Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

The title refers to three instruments, three movements, and three ways of treating musical time. The tone of the work is serious yet as playful as the title suggests. The first movement, Ratios, opens...

In writing Music for Eight Lungs I wanted to treat the voice similarly to the instruments, so that the piece would weave all four parts into a fabric equally. But I also wanted to play with our percep...

Having been interested in Mahayana Buddhism for a number of years, I went to a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York to study meditation in 1999. One evening, while walking alone by the side of the l...

I. Frogs want a king. They misunderstand Jupiter's warning against this stupid wish, whereupon he sends them a crane to eat them. II. In the past, the crows could sing beautifully. But when they try t...

Until his appointment as composition teacher at the Musikhochschule of Cologne in 1957, Bernd Alois Zimmermann earned his living chiefly by arranging works of other composers for the radio. Vier...