Brass Quintet - Grade 3 - Digital Download SKU: DX.145510 Composed by Leila N. Morris. Arranged by Dana F. Everson. Sacred instrumental music. Sheet Music. Traditional. Score and parts. 17 pages. David E. Smith - Digital Sheet Music #145510. Published by David E. Smith - Digital Sheet Music (DX.145510). Scored as a traditional bras quintet, the piece is a vigorous march in style and form. With fragments of the tune in the upper brass and answered in the lower voices. The second statement of the theme the roles are reversed. A modulation takes place and the theme is fragmented amongst the parts. Imitation takes place with some Q&A where it all leads up to a joyous conclusion. It sounds and feels like a school Fight Song.

Tenor voice and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q47873 Eleven pieces for tenor and piano. Composed by Thomas Larcher. Downloadable. Duration 25 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q47873. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q47873). German.Larcher’s original work for tenor and prepared piano is shaped closely around the text of short poems and fragments collected by the composer. Despite its fragmentary nature a continuum is created, each 'song' led seamlessly on to the next by a thread of sound.3(2.picc, 3.bfl).3(2.triangle, 3.ca).3(3.bcl & cbcl).3(c.cbsn)-4.3.3(2.sus cum, 3.tri).1(tam-tam)-timp.4perc(glsp, vib (with bow), xyl, marimba, tub bells, crotales, sus cym, Chinese cym, 4 tri, 3 tuned gongs, cowbell, s.d., lg b.d., roto-toms, Indian drum, sandblocks, wind machine, guiro, flexatone, 2 milk pans with cake fork, oil barrel-acc.hp.pno(prepared)-str(14.12.10.8.6 (Db 4-6 5 stings)).

Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533667 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score and parts. 54 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3037087. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533667). Pittsburgh Concerto (2005) was written for the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and isdedicated to Amy Stabenow, concert manager at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Music. Thepiece was conceived as a tribute to the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.The work contains only two specific “programmatically inspiredâ€� images related toPittsburgh. They form the outer two sections of the work. The inner four sections areinspired more abstractly by various aspects of the city, its landscapes, and its people; theyfeature a series of solos and duets for many members of the orchestra – in the manner of a“concerto for orchestra.â€�The opening of the work is inspired by Pittsburgh’s history as America’s steel capital.Colors and sounds of the clangorous industrial age of America’s past are evoked. The basicmusical material (a six-note cell) for the entire work is presented in this aggressiveintroduction. Throughout the rest of the work, this basic material is developed in ways thatrange from lushly romantic to aggressively athletic.The following section is marked “slow, lushâ€� and features a duet first between trumpet andtuba, over warm harmonies in the orchestra. A brief duet for vibraphone and marimba leadsto an extended viola solo.The next section is fast and energetic. It begins with an athletic duet for English horn andbass trombone, followed by a ringing duet of tubular bells and crotales. The final solo is forviolin, as the orchestral texture disintegrates around it.The next section, marked “slow, mysticalâ€�, begins with a duet between piano and bassclarinet. A passionate horn duo follows before a passage for solo bass leads directly into thenext section.This section is fragmentary and halting. An unpitched duo of bass drum and flexatonebegins, leading to an aggressive and abortive duet between solo flute and bassoon. Finally,an extended cello solo closes the section.The final part of the work is inspired by my first visit to Pittsburgh. When driving in fromPittsburgh airport (which is far outside the city), the city itself is “hiddenâ€� from the road byhills. Upon reaching the hills, one enters the Fort Pitt tunnel and, after a few moments,emerges from it on a suspension bridge over the Monongahela River. Late at night, this wasa truly breathtaking moment as the city and its rivers emerged suddenly in a mass of glitteringlights. The ecstatic rush of the lighted city at night is portrayed in this section – amidstfragments from the opening, recalling the industrial past, now transformed into somethingnew.Instrumentation3 Flutes (3rd dbl. Picc.)2 OboesEnglish Horn3 Clarinets in BbBass Clarinet in Bb2 BassoonsContrabassoon4 Horns in F/Bb3 Trumpets in Bb2 TrombonesBass TromboneTubaTimpaniPercussion (3 players)I: tubular bells, bass drumII: vibraphone (motor off)III: crotales, marimba, flexatone(Percussion II needs two rosined bows.Percussion III needs one rosined bow.)PianoViolin IViolin IIViolaCelloContrabass(principal/solo contrabass must have machine extension to low Db)This is the score only.  The parts are available on rental from the publisher

Piano,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1208882 By Jeremiah Klarman. By Jeremiah Klarman. Arranged by Jeremiah Klarman. Chamber,Classical. 14 pages. Inner Places Music, LLC #806986. Published by Inner Places Music, LLC (A0.1208882). A heartfelt tribute to the victims of terror attacks and violence, specifically of the mass shootings in Paris and San Bernardino in 2015. Elegy is a musical journey through grief and contains fragments of themes that ultimately do not get resolved, in the same way that a loss is never fully healed. These motifs repeat recurringly and join together to make melodies, echoing the anger, shock, fear and sadness that so many people experience as a result of these tragedies. I found myself moved to tears while writing Elegy and it is one of my most vulnerable and personal pieces to date.

Saxophone Ensemble,Woodwind Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.755338 Composed by Sy Brandon. 20th Century,Contemporary. 81 pages. Sy Brandon #6619959. Published by Sy Brandon (A0.755338). Hope Collage was commissioned in honor of Hope College's 14th President, Matthew Scogin. President Scogin was inaugurated in 2019 and exemplifies the qualities of hope represented in this piece. The first movement Castles In The Sky is in 6/8 meter with some of the syncopated rhythmic figures that pit 3/4 against the 6/8. The major tonality is disguised by chromaticism either in the melody or in the counterpoint and harmony. The form is basically AB with a Coda. The slow second movement A Light at the End of the Tunnel has the tenor and baritone saxophones representing the darkness of the tunnel using minor and slightly dissonant harmony. The light at the end of the tunnel is represented by the alto and soprano saxophones. Even though they are still in minor, their brightness and rising arpeggios represent a glimmer of hope. By the time the movement nears the end, optimism has taken over and the entire ensemble is in shifting major tonalities leading up to the quiet, yet, prayerful end in B major. The third movement Knock On Wood has a Scherzo quality and is at an allegro tempo. The opening theme sets the tone of optimism with its combination of quartal, quintal, and triadic harmony along with staccato articulation. It is answered by the saxophones doing rhythmic slap tongue in a pyramid formation that represents knocking on wood. The theme and its variations alternate with the slap tongue throughout most of the movement. In several places, the theme and slap tongue appear in canon. Towards the end, the theme becomes fragmented and the slap tongue dominates. The fragments become pieced together leading to a final outburst of 16th note joy before the last chord. The movement ends with foot stomps that rhythmically suggests knock on wood. The last movement Promised Land is in two parts. The first is meditative and prayer-like in a moderate tempo. It has a passacaglia bass line and contrapuntal lines are added above it. It also grows in intensity until it reaches the Allegro, which is the second part and is celebratory. The Allegro begins with a sixteenth note motif that plays an accompaniment role in many places throughout the last section to the slower moving declarative lines. Near the end, motifs from the Moderato section are transformed in the Allegro, therefore linking the two sections.

String Quartet String Quartet - Digital Download SKU: A0.1027526 Composed by Martin Watt. Contemporary. Score and parts. 37 pages. Martin Watt #1988647. Published by Martin Watt (A0.1027526). The String Quartet no II comprises four movements: 1. Preludio, Passacaglia, Minuetto and Trio and Rondo. The first movement is fast and furious and cast in a modified sonata form - announcing two contrasting themes with a transitional section in between. The development section fulfills the role of various transformations and fragmental modifications of segmented thematic material, adding instabitily to the movement. The recapitulation is truncated, rather referential to the exposition and presented in reversed order. The second movement is a plaintive passacaglia, with a recurring eight-bar melody - in this case not traditional in nature as the bassline mostly carried the melody throughout, but nw distributed between all the string instuments. The theme is heard fourteen times. The use of textural contrast and canonic procedures add to the contrapuntal nature of the movement. The Minuetto and Tro movement is strikingly neo-tonal, and but sudden shifts of scalar centricities in the Minuetto add to suspension and elements of surprise. The Trio is more lyrical in character and fluttering fragments create dialogue between the members of the quartet. The last movement is cast in a modified Rondo form. The refrain parts are continuously presented in different textural and harmonic content. The alternating first episode draws material from the first movement and the second from the third movement, resulting in a cyclic structure of the work as a whole. The musical language is loosely based within extended tonality, with modal intersections and dissonant colours, making consonant sonoroties slightly ambiguous and unpredictable.2016 Chamber Music Contest Entry.

Bassoon, cello and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6353 Composed by Benjamin Schweitzer. This edition: performance score. Downloadable, performance score. Duration 13 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6353. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6353). Nausea (lat., seasickness, disgust) – Nenia (greek/lat., folksong, elegy, magical song): Two similar sounding terms, which offer, based on their ambiguity, lots of space to musical connotations. These subtitles of the two movements refer to a background idea of the piece – to bring musical gestures of anger on the one, mourning and desperation on the other hand together as close as possible. In both cases there are drudgingly dragged blocks of sound, circulating crumbles of motives, melodic fragments sometimes even reduced to single notes…. Nevertheless, in the end we can still hear an expanded relict of a drifty chant. Benjamin Schweitzer.

Guitar - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1390938 By Mark Greer. By Mark Greer. Arranged by Mark Greer. Christian,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred,Singer/Songwriter. Chords/Lyrics. 1 pages. The CHOSEN Company, LLC #974473. Published by The CHOSEN Company, LLC (A0.1390938). God Loves Me is a song of encouragement and support when the soul is feeling weary and discouraged. Title song from the upcoming album God Loves Me.Find more great music and videos at:www.chosen-company.uswww.markgreermusic.comwww.samsonthemusical.comwww.chosenthemusical.com.

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.972639 Composed by James Siddons. 20th Century,Folk,Holiday,Patriotic,Ragtime. Score and parts. 49 pages. James Siddons Music and Writings #3093043. Published by James Siddons Music and Writings (A0.972639). This composition, by composer, pianist, and musicologist James Siddons, is neither an  arrangement nor a medley. Rather, it is a kind of historical re-construction; one that  imagines how a typical piano rag of before 1905 would have sounded when performed  by a skillful vernacular pianist as a virtuosic improvisation.  A Million Buffalo Roam presents Tom Turpin's Buffalo Rag, Home On the Range, and the Star-Spangled Banner as an extended virtuosic display. It is a representation of a little-documented performance practice. After improvisatory passages on the three themes of The Buffalo Rag are heard individually, they are combined with the tunes of Home On the Range and the Star-Spangled Banner, including one passage in which Home On the Range and the Star-Spangled Banner are played simultaneously, combined with the accompaniment patterns of Buffalo Rag. This work may be performed as a piano duet, piano duo, or piano ensemble. It is also published as a Conductor's Score, with Primo and Secondo combined in one four-staff system.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1354154 By Amy J. Snyder. By Amy J. Snyder. Arranged by Amy J. Snyder. 20th Century,Ragtime. Score. 6 pages. Amy J. Snyder #938855. Published by Amy J. Snyder (A0.1354154). This fun, rag-time piano solo is reminiscent of early 1900 America. The style is typical of Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin movies. Arranged for advanced intermediate piano solo, in the key of G Major, with helpful fingering added. Written by Amy J. Snyder; if you enjoy this style, check out Amy's other compositions such as The Charleston Rag, Biking With My Baby, The Meowing Meanderer, Buster's Walk, The Union Pacific Railroad Rag, The Sandpiper Rag, The Sun Still Sets on the Mississippi River, and The South Carolina Blues.  Also arrangements such as Yankee Doodle Dandy, You're a Grand Old Flag, This Land Is Your Land, This Is My Country, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and The Washington Post. Visit Amy at https://www.facebook.com/amyjsnyder7

Tbn. pft. - Intermediate - Digital Download SKU: F2.FM601 Composed by Yuri Povolotsky. A substantial piece for Trombone and Piano. Score and part. 21 pages. Forton Music - Digital #FM601. Published by Forton Music - Digital (F2.FM601). ISBN 9790570485000.This composition was created in 2012. The imagery of this concert piece, composed in a vintage sprit, is imbued with memories and nostalgia, as the waltz-like movement, combined with dramatic and sometimes even tragic accompanying chords, reminds of a brass band, which appears as a mirage rather than a reality.

Concert band - Digital Download SKU: IZ.CBW205 Composed by Judith Katz. Score and Parts. 65 pages. Imagine Music - Digital #CBW205. Published by Imagine Music - Digital (IZ.CBW205). 9 x 12 in inches.Long before the tragic sinking of the Medusa, was the sinking of the French ship, The Medusa. The frigate Medusa was completed in 1806, launched in 1810, and saw action in the Napoleonic wars. In 1816, it set sail from French to its ultimate location in Senegal to repossess it from the British. Along with cargo, there were almost 400 people on board. What no one knew, however, was that there was an incompetent captain on board with dubious skills.The ship was caught in a storm off the coast of Mauritania. After being damaged from hitting rocks and multiple attempts to relaunch it, it couldn't move. Soon, it was discovered that there was a shortage of lifeboats. Most of the crew and some of the passengers made their way to the lifeboats, saving about 250 people. That left about 149 others on board. Crew members left on board scrambled to build a raft for the others. The raft was launched and tied to one of the lifeboats. The hope was that everyone would make it to land, almost 60 miles away. The horror came, when the captain ordered the raft to be cut loose, claiming, that it was slowing everyone else down. That left the raft survivors to their own devices.Multiple days at sea brought on starvation, death and disease. People starved to death, and acts of desperation came about, such as the weak, but alive, being thrown overboard, and even cannibalism. Many days later, when survivors were finally rescued, there were only 15 people left alive, with 5 of them dying soon afterwards. News of the disaster quickly reached France, where both the government and the people were thoroughly outraged. Newspapers covered the disaster, and eventually there were trials prosecuting the captain and the crew for negligence. This can be considered as the first documented sea disaster. In 1818, 27 year- old Theodore Gericault was so moved by this disaster, that he painted his masterpiece, The Raft of The Medusa. To this day, the painting, which is enormous in size and almost the size of the raft itself, hangs in the Louvre. This is my first attempt at program music. It was my hope that I captured the mood, the feeling, and above all, in all good program music, that my composition told the story.

Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.870431 Composed by Randy Steinberg. Contemporary,Patriotic. Score and parts. 183 pages. Randy A. Steinberg #6371009. Published by Randy A. Steinberg (A0.870431). This work for Concert Band commemorates those who so tragically lost their lives, family members and co-workers on one of the most tragic days in the history of this country on September 11, 2001. Rather than dwell on the sadness of that day, this work looks at the spirit of the families who lost loved ones as well as the national spirit of rebuilding and revival. This work comes with an optional narration part. It includes a full score (in 3 sizes - Letter, Legal and Tabloid) and a full set of parts.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.546809 By Edith Piaf. By Albert Willemetz, Jacques Charles, and Maurice Yvain. Arranged by Alpin Smart (transcription for voice and guitar). 20th Century,Blues,Film/TV,Jazz,Standards. Score. 3 pages. SmartWorks Publications #156743. Published by SmartWorks Publications (A0.546809). The arrangement of this classic jazz/blues/cabaret song is based on the earliest (1937) of (at least?) three recordings by the late, great Billie Holliday, and is closer in feel to the original French version, as sung by cabaret and movie star, Mistinguett. Of course, the most famous version (and most closely associated with Holliday) is the one recorded by Billie in the '50s; but, I like to think that this uptempo version is a truer reflection of this great singer - in happier times - when she loved to sing uptempo jazz (she never regarded herself as a blues singer, although she could sing the blues with the best of them! And, it's important to reflect that her most famous interpretation of this song was made when she was - tragically - at death's door, and blues was better suited to her mood, and a deeply-felt despair, at this time of her all too brief, and, ultimately tragic, life). Besides, the uptempo rhythms, I feel, lend the words more of a 'Brechtian' sense of irony and impact.

Instrumental Duet,Piano Instrumental Duet,Piano,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1127398 Composed by ROBERT VAN HORNE. Classical,Contemporary,Film/TV,Instructional,Multicultural,World. Score and parts. 26 pages. White Piano International Publishing #728022. Published by White Piano International Publishing (A0.1127398). THE FINAL WAVE for Violin & Piano Piano 22 pages / Violin 4 pages Approx. Time: 6:15 On Saturday afternoon, March 26, 2011, I was invited to a special meeting of Bay Area business people. Their purpose was wanting to help the victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan on March 11th. The meeting was organized by Mr. Alex Kurosawa, president of KPMF and held in San Jose, CA. At the end of the meeting and after much discussion about holding a series of concerts with all funds going to the disaster victims, it was suggested that I compose a new song for the project that would let those afflicted in Japan know they would not be forgotten.I was so inspired by the dedication and volunteerism of all the people at the meeting that I went home and composed a new piece of music entitled: THERE IS HOPE THROUGH MUSIC. After a favorable response from the group, I began composing another piece for violin and piano entitled: THE FINAL WAVE. In this piece, I tried to paint the horror, destruction, uncertainty and sadness of the disaster while giving hope for a future for the people who witnessed this catastrophic event. Unfortunately, THE FINAL WAVE was never completed as planned back in 2011. However, eleven years later, I completed this memorable piano and violin duet. Even though it’s been many years since that terrible day of March 11, 2011, the music can still convey emotions of melancholy, discord, resilience and compassion for tragic and unforeseeable events of today. This timeless work is dedicated to remember and give hope to all those affected by disasters and catastrophic tragedies. This advanced level of music is clearly notated for piano and violin and can be an extraordinary supplemental selection for recitals and concerts. This musical recording of THE FINAL WAVE is an electronic representation available in the notation program. Robert Van Horne is a long standing member of ASCAP. Official Website: www.robertvanhorne.comEmail: rvh@robertvanhorne.com.