For 2 trumpets horn trombone tuba and organ or piano. Score.

For Bass Clarinet and 1-4 Vocalists / Body Percussionists For Bass Clarinet and 1-4 Vocalists / Body Percussionists

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Soprano and B-flat Clarinet Two Performance Score-An Arabic lullaby for soprano and clarinet on a poem by Mahmoud Darwish.

2 Trumpets Horn or Trombone Baritone

Two by Frost Canzonettas Enough Rope Shadow of the Blues and Recuerdo.

The first three Nocturnes—Sa Nuit d’Été (R.M. Rilke) Soneto de la Noche (Pablo Neruda) and Sure On This Shining Night (James Agee)—may be performed either separately or as a cycle (in that order and including the Epilogue). The Epilogue:Voici le soir is only to be performed if the entire cycle is done following Sure On This Shining Night. In that case the final chord of Sure On This Shining Night is held with a fermata and then the chorus begins the Epilogue without a breakbetween these two movements. Now available for women's voices! Sure on this shining night of starmade shadows round kindness must watch for me this side the ground... In this third movement of his song cycle Nocturnes Morten Lauridsen 's flowing music captures all of the beauty and wonder of James Agee's poem.

In addition to his vast output of German poetry Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) composed nearly 400 poems in French. His poems on roses struck me as especially charming filled with gorgeous lyricism deftly crafted and elegant intheir imagery. These exquisite poems are primarily light joyous and playful and the musical settings are designed to enhance these characteristics and capture the delicate beauty and sensuousness of the poetry. Distinct melodicand harmonic materials recur throughout the cycle especially between Rilke's poignant Contre qui rose (set as a wistful nocturne) and his moving La rose complète. The final piece Dirait-on is composed as a tuneful chanson populaire or folksong that weaves together two melodic ideas first heard in fragmentary form in preceding movements. --Morten Lauridsen

2 Trumpets 3 Trombones Tuba

Book 1

Full Score

for E-flat Saxophone and Piano

English Horn and Piano

Tango in Blue

Little Suite

Lonely Star

Lousadzak

Macarena

March Vi: Here'S To Good Old Y

Midnight Meditation