Cloud 999

April 28, 2008

I have always been fascinated by Gounod's Ave Maria, and have always wanted to try writing an obbligato of my own on top of a prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach. Mine is for violin and piano, does not have words, and uses two passes of Bach's Prelude BWV 999. A PDF of the music is available on this page of the IMSLP, along with a recording.

Dances From "The Harlot's House"

You can download a PDF file of the score and parts here, and you can listen to the piece (with a slide-show video of the poem's text) here.

[UPDATE] Here's recording of a performance given at the Tuesday Morning Music Club in Champaign, Illinois on March 4, 2014.

And this performance is from 2017 by the Orquestra SM d'Alzira:

Five Postcards for Flute, Clarinet, Cello, and Piano

You can listen a performance of this piece by the Arcadia Chamber Players here, and you can find the score and parts here.

UPDATE! July 14, 2016 I have transcribed four of the Postcards for violin, viola, cello, and piano. You can get the music on this page of the IMSLP.

Avez vous des bonbons for 2 clarinets and bassoon

This is a transcription for two clarinets and bassoon of a piece by the same name that I wrote for two violins and cello. You can listen to it here.
The string version is available from Subito. You can find the clarinet and bassoon parts here.

(You could certainly play the piece with two clarinets and cello instead of bassoon.)

Sonata d'amore

Granted, this is a piece for a self-selecting group of musicians. I wrote it to play with my friend John Dee, who, like other oboe players who own oboes d'amore, get to play them only rarely. As for viola d'amore players, they (or I guess I can now say "we") need new music for our instrument.

Curious about the viola d'amore? You can find out a lot about the instrument by visiting the Viola d'amore Society of America
The score and parts are available here, along with a computer-generated recording.

Two Pieces for Viola and Piano

May 20, 2008

You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.

Transcription: Lamento di Tristano

May 2008

This is an arrangement of a 14th-century monophonic piece for flute (doubling piccolo), bass, clarinet, horn, drum (of any kind), and viola. You can find the score and parts on this page of the IMSLP.

Arrangement: When I See Winter Return

May 2008

This is an arrangement of a piece by the 13th-century Vielle player and trouvère Colin Muset for piccolo, bass clarinet, French horn, triangle (and/or other struck metal percussion instruments), and viola. You can download PDF files of the score and parts, as well as listen to an electronic recording here.

Here's a version with more strings:



You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.