Oxford University Press Sheet Music

For solo piano in two movements. Nubes II concludes the cycle which began with Nubes, both works sharing the same musical material. This second work contrasts with the first by a more subjective music...

For solo piano. This consists of two pieces, played in an order the performer chooses. The number five, closely related to the nature of the zortziko, a Basque dance in 5/8, has been applied to severa...

For solo piano. This piece uses some melodic, rhythmic and harmonic materials from the late piano music of Albeniz as a starting point. Erkoreka exaggerates or simplifies certain aspects of the tradit...

Nubes (clouds in Spanish) consists of two movements played without interruption. The first, Cumulus, is a play of sonorities based on a fixed intervallic structure. In the distance, one can hear intim...

A work in three contrasting sections, each reflecting a mood of Wilfred Owen's poem of the same name. The first depicts the 'strangeness' of the meeting ' . . . Down some profound tunnel', and the sec...

For piano solo. The composer writes: 'The piano repertoire abounds with pieces that dazzle the listener with displays of virtuosity. I decided to compose music which allowed the sound of just one note...

The work is characterized by glittering high octave writing, extensive use of the bass register and dense, richly coloured chordal progression.

The work is characterized by glittering high octave writing, extensive use of the bass register and dense, richly coloured chordal progression.

For solo piano. Vista is the first in a planned sequence of pieces, all to include piano. The sequence will form a musical reflection or interpretation of aspects of Italian renaissance and baroque ga...

Sensing was written partly as a 'prelude' to Scriabin's 9th Piano Sonata ('Black Mass'). In tribute to Scriabin the music explores a variety of keyboard 'touch' and 'coliur/taste', in terms of harmony...

This collection brings together all of Rawsthorne's popular piano works, re-engraved, lightly edited, and with an introduction by John McCabe. Rawsthorne had an intuitive understanding of the piano an...

This fascinating collection draws on a virtually unknown set of Brazilian dances for piano published at the end of the nineteenth century in Rio de Janeiro. These pieces blend the melodic charm and gr...

During the piece a rather formal, bravura character gradually dissolves into its more lyrical counterpart.

'The plain truth is that all musicians are capable of splendid improvisation. ' With this premise, the author, (organist at St Thomas Church, 5th Avenue, New York) leads the student step by step. His...

This wonderful anthology presents a fascinating survey of music by African composers, both those living in Africa and those now resident elsewhere in the world. The music, much of which is published h...

An opera with instrumental parts for strings, keyboard continuo, plus optional guitar for dancesThis edition, with English and German texts, is based on that by Edward Dent (first published in 1925),...

This wonderful anthology presents a fascinating survey of music by African composers, both those living in Africa and those now resident elsewhere in the world. The music, much of which is published h...

This wonderful anthology presents a fascinating survey of music by African composers, both those living in Africa and those now resident elsewhere in the world. The music, much of which is published h...

For flute or treble recorder, and piano

For mezzo-soprano soloist, with flute, clarinet, harp, 2 violins, viola, and cello. Buller's chosen sonnets revolve around themes of love, sleeplessness, and the destruciton of time. While the other i...

For flute, oboe, and piano

Phoenix is a series of interlinked, contrasting sections - by turns elegiac, radiant, and menacing - culminating in a luminous cantilena for the four melody instruments against densely clustered chord...

For SATB and percussion instruments (4 sand blocks (optional), 2 rainsticks, 2 claves, 1 shaker, and a low-pitched tomtom played with hard sticks) OR SATB and low-pitched tomtom played with hard stick...

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