Joan Tower

This chamber work by American composer Joan Tower who is known for her symbolic titles that draw on abstract, action-filled imagery. Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano accompaniment is based on ...those H...

Originally written for unaccompanied clarinet, here composer Joan Tower has transcribed Wings for unaccompanied alto saxophone.

Work for Guitar Solo composed in 1985. Clocks is Joan Tower's second excursion into guitar composition and she has crafted a magnificent representation of time. This measurable and memorable piece exp...

Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform.

The titles of the pieces in this four-movement suite were taken from lines of a poem by John Ashbery, 'No Longer Very Clear. ' Holding a Daisy was commissioned and premiered by Sarah Rothenberg. Or Li...

Joan Tower gives the viola plenty to say with Wild Purple, her first solo work written for violist Paul Neubauer. The work gives violists an opportunity to show the expressive and technical capabiliti...

For flute and orchestra (piano reduction).

Composed for clarinetist Laura Flax, who premiered the piece at Merkin Hall (New York City) on December 14, 1981.

For unaccompanied violin.

This dramatic new work from one of our most important contemporary composers was premiered at the 1996 annual conference of the American Guild of Organists. The title is a description of the upward-mo...

Arranged for Concert Band by Jack Stamp.

Scored for four trumpets, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 5 was commission by the Aspen Music Festival for the opening of the Joan and Irving Harris Concert Hall in 1993. Duration ca. 3 minutes.

The Tokyo String Quartet commissioned this string quartet composition in 2001. This one-movement piece about death and loss was written in memory of one of Tower's friends, and later, of those who die...

Tower's third string quartet contains a white heat from which ideas unfold, develop, interact, and gradually change their temperatures. 18 minutes.

Angels for String Quartet by Joan Tower was composed in 2008 and premiered on August 31 2008 in Angel Fire, NM, performed by the Miami String Quartet. Angels is my fourth quartet - amediumI really lo...

Joan Tower's White Water - String Quartet No. 5. Score and parts. White Water is the first of four commissions for Chamber Music Monterey Bay's 'Arc of Life' project. TheartistBill Viola shared excer...

Brass instruments interweave and surge through wavelike patterns in Copperwave, a piece inspired by the work of Tower's father, a geologist and mining engineer.

For Oboe and Wind Quartet (Flute, Clarinet, French Horn and Bassoon).

Viola and piano reduction of Tower's one-movement concerto for viola and orchestra. 19 minutes.

Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful composers. Her bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences. T...

Work for Flute and Guitar.

Reduction for clarinet (or basset clarinet) and piano. The basset clarinet (with an extended range to low 'C') has been enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Many modern composers have been answering t...

Composer Note: String Force (2010) was commissioned by the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis for the 2010 competition and underwritten by the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation in honor...

Sheet music for Joan Tower's Second String Force for Solo Violin.

For unaccompanied Violin.