Classical Sheet Music

In 1962, the 33-year-old Robert Muczynski had already composed his flute sonata and other mature works, and recently had joined the faculty of University of Arizona, where he remained for the rest of...

When Stacy Garrop first heard the Appalachian folk song Silver Dagger at a folk festival, the simplicity of the melody and its cautionary love tale enthralled her, leading to several years researching...

Lowell Liebermann's first major work for saxophone, the TRIO, Op. 137 for Flute, Alto Saxophone, and Piano, shimmers with elegant beauty for all three performers. The idiomatic writing for both wind p...

According to Professor Peter Schickele, P. D. Q. Bach's 'SAFE' SEXTET has been so named because its manuscript was the only object left behind when burglars made off with the valuables from a hotel sa...

A stirring, welcome addition to the tuba's limited chamber music repertoire. Tubists will revel in the opportunity to showcase their instrument's lyricism and nimbleness, delivered with Eric Ewazen's...

The pastoral charm inherent in flute/viola/harp textures, combined with a commissioner’s request for a wedding gift, could only lead to a sort of midsummer daydream. Dorff’s 7-minute creation is a lig...

A gem in the repertoire for the magical combination of clarinet and viola, Liebermann's TRIO, Op. 128 is a 26-minute masterwork in three movements. Ranging from shimmering dark textures through rollic...

With endlessly imaginative timbral and textural invention, Chen Yi weaves an ethereal and alluring nocturnal tapestry of sounds in Night Thoughts. The melodic construction is often gestural and freely...

Inspired by her son's enthusiastic backyard botany, Amanda Harberg's LUCAS's GARDEN weaves a varied tapestry of moods and textures across its three movements. Backyard Paradise is tuneful and searchin...

Chen Yi's THREE BAGATELLES FROM CHINA WEST are a trio of Chinese folk songs. Originally written for flute and piano, many soloists and ensembles have requested transcriptions of these pieces for their...

A commission from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, for any combination of instruments of her choosing, quickly sparked Shulamit Ran to create a trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp. She writes of this...

“There are too few concertos for tuba remarked Samuel Adler about the composition of his own CONCERTO FOR TUBA AND ORCHESTRA in 2017, now available in a new arrangement by the composer for solo tuba,...

Inspired by the mountainous grandeur of the American west, Eric Ewazen's A BOULDER TRIO is a spirited and dynamic addition to the chamber repertoire for double reeds. Singing and lithe melodic lines i...

Inspired by the dramatic interplay of light and shadow in Rembrandt's paintings, Stacy Garrop's CHIAROSCURO translates this effect into sound in a seven-minute work for mixed sextet. The music dances...

Light searches for a path through darkness in Lora Al-Ahmad’s EARTHY CONCERNS for piano quartet. Broad antiphonal gestures balanced against intimate polyphony lend this richly textured chamber work a...

MONUMENTS may be performed by trombone with piano (114-42312), string quartet or quintet (114-42399), or string orchestra (116-42098). The string quintet version adds double bass to the standard quart...

Inspired by an optical phenomenon only visible from high altitude mountains at dawn and dusk, this double concerto for alto saxophone and tuba by Stacy Garrop—whose music is esteemed and loved among w...

THE BONES OF MR. FORTUNE (FREE AT LAST!) is an 11-minute concerto-like work for solo flute accompanied by symphonic winds and percussion – perfect to play with band or with orchestra, as well as with...

Chen Yi's Fire for 12 players, commissioned by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, was premiered in 2019 by the Grossman Ensemble under the baton of James Baker at the University of Chica...

Commissioned by Drumpetello (Carrie Pierce; Matthew McClung; and Mary Thornton) and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Mesoamerican Suite is comprised of five brief and varied impressions of tales...