 for Large Orchestra
• Symphony No. 2 for Brass and Percussion
• # Allegro drammattico
• # Scherzo: Vivace
• # Andante cantabile
• # Allegro moderato - Allegro - Presto
• Symphony No. 3 for Symphonic Wind Ensemble
• # Allegro energico
• # Scherzo for jazz ensemble
• # Molto adagio
• # Finale: Variations