SCORES
This page has scores for free download, most with recordings. Keep an eye on this page, I am adding many more. Contact me if you need parts or notice any corrections to be made.
Scores that can be downloaded from this page
solo piano Belvedere
Five Little Monsters
Letter to Skip James
Fanny Brice
Mabel at the Wheel
Hockets & Inventions
organ Hockets & Inventions
La Conchiglia (The Conch)
The Crayfish
A Year for a Pomegranate
solo violin Chorale: a boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim
Duo for violin & Meade Lux Lewis
solo woodwind (flute, clarinet, oboe, or saxophone) Utah Dances
bass flute Little Andre
violin & piano Prelude
Li Yuen
The Unfolding Opium Poppy
Mata Hari, balerina de Java
Alegria en la cueva vieja
Surf's Up (arrangement of Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks)
Bricktop
Togetherness Blues
piano trio for violin cello piano ULtraviolet Railroad
solo viola or clarinet with CD East St Louis, 1968
solo violin or clarinet with CD Duo for violin (or clarinet) & Meade Lux Lewis
accordion with CD To Spike Jones in Heaven
accordion & 3 players Sontag in Sarajevo
sonata for violin cello harpsichord Clever Hans
string quartet (plus vocals or instruments) Sojourner Truth Here Comes the King (arrangement of Raymond Scott)
East St. Louis, 1968
Water Babies ( arrangement of Wayne Shorter)
Five Little Monsters
Bo Diddley (arrangement of Bo Diddley)
Michael Callen
Ugly (arrangement of Robert Pete Williams)
In Time (arrangement of Sly Stone)
Double concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra Ultraviolet Railroad
The People's Choice (Most Wanted and Most Unwanted Music)
Marching Band with Elephant Orchestra The Pastorale Symphony, 1st movement
solo piano Belvedere (for solo piano, 5-6 min, 1984) portrays Maurice Ravel's ghost walking through his house, pausing to play with his mechanical toys.
The score.
Performed by Chrisopher O'Riley.
Hockets and Inventions (solo piano, 30 minutes, 2010) are twelve highly polyphonic pieces influenced by medieval styles.
The score.
Performed by Steven Beck.
Five Little Monsters (solo piano, 6 min, 2010) is a 1980's punk rock Pictures at an Exhibition with each piece an impression of a culture on Avenue A. Has not yet been performed, but a string quartet version is below. Score
Letter to Skip James (solo piano, 4 min, 1985) is an homage to a favorite singer, guitarist and pianist.
The score
An earlier version performed by Christopher O'Riley.
Fanny Brice (solo piano, 4 min, 2009) is a tribute to a comedian. It has not yet been performed. Here is the score.
Mabel at the Wheel (2009) The score is temporarily withdrawn for editing.
solo saxophone, flute, or clarinet Utah Dances (solo flute or other woodwind, 12 min, 1990) are five dances, inspired by baroque dance suites. Cortijo is named for a favorite conga player, and a Forty-niner is a dance in the Southwest. It was a present for the 90th birthday of composer Otto Luening. The dances are Jig, Fugue in One Voice, Cortijo, Allemande, and Forty-niner and Double.
The score.
Performed by Michael Swartz on the alto saxophone.
solo bass flute Little Andre (3 minutes, 1986) was inspired by a very young breakdancer I met working on an early hiphop musical.
The score.
Performed by Robert Dick.
solo clarinet Scorefor Duo for Clarinet and Meade Lux Lewis (3:17 minutes, 1990) from Ice-9 Ballads download Meade Lux Lewis's track (mp3) Performed by Suzanne Gekker with Kurt Vonnegut's voiceover
Surf's Up (6 min, 2008)
arrangement of the song by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks score
violin, cello, and piano Piano trio: Ultraviolet Railroad (25 min, 2010)
No recording, but an orchestral version can be heard below. Score / piano part violin part cello part
violin, cello, and harpsichord Clever Hans (12 min) score with violin and cello parts This recording by Rebecca Cherry (vln), Michael Mizrahi (hpschd), Karlos Rodriguez (cello) features the 6 movements in a different order for a ballet: the score faciliates the scordatura (re-tuning the strings)
organ Hockets & Inventions (30 min, 1990)
in two and three parts that could be played by any instruments, but all written to be played by organ. score. Performed by Walter Hilse on an Aeolian-Skinner organ.
La Conchiglia (The Conch: from Organum, a collection in process, 2009: this piece 7 min) score
Performed by Walter Hilse
The Crayfish (7 min, 2010) score
not recorded: to be premiered by Walter Hilse at the Bach Festival at St. Peter's Church, October, 2010
string quartet Sojourner Truth (quartet, 7 minutes, 1990) score Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
Here Comes the King (quartet with opt. percussion, 5 min)
arrangement of a piece by Raymond Scott score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
East St. Louis, 1968 (9 min, for quartet and CD, 2000)
Has not been recorded, but the version for viola and CD can be heard above.
mp3 of the CD track for download score
Water Babies (quartet, 5 minutes) arrangement of piece by Wayne Shorter score
There is no recording of the quartet version, but here is quartet, flute (Robert Dick), and rhythm section
Five Little Monsters (6-7 minutes, string quartet & rock drums, 1984). score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet performing Five Little Monsters with Michael Suchorsky on drums
Bo Diddley (6 min, string quartet & improvised vocals)
Vocals are unscored since they are not expected to read music score Performed by the Soldier String Quartet with Tiye' Giraud singing, multitracked
Michael Callen (quartet, one tenor or soprano, and 3 backup singers) score
Performed by the Soldier String Quartet with vocals by the late great Jimmy Justice and Laura Cantrell.
Ugly (quartet with singer)
arrangement of song by Robert Pete Williams
Vocals are unscored since they are not expected to read music score Performed by the Soldier String Quartet with Tiye' Giraud singing, multitracked
In Time (quartet with optional percussion)
arrangement of song by Sly and the Family Stone score Performed by the Soldier String Quartet
string quartet with flute Something Sweet, Something Tender arrangement of music by Eric Dolphy
Performed by Soldier String Quartet and Robert Dick with rhythm section
accordion Sontag in Sarajevo (11 min, 1994) for four players
accordion (standard or Strad)
chordal instrument (guitar, piano)
treble melody (violin, clarinet, trumpet, etc.),
bass (cello, bass, trombone, tuba, bassoon)
Performed by Ann de Maranis (accordion), Regina Carter (violin), Dave Soldier (guitar), Dawn Avery cello
Marching band and elephant orchestra My arrangement of Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony
for large school marching band with the Thai Elephant Orchestra: can be played simply by marching band score
Performed by the Lampang, Thailand junior high school orchestra with the Thai Elephant Orchestra at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center.
Violin, Cello, and Orchestra Ultraviolet Railroad (1991-1992, 24 min)
Double concerto for violin and cello score
solo violin part
solo cello part
Performed by Mark Feldman (violin), Erik Friedlander (cello), Neil Kirkwood (piano) and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Auldon Clark
