Compositions
William Toutant Compositions
Selected compositions by genre with approximate durations.
If the piece has been recorded on CD, the label appears beneath the entry in bold font along with the title of the CD.
Pieces with the symbol ♫ have a YouTube link on the Listen page.
Chamber Works (three or more players)
Bagatelle II—flute, Bb clarinet, bassoon ca 7:00
Bavardage—flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon ca 3:33 ♫
Phasma “Four Minutes for Woodwind Quartet”
Cells 2.5—Bb clarinet, violoncello marimba/vibraphone (1 player) ca 7:30
Cells I—Bb clarinet, cello, marimba/vibraphone (one player) ca 6:00
Cells IIA–Bb clarinet, cello, marimba/vibraphone (one player) ca 6:00
Cells II—Bb clarinet, cello, marimba/vibraphone (one player) ca 6:00
Cells III–Bb clarinet, viola, cello ca 7:00
Fanfare and Fugue–flute sextet (2 C-flutes, 2 alto flutes, 2 bass flutes) ca 7:00
Four Characteristic Pieces—flute or clarinet, bassoon, piano ca 15:00
Gems—piano and percussion (2 players) ca 7:00
Introduction and Fugal Caprice—string quartet ca 5:10
Kleine Fuge—string quartet ca 5:00
Mazbek—violin, violoncello, and piano ca 3:00 ♫
Prelude, Scherzo and Dance—oboe, Bb clarinet, cello, piano ca 11:00
Quarantine Quartet—string quartet ca 8:30 ♫
Quintetto Amaroso—wind quintet ca 12:00
Remembrance, Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek—string quartet ca 9:00 ♫
Navona “Fleeting Realms”
Rondo Mazurka—violin, cello, piano ca 5:40
Scherzo and Fugue—saxophone quartet ca 8:00
Short Trio for Celli—Three violoncelli—ca 3:45 ♫
Smidgen–string quartet ca 5:00
String Quartet #3 “Jigsaw Variants”—string quartet ca 9:05
String Quartet #4—string quartet ca 9:40
String Trio—string trio ca 7:50
Three Peccadilloes—oboe/Eng. horn, Bb clarinet, piano ca 15:30 ♫
Navona “New York Moments”
Large Ensemble
Administrative Suite, “Decanal Memories”—chamber orchestra ca 12:30
Arcanae–orchestra ca 10:15
Capstone “Black Sea Idyll”
Ave atque Vale–orchestra ca 9:00
Bureaucratic Paean—11 instruments ca 5:00
Concert Rhapsody—piano and orchestra ca 12:00
Elegy and Fugue—string orchestra or string quintet (string quartet & double bass) ca 11:30
Homage—orchestra 8:00
I Tego Arcana Dei—wind ensemble ca 12:30
Peregrinations II—double string orchestra, double wind quartet, percussion ca 7:30
Capstone “Black Sea Idyll”
Peregrinations—double string quartet, wind quartet, percussion ca 7:30
Suite for Strings—string orchestra or string quintet ca 16:30
– Can be played as shorter pieces. See Smidgen and Elegy and Fugue above.
Zayavlyenie—orchestra ca 10:00
Solo Works & Duets
Agincourt Variations—pipe organ ca 12:30 ♫
Phasma “New Music for Organ”
Adapted Frictional Neurons—Bb clarinet and piano ca 10:00 ♫
Anagrams and Aphorisms—Bb clarinet, double bass ca 11:00
Capstone “Cassandra”
Apothegm—violin and piano ca 3:10 ♫
Bagatelle 1.3—flute, violoncello ca 5:40
Bagatelle IA–alto flute, piano ca 5:40 ♫
Phasma “Zayin I”
Bagatelle I—alto flute, marimba ca 5:40 ♫
North/South “Elan”
Canonic Minute—2 violins, or violin and viola, or viola and violoncello,
or Bb clarinet and bass clarinet ca 1:00
Capital Raga Souffles—solo flute ca: 1:10
Phasma “Nun”
Causerie pour deux—solo flute and piano ca 6:00
Cinq Feuilletons—piano solo (five pieces) ca 15:00
“Caprice” ca 2:30, “Arabesque” ca 3:50 “Diatribe” ca 3:30 ♫
“Canons “ca 3:15 “Interrupted Thoughts” ca 3:30
Compression Sonata—viola, piano ca 9:40
En hommage à Debussy—violin and piano ca 8:00 ♫
Phasma “Douce Amertume”
Fluet—flute/alto flute and flute/piccolo ca 2:00 ♫
Phasma “Two Minutes”
Flumba—flute and marimba ca 3:00
Le Campane di Barga—piano ca 7:50
‘Ludes and Fugues—piano ca 10:00 ♫
North/South “Old Meets New”
Meditation—solo violin
Also versions arranged for solo viola, solo flute or solo alto flute ♫ ca 6:30
Nocturne and Scherzo—oboe, piano ca 9:00
Peresmeshki (Badinage)—violin and piano ca 5:00
Persiflage—violin and piano ca 3:10
Plain Canoodle—violoncello and piano ca 8:20
Polskie Rondino—solo violoncello ca 4:30
Recuerdos—bassoon, piano ca 6:55
Small Suite for Piano—ca 11:30 ♫
North/South “New American Romantics”
Ariel “Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano”
Sonatina—Bb clarinet, piano—ca 9:40 ♫
Centaur
Toccata, Intermezzo and Fugue—flute or oboe, Bb clarinet ca 10:40
Triptych—flute, piano ca 13:00
Trolls—Bb clarinet and marimba (three pieces) ca 13:05
“A Tipsy Troll” ca 3:30, “A Pensive Troll” ca 5:25, “A Capricious Troll,” ca 4:10 ♫
Navona “Lock & Key Vol. III
Two more Characteristic Pieces—flute/alto flute/bass flute (1 player), piano ca 8:00
Une petite causerie—flute and piano ca 5:30
Vocal works
Quatre Alcools on poems by Apollinaire—soprano, percussion (1 player) piano ca 12:00
also arranged for soprano and piano, and for soprano, winds and percussion
Songs for Nan on poems by Sully-Prudhomme and Apollinaire–soprano, piano ca 9:30 ♫
Pensées d’amour on poems by Sully-Prudhomme, Valéry and Apollinaire ca 12:00
baritone or soprano and piano, also arranged for soprano and violoncello
Glossa on a poem by Eminescu—baritone, piano ca 15:00