Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939789 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century. Score. 5 pages. Richard St. Clair #3640583. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939789). This music, under 5 minutes in length, is highly passionate and deeply expressive. It is suitable for any occasion where serious music is being played. It is not virtuoso music, but it is highly contrapuntal and required a sensitive interpretation to bring out the subtle voicings.

Piano,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939784 Composed by Richard St. Clair. Contemporary. 23 pages. Richard St. Clair #3636473. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939784). SONG OF SORROW for Violin and Piano was the composer's musical threnody for the victims of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. The mood is pensive and mournful at the beginning, but proceeds through successive phases to a reaffirming conclusion of hope and transcendence. The music was composed days after 9/11. The score also has the violin part appended.

Piano,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939780 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Concert,Ragtime. 22 pages. Richard St. Clair #3628409. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939780). This jocular 6-minute neo-classical composition, a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, works well as an encore or any other concert programming. Structured freely in a rondo-form, the music has a catchy rhythm to tickle the listerner's ear. The violin part is appended to the score.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939797 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,World. Octavo. 9 pages. Richard St. Clair #3909135. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939797). This 2 1/2 minute a capella secular motet for SATB voices set portions of Horace's Epode no. 2. The text expresses the poet's independent life free from public attachments, and also includes slaves in the veneration of the household gods, an usual concept for ancient Rome. Horace (Latin name: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), is known in the English-speaking world as Horace; he was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of the emperor Augustus.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939684 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Sacred. Octavo. 10 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000641. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939684). This simple devotional motet for Chorus SATB a capella is a setting of portions of the Sutra on the Buddha Amitayus, where the Savior-Buddha Amida (a.k.a. Amitayus) is revealed to Shakyamuni Buddha's followers some 2500 years ago in India. The MP3 Audio Clip is a computer-generated soundfile. Duration, about 6 1/2 minutes. Completely tonal in style.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939678 Composed by Richard St. Clair. Contemporary. Score. 17 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000577. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939678). This multi-movement solo piano sonata is in a freely atonal style, but not in the severe avant-garde sense of atonal. Some passing references to tonality alternate with sharp dissonance. Dance rhythms alternate with more abstract lineation. Performance duration about 15 minutes. MP3 Audio Clip is a computer-generated audiofile.

Instrumental Duet Flute,Instrumental Duet,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939722 Composed by Richard St. Clair. Contemporary. Score and parts. 3 pages. Richard St. Clair #3002379. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939722). This light-hearted keyless little piece built on a repeating motif is ideal as an encore piece for woodwind players. The MP3 Audio Clip is a computer-generated soundfile. Duration: over 2 minutes. The score serves as parts for the two instrumentalists.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939835 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Octavo. 14 pages. Richard St. Clair #5218171. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939835). This 3-minute sacred anthem is a setting (in English) of the famous religious poem, Loving Kindness, a Buddhist sutra (Metta Sutta) with a universal message of peace and love for all peoples and faiths. It requires at least an amateur choir with some ability to read choral music in score. The level of difficulty is placed at intermediate. The sound clip is from a live performance.

Small Ensemble Harpsichord,Organ,Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.939900 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Score and parts. 6 pages. Richard St. Clair #6667621. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939900). This 3-minute offering is suitable in worship and well as concert venues. The scoring for keyboard makes this suitable for piano, harpsichord, or organ accompaniment.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939893 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Sacred. Octavo. 6 pages. Richard St. Clair #6527857. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939893). This 3-minute chorale is a setting of an anonymous poem in the 12-step tradition, simply known as Third Step Prayer. It is written for good amateur choirs, at about intermediate difficulty technically.

Small Ensemble Cello,High Voice,Viola - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939742 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Sacred. Score and parts. 33 pages. Richard St. Clair #3140783. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939742). These songs are to be sung in the original language of early Buddhism called Pali. The style of these songs was inspired by and (without slavish imitation) emulates the master composers of the Ars Nova period (14th century CE) such as Machaut, Landini and Ciconia. The text is Buddhist, from the Pali Canon or the collection of teachings of early Buddhism. The words are mainly from the Buddha Shakyamuni (or Gotama), who lived ca. 563-483 BCE. A full translation of the lyrics appears at the end of the score. The music is chiefly modal/tonal throughout.

Small Ensemble Double Bass,Flute,Piano Accompaniment,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939708 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 50 pages. Richard St. Clair #3001143. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939708). This work in 6 short evocative vignettes lasts about 10 1/2 minutes. It is scored for Flute, Violin, Double Bass and Piano. The PDF score has the instrumental parts appended for separate printing. MP3 Audio Clip is a recording of the premiere performance by the Row Twelve Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939686 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary. 16 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000675. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939686). This brief cycle on a poem of the same title by MIT poet Susan Spilecki was sung in a recital by MIT student Mary Tsien, soprano, with the composer at the piano, as recorded in the attached MP3 Audio Clip. Duration: about 9 minutes. The style is gently non-tonal with some tonal references mixed with pandiatonic harmonies.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939840 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Sacred. Octavo. 17 pages. Richard St. Clair #5316213. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939840). This 5+-minute motet, recalling 16th-century polyphony but with a modern flavor, is a setting of passages from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Jewish Bible. The verses (sung in Latin) are: Ecclesiastes XII:8, IV:1, IX:2, V:7. The score includes a full English translation with the parallel Latin text. The word Dharma is a Buddhist term meaning Law, emphasizing the broadly spiritual multi-sectarian nature of the ancient text.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939793 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Children. Octavo. 84 pages. Richard St. Clair #3866813. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939793). This chamber opera intended for an audience of children should please the adult listener as well. The work is scored for Woodwind Quartet, Piano and Percussion, with 4 soloists (SATB) and a small chorus (SATB). The lyrics are adapted from a story by Hans Christian Andersen by the same title. The MP3 Audio Clip is a MIDI-realized playback, not a live performance. The PDF contains both the full score and all the instrumental parts appended. Total duration under 17 minutes.