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Hanley Jackson |
Hanley Jackson is a composer and Emeritus Professor of Music at Kansas State University where he founded the Electronic Music Studio and the Comprehensive Musicianship Program. An active member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Jackson has served as consultant for ARP Synthesizers (Boston) and Music Technology Inc. (New York). His compositions in a variety of mediums have earned him annual ASCAP awards since 1982 and his music is published by Shawnee Press, Walton, Alliance, and MCA.
He grew up in the Los Angeles area where he attended the California State University at Northridge and the CSU at Long Beach. His principal composition teachers were Aurelio de la Vega and Gerald Strang. Before moving to Kansas he did arranging and film scoring for low-budget and industrial motion pictures.
Teaching duties at KSU included three courses in music technology, twentieth century styles, counterpoint, composition, and orchestration. He has produced prize-winning composition students at state, regional, and national levels.
Jackson now lives alone in Manhattan but still takes pleasure in outdooor activities, particularly duck hunting. In the off-season he trains his Labrador Retriever. He operates his residential "Gun Dog Tavern" where sound discipline and good manners are required and hunting stories are recollected. Bird dogs and retrievers are welcome but, please, no dogs on furniture.
| Title | Year | Medium | Publisher |
| Suite for Strings | 1963 | String quartet | |
| Prelude and Tocatta | 1964 | Clarinet quartet | |
| Chaconne | 1966 | Trombone, ww quartet | |
| String Quartet | 1969 | String quartet | |
| Night Pieces | 1973 | String quartet | |
| Tangents VI | 1976 | Oboe, clar., tape | |
| Fragments | 1978 | Oboe, guitar | |
| Tangents VII | 1978 | String quartet, tape | |
| Tangents VIII | 1980 | WW quartet, tape | |
| Letters to Santa | 1986 | Sop, pia, tpt, perc. | |
| Six Pieces | 1986 | Harp, percussion | |
| 3x2 | 1989 | Six trumpets | |
| Green Pieces | 1990 | Brass quintet | |
| Ssarb | 1991 | Brass choir | |
| Three pieces | 1992 | Ob, vn, vc. | |
| Five for the Woods | 1994 | Woodwind qt. | |
| Sonata | 1995 | Trb, tpt, piano |
| Title | Year | Medium | Publisher |
| Four Songs | 1965 | satb | |
| A Child's Ghetto | 1971 | satb, tape | Walton Music |
| Triptych | 1971 | ttbb | |
| Tangents V | 1973 | satb, tape | Shawnee Press |
| Cradle Hymn and Hodie | 1974 | satb, tape | Shawnee Press |
| Day Hours of Darkness | 1975 | satb, tape | Walton Music |
| Psalm 21 | 1975 | satb, audience | Walton Music |
| Vignettes of the Plains | 1975 | satb, tape | Shawnee Press |
| Birds of Ogdan | 1978 | satb | Jensen |
| Jubilate Deo | 1979 | satb, brass, perc. | |
| Lux Aeterna | 1983 | ssaattbb, tape | |
| Cantata II | 1987 | satb, tape | |
| Psalm 113 | 1990 | tbb, piano | Alliance Music |
| High Flight | 1993 | ssaattbb, tape | Alliance Music |
| Title | Year | Medium | Publisher |
| Skylark of Stratford | 1965 | 7 insts. | |
| Fetch | 1966 | jazz quartet | |
| Trojan Women | 1966 | 10 insts. | |
| Ring Around the Moon | 1967 | 7 insts. | |
| Living In A Nuclear Age | 1970 | jazz ensemble |
| Title | Year | Medium | Publisher |
| Theme and Variations | 1965 | Piano | |
| Prelude and Fugue | 1968 | Organ | |
| Tangents IV | 1973 | Piano, tape | Shawnee Press |
| The Elements | 1977 | Piano, tape | |
| For A Quiet Time | 1977 | Organ, tape | |
| Spires | 1982 | Piano, tape | |
| Fantastic Journey | 1984 | Piano, tape |
| Title | Year | Medium | Publisher |
| Requiem | 1964 | satb, orch, solos | |
| Cassandra's Dance | 1967 | orchestra | MCA rental |
| Matt | 1967 | satb, perc. | |
| Manhattan Overture | 1968 | band | |
| Tangents II | 1969 | orchestra | MCA rental |
| Tangents III | 1972 | band, tape | Shawnee Press |
| Lyric Suite | 1977 | band | |
| Of Fin, Fur, and Feather | 1992 | string orchestra | |
| Letters to Santa | 1993 | Soprano, orch. | |
| Bandfare | 1994 | band | |
| Somewhere--Up There! | 1997 | orchestra | |
| Elegy for Brass | 1997 | brass ensemble |
| Title | Year | Medium | Publisher |
| Lifebound | 1966 | Baritone, piano | |
| Now | 1970 | Soprano, tape | |
| Aesop's Trumpeter | 1983 | Trumpet, tape | |
| Suite | 1992 | Alto sax, piano | |
| The Lorax | 1993 | Soprano, piano |
