Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1111262 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Chamber,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 12 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #713542. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.1111262). Interlude and the Cleansing 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 second song in a cycle beginning with The Calculus of Division, which centers on a plot by the more advanced centipedes to dominate the millipedes by sowing doubt in math and thereby divide them into factions. While distracted, the carnivorous centipedes will eat the detritivorous—eating organic waste such as rotting wood—millipedes’ young. Interlude and the Cleansing is a story of the Black on Brown faction that is described in the first song as “sustained by fear and dread.� In the song, one of the Black on Browns has been found murdered. The chemical traces of his last thoughts and words are cleansed from his body. The song is the second in a trilogy of songs set in this unforgiving universe.

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.

Small Ensemble English Horn,Oboe,Piano,Trumpet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837502 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary. Score and parts. 60 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5868511. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837502). For oboe doubling English horn, trumpet doubling flugelhorn, and piano. An alternate part for oboe alone is include for use only if English horn is not available. String orchestra parts and score are sold separately and available upon request.

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Medium Voice,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837494 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary,Rock. Score and parts. 13 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5731611. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837494). 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 2. May 1974, a Greyhound Bus (duration – 4:08)                  The Majik Bus to Cohoes  A young stage manager takes a long bus ride to a new job in Cohoes, NY only to be visited in a dream by the ghost of Eva.            There was a girl with wild eyes glaring from the house.            She looked so wounded!

Piano,Voice Duet Baritone Horn TC,Piano,Soprano voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1101414 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Multicultural,World. 52 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #704802. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.1101414). I. Hammering on Rocks text by Joseph Ross II. Normal text by Reginald Harris III. My Body Holds Stones text by Laura Tohe IV. The Museum of Stones text by Carolyn Forché. Quarry Songs were written as a project initiated by my long-time friend and colleague, Mark Evans. Mark and I have spent hundreds of hours rehearsing and performing together so when he asked me to participate in a project to create a song cycle as part of a residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire, I said yes immediately. Joining us were former students, now colleagues, Areli Mendoza-Pannone (soprano) and Robert Frazier (baritone). During our residency at Avaloch, the trio and I organized Zoom meetings with the poets and work-shopped many sections of the songs. I am immensely grateful for the contributions Mark, Areli, and Bobby made to this piece. I am especially indebted to the four amazing poets for their powerful, inspiring poems. These are works of courage, honesty, and craftsmanship and I’m humbled by the writer’s trust and generosity as I attempt to add a dimension to their work that is worthy of the source. The poems represent varied American perspectives of the artifacts of human existence and the trajectory of our culture(s), the human capacity to grow numb to suffering, the weight and cost of identity—self imposed and projected—on ourselves, our nation, and our children. Most importantly the poems witness our power to change the world through art. These poems recall the courage of Nelson Mandela, the paralysis that comes with the twenty year old war in Afghanistan, the lasting wounds of inflicted upon children in boarding schools designed to eradicate native cultures, and the markers of war and suffering that call as much for hope as for remorse. I chose poets whose voices represent not only suppressed perspectives but also the voices of Americans born of privilege, willing to use the power of art to focus the readers’ minds on the rough truths of our shared history as Americans.

Small Ensemble Cello,Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837510 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Arranged by Sonata Grendel Publishing. Concert,Folk,World. Score and parts. 12 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6459033. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837510). Oh Long Desired Day/Water Song was commissioned by Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO) student, Emma Edgar, who directed a 2021 Soundwalk project. The Soundwalk was a community project in conjunction with ESYO’s Young Leader program that entailed the creation of several compositions to be performed and recorded by ESYO students and played on a smartphone app while the listener enjoys a Memorial Day stroll through the lovely Washington Park trail in Albany, NY (see front cover).   The commission stipulated pieces inspired by Albany’s Dutch heritage. I wanted to also include a nod to the Native American peoples that lived in the area long before the Dutch settlers. The result is a trio for two clarinets-Emma and I are both clarinetists-and cello that combines the Dutch folk song, O dag o lang gewenste dag (Oh long desired day) and the Akwesasne Mohawk tune honoring the sustaining gift of water.

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

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

Composed by Brett L. Wery. Contemporary Classical, Latin Jazz, Latin, Recital. Score, Set of Parts. 71 pages. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (S0.246065). - Score,Set of Parts - Contemporary Classical,Latin Jazz,Latin,Recital - Sonata Grendel Publishing

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.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quartet Alto Saxophone,Baritone Saxophone,Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Saxophone - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837489 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary. 27 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5360153. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837489). 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.

Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837499 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary,Halloween. 13 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5792331. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837499). 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 4. October 1974, Cohoes (duration – 4:56)                  Confrontation and Finale The stage manager finally confronts the ghost residing in the hall. Your innocence was stolen but your youth was yours to lose. The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge,And so I stand for sacrifice.

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.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837496 Composed by Martin Rinkart. Arranged by Brett L. Wery. Holiday,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Octavo. 44 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5753937. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837496). SET B Conductor’s Score,Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, SATB Choir/Organ Now Thank We All Our God was originally written ca. 1636 by Protestant minister, Martin Rinkart. The melody is attributed to Lutheran Hymnist, Johann Crüger and was used in three J.S. Bach chorales but the most common version we hear today was harmonized by Felix Mendelssohn in 1840. Martin Rinkart was a deacon in Eisleben Germany where he served during the Thirty Years’ War. The city of Eisleben and Rinkart’s own home became a sanctuary for political refugees during the war. The resulting overcrowding in the walled city resulted in a horrible plague which hit its peak in 1637. Rinkart was the only surviving pastor in the city and before the plague was over he would preside over 4000 funerals include that of his own wife. Despite this, it was during this time that he wrote Now thank we all our God. This new setting of Now Thank We All Our God draws on Rinkart’s fierce spirit of optimism and faith in a time of desolation and despair. To paint the picture of the circumstances in which Rinkart wrote the hymn, this setting opens with the text from Psalm 13: How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?The setting turns quickly, in an act of disruptive optimism and faith, to a lopsided dance of joy. In the end, the setting returns to the opening question  of Psalm 13, How long? only to be answered by Rinkart’s declaration, Gifts of love today!

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