Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1203852 By Adrian Gagiu. By Adrian Gagiu. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. 20th Century,Baroque,Christian,Classical,Sacred. 133 pages. Adrian Gagiu #802408. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1203852). Neo-Baroque, medium-sized, large scale composition for 4 vocal soloists, mixed chorus in 4 to 8 parts, and full orchestra with organ, setting the traditional canticle text, mostly with church modes and alternating polyphonic intricacies with solemn, intense or profound moments. It would work both for worship and in concert, as it includes powerful outbursts, elaborate counterpoint, and also soft and humble moments, while avoiding any harsh excesses of modernism. Total duration: 46 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The audio sample is the 5th movement. The first two choruses, in 4 parts, follow the general outline of the Baroque French overture: a solemn introduction followed by an elaborate fugue. The 3rd movement is a solemn arioso for bass, followed by a grand chorus in 4 and 5 parts. The 4th movement is an arioso for tenor, followed by a complex chorus in 5 parts. The 5th movement is a suite of two ariosos for alto and soprano, followed by a grand, but brief chorus in 6 parts, and then by a mysterious instrumental evocation of the Last Judgment. The 6th movement is a vocal quartet a cappella, based on a well-known Orthodox hymn and alternated with a refrain for chorus in 7 parts and organ, then followed by a grand choral complex ended in humble supplication. The final, 7th movement is a grand motet for double chorus and orchestra, with four themes more and more intricately combined, up to the majestic coda treated in quadruple counterpoint.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1236835 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. Baroque,Christian,Classical. Octavo. 96 pages. Adrian Gagiu #832359. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1236835). Full score and vocal score of the revision (2023) of an exercise in Baroque style: a cantata for mixed choir, 4 vocal soloists, 2  oboes, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and organ, based upon Martin Luther's famous chorale and composed in 2011 for the music associations ('Musikräte’) of Saxony�Anhalt, Saxony, and Thuringia, and for the project office of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) 'Luther 2017 – 500 Years of Reformation’. Mostly festive and grandiose, inspired by Handel's great choruses from his oratorios, and fit for Christian celebrations, especially for the Lutheran church. Set in four movements, with Luther's lyrics (in German). Total duration: 26 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The mp3 audio clip is the first movement.

Organ - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1004700 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. Adrian Gagiu #4631455. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1004700). Prelude, Fugue and Chorale in B minor for organ, op. 72 (2018, revised 2019), is an energetic composition in Neo-Classical/Neo-Baroque style. It starts as a dramatic but brooding Prelude, mostly with Impressionistic, seventh chord harmonies and with allusions at Bach's great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542, ending with a very short quotation from Carl Orff's De temporum fine comoedia, which provides also the (bi)tonal structure for this entire composition.

String Quartet String Quartet - Digital Download SKU: A0.1518526 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. Baroque,Chamber. 96 pages. Adrian Gagiu #1092629. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1518526). Score and parts of an arrangement for string quartet of J. S. Bach's great Concerto no. 6 in B flat major from the collection known later as the Brandenburg Concertos. Bach's masterpiece is scored for two violas, two violas da gamba, cello and continuo, and probably originated as a triosonata. The present arrangement, arguably the first for string quartet, preserves the dense polyphonic textures of the original and allows for a welcome addition of great music to the repertoire of string quartet ensembles.The mp3 sample is the second movement. Total duration 15 minutes. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1460152 By Elvis Presley. By Johnny Christopher, Mark James, and Wayne Thompson. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. Chamber,Classical,Country,Pop. 9 pages. Adrian Gagiu #1039092. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1460152). The score and parts of a new, soft arrangement for string quartet, almost in Classical style, of Always On My Mind, the beautiful crossover ballad once made famous by Elvis Presley. The present arrangement is some sort of a dialog between cello and first violin and has some rhythmic variations, not exactly imitating the voice in the original version, and it has a rather lush texture and occasional bittersweet, passing dissonances. Perhaps it's too nostalgic to be played by string quartets at weddings, yet it fits any occasion based on reminiscing.Total duration: 4 min. 6 sec. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

Harpsichord,Instrumental Duet,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1452014 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. 21st Century,Baroque,Celtic,Classical,Irish. 18 pages. Adrian Gagiu #1031328. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1452014). Score and violin part of Sonatina in D major for Baroque violin and harpsichord, in 2 movements (Andante and Allegro), with quite veiled allusions to Handel and the traditional tunes Drunken Sailor and Irish Washerwoman. Rather easy, nostalgic and fun. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The mp3 recording is the entire Sonatina (at a semitone lower, according to one of the most frequent Baroque tunings). Total duration: 10 min.

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1444308 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. Classical. Score. 5 pages. Adrian Gagiu #1024222. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1444308). In 1797-1798, Beethoven sketched a piano sonata in E flat major which remained unfinished, yet its simple, Haydnesque Finale is the most elaborate movement. For this world premiere realization (suggested by Armando Orlandi at the Centro Ricerche Musicali www.lvbeethoven.it and dedicated to them), only completion of harmony was needed, as well as a few editorial choices to delete some unneeded asymetry and to repeat the codetta of the theme in the end with a different, more stable harmonization. Useful for people interested in studying Beethoven's sketches and the evolution of his style, as well as for intermediate piano students. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The mp3 recording was made on a Walter fortepiano (1790). Total duration 6 min.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1424272 By Cage The Elephant. By (P/k/a Caitlyn Smith), Caitlyn Elizabeth Gaalswyk, and Matthew Shultz. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. Pop,Rock. 12 pages. Adrian Gagiu #1005462. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1424272). Arrangement for string quartet of Cage the Elephant's emotional song Out Loud. Total duration 3:20 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1415801 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Adrian Gagiu. Classical. 190 pages. Adrian Gagiu #997496. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1415801). Score and parts of a premiere realization of some of Beethoven's sketches for the first movement of another Symphony in C major before the First, dubbed 'No. 0' or Unv. 2 by some: 1. 'Overture' (Andante con moto - Allegro con brio), 2. Tempo di menuetto. Useful for people interested in Beethoven's sketches and for students of the Classical style. In 1794-1796, Beethoven made extensive concept sketches mostly for the first movement of this abortive symphony. The material is abundant and sometimes contradictory, as usual with his preliminary work, and he recycled later from this one only the main theme of the Finale of the completed Symphony No. 1. For this speculative realization, suggested by Mr. Armando Orlandi at the Centro Ricerche Musicali and dedicated to them, only the more promising sketches were utilized, and the slow introduction was assembled from the ones in cut time, while those in triple time make up now a Minuet. Virtually every bar of music here includes the sketches, also in the elaboration and coda of the 'overture', only with a few transpositions needed for assembling the sonata form and for the repeats in the Minuet. Obviously, Beethoven would have done it much differently, had he decided to continue working on this symphony, and the question remains regarding the utility of recycling material abandoned by some classical composer. However, this gives one an approximate idea of one of the many possibilities implied by the preliminary sketches for his Symphony 'No. 0'. Total duration 15 minutes. The mp3 audio clip is the first movement. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1004701 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 5 pages. Adrian Gagiu #4767217. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1004701). Evocative piece for piano with complex, colorful chords in Impressionistic and Modernist style. Appropriate for piano students. Duration: 4 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

Choral Choir (4-Part) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1004729 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. 20th Century,Contemporary,Opera. Octavo. 347 pages. Adrian Gagiu #6412579. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1004729). Opera in 3 acts for 12 singers, choir and orchestra, in English, on a libretto by Gene Tyburn adapted after Shakespeare's tragedy. Neo-Romantic style, with some colorful, Impressionist harmonies and expressive vocal lines, mostly gloomy and brooding, but also with ironic and dramatic moments.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1004720 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. 20th Century,Christian,Contemporary. Octavo. 19 pages. Adrian Gagiu #6201665. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1004720). Contemporary tonal and modal setting in G for SATB chorus and organ of the traditional canticles, based on the ancient tonus peregrinus and two archetypal pentatonic scales. Each of the canticles is treated in various textures, homophonic and polyphonic, with corresponding themes and mirroring sections that are contributing to the unity of the composition, and is framed by a meditative organ prelude, interlude and postlude, respectively.

Viola Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1004714 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Adrian Gagiu #5041073. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1004714). Arrangement for solo viola of Sphynx (Homage to Enescu), op. 33 no. 5 (2007), a neoclassical piece for solo flute based on motifs from Enescu's oeuvre and traditional Romanian music. Duration: 3 min. 30 sec. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1357497 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary. 291 pages. Adrian Gagiu #942043. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1357497). The orchestral parts of the Third Symphony (2000, revised 2023), an ambitious, modernist/neoclassical composition for orchestra and chorus with four vocal soloists. It may represent a search for harmony within and/or without and is a huge, subtle variations form on a theme that appears clearly and in full only in the Finale.The chromatic, first movement (Andante maestoso) begins mysteriously with A's in the unaccompanied violins, like a tuning or a seed of what is to come. These A's are adorned with oscillations which gradually become wider leaps until they reach the fifth (as in the beginning of the future full theme), and the other instruments join gradually. The mood is dark, tragic, pensive, and somehow abstract, as the music wanders in an almost improvisatory manner through chromatic modes and goes crescendo-decrescendo back again to the bare, cryptic A's.The energetic second movement (Allegro) is an enormous scherzo toying with the second melodic cell of the full theme, a descending tetrachord. This vital, Dionysian frenzy (in strong contrast to the Apollonian, severe contemplation in the first movement) leads only to its exhaustion and to the disorientated, slow Trio: first, an almost atonal tenor monologue accompanied by harp (on verses from Dante's Purgatory), then a quotation from Beethoven's sketches for a planned overture on the B-A-C-H motif, followed by a fugal section on the same archetypal motif and again a tenor monologue (on verses from Eminescu's Satire No. 4), this time with organ accompaniment and more and more tortured until the choral exclamations and the final cymbal clash. The search seemed in vain, so the rhythmic fury of the scherzo returns, but in mirror, as minor modes replaced the major ones on the same material.The Finale (Larghetto-Allegro-Larghetto) was inspired by the last scene in Goethe's Faust, part 2. After a cryptic variation for choir a cappella, the full theme appears at last in the orchestra, setting a lyric, appeased mood and more diatonic harmonies, while it reconciles the introspection of the first movement and the emotional and vital aspects of the second, although occasional attempts are made to escape, striving more and more towards the ending (with four vocal soloists and chorus). The parenthetic structure of the finale is a holographic reflection of the general form of the whole symphony, alternating gentle, contemplative episodes with exuberant or majestic fugatos. Towards the ending, ecstatic, big, complex quartal chords suggest the limits of perception and language (on the final stanzas from Dante's Paradise), until the sonority becomes again more and more rarefied and the journey returns to its starting point from the first movement: the 'tuning' A's in the violins.Total duration: 54 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The mp3 audio clip is the second movement.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1277132 Composed by Adrian Gagiu. 21st Century,Christian,Classical,Latin. Octavo. 128 pages. Adrian Gagiu #868444. Published by Adrian Gagiu (A0.1277132). Missa Solemnis in B major, op. 27, vocal score and piano part (for rehearsal purposes only). Based on its Neo-classical style, this setting of the Roman Catholic mass text could possibly work as a festive mass (missa solemnis) with trumpets and timpani, and its duration would fit such a solemn service. However, its intense and sometimes dramatic treatment and universal addressability due to its well-known and rather concentrated text, yet also due to eliminating the „Filioque� (which would still fit the rhythm of the repeated „qui ex Patre�, should any Catholics ever wish to perform this as a mass) make it rather a „liturgical oratorio for all nations�, more appropriate in the concert hall. The work has had a long gestation: imagined in 1984 after the composer’s first contact with Beethoven’s masterpiece, then sketched first in 1987-1989, and many of its themes date back from those years. Its working out is quite polyphonic, discretely modal and cyclical, and also full of centuries-old musical symbols traditionally associated with the setting of the mass text: e.g. unisons for the more dogmatical parts, Baroque dotted rhythms at the Nativity (the first coming of the  King of Kings), „rex caelestis� and also at his Passion (whose setting is discretely inspired by folkloric Romanian laments), the „anabasis� gesture at „Gloria in excelsis Deo�, „et ascendit in caelis�, „in remissionem peccatorum� and the resurrection, a flute trill standing for the Holy Spirit who has come ’like a dove’ at „et incarnatus est�, a cross-shaped texture at „crucifixus�, and some word-painting (hushed sonorities at „et invisibilium�, anticipations between orchestra and chorus at „et exspecto� etc.). Moreover, certain symbolic roles are assigned to the instrumental groups when alone (the organ represents God the Father and transcendence, the winds and/or solo voices represent God the Son and humanity, and the strings represent the Holy Spirit). „Kyrie� is restrained and soft, besides the powerful chords opening the respective sections of its tripartite, simple structure, and it leans towards Palestrina’s serene modality and counterpoint. „Gloria� begins with a colorful orchestral introduction depicting discretely the shepherds who kept watch over their flocks right before the Nativity, and then gradually the bright revelation. „Credo� has an orchestral introduction as well, but powerful, recurring and based on the beginning of the plainchant hymn „Pange lingua�, made famous by Mozart’s last symphony and by other Classical composers. Both „Gloria� and „Credo� end with extended, powerful and elaborate fugues („in gloria Dei Patris� and „et vitam venturi saeculi�, respectively) with dramatic modulations and sometimes with enthusiastic syncopations at odds with the words’ accents, a la Stravinsky. The same sections plus „Agnus Dei� end with soft quartal harmonies suggesting transcendent appeasement (similar harmonies appear powerfully at the beginning of „Sanctus�). „Judicare� quotes the beginning of the well-known „Dies irae� plainchant tune, and the Consecration between the „Sanctus� and „Benedictus� sections is represented by a contemplative prelude for solo organ, quoting Lutheran chorales, too. Another long orchestral introduction, suggesting the Last Judgment and based on traditional Byzantine hymns, opens „Agnus Dei�, which includes another quotation (the famous ’Dresden Amen’ at „qui tollis peccata mundi� and „dona nobis pacem�). In the final section, with its refined simplicity, the choral voices enter in descending order, and the „Kyrie eleison� theme is briefly remembered, then it ends softly and peacefully. Total duration: 50 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The mp3 audio clip is Kyrie.