Bassoon Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018908 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 2 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6064763. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018908). Programme Notes: It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn. – Thomas Fuller Mornings are powerful and evocative moments. The chorus of birds, one species after another, unite in a wild and genuine polyphony while the dew and mist evaporate upon the rising of the sun, encouraging goosebumps and shivers from an open window, tempered or exhilarated by a cup of coffee. Have you ever actively witnessed the sun’s sultry and intense ascension from the cradle of the horizon? That is what this piece, Aubade, or Dawn Song, is about. An aubade is the twin of a night-time serenade; an aubade is a love song originating amongst the medieval Provençal troubadours, depicting the morning departure between two lovers. An aubade is a song in honor of the slow cosmic percolation of a late summer morning. On a personal level, the composer is reminded of his own experiences camping in Northern Canada as a young man–a simpler and less demanding time. This piece formally begins the series I composed during the Covid-19 quarantine conditions of 2020, to serve as potential contemporary preludes for each of Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies–his two hundred and fiftieth anniversary was this year!–though they can all stand on their own on any program. The connection, in this case, is with his first symphony; I envisioned, once my piece concludes, his beautiful drawn-out chords presenting themselves–the dawn of his special genius.About the Composer: Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

Bassoon Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1022092 Composed by EDIONISONI DE ALMEIDA VICENTE. Christian,Contemporary,World. Individual part. 2 pages. EDIONISONI DE ALMEIDA VICENTE #6361815. Published by EDIONISONI DE ALMEIDA VICENTE (A0.1022092).

Bassoon Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.799579 Composed by Bach-Gounod. Arranged by Matthew C. Weiss. Baroque,Christmas,Classical,Romantic Period,Sacred. Individual part. 2 pages. Matthew C Weiss #2016455. Published by Matthew C Weiss (A0.799579). In 1722 J.S. Bach published his Prelude in C major to begin a collection of works now commonly known as the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I. Over a century later, the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod composed a melody to go with Bach's prelude, and in 1859 Jacques Léopold Heugel published a version of this melody to be sung with the familiar Latin text for Ave Maria. Matthew C. Weiss continues this tradition by adding another independent line that beautifully intertwines around Gounod's timeless melody, creating a wonderful duet for two solo instruments and piano.

Bassoon Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869147 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Individual part. 12 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #50707. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869147).

Bassoon Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018880 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 3 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6056089. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018880). Programme Notes: Icarus Also Flew takes its title from the first line of the poem Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert. He is referring to the classical myth of Daedalus and Icarus, an inventive father and son who bravely escape from their imprisonment in a tower by collecting the disposed feathers of seabirds, then fashion wings out of them and fly away. While the story is often treated as a morality tale--listen to your elders, don’t get cocky like the young man, Icarus, who, in such an understandable state of elation, ascended too close to the sun thus causing the wings to melt and his tumbling to his Mediterranean death--what Jack Gilbert reminds us is how regardless of one’s failure, the sheer transcendental experience of mortal flight remains glorious and unforgettable. Icarus’s fall was not into a legacy of disdain and oblivion, but in truth, he had come to the end of his triumph. This piece was the first of a series I composed during the Covid-19 quarantine conditions of 2020, to serve as potential contemporary preludes for each of Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies--his two hundred and fiftieth anniversary was this year!--though they can all stand on their own on any program. The connection, in this case, is with his celebrated fifth symphony in C minor--the Fate symphony, as it is commonly known. I’ll let the listener find their own connections.About the Composer:Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

Bassoon Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018948 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 2 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6078681. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018948). Programme Notes: This composition was written to be considered for pairing alongside Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony #3, the Eroica, but can stand on its own virtues as an intense and slow meditation on heroism. The music is like a boiling pot on the stove that’s just began to overflow its bubbles. The first part of the title, kommos, is a Classical Greek term from Attic dramaturgy, literally meaning striking but specifically referring to beating oneself up during lamentation--ripping at the hair, gouging out the eyes--like Oedipus--slapping the forehead, and other acts amid moments of extreme emotional turmoil. For example, from Aeschylus's play Agamemnon, a character bewails: Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways, my destroyer! For you have destroyed me-and utterly [...]What is this fresh woe [...]what monstrous, monstrous horror, beyond love's enduring, beyond all remedy? And help stands far away! We can easily imagine physical accompaniment to the script; rather than bottling up the pain, the hero lets it all explosively come out.  â€ƒThe second part of the title, When the world moved on, is an epigraph taken from American author Stephen King’s The Dark Tower epic. The primary setting of the novel, a world similar in many ways to our own, is experiencing a dark age where the glorious past is all but a distant memory and all good things are referred to wistfully as occurring, When the world moved on. Yet, the main protagonist, Roland, the last gunslinger, emphasizes that it is not just a figure of speech, but the literal distances between destinations have increased, the positions of the stars have changed, as well as the occurrence of other unnatural phenomena. The world has become a gulf of isolation from all corners. Taken together, this piece is a lamentation for when the world moved on. Truly completed on Yom Kippur during the Covid-19 Pandemic, being unable to fast or go to synagogue, this is my atonement.About the Composer: Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

Bassoon Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018966 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 2 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6086607. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018966). Programme Notes: Fanfare: Grit evokes the brassy and rousing tropes of adventure movie soundtracks and Saturday morning cartoons, such as those written by John Williams, Shirley Walker, among others. Writing this piece was an escapade to my own musical roots for this was the first type of music I had been exposed to as a child: incidental music accompanying perilous quests, hairbreadth escapes, and other trials blocking the hero’s path to victory and redemption. I wanted to compose a piece that harkens back to the music that I first fell in love with, that opened up the gates of a legacy--symphonic classical music--that’s always been my solace in trying times. What is grit? Grit is the dirt between smiles and between barefoot toes. Grit is a hard-boiled detective. Grit is tilling the tough soil for the possibility of a beautiful blossoming of flowers.   Grit is saying, See you soon, and making sure it happens. Grit is helping others when it’s hard to help yourself. Grit isn’t easy bravery, but the kind of courage you need to build up brick by brick. The obligatory synonyms: courage, bravery, pluck, mettle, and spirit. Finally, this composition, the fourth of my so-called Beethoven Episodes, was written to accompany Ludwig van Beethoven’s 4th Symphony. This work was written on his 250th anniversary, coincidentally during the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020, and is the sum of my feelings wrought from that experience. Yet this work was completed on Canadian Thanksgiving, and is also an expression of all that I am grateful for, from the bottom of my heart.

Bassoon Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018928 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 5 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6072961. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018928). Fugue: Wear Pearls and Smile is, on the outset, a fast, rambunctious adventure for many voices playing at the same time. It was conceived as a pairing for the equally vivacious second symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven–his 250th birthday is this year–but can stand on its own as one of my hardest, most challenging works to cook up.This piece is dedicated to those forced to appear positive when internally they’re falling apart. The title is inspired by a quote that’s been with me for a while, Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? by Lynn Hecht Schafren, the celebrated American jurist famous for campaigning for gender equity in courts. I’m taking the quote out of its initial context, but the power of that quote, for me, exemplifies how hard it is to maintain a sense of emotional decorum and dignity when you’re authentically a hot mess. And what’s more of a musical hot mess than a fugue?There are two realities to this piece. I’ll quote Dmitri Shostakovich, from his autobiography: The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, […] It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,’ and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering ‘Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.’ On the one hand, it is insincere happiness, cloying perhaps. But the other truth, I’ll quote Oscar Hammerstein II, from The King and I: While shivering in my shoes / I strike a careless pose / And whistle a happy tune / And no one ever knows, / I'm afraid. I forced myself, against all impulses of my current being, to forge happiness. This piece, with its origin being a mental puzzle (fugues are puzzles), it became a construct where I could lift myself up and regain a sense of purpose. Therefore, it is invented–out of a literal need to survive–pure, genuine happiness.Future Performances: If you are interested in performing this work, please e-mail me.ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings , with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

By Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Arranged by Vernon Leidig. For Full Orchestra. Classical. Part. 1 pages. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music

By Rossano Galante. For Concert Band. Instructional. Part. 1 pages. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music

By John Williams. Arranged by Teena Chinn. For Choir. Instructional. Part. 1 pages. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music

Bassoon Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1131187 Composed by Laura C. Quijada Ortíz. Arranged by Laura C. Quijada Ortíz. Children,Instructional. Individual part. 3 pages. Laura Quijada #731440. Published by Laura Quijada (A0.1131187). 12 melodic exercises to be played with the left hand notes (C-F), a little boost for the beginner bassoonist.

Bassoon Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1376833 Composed by John Stafford Smith. Arranged by L. Müller. 20th Century,Classical,Holiday,Instructional,Patriotic. Individual part. 1 pages. Müller Publishing company #961383. Published by Müller Publishing company (A0.1376833). Star Spangled Banner - Melody Sheet Music for Bassoon Arranged by L. MüllerExperience patriotic fervor with our meticulously arranged sheet music for bassoon, featuring Star Spangled Banner composed by John Stafford Smith. This arrangement by L. Müller provides the melody, offering a versatile and engaging rendition of this iconic anthem.Smith's composition, set in the key of C major, captures the grandeur and resilience of the American national anthem. Bassoonists of varying skill levels can confidently perform this piece with ease.Immerse yourself in the stirring melodies of Star Spangled Banner as you showcase your bassoon skills. Whether performing solo or as part of an ensemble, this high-resolution sheet music ensures clarity and precision in every note.Elevate your performances and awaken patriotic pride with this special arrangement of Star Spangled Banner for bassoon. Invest in spreading the message of unity and freedom through the power of music and inspire audiences with the timeless beauty of this beloved anthem.

Bassoon Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1376832 Composed by John Stafford Smith. Arranged by L. Müller. 20th Century,Classical,Holiday,Instructional,Patriotic. Individual part. 1 pages. Müller Publishing company #961382. Published by Müller Publishing company (A0.1376832). Star Spangled Banner - Melody Sheet Music for Bassoon Arranged by L. Müller (with Chords)Experience patriotic fervor with our meticulously arranged sheet music for bassoon, featuring Star Spangled Banner composed by John Stafford Smith. This arrangement by L. Müller provides the melody along with chord symbols, offering a versatile and engaging rendition of this iconic anthem.Smith's composition, set in the key of C major, captures the grandeur and resilience of the American national anthem. Bassoonists of varying skill levels can confidently perform this piece with ease.Immerse yourself in the stirring melodies of Star Spangled Banner as you showcase your bassoon skills. Whether performing solo or as part of an ensemble, this high-resolution sheet music ensures clarity and precision in every note.Elevate your performances and awaken patriotic pride with this special arrangement of Star Spangled Banner for bassoon. Invest in spreading the message of unity and freedom through the power of music and inspire audiences with the timeless beauty of this beloved anthem.

Bassoon Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1407839 By Franz Schubert. By Franz Schubert. Arranged by Guilherme Assunção. 19th Century,Classical,Religious,Romantic Period. Individual part. 1 pages. Guilherme A. #990463. Published by Guilherme A. (A0.1407839). Embark on a journey of musical enchantment with Schubert's timeless masterpiece, 'Ave Maria,' presented in this captivating bassoon solo sheet music. Delight in the purity and elegance of the melody as you explore its intricate nuances, unfettered by chord notations. Whether you're a seasoned bassoonist or a budding enthusiast, this sheet music invites you to immerse yourself fully in the celestial beauty of 'Ave Maria.' Perfect for solo performances, practice sessions, or simply indulging in the joy of music-making, this sheet music is a treasure trove of inspiration. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the sublime beauty of 'Ave Maria' in its purest form. Purchase now and let your bassoon sing with the grace and serenity of Schubert's masterpiece!