Michael Finnissy Sheet Music for Ensemble

Bar, V, Vc, Klav - Sing- und Spielpartitur

For soprano and tape. Same as We is a 'scena', a 'theatrical monologue', rather than a 'song'. Using text from Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Promise of May, it is intended that the piece be both dramatic...

For soprano saxophone (or oboe) and percussion (1 player). Kulamen Dilan is evocative of Khurdish love songs, exploring the 'methodology' of folk music, creating a mosaic from tiny motifs of pitch and...

For up to four musicians with (optional) assistant and pre-recorded tape(s). Recent Britain confronts several of the preoccupations of the media in Britain in the late 1990s: immigration, paedophilia...

For flute, bass clarinet, and piano. WAM is an investigation of Mozart - it uses hundreds of slightly altered fragments of, or parodies of, his music - and, instead of assembling them as he might if h...

For unspecified instrumentation. Molly-House contains two parallel streams of music. One consists of pages, some in conventional notation, others intentionally lacking determinacy with respect to dura...

For hardanger fiddle, either solo or accompanied by reed-organ and/or piano (live or pre-recorded) and instrumental quartet. The piece is a 'cut-up' of passages quoted from, or composed in imitation o...