Department of Music Theory/Composition

Patrick Houlihan

Theory Class

Selected Compositions

Snoqualmie Passages alto saxophone and piano

Listen: excerpt 1 | excerpt 2
Caroline Taylor, saxophone and Cai Lei, piano

Songs of Vision and Light choir, piano, organ, handbells

Crayola Sketches flute

Listen: excerpt
Kristin Grant, flute

In The Stillness of Time percussion and synthesizers

Draw Me Near sacred octavo

publisher: Monarch Music/Lorenz
score available from Musicnotes.com
Listen
Ouachita Singers, Charles Fuller, cond., Cindy Fuller, piano

See the Love of God sacred octavo with optional flute

publisher: Warner Bros.
score available from SheetMusicPlus.com

In the Hands of God sacred octavo

publisher: Alliance Music Publications
score available from www.jwpepper.com
Listen
Ouachita Singers, Charles Fuller, cond., Cindy Fuller, piano

Like a Child sacred octavo

publisher: Purifoy Music/Lorenz
score available from www.jwpepper.com

The Touch of a Savior sacred octavo

publisher: Warner Bros.
score available from SheetMusicPlus.com

By One Spirit sacred octavo

publisher: Purifoy Music/Lorenz
available from SheetMusicPlus.com

Interplay trombone and synthesizers

Three Pieces for Marimba

publisher: Phoebus Apollo Music Publishers
score available from the composer houlihanp@obu.edu

Ancestry electronic, a museum installation in collaboration with sculptor Wallace Mallette

Contact

Dr. Patrick Houlihan

Professor of Music

Division of Music

410 Ouachita St.

Arkadelphia, AR 71998-0001

phone 870.245.5130

fax 870.245.5274

email houlihanp@obu.edu

“This composer has fresh and successful ideas.”

—Martin Bookspan,
commentator for
Live from Lincoln Center

“In the Stillness of Time perfectly conveys the sense of serenity implied in its title. The composer’s use of electronic sounds is original and refreshing.”

—Speight Jenkins,
General Director of the Seattle Opera

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