Small Ensemble Cello,English Horn,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837500 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary. Score and parts. 25 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5800881. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837500). The Passage of Orpheus was originally composed as the second movement of a Suite for Wind Ensemble. The original suite, Mortals, Gods, and Heroes, consisted of three short tone poems depicting three tales from Greek mythology. The Passage of Orpheus depicts Orpheus’s trip to the underworld to bring back his wife, Eurydice. The music is composed as set of variations that intertwines Orpheus’s theme with each of the characters he meets along the way: Charon the ferryman, Cerberus the three-headed dog, Sisyphus forever rolling a boulder up a hill, Persephone the queen of the underworld, and finally, his beloved Eurydice. Tragically, he fails to bring her back. This version was arranged for my wife and the love of my life, Karen-for whom I would gladly march into hell.

Clarinet Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837486 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Contemporary. Individual part. 25 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5011449. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837486). The Mpingo Parables were commissioned by clarinetist, Michele Von Haugg and inspired by her remarkable work with Clarinets for Conservation. Each summer Michele fearlessly leads a group of mild mannered clarinetists to Tanzania where she battles complacency, greed, corruption and ignorance to teach the youth of small communities to play the clarinet and plant the Mpingo tree, the source of clarinets, oboes, and piano keys. The Mpingo trees are planted in a sustainable manner and villages taught the potential of this important resource to enrich and empower their community.   Michele has made a career of teaching important lessons to everyone she encounters from the children of Tanzania to the faculty of local schools, government officials and local police forces, as well as her own staff of music educators. Michele teaches lessons of self-determination, persistence, foresight (the Mpingo takes sixty years to mature), tireless hard work, and courage. The Mpingo Parables are dedicated to Michele and the legion of amazed, exhausted, and enlightened students she leaves in her wake.

Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837497 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary. 7 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5770249. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837497). Letters From Cohoes was originally conceived for Baritone, flute, harp and string Quartet. The first movement is set in Eva Tanguay’s voice and works well dramatically for mezzo-soprano. Eva Tanguay (1879-1947) was born in Canada and billed herself as the girl who made vaudeville famous. She was known for her suggestive songs and extravagant costumes. She has been likened to Madonna or Lady Gaga. Her one recording was I Don’t Care in 1922. Her parents moved to Holyoke, Massachusetts in the 1880’s and she began her career as a teenager at the Cohoes Music Hall. At the age of nineteen she made her debut in New York City. Tanguay was the highest paid woman of her day but was said to have lost more than two million dollars in the Wall Street crash of 1929. Tanguay had a reputation for outlandish behavior and was once fined $50 in Louisville, Kentucky for throwing a stagehand down a flight of stairs. She died, blind and nearly destitute, at the age of 68 in Hollywood. In 1953 Mitzi Gaynor portrayed Eva Tanguay in a fictionalized version of her life in the motion picture, The I Don’t Care Girl. Her ghost is said to still haunt Cohoes Music Hall in upstate New York. Letters from Cohoes is a highly fictionalized, musical portrayal of Eva Tanguay’s ghost. In its original form it was scored for flute (doubling on alto flute, contrabass flute and piccolo), harp, string quartet and solo baritone. It is in four movements, taking the form of letters. Letter 3. June 1974, Cohoes (duration – 2:15)                 Wish List Fundraising The new stage manager writes a letter to the producers asking for funds to equip the shop. All I need is some money for a hammer and nails, some duct tape, and a circular saw. That's all I need, and a C clamp, maybe two.

Woodwind Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837509 Composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, Medieval Plainchant. Arranged by Brett L. Wery. Christian,Christmas. 4 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6183633. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837509). Of Our Father’s Silent Night combines the medieval plainchant, Of Our Father’s Love Begotten (Divinum mysterium), and the 1818-advent hymn, Silent Night, composed by Austrian schoolteacher, church organist and composer, Franz Xaver Gruber. It is a simple arrangement that focuses on the similarities of the two instruments in a gentle contemplative setting. Duration – 3 minutes

Instrumental Duet Harp,Instrumental Duet,Soprano Saxophone - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837505 Composed by Bela Bartok. Arranged by Brett L. Wery. Contemporary. Score and parts. 7 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6015277. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837505). Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík was originally written for piano by Hungarian composer, Béla Bartók, and reportedly later arranged for recorder and piano by the composer himself. There is much speculation about when the piece was actually composed. Some put it as late as 1918. Bartók revised and published the three-movement set through Boosey & Hawkes in 1942 after moving to the United States at a time in his life when he was barely making a living by publishing old manuscripts. The county of Csík was once part of Hungary and its territory is now in the eastern Transylvanian region of Romania. Duration - 3:00

Clarinet - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Brett L. Wery. Romantic Period, Classical Period, Method, Etudes and Exercises, Technique Training. Individual Part. 292 pages. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing

Clarinet Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837506 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary,Instructional. Individual part. 5 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6051009. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837506). Capriccio was originally written in 1984 while I was a clarinet student at the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts in Winston Salem, NC under the tutelage of Robert Listokin. Bob Listokin was one of greatest individuals I’ve ever known. He taught me so much more than how to play the clarinet. His example of love, humility, and kindness has been a guiding force throughout my life. This little piece was written while I was little more than a child and one of the few compositions that I would risk publishing today. As I sat down to revise it, I was amazed at how it foreshadowed many of the defining characteristics of my current style. The piece has been murmuring in the back of my mind for thirty-six years much in the same way that I still feel Mr. Listokin’s gentle hand on my shoulder telling me to relax. Duration - 3:20

Small Ensemble Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837507 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary. Score and parts. 26 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5997463. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837507). M45 is the Messier catalog number for an open star cluster better known as the Pleiades. Originally for chamber orchestra, Oot-kwa-tah is dedicated to SUNY Schenectady County Community College on the forty-fifth anniversary of the college’s establishment as part of the State University of New York. The college sits on land that was once part of the Mohawk nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. Oot-kwa-tah is inspired by the Iroquois legend of M45, the Pleiades star cluster. The Iroquois tell a story about seven children who met each day and danced for hours at a time instead of doing chores. An old man appeared to them one day as they danced. He shone magnificently like silver and was clad from head to toe in brilliant white feathers. The old man warned them to stop dancing lest something terrible happen to them. Ignoring the old man’s warning and growing more and more hungry and lightheaded the children began to rise into the air. If only they had listened to me, the old man thought. As the children’s parents gathered, one little boy heard his father’s voice below. The little boy looked down and saw his father. At that instant he fell back to earth. The other children continued to float higher and higher into the sky to become the Pleiades star cluster. The Iroquois call them Oot-kwa-tah and are reminded of these reckless children each time they see a falling star. Duration: 5:00

Woodwind Ensemble Alto Flute,Bass Flute,Piccolo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1092409 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Contemporary. 78 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #696503. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.1092409). Variants and Strains was commissioned by the SILVERSMITHS and the New Jersey Wind Symphony Flute Ensemble. A twelve minute, through composed work, Variants and Strains is in three sections representing the pre-COVID world, COVID lock-down, and “post� COVID world. It explores the manic pace of our world, the isolation, loneliness, and loss of the pandemic, and the disruption and change brought about by the virus. The composition is meticulously created around mathematic principles of symmetry and proportion. It contains musical references to the traditional English folk melody, Kingsfold, used in Vaughan Williams’ Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus and the Gregorian antiphon, In paradisum used in the Latin liturgy of the Western Church Requiem Mass which includes the text, “May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once (a) poor (man), may you have eternal rest..

Composed by Brett L. Wery. 21st Century, Neo-Classical. Score, Set of Parts. 27 pages. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (S0.240799). - Score,Set of Parts - 21st Century,Neo-Classical - Sonata Grendel Publishing

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quartet Flute - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837477 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary. 87 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #3113489. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837477). sunrise on Patriots’ Day an unnatural silence a public test of private will: Toccata and Chorale a tough and resilient town is written in honor of the city of Boston, Massachusetts and the victims of the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line. The work is challenging, moving, and ultimately uplifting. The first movement depicts the celebratory morning of the race. The second movement depicts the shock of disbelief in the moments immediately following the explosion that killed three and wounded more that 260. The third movement honors the fierce will and determination of the people of Boston as they fought to reclaim their city and as they worked together in the aftermath of the bombing.

Instrumental Duet Horn,Instrumental Duet,Trombone - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837513 Composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, Medieval Plainchant. Arranged by Brett L. Wery. 20th Century,Christmas,Classical. Score and parts. 4 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6657115. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837513). Of Our Father’s Silent Night combines the medieval plainchant, Of Our Father’s Love Begotten (Divinum mysterium), and the 1818-advent hymn, Silent Night, composed by Austrian schoolteacher, church organist and composer, Franz Xaver Gruber. It is a simple arrangement that focuses on the similarities of the two instruments in a gentle contemplative setting.

Composed by Brett L. Wery. 21st Century, Impressionistic, Neo-Classical, Recital. Score, Set of Parts. 38 pages. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (S0.242791). - Score,Set of Parts - 21st Century,Impressionistic,Neo-Classical,Recital - Sonata Grendel Publishing

Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1120812 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Classical,Contemporary. 12 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #722023. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.1120812). The Answer is a science-fiction song set in a universe where myriapods—a subphylum of arthropods containing millipedes and centipedes—are sentient and sapient. The song is the third song in The Pedesterra Cycle including The Calculus of Division and Interlude and the Cleansing. The songs center on a plot by the more advanced centipedes to dominate the millipedes in order to sow doubt in math and thereby divide them into factions. While the millipedes distracted, the carnivorous centipedes will eat the detritivorous—eating organic waste such as rotting wood—millipedes’ young. The Answer is a soliloquy by the charlatan leader of the Brown on Black faction described in the first song as “sustained by fear and vindication.� In the song, the sham politician betrays their allegiance to the centipedes who have aided their rise to power. The song is the third in a trilogy of songs set in this unforgiving universe of Pedesterra.

Flute Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837512 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Instructional. Individual part. 96 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6710119. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837512). A Tonal Lexicon for Flute is a complete method for scale and arpeggio training on flute. It contains the basic vocabulary of tonal music and includes: ·      Chromatic Scales·      Diminished Scale·      Dominant Seventh Chords·      Dorian Scales·      Full-Range Major Scales·      Full-Range Melodic Minor Scales·      Fully-Diminished Seventh Chords·      Half-Diminished Seventh Chords·      Harmonic Minor Scales·      Major Scales·      Major Seventh Chords·      Major Triads·      Melodic Minor Scale in Thirds·      Melodic Minor Scales·      Minor Seventh Chords·      Minor Triads·      Mixolydian Scales·      Natural Minor Scales·      Scales in Thirds·      Scales in Trills·      Whole Tone Scales Scales and arpeggios are ordered so that they progress logically, one to the other. This order contextualizes the melodic and harmonic structures so that the performer begins to develop a natural sense of how the scales and arpeggios function within a tonal framework. The scales and arpeggios are divided into three large units that include both major and minor keys, easy and difficult keys. The close relationship of each key is emphasized to build automaticity in fingering patterns. Enharmonic keys are represented in both spellings and non-diatonic scales such as whole tone and chromatic scales are spelled as they would be found in each of the fifteen key signatures. The use of octave designation symbols is avoided so that the player is able to acclimate themselves to the many ledger lines sometimes found in flute music. This is an essential book for any serious flute player who wishes to build reading acuity and fluency in any tonal setting.