John Adams

Published for the first time is the complete piano/vocal score for John Adams's widely acclaimed nativity oratorio El Niño. This significant contemporary large-scale work features a libretto based on...

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.

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's Book of Alleged Dances is a set of ten short dances for string quartet and rhythm loops stored on audio CD. Six of the dances have rhythm loops. Dances may be performed in any order, and may be...

John Luther Adams' Dreams Of The Canyon Wren for String Quartet. Player score.

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 ' Five Yu'pik Dances for solo Harp. Composed in 1991. Duration: 7-8 minutes. ' This set of miniatures is based on traditional dance songs of the Yupik Eskimo people of Western Alaska...

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...

John Luther Adams ' Three High Places for solo Violin.

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

With "The Wound-Dresser", discover a deeply moving masterpiece scored for medium voice (baritone) and orchestra. This poignant work captivates with its emotional depth, sensitive lyricism, and incompa...

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.