SKU: A0.592054

10 Spooky Halloween Duets is a fun collection of original compositions by David McKeown for one Flute and one Violin.

Each duet is a light-hearted portrait of a different Halloween character. Witches, ghosts, vampires and other favourites appear, with biographical details on each title page. The duets cover many musical styles, from classical to jazz and beyond.

The ten titles are, Derek the Deskbound Demon, Frankie the Frank Frankenstein, Mimi the Multicoloured Mummy, Phyllis the Photobombing Phantom, Polly the Polyrhythmic Poltergeist, Scott the Scatterbrained Skeleton, Vicky the Vegetarian Vampire, Walter the Weary Werewolf, Wendy the Wonky Witch and Zoe the Zen Zombie. 

These duets are ideal for players of an Intermediate to Advanced Intermediatestandard and above. While the keys and range are easily accessible for your instrument, there are plenty of accidentals and challenging rhythms. Click the link above to hear short samples of each duet on YouTube played on clarinet.

10 Spooky Halloween Duets are

• perfect for concert performances large and small; each piece lasts between three and four minutes.
• spooky pieces to get you and your audience in the mood for Halloween, but playable any time of year.
• fully articulated to help interpret each style.
• great for helping with complex rhythms.
• road tested with scores of students and performed all over the world.
• fun to play.
• an exciting introduction to different musical styles.
• 38 pages adding up to more than half an hour of quality music.

There are many more top quality arrangements and compositions by David McKeown for you to browse at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/david-mckeown/6203

SKU: A0.592080

10 Spooky Halloween Duets is a fun collection of original compositions by David McKeown for two Alto Saxophones.

Each duet is a light-hearted portrait of a different Halloween character. Witches, ghosts, vampires and other favourites appear, with biographical details on each title page. The duets cover many musical styles, from classical to jazz and beyond.

The ten titles are, Derek the Deskbound Demon, Frankie the Frank Frankenstein, Mimi the Multicoloured Mummy, Phyllis the Photobombing Phantom, Polly the Polyrhythmic Poltergeist, Scott the Scatterbrained Skeleton, Vicky the Vegetarian Vampire, Walter the Weary Werewolf, Wendy the Wonky Witch and Zoe the Zen Zombie.

These duets are ideal for players of an Intermediate to Advanced Intermediatestandard and above. While the keys and range are easily accessible for your instrument, there are plenty of accidentals and challenging rhythms. Click the link above to hear short samples of each duet on YouTube played on clarinet.

10 Spooky Halloween Duets are

• perfect for concert performances large and small; each piece lasts between three and four minutes. 
• spooky pieces to get you and your audience in the mood for Halloween, but playable any time of year. 
• fully articulated to help interpret each style. 
• great for helping with complex rhythms. 
• road tested with scores of students and performed all over the world.
• fun to play. 
• an exciting introduction to different musical styles. 
• 38 pages adding up to more than half an hour of quality music. 

There are many more top quality arrangements and compositions by David McKeown for you to browse at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/david-mckeown/6203

SKU: A0.762328

Hear the jackolanterns being jittery on Halloween night!  All the ghosts and goblins have made them nervous!  This fun piece is written in a minor key to set the mood for Halloween.  Written in Middle C position, adding eighth notes, even the newest of students will be able to have fun playing this piece.  Easy to read with large font and fingering added, this piece is sure to please your beginner students!

SKU: A0.869183

Instrumentation:
2 Flutes, piccolo
2 Oboes
2 Clarinets in Bb
2 Bassoons
2 French Horns in F
2 Trumpets in Bb
3 Trombones
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion 1: triangle, claves, tom-toms, cow-bells
Percussion 2: snare drum, bass drum
1st Violin
2nd Violin
Viola
Cello
Double bass

This is a transposed score.

Program note:
My love affair with the city of Rome dates back to the year 1986-87 when I spent just under eleven months at the American Academy in Rome on a Rome Prize Fellowship. During that Fellowship year I was very much inspired by the beauty and culture of the Eternal City, which resulted in a number of works that continue to resonate with me: Twenty-nine Fireflies Book II for solo piano; Concertino for trumpet, timpani and strings; Apples … six dreams by Richard Kenney; String Quartet No 5 … Four Birthdays; and Chôrinhos … opus 38.

Since 1997 my wife, Kristin Beckwith, and I have returned to the American Academy in Rome almost every year. I would compose in the morning and then my wife and I would go to our usual haunt at Bar G. for cappuccini and cornetti. And then we’d go to the local bakery and street markets and buy stuff for lunch. In the afternoon we would wander into the city to go shopping and sight-seeing. In the evenings we would dine at one of our favorite local trattorias. Life could not be better in Rome.

Musically speaking, several important works in my portfolio had their beginnings during these sojourns at the Academy , among them Yo Picasso, Flauta Carioca, Mass for the Holy Year 2000, Symphony No. 5 … Utopia Parkway, Twenty-nine Fireflies Books IV & V, and Piano Concerto … Mozartiana.

Just before the 2008 recession, clarinetist extraordinaire Jonathan Cohler asked me to write a symphony for the inaugural concert of a new orchestra he was planning to create. I came up with Symphony No. 7 … Roman Holidays, my give back to the city of Rome – a compendium of favorite places that continue to live in my thoughts and musings. Although the work is heard in four movements, it is actually divided into seven sections, as in the seven hills of Rome.

1. Prelude: Fontana Paola and the panoramic view of the city of Rome from that vantage point.
2. First interlude: La Befana festivities at Piazza Navona. The Protestant Cemetery in Testaccio at night under a full moon.
3. Second interlude: Fontana delle Tartughe in the Jewish Ghetto. Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne at the Galleria Borghese.
4. Third interlude: Bernini’s Beata Ludovica Albertoni in Trastevere. The Spanish Steps and the view of Rome from the French Academy at Villa Medici.

NB: Unfortunately, thanks to the recession, Roman Holidays never saw the light of day. This year (2013) I decided to revisit the work, which lay dormant for 5 five years, and saw that it could use a little tweaking. The new version is essentially the same, musically speaking. I reduced the orchestration a bit (two horns instead of four, and two trumpets instead of three) and added more heft to the lower brass. I completely rewrote the tune for the floating foreign ghosts at the Protestant Cemetery. I also shortened the work by about three minutes by cutting some repeats.

Enjoy!!!

Audio link: https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-no-7-roman-holidays-2008-rev-2013

Video link: https://youtu.be/1DlzEOUmH54

SKU: A0.592082

10 Spooky Halloween Duets is a fun collection of original compositions by David McKeown for two Tenor Saxophones.

Each duet is a light-hearted portrait of a different Halloween character. Witches, ghosts, vampires and other favourites appear, with biographical details on each title page. The duets cover many musical styles, from classical to jazz and beyond.

The ten titles are, Derek the Deskbound Demon, Frankie the Frank Frankenstein, Mimi the Multicoloured Mummy, Phyllis the Photobombing Phantom, Polly the Polyrhythmic Poltergeist, Scott the Scatterbrained Skeleton, Vicky the Vegetarian Vampire, Walter the Weary Werewolf, Wendy the Wonky Witch and Zoe the Zen Zombie. 

These duets are ideal for players of an Intermediate to Advanced Intermediatestandard and above. While the keys and range are easily accessible for your instrument, there are plenty of accidentals and challenging rhythms. Click the link above to hear short samples of each duet on YouTube played on clarinet.

10 Spooky Halloween Duets are

• perfect for concert performances large and small; each piece lasts between three and four minutes.
• spooky pieces to get you and your audience in the mood for Halloween, but playable any time of year.
• fully articulated to help interpret each style.
• great for helping with complex rhythms.
• road tested with scores of students and performed all over the world.
• fun to play.
• an exciting introduction to different musical styles.
• 38 pages adding up to more than half an hour of quality music.

There are many more top quality arrangements and compositions by David McKeown for you to browse at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/david-mckeown/6203

SKU: A0.593671

10 Easy Halloween Duets is a fun collection of original compositions by David McKeown for one Oboe and one Bassoon.

Each duet is a Halloween flavoured snack. Witches, ghosts, vampires and other favourites appear, with cartoon illustrations on each page. The duets cover many different styles, each as spooky as the rest..

The ten titles are, Monstrous Mango, Phantom Phries, Pumpkin Pizza, Skeleton Soup, Spectral Sausage, Spider Sandwich, Vegetable Vampire, Werewolf Waffle, Witchy Watermelon and Zombie Zucchini.

These duets are ideal for players of an Early Intermediate to Intermediate standard and above. The keys and range are as accessible as possible for your instrument. Click the link above to hear short samples of each duet on YouTube played on clarinet.

10 Easy Halloween Duets are

• perfect for concert performances large and small; each piece lasts between one and two minutes.
• spooky pieces to get you and your audience in the mood for Halloween, but playable any time of year.
• fully articulated to help interpret each style.
• great for helping with simple rhythms and developing that internal pulse.
• road tested with scores of students and performed all over the world.
• fun to play.
• an exciting introduction to different musical styles.
• 16 pages adding up to around a quarter of an hour of quality music.

If you enjoyed these duets or are looking for something more challenging for Halloween, then use the search bar to find 10 Spooky Halloween Duets for the same instrumentation, which are written with Intermediate to Advanced Intermediate players in mind.

There are many more top quality arrangements and compositions by David McKeown for you to browse at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/david-mckeown/6203