John Adams

Delightful small songs, echoing rare moments and places where the voices of birds have been clear. Scored for piccolo(s) and percussion, with optional additional parts included.

Although in its own way an example of 'continuous' music, Shaker Loops differs from most other works of its kind because it sees so much change within a relatively short amount of time. Also it avoids...

John Luther Adams' Qilyaun for four Bass Drums. Composed in 1998. Score and parts. 'Qilyaun' is the Iñupiaq word for the shaman's drum. Translated literally, it means 'device of power'. The drum is t...

John Luther Adams' Untouched for String Quartet. Player score. Over the years my large ensemble works have sometimes included String Quartet. However, I didn't write my first piece for String Quartet...

John Luther Adams' The Mathematics Of Resonant Bodies for solo Percussion and processed sounds. The Mathematics Of Resonant Bodies was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, WNYC (New...

Vokalpartitur - Bariton und Orchester.

Commisioned by the San Francisco Symphony in 1981 to celebrate the inaugural season of the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, Harmonium sets the texts of John Donne (Negative Love) and Emily Dickinson (B...

Singstimme (Bariton) und Orchester - Dirigierpartitur

Singstimme (Bariton) und Orchester - Vokalpartitur

Gnarly Buttons is a 26-minute concerto for clarinet and small orchestra about the enduring influence made on Adams by his father, a clarinetist. It traces the instrument from the innocent and 'cool' t...

In the composer's words: 'The concerto takes a kind of polymorphous-perverse pleasure in the whole past century of piano music, both popular and classical.' The original inspiration was in the old pia...

This concerto won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1995, the most prestigious music prize in the world. In three movements, it is prime example of Adams as the most compelling contemporar...

Adams' inspiration was Schiller's 1795 essay 'On Naive and Sentimental Poetry,' a discussion of artistic states of expression. In three movements.

A musical autobiography, this work is an homage to the influence of Ives' music on the composer.

This propulsive concerto for string quartet and orchestra is built on fragments of Beethoven's late string quartets and other pieces.