Catalog of works
Joel Mandelbaum: CATALOGUE OF WORKS BY CATEGORY (as of 2021)
A number (opus or catalogue number) can mean anything from a two-and-a-half-
hour opera to a two-minute song. Where very short works from approximately the same period, or the same text author and the same genre could sensibly be rolled into one catalogue number I have done so, but in some cases a very short work has been left standing alone.
| Category | Number | Title | Date Written | Length | Instrumentation | No. of Mvts / Songs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A: Orchestral | 003 | Scherzo, An Interview with Coach | 1949 | 5 Minutes | 2222.423.1 | |
| A: Orchestral | 008 | Convocation Overture | 1951 | 6 Minutes | 2222.221.2 | |
| A: Orchestral | 010 | Piano Concerto | 1953 | 28 Minutes | 2222.222.2 | 3 |
| A: Orchestral | 022 | Sursum Corda | 1960 | 17 Minutes | 2222.322.3.hp | - |
| A: Orchestral | 024 | Sinfonia Concertante | 1962 | 28 Minutes | 2022.220.3 solo ob.hn.vn.&vc. | 3 |
| A: Orchestral | 028 | Memorial for String Orchestra | 1965 | 8 Minutes | - | - |
| A: Orchestral | 033 | Trumpet Concerto | 1968 | 20 Minutes | 3232.413.3.hp | 2 |
| A: Orchestral | 069 | Cello Concertino | 1985 | 10 Minutes | 2222.210.1 | - |
| A: Orchestral | 050.A | Chaconne | 1979 | 5 Minutes | 1111.100 | |
| A: Orchestral | 095 | In Sainte Chapelle | 2002 | 9 Minutes | 1211.210.1 | - |
| A: Orchestral | 108 | In Marian Woods | 2007 | 16 Minutes | 2222.323.2.hp | - |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 016 | Wind Quintet #1 | 1957 | 17 Minutes | 3 | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 020 | First String Quartet | 1959 | 20 Minutes | 4 | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 029 | Intermezzo | 1966 | 4 Minutes | va.vc.wind qnt | - |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 041 | Romance for String Trio | 1973 | 4 Minutes | vi.va.vc | - |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 043. A | Fanfare for 3 Trumpets | 1974 | 4 Minutes | - | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 043. B | Fanfare arranged for Brass Quintet | - | |||
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 050 | Chaconne and Scherzo | 1979 | 11 Minutes | wind qnt.str trio.db | 2 |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 050. A | Chaconne | 1979 | 5 Minutes | ||
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 050. B. | Scherzo | 1979 | 6 Minutes | ||
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 054 | Second String Quartet | 1979 | 16 Minutes | 3 | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 064 | Ceremonial for String Trio | 1983 | 5 Minutes | - | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 071 | Postlude: Auld Laing Syne for String Quartet | 1986 | 4 Minutes | - | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 079 | Duo Sonata for Violin and Cello | 1989 | 22 Minutes | 3 | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 080 | The Fish on the Rocks for Clarinet and Percussion | 1989 | 10 Minutes | - | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 083 | Woodwind Quintet #2 in 31-Tone Temperament | 1991 | 14 Minutes | - | |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 088 | Loss and Remembrance | 1996 | 3 Minutes | String Trio | - |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 099. A | Wedding Music: Margaret and Raul | 2002 | 6 Minutes | flute & string trio | - |
| B: Chamber Music Without Piano | 099. B | Wedding Music: Clare and Charles | 2003 | 4 Minutes | 2 cellos | - |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 002 | Moderato for Cello and Piano | 1949 | 7 Minutes | - | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 005 | Sonata for Flute and Piano | 1950 | 15 Minutes | 3 | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 015 | Song for Oboe and Piano | 1956 | 4 Minutes | - | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 024 | Sinfonia Concertante arranged as a Quintet | 1962 | 28 Minutes | pf, ob,hn,vn,vc. | 3 |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 040. A | Two Ceremonials: Ceremonial I | 1972 | 3 Minutes | fl + hp or pf | - |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 040. B | Two Ceremonials: Ceremonial II | 1973 | 5 Minutes | vc & pf | - |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 042 | Suite for Alto Recorder and Piano | 1974 | 19 Minutes | 5 | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 056 | Sonata for 2 Pianos | 1980 | 15 Minutes | 2 | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 058 | Sonata for Oboe and Piano | 1981 | 23 Minutes | 3 | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 062 | Sonata for Clarinet and Piano | 1983 | 16 Minutes | 3 | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 070 | Sonata for Cello and Piano | 1986 | 27 Minutes | 4 | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 072 | Rabbi Azrael's Prayers | 1987 | 5 Minutes | vc & pf | - |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 078 | Westwind for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano | 1988 | 4 Minutes | - | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 093 | Movement for Viola and Piano | 2000 | 4 Minutes | - | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 112 | Waiting for the Thaw | 2008 | 11 Minutes | vn. vc. & pf. | 3 |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 116 | To Make the Center Hold | 2009 | 10 Minutes | pf 4 hands | - |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 118 | Prelude and Postlude for Piano Trio | 2012 | 6 and 9 Minutes | 2 | |
| C: Chamber Music With Piano | 121 | Fantasy With Upper Partials for Horn and Piano | 2015 | 6 Minutes | - | |
| D: Solo Works | 004. A | Prelude and Poem: Prelude | 1949 | 3 Minutes | Piano | |
| D: Solo Works | 004. B | Prelude and Poem: Poem | 1950 | 3 Minutes | Piano | |
| D: Solo Works | 019 | Sonata | 1958 | 17 Minutes | Piano | 4+ |
| D: Solo Works | 025 | Little Pieces; Puckstückchenleine 1&2, Intermezzo, Sonatinetta after Scarlatti | 1964 | 2, 1, 2, & 4 Minutes | Piano | 4 |
| D: Solo Works | 081 | Two Studies for Harp | 1990 | 5 & 4 Minutes | Harp | 2 |
| D: Solo Works | 082 | Homage for Piano | 1990 | 5 Minutes | Piano | - |
| D: Solo Works | 085 | Study for Well-Tempered Organ | 1992 | 5 Minutes | Organ | - |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 023 | Nine Preludes in 19-Tone Temperament | 1961 | 20 Minutes | 2 pf | 9 |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 026 | Ten Studies in 31-Tone Temperament | 1963 | 15 Minutes | Organ version, MS. Trio version, MS. synthesizer, fl., bn. | 10 |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 031 | Xenophony #1 | 1966 | 7 Minutes | 3 Hns & Trb OR 4 Hns | 3 |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 035 | Three Dream Songs | 1971 | 6 Minutes | 2 vns. and 31-tone organ | 3 |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 046 | Xenophony #2 | 1977 | 16 Minutes | wind qnt.vn.vc.db. & 31-t.org | 4 |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 051 | Four Miniatures for Archifoon | 1979 | 7 Minutes | 4 | |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 053 | Study on the 7th Partial for Wind Quintet | 1979 | 4 Minutes | - | |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 076 | Sonata for 2 violins in 31-Tone Tuning | 1987 | 9 Minutes | 3 | |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 083 | Woodwind Quintet#2 in 31-tone Temperament | 1991 | 14 Minutes | 1 | |
| E: Special Microtonal Works | 121 | Fantasy With Upper Partials for Horn and Piano | 2015 | 6 Minutes | - | |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 018 | Fatal Interview (Millay) | 1958 | 20 Minutes | S | 8 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 027 | The Falling of the Leaves (Yeats) | 1964 | 21 Minutes | Pf or Pf 4-hands, or wind qnt. string trio.pf ensemble; SATB (four singers) | 10 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 038 | Memory (BIy, Roethke, Yeats) | 1973 | 10 Minutes | M or B | 3 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 044 | She (Roethke) | 1975 | 17 Minutes | Pf or orch; S&B | 5 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 045 | A Wind of Fall (Leonie Adams) | 1975 | 14 Minutes | pf (P) or cl.hn.vc.pf ensemble; S | 4 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 065 | Light and Shade (Susan Fox) | 1983 | 16 Minutes | ob.pf; S | 4 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 066 | By Flowing Waters (Li Pai) | 1984 | 8 Minutes | fl.cl.vc, No Pf; S | 4 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 067 | I Journey Back (Millay) | 1984 | 13 Minutes | S | 5 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 068 | In Deep Woods (Frost) | 1985 | 9 Minutes | T | 3 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 073 | With Primeval Candor (Sarton) | 1986 | 17 Minutes | vc.pf; M | 5 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 084 | Gestalt at Sixty (Sarton) | 1991 | 16 Minutes | cl.vc.pf; S | 3 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 096 | Quiet Homecoming (Leonie Adams) | 2002 | 14 Minutes | Pf; M | 5 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 101 | The Past Is Now (Sarton) | 2004 | 9 Minutes | Pf; S | 3 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 111 | The Flamenco Dancer (Karen Ethelsdattar) | 2009 | 13 Minutes | vn.pf; M | 4 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 120 | The Face of Things (D.R.Goodman) | 2015 | 9 Minutes | Bn.Pf; S or M | 3 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 122 | Unfurl the Light (Susan Fox) | 2017 | 12 Minutes | Pf; S | 6 |
| F. Full Song Cycles | 125 | In the Andes (Susan Fox) | 2019 | 11 Minutes | Fl. Pf. S | 3 |
| G. Mini Cycles | 009 | Psalms 139 and 140 for Mezzo and Cello | 1952 | 6 Minutes | No pf | 2 |
| G. Mini Cycles | 035 | Three Dream Songs (Judyth Berman Woolfe) | 1971 | 6 Minutes | S | 3 |
| G. Mini Cycles | 049. A | Two Irish Songs (Yeats): Into the Twilight | 1979 | 3 Minutes | vn.pf; B | |
| G. Mini Cycles | 049. B | Two Irish Songs (Yeats): The Fiddler of Dooney | 1979 | 3 Minutes | vn.pf.drum ad lib; B | |
| G. Mini Cycles | 074 | Borne by Warm Breezes (Caren Shilling) | 1987 | 6 Minutes | cl.pf; S | 3 |
| G. Mini Cycles | 087 | Two Prayers for the Sabbath (Gates of Prayer) | 1995 | 6 Minutes | vc.obb; S | 2 |
| G. Mini Cycles | 092 | Love Found and Lost and Found Again (Sarton) | 1992 | 10 Minutes | S or M | 2 |
| G. Mini Cycles | 097 | Bettina's Christmas Cards (Elizabeth S. Blake) | 2008 | 7 Minutes | Any Voice | 7 |
| G. Mini Cycles | 106. A | Two Shakespeare Sonnets: Sonnet 106 | 2002 | 3 Minutes | S | - |
| G. Mini Cycles | 106. B | Two Shakespeare Sonnets: Sonnet 73 | 2006 | 3 Minutes | S | - |
| G. Mini Cycles | 109. A | Two Settings of Mildred Berwitz: Why Did I Let May Slip By? | 2005 | 3 Minutes | S | - |
| G. Mini Cycles | 109. B | Two Settings of Mildred Berwitz: In the Catskills | 2007 | 3 Minutes | B | - |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 047. A | Four Short Song from the 1970's: A. Rainbows of Darkness (Laura Eliasoph) | 1973 | 2 Minutes | ||
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 047. B | B. Rondeau (M.R. Mandelbaum) | 1973 | 1 Minute | ||
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 047. C | C. Shadows (Lisa Giordano) | 1977 | 2 Minutes | ||
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 047. D | D. Patricia's Family (Ellen Mandelbaum) | 1978 | 1 Minute | ||
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 094. A | Three Prayers: Prayer Before Work (Sarton) | 2002 | 2 Minutes | S | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 094. B | B. Be At My Side (Leah Fichandler) | 2002 | 3 Minutes | Solo Voice or Chorus | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 094. C | C. Three Prayers: Psalm 23 | 2002 | 2 Minutes | Solo Voice | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 100. A | Opus 100: Les Pas (Valery) | 1999 | 3 Minutes | S | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 100. B | B. Overheard Before Winter Recess (Jean Murphy) | 2004 | 2 Minutes | Any Voice | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 100. C | C. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love (Yeats) | 2009 | 2 Minutes | B | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 102. A | Two late Sarton Poems: A. Barcarole | 2005 | 4 Minutes | Mezzo | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 102. B | B. Absence and Illness | 2005 | 4 Minutes | Mezzo | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 103. A | Four Settings of Ogden Nash: A. Pretty Halcyon Days | 1948 | 3 Minutes | B | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 103. B | B. A Lady Thinks She’s Thirty | 1983 | 2 Minutes | TTBB | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 103. C | C. The Private Dining Room | 1988 | 3 Minutes | B | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 103. D | D. Let George Do It If You Can Find Him | 2005 | 4 Minutes | B | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 104. A | Three Songs (Sketched in the 1950's, finished in the 2000's): A. The Scholars (Yeats) | 2 Minutes | B | ||
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 104. B | B. Sing Me No More (B.J.R.Stolper with FI. obbligato) | 4 Minutes | T | ||
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 104. C | C. The Two Priests (A.MacLeish) | 2 Minutes | T or B | ||
| H: Settings of poems chosen by my composition classes | 105. A | When Serpents… (E.E.Cummings) | 2005 | 2 Minutes | M | |
| H: | 105. B | Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost) | 2014 | 2 Minutes | M | |
| H: | 105. C | A Dream Within a Dream (Poe) | 2015 | 3 Minutes | M or S (with viola) | |
| H: | 105. D | The Dream (Poe) | 2020 | 2 Minutes | M | |
| H: | 105. E | Under The Days (Grimke) | 2021 | 2 Minutes | M | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 110. A | Two Short Poems of Karen Ethelsdattar: A. When I Look at You | 2005 | 2 Minutes | S or M | |
| H: Collections of Short Songs | 110. B | B. Making Play | 2005 | 1 Minute | S or M | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 034 | The Bold Hills (Robinson) | 1968 | 4 Minutes | ||
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 039 | The Crazed Moon (Yeats) | 1973 | 3 Minutes | B | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 057 | Memorial (Ecclesiastes) | 1981 | 6 Minutes | B (pf. or chamber orchestra) | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 059 | The Avowal (Wilbur) | 1982 | 3 Minutes | T or B | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 075. B | The Three-fold Blessing | 1990 | 4 Minutes | vc, pf, S | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 077 | The Donor of the Great Bell of Cuzco (Susan Fox) | 1988 | 5 Minutes | pf or ob, guitar, marimba, db, cl (ad lib) ensemble; S | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 089 | To Autumn (Keats) | 1996 | 7 Minutes | vc, pf, T | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 090 | Out of Time (Stepanchev) | 1997 | 4 Minutes | fl.vc.hp; S | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 091 | Guarda la Luna (Fox) | 1997 | 3 Minutes | S and M (two singers) | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 098 | Renunciation (A.Meeropol) | 2003 | 3 Minutes | B | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 107 | Melee (Brenda Carpenter Osayim) | 2006 | 5 Minutes | S | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 115 | Dawn By The Sea (Malcolm Day) | 2010 | 3 Minutes | T | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 117 | This Isle Is Full of Noises (Shakespeare) | 2010 | 3 Minutes | T | |
| I: Individual Songs | 119 | For Grandsir (T. Hart) | 2013 | 3 Minutes | T or B | |
| I: Individual Songs and Duets | 123. A | New Songs for Century Poets: A. Veterans Day (Rose Styron) | 2018 | 3 Minutes | Trumpet & pf, S | |
| I: | 123. B | B. The Abbess of Whitby (Grace Schulman) | 2019 | 2 Minutes | S or B | |
| I: | 123. C | C. Tunnel Walk, Spring Above(Lee Sloninsky) | 2019 | 3 Minutes | B | |
| I: | 123. D | D. Music is Time (Jill Bialosky) | 2020 | 4 Minutes | B and (S or M) | |
| I: | 123. E (a,b,c) | E. Three Villanelles (Victoria Murphy) a. I yet would tell you b. Birds in winter c. Summer villanelle | 2021 | 3 Minutes each | M or S | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 001. A | Two Christmas Choruses: A Christmas Message (Elizabeth S. Blake) | 1946 | 3 Minutes | ||
| J: Works for Chorus | 001. B | B. A Christmas Carol (Samuel T. Coleridge) | 1948 | 4 Minutes | ||
| J: Works for Chorus | 006 | Of Music (Shakespeare) | 1951 | 5 Minutes | A cappella or with mixed ensemble | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 011 | Mass | 1954 | 22 Minutes | Men's Voices with Organ | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 021 | Psalms 120 and 121 | 1960 | 4 & 5 Minutes | with pf or fl.cl.hn/vn.vc. & db | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 300 | Three Pastoral Choruses (MacLeish) | 1967 | 3, 6 & 3 Minutes | with two cl. & S solo | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 037 | The Everlasting Voices (Yeats) | 1972 | 2 Minutes | A Cappella | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 048 | The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park (Samuel Yellen) | 1978 | 8 Minutes | with 4 fl. hn. trn. va. vc. db. hp. or 4 recorders, cornetto, sackbut, treble viol, viola de gamba, bass viol. and 2 lutes | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 052 | Psalm 126 (Hebrew) | 1979 | 4 Minutes | with piano or organ or ensemble such as string quartet | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 055 | Sea Surface Full of Clouds (Stevens) | 1979 | 16 Minutes | SATB soloists & orchestra | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 060 | The Farm (MacLeish) | 1982 | 7 Minutes | a cappella or with cello | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 061 | On the Edge of Song (Susan Fox) | 1983 | 4 Minutes | with Pf or str. sextet | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 075 | A Mourner's Kaddish (Aramaic, Hebrew & English) | 1987 | 15 Minutes | with orch. (6222.4231.2.hp) | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 087. B | Two Prayers for the Sabbath (Creation) | 1995 | 3 Minutes | with keyboard, vc optional | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 104. B | The Two Priests (MacLeish) | 2009 | 2 Minutes | pf, SATB | |
| J: Works for Chorus | 113. A, B, C | Choral Response and Hymn for U.U. (Goethe-Southworth, J.H.Holmes) | 2005, 2007 | 1 Minute, 3 Minutes | ||
| J: Works for Chorus | 114 | Sunset Concert in Sainte ChapelIe (S.Fox) | 2006 | 5 Minutes | vn.va.vc.db.fl.cI; SATB, Sopr solo | |
| K: Operas | 012 | The Man in the Man-Made Moon | 1955 | 40 Minutes | 1111.111.1.str | |
| K: Operas | 017 | The Four Chaplains (M.R.Mandelbaum) | 1957 | 40 Minutes | 2121.221.2.hp.str | |
| K: Operas | 036 | The Dybbuk (S.Ansky ps.) | 1972 | 155 Minutes | 2222.4231.3.hp, 31-tone keyboard instrument.str | 4 Acts |
| K: Operas | 036. A | The Dybbuk | 1978 | 135 Minutes | altered version for Queens College performance | 2 Acts |
| K: Operas | 086 | The Village | 1995 | 140 Minutes | 2222.323.2.hp.str | 2 Acts |
| L: Satires Musical Comedies and Film Score | 007 | Secret Symphony K-13 (w. Steven A. Davis) | 1951 | 18 Minutes | chor & orch | 4 |
| L: Satires Musical Comedies and Film Score | 013 | Tea and Empathy (Dorothea Schmidt Wender) | 1956 | Musical in 2 Acts | ||
| L: Satires Musical Comedies and Film Score | 014 | Love Defies Analysis (Leah Fichandler) | 1956 | Musical in 2 Acts | ||
| L: Satires Musical Comedies and Film Score | 032 | A Two Bedlam House (John Garrett) | 1967 | Musical in 1 Act | ||
| L: Satires Musical Comedies and Film Score | 063 | As You Dislike It (Leah Fichandler) | 1983 | Musical in 2 Acts | ||
| L: Satires Musical Comedies and Film Score | 124 | Gold Coasting | 2018 | 13 Minutes | Fl.Cl.Bn.Tp.Trn.Pf. Str qrt. | - |