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Flute in chamber music
- quintets and sextets ECLIPSE for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, and three percussion by Howard J. Buss was written in 1974. There is a feeling of suspense throughout during this musical representation of a solar eclipse. Order from Subito Music. FIVE STARS (2004) for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet,
horn, and bassoon) by Howard
J. Buss. Each of the 5 movements features a different instrument: Into the Maelstrom features the flute, A Distant Glow (horn), Orbits (oboe), The Message from the Cosmic Sea (bassoon), and Dance of the Stars (clarinet). This music is sophisticated, yet audience-friendly, and is well suited for school outreach concerts. (1710") Grade V. Music available from Cimarron Music Press ISLAND OF ENCHANTMENT “5 Vignettes from Puerto Rico” for flute, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, and piano was written during the summer of 2022 for clarinetist Dr. Kathleen Jones and the 40th Anniversary of Camerata Caribe of San Juan, Puerto Rico. An English horn may be used as a substitute for the French horn. Camerata Caribe premiered the work on February 5, 2023 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The five movements are: Sunrise Paints the Land, To the Shore “Arecibo”, Glowing Water “La Parguera”, The Rain Forest “El Yunque”, and Mongoosian Intrigues. Sound samples: Movement_1.mp3; Movement_2.mp3; Music available from Cimarron Music Press
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Music available from Cimarron Music Press OCEAN MOODS “Three Sonic Portraits” (2014) for flute clarinet, violin, viola, and cello by Howard J. Buss ranges from lyric tenderness to powerful and sometimes dazzling technical displays. The 3 movements, Vistas, From the Depths, and Blustery, explore a wide range of sonic atmospheres and moods. (13’30”) Grade V-VI. Score samples: Movement 1.pdf; Movement 2.pdf; Movement 3.pdf Sound samples: Movement 1.mp3; Movement 2.mp3: Movement 3.mp3 - Video Music available from Cimarron Music Press SKYLINES, version for woodwind sextet by Howard J. Buss, was originally composed for trumpet and piano in 2002. This version for woodwind sextet, commissioned in 2019 by Victoria Ward Ltd. in memory of clarinetist David Marshall, is scored for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet and bassoon (an additional bassoon part is provided as a substitutute for the bass clarinet, part 5.) This is a musical urban portrait in 2 movements: No specific city is depicted; rather, the composer captures, in a broad manner, the essence of the big city spectacle. The lyrical and majestic first movement, Panorama, suggests the expansive grandeur of cityscape. The second, Amid the Spires, is influenced by jazz and captures the dynamic energy of life on the busy streets. Score and parts are included. (10’30”) Grade V. Sound samples: 1.mp3, 2.mp3; 3.mp3; 4.mp3 - Score sample: Excerpt.pdf Music available from Cimarron Music Press THREE CONTEMPLATIONS for wind quintet was composed during 2022 for the University of Central Florida Faculty Wind Quintet. It was premiered by this ensemble on September 21, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. Its three movments are In the Glow of Love, Daydreams, and Amid the Storm. (12'30") Grade V-VI. Score sample: Excerpts.pdf Sound samples: Movement 1.mp3; Movement 2.mp3; Movement 3.mp3 Music available from Cimarron Music Press WHERE NOW RUSTS THE IRON? (1994) by Howard J. Buss for high voice (soprano or tenor), flute, cello & six percussion is a dramatic tribute to the composers grandfather who, like many ironworkers in his day, worked under brutal conditions with the dream of making life better for future generations. A moving work touching our communal soul. (8) Grade IV-V. Score sample: Excerpt.pdf Music available from Cimarron Music Press Percussion distribution: Perc. 1: Timpani (4), orchestra bells, tubular bells (shared with perc. 2) and finger cymbals; Perc. 2: anvils (metal pipes may be substituted), and tubular bells (shared with perc. 1) Perc. 3: Xylophone, and suspended cymbal; Perc. 4: Vibes and suspended cymbal; Perc. 5: marimba; Perc. 6: suspended cymbals, tam-tam, wind chimes and bell tree.Percussion Set-up Chart Text: Where Now Rusts the Iron? Homes now stand where once the foundry coughed. Countless tons of iron - wheels and pans, boilers and pipes, latches and plates. Countless train loads of hardware shrieked from the pounding, grimy world within. Iron converted from life itself, energy given form. Precious moments, days, and years poured into molds and sealed amid the ashes and dust, always ashes and dust, suspended in life-stealing air. The graves of the workers overlook this place, their famlies spread afar. Season come and go, yet frozen in memry are the days of youth spent in toil, hope, and purpose. Where now rusts the iron once cast by pounding hearts, releasing the dreams, the souls, invested in tough, cold metal? The foundry still stands among the houses, coughing on smoke-laden air. Invisible as the iron once made, its souls as mist remains. - Howard J. Buss Copyright © 1994 by Brixton Publications Howard J. Buss, Composer Index of Flute Publications: (Click on an instrumentation link, works are in alphabetical order within each category.) Flute with one other instrument, or voice, or electronic recording (includes flute and piano) Flute ensembles (flute trios, quartets,and choirs) Flute in chamber music - trios Flute in chamber music - quartets (includes standard woodwind quartets) Flute in chamber music - quintets and sextets (includes wind quintets) Flute Music, Online Graded Catalog of Sheet Music Product description: Flute, Piccolo, and Alto Flute: Solos, Duos, Choirs, Chamber Music and Recordings |
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