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Flute Quintet
Flute and Guitar Flute, Marimba and Guitar Guitar Solo Guitar Duet Guitar Trio Marimba Solo Piano, Four Hands |
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Instrument List
Last updated on August 12, 2006
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Guitar Solo
Air Tendre, or "Tender Melody," was composed for the harpsichord by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687). This guitar arrangement is without the ornaments of the original music. This more austere rendition is nevertheless a delicate little gem.
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Air, from Suite No. 3 by J. S. Bach.
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Nocturne was first composed as a concert Marimba Solo for the very talented Hiroko Sano, who gave the premiere performance in 1999. I later made this arrangement for solo guitar.
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Ol' Man Walkin' is a "40 bar blues" composed for the 40th birthday of a friend and former guitar student. It was published in the 1993 summer edition of Soundboard magazine (vol. XX, no. 1), the journal of the Guitar Foundation of America.
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Dance for Two Guitars
was composed in 1975 as "half a gift" (I played the other half).
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Es Four is an energetic, lively piece with an
extended driving basso ostinato played by the third guitar which supports a duet played by guitars one and two. It's quite fun to play. Here is the full score. Please request the individual parts if you would like to have them e-mailed to you in pdf (Acrobat Reader) format.
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Seven Pieces for Flute and Guitar was performed in the Festival of New American Music at California State University, Sacramento, in 1980 and reviewed as "seven tiny, lovely pieces" by the Sacramento Bee. The music was also reviewed in Soundboard (vol. XV, no. 3) as "...a pleasant welcome to a vast and growing repertoire of flute and guitar duos...."
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Four Pieces for Flute and Guitar, three of which were composed in 1975 and a fourth added in 1978. Four Pieces was reviewed in the 1988 fall issue of Soundboard (vol. XV, no. 3).
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The marimba parts in Dance 'N Five and Tango range to the F below middle C allowing the trio to utilize a xylophone which is more easily transported than a concert marimba.
Dance 'N Five is a lively trio in 5/4. The individual parts are available separately in pdf (Acrobat Reader) format. Contact me if you would like to have them.
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Tango is a full score. Please request the individual parts if you would like to have them e-mailed to you in pdf (Acrobat Reader) format. The guitar part includes some suggested fingering.
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This Nocturne was a gift to Hiroko Sano, a very fine and talented marimbist, who gave the premiere performance in 1999. I later made an arrangement of this music for solo guitar.
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Four Chorales is a set of related pieces which are generally polyphonic with both ancient and contemporary underpinnings. Premiere performance by FLUTES! of Davis, California.
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Dance For Five for five flutes includes tempo and meter changes and alternating ensemble combinations of trio with duet, solo with quartet, and "tutti." The full score is presented here. Performance parts with all necessary cues are available. Composed for and premiered by FLUTES! of Davis, California.
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In 1651 the Italian astronomer, Riccioli, bestowed romantic Latin names on the moon's maria, or "seas." The compositions in this set were named after five of these "seas." The music was composed in 1976 for two guitars. In 1978 this piano - four hands arrangement was made for, recorded and performed by, Joan Ball and Helen Twiss. The score was revised in February 2003.
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