PIANO
Listed in approximately rising order of difficulty. The level range given for the multi-movement suites
reflects the easiest and most difficult movement. Every composition on this page includes a link
to a YouTube video where you can preview the entire score while listening to a recording.
MEET THE MODES
Four Modal Miniatures
Level: 3
Duration: 4:30
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Dacker Music
Meet the Modes is a teaching-recital piece for intermediate piano students in four single-page movements. In addition to introducing the four most commonly encountered ecclesiastical modes, this composition also provides a rare opportunity for young piano students to explore the use of mild dissonance in a piece of music at their level. The four miniatures, with their locations on the audio track are:
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1. Dorian 0:00
2. Lydian 1:22
3. Phrygian 2:43
4. Mixolydian 3:39
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REFLECTIONS IN B MINOR
Level: 3
Duration: 3:40
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
Concerned more with teaching expressive playing than technique, this calm and flowing piece is mostly built from the opening motif. Good recital repertoire for second and third-year piano students.
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SUNSHINE
Level: 3
Duration: 1:50
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
This fun little piece for young second or third-year piano students was written for a friend way back in 1966. The style was inspired by Clementi, whose piano sonatinas I was studying at the time.
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SONG OF THE WILLOW BRANCHES
Level: 3
Duration: 2:45
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
This is a piano solo arrangement of one of the songs from my 1985 musical, The Treasure of Cathay, based on the 1921 novella Messer Marco Polo by Donn Byrne. Also available for high voice solo and piano.
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CONNECTIONS
Level: 4
Duration: 1:20
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
This is an unusual piece in that, while not strictly playing an ostinato, the left hand follows a specific pattern that has an encoded meaning, not a hidden song ala Enigma Variations, but its own peculiar translation.
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ELEGY FOR SANDY
Level: 4
Duration: 1:40
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
Written as a memorial for my cousin, it uses an arch form where the second half of the piece exactly mirrors the notes of the first half, but not the rhythms.
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PASSACAGLIA
Level: 4
Duration: 2:22
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
This is an on-request arrangement of the second movement of my Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano. It makes a nice little stand-alone piano solo.
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THREE MOUNTAIN MOODS
Level: 5-7
Duration: 5:00
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
The three movements, each descriptive of a weather-related mountain mood, are listed below, with their locations
on the audio track.
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1. Musette - Mountain Snow 0:00
2. Nocturne - Mountain Rain 1:40
3. Passacaglia - Mountain Wind 2:58
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SEXTUPLETS
Level: 6-7
Duration: 4:00
Price: $4.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
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A suite of six miniatures all based on the same twelve-tone set. A fun introduction for moderately advanced students
to one of the most important trends in 20th Century music. This is my one-and-only surviving composition done in the
12-tone system.
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The individual movements, with their locations on the audio track, are listed below.
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1. Lento - Allegro - Lento 0:00
2. Vivo 0:44
3. Andantino 1:09
4. Adagio molto - Allegro 1:43
5. Allegro vivace 2:32
6. Grave - Allegro non troppo - Grave 2:53
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THREE BAGATELLES
Level: 4-6
Duration: 1:40
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
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These three very short (single page) fanciful pieces with equally fanciful subtitles, are listed below, along with their locations on the audio track:
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1. Ants' Dance 0:00
2. Desert Mirage 0:22
3. Rat Race 1:15
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INVENTION
Level: 5
Duration: 1:00
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
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A very short, breathless encore based on a single motif, inspired by--but not imitating--the 2-Part Inventions of J.S. Bach.
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SCHERZETTO
Level: 5
Duration: 1:20
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
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This "Little Scherzo," originally written in college as a nearly unplayable musical joke, has been totally
revised and, although very short, is now a legitimate--and fun--piece of piano repertoire. Ideal as a
short change-of-pace encore on recitals.
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UNMEASURED PRELUDES
Level: 2-7
Duration: 5:45
Price: $4.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
Six short pieces with ambiguous tonal centers and no barlines. PREVIEW ON YOUTUBE
The individual preludes, with their locations on the audio track, are listed below.:
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1. Slow, sustained 0:00
2. Restless 1:18
3. Gently 1:52
4. Solemn 3:06
5. Rather quickly 4:14
6. Very Slow, sustained​ 4:55
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SUITE PASTORALE
Level: 4-7
Duration: 8:30
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Dacker Music
Suite in five movements loosely evocative of a day in the country, complete with a storm...but that's where the nod to Beethoven ends.
The individual movements, with their locations on the audio track, are listed below.
1. Golden Morning 0:00
2. Deer at Play 1:28
3. Forest Shadows 2:35
4. Afternoon Downpour 4:42
5. Evening Reflections 6:26
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