Mozart Dreams is a fantasy interweaving fragments of three Mozart pieces:
Sinfonia Concertante K,364, Trio K, 498, and the Piano Concerto No. 17
K.453, in a stream-of consciousness, impressionistic manner. The piece lasts
around 5 minutes. 

Mozart Dreams

I Fanfare
II March
III Elegy
IV Scherzo
V Dramatic Episode
VI Largo
VII Rondo 
The pitch material of this music uses two sets of contrasting intervalic content. 
The first, C Db E B Bb Gb A Eb G Ab F D, is atonal, emphasizing dissonant 
intervals. It is used in movements I,  IV, and V. The second series consist of perfect fifths, G D Db Ab A E Ab Eb Bb B F#,  employed in II, III, and VII and has some tonal implications.

This Divertimento was composed in 1963, when the composer was 19 yrs. old, for Hugh Soebbing and the Quincy College Brass Quintet. 

Divertimento 1963

Shadows of Forgotten Dreams is my response to Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 2010 film by Werner Herzog about Chauvet Cave in southern France, which contains the oldest human-painted images yet discovered. Some of them were crafted around 32,000 years ago.

James Pellerite, native flute.

Echoes of Forgotten Dreams

Randall Snyder
The Dream
Narrator, Flute, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet in Bb, Violin, Cello
I
Fleeting glimpses......
I should have though more
than I did...
but the insect, with its
black, grappling, hideous, nauseous wen of truth.
The black covered the white
and the wicked depths perceived.
II
Pink and soft,
smooyh by the unparalled.
Relaxed, complacent.
A good sun, with good inhabitants. Gossamers flecked the outer extremes. Parallel goodness.
Pliant, supple, sinuous,
aloof view.
II
Repeated perversions in the back light, striking, thrusting....impact.
The balck god of slime
from his subterranean lodge
sucks, festers, destroys.
The king, burning with lice and filthy vermin... with morbifdrealistic jeopardy...
Intrinsic malicious decayed corpse....
eternal.
IV
That other place...horixonn...distane...
fingertips stretched by man's incessent flounderings in the deep warm porous mud.
and impresso\ion no more...
lost.... camoflaged....
oblivion.

The Dream 1963

This piece, scored for solo violin and strings orchestra, combine certain
aspects of the baroque concerto and classical scherzo. The opening and
closing sections are characterized by  continuous ostinato rhythm, while 
the inner trio sections are more rubato.  

Scherzo Concertante

Tessellation is comprised of nine sections, grouped in three movements. 
Each section emphasizes a different timbral aspect of the ensemble: full 
ensemble, "concerti", and unaccompanied cadenzas.

I Cello concerto – Cello cadenza - Violin Concerto
II Interlude 1 (palindrome} Piano concerto – Piano cadenza 
III Interlude 2 (palindrome) Violin cadenza – Full Ensemble

Tessellation was written in 1978 for the Nebraska Trio: Arnold Schatz,
violin, Priscilla Parson, cello, Audun Ravnan, piano.�

Tessellation

This short recital piece for trumpet and piano was written in 1970
when the composer was 26 yrs. old. It is one in a series of compositions
written for students at Rock Valley College where he was the band
director. In one continuously evolving movement, it begins with piano 
playing a sicillienne rhythm followed shortly by even 8th note passages
harmonized in minor thirds. The trumpet enters with a nelody also
emphasizinf the minor third. A key motive, B D G F#, is introduced
in m. 6.  After a brief piano interlude the trumpet returns, leading at
measure 34 to a climactic high B. 

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