Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

From the outset of his career as composer, Anthony Plog's unique, self-directed compositional style has evolved into one which effectively exploits the resources of chromaticism within often martial r...

Scaramouche (Scaramuccia in Italian) is defined as an oddly contentious, loudmouthed type of character (replete with the accompanying braggadocio commonly found in such persons) present in the commedi...

A dark sky, full of clouds. A mighty wind that transforms it. The clouds blow away and the sky is colored blue. The clouds then return and the sky turns dark again. Within this game of light and dark...

Adventures in Brass is a series of 6 six brass solos written by Anthony Plog and commissioned by M. Dee Stewart, Director of CAP ventures (College Auditions Preparation) at the Jacobs School of Music,...

Why not? is an invitation to abandon cultural conformity and pursue less conventional techniques, sounds and expressive resources within a wide dynamic range specifically related to the rich sound pot...

Jean-François Michel has developed his own and original style of musical writing within a large range of lyrical, cadencial or dancing sequences in which beams a strong artistic synergy of instrumenta...

5 trumpets and bass trumpet (or euphonium) The chorale (lento espressivo) is reminiscent of the subtle and haunting polyphonies of the Renaissance in which the sober movements slowly move over one ano...

With Canto y Danza [song and dance] the composer is requesting the specific Bb-trumpet sound (but the Canto part could very well be played on flugelhorn). The piece starts with a sober song developpin...

In May, 2011, I was asked by the Italian trumpet soloist Ivano Ascari, to write a piece for him. Based on my piano piece '5+5' (1981) I wrote the piece so that it can be played with the same three fin...

When Claude Rippas asked me to compose something for his trumpet ensemble, I was immediately fascinated by this unusual formation. I had the idea of using the five trumpets in such a way as to create...

Evocations for trumpet and organ The calm musical interrogative calls of the Introduction serve as invitations to peaceful and spiritual listening. Evocation I is inspired by the Gregorian Chants as i...

Charles Reskin's 14 Wild & Crazy Duets are a fine continuation of the 'Trumpet Outings' series, featuring duets in which musical genres intermingle with great humor.

Devil's Dance The inspiration for Jean-François Michel's creation of this highly virtuoso work - peppered with rhythmical traps and perilous intervals - was the diabolic, bewitching, and dazzling effe...

Call The superposition of two confronting keys creates, right from the beginning of the piece, a strong dramatic tension, amplified by exchanged stressed rhythmic figures. Then follows a calm, quasi m...

On American Ground are a set of four works for trumpet in C or flugelhorn and piano that explore and, in the case of the first three works, re-imagine unique, iconic American folk songs and hymns.

The Trumpet Concerto No. 3 for trumpet and brass band uses five paintings of the painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) as inspirations for the various movements. Although Kandinsky was an abstract art...

The first movement is called Fantasy, for no particular reason, other than gratitude for being alive! In the second movement, Meditation/Elegy, the slow, 'dirge' theme reflects not only the somber asp...

Balada was written (as was Showdown at the Hoedown) for the brilliant Romm Family Trio - Ronald, Avis and Aaron Romm. It was inspired by a trip that I took to Barcelona with my lady friend, to whom th...

Fanfares are an integral part of the culture and heritage of trumpet playing. There are fanfares to celebrate royalty and fanfares to honor the 'Uncommon Woman' and the 'Common Man'. The individuals f...

Divided into two parts (2+2 attacca movements) the Sonatina is a study in contrasts. The opening calm and peaceful theme is quite suddenly interrupted by an aggressive and brutal sounding allegro, and...

3 Studies for solo trumpet is a short work that highlights both the technical and also the expressive, thoughtful sides of the instrument. Written in the typical three movement form of fast, slow, fas...

The Three Etudes for Solo Trumpet were inspired by study of Arnold Schönberg's string quartets. Karyokinesis refers to the division of the nucleus in single-cell reproduction, the opening five-note g...

Preisungen was composed in 1989 and dedicated to Britta and Markus Stockhausen to their wedding. To describe it in a perfunctory manner: Preisungen is a four-movement work conceived as a duo with part...

In this work divided into two parts (movements 1-3 and 4-5), fast and slow movements alternate. At times the ensemble plays as a whole while at other times it is divided into smaller groups, thus high...

Although Sally Tepper died at the young age of 24 she had a huge impact on everyone she met. So Memoriae Sal is about Sally, her love of life, the joy she brought other people, and how she is missed.