Ted Norman's Compositions

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Andantino (two guitars)  
Caprice (two guitars)  
Chanuka for Wendy (solo guitar)  
Concertino (solo violin & piano four-hands)  
Concertino (version for violin & two guitars)  
Domingo (solo guitar),
July, 1963
 
Duo (two guitars)
Written for the Elgart/Yates Guitar Duo
 
Emilia (solo guitar),
August, 1956, Siena
 
E Plus I (solo guitar)  
Essay (solo guitar),
Dedicated to Emilio Pujol,
June, 1956, Alicante
1960, Guitar Review
Essay for Flute and Guitar,
1956
 
Essay for Flute and Guitar,
Dedicated to Pieter and Clara van der Staak
 
Essay No. 1 (two guitars),
August, 1966
 
Essay No. 4 (solo guitar),
in Music for the Guitar Soloist,
A Collection of Transcriptions and Original Compositions by Theodore Norman
Cover
1969, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City
Essay No. 5 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 6 (solo guitar),
August, 1963, in Music for the Guitar Soloist,
A Collection of Transcriptions and Original Compositions by Theodore Norman
Cover
1969, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City
Essay No. 7 (solo guitar),
August, 1963
 
Essay No. 8 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 10 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 11 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 12 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 15 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 16 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 17 (solo guitar)  
Essay No. 18 (solo guitar),
August, 1966
 
Essays in Sight and Sound (violin, b-flat tenor saxophone, harmonium, string bass, percussion)  
For Jean (solo guitar)  
Exit (solo guitar),
in Music for the Classical Guitar Book II,
a book for intermediate players by Theodore Norman
Cover
1964, G. Schirmer, Inc. New York City
Glad Rag (three guitars)  
Go-Go Boogie (three guitars)  
Habanera (solo guitar),
in Music for the Classical Guitar Book II,
a book for intermediate players by Theodore Norman
Cover
1964, G. Schirmer, Inc. New York City
I Tecate-60' (solo guitar),
in Music for the Classical Guitar
a book for Beginners by Theodore Norman
Cover
1961, G. Schirmer, Inc. New York City
Jacques, the Poodle (solo guitar)  
Jig for Jimmy (solo guitar)  
Kolo (two guitars),
Dedicated to Livio Floris,
     Sample Performance by Matthew Elgart and
     Peter Yates
 
Lament (four guitars),
Unfinished
 
Los Angeles County Museum International Fashion Show - Music for Chamber Orchestra  
Mambo No. 1 "Por que no" (four guitars)  
March (solo guitar),
in Music for the Classical Guitar Book II,
a book for intermediate players by Theodore Norman
Cover
1964, G. Schirmer, Inc. New York City
Metamorphosis - A Ballet for Orchestra (flute, violin, trumpet, amplified guitar, accordion, English horn, bassoon, two string basses, percussion)  
Mobile (solo guitar) 1963, Ricordi, Milan
Mobile Structures (A Book of Scales) (solo guitar)  
Night Birds (solo guitar)  
Old California Mission Bells (solo guitar),
in Music for the Young Guitarist,
A Collection of Transcriptions by Theodore Norman of Classical Composers, Flamenco, Folk Music and Dances
Cover
1966, G. Schirmer, Inc. New York City
Paganiniana (solo guitar),
in Music for the Classical Guitar Book II,
a book for intermediate players by Theodore Norman
Cover
1964, G. Schirmer, Inc. New York City
Piece for Guitar (solo guitar)  
Piece, Alicante I (solo guitar),
June, 1956
 
Piece No. 1 (solo guitar)  
Piece No. 3 (solo guitar)  
Piece No. 8 (solo guitar),
August, 1955
 
Piece No. 9 (solo guitar)  
Plaza San Marco (solo guitar)  
Polluted Ducks (two guitars)  
Posada (four guitars), 1993, Los Angeles
Written for the Modern Arts Guitar Quartet,
inspired by the work of Mexican Artist
José Guadalupe Posada
 
Pyramid (two guitars), 1995
Written for the Elgart/Yates Guitar Duo
 
Quintet (solo guitar & string quartet),
1965
 
Remembrance of La Praire Bell (solo guitar)  
Return to Sight (two guitars)  
Samba (solo guitar),
in Music for the Guitar Soloist,
A Collection of Transcriptions and Original Compositions by Theodore Norman
Cover
1969, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City
Simone (quoting J. S. Bach chorale) (solo guitar),
1979
 
Sonata for Guitar in Five Movements (solo guitar),
1975
 
Sonata for Two Guitars  
Song (four guitars)  
String Quartet (two violins, viola, cello)  
Suite in Four Movements (two guitars)  
Symphony I (orchestra)  
Tango (two guitars),
Written for Matthew Elgart and Peter Yates
 
The Classical Guitar
A New Approach to the Study of the Classical Guitar
by Theodore Norman
Cover
1960, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City
Toccata (solo guitar),
in Music for the Guitar Soloist,
A Collection of Transcriptions and Original Compositions by Theodore Norman
Cover
1969, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City
Toccatina (solo guitar)  
Toccatina (two guitars)  
Toccatina (four guitars)  
Two Moods in Twelve-Tone (solo guitar) 1956, Carlvi (Belwin-Mills), New York City
Two Preludes in Twelve-Tone (solo guitar)
dedicated to Count and Countess Antonia Alberti Poja
1955, Carlvi (Belwin-Mills), New York City
Two Swans (three guitars)  
Two Twelve-Tone Pieces for Solo Guitar 1955, Musica Selecta (Sweet Pipes, Inc.), Levittown
Un Sueño de las Pampas (solo guitar),
in Music for the Classical Guitar Book II,
a book for intermediate players by Theodore Norman
Cover
1964, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City
Valse Gracieuse (solo guitar),
in Music for the Guitar Soloist,
A Collection of Transcriptions and Original Compositions by Theodore Norman
Cover
1969, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City
Waltz (two guitars)  
Zambra (solo guitar),
in Music for the Classical Guitar Book II,
a book for intermediate players by Theodore Norman
Cover
1964, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City

Some of Ted Norman's compositions can be heard on the CD, Stuck in Your Head, by ensemble FRET