Conceived for a French-style harpsichord with two manuals. With detailed performance notes. In nine movements.
The chalumeau was a 17th-century woodwind instrument which evolved into the modern day clarinet. The term chalumeau refers to the lowest range of the clarinet.
The Garden of Eden was originally published in its solo piano version in 1974. The four rags that make up the suite - Old Adam, The Eternal Feminine, The Serpent's Kiss and Through Eden's Gates - tell...
Bolcom composed these easy piano pieces for his wife to play in her piano lessons. They are accessible to beginner and intermediate level pianists of all ages.
The first major comprehensive collection of William Bolcom's piano music, including Three Dance Portraits, Nine Bagatelles, Nine New Bagatelles, Three Ghost Rags, and more, with some works published f...
Bolcom used the musical papers and sketches from the late William Albright as the basis for this composition, which serves as a memorial to Albright. It was commissioned by the American Guild of Organ...
This edition for advanced organists corrects and combines all of Bolcom's gospel preludes. Includes new program notes.
This work is written for two keyboard players at two pianos, a harmonium and a harpsichord. Includes performance and historical notes by the composer.
The four melodies - Hinei Mah Tov, Yism'chu, Hal'luhu and Sim Shalom - are included with text at the beginning of the book. These organ preludes were commissioned by the Tangeman Sacred Music Center o...
Four intermediate level piano works inspired by the seasons. Contents: Lake Reflections (Summer) - Melancholy Waltz (Fall) - Frozen Sunset (Winter) - Wedding Music (Spring).
For Solo Piano Premiered in Switzerland by pianist Yozhef Ormeny in 2008. This ten-minute work displays vivid tone painting and a whimsical, quasi-improvisational style from one of Ukraine's most prom...
Seven canons based on compositional elements from Falling Man (2008-2010), an extended scena for baritone voice and orchestra. The original vocal text, adapted for setting by J. D. McClatchy, is based...
Commissioned and premiered by the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, conducted by Paul Rardin for its 150th-anniversary celebration. This piece is a 10-minute cycle for men's chorus and piano fea...
Solo Piano / Voice And Piano James Reese Europe (1880-1919) was one of the most important African-American musicians and figures of the ragtime era. This edition includes the complete published works...
Previously available in separate volumes, the original 24 Cabaret Songs have been collected together for the first time in this new complete edition. Includes bios, notes from the composer, and Weinst...
William Bolcom's oratorio, premiered in 1984, is based on writings of William Blake. The piece is enormous in its scale, requiring hundreds of performers, and was recorded for a Naxos release, conduct...
A celebration of American social progress, Lady Liberty is dedicated to President Barack Obama. ca. 5 minutes.
William Bolcom composed both words and music for these urban madrigals, written for The Western Wind a cappella group in 1970. Each madrigal depicts a slice of New York City life in the early 1970's,...
SATB And Piano (opt. Instrumental Accompaniment) Based on the final section of Hochman's Memoriam for orchestra, Shomeir Yisraeil is a setting of Psalm 121. Includes a pronunciation guide for the text...
Rock and jazz sounds mingle with classical tradition and modern techniques in Hause's virtuoso cello suite. In Fish Heaven, an arpeggiated texture reminiscent of Bach's cello suites expands along a qu...
Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America for its 2013 competition, Aria received its premiere at the GFA conference in Louisville, Kentucky on June 30, 2013. Edited by Michael Lorimer.
Cole Porter's only attempt at a serious composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota, when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Création du monde. Both pieces w...
An arrangement of six Robert Schumann piano pieces for saxophone quartet, premiered by the PRISM Quartet in 2016.
Premiered by the Philadelphia-based saxophone quartet PRISM, this one-minute work is both jaunty and delicate.
Lilith was a female demon, dating from ancient times, a child-stealing witch of worldwide folklore. This five-movement virtuoso show piece is among the most ambitious music ever written for alto saxop...
Presented in five movements, Bolcom's Suite No. 1 in C Minor for solo violoncello is adapted from the score for the Arthur Miller play Broken Glass, used in part in the Long Wharf (New Haven, CT) and...
A virtuosic showpiece in two movements: I. Elegia - to an Old Musician and II. Moto Perpetuo. The first movement draws inspiration from and is an elegy for Norman Dello Joio, the composer's father. ca...
Inspired by the hymn tune All Creatures of Our God and King, this concerto was written for Timothy Jones, principal hornist of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Another important concert work by one of America's leading composers, now published for the first time.
Concert-Piece was premiered in 1959 by electronic composer/clarinetist Morton Subotnick and William Bolcom at Mills College, where they both studied composition with Darius Milhaud. 15 minutes.
This spirited piece incorporates many varying styles, including ragtime. It was commissioned by Portland Summer Concerts for Sergiu Luca, a longtime proponent of Bolcom's music.
An early Bolcom chamber work premiered by his composition teacher in 1962. In three movements. 7 minutes.
Four-movement chamber work with each movement focusing on a fantastical tale, including: a love affair with a vampire, flying centaurs, a dwarf's serenade, and an abandoned ferryboat. 18 minutes.
Originally written for solo violin and string orchestra. In three movements: 1. Romanza, 2. Valse funebre, and 3. Cakewalk. Advanced Level. Written for the famed violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, a...
A beautiful, sublime single movement romance, which makes for an excellent recital piece. 10 minutes.
12 short cabaret songs inspired by Carrie Jacobs Bond's Half-Minute Songs. Lyrics by Arnold Weinstein.
51 songs, including music from Casino Paradise, Dynamite Tonite, Greatshot, The Wind in the Willows, Ancient Cabaret, Minicabs, Songs to Dance, and songs not from a show, set, or cycle (Lime Jello Mar...
Includes the cycles Briefly It Enters (High Voice edition only), I Will Breathe a Mountain, Let Evening Come (High Voice edition only), Three Donald Hall Songs, Tillinghast Duo, individual songs, and...
Includes the cycles Chestnuts, From the Diary of Sally Hemings, Laura Sonnets, Old Addresses, selections from The Hawthorn Tree, and individual songs. With notes on the songs and composer comments. In...
A song cycle for baritone and piano featuring the poetry of Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Kenneth Koch and others. 24 minutes.
18 songs with texts by Sandra Seaton. The singer performs from the perspective of Sally Hemings, a slave of Thomas Jefferson with whom he had an intimate relationship. Includes vocal texts.
Song cycle of five Petrarch sonnets written on commission for the American Liszt Society in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt.
Includes After Love, Fade, Vision Bright, and Farewell.
Includes the cycles Briefly It Enters (High Voice edition only), I Will Breathe a Mountain, Let Evening Come (High Voice edition only), Three Donald Hall Songs, Tillinghast Duo, individual songs and s...
Vocal Score for Five Singers and Two Pianos A one-act comic opera in the zarzuela style based on Machiavelli's La Mandragola. Five singers and two pianos, four hands reduction.
Piano reduction for 2 pianos, 4 hands. Commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and premiered on March 8, 1976. Includes 3 movements: Andante spianato - Allegro, Regrets, and Finale.
William Bolcom wrote this beautiful piece for Theodor and Evelyn Jacobsen. He describes it as leisurely, calm, with great smoothness and repose.
Streams is a study of the dynamic register between pppp and p, as well as being a unique timbral exploration. Use of the human voice through humming and whispering blends seamlessly with metallic timb...
A perfect programming choice for early college and late high school level percussion quartets. Elephant Breath employs readily-available untuned percussion, a basic trap set and no mallet instruments....
A View from the Bridge, with a libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller, is a faithful adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Set in the Sicilian-American community of 1950s Brooklyn, this story...
This collection of 5 art songs comes from Ancient Greek poetry. The music was written by William Bolcom and the poems were translated into English by Arnold Weinstein. Songs: On a Statue of a Runner *...
ALBRIGHT WILLIAM SWEET SIXTEENTHS A CONCERT RAG FOR ORGAN ORG BOOK
Spiral bound score.
Composed in memory of Bolcom's former teacher, Darius Milhaud, this piece can be played as an introduction to another piece, or as 'bookends' for a group of small works. For two pianists at one piano.
Composed in 1986-87. Based on the theme from George Rochberg's Violin Concerto, Movement IV.
Commissioned by the Friends of Today's Music program of the Music Teachers' Association of California, this publication is a great follow-up to Bolcom's previous work, Nine Bagatelles (00294028). Incl...
Pianist Guy Livingston commissioned 60 composers to each write a piece that would last 60 seconds. Bolcom's entry is whimsical, and a perfect piece for an encore.
A virtuosic show-piece commissioned by pianist Ursula Oppens.
Nine piano pieces inspired by nine bird prints of crows by Frank Boyden. Includes music and bird prints in side-by-side format.
Bolcom's commission was originally to write a duet piece for Metropolitan Opera stars soprano Benita Valente and mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos. However, while the composition was in development, Troy...
CONCERTINO FOR CLARINET AND PIANO
Bolcom is a famously eclectic stylist. The poems here are sung in Spanish and the musical accompaniment is recognizably Spanish-tinged in rhythm and color (including castanets and the like). But the c...
This collection of 12 progressive studies for clarinet trio is presented in a playing score format, and addresses matters ranging from intonation among players to more technically difficult playing in...
Two of William Bolcom's earliest and most complex piano solos are now available in this excellent volume featuring new engravings and explanatory and programmatic notes by the composer. Fantasy-Sonata...
An homage to Emmannuel Chabrier (1841-1894), Bolcom composed Chabrieriana for a 2013 residency in Paris where he premiered the piece with pianist Guy Livingston. The composer states that the work does...
For André Hajdu's 60th birthday. In six movements.
This Concertino for clarinet is available with wind ensemble and piano accompaniment.
Written for and premiered by the Delphi Trio, the piano trio hearkens towards William Bolcom's Brahmsian side in gesture, tone and form but only in three movements, not four as often found with that c...
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for clarinetist Stanley Drucker and premiered under the baton of Leonard Slatkin on January 3, 1992. Both the orchestra and a version for band are available f...
Movements: I. Andante spianato - Allegro, II. Regrets, III. Finale. Premiere: William Bolcom, piano, Seattle Symphony, Milton Katimsconducting, 1976.
Julie Mandel, composer and lyricist, has written chamber music, opera, musical theater, popular and art songs, in addition to being Concert Director of the Long Island Composers' Alliance and the long...
Composed during the summer of 1964 at the Aspen Music Festival, performed by students under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. The composer writes: The first movement has much the feel of a Mozart stri...
This work for unaccompanied soprano saxophone was written at the request of British star saxophonist Amy Dickson, who requested several composer friends write short works in response to the COVID-19 g...
First publication.