G. Schirmer

Morton Gould's Minute Plus Waltz Rag for Orchestra. In honour of their 75th anniversary, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra commissioned a number of composers who had written major works for theminthe...

Awarded the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Commissioned in 1993 by the Louisville Orchestra. Parts available on rental. Duration: ca. 15 minutes.

China Dreams is a four-movement work written in 1995 for the Seattle Symphony. The work reflects Sheng's nostalgia for his homeland, expressed through use of Chinese folk melodies from different provi...

These remarkable cantatas from Menotti's later period spring from his profound devotion to the Catholic tradition and feature texts by two of the Church's best-loved poets, St. Teresa of Avila and St....

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music! This landmark, five-movement string symphony was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in honor of the 100th anniversary of Symphony Hall in that ci...

This 1992 composition is the composer's personal portrait of New York City. It was premiered by the New York Philharmonic, with Leonard Slatkin conducting, on January 4, 1996. The title is drawn from...

Commissioned by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Music Library Association, Shakin' had its first performance on February 24, 2006. The composer grew up in the 1960s and her music has been indis...

Roy Harris' Ode To Consonance for Symphony Orchestra. Full score.

Walter Piston's Pine Tree Fantasy for Orchestra. Score.

For a variable combination of strings, winds and piano ad lib.

John Corigliano (b. 1938) is an American composer. One of his most enjoyable compositions is The Mannheim Rocket, commissioned by the Mannheim orchestra in the year 2000. It takes inspiration from the...

The Concerto for Orchestra consists of four separate ensembles using four distinct styles of music. This work exploits the small scale tactics of the string quartets in a much larger and timbrally and...

Carter's Variations for Orchestra is an astonishing work from 1956. There are ten variations, many of them of clearly identifiable character, some in tricky in-between places, each of them displaying...

Henry Cowell's Seven Rituals Of Man uses music to explore the journey of Man from Birth to Death similar to the All the world's a stage monologue from Shakespeare's As You Like It. Symphony No. 11 ref...

Filled with the tension of a Hitchcock film, Husa's 1969 work captures strife and heartbreak [with] ominous timpani, warlike snare drums, toxic trumpets and a chilling, robotic, cacophonous climax, al...

A masterly composer of music for strings, Bloch wrote four string quartets, Schelomo--A Hebrew Rhapsody (for cello and orchestra), and A Voice in the Wilderness (for orchestra and cello obbligato), wh...

Study Score.

With this 1913 work, Ernest Bloch inaugurated his so-called 'Jewish cycle', though apart from an emphasis on the augmented second (characteristic of cantorial melody) these poems are not particularly...

Silvestre Revueltas' 'Sensemaya' was written in 1937 for chamber orchestra; one year later, the composer transcribed it for a huge orchestra of twenty-seven wind instruments, fourteen percussion instr...

This 1975 work was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American bicentennial celebrations. It was premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Aldo Ceccato,...

This edition is the Full Score for Full Orchestra.

This symphony, from Bloch's 'Jewish Period' evokes two Jewish traditional celebrations, 'Yom Kippur' (Day of Atonement) and 'Succoth' (Celebration of Harvest). It does this not by using traditional Je...

John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra'...

Critical Edition. This is the third movement of Ives' Holidays Symphony, or as it is officially known, A Symphony: New England Holidays.