Maslanka Press Verlag
David Maslankas music is a powerful force for good in the world. Through it, we connect with each other and with our own interior awareness. He insisted on finding the core truth of a musical moment. His music reflects more than 50 years of this insistence, expressed in one long meditation.We have sought to honor his dedication to clarity and honesty through our publishing work. Our music preparation, binding, and finishing are executed with care. Our aim is for the materials in your hands to give you the confidence to perform at your best.
Our overriding goal is to promote the performance of David Maslankas music. To that end, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to get this music. Our prices are moderate and our terms generous. If you buy a PDF file from us, its yours forever. Print as often as you need for your own personal use.
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We hope that you discover new music that you love or find an old favorite.
Matthew Maslanka, Kyle Wilbert, and Rick Nobbe
Illumination - Overture for Band David Maslanka
979-0-3022-0045-1
Score + Set of Parts
Wind Ensemble, Large Group
for Wind Ensemble
'Illumination lighting up, bringing light. I am especially interested in composing music for young people that allows them a vibrant experience of their own creative energy. A powerful experience of this sort stays in the heart and mind as a channel for creative energy, no matter what the life ...
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Artikel Nr: 186739
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On This Bright Morning David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0066-6
Wind Ensemble, Large Group
for Wind EnsembleOn this Bright Morning wurde für ein Konsortium von Highschool-Bands aus Montana geschrieben. Die Fokusgruppe war die zweite Band der Hellgate High School in Missoula, wobei man davon ausging, dass diese zweite Band in einem guten Musikprogramm die technische Entwicklung der durchschnittli ...
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Schwierigkeitsgrad: 4
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Artikel Nr: 218139
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Hymn for World Peace David Maslanka
979-0-3022-0097-0
The title, Hymn for World Peace, came from the simple thought that if we want world peace, we can begin as individuals to ask for it. Music making opens hearts and creates peace in individuals and communities. This is a powerful step as musicians that we can take.
David's compassion and his plea for peace and tolerance for all life and cultures we hear in ...
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Artikel Nr: 216169
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The Seeker David Maslanka
Wind Ensemble, Large Group
A Symphonic Movement for Wind Ensemble
979-0-3022-0277-6
979-0-3022-0278-3
'The Seeker is subtitled a symphonic movement. It opens with a slow melody that feels like an Appalachian folk song. It transitions suddenly and sharply into the main body of the work, an energetic and exuberant romp at a very speedy tempo. The opening melody returns in the c ...
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Artikel Nr: 199830
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World Music David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0119-9
Large Group, String
for Orchestra
World Music was written for the Missoula, Montana Youth Symphony Orchestra. It is a single movement, very open and engaging piece. The title World Music comes from a desire to embrace the whole world with musical sound. This piece is dedicated to my belief that music making can release and alter violence ...
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Artikel Nr: 218164
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The Water is Wide Kevin Krumenauer
Score + Set of Parts
Wind Ensemble
for Wind Ensemble
This is a piece for early levels of band. When working on this piece I wanted to use the tools and techniques I was taught by David Maslanka to bring his approach to music to a new audience. I chose the tune "The Water is Wide" because David himself had used it and it had significance for him personally. The piece is const ...
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Artikel Nr: 218163
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Variants on a Hymn Tune David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0218-9
Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group
for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble
This music was written for my son, Matthew, when he was an 8th-grade member of the Missoula, Montana All-City Winds. Instrumentation was limited to flutes, oboes, clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, alto and tenor saxophones, horns, and percussion. This ...
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Artikel Nr: 218162
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Unending Stream of Life David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0213-4
Wind Ensemble, Large Group
Variations on 'All Creatures of Our God and King'
for Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Unending Stream of Life is a set of seven songs for wind ensemble, each embodying the original tune, or relating to it in some way. The Overture borrows Vaughan Williams' harmonization of this grand old melody, and this is paralleled w ...
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Artikel Nr: 218161
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Trio No. 1 David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0264-6
Clarinet, String, Piano
for Violin, Clarinet in Bb, and Piano
The five movements of this Trio are terse, interior, and enigmatic. They contain the seeds of things that have occupied me over the years since: a preference for tonality and singing melodies, and a way of collecting short movements to tell a larger story. I think my historica ...
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Artikel Nr: 218160
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Tone Studies David Maslanka
Score + Part
979-0-3022-0211-0
Small Group, Solo with Piano, Woodwind, Saxophone
for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Tone Studies is a set of six pieces which are for the most part slow and quiet. There is no really fast music in the whole piece, and only two fortissimo passages. I chose the title Tone Studies because each movement, and in fact each moment, offers a large number of ...
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Dauer: 35 min
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Artikel Nr: 218159
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Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0207-3
Piano, Percussion, Small Group
for Two Pianos and Two Percussionists
This is the World is a set of largely interior tone poems for a two-piano, two-percussion ensemble. The music is spacious and patient, with simple rhythms, slow harmonies, expansive and touching melodies, and moments of ferocity, whimsy, and grandeur. Although old-time ...
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Artikel Nr: 218158
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This is Our Joyful Hour Kevin Krumenauer
Score + Set of Parts
Wind Ensemble
for Wind Ensemble
This is Our Joyful Hour came out of a painful and traumatic period that resulted in a difficult divorce. At my lowest and most terrible moment I heard a radio DJ say, 'this is our joyful hour.' When I heard this I realized: that's the piece. Working on this music became a lifeline for me through one of the darkest periods ...
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Schwierigkeitsgrad: 5
Schwierigkeitsgrad: 5
Artikel Nr: 218157
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Tears David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0203-5
Small Group, String, Woodwind
Montana Music No. 5
for Viola, Violoncello, Bassoon, and Piano
The viola-cello-bassoon-piano ensemble is unusual, with concentrated emphasis on low and dark tones. Tears is about inner transformation, about groping through darkness to the voice of praise and the heart of love. The groping is expressed by a ki ...
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Artikel Nr: 218156
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Symphony No. 9 David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0198-4
Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group
Movement I. Preface: "Secrets" by W.S. Merwin
for Wind Ensemble and Narrator
This is the first movement of Symphony No. 9, Preface: "Secrets" by W.S. Merwin. Symphony No. 9 can be described as a large collection of instrumental songs which create a continuously moving tapestry of thoug ...
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Dauer: 15 min
Schwierigkeitsgrad: 7
Schwierigkeitsgrad: 7
Artikel Nr: 218155
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String Quartet No. 2 David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0189-2
String, Small Group
for String Quartet
My background thinking for this quartet music was the idea of "Living Earth". Ever since moving to western Montana in 1990, I have been pushed by the living force of the land. Something in it asks me to write music. In spite of all the environmental issues we face, not only here but globally, there ...
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Dauer: 31 min
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Artikel Nr: 218154
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Songs of My Nights David Maslanka
Score + Part
979-0-3022-0187-8
Small Group, Solo with Piano, Woodwind
for Flute and Piano
Songs of My Nights is a set of brief, interior songs. Each is a revisiting of older music two songs of my own from 1975 ('December 11' Anne Sexton Songs) and 1996 ('I am Smeared with the Tar of Night' Black Dog Songs), and a madrigal from 1605 by Claudio Monteverdi ('T'amo, mia vita') ...
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Artikel Nr: 218153
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