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.
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Matthew Maslanka, Kyle Wilbert, and Rick Nobbe
My Father's Shadow Matthew Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
Small Group, Brass
for Euphonium Quartet
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Music for Doctor Who David Maslanka
Performing Score
979-0-3022-0059-8
Small Group, Woodwind, Solo with Piano
for Bassoon and Piano
This brief piece was inspired by an episode of the BBC-TV space fantasy. In it, the Doctor (played by Tom Baker) escapes from confinement by seemingly electrocuting himself. Is he dead? Is he alive? He's alive!!
Music for Doctor Who was written for California bassoonist/composer J ...
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Montana Music David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0057-4
Small Group, String
Trio
for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
This single-movement piece has a hard edged driven quality. The character is both mournful and powerfully angry. The Montana Music designation, which I used for a number of pieces, came about during my early years of living in Montana. I felt a strong energy in the land, a warnin ...
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Meditation on 'Dr. Affectionate' David Maslanka
Performing Score
979-0-3022-0055-0
Solo Performer, String
for Guitar
This is a quiet and inward piece using a poem by the German novelist Gunther Grass as inspiration. The poem is from his novel, The Flounder, and suggests that men over 40 need significant consolation(!) The rhythmic structure and phrasing of the piece are intricate and advanced Classical guitar technique is ...
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Little Symphony David Maslanka
Performing Score
979-0-3022-0054-3
Clarinet, Solo Performer, Woodwind
(in four movements)
on the name Barney Childs
for Clarinet in Bb
Little Symphony was written as a part of a birthday offering to composer Barney Childs. Over the years, Barney had been friend and mentor to dozens of younger composers. I am very happy to say that I was among them. On the occasion of his 64th b ...
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Little Concerto David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0052-9
Small Group, Woodwind, String
for Six Players
This music was written for talented amateurs in attendance at a summer music conference. The Concerto is very much in a Neoclassic mode. It is in three movements. The fast outer movements are whimsical and tongue-in-cheek. The slow middle movement unfolds soulful melodies.Find program notes a ...
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Letter to Martin David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0107-6
Featured Soloist or Group, Small Group, Brass
for Narrator with Brass Quintet and Piano
Letter to Martin is a reading drawn from events in the life of Martin Luther King, and including portions from Abraham Lincoln's farewell address to his neighbors in Springfield, and W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk. I have tried through words a ...
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In a Twinkling Kevin Krumenauer
Score + Set of Parts
Wind Ensemble
for Wind Ensemble
In a Twinkling is a short work that explores the process of revealing what is hidden. It is a happy, celebratory piece that reflects that there is good in the midst of every situation no matter how difficult it may appear. Sometimes it is hidden, as the tune 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' is largely hidden throughout the p ...
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Images from "The Old Gringo" David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0047-5
Small Group, Solo with Piano, Clarinet, Woodwind
Eleven Little Pieces
for Violin, Clarinet in Bb, and Piano
Images was composed on a whim. As I read the novel, The Old Gringo, by Carlos Fuentes I found myself underlining phrases and passages of striking imagery. Out of more than fifty of these I selected eleven as the basis for brief tone ...
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day David Maslanka
Performing Score
Chorus, Voice, Large Group, Small Group
for SATB Chorus
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Husa David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0279-0
Wind Ensemble, Large Group
for Wind Ensemble
This brief piece in honor of Karel Husa embodies two statements of a chorale melody (Christ lag in Todesbanden) and a short responsive instrumental song. The chorale statements are made by a small group of solo players, and the song is presented by the full ensemble.Find program notes and more ...
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Hurtling Through Space David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0043-7
Large Group, Percussion
... at an unimaginable speed ...
for Percussion Ensemble
Hurtling Through Space which is what we are doing on planet Earth. Terrifying as this realization may seem, the universe is not inimical to us. At the core of the all that is is the heart of love. Hurtling is a vigorous and challenging piece for all players ...
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The Hungry Heart David Maslanka
Performing Score
979-0-3022-0236-3
Chorus, Voice, Large Group, Small Group
for SATB Chorus
Richard Beale wrote Hymn to Sophia, Holy Wisdom, a set of seven poems that became songs in my Mass for solo voices, choruses, and wind ensemble. The poem The Hungry Heart was written by Beale in Tucson, AZ in April of 1996 as a response to the splendid Sonoran Desert, and to the premier ...
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The Hills of May David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0040-6
String, Voice, Featured Soloist or Group, Small Group
2005 Revision
for Soprano and String Quartet
In his poetry, and much of his other writing, the English poet Robert Graves was seeking the White Goddess his visualization of the Creative Feminine. In The Hills of May she is personified as a beautiful earth goddess, and the poet as the ...
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Heaven to Clear When Day Did Close David Maslanka
Score + Set of Parts
979-0-3022-0038-3
String, Small Group, Saxophone, Woodwind
Fantasy on a theme of Barney Childs
for Tenor Saxophone and String Quartet
Barney Childs was my mentor and then friend from the early 1970's until his death in the late 90's. His music is fragmentary, elliptical, enigmatic. I always found something to like in his work ideas that had a quality of c ...
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Heart of God Kevin Krumenauer
Score + Set of Parts
Wind Ensemble
for Wind Ensemble
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