WORKS

Selected Works up to 2007 

Recordings

• ABINADI : An Exhilarating Musical Drama DVD (2005) : Performed by the BYU School of Music. Taped in 2003. Released by Covenant Communications in conjunction with BYU Creative Works.
• Thirteen for Halloween CD & Songbook for Children (2005)
• Thanksgiving! CD & Songbook for Children (2005)
• O Sing a Song of Bethlehem CD & Songbook for Children (2005) 

Ensemble Works

• The Other Wise Man : A Chamber Opera (2006) : SSATBB soloists and piano
• The March of the Three Kings (2005) : an arrangement for British-style Brass Band, Baritone Soloist and Choir
• Maui : The Legendary Hero (2005) : Orchestrations for the 2005 Imagination Celebration in Salt Lake City, UT
• ABINADI : A Music-Drama (2003) : 8 principles, 14 secondary & chorus roles, SSATTBB chorus & Symphonic Orchestra
• In the Great Walled Country : A Children’s Opera (2003, revised 2004) : Treble, Tenor & Bass soloists, Children’s Chorus with hand held percussion, Wind Quartet, String Quartet, Classical Guitar
• Overtones (2001) : for Symphonic Band

Songs & Song Cycles

• All Heaven and it was One Hour Old : A Christmas with Katherine Tynan (2006) : Cycle of 5 Songs based on the poetry of Katherine Tynan for Medium High Voice and Piano
• His Bread is Peace (2005) : A carol for voice and piano
• O Sing a Song of  Bethlehem (2004, CD released 2005) : Set of 12 songs for children, family, & classroom singing
• Thanksgiving! (2004, CD released 2005) : Set of 11 songs for children, family, & classroom singing
• Thirteen for Halloween (2004, CD released 2005) : Set of 13 songs for children, family, & classroom singing
• A Light that Shames the Noonday Sun (2003) : Cycle of 5 songs based on the visionary writings of Joseph Smith Jr., originally for Tenor & Piano
• Tyrlow, Tyrloo, Tyrligh, Tyrle (2003) : Solo version  of a carol from In the Great Walled Country
• Behold! the Harvest Wide Extends : text by Parley Parker Pratt (2003) : Baritone & Piano
• Leafs from the Diary of an Old Soul (2003) : Cycle of 5 songs based on George MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul, originally for Baritone & Piano
• The Moon Songs (1999, revised 2004) : Cycle of 7 songs on texts by Vachel Lindsay, originally for Soprano & Piano. (Premiered by Heather Chipman & Dwight Bigler)
• Come let us kiss and part : poem by Michael Drayton : for Baritone & Piano
• Two Songs to Frighten Young Children : texts by Vachel Lindsay (1999) : for Baritone & Piano
• Happy is the Man that Findeth Wisdom : text from Proverbs (1999) : for Baritone & Piano
• The Song of Wandering Aengus : poem by William Butler Yeats (1998) : for Baritone & Piano
• Psalm 8 (1998) : for Baritone & Piano
• La Belle Dame sans Merci (1997, revised 2004) : Set of 3 songs based on the poem by John Keats, originally for Baritone & Piano 

Chamber Music

• Pan Among the Reeds : A Drama for Musicians & Dancers (2002) : for Flute, 2 Oboes, E. Horn, Soprano Sax, Percussion & Dancers
• Et in Terra Pax Hominibus Variations (2001) : for String Quartet
• Yashepheh (2000) : for Oboe, E. Horn, Horn in F, Viola, Percussion & Piano
• Carnival Processional (2000) : for Brass Choir (Premiered by the Chicago Brass Choir)
• Song (1999, revised 2002) : for Oboe & Vibe
• Fanfare for the Eagle (1990) : for Trumpet, Horn & Trombone

Keyboard

• Minuet (2002) : for Piano
• The Necromancer : A Fugue Macabre (2001) : for Piano or Organ
• aFteR bABbiTT scREamEd : adventures in a serial slaughterhouse (2000) : for Piano
• Fantasy for Organ (1999) : for Organ 

Choral

• Please see http://ChoirWorks.com for a list of choral compositions by M Ryan Taylor. 

Electro/Acoustic

• FrogBot in Love (2002) : Musique Concrete (manipulated balloon sounds)
• Meditation on 5/4 (2002) : for Midi Controlled Organ on a Pure Mediant Scale
• Seven Voices in the Eleventh Hour (2001) : Musique Concrete (a mix of 7 recordings made at the same time in different places)