Showing posts with label Arrangements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arrangements. Show all posts

Schubert Six Songs Opus 118 arranged for oboe and String Quartet

You can find the music here, and listen to a computer-generated recording here. The IMSLP doesn't have a category for the whole opus, only the individual songs.

And if you would like to find the texts of the songs, you can find them all here.

Arrangement: Für Elise for String Quartet

You can find the score and parts on this page of the IMSLP (transcription tab, of course).

You can listen to a computer-generated recording here.

Arrangement: Ika Peyron Gavotte et Chansonette, Opus 1

The Swedish composer Ika (Fredrika) Peyron (1845-1922) began her musical life as a pianist. In 1865 she married a merchant who became a Member of Parliament, and lived in Stockholm with him and their three sons. She studied piano, harmony, and counterpoint, and wanted to compose, but found little encouragement because she was a woman. During the 1870s attitudes towards music written by women had changed (as evidenced by the carer of Amanda Maier), and Ika Peyron devoted her time to writing and performing her music in the Stockholm salons.

She wrote songs, music for violin, and mostly music for piano. Altogether we know of forty pieces.

This charming Gavotte et Chansonette, her Opus 1, works very nicely for strings. A PDF of this arrangement (as well as the piano original) is available on this page of the IMSLP. You can also find the music here.

You can listen to a computer-generated recording here.

Arrangement: Irving Berlin's "All by Myself"

You can find the score and parts on this page of the IMSLP, and you can listen to a recording (from a Summer Strings outdoor concert) here.

Arrangement: Dvorak Humoresque for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, and strings


This is an arragement I made for a friend in Columbia earlier this year. You can find it on this page of the IMSLP under the transcription tab, and you can hear a performance at the 43:00 mark of this video.

Arrangements: Elgar Salut d'Amour for Piano Quartet and for Viola and Piano


This is available from the Johnson Music Company. You can find an arrangement of the same piece for piano quintet here.



There is also an International edition of my transcription for viola and piano (they asked me to do all three). You can find it on this page.

Arrangement: Shchedryk (Ukrainian bell carol) for solo violin, solo viola, or solo cello



"Shchedryk" is Ukrainian for "Bountiful Evening." This traditional New Year's Eve song is about a sparrow who flies into a household and brings news of a good year to follow.

The Wikipedia article about Shchedryk has a lot of interesting information.

You can find these arrangements of Mykola Leontovych's continuation of the opening four-note motive of the traditional melody set for solo violin, solo viola, or solo cello here now, or later on this page of the IMSLP.