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Bach wrote the Prelude and Fugue in E flat major – Well-Tempered Clavier book 2 #7 (BWV876). The fugue has 4 voices on the keyboard. I added a fifth voice for flute and/or clarinet and/or viola. Flute version: Clarinet version: Viola version: Flute sheet music: Clarinet sheet music: Viola sheet music:
Angels We Have Heard On High Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming We could play this twice – the first clarinet is a melody line, the second an accompaniment. Cranston carol O Holy Night – a pretty arrangement
A trio arrangement of Felix Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Nocturne Op.61 for clarinet, flute, and piano.
An arrangement of Peter Tchaikovsky’s Morning Prayer from “Album for the Young” Opus 39 for Flute, Clarinet and Piano. The intended tempo of “Lento” seems too slow, so I have set the tempo to 78 “Adagietto” – rather slow.
A hymn arrangement for flute and piano – from Singing the Living Tradition hymn #123
This is an original Unitarian hymn intended to be uplifting during the holiday season. Sheet music:
This is an arrangement for the song “You Look Good to Me” by Clement Wells and Seymour Lefco. There’s a great performance of this by the Oscar Peterson trio.
From wikipedia – “Franz Schubert’s final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the “Cello Quintet” because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. It was composed in […]
This is an arrangement where I combined Beethoven’s 9th symphony “Ode to Joy” melody with Brahm’s 1st symphony, 4th movement melody. In its day, Brahm’s 1st symphony was called “Beethoven’s 10th” and the finale theme recalls “Ode to Joy”. Robert Schumann wrote high praise for Brahms when Brahms was only 20, and that raised expectations […]
A Unitarian hymn from Steve August 2023. Sheet music: Journey of Love———————-Verse 1:We’re in a journey of loveHelpful in our waysHand in hand togetherWe walk in a journey of love.Challenges will come to greet usSummer fades and leaves will fall.To grow and learn and practiceMake our community thriveHand in hand togetherWe walk in a journey […]