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Instrumental works include: 

"Concertino for Bass Clarinet & Orchestra," "Tribute to Duke Ellington" for orchestra, ensemble pieces with various instrumentation, " String Quartet," tangos for piano, violin, and accordion, and various combinations, "Piano Quartet" commissioned for young students, organ works, many pieces commissioned for public television including computer, synthesizer, harp, flute, guitar, piano, prepared piano, oboe, and music for dulcimer, banjo and guitar, as well as many different combinations of instruments, including traditional percussion, Latin American percussion, "homemade" percussion.

Musical Theatre works include:

Complete shows and songs for Mt. Lake, MN Centennial and "Fidel," incidental/dance music for "A Christmans Carol," "Monday After the Miracle" and "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "Between the Pages."

Television works include: 

"Land Between Two Rivers"  incorporating compositions in many styles and genres including jazz piano and jazz quartet pieces, and numerous combinations (see listings under "Instrumental Works").  Other works for Minnesota Cable Television and Manhattan Cable Television.

Ballet Works include: 

"Timezone" for Piano, Harp, and Cello; "Prairie Scenes Ballet" for various instrumentation, and "The Tango Issue" for Piano, Violin, and Accordion; Four-hand Waltzes, Mazurkas, and various short dances.

Piano works include:

Numerous short student pieces for publication, jazz piano works, twelve-tone pieces, tangos, "Old American Cowboy Songs" arranged for piano four-hand, "Chaconne" (1982), concert works and numerous program pieces.

Vocal and Choral works include: 

Sacred and secular songs in English, Latin, and Spanish; Requiem - for the Victims of Genocide  (SATB), choral works based on Psalms, choral works for services (introits, choral responses and gospel arrangements).


Excerpts from the Liner Notes (by Erik Tans, MMC Recordings)

Concertino for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra
A concertino is necessarily smaller in scale than a concerto, but C. Edward Hupton has not sacrificed any depth of emotion or instrumental bravura in his work, adding a wondrous entry into the canon for Bass Clarinet. Hupton gives the bass clarinet a dancing, angular melody that at once both delights and teases the intellect.

Piano Quartet
Music as entertainment is in C. Edward Hupton is blood, and his Piano Quartet shows this with style and intelligence. The Quartet is a triptych, melding popular song forms and styles with all of the subtle possibilities of chamber music.

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