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New Works

Recently completed works by Frank Wallace. Click to hear a Finale/Garritan midi file of the entire score, which will be available in the near future for purchase. Please inquire if interested.

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Written for the Moeller Duo, Random Act for cello and guitar, 5 minutes.  midi/MP3

Written for Sylvain Bergeron of La Nef,  Una Luz Santa, fantasy on a Sephardic theme, for two lutes, 8 minutes.  midi/MP3

Click on titles below to read more, see sample PDF files, or to purchase at the Gyre Music website.

Guitar Solo - easy to moderate

Sketches I  1997: an ongoing project of student pieces and studies, mostly character pieces of short duration; Level II

Nuevas Cantigas+  2000

Five Fantasies+  2001

Sketches II+  2002, six short suites for intermediate guitarists

Guitar Solo - Concert repertoire

Quadrangle**   1996

Suite Blues**  1996

From the Windy Place**  1997

The Stubborn Oak**  1997

Sweet Ladyslipper**  1999

Suite in B minor   2000

Song of Albin  suite in G minor  2000

Harlequin in Love+  2000

Nuevas Cantigas+  2000

Dake's Song*  2001

Six Prayers on Six Strings+  2001

Passacaglia  2001

After Sylvius  written for Isaac Bustos, 2002

Débil del Alba*  2003

The Elements  2005

Cunctipotens   2005

Sonata #1   2005

Guitar Ensemble

Triptych  for three guitars, 2001

Duo Sonata #1  for two guitars, 2002

Sketches for Two  six duos for guitars, 2002

Betty Botter  for guitar quartet, 2004

Guitar with other instruments

Katrina Sonata  for guitar and flute, 2004

Triangulo  for guitar violin and flute, 2002

Random Act  for cello and guitar, 2005

Mi Jardin de Calla  song for mezzo, alto, four guitars, flute and cello, 2007

The Coming of Arthur  for mandolin and guitar, three movements; duration 20 minutes; written for Mare Duo; 2009

Deep Autumn  for English horn and guitar, six movements; duration 10 minutes; written for Scott MOrris and Richard Kravchak; 2009

Guitar and Voice

Song Without Words  for medium voice; poem by Nancy Knowles, 1997

A Single Veil*   six spiritual songs for mezzo-soprano, poets include Rumi, Guillevic, Creeley, Knowles and Sephardic [in English]; 2001

Bestiary*   six songs for baritone and soprano [or tenor]; comic poems by Theodore Roethke and Nancy Knowles; 2001

Father Said:  a cycle of sixteen songs for medium voice; poems by Wallace's grandfather, Frank Wallace [1887-1951] of sayings and stories of his great grandfather, a pioneer in 19th century Texas; 2003

How Fragile She Is  a song cycle for baritone and soprano; eleven poems by Frank Wallace and Nancy Knowles on the delicate balance of mankind and nature on Earth; 2005

Speak Love  seven songs for baritone on poems by Henriette de Saussure Blanding, 1911; dedicated to various scholar/publishers of the guitar world and their long marriages - Thomas Heck, Richard Long and Peter Danner; 2005

Syzygy  diary of an artist   15 songs for mezzo-soprano, poems by Nancy Knowles;  2005

Advice  for mezzosoprano and baritone with guitar, poem by Wendy Homes Noyes; 2006 [hear it on midi instruments]

Mi Jardín de Calla  for medium voice and guitar, poem by Nancy Knowles in Spanish;  2007

The Game  5 songs for medium voice and guitar, poems by Frank A. Wallace; 2007

The Chimes  4 songs for medium voice and 10-string guitar; lyrics extracted from The Chimes by Charles Dickens; 2007

Men, Women and Molecules  6 songs for soprano and guitar, poems by Roald Hoffmann; written for the Olson/De Cari Duo; 2010

Lute and Voice

Voices in the Dark  a cycle of six songs for baritone and lute; poetry by LiveOak workshop participants, 2000

Pearly Everlasting*  four songs for soprano, baritone and 10-course lute, elegy by Nancy Knowles in memory of John Fleagle, 2001

Woman of the Water*  a cycle of nine songs for soprano and 10-course lute, poems by Theodore Roethke--a tender love story by the sea, 2002

El Canto   written for and premiered at the Arequipa International Guitar Festival by Duo LiveOak, August 2005; for mezzosoprano, baritone and E vihuela/lute, Spanish words by Mexican artist Jaime Goded

In the Cornfileds  short love song on poem by Deborah Dill, 2006

Lute Solo

After Sylvius   for solo 10-course lute, 2002

Fantasy #1  for solo lute, 2001

Una Luz Santa  fantasy on a Sephardic theme  duo for 10-course and 8-course lutes,  2005

*Available on CD; Woman of the Water, Songs of Frank Wallace (Gyre 10082)

**Available on CD: Frank Wallace, his own new works (Gyre 10012)

+Available on CD: Sketches (Gyre 10012)

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Frank Wallace is the recipient of two Artist Fellowships for composition from the New Hampshire Arts Council, 2001 and 2006.