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The musical compositions of Richard Burdick:

Mandalas

The technique of the composition I use in a Mandala is one that give a work an imaginary symmetrical pattern. It is similar to what Pauline Oliveros did in her horn etudes (1959) where the composer limits oneself to only a few melodic intervals.

I also have an in-passing rule, where if you go one direction with an allowed interval you may go in the opposite direction skipping the previous tone, but jumping to an allowed interval based one the previous tone. This rule is good at creating hyperbola shapes in the music.

Opus 58 Mandala No. 3 for horn and violin

Opus 119 Finding the Mandala for two horns

Opus 149 Horn Quartet No. 4 "Amram visits Copland's Tomb"

Opus 163 Mandala No. 4 for horn and violin

I used half or whole steps and major or minor thirds in this mandala. Along with the interval limitations, I also bind myself with I Ching scale limitations, using I Ching No. 36 "Censorship".

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CD111 - Yin-Yang Beauty No.1
(Op. 323)

CD110 -Wind Ensembles

CD109 -
Weird Vistas

CD108 -Music for Films

CD107 -Ockeghem
Volume one

CD106 - Handsome HornSolos V.4

CD105 - Handsome Horn Solos V. 3

CD104 - Ockeghem
Volume two

CD103 - Ronald LoPresti

CD102 - Serenade for Horn Quartet by Goepfart

CD101 -
Anton Wunderer

CD100 -
Chamber Symphonies No. 14, 15 & 16 Bear Valley Fanfares & Bear Wald Septet

CD99 - Opus 333

CD98 - Ockeghem
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CD97 - The 280's

CD96 - Ensemble 2019

CD95 - Preceding Glacier

CD94 - Lütgen

CD93 - Trios Withal Free

CD92 - Ewald

CD91 - Choros N. 4
Villa Lobos

CD90 - Sinfonietta for 4 horns - H. Becher

CD89 - Adolph Jäckel's Horn Quartet

CD88 - Beautifully Relentless, Op. 322

CD87 - Duvernoy Duets Op. 3 on Natural horn

CD86 - Casting Out Demons

CD85 - Otto Nicolai Duets on Natural horn

CD84 - Artot Quartet No. 1

CD83 - Horn Quartets by Artot

CD82 - Horn Trios by Artot

CD81 - 64 String Quartets

CD80 - 64 Horn Quartets

CD79A -Ignaz Böck Trios

CD79B - Punto Trios

CD78 - Beethoven & Reicha

CD77 - Yin-Yang Beauty No. 2

CD76 - Found These: Three

CD75 - RoB's Chamber Music - vol. 1

CD74 - Following Glacier

CD73 - Handsome horn solos - v. 2

CD72 - Gumpert Horn Quartets - v. 4

CD71 - Gumpert Horn Quartets
v. 3

CD70 - Gumpert Horn Quartets v. 2

CD69 - Gumpert Horn Quartets v. 1

CD68 Handsome horn solos - vol. 1

CD67 - Glacier Suites etc.

CD66 - A Lake of Violet Flames Op. 310

CD65 - More Natural Horn Music

CD64 - 64 horn solos (icsV5), Op. 293

CD63 - 64 horn duets (icsV5), Op. 292

CD62 - The Mindset Nonet, Op. 242

CD61 - Vortex Breathing
& I Ching Chants, Op. 244

CD60 - Wilder Graas Presser

CD59 - A Walk with Giants & Motor 1 2 4 8 7 5

CD58 - Music We Publish

CD57 - Piano works: Wave, Relentless & more

CD56 - Particles

CD55 - Duets

CD54 - The 270's

CD53 - Burdick & Harbison Quartets

CD52- Found These Too

CD51- Microtonal I Ching Cycles

CD50 - I Ching Elements

CD49 - Brass Music, Op. 9, 10, 45, 268, 269 &150b

CD48 - Giovanni Gastoldi

CD47 - I Ching Rhythms,Op. 209

CD46 - A Rainbow of I Ching triads

CD45 - North American
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CD44 - Opening the Sphinx

CD43 - Music of Silvio Coscia

CD42 - I Sound My Horn

CD41 - American Horn Music - vol. 2

CD40 - Retrospective II - The horn Quartets

CD39 - Bach by Popular Demand

CD38 -
Matthew Locke
Broken & Flatte Consorts

CD37 - Microtonal music of R O Burdick

CD36 - Classical Natural Horn Duvernoy & Schneider

CD35 - Twenty-Two Trios for Horns, Op. 156

CD34 - Natural Horn Music FOUND

CD33 - More than 64 Quartets for Horns based on the
I Ching

CD32 - American Horn Music of the 40's & 50's

CD31 - Grand Music of J. F. Gallay - vol. 2

CD30 - Grand Music of J. F. Gallay - vol. 1

CD29 - Astral Waves
& Phosphor

CD28 - WAVES AND PARTICLES, opus 159 PART ONE - Waves

CD27a - Castelnuovo Tedesco horn quartet

CD27 - Anton Reicha Trios Op. 82 & 93

CD26 - Accuracy Studies For the French horn student

CD25a - Bach Cantata
BWV 132 No. 1

CD25 - Nice Notes

CD24 - Duets, opus 132 complete in the "one takes"

CD23 - More than 64 solos for Horn, Op. 139

CD22 – Naderman’s Music for Horn and Harp

CD21 - Beyond Favorites

CD20 - Classical Gas

CD19a - Dauprat's trios Op. 26

CD19 - Dauprat's Grand Music

CD18 - Louis-Francois Dauprat Duos for Horns,
Opus 13 - vol. 2

CD17 - Favorites - Barber, Grieg, Bach BWV 82 & 225

CD16 - Howlers Revised 2006 Dauprat Duets, Op. 14, Mozart

CD15 - J. S. Bach's Easter Oratorio,
BWV 249

CD14 - Dauprat Op. 8

CD13 -
64 Duets, Op. 132 part two #17-34

CD12 - Reveré by
V. Herbert

CD11 - 64 Duets, Op. 132 part one #1-16

CD10 - The Planets for
solo horn, opus 19

CD 9 - Louis-Francois Dauprat Duos for Horns, Op. 13

CD 8 - Portal Solo Multi-phonic French horn In An Environment of drones & overtones.

CD 7 - INFINITY ONE

CD 6 - "Richard Burdick with tape"

CD 5 - "Let Me Out

CD 4 - 4.5 INCH SINGLE Aaron Blumenfeld’s Horn Sonata

CD 3 - Howlers
Louis-François Dauprat’s 20 Duos for Natural

CD 2 - I Ching Arpeggios

CD 1 - Rebel
with a Horn