Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1268814 By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Blues,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 416. David Warin Solomons #861345. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268814). This is a instrumental duo based on a song that I composed just before my umpteenth appearance at the New Troubadour Club at Follies Wine Bar Manchester back in 1991.Writer's block was threatening to take over, so I wrote about writer's block, in a sort of mock blues style...The original words are:Woke up Sunday mornin' and notes went spinnin' round. (rpt)What can I sing for the New Troubadours - Troubadours?Woke up wake up woke up wake up.What can I sing for the New Troubadours?Oh! I just godda sing the Blues the New Troubadour Blues'cos there's nothing they like better than the Blues.I got those New Troubadour Blues.'cos there's not a single chord these Blues refuse;not a single note I cannot choose.Then it was Monday evenin' with no more words in mind;notes they still kept spinnin'but no cause could they find.What can I sing for the New Troubadours?So, here's a sad Blues with a walkin' bass.it'll walk all over you,leavin' muddy footprintsSo here's a sad Blues, Blues, BluesSo here is a walkin' bass.oh! why am I walkin'with a muddy walkin' basswaitin' for words to come?Blues Blues Blues Blues Blues Blueswaitin' for words to comeOh those sad BluesI got those New Troubadour Blues.New Troubadour Blues 'cos there's not a single chord these Blues refuse!It is performed here byBalázs Rumy clarinetAndrás Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1499674 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Comedy,Contemporary. 2 pages. David Warin Solomons #1075740. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1499674). Intrumental version of my song inspired by this poem by Mary Holtby (by way of a parody on TS Eliot's Macavity the mystery cat).McQuiddity is a naughty and very funny dog:McQuiddity, McQuiddity, there's no-one like McQuiddityHis errors are so vulgar and so coarse in their solidityYou may walk along the pavementYou may step upon the stairIt's odorously evident McQuiddity's been thereMcQuiddity, McQuiddity, there's no-one like McQuiddityHe doesn't know the meaning of decorum or timidityHe barks at friends and neighboursand will give the boss a scareBut when burglars cart the silver off, he doesn't turn a hairIf you stagger through a doorwayWith an overloaded trayYou can bet that old McQuiddity's lying in the wayIf the chocolates vanish overnightor gloves vacate a chairThen it's absolutely certain that McQuiddity's been there.McQuiddity, McQuiddity, there's no-one like McQuiddityHe's totally unrivalled in the depth of his stupidityHis canine infelicities no cretin could surpassHe's undisputed champion of the disobedience classMcQuiddity!

Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.576602 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Blues,Contemporary. 18 pages. David Warin Solomons #38869. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.576602). Instrumental based on a song composed just before my umpteenth appearance at the New Troubadour Club at Follies Wine Bar Manchester back in 1991. Writer's block was threatening to take over, so I wrote about writer's block, in a sort of mock blues style... The sound sample is a performance by Balázs Rumy (clarinet) and András Csáki (guitar).The pdf file contains score and parts.  The original words are: Woke up Sunday mornin' and notes went spinnin' round. (rpt) What can I sing for the New Troubadours Troubadours? Woke up wake up woke up wake up. What can I sing for the New Troubadours? Oh! I just godda sing the Blues the New Troubadour Blues 'cos there's nothing they like better than the Blues. I got those New Troubadour Blues. 'cos there's not a single chord these Blues refuse; not a single note I cannot choose. Then it was Monday evenin' with no more words in mind; notes they still kept spinnin' but no cause could they find. What can I sing for the New Troubadours? So, here's a sad Blues with a walkin' bass. it'll walk all over you, leavin' muddy footprints So here's a sad Blues, Blues, Blues So here is a walkin' bass. oh! why am I walkin' with a muddy walkin' bass waitin' for words to come? Blues Blues Blues Blues Blues Blues waitin' for words to come Oh those sad Blues I got those New Troubadour Blues. New Troubadour Blues 'cos there's not a single chord these Blues refuse!

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1265869 By Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar. By Claude Gervaise. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 79. David Warin Solomons #858633. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1265869). This Tourdion ( a lively dance in 3 time) in Dorian mode is based on a madrigal by Claude Gervaise and gives the effect of swaying together with glasses in hand while the room spins round ...The words of the orignal madrigal are:Quand je bois du vin clairet, ami, tout tourne tourne tourneaussi desormais je bois Anjou ou ArboisChantons et buvons, a ce flacon faisons la guerreChantons et buvons mes amisbuvons doncWhen I drink light red wineEverything goes round and roundSo from now on I'll drink Anjou and ArboisLet's sing and drink and wage war on this bottleCome on friends, let's drink then.It is performed here byBalázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar.

Instrumental Duet Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.577572 Composed by Thomas Morley. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Renaissance. Score and parts. 6 pages. David Warin Solomons #1996227. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.577572). Instrumental arrangement of a song by the Renaissance composer Thomas Morley. The melody is played by the wind instrument in the first verse, then it is given to the bass part of the guitar in the second verse while the wind instrument plays a countermelody. The third verse gives the melody back to the wind instrument in a decorated form. The pdf contains score and parts. The sound sample is an electronic preview.

Instrumental Duet Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.577530 Composed by Anon. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. Classical,Renaissance,World. Score and parts. 6 pages. David Warin Solomons #1985939. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.577530). Instrumental duo based on an anonymous 15th century macaronic song about a girl who was made pregnant, and then abandoned, by a cleric. The melody is taken by the guitar in with variations in the middle, while the melody instrument has a countermelody, and then, in the final section, the melody instruments provides a few divisions. The sound sample is an electronic preview For interest here are the words of the original song with my translation of the Latin bits: Up I arose in verno tempore [in springtime] and found a maiden sub quadam arbore [under some tree] that did complain in suo pectore [in her bosom] saying I feel puerum movere [the little boy moving] Adieu pleasures antiquo tempore, [in times gone by] full oft with you solebam ludere. [I used to play] but for my sins mihi deridere [they hold me in derision] with right good cause incipio flere [I start to weep] Now what shall I say meis parentibus, [to my parents] because I lay with quidam clericus [some man of the cloth] They will beat me cum virgis et fustibus [with sticks and clubs] and me sore chaste coram omnibus [in front of everybody] With the said child quid faciam [what shall I do] shall I it keep vel interficiam [or kill it] If I slay it quo loco fugiam [where shall I flee to] I shall lose God et vitam eternam [and eternal life].

Instrumental Duet Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.576046 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 9 pages. David Warin Solomons #2030183. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.576046). Three words too many (say it in words and you cheat, you cheat the indefinable). This was originally a song, which I wrote back in my tender years (also available on this site for alto and guitar), but it also works equally well as an instrumental piece. I have therefore provided versions on this site for guitar with: voice flute alto saxophone French horn English horn (cor anglais) clarinet oboe violin. After a gentle introductory major chord arpeggio, the tension of the piece comes into play from the third bar where the melody line holds and repeats an augmented 4th suspension above the guitar. This note then returns as the arpeggio chords change underneath to reveal it as a minor third of a chord related by three degrees of separation from the original - C major to E flat minor. The harmonies and melody continue to sway in their relations in a curious and yet logical progression. I have provided score and parts and also a separate version of the guitar part which provides chord names and fretboard symbols; this would make it useful for educational purposes. The sound sample is an electronic preview.

Instrumental Duet Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.575956 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 9 pages. David Warin Solomons #431467. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.575956). Three words too many (say it in words and you cheat, you cheat the indefinable). This was originally a song, which I wrote back in my tender years (also available on this site for alto and guitar), but it also works equally well as an instrumental piece. I have therefore also provided versions on this site for guitar with: flute alto saxophone French horn English horn (cor anglais) clarinet oboe violin. After a gentle introductory major chord arpeggio, the tension of the piece comes into play from the third bar where the melody line holds and repeats an augmented 4th suspension above the guitar. This note then returns as the arpeggio chords change underneath to reveal it as a minor third of a chord related by three degrees of separation from the original - C major to E flat minor. The harmonies and melody continue to sway in their relations in a curious and yet logical progression. I have provided score and parts and also a separate version of the guitar part which provides chord names and fretboard symbols; this would make it useful for educational purposes. The sound sample is an electronic preview.

Instrumental Duet Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.576894 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 3 pages. David Warin Solomons #496549. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.576894). Instrumental arrangement of my setting of four poems by Carol Batton Carol Batton is a Manchester based poet. Her writing deals with a wide range of subjects including environmental issues and the difficult topic of mental illness. Her poetry can be sad, witty, angry and above all full of her strength of spirit. In fact, she has been described as 'the poet laureate of the survivors movement'. The poems are as follows: The clocks move tonight. Nothing moves but the clocks. The Universe stays the same. Then why does darkness drag in early? Why the days go damp and dreary? Like an unkind remark turning beauty to hurt, the wind ransacks the pink blossom. A new tree starting out managed the first inch up and the first inch down; it was not to be the minority who make maturity. A leaf clings with all it has to the tree: Falling is painless.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1268839 By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By Traditional. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 19th Century,Folk. Full Performance. Duration 307. David Warin Solomons #861370. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268839). A sequence for clarinet and guitar based on three Viennese songs from the 1840s and 1850sinterspersed with three original yodels.The melodies of the old songs, originally taken from the book Wiener Lieder und Tänze and then expanded, are:1. O Theures Erbsien - a moralistic song about avoiding crime and thus prison (it appears that the old Viennese prison was called Erbsien after the principal diet of the prisoners there: Erbsen = peas)2. Servicerl A celebration of drinking and courting.3. Mein Nachbarin und I A song about getting on well with the widow next door....The original yodels were initially inspired by some of the sections marked Jodel in the same book.It is performed here byBalázs Rumy clarinetAndrás Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1268806 By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Christmas,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 169. David Warin Solomons #861338. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268806). Instrumental version of my 1975 evangelical song The Message of Christmas.The words of the original are:Hear the message of Christmas timeToday is born the King of KingsWith glory hidden in a stableFor poor and humble are most ableTo see in him the King of KingsHear the message of Christmas timeToday is born the Son of ManWith human flesh and pain and woeLike one of us so we might knowThat Jesus is the Son of ManHear the message of Christmas timeToday is born the Son of GodWho from his Father up abovecame down to give us peace and loveThen sinless died the Son of GodHear the message of Christmas timeToday is born the Word of GodTo human flesh the Word becameYet was and is and will be the sameFor evermore the Word of GodHear the message of Christmas timeToday is born the Light of TruthWithout it we are lost and stray from goodnessFor Christ is the way, the only wayThe Light of TruthHear the message of Christmas timeToday was born the King of KingsAnd glory shone from that poor stableSo poor and humble are most ableTo see in him the King of Kings.It is performed here byBalázs Rumy clarinetAndrás Csáki guitar.

Small Ensemble Clarinet,Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.576904 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary,Folk,World. Score and parts. 14 pages. David Warin Solomons #506803. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.576904). Instrumental arrangement of my classical-folk crossover setting of Prévert's poem Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau (To paint the portrait of a bird).  Prévert indicates that you can never capture the real essence of a bird. You can paint a cage, a tree branch for it to sing on, but you have to wait for the actual bird itself to enter your painting - only then can you sign your painting, using a feather from that bird. The music has a Dorian feel - ie with a minor third and seventh but often with a raised sixth - (in this case F#s in an otherwise A minor context). I have provided full score and separate parts and also the melody instrument part with chord names, to enable the guitarist to read along with the melody instrument player and opt for interpretations other than the notated version (eg strumming, rasgueado etc). The sound sample is an electronic preview. My live performance of the original song can be heard on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjYONGdicI

Instrumental Duet Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.577821 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #3073343. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.577821). Details in which the composer is reminiscing on an emotional misunderstanding with a fellow musician, which is then clarified and all is well (hence the title - oh that was all details...). It is a rapid, humorous and fairly complex rush though 5 time to 6 time and back again