Since 1999 Greenbaum has worked with
computer animation to create hybrid works of visual music, as well as
chamber music with a video component. Greenbaum has also written on
Claude Debussy,
Arnold Schoenberg and
Edgard Varèse in relation to Wolpe's dialectical and "cubist" approach to musical structure. He is the curator of Amphibian, a new music and video series in the Hi Art Gallery in New York City.[2][failed verification]
Music
Greenbaum's most significant work is Nameless, a 25-minute wordless
psalm for three sopranos and two chamber ensembles. It was composed for the Momenta Quartet and the Cygnus Ensemble, and bears a quotation from the Medieval Jewish philosopher
Moses Maimonides.[3]
Chamber Music: Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Recordings, 1982
Selected works
Solo instrument
Double Song for viola sola: In memoriam
Milton Babbitt (2011)
Chaconne by Attrition for solo violin (2006)
You Crack Me Up for piano solo (2012)
Ballate for solo piano (2005)
Mute Dance for solo guitar (2000)
Elegy for solo piano (1998)
Amulet for solo piano (1990)
Solo instrument with piano
Untimely Observations for viola and piano (2002)
Dance Moments for flute/violin and piano (2000)
Nod Quiet Ox for oboe and piano (1994)
On the river the shadowy group for baritone sax and piano (1993)
Chamber music
More Venerable Canons for string quartet (2014)
Venerable Canons for flute and violin (2007)
Es ist zum Lachen for oboe, trombone, violin, cello, percussion and piano (2008) (commissioned by Ensemble Surplus and the Serge Koussevitzky Fund/Library of Congress
Castelnau for string quartet (2002)
Enharmonicon for clarinet trumpet and violin (1994)
Chamber music with voice
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes for soprano and two guitars (2014)
West-Östicher Divan (2010) for soprano and 2 guitars (2010)
Wild Rose, Lily, Dry Vanilla for soprano, flute, oboe, violin, cello, guitar and banjo (2004)
Psalter for mezzo, alto flute, English horn, string trio harp and piano (1992)
Orchestral music
The Jig is Up for oboe and string orchestra (2009)
Nameless and other Works: Furious Artisans Recordings; The Cygnus Ensemble and the Momenta Quartet, with sopranos Priscilla Herreid, Elizabeth Farnum and Julie Bishop, mezzo-soprano Re'ut Ben Ze'ev, and violinist Miranda Cuckson
Nameless for three sopranos, alto flute,
English horn, violin, cello guitar and mandolin and string quartet (2009)
Wild Rose, Lily, Dry Vanilla for mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, violin, cello, guitar and
banjo
Chaconne by Attrition for violin alone
Venerable Canons for flute and violin
Psalter and other works, Centaur #2789
Psalter, Joyce Castle/Parnassus
Prospect Retrospect for cello and piano: Fred Sherry/Blair McMillen
from A Floating Island: Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène
Castelnau for string quartet: The Momenta Quartet
Elegy: David Holzman, piano
Untimely Observations for viola and piano: Stephanie Griffin/Blair McMillen
Nod Quiet Ox for oboe and piano: Fabian Menzel and Bernhard Endres. Antes/Bella Musica
Amulet, for piano solo: David Holzman, Centaur CRC 2291
Chamber Music, for flute, cello and piano: The Contemporary Trio re-release. New World NWCRL513
Articles
Greenbaum is the author of the following articles:
"Dialectic in Miniature: Schoenberg's 'Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19.'" Ex Tempore (Summer 2010)
"Surrealism in New York." New Music Jukebox (American Music Center) (Fall 2009)[5]
"Debussy, Wolpe and Dialectical Form." Contemporary Music Review: Stefan Wolpe Issue (Spring 2008)
"The Proportions of Density 21.5: Wolpean Symmetries in the Music of Edgard Varèse", On the Music of Stefan Wolpe. Austin Clarkson, ed. Pendragon (Hillsdale, New York: 2003)
"Stefan Wolpe's Dialectical Logic: A Look at the 'Second Piece for Violin Alone' ", Perspectives of New Music, volume 40, number 2 (2002)[6]
Stefan Wolpe, "On Proportions" trans. Matthew Greenbaum. Perspectives of New Music 34/2 (1996)
^Greenbaum, Matthew (Summer 2002). "Stefan Wolpe's Dialectical Logic: A Look at the 'Second Piece for Violin Alone'". Perspectives of New Music. 40 (2): 91–114.
JSTOR25164488.