Sonny Burnette

A refreshing New Age work. Features jazzy, syncopated rhythms and an improvised solo in the D lydian mode.

A New Age style work with jazzy rhythms and an optional improvised saxophone solo.

A programatic work for Eb alto sax and piano. Five movements: Main Street/Park Avenue/After Midnight/Four Corners/Traffic Some altissimo required, but not extensive.

Cruisin' with the Top Down is simply intended as a fun encore piece with a hint of Latin and jazz flavorings thrown into the mix. Throughout most of the composition, meter signatures alternate between...

Gershwin... Lost in Tunisia is a jazz-oriented composition that makes use of exotic scale patterns as well as 'Gershwinian' blues motifs. Vacillating between the two genres, the piece attempts to meld...

Jazzscapes' by Sonny Burnette is a five movement suite for flute choir. The first movement, I Can't Dance, is an up-tempo jazz waltz based on the mixolydian mode. Extra-musical elements are used in th...

This Ain't Your Grandfather's Stinkin' Rondo was composed for the Osland Saxophone Quartet, based out of Lexington, Kentucky. It features the predictable return of the 'A' section sandwiched between c...

A Little More Psychoanalysis and I Should Be Just Fine by Sonny Burnette is a jazz work consisting of five sections in contrasting styles and tempos. Is the piece autobiographical in nature? Maybe yes...

Winner of the 1995 Fifteenth Annual James Madison University Flute Choir Composition Competition. These six movements are all based on actual stained glass panels. Instrumentation: 2 Piccolos, 4 C Flu...

Fanfare XXV: The Silver Jubilation was written for the Jubilation '97 Flute Orchestra as the opening fanfare for The National Flute Association 25th Anniversary Convention, conducted by Penny Fischer....

The 'Stone Suite' by Sonny Burnette is a four movement work for solo flute and flute choir, commissioned by Dr. Chris Potter, in which the soloist is to perform on a different flute for each movement....

Scenes of England' by Sonny Burnette is a four movement suite for flute choir. The first movement, The Windsor Royals, is full of regal flair, opening with a fanfare which is followed by a stately the...

A Place Far Away' opens with a timeless and ethereal mood which gives way to a more stately opening theme. Chromatic shifts in harmony and interplay between the flute and the piano make this piece a d...

Contrary to American legend, George Washington's teeth were not made of wood! The march is introduced with a revolutionary-flavor fife and drum sound followed by the form of a typical march. Since it...

Flute Fantasia, as the title suggests, follows no conventional form and is written in a through-composed style. This work for flute ensemble was commissioned by the Frederick Flute Choir (Maryland) in...

The Fandango is an animated Spanish or Spanish-American courtship dance in triple meter performed by a man and a woman playing castanets. Throughout Flute Fandango, the castanets play a repeating two-...

Cliff Palace Ghost Dance' is the first movement from the 'Stone Suite,' arranged for Alto Flute and Piano. The 'Stone Suite' is a four movement work for solo flute and flute choir, commissioned by Dr....

In the Shadow of the Great Sphinx' is the third movement from the 'Stone Suite,' arranged for Bass Flute and Piano. The 'Stone Suite' is a four movement work for solo flute and flute choir, commission...

According to ancient tradition, Atlantis was a large island in the Western Ocean, i.e., the ocean to the west of the known world, near the Pillars of Hercules. It is said that the island was engulfed...

The Yellow Saxophone and Other Colors is a five-movement work for soprano voice, alto saxophone and piano. It was commissioned in 2001 by the Kentucky Music Teachers Association and features music by...

A Little More Psychoanalysis and I Should Be Just Fine by Sonny Burnette is a jazz work consisting of five sections in contrasting styles and tempos. Is the piece autobiographical in nature? Maybe yes...

As implied by its title, I Lost My Mouthpiece Cap Somewhere in Brazil is a Latin-style work. It is based almost exclusively on a two-chord montuno-a repeated pattern alternating between the supertonic...

Four players join forces to produce a storm of musical collisions. This exciting work will really get the audience's toes tapping. Highly recommended.

Three Crotchety Cats is a humorous tale about three felines, Winston, Humphrey and Thurston, who were orphaned at a young age and raised by bullfrogs, cuckoo birds and garden snakes, respectively. Due...

The Twelve Days of Christmas' is a familiar tune to almost everyone. After all, the song has been around since at least the 18th century according to some sources. Even young children know the drill:...