Chris Walton

Music by Chris Walton

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Chris Walton

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I Want (Light Passing Through Prism) 02.12.2025 2:09

Live performance of "I Want (Light Passing Through Prism)," lyrics by Sola Mahfouz and music by Christopher L. Walton, by mezzo-soprano Julia Cavallaro and fellow students at the Tufts Composers New at Noon concert event "Radio Global Kandahar: Afghan Memory Leaves Sounded with Sola Mahfouz," November 21, 2025. Composed for voice, two violins, and percussion (involving audience participation) in a...

Far Away / In the West 25.10.2025 4:01

New work for solo piano, performed in Distler Hall by John McDonald at the October 24, 2025, Tufts Composers New at Noon concert "Sonic Geo-Detection: Recovering Time and Place." "Far Away / In the West" refracts elements of a hymn I learned as a child in Utah, the Sacred Harp tune "All Is Well" that Mormon pioneers adapted into "Come, Come Ye Saints," the most enduring song about their exodus to...

Locrian Dance No. 2 16.05.2025 2:25

Lydian Dance No. 2 16.05.2025 1:17

Ionian Dance No. 2 16.05.2025 1:32

Phrygian Dance No. 2 16.05.2025 2:42

Aeolian Dance No. 2 16.05.2025 2:04

Dorian Dance No. 2 16.05.2025 0:48

Mixolydian Dance No. 2 16.05.2025 2:06

Mixolydian Dance No. 1 02.05.2025 1:45

Dorian Dance No. 1 02.05.2025 1:30

Ionian Dance No. 1 02.05.2025 2:03

Locrian Dance No. 1 02.05.2025 1:51

Aeolian Dance No. 1 02.05.2025 1:30

Lydian Dance No. 1 02.05.2025 2:52

Phrygian Dance No. 1 02.05.2025 2:57

First Day 23.11.2024 3:53

Performance of "First Day" by mezzo soprano Julia Cavallaro and pianist John McDonald at a Tufts Composers "New at Noon" concert, November 22, 2024. Text © 2016 by Regina Walton, from "The Yearning Life" (Paraclete Press), used by permission. Music © 2024 by Christopher L. Walton.

KVCCCLV 08.11.2024 3:44

mm. 29–30 08.11.2024 3:16

Written in response to two measures in Mozart's Minuet in D, KV 355. Performed by John McDonald at the Tufts Composers New at Noon concert, October 25, 2024. © Christopher L. Walton

Alpine Loop 18.04.2024 4:43

MuseScore 4 demo of a dance in A minor for string quartet.

Cello Duet No. 1 21.02.2024 7:37

Three-movement piece for two cellos. I: a short canon (1:08); II: a lyrical melody in 5/4 (2:08); III: a fantasia (4:21). This is a MuseScore 4 demo.

Advent Medley 22.01.2024 6:05

Musescore 4 demo of a medley of five Advent hymn tunes arranged for string quartet: "Conditor alme siderum" (plainsong, Mode 4): "Creator of the stars of night"; "O Heiland, reiss" (1666): "O heavenly Word, eternal Light"; "Veni, veni, Emmanuel" (plainsong, Mode 1; adapt. T. Helmore): "O come, O come, Emmanuel"; "Bereden väg för Herran" (1697): "Prepare the way, O Zion"; "Helmsley" (T. Arne, 1763)...

Genevan 42 29.11.2023 2:37

Trio arrangement for two violins and cello of the 16th century hymn tune for Psalm 42 in the Genevan Psalter by Louis Bourgeois (1551), harmonized by Claude Goudimel (1564), often paired with Catherine Winkworth's "Comfort, comfort ye my people," translated from a text by Johann Olearius (1671). This is a MuseScore 4 demo.

The Spider 19.10.2023 1:08

MuseScore 4 demo of a miniature for oboe, violin, viola, and cello.

Scurry 30.09.2023 4:37

Song for oboe, bass clarinet, string quartet, and drum kit! This is a MuseScore 4 demo.