SKU: IZ.VMW141

6.75 x 10.5 in inches.

Joshua is an arrangement of the popular spiritual. This unique setting contains numerous examples of text painting, which bring the piece to life. Joshua begins with a catchy theme in the bass voice that reoccurs throughout the piece. This singular arrangement continually alternates the melody between all four voices parts.

Joshua received honorable mention in Imagine Music Publishing's 2009 Pathways Series Composition Contest.

SKU: A0.1122990

These lovely pieces were originally published in 1912, for violin & piano. They are beautiful examples of the music of Bridge and any or all of them would make excellent program material for a bassoonist.

SKU: A0.871351

When I Was Your Man is a song by American singer/songwriter Bruno Mars for his second studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). When I Was Your Man was written by Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt.
The track was inspired by the time Mars was worried about losing his girlfriend, Jessica Caban.

Arranged for instruments that uses the bass clef
Examples and not limited to:
Cello, Bass, Bass Guitar
Trombone, Tuba, Euphonium
Bassoon, Baritone Recorder
Marimba, Baritone Saxophone

Full Score

SKU: A0.1486677

The Ballades, Op. 10, are lyrical piano pieces written by Johannes Brahms during his youth. They were dated 1854 and were dedicated to his friend Julius Otto Grimm. Their composition coincided with the beginning of the composer's lifelong affection for the pianist and composer Clara Schumann, who was helping Brahms launch his career. Frédéric Chopin had written the last of his famous ballades only 12 years earlier, but Brahms approached the genre differently from Chopin, choosing to take its origin in narrative poetry more literally.

Brahms's ballades are arranged in two pairs of two, the members of each pair being in parallel keys. The first ballade was inspired by a Scottish poem Edward found in a collection Stimmen der Völker in ihren Liedern compiled by Johann Gottfried Herder. It is also one of the best examples of Brahms's bardic or Ossianicstyle; its open fifths, octaves, and simple triadic harmonies are supposed to evoke the sense of a mythological past.

This is my arrangement of no.1 in D minor for symphonic wind dectet (decet/double wind quintet) and bass.

SKU: A0.1292438

Prelude 20 in F# Minor Aolian from 24 Preludes for the Piano in Major and Minor Modes by composer Brian Golden

   The creative concept in writing these preludes is to provide a link to past preludes written for the keyboard, and in particular to the works of J.S. Bach and Frederic Chopin, whose works stand as essential repertoire for any student of the piano.  Using Bach’s and Chopin’s examples, my goal was to compose in all twenty-four keys, yet offer my own variation on the progression of key signatures – Bach’s being a pattern of major to parallel minor progressing chromatically through all keys, and Chopin’s a pattern of major to relative minor keys progressing clockwise through the circle of fifths.  In order to expand my harmonic and melodic possibilities, I have included the modal keys rather than only the major and harmonic minor keys, and have chosen to work counterclockwise through the circle of fifths, which is a more natural harmonic progression.  Therefore, all major preludes resolve from one to another V-I, as well as do all the minor preludes.
    While there are seven modal scales, I decided to leave out the locrian modes for the following reasons.  First, due to the diminished fifth, the locrian mode cannot be thought of as either major nor minor.  Second, the locrian mode did not have a relative key to pair with, since there were no other keys with the identical characteristic notes.
    In creating the key architecture, I determined that there was only one solution to pairing major and relative minor scales based on a shared parent key and characteristic note - ionian/aolian, mixolydian/phrygian and lydian/dorian.  This specific order of modal scales is the only order that would enable composing in all twelve key signatures.  Finally, the inspiration for each prelude came from playing through several other preludes in the same keys - mostly by Bach and Chopin - and letting their themes and styles influence me in the writing of my own.

SKU: IZ.CBW196

9 x 12 in inches.

As an ardent fan of film, I have found myself increasingly attracted to full-fledged scores for cinema. No matter if it's an arrangement of a specific piece, or an original composition, I find myself wanting to view a movie merely for the score.

When I was growing up, Westerns were a ubiquitous genre in Hollywood. In addition, New York City had a number of television stations that offered them as well. What all of these films and television programs had in common was, that they always had a strong, catchy and folksy theme. Prime examples were the themes to Bonanza, Wyatt Earp, Wanted Dead or Alive, etc.

I wrote The Opening of The West with the goal of having some catchy, folksy and iconic themes that people would remember. I would like to think that this could eventually become an iconic western score.

SKU: A0.1122997

These lovely pieces were originally published in 1912 for violin & piano. They are excellent examples of the beautiful music of Bridge and any or all of them would make a brilliant concert material for any oboist.