A New Year's Gift for Bec

You can listen and see the text here. You can find the music here and on this page of the IMSLP.

New Year's Greeting for 2025

You can listen here, and find a PDF on this page of the IMSLP.

The Year, a New Year's Greeting for 2023

You can find the music for medium voice here (there's also a version for high voice). You can listen to the medium voice version here, and you can find the music for both on this page of the IMSLP.

Transcription: Frederic Hymen Cowen January Lullaby for the New Year for String Quartet

[December 29, 2021]

You can listen here. You can find the music here and on this page of the IMSLP.

Hindsight for Clarinet and String Quartet (A New Year's Greeting for 2021)

You can listen here, and you can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.

And now there is a transcription for clarinet and four violas on the same page of the IMSLP.

[October 5, 2021]
You can also find it here.

Where do the Old Years Go?

December 21, 2019

And there's an instrumental version (in a slightly quicker tempo) for alto recorder (or violin) and piano:



And there is (of course) a version for viola and piano:



You can find the music for both versions on this page of the IMSLP, and also listen to a recording of it here.

New Year's Greeting for Three

As is my custom, I have been spending this earlier part of New Year's Eve writing a short piece to greet the new year. This one is a bit austere, but it really can't be helped.

[December 31, 2018]

You can get a PDF of the score and parts on this page of the IMSLP.

New Year's Greeting for Two Trumpets

I'm greeting 2018 with a piece for two trumpets (which can also be played by two clarinets, two French horns, or two euphoniums).

December 30, 2017

Here's a recording by Daniel Gianola-Norris to greet 2022!



You can get a PDF on this page of the IMSLP.

New Year's Greeting for Solo Recorder

[December 31, 2015]

A PDF file of this can be found on this page of the IMSLP.

Here's a nice recording of the piece played on violin! [Yes. It can be played on just about any instrument.]

A New Year's Resolution (Piano Prelude Number Seven)

January 1, 2014

You can download a PDF and listen to a recording by David Wolfson on this page of the IMSLP.

New Year's Greeting for Viola d'amore (or Viola) and Guitar

December 24, 2012

Happy New Year for 2013! You can find the score and parts for this New Year's Greeting on this page of the IMSLP.

New Year's Greeting for Two Violas

You can listen here, and download a PDF here. Happy New Year!

This piece begins at 4:03 in this video (it should queue automatically):

Six Preludes for Piano

I wrote these solo piano pieces between December 30, 2000 and January 1, 2001, making them some of the last pieces of 20th-century music as well as the first pieces of 21st-century music.

You can listen to John David Moore play them here:

The music is available from Subito here.

Peace for the New Year

December 29, 2009

You can listen and download a PDF of the music on this page of the IMSLP.

New Year's Piece for 2009

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