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"Each piece composed by Frank Wallace that I have had the opportunity to see has been a joy...a very stable and skillful author...one of those guitar music creators who really has something new to say." Dojcinovic, on Random Act, SOUNDBOARD, 2010

Guitar Solo - easy to moderate

Sketches I  1997: an ongoing project of student pieces and studies, mostly character pieces of short duration; Level II

Nuevas Cantigas+  2000

Five Fantasies+  2001

Sketches II+  2002, six short suites for intermediate guitarists

Concert repertoire

Quadrangle**   1996

Suite Blues**  1996

From the Windy Place**  1997

The Stubborn Oak**  1997

Sweet Ladyslipper**  1999

Suite in B minor   2000

Song of Albin  suite in G minor  2000

Harlequin in Love+  2000

Nuevas Cantigas+  2000

Dake's Song*  2001

Six Prayers on Six Strings+  2001

Passacaglia  2001

After Sylvius  written for Isaac Bustos, 2002

Débil del Alba*  2003

The Elements  2005

Cunctipotens   2005

Sonata #1   2005

Paca la Roseta   2010

The Bells   2010

Guitar Ensemble

Triptych  for three guitars, 2001

Duo Sonata #1  for two guitars; 2002

Sketches for Two  six duos for guitars; 2002

Betty Botter  for guitar quartet; 2004

New England Sextets  for guitar orchestra; 2010

New England Quintets  for mandolin and guitar orchestra; arranged from NE Sextets, 2011

La Perla del Pico  for flute and guitar quartet; 2011

Sombra para mis Gritos  for two guitars; 2011

Chamber Music

Katrina Sonata  for guitar and flute; 2004

Triangulo  for guitar, violin and flute; 2002

Random Act  for cello and guitar; 2005

Mi Jardin de Calla  song for mezzo, alto, four guitars, flute and cello; 2007

The Coming of Arthur  for mandolin and guitar; 2009

Deep Autumn  for English horn and guitar; 2009

El Primero  for violin and guitar; 2010

Nocturne  for Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra; 2010

Fraktured  for piano and guitar; 2011

On the Soul in Me  for two mandolins (or any melody instruments) and guitar; 2011

La Perla del Pico  for flute (or any melody instrument) and four guitars; 2011

Un Establo de Oro  for flute, cello and two guitars; 2012

Guitar and Voice

Song Without Words  for medium voice; poem by Nancy Knowles, 1997

A Single Veil*   six spiritual songs for mezzo-soprano, poets include Rumi, Guillevic, Creeley, Knowles and Sephardic [in English]; 2001

Bestiary*   six songs for baritone and soprano [or tenor]; comic poems by Theodore Roethke and Nancy Knowles; 2001

Father Said:  a cycle of sixteen songs for medium voice; poems by Wallace's grandfather, Frank Wallace [1887-1951] of sayings and stories of his great grandfather, a pioneer in 19th century Texas; 2003

How Fragile She Is  a song cycle for baritone and soprano; eleven poems by Frank Wallace and Nancy Knowles on the delicate balance of mankind and nature on Earth; 2005

Speak Love++  seven songs for baritone on poems by Henriette de Saussure Blanding, 1911; dedicated to various scholar/publishers of the guitar world and their long marriages - Thomas Heck, Richard Long and Peter Danner; 2005

Syzygy  diary of an artist   15 songs for mezzo-soprano, poems by Nancy Knowles;  2005

Advice  for mezzosoprano and baritone with guitar, poem by Wendy Homes Noyes; 2006 [hear it on midi instruments]

Mi Jardín de Calla;++ for medium voice and guitar, poem by Nancy Knowles in Spanish;  2007

The Game  5 songs for medium voice and guitar, poems by Frank A. Wallace; 2007

The Great Deep++  8 songs for medium voice and 10-string guitar; lyrics by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Shelley, Rosetti, Turner; 2008; also available for piano and voice

The Chimes++  4 songs for medium voice and 10-string guitar; lyrics extracted from The Chimes by Charles Dickens; 2008

Men, Women and Molecules  6 songs for soprano and guitar, poems by Roald Hoffmann; written for the Olson/De Cari Duo; 2010

House of Bernarda Alba  Ovejita; for mezzo soprano and guitar, poem by Fedrico Garcia Lorca; written for Emerson College; 2010

Epitafio a un Pajaro  for mezzo soprano, flute and two guitars, poem by Fedrico Garcia Lorca; written in memory of Linda Marsella; 2011

De la Muerte Oscura  for narrator and guitar; 2012

Lute and Voice

Voices in the Dark  a cycle of six songs for baritone and lute; poetry by LiveOak workshop participants, 2000

Pearly Everlasting*  four songs for soprano, baritone and 10-course lute, elegy by Nancy Knowles in memory of John Fleagle, 2001

Woman of the Water*  a cycle of nine songs for soprano and 10-course lute, poems by Theodore Roethke--a tender love story by the sea, 2002; also available for piano and voice

El Canto   written for and premiered at the Arequipa International Guitar Festival by Duo LiveOak, August 2005; for mezzosoprano, baritone and E vihuela/lute, Spanish words by Mexican artist Jaime Goded

In the Cornfields  short love song on poem by Deborah Dill, 2006

Lute Solo

After Sylvius   for solo 10-course lute, 2002

Fantasy #1  for solo lute, 2001

Una Luz Santa  fantasy on a Sephardic theme  duo for 10-course and 8-course lutes,  2005

*Available on CD; Woman of the Water, Songs of Frank Wallace (Gyre 10082)

**Available on CD: Frank Wallace, his own new works (Gyre 10012)

+Available on CD: Sketches (Gyre 10012)

++Available on CD: The Great Deep (Gyre 10102)

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