SKU: A0.934981

Everybody Wants to Rule the World was somewhat of an afterthought during the 1985 recording of Songs from the Big Chair.  Initially regarded as not fitting with the rest of the album, the song was written and recorded in two weeks and placed at the end of the track listing.  After its release, however, the song went on to be awarded Best Single at the Brit Awards the following year and was awarded a 2015 BMI award for 6 million radio airplays. Not sure if anyone has an opinion of this song other than it will never get old.  This arrangement for solo vibraphone is an up-tempo shuffle and based on the radio/MTV edit, and endeavors to capture the easy feeling of an enjoyable song from the 1980s.

SKU: A0.767341

This is a brand new piece composed for French Horn without accompaniment. It has three movements all connected by the opening material of the first movement. I am publishing this piece as separate movements as well as a complete edition.

1st. Movement:

The opening movement is marked andante. It opens with a repeated tonic followed by an arpeggiated 1/16th figure with a closing descending scale. These three ideas form the basic musical material for the whole sonata. Throughout the first movement these three ideas are transformed and manipulated, expanded and contracted while maintaining a clear musical structure (basically Ternary form). As with sonata form, the final reprise of the original ideas is transformed by their 'journey'.

The style of the music is rather like a Bach partita for solo instrument.

The movement takes the player through most of the horn's range, but does not require any extended techniques, so should be handleable by moderately skilled players.

2nd. Movement:

This slow movement requires excellent breath control. It uses the repeated not idea from the 1st movement to open, expanding the rhythm to create a rather melancholy pattern. Later, the scalic 1/16th are utilised to link to the Più mosso section where the arpeggio idea (this time descending) helps to create a feeling of wide open space and emptiness. The player is in an empty universe, drifting slowly away as the dynamics become ever quieter until the ending at ppp.

3rd. Movement:

This movement opens with a similar idea to the previous two, but at a fairly quick Allegro (quarter = 132) and using arpeggios in triplets to drive the music through.

The dotted half noes with crescs at the end of the phrase should really be pushed into brassiness at the end of the cresc.

I ask the player to do rip glisses, some of them difficult to achieve, and also gestopft and 'half stopped'. Although these are 'hand horn' techniques that survive from before the invention of valves, they are still useful to create a different effect than from standard mutes. Where these techniques are asked for, a silvery, ethereal tone is required as a contrast to the brash 'hunting horn' style of the outer sections of the movement.

The middle part of this movement is quasi a cadenza. The stopping instructions are intended to have an effect on the tuning as well as the timbre of the notes. The first pair of each group of three should be slurred smoothly.

The final section reprises the beginning of the movement, but at breakneck speed. quarter = 144 is advisory only. The faster the better.

This movement again makes use of the extremes of the horn's range and makes high demands on stamina and tonguing.

SKU: A0.1376894

‘’Perspectives on Healing: for solo piano‘’
In order to be healed from the various dilemmas in life, we need to understand our own habitual patterns of thinking in addition to the help provided by others. We often find afterwards that although similar types of dilemmas keep appearing, the main person who helps us overcome them is ourselves.
This piece is composed of melodies or rhythms with several levels of thematic material and their related patterns of variation.
These themes are: ‘’resilience’’, ‘’decision making’’, ‘’contemplation’’, ‘’inner struggle’’, ‘’dilemma’’, ‘’crisis’’, ‘’kind persons and their help’’, “fight for yourself�, and “feeling lost in life�.
The most frequent themes are: kind persons and their help, resilience, dilemma , and decision making . (The less frequent material sometimes serves as a bridge between passages.)
Although the tempo is indicated on the score, the performer can use a flexible tempo as appropriate. This piece takes about 6 minutes to play.
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Chen-Hsin SU (born in Chiayi City, Taiwan in 1989) is a composer/pianist/psychiatrist.
In recent years, Chen-Hsin's works have been awarded in several international piano composition competitions.
His compositions have also been performed in America and Australia.

SKU: A0.1103335

Vocal Solo in G Minor with Piano Accompaniment. The Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley classic from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, performed as a 12/8 Blues Chorus with 4/4 Stop-Time Bridge.

The Audio Sample (MP3) features the Soprano Voice.

The Video (YouTube) is a full-length version featuring the Tenor Voice.

This arrangement is also available for many other ensembles and soloists. 

Look for more arrangements by Roger Wallace.

SKU: A0.1103333

Vocal Solo in F Minor with Piano Accompaniment. The Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley classic from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, performed as a 12/8 Blues Chorus with 4/4 Stop-Time Bridge.

The Audio Sample (MP3) features the Soprano Voice.

The Video (YouTube) is a full-length version featuring the Tenor Voice.

This arrangement is also available for many other ensembles and soloists. 

Look for more arrangements by Roger Wallace.

SKU: A0.1102928

Vocal Solo in D Minor with Piano Accompaniment. The Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley classic from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, performed as a 12/8 Blues Chorus with 4/4 Stop-Time Bridge.

The Audio Sample (MP3) features the Tenor Voice.

The Video (YouTube) is a full-length version featuring the Soprano Voice.

This arrangement is also available for many other ensembles and soloists. 

Look for more arrangements by Roger Wallace.

SKU: A0.1299403

Mixed Instrument Quartet or Trio (see title page for details). The Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley classic from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, performed as a 12/8 Blues Chorus with 4/4 Stop-Time Bridge.

Features First Part as the Soloist.

Can be performed as a Trio by omitting Part 2.

The Audio Sample features a Clarinet Quartet.

A full length audio version can be heard in the YouTube video.

This arrangement is also available for many other ensembles and soloists.

Look for more arrangements by Roger Wallace.