Orchestra Study Scores

Walter Piston's Serenata for Orchestra (1956). Commissioned by the Louisville Philharmonic Society, Inc. and first performed by the Louisville Orchestra.

Walter Piston's Variations On A Theme By Edward Burlingame Hill (1963). Full score. Instrumentation: 2 Flutes 2 Oboes English Horn 2 Clarinets in Bb BassClarinet 2Bassoons 4 Horns In F 2 Trumpets In...

Carlos Surinach's Sinfonia Chica for Orchestra. Full score. The title Sinfonia Chica is derived from the derogatory label 'genero chico' which was first given to Spanish folkmusicby the Italian music...

Roy Harris' Elegy For Orchestra. Study score.

Morton Gould's Cafe Rio for Orchestra. Study score.

Morton Gould's Minstrel Show for Orchestra. Study score. Born in Richmond Hill, New York, on 10 December 1913, Morton Gould was recognised early on as a child prodigy with the abilitytoimprovise and...

Contents: The Babe of Bethlehem * The Boar's Head Carol * Carol of Service * Come, Love We God * Coventry Carol * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Greensleeves * The Holly and the Ivy * Irish Carol * My...

This work is based on the Film Score Altered States.

Walton's two coronation marches - Crown Imperial, written for the coronation of George VI in 1937, and Orb and Sceptre, written for the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 - are both stirring marches w...

This is the first publication of this early work for orchestra, which was completed in November 1900 and first performed in March 1902. This four-movement work shows evidence of the composer's emergin...

The Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra was composed in 1953-4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the LSO and was written for the orchestra's principal tuba player, Philip Catelinet. It...

This edition of Walton's principal orchestral overtures has been off-printed from the William Walton Edition full scores, edited by David Lloyd Jones. It combines the scholarship of the main edition w...

Originally intended as the first piece in a cycle of four impressions entitled In the New Forest, Burley Heath was written in 1902 but never finished. The manuscript represents a 168-bar fragment, whi...

This study score marks the first publication of a previously little-known early work for chamber orchestra by Vaughan Williams. The score has been edited by James Francis Brown and includes an introdu...

This suite from 1925 is one of Vaughan Williams's most enigmatic pieces. The chorus never articulates a single word, and instead serves as a section of the orchestra, creating an elegant vocal texture...

Vaughan Williams originally wrote three Norfolk Rhapsodies, but numbers two and three have not been played since 1914, with the third rhapsody not surviving while the first has long been in the repert...

An off-print of OUP's conductor's score (available on hire), this study score is based on Mussorgsky's [Musorgsky's] original autograph rather than the famous arrangement by Rimsky-Korsakov. It combin...

Orchestration: 2fl(II+picc), 2ob, 2cl, 2bn, 4hn, 2tpt, 2tbn, tba, timp, 3perc, hp, str Jointly commissioned by The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and Oxford University Press, A Road All Paved with...

for soloists, SATB, children's chorus and orchestra with Chinese flute and erhu Based on an ancient Chinese myth, this opera won Zhou Long the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music. In their citation, the jur...

Based on the popular Chinese story 'King Chu Doffs his Armour', this concerto is influenced by both Western and Eastern traditions. It is constructed around a classical Chinese solo pipa work (of the...

The Rhyme of Taigu is a lively and powerful work for full orchestra. The piece explores the energy and spirit behind Japanese Taiko, or 'fat drum' (Taigu in Chinese). As a result, the percussion plays...

The Immortal was commissioned by the BBC World Service, and was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2004. This work pays tribute to the influence of Chinese artists and intellectuals in the twentieth centur...