Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Either of these pieces, for advanced players, would make an exceptionally unusual and entertaining concert item. The writers, Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo, have stunned audiences, critics and fe...

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pi...

The multi-layered "Floating Canon" (Level: advanced) for five voices a cappella by Hans Helsen is a choral piece that connects many individual dots as it moves forward. A bit of a challenge for the si...

Le tremblement permanent du moi- fantôme ... commissioned by the French vocal ensemble Musicatreize for the Beethoven Year 2020 program 12 Letters to Elise, raises the question of who we are today and...

This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey’s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absu...

Let's sing! - According to this motto, the canon "Chantons!" (Level: advanced) for four voices a cappella by Hans Helsen encourages singing and being together in harmony. In the newly composed canons...

The fast and powerful canon "Keep Track" (Level: advanced) for four voices a cappella by Richard FitzHugh is very dynamic, both in the music and in the movements. The bumpy and exciting race of the in...

Originally composed to introduce the various instruments of the orchestra, Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra follows a set of variations based on a melody by Henry Purcell. In this set...

The playalong book "Playing with the Orchestra Vol. II" is designed for flute in C, clarinet in B-flat, oboe, trumpet in B-flat, horn in F, violin and cello. In each edition, the original part of the...

Commissioned by the LA Philharmonic Association under artistic director Gustavo Dudamel, Han'gul is a powerhouse work for symphony orchestra by Soon Hee Newbold, who drew inspiration from the rich his...

Inspired by visits to the Navajo Nation Reservation and the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico in the early 1980s, I chose to honor the culture and spirit of Indigenous American peoples by...

From the heart of the global paradigm shift and intense lockdown interiors, people found solace in nature, coming up for air in the public spaces permitted by pandemic regs, seeing that others were go...

Taking the idea of the Greek Muses as a starting point, Musae is a contemporary reflection of different aspects of Woman, in all her power, vulnerability, messiness, beauty, wisdom, and limitless abil...

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....

I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1997. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the 'Secret Political Police' which have been arranged (...

Quatuor à cordes no. 2 op. 10

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. The present son...

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pi...

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pi...