Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Kidane's three "Pieces of Light" were all written in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown period. "Sublime Light" for solo violin is an adaptation of the longer "Dappled Light" for two violin...

Cyril Scott’s Two Sonnets offer a contrasting character, with the first featuring a fluid, evocative opening reminiscent of Ives’ The Housatonic at Stockbridge. The second carries a more intimate, rom...

Cyclical patterns of sound move in and out of focus, as if approaching from a distance before receding into haze. The tone of the violin is periodically transformed from white noise via drifting pitch...

Composed at the end of a longer series of works between summer and autumn 1887, the violin sonata numbers among Strauss' most popular chamber music compositions to this day. In the outer movements, it...

Prokofiev’s Second Violin Sonata was originally a work for flute and piano. Composed in 1943, the Flute Sonata op. 94 immediately aroused the interest of violinist David Oistrakh, who suggested a viol...

Rosenblatt composed 'Introduction and Siberian Blues' as the 2nd day round's obligatory piece for Victor Tretyakov's Second International Violin Competition in Krasnoyarsk. A slow and lyrical introduc...

The term chiaroscuro (light-dark), which originates in painting, can be applied to Martin Christoph Redel's œuvre as a whole, with its clearly defined style full of contrast, its linearity, spatiality...

Commissioned by The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, IMPRESSIONS FROM THE CHINESE ZODIAC is a suite of three characteristic pieces within reach of advanced pre-college saxophonists, and i...

This multi-faceted musical canvas presents a number of signature themes and moods that can portray specific characters and scenes invented by your students during rehearsals. It includes popular compo...

Arranged for string ensemble.

The source of inspiration for this Tänze for tuba and accordion (or piano) is the folk music of the Balkans with its unique colors: the liveliness, the composite rhythms, but also the melancholy...

Pēteris Vasks skilfully wove this song cycle from the lyrics and melodies of five Latvian folk songs.

Written for the Serenade in the Cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral, which takes place as night falls, this work embodies the tranquility and serenity of night as portrayed in the text by Henry Longfell...

Heart-felt setting for SATB a cappella of words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St Juan Diego, December 1531 (English), with bass 'cantus firmus' from a 14th Century Marian antiphon (Latin): 'Listen, put...

This carol, written for the choir Canticum, is an upbeat setting of a rarely-used 15th-century English text, and would be an exciting new addition to any mixed-voice choir's Christmas repertoire. A 's...

Vertonung für gemischten Chor a cappella eines ewigen Dauerbrenners unter den religiösen Texten (Joh 14,15-17; King-James-Bibel). Das Werk wurde von The Elders (einem Zusammenschluss ehemaliger Staats...

As an accessible and versatile opener or introit, this piece sets an uplifting verse of poetry by Nigerian poet Ozioma Ogbaji. Though not overtly sacred, the spiritual message of the text is hopeful a...

Seeking You was commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, where Kerensa Briggs held a three year tenure as composer-in-residence. The text by Charles Anthony Silvestri tells of a weary traveller...

Bird Raptures, a set of three pieces which draw inspiration stylistically from twentieth-century partsong, was composed for St Martin’s Voices in spring 2025, especially for Lucy Walker’s debut album...

This setting of the familiar opening lines of Henry Vaughan’s 'The World' was Lucy Walker's first commission as Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, and was premiered by the ensemble in June...