Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

In Memoriam is a work full of depth and expressiveness by Swiss composer Jean-François Michel, dedicated to the famous trombonist Branimir Slokar. Written for trombone and piano, this composition is c...

The music is an advanced contemporary style and playable by experienced students or professionals. Its musical structure is essentially cyclic, drawing upon a small number of recurring motivic ideas—...

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...

'Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody” - thus reads Ravel's entry on 'Tzigane” in the so-called 'Autobiographical Sketch”. Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with...

Commissioned by the Sascha Lasserson Memorial Trust, Questions was first performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, by the finalists in the 1990 Sascha Lasserson Memorial Violin Competition. The w...

For solo trumpet and large brass ensemble: Picc. Tpt., Eb Tpt., 3 Tpt. & Flug., Solo Tpt., 4 Hn., 2 Tbn., B. Tbn., Euph., 2 Tba., Timp., Cym., Dr., score 68 p. and parts. The Steven Verhaert Brass Ser...

The text of Mutata vox is based on fragments from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book IX, Iphis), selected and arranged into a new textual version. The original narrative is broken into individual, self-contai...

This composition is bursting with exuberant musical humour. It is demanding, both technically and musically, and only accessible to good organists. Those who are able to master the piece, however, are...

Maurice Ravel finished In 1905 his piano cycle "Miroirs" of which some parts are orchestrated by the composer himself. Especially the fourth part, "Alborada del gracioso", created in 1919 in Paris for...

Bob Vos (1910-1963) was a Dutch composer who studied composition with Henk Badings at the Brussels Conservatory from 1957. Unfortunately, little is known about his early years, but his work shows a cl...

« Si les artistes rendent si rarement compte de leurs instants d'inspiration, la raison en est bien simple: c'est qu'à ces moments-là du processus créateur ils ne sont nullement présents par la consci...

This small virtuoso rondo with jazz elements from 2003 is now published for the first time in a sheet music edition.

With these three studies Bartók quite deliberately aimed to leave his mark on New Music in 1918. The first study is a kind of super-charged, motorically vehement Allegro barbaro, while the second, wit...