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In broad strokes, this piece describes the experience of emigration as remembered and reconciled a family. After an introduction, we hear the tenseness of a difficult life that grows more agitated and...

Precipitation To The Dance sketches the start of a skier's powder morning ' that rare moment that skiers live for. In the first scene, it is night, and the snow falls peacefully, gloriously, and lyric...

This collection presents seven original flute duets which are designed specifically for low flutes, but can also be played by standard C flutes. Each duet is arranged in three different ways, so it ca...

Singletree 1 & 2 was written for the Singletree Trio, a flute, marimba, and tuba ensemble. The first suite features ethnic music: balouza is (a middle eastern pudding) belly-danceable, and the last mo...

Summer Morning, Summer Afternoon is a perfect companion work to the Debussy Sonate. The piece has a simliar feeling of happening out-of-doors. The easy, bucolic then one morning is followed by an ener...

The piccolo sings above a string quartet accompaniment in the liquid; melodic; sometimes challenging writing that signifies a Schocker work. For advanced performers.

This tenor aria from Bach's Cantata 188 is set for five-part flute choir with contrabass. The 2nd alto flute part plays the tenor solo and the solo oboe part has been given to the first flutes. Writte...

Grieg's dramatic incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt is some of the most distinctive and memorable music produced by the 19th century Norwegian composer. The two movements arranged for f...

This piece was written as a solo piano piece in 1890 and is full of rhythmic drive and playfulness, exploiting the metrical ambiguities of 6/8 and 3/4 meters. It is scored for picc. , 3 C flutes, alto...

The rhythmic and contrapuntal nature of this late Renaissance Italian music represents an important stylistic contribution to the flute choir repertoire.

Scronx was an early 17th century church organist in Liege. Many churches of the day contained several different organs in different choir lofts or alcoves of the church. Such built-in antiphonal quali...

Quicksteps were one of the main forms of popular music during the 19th century in America. They were written often for special occasions or to honor special people. While they were originally composed...

This also follows the same format as Flute Fugue #1, only demonstrates the Eb and contrabass flute as well. The fugue starts with a contrabass solo and is heard by itself at the end as well, to reinfo...

Pop is a delightful; purely melodic work. It was written to be played at Gary Schocker's annual summer masterclass. And with that in mind; was created to be played for pleasure; without too many techn...

The Adagio is built around a plaintive melody in the saxophone with a sparse piano accompaniment. This is expanded in the flute with a more fluid accompaniment in the piano. The Scherzo features tripl...

Interplay, completed in August of 2007, is for flute/piccolo, clarinet in A, french horn, and piano. The work is in four movements. The first movement is based on shifting regroupings of these four in...

Falls House Press makes available a critically overlooked work by an equally eligible 19th century composer, Gaspard Kummer. In Richard Rockstro's The Flute (1890), Rockstro says of Kummer: 'I know of...

Robert Raines' M??nage for flute, bass clarinet and piano strives to explore varied relationships between these three 'individuals' in solo, duet and trio settings. From the composer: 'When I began co...

Blank adds his own voice to the musical translation of Dickinson's poems with three diverse settings for voice, flute, and cello. He chooses A Fuzzy Fellow, Wild Nights, and I'm Nobody, matching the t...

Karuna for Bass Flute and Piano, published by the renowned Falls House Press, is an extraordinary work that masterfully showcases the warm, resonant voice of the bass flute. Inspired by the profound c...

Awakening for flute choir and percussion is an exciting new work commissioned by the South Shore Conservatory Flute Symphony. Full of rhythmic vitality and color, it explores a wide range of flute tec...