Instrumental Duet,Piano Alto Saxophone,Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533590 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 7 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3029397. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533590). Too Upset for Words (2003) for alto saxophone, guitar, and piano was commissioned by andis dedicated to Aris Carastathis and the Lakehead University New Music Ensemble.The work is cast in two very short movements that use the same basic musical material. Thework contrasts lyrical gestures with ones of extreme violence -- all derived from the samemusical sources.The first movement, Rages, continually brings back a loud piano crash. Out of the harmonicsof this sound come the saxophone and guitar's material.The second movement, Reflections, freely explores some of the gestures of the firstmovement. The pitches of the musical ideas become deconstructed -- existing only as pitchentities in a free section.  All players play from the same score, hence in purchasing this file, you have the right to print three copies.

Instrumental Duet,Piano Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533589 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 7 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3029395. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533589). Too Upset for Words (2003) for clarinet in Bb, guitar, and piano was commissioned by and isdedicated to Aris Carastathis and the Lakehead University New Music Ensemble.The work is cast in two very short movements that use the same basic musical material. Thework contrasts lyrical gestures with ones of extreme violence -- all derived from the samemusical sources.The first movement, Rages, continually brings back a loud piano crash. Out of the harmonicsof this sound come the clarinet and guitar's material.The second movement, Reflections, freely explores some of the gestures of the firstmovement. The pitches of the musical ideas become deconstructed -- existing only as pitchentities in a free section.  The score is used for all three players, hence, in buying this file, three copies may be printed.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.775988 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Instructional,Sacred,Spiritual. Octavo. 39 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #2035121. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.775988). A Difficult Miracle (2010), Mountain Songs of the Spirit, for soprano, baritone, chorus, and instruments, was commissioned by the First Unitarian Society in Newton, Massachusetts and is dedicated to director of music Anne Watson Born and the FUSN choir. The poems, written by American poet Elizabeth Kirschner, are filled with mountain imagery, and the woodwind instrumental scoring for the work was chosen for its evocation of traditional folk music. The music is essentially contemplative and personal in its exploration of the surrender of the spirit to the mountain landscape. The set includes full score and performance parts.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Trio Flute - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533636 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. 4 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3034041. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533636). Distant Glittering Orbs (2003) for solo alto flute was commissioned by Frederick Butler andwas written for and dedicated to flutist Laurel Ann Maurer whose brilliant playing was fullyin mind during the composition.The title of the work provides the poetic image behind its conception -- imagining interstellarobjects (suns, stars, planets) existing just outside of our field of clear vision. It is an intimatepiece, yet exploring a conception of the far reaching beyond -- making use of the alto flute'sdistinct timbre.The opening section of the work is slow and flexible -- with a series of expanding and freerangingchromatic gestures, exploring and augmenting sets of notes. A faster section occursnext -- marked glittering spirals -- consisting of sweeping gestures. A return to the originalmood follows, and a simpler lyric melody emerges in a straightforward fashion (coming outof all the earlier chromatic excursions.) Finally, a few spirals from the faster music interjectbefore an intimate and reposed coda concludes the piece.

Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533643 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 10 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3035195. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533643). Windswept: Legend of Sea and Sky (2003) for violin and guitar was commissioned by and isdedicated to Duo46.The work explores the poetic image of the title. It is one of many pieces by the composerinspired by the landscapes of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA.Structurally, the piece is in two main sections, followed by a short coda. The first section is aslow cantilena, the second section a vigorous dance. The dance winds down into the quitewindswept solace of the coda.The set consists of a score for two players;  Two copies should be printed.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533602 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score and parts. 22 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3030515. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533602). The Sky About to Open (2004) for orchestra was written for and is dedicated to composerJudith Weir, on the occasion of her 50th birthday.The work is based on musical material from Desiring the Solicitude of Rain (2003-04) fortenor and chamber orchestra, based on a text of Kathleen Wakefield. The title of this workcomes from the poem. (The title also references Weir's work The Welcome Arrival of Rain(2000) for orchestra.)The work is a brief fanfare of spacious character -- filled with anticipatory energy: the skypregnant with rain about to fall.InstrumentationFluteOboeClarinet in Bb2 Horns in FTrumpet in CPercussion (1 player: tubular bells)(requires both 2 normal chime beaters)Strings(minimum of 2.2.2.2.1;larger section preferred)

Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533603 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score and parts. 10 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3030517. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533603). The Sky About to Open (2004) for orchestra was written for and is dedicated to composerJudith Weir, on the occasion of her 50th birthday.The work is based on musical material from Desiring the Solicitude of Rain (2003-04) fortenor and chamber orchestra, based on a text of Kathleen Wakefield. The title of this workcomes from the poem. (The title also references Weir's work The Welcome Arrival of Rain(2000) for orchestra.)The work is a brief fanfare of spacious character -- filled with anticipatory energy: the skypregnant with rain about to fall.InstrumentationFluteOboeClarinet in Bb2 Horns in FTrumpet in CPercussion (1 player: tubular bells)(requires both 2 normal chime beaters)Strings(minimum of 2.2.2.2.1;larger section preferred)

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533601 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3030261. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533601). Kahlenberg (2005) for solo piano (young performers) is dedicated toElisabeth Carolyn Parker. It is a single movement meditation for solopiano, inspired by the mountain Kahlenberg, at the edge of the ViennaWoods outside of Vienna, Austria.The work combines atmospheric figurations and patterns with simplemonodic melodies that emerge from the texture. The piano pedal providesblurring of sound. A very still, chorale section is surrounded by the twosimilar outer sections. The piece dies away to nothingness at the end.

Composed by Various. Arranged by Mike Carson. Sacred. Score. 3 pages. Mike Carson #4594551. Published by Mike Carson

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Mike Carson. Contemporary. Score. 3 pages. Mike Carson #4593665. Published by Mike Carson

Composed by Anon., Charles Wesley. Arranged by Mike Carson. Christian, Easter, Praise & Worship, Sacred. Score and parts. 12 pages. Mike Carson #4412937. Published by Mike Carson

Composed by Carson Cooman. Christian,Classical,Contempora ry,Religious. Individual part. 3 pages. Carson Cooman #913990. Published by Carson Cooman

Composed by Mike Carson. Concert, Contemporary, Sacred, Standards. Score. 5 pages. Mike Carson #4593617. Published by Mike Carson

Composed by John Stainer (1840-1901). Arranged by Mike Carson. A Cappella, Christian, Christmas, Easter, Sacred. Octavo. 7 pages. Mike Carson #4594575. Published by Mike Carson

Solo Guitar - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533633 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Individual part. 18 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3034033. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533633). Dionis Dreaming (2004) for two guitars is dedicated to the Ferla-Marcinizyn Guitar Duo ofPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The title refers to Dionis, a beach region on the north shore of Nantucket Island, MassachusettsUSA. This work is one of a variety of pieces deeply connected to the landscape of Nantucket.In this case, the work is about memory and psychological journeys, using the landscape ofDionis as a starting point.The part consists of one score for two players.  Two copies should be printed.I. Obsessions and MemoriesII. Dune Dream (Fragment in the Sand)III. North Shore (Cantilena)IV. Spirit and Release