Kryl. The piece from time to time creates a hocket between the singing and playing.Ricercar À 3 (1967), Turetzky. For bass soloist live and on two tape tracks.Postcards (1981), Carol Plantamura and lutenist Jürgen HübscherDunbar's Delight (1985), timpanist Dan Dunbar. Virtuoso solo piece for timpani.Quoq (1978), flutist John Fonville. Named after Finnegans Wake.Sierra (1984), baritone Philip Larson, SONOR Ensemble conducted by Thomas Nee. Commissioned by Thomas Buckner. He also has an album Pacific Sirens on New World Records. He wrote Ricercar a 5 for Trombones for Stuart Dempster. The piece uses baroque imitation as well as singing, whistling, fanfares, slides, and other extended techniques. Recognition and awards He received several Yaddo fellowships in the fifties and sixties, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966, a Ford Foundation fellowship, was elected as a fellow of the Institute for Creative Arts of the University of California in 1968, and his string quartet Solstice won the 1985 Friedham Award for Chamber Music. There are two books about Erickson's life and music: Thinking Sound Music: The Life and Work of Robert Erickson by Charles Shere and Music of Many Means: Sketches and Essays on the Music of Robert Erickson by Robert Erickson and John MacKay. Illness, death and final works He suffered from a wasting muscle disease, polymyositis, and was bedridden and in pain for fifteen years before his death; his final work was Music for Trumpet, Strings, and Tympani (1990). He died in San Diego, California, aged 80. RecordingsAmerican Classics - A Continuum Portrait Vol 9 - Erickson: Recent Impressions, Songs, High Flyer, Summer Music. Naxos 8.559283Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens. New World Records 80603Robert Erickson: Kryl, Ricercar, Postcards, Dunbars Delight. CRI 616Robert Erickson: Auroras. New World Records 80682Robert Erickson: Complete String Quartets. New World Records 80753Robert Erickson: Duo, Fives, Quintet, Trio. New World Records 80808 Bibliography Erickson, Robert. 1975. Sound Structure in Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. . Erickson, Robert. 1988. "Composing Music". Perspectives of New Music 26, no. 2 (Summer): 86–95. Erickson, Robert, and John MacKay. 1995. Music of Many Means: Sketches and Essays on the Music of Robert Erickson. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. MacKay, John. 1988. "On the Music of Robert Erickson: A Survey and Some Selected Analyses". Perspectives of New Music 26, no. 2 (Summer): 56–85. Reynolds, Roger. 1988. "Wonderful Times". Perspectives of New Music 26, no. 2 (Summer): 44–55. Shere, Charles. 1995. Thinking Sound Music: The Life