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Edward Green

Composer, Musicologist, Aesthetic Realism Associate

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    • 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

Concerto in C for Trumpet and Orchestra

Paul Neebe, soloist
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Wiley, conductor

1st mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward_Green-Trumpet_Concerto_I_March-Allegro.mp3

2nd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward_Green-Trumpet_Concerto_II_Andante_Cantabile.mp3

3rd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward_Green-Trumpet_Concerto_III_Rondo-Allegro-Scherzando.mp3

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Music for Shakespeare

Minnesota Sinfonia
Jay Fishman, conductor

Love Music

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare1.mp3

Gigue

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare2.mp3

Air

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare3.mp3

Galliard/Pavanne/Rigadoon

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare4-5-6.mp3

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Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings

Dale Underwood, soloist
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Misha Rachlevsky, conductor

1st mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/edward-green-concerto-for-alto-sax-and-strings-1.mp3

2nd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/edward-green-concerto-for-alto-sax-and-strings-2.mp3

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Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra

Helen Lin, soloist
North/South Chamber Orchestra
Max Lifchitz, conductor

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Piano-Concertino.mp3

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“Finale” from Genesis—Variations for Guitar

David Starobin, guitar

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Genesis-finale.mp3

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Sextet for Alto Saxophone and Brass

Dale Underwood, Alto Saxophone with the Prism Brass Quintet

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

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“Riding with the Devil”

Sextet for Piano and Strings, mvt. 1

Fabio Gardenal, piano
Lumina Strings

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Riding-with-the-Devil-entire.mp3

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Quartet for Guitars

Corona Guitar Quartet

1st mvt.

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

2nd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Quartet-for-Guitars-II.-Fantasia.mp3

3rd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Quartet-for-Guitars-III.-Rondo.mp3

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Brass Quintet

1st Prize, 1996
International Kodaly Competition
Live performance by Prism Brass

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

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In Praise of Vivid Existence

Suite for Piano

Max Lifschitz, piano

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/In-Praise-of-Vivid-Existence-by-Edward-Green-performed-by-Max-Lifschitz-piano.mp3

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Song for Guitar

Piero Bonaguri, guitar

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Song-for-Guitar.mp3

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Faculty, Aesthetic Realism Foundation

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Professor Emeritus, Manhattan School of Music

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