Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533550 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 7 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3017907. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533550). I. Aria: Yet Brighter Light (2002)II. Rainshower (2002)III. New Dawn (2008) These three brief piano works were composed at different times and were notconceived as a suite. They may thus be played individually in any context.Recorded on New Dawn: Song Cycles and Piano Music of Carson Cooman (2008), Albany Records (Catalogue #TROY1053)

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533554 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 37 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3018601. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533554). I. (Flowing)II. (Fast, nimble)III. (Funereal) (in memoriam Donald Martino)IV. (Dancing)V. (Distant, echoing) (for Richard and Dee Wilson)VI. (Moderate, singing, with humor) (for Michael Finnissy)VII. (Slow, very lyrical)VIII. (March)IX. (Envoi: Very slow, from afar)Nine Preludes (2007) for piano was written for and is dedicated to pianist Marilyn Nonken; it was commissioned byRichard Mason.Although the work is composed as a set of discrete movements, the preludes are very much interconnected, as motivicand developmental ideas run throughout the entire set. The basic musical material (founded upon collections of minorand major thirds) is shared among all nine movements. An elegiac quality runs throughout the work.The first prelude (Flowing) is inspired by the piano music of Johannes Brahms, whose contributions to the instrument’sliterature have been a significant and ongoing influence on my work.The second prelude is fast and bright. Consistent staccato textures are maintained as the two hands intertwine.The third prelude (Funereal) is dedicated to the memory of American composer Donald Martino (1931–2005). The musicrefers very obliquely to Martino’s setting of Robert Herrick’s poems of death and eternity in The White Island (1985).The fourth prelude (Dancing) is light and buoyant. After a melodic middle section, the opening music reverses itself to theend.The fifth prelude (Distant, echoing) is dedicated to Richard and Dee Wilson. Through large blocks of sustained sound (bothquiet and loud), the movement explores certain harmonic colors of the piano.The sixth prelude (Moderate, singing, with humor) is dedicated to English composer Michael Finnissy. The opening ismarked “like an ‘off-kilter’ folk song,â€� and this original melody is subjected to a variety of transformations and textures.The rhythmic patterns are constantly in flux.The seventh prelude (Slow, very lyrical) is melodic and passionate, with a nocturnal character. The middle builds to anintense climax before dying away.The eighth prelude (March) is spiky and crisp. In the trio, the march theme is turned first into a tonal ballad beforegradually transforming back into the language of the march. A faster reprise of the opening music follows.The ninth prelude (Envoi: Very slow, from afar) is an elegaic “farewell.â€� Romantic gestures and harmonies try to assertthemselves before the music dies away.Performance Note: Although it is preferred that the entire set of nine preludes be played in concert, individual preludes (or smallerassembled groupings) may be performed when necessary for programming needs. If the entire set is played, however, the order of thepreludes should not be changed. The movements should be listed in the program in the format shown at the top of this page.Recorded by Donna Amato on Carson Cooman: Piano works  ALTARUS AIR-CD-9015

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533735 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score. 2 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3041833. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533735). The timpani part for this work by Carson Cooman

Piano,Trumpet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533718 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score and part. 2 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3041123. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533718). This is the first C trumpet part for this work by Carson Cooman.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533730 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score. 6 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3041823. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533730). The percussion 1 and two part for this work by Carson Cooman. 1: crotales, bass drum, tenor drum2: vibraphone (motor off),suspended cymbal

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533553 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 10 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3018597. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533553). Summer Solstice (2007) for piano was written for and is dedicated to pianist and composer Jeffrey Jacob.Though there were a number of interconnected inspirations behind the work’s conception, one of theseintentions is as a tribute to American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987). Though there are nospecific quotations from Persichetti’s music, some of the textural and developmental ideas (particularly inthe fast, middle section) owe themselves to his work.The work opens in a free, declamatory manner – announcing its basic pitch material. Spasmodic gesturesintercut the resonant declamation. Amidst the bright ringing, a lyric melody tries to assert itself again andagain. A whirling and dry fast section, however, emerges; the material is put through a series of spinningtransformations, building to a ringing and clangorous climax – bathed in the white heat of the summer sun.The final section is marked “memorial candles� – distant and near candles set out on a field flicker in thesummer heat and ebbing sunlight while low, distant chimes sound the passing of time. The candles slowlyburn out – one by one – in the heat of the dry summer air.Recorded by Donna Amato on Carson Cooman: Piano works ALTARUS AIR-CD-9015

Bassoon Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533714 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Individual part. 4 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3041115. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533714). This is the second bassoon part for this work by Carson Cooman

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.775949 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #2033567. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.775949). A Robertsbridge Estampie (2010) for piano was written for Jeffrey Grossman. It is a concert piano transcription of an anonymous estampie from the Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1360), the earliest surviving collection of music explicitly written for keyboard (likely a portative organ). The medieval two and three voice original is re-imagined in the context of the style and technique of the modern piano. Carson.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.775946 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Standards. Score. 5 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #2033555. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.775946). Cantus I (2011) for piano was commissioned by Nicolas Horvath and the Monte Carlo Festival. The work is meditative and tranquil throughout. The very simple materials are unfolded and re-folded.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.775972 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score. 5 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #2034861. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.775972). Cantus III (2013) for piano was written for and is dedicated to R. Andrew Lee. A pilgrimage is taken across a mostly quiet and atmospherically resonant landscape. It is unclear whether the originally intended destination is ever reached, or whether the traveler chooses simply to stop in a new and different place-under the heaventree of stars..

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533612 Composed by Carson Cooman. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 12 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3031735. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533612). Oakdale Sketchbook (1997) for piano is a set of character pieces inspired by the composer'sneighborhood and street (Oakdale Drive, Rochester, New York, USA). I. CakeII. JoggersIII. The RaccoonIV. The DogV. To TempleVI. SquirrelsVII. RainstormVIII. Gnawing WoodchucksIX. TreesX. Traffic

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.775933 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Standards. Score. 6 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #2033021. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.775933). Madaket Dreaming (2008) a nocturne for piano was written for and is dedicated to pianist, conductor, and composer Max Lifchitz. The title refers to Madaket, a region of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts on its Western side with beaches that experience particularly impressive summer sunsets. This work is one of a variety of pieces connected to the landscape of Nantucket. The work is a lyric nocturne, unfolding a series of melodic ideas derived from the opening harmonies. The goal is reached at the end-a brief, warm chorale-like texture that fades away into the closing sonorities.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.775947 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Spiritual,Standards. Score. 6 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #2033573. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.775947). But darkness is Light, That doesn’t know it’s Light yet. - Stuart Saunders Smith Cantus II (Into Unknowing Light) (2011) for piano was written for and is dedicated to Julia Scott Carey, in memory of her mother, Harriet Stolmeier Carey (1951–2011). The work is marked tranquil, yet passionate. It is a memory space in which a gentle tolling texture pushes the discourse to an enormous climax, before dying away in peace and light.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533613 Composed by Carson Cooman. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 5 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3031737. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533613). A Nantucket Prelude (1996) for piano was composed for a series of presentations given bythe composer in the Spring of 1997. It is a brief tone-poem, depicting abstractly variousmoods and events related to Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA.It should be performed very freely, with much musicality and rubato.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533691 Composed by Carson Cooman. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 13 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3038633. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533691). This work, Kayser Variations, was written as a tribute to Margaret Kayser, long-timechemistry teacher (for 16 years) at Allendale Columbia School in Rochester, New York onthe event of her retirement from teaching.This work takes a variations on a theme form but uses the concept of placing the choraletheme itself in the middle of the work (instead of its customary place at the beginning),surrounded on both sides by variations. The theme is God Save the King/Queen, thenational anthem of the United Kingdom.The pitch material of the variation accompaniment is derived, at some points, from subscriptsand coefficients from chemical formulae and balanced chemical equations.Each of the variations also pokes fun at a different element, style, or method of 20th centurymusic competition. So this work is also a parody of sorts.This work should be performed with a slight break (almost a breath) between each variation.Dynamic markings are provided as a guide but performers should use their own judgment.Pedal should be used by the performer where appropriate. This work should always beperformed in its entirety. The variations should never be played on their own.