G. Schirmer

An excellent introduction to the styles and techniques of contemporary composers, introducing 8 compositional approaches. Especially useful in junior high and high school for a special unit or study p...

J. S. BACH: French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775: Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774: Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777: Prelude in D minor, BWV 935: Prelude...

Composer Note: In 1990, after eight years in the United States, I wrote my first work for solo piano, titled My Song, commissioned for Peter Serkin. At the time, my primary compositional concentration...

Work for Piano composed in 1961.

Roy Harris' Sonata for Piano Op. 1 as edited by Harry Cumpson.

Kohler's Twelve Easy Studies For Piano Op. 157, suitable for the confident Pianist and covering a wide range of technical and musical concerns.

This heartbreakingly tragic lament by the Mother from Gian-Carlo Menotti's Consul would be most suitable for a high voice because of the intensity required at the top of the range.

This Song for Voice and Piano was composed in 1952. It tells of the death of a hero.

Version for intermediate Piano Solo.

Twelve linked pieces by American composer Kent Kennan, varying in character, which work in performance both indivdually and as a set.

Work for Piano Solo.

Etudes Tableaux, Op. 33 and Nine Etudes Tableaux, Op. 39 for Piano. Suitable for advanced pianists.

This is one of the most dramatic of chamber pieces. Its opening movement is propulsive, its questing first subject beginning with declamatory five-note motive which rises and falls spikily, then repea...

Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) was an American cellist and composer, who is noted as being one of the principle proponents of Serialism and the twelve-tone technique in America. His Concerto (Op. 53)...

Horntrio was commissioned by World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, Inc. and was give its first performance on December 7, 1997 by Jean Rife, horn, James Buswell, violin, and Yehudi W...

For Electric Violin, Amplified Piano and Percussion.

Augusta Read Thomas' Dancing Helix Rituals for Violin, Clarinet and Piano.

Chamber work for Piano, Flute and Violin.

This 15-minute work, composed in 1989, was commissioned and premiered by the Aeolian Chamber Players. The quartet is a set of variations based on two melodies: Les Niais de Sologne by Rameau, and a fr...

For Soprano, Tenor and Baritone Soli, SATB choir and French Horn solo, this work is based the poem 'The Mystic Trumpeter' by Walt Whitman, which begins Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician...

Heitor Villa-Lobos' Aria (Cantilena), arranged by Jamin Hoffman for String Ensemble. Full score.

Duke Ellington's Come Sunday, arranged by Mike Tomaro for Jazz Ensemble. Come Sunday was originally composed as part of Ellington's suite Black, Brown andBeige. After a disappointing critical respons...

The classic winter and holiday choral work transforms wonderfully into a terrific showcase for string orchestra. The festive, ethnic-dance style is filled with energy and enthusiasm for both players a...

Expert Level (correlates with Book 2, p. 30).