Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Digital Download SKU: A0.890702 Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century. Score and parts. 13 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3424643. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890702). Changes for twenty nifty fingers (1995) duet 3 minutes This is the ‘simplest’ piece of the collection, and the oldest.  I wrote it during my undergraduate years at Bristol University in response to a task set by my then composition tutor Wyndham Thomas.  The given title Changes refers to the inspiration of the peeling of church bells – ringing the changes - where there is a simple ostinato pattern that undergoes a gradual metamorphosis.  This piece starts with the skeleton of this short repeated phrase (in 14/8) which gradually fills out, and then moves through two enormously tricky sections of phasing - in which the two pianists have overlapping bars of different lengths (14 and 15 quavers).  The duet finally builds to a dramatic climax in the third minute. So, this is a short minimalist piece, ultimately with its technical roots in American minimalism, although the material was more immediately inspired by the piano style of my older brothers, in particular my eldest brother Antony’s piano solo piece Dance of the Redeemed Creation - the style of which can be traced in many of my piano compositions.   Changes has been widely performed by the Kiev Piano Duo (Dmytro Tavanets and Oleksandra Zaytseva), and a recording (performed by Steven Kings and John Pitts) is available on CD 7 Airs & Fantasias and other piano music from www.johnpitts.co.uk - or as a download from Hyperion/1equalmusic: www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_1EMIPM08

Piano,Tuba - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.811197 Composed by Scott Joplin. Arranged by Ralph Sauer. Blues,Jazz. Score and part. 24 pages. Gordon Cherry #6118431. Published by Gordon Cherry (A0.811197). Ralph Sauer has brilliantly arranged Four Rags for Tuba and Piano by the great American King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin. They are:1. The Entertainer, 2. Reflection Rag, 3. Pleasant Moments, and 4. The CascadesThese works are so pleasant to perform and to listen to. They are appropriate for advanced performers and include about 15 minutes of music.

Bass Trombone,Instrumental Solo,Piano - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.811196 Composed by Scott Joplin. Arranged by Ralph Sauer. Blues,Jazz,Ragtime. Score and individual part. 24 pages. Gordon Cherry #6118435. Published by Gordon Cherry (A0.811196). Ralph Sauer has brilliantly arranged Four Rags for BassTrombone and Piano by the great American King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin. They are:1. The Entertainer, 2. Reflection Rag, 3. Pleasant Moments, and 4. The CascadesThese works are so pleasant to perform and to listen to. They are appropriate for advanced performers and include about 15 minutes of music.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.890689 Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 3 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3142035. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890689). From a collection of fourteen pieces 7 Airs & Fantasias for solo piano. The airs are essentially melody-dominated, and the fantasias are pieces in free form with a minimalistic use of repeated and rotating patterns.

French Horn,Piano - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1356286 Composed by Scott Joplin. Arranged by Ralph Sauer. 20th Century,Jazz,Ragtime. Score and part. 24 pages. Gordon Cherry #940959. Published by Gordon Cherry (A0.1356286). Ralph Sauer has brilliantly arranged Four Rags for Horn and Piano by the great American King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin. They are:1. The Entertainer, 2. Reflection Rag, 3. Pleasant Moments, and 4. The CascadesThese works are so pleasant to perform and to listen to. They are appropriate for advanced performers and include about 15 minutes of music.

C Instrument - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1389573 By The Moody Blues. By Justin Hayward. Arranged by Steve Katz. 20th Century,Pop,Rock. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 4 pages. Steve Katz #973165. Published by Steve Katz (A0.1389573). Laid back, mellow sixties song.  Easy-going, pleasant sound, pleasant day.

Organ - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.890713 Composed by John Pitts. Baroque,Christian,Contemporary,Sacred. Score. 20 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3424723. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890713). Passacaglia (2000-2012) for Organ - 6 minutes  This piece exists in versions for organ (this one - the original version in 2000) and orchestra (performed by Bristol University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of John Pickard in 2001), and finally a piano duet version completed in 2012.   The theme is based on the ground bass from Bach’s stonking Passacaglia in C minor for organ. However, the implied harmonies of Bach’s original ground bass are treated to some twisted harmonies – where each chord is altered using a system of harmonic substitution - swapping each chord implication for a newly chosen one (Cm=C, Fm=F#, G=A, Dm=A¨, Eb=F and on it goes around the 12 chromatic notes).  Each key therefore has a ‘dominant’ and ‘subdominant’ that are not the actual chords V and IV in that key, so the traditional cadences and chord relationships are supplanted by 12 individual 3-chord relationships – one set of three chords for each of the 12 (now almost exclusively major) keys. In an attempt to recreate the pulls of the traditional tonic-dominant-subdominant relationships, each key then also has a particular mode/scale with particular added notes that are designed to recreate the sense of moving away from and back towards the home chord of that key. This results in a lot of rich added harmonies and some idiomatic voice-leading. Bach’s original theme in Cm is: C G - E¨ F - G A¨  - F G - D E¨ - B C -   F G   - C, and in the opening statement of the ground bass this has become: C A - E F# - A B¨ - F# A - D# E - C# C - F# A - C. There are then 21 variations which modulate through a range of keys, during which the ground bass is constantly re-adjusted to fit the new harmonic areas. It starts in C major, then goes through ‘closely’ related keys (eg A major and A¨ major), and then back to C in variations 6, 9 and 11. This kind of arch then happens again but going through more distant keys before returning to C in variations 18, 19 and the final climactic variation 21. Leaving aside the structural and tonal nuts and bolts, my aim was to compose a piece that attempts to recapture some of the nobility and beauty of Bach's Passacaglia, with rich added note harmonies, and exuding an exuberant joy.

Solo Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.483131 Composed by J. R. Murray and W. J. Kirkpatrick. Arranged by Robert McCormack. Christmas,Classical,Holiday,Praise & Worship,Standards. Individual part. 2 pages. Published by Robert McCormak (A0.483131). This arrangement of the Christmas Carol, Away In a Manger, combines the two well known versions of the song. The arpeggiated introduction also serves as a bridge between the two iterations. It isn't as difficult as it appears and sounds as it climbs to the 15th fret G as the position changes are pretty user friendly. A peaceful and pleasant arrangement for a peaceful and pleasant song. Enjoy.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.890721 Composed by John Pitts, John Pitts. Patriotic,Romantic Period. Score. 4 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #4326203. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890721). Movement 2 from Uncle John's Sketchbook.  Uncle John's old music sketchbook was passed to me in the early 1990s, and it contains a small number of early sketches of musical ideas. In 2011 I turned the first of them into a short late-romantic-style nocturne (the period of music I always associated with him), and this is the second - a march.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.890686 Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3142023. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890686). From a collection of fourteen pieces 7 Airs & Fantasias for solo piano. The airs are essentially melody-dominated, and the fantasias are pieces in free form with a minimalistic use of repeated and rotating patterns.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.890681 Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 26 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #2957935. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890681). An Autumn Evening is a tranquil, relaxing, minimalistic piece for piano players of an intermediate standard (approximately grades 5-6). Easy listening. [25 pages]

Flute Trio,Woodwind Ensemble Flute - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1366457 Composed by Judith Katz. 19th Century,Baroque,Chamber. 7 pages. Judith Katz #950790. Published by Judith Katz (A0.1366457). A pleasant, level 2 trio, that could be a pleasant introduction composition to an ensemble concert, or an encore.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.890694 Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 6 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3142041. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890694). From a collection of fourteen pieces 7 Airs & Fantasias for solo piano. The airs are essentially melody-dominated, and the fantasias are pieces in free form with a minimalistic use of repeated and rotating patterns.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.890698 Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 6 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3142047. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890698). From a collection of fourteen pieces 7 Airs & Fantasias for solo piano. The airs are essentially melody-dominated, and the fantasias are pieces in free form with a minimalistic use of repeated and rotating patterns.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.890693 Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 5 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3142037. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890693). From a collection of fourteen pieces 7 Airs & Fantasias for solo piano. The airs are essentially melody-dominated, and the fantasias are pieces in free form with a minimalistic use of repeated and rotating patterns.