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SCORES

Scores for soloists or small groups for free download; for orchestra scores write ds43@columbia.edu

These are .pdf files: some are available on request as Finale files

Solo woodwind
From Utah Dances, playable by solo saxophone, flute, or clarinet (two movements here of five total)


Allemande score
Jig score
Fugue in one voice score
Cortijo score

Forty-niner
Forty-niner double

mp3s for
Gigue, Fugue in one voice, Cortijo, Allemande, Forty-niner and double as played by Michael Swartz on the alto sax.

Solo bass flute
Little Andre
(1986) score

mp3 as played by Robert Dick

Solo clarinet

Duo for Clarinet and Meade Lux Lewis

score

from Ice-9 Ballads. You can perform it along with Meade Lux on piano by downloading his 1929 track and playing along with it.

mp3 from Ice-9 Ballads with Kurt Vonnegut's voiceover (not used in solo concert version)

Solo violin

Duo for Violin and Meade Lux Lewis, a version of the above

Score for the solo violin.

Piano and violin duo
The following are excerpts from the collection, The Complete Victrola Sessions

The Unfolding Opium Poppy score

Prelude score

Alegria por la cueva antigua score

Violin, cello, and harpsichord
Clever Hans (harpsichord score)
violin part
cello part

ballet version

Solo viola
East St. Louis, 1968 (score)
for viola and CD. You can download the mp3 of the backing tracks to play with, either by burning on CD, or over your computer.

Hear
Richard Auldon Clark perform
this on Ice-9 Ballads.

Solo organ
Hockets & Inventions
, two and three parts that could be played by any instruments, but all written to be played by organ.

Hockets and Inventions in keyboard (organ) score

mp3s as performed by Walter Hilse:

Hocket I

Invention 1
Hocket II
Invention 2

Hocket III

Invention 3

Hocket IV

Invention 4

Hocket V

Invention 5

Hocket VI
Invention 6

String quartet
Sojourner Truth (score)
for quartet, parts available on request

mp3

Here Comes the King (score)- quartet arrangement of a Raymond Scott tune. Parts available on request

mp3

East St. Louis, 1968 (score) a version for quartet and sound system.

an mp3 of the backing tracks to play with

mp3 as performed by Richard Auldon Clark perform in the version for solo viola

Water Babies (score)- arrangement of a Wayne Shorter tune for quartet: VERY tricky. Parts available on request.

mp3 of an expanded chamber version of this arrangement with Robert Dick on flute (playing the 1st vln part)

String quartet with singers
Bo Diddley (score)
- vocals are unscored (since they are not expected to read music)

mp3

Michael Callen (score) - for quartet, one tenor or soprano, and 3 backup singers. Parts on request.

mp3

String quartet with flute

Something Sweet, Something Tender, arrangement of an Eric Dolphy tune for flute and quartet, as performed on Jazz Standards on Mars

Chamber groups

Sontag in Sarajevo
Two movements
First movement: Fluor, Phosphor, Lumen, and Candle (score)
Second movement: Dance for the Tetragrammaton (score)
for four players:
one accordion (parts for standard or Strad accordions both on the scores),
one chordal instrument (guitar, piano, or other),
one treble melody instrument (violin, clarinet, trumpet, etc.),
one bass instrument (cello, bass, trombone, tuba, bassoon, etc.)

first movement mp3;
second movement mp3
;

Clever Hans
for violin, cello and harpsichord
Harpsichord score
violin part
cello part

 

Marching band and elephant orchestra

An arrangement of the first movement of Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony for school marching band with the Thai Elephant Orchestra: but could be played just by the marching band.