Collection: Ceely, Robert
"To me music is organized sound in time. Whether my music is instrumental, vocal, electronic or a combination, the impetus is the idea; the medium chosen is a result of the idea." - Robert Ceely (1930-2015), was a composer and an educator. His compositions include solo, chamber, and orchestral music as well as music for tape and tape with instruments. He attended the New England Conservatory where he studied with Francis Cooke and completed further studies with Darius Milhaud and Leon Kirchner at Mills College, with Roger Sessions, and with Edward Cone and Milton Babbitt at Princeton University.
From 1963-64, he composed music in the Electronic Music Studio in Milan as a guest of The Italian Government. His ballet “Beyond the Ghost Spectrum”, commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation with choreography by James Waring, was performed at Tanglewood with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting and the opera, “Automobile Graveyard”, after a play by Fernando Arrabal, was presented at the New England Conservatory in 1995. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ditson Fund, the Manon Jarrof dancers, the Massachusetts Arts Council, the Fromm Music Foundation and others. He has taught at the Naval School of Music, The Lawrenceville School, Robert College in Istanbul, and for thirty-eight years at the New England Conservatory where he established and directed the Electronic Music Studio and taught composition. In 1995, he was honored with an Outstanding Alumni Award. He retired from teaching in 2003 and continued to devote his time and energy to composition.
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Robert Ceely
Automobile Graveyard Part 1
chamber ensemble, jazz quintet fl/pic/altofl, ob/Eh, cl/clA/bscl, hn, bsn; Bari sax, tbn, piano/cel; vln, vla, vcl, cb; Jazz Quintet: Tpt, AltoSax, Piano, ElecBs, Drum set; 6 Singers, audio playback
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Robert Ceely
Automobile Graveyard Part 2
chamber ensemble, jazz quintet fl/pic/altofl, ob/Eh, cl/clA/bscl, hn, bsn; Bari sax, tbn, piano/cel; vln, vla, vcl, cb; Jazz Quintet: Tpt, AltoSax, Piano, ElecBs, Drum set; 6 Singers, audio playback
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Robert Ceely
Beyond The Ghost Spectrum
chamber orchestra, tape
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Robert Ceely
Bottom Dogs
4 double basses
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Robert Ceely
Carol For A New Year
Mixed Chorus and Solo Trumpet in C
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Robert Ceely
Chamber Variations
18 players pic, fl, ob, Ehn, cl, bscl, bsn, cbsn, hn, tpt in C, tbn, tba, vln, vla, vc, cb, piano, drum kit
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Robert Ceely
Duel For Bass Clarinet And Piano
bass clarinet, piano
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Robert Ceely
Electronic Music Resource Book
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Robert Ceely
Extensions For Piano
solo piano
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Robert Ceely
Five Contemplative Pieces For Mixed Chorus
SATB
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Robert Ceely
Five Piano Pieces
piano
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