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View and shop for downloadable chamber music repertoire here. This downloadable repertoire comes with an accompanying covenant that permits unlimited photocopying of performance materials for your personal and professional use; refer colleagues to this site to download their own materials.
Repertoire is listed in alphabetical order by title, with performing forces, year of composition, and accompanied with a short history or background. |
Announcing the May 2023 release of an ever-expanding collection of recent and vintage piano works by Randall Davidson called A Book of Stunts - occasional music for piano(s). The collection will feature compositions of 2-5 minutes' duration for solo piano, piano four- and five hand, and duo pianists. Recent compositions will join repertoire that has been created over the course of decades for musical entertainments, parties, occasions, birthdays, anniversaries, bridge openings and bar mitzvahs.
Some works, previously available, will be included in this collection. The works will be graded by difficulty (from beginners to advanced players) and can be purchased individually or as a collection. Visit us again in May 2023.
Some works, previously available, will be included in this collection. The works will be graded by difficulty (from beginners to advanced players) and can be purchased individually or as a collection. Visit us again in May 2023.
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Concerning One Summer: a Fantasy on Newfoundland Folk Melodies [solo piano] 1997; 14 minute
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DOWNLOAD It Is All Right [piano five hands] 1987; 3:30 minutes.
Winner of the Prix du Borúd (named for the famed recording engineer and editor Russ Borud), "It Is All Right" is a speciality piano piece: five hands (primo, secondo and oh-oh written for a volunteer pianist from the audience); Zez Confrey's inspired humorous, programatic (specialty) piano pieces; musical chairs requiring each player to move from the top part to the bottom part of the keyboard during the course of the piece |
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DOWNLOAD Knots, a virtuosic humoresque [piano] 1996, rev. 2020; 3 minutes. First written in 1996 and upgraded in 2020 with terrifyingly difficult riffs (or riffifyingly tifficult diffs), Knots is for the brave and patient pianist who understands that virtuosity takes time and perspicacity. One doubts that few 150 second pieces can inspire the kind of dedication it will take to be humoresque. Even thought there is little chance a performance will ever take place, Boys Art Music throws down the gauntlet. Any pianist who successfully executes a credible performance, should expect a worthy prize.
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DOWNLOAD arr. Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service [cello and organ] 2019; 4 minutes. This setting of a traditional melody found in the Sacred Harp (1844) is for cello and organ; itwas originally written for choir and trio. It was commissioned and premiered for the wedding of Peter and Mary Dahlen in 1989. Another version for 2-part choir and organ has been published by Boosey & Hawkes (OCTB6806).
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DOWNLOAD LOVE is the thread [cello, congas, organ] 2019; 3:30 minutes.Inspired by the poem of the same name by Rabbi Chaim Stern, Love is the thread, was composed for Vinje Lutheran Church (Willmar MN), Mount Zion Temple (St Paul MN) and Plymouth Congregational Church (Minneapolis); part of the Faith Partners program of the American Composers Forum. This is an adaptation of of a choral work with conga and organ.
The musical form is a "thread" as the last words of a line become the first lines in the next. It is suitable for sacred worship. *** Love is the thread that binds our lives in a lasting fabric which time will fray, Which time will fray, but only to be rewoven by each generation. Each generation will lift the fallen to their feet and hold them as they learn to walk. And as they learn to walk, the sickness of our time will be healed by those who drink deep from ancient wells of truth. From ancient wells of truth they will draw strength to keep faith with those who sleep in the dust... |
DOWNLOAD arr. Prelude on "Fairest Lord Jesus" excerpted from The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra [solo organ] 2019; one minute.
For Holy Baptism; found in the Lutheran Book of Worship #187. Tune by Johann R. Ahle (1625-1673). Composed for the baptism of Benjamin Franklin Davidson on December 2, 1991. Two-part Invention [solo piano] 2016; 2 minutes
Walden Etudes [piano three-hands; for teacher and beginning students] 2001; 7 minutes
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