• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Edward Green

Composer, Musicologist, Aesthetic Realism Associate

Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • Welcome
    • Bio
  • Composer
    • Compositions
      • Selected Compositions
      • Compositions Inspired by World Music
      • Choral Music
    • Articles about Edward Green’s Music
      • Edward Green’s Symphony For Guitars and Flutes
      • “Choral Works by Edward Green”
  • Scholar
    • Publications
    • Aesthetic Realism and Music: Technique and Beauty
      • Rhythm Contradicts Contempt: Aesthetic Realism and The Rite of Spring
      • Greatness in Music and Chopin’s Waltz in Ab, Op. 69
      • Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology
      • Sincerity in Music: Sergei Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony
      • Music and the Victorian Mind: The Musical Aesthetics of the Rev. H. R. Haweis
      • The Technique of Chromatic Completion in Haydn’s Late Masses
      • Harmony and the Oneness of Opposites
      • Music From China and the Universal Criterion for Beauty
    • The Lives and Work of Great Musicians
      • How Much Should a Man Care for Besides Himself? On Glenn Gould, Men and Myself
      • “Aesthetic Realism Explains the Beauty of Jazz and of Duke Ellington: A Talk by Edward Green”
      • Berlioz and the Power Men & Women Want Most
      • What Does It Mean to Be a Real Friend?
      • Why Are Men & Women Troubled about Ambition and Importance?
      • What Will Have a Man Really Sure of Himself?
    • Music, Literature & Life
      • Is Good Will Our Greatest Power?, Aesthetic Realism and Samuel Richardson’s ‘Clarissa’
      • The Mind of Adolf Hitler: A Study in the Unconscious Appeal of Contempt
      • Contempt: the Cause of Insanity—Eli Siegel’s Discovery & Two African Short Stories
      • How Can a Man Have True Integrity?
    • Conference Papers

Selected Compositions for Chamber Ensemble

Brass Quintet

First Prize, International Kodaly Competition, 1996.
Live performance by Prism Brass Quintet

1st mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brass-Quintet-I.mp3

2nd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brass-Quintet-II.mp3

3rd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brass-Quintet-III.mp3

Sextet for Alto Saxophone and Brass Quintet

Dale Underwood, Alto Saxophone with the Prism Brass Quintet
(Arizona University Recordings)

1st mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sextet-for-Alto-Sax-and-Brass-I.mp3

2nd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sextet-for-Alto-Sax-and-Brass-II.mp3

3rd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sextet-for-Alto-Sax-and-Brass-III.mp3

4th mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sextet-for-Alto-Sax-and-Brass-IV.mp3

Sextet for Piano and Strings

This is a MIDI realization of the score.

Complete recording:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sextet_for_Piano_and_Strings_by_Edward_Green.mp3

View/download score

This piece also exists in a version scored for Piano and String Orchestra. Visit the “Selected Compositions for Orchestra” page.

Quartet for Guitars

1st mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Quartet-for-Guitars-I.mp3

“Night Report from the Unseen Battlefield” (for clarinet and piano)

 

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NIght-Report.mp3

Faculty, Aesthetic Realism Foundation

***

Professor Emeritus, Manhattan School of Music

Copyright © 2025 Edward Green