Editing Trey Anastasio (section)

===Composition work===
In college, Anastasio studied composition under composer and arranger Ernie Stires. "Guelah Papyrus", featured on Phish's major label debut ''[[A Picture of Nectar]]'', includes a Stires-influenced [[fugue]] instrumental section called "The Asse Festival" as a bridge between verses. In the early years of Phish, many of Anastasio's compositions were [[through-composed]], intricate and detailed in conception (for example, "The Divided Sky", "[[You Enjoy Myself]]", "The Asse Festival", "The Squirming Coil", "Reba", "Fluff's Travels").  Anastasio has used [[improvisation]] as the driving force behind simplified songwriting, particularly in the music he has written for his touring and recording projects apart from Phish.
[[Tom Marshall (singer)|Tom Marshall]], a [[New Jersey]] computer systems professional and friend of Anastasio since his [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]] childhood, has been his primary songwriting collaborator, acting as lyricist. Anastasio has often pulled lyrics for his music from large notebooks of poems and prose kept by Marshall, and the pair have taken working retreats during which they wrote and/or recorded demos of new material. One such demo, ''[[Trampled By Lambs and Pecked by the Dove]]'', has been commercially released, and many of the songs included on this release were reincarnated into Phish's 1998 album ''[[The Story of the Ghost]]''. Anastasio also writes a number of his own lyrics, including all of the lyrics on his first release with [[Columbia Records]], 2005's ''[[Shine (Trey Anastasio album)|Shine]]''.

One of Anastasio's signature compositional techniques is the use of episodic (or organic) form. "Fluff's Travels" and "You Enjoy Myself" are good examples of through-composed pieces which evolve from one musical idea to the other, never returning to a previous musical statement. This technique had been used in a rock music setting by relatively few before Phish ([[Frank Zappa]] and the [[Grateful Dead]] are two such examples).

Anastasio employs modal improvisation, first made popular by [[Miles Davis]] in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

Anastasio has also demonstrated skill at composing [[chamber music]] and music for orchestra, most notably on ''[[Seis De Mayo]]'', his second solo album, and in his collaborations with the Vermont Youth Orchestra.

On September 27, 2008, Anastasio and Orchestra Nashville premiered a new work titled ''Time Turns Elastic'', an original long-form piece that was orchestrated by composer and arranger Don Hart, and featured Anastasio on lead guitar and vocals. Anastasio previously collaborated with Hart and Orchestra Nashville in his orchestral performance of "Guyute" at Bonnaroo 2004. He performed the same composition at [[Carnegie Hall]] with the Vermont Youth Orchestra on September 14, 2004, and with the New York Philharmonic on September 12, 2009. Anastasio played the Walt Disney Concert Hall accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on March 10, 2012.

Anastasio's 2012 album ''Traveler'' was a collaboration with producer Peter Katis, whose longtime band The Philistines Jr. opened for Phish at UVM early in their career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relix.com/articles/detail/reel-time-trey-anastasio-discusses-traveler10/|title=Reel Time: Trey Anastasio Discusses _Traveler_|date=October 15, 2012|website=Relix.com|access-date=October 8, 2022}}</ref>

He was nominated for a 2013 Best Original score Tony Award, an Outstanding New Score Drama Desk Award, and Outstanding Music and Outstanding Orchestrations Outer Critics Circle Awards for the musical ''Hands on a Hardbody''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html |title=The Tony Award Nominees  |publisher=Tony Awards |date=May 21, 2013 |access-date=March 4, 2014}}</ref> That year, he also received the Frederick Loewe Award from the Dramatists Guild of America, which recognizes achievement in a theatrical score.<ref name="auto"/>

''Hands on a Hardbody'' received nine 2012–2013 Drama Desk Awards, tying for most nominations, and winning in the Best Sound Design in a Musical category.<ref>{{cite web|author=Gordon Cox |url=https://variety.com/2013/legit/news/hands-on-a-hardbody-goes-the-distance-with-drama-desk-1200424332/ |title='Hands on a Hardbody' Goes the Distance With Drama Desk |work=Variety |date=April 29, 2013 |access-date=October 30, 2015}}</ref>

Anastasio co-wrote the music for ''Hands on a Hardbody'' (along with Amanda Green) for a Broadway opening in March 2013. After only 56 performances, the show closed on April 13, making it the "fastest closing new musical of the season."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Rothman |first=Lily |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/09/fastest-closing-new-broadway-musical-of-the-year-hands-on-a-hardbody/ |title=Fastest-Closing New Broadway Musical of the Year: Hands on a Hardbody |location=New York City |magazine=Time |date=April 9, 2013 |access-date=April 23, 2013}}</ref>