SKU: A0.1496198

Here is a delightful arrangement of the popular carol, We Three Kings. As it is difficult to find an arrangement of this song, you will find this playable and pleasing to the audience or congregation. It is a perfect addition to your Christmas organ music catalog. The specially treated dissonances to resolutions highlight this setting.

SKU: A0.1496197

Here is a delightful arrangement of the popular carol, We Three Kings. As it is difficult to find an arrangement of this song, you will find this playable and pleasing to the audience or congregation. It is a perfect addition to your Christmas organ music catalog. The specially treated dissonances to resolutions highlight this setting.

SKU: A0.797412

15 beautifully arranged English folksongs in the keys of Eb to D. This collection has been designed to create maximum resonance. Harmonic richness comes from sevenths, ninths, and thirteenth intervals. Chord spellings utilize inversions for interesting accompaniment. Bass compliments the treble. Play the melody as if you were singing the words. These pieces are arranged in a rhythmic and harmonic order to create a collection that plays from page one through thirty with continuous performance in mind.
Table of Contents:
The Crystal Spring, My Bonny, Bonny Boy, High Germany, The Seeds of Love, Sweet Lovely Joan, The Sprig of Thyme, Brimbledon Fair, The Watchet Sailor, The Sweet Primroses, My Boy Willie, Farewell Nancy, Botany Boy, O No, John!, Sweet William and The Keeper.

SKU: A0.980597

Composed in collaboration with clarinetist Dr. Corey Mackey, this three-movement concerto presents three distinct musical impressions led by the lyrically virtuosic clarinet solo. Each movement progressively gains a broader perspective of time and space, from the minute movements of the hummingbird, broadening to the majesty of mountains and ending with a vast impression of traveling through the universe at the speed of light. Movement one, Trochilidae-Allegro, celebrates the brilliant animation of the hummingbird. Emily Dickenson called it a resonance of emerald, a rush of cochineal. The clarinet solo imitates its mercurial flight darting and hovering in and around the orchestra. The second movement, Spiritual Adaptation to Higher Altitudes-Adagio, illustrates he slow and dramatic ascent of the clarinet through a broad and majestic orchestral soundscape culminating with an ecstatic summit vista. The third movement, Scherzo at the Speed of Light-Vivace, presents a sonic impression of sound and light in the universe, the clarinet spinning and gliding effortlessly through space arriving triumphantly in its home key of Bb  in the final measures.
Published by TheComposerStudio.Com, LLC. Parts rental https://www.thecomposerstudio.com/concerto/#tab-15865     More info: thecomposerstudio@gmail.com     williamneil.net.

SKU: A0.1490673

Vignettes is a set of 5 short (2 or 3-page) late-intermediate piano pieces that introduce unique aspects of Maurice Ravel's piano writing that students tend to find challenging. Given that Ravel himself wrote very little at the intermediate level for solo piano (except the recently rediscovered Prelude in A minor), I saw a great need for appropriate Ravel-preparatory repertoire.

Notes on the Pieces in Vignettes

1.      Réminiscences d’Espagne

This work is an homage to Maurice Ravel's Habañera-styled pieces. It introduces techniques that Ravel frequently uses but that less-than-advanced students rarely encounter in repertoire at their level: numerous hand and arm crossings, 3-against-4 polyrhythms as evident in the habañera, very high registers, dissonances like German 7th chords and diminished thirds, and Spanish-flavored modal writing, to name a few. This piece also recalls my time as a cruise ship duo pianist aboard the ms Maasdam, which visited five ports in Spain.

2.      Le jardin des papillons (The Butterfly Garden)

Le jardin des papillons is an homage to Maurice Ravel's piano writing as shown in pieces including the Sonatine, Le tombeau de Couperin, and others. It introduces techniques that Ravel frequently uses but that less-than-advanced students rarely encounter in repertoire at their level: sometimes-awkward hand and arm crossings, extended tertian chords (9th/11th/13th voicings), whole tone sonorities, and some modal writing, to name a few, while still maintaining a clarity of voicing that students will find in Ravel's own music.

3.      Le jardin englouti (The Sunken Garden)

Le jardin englouti is an homage to Maurice Ravel's minuets (like the middle movement of the Sonatine and the minuet from Le tombeau de Couperin). This piece was inspired by the Sunken Garden, a former landmark on the Indiana University campus that sat across the street from the practice building in which I taught dozens of piano students, coached numerous singers, and learned piles of solo and collaborative repertoire before moving away in 2019. The Biology Building greenhouse now sits on the former Sunken Garden site.

4.      Point Pelée

Point Pelée is an homage to Maurice Ravel's toccata-style movements, like the finale of the Sonatine or the toccata from Le tombeau de Couperin. This piece can be programmed with Le jardin des papillons and Le jardin englouti to form a three-movement suite that roughly corresponds to the Sonatine. This movement was inspired by Point Pelée National Park, in Ontario, Canada, a frequent roosting spot for monarch butterflies making the long migration from Canada to southern Mexico. In this piece I tried to capture the flutters of the roosting monarchs' wings as they'd settle into the trees at night and venture out across Lake Erie after resting. You can find more information on the park here: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/on/pelee/nature/faune-wildlife/monarque-monarch

5.      À la manière d'une Pavane

À la manière d'une Pavane is an homage to Maurice Ravel's piano writing as shown in his Pavane pour une infante défunte and the Pavane from the Mother Goose suite. It combines Baroque-reminiscent polyphony with the clarity and delicacy of articulation required more widely in the Ravel repertoire.