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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.

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Songs for the Coming Day David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0178-6 Saxophone, Small Group, Woodwind for Saxophone Quartet Songs for the Coming Day is in nine movements, and runs about 48 minutes. The movements are relatively brief songs without words with titles such as 'Breathing,' 'Awakening,' 'Letting Go of the Past,' and 'The Soul is Here for its Own Joy.' Eight of the nine movements are varying deg ...

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Duration: 48 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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A Song of Coming Awake David Maslanka

Performing Score 979-0-3022-0260-8 Woodwind, Solo Performer Variations on 'Christ ist Erstanden' (Christ is Risen) for Flute This brief set of variations was written for my friends Andrea and Steve Steele for their wedding in 2008, and performed for them by our mutual friend, flutist Kim Risinger. The chorale melody 'Christ is erstanden' (Christ is Risen) serves as the theme. ...

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Duration: 5 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Sonata David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0176-2 for Bassoon and PianoSonata for Bassoon and Piano is in four movements. The first two are organized as a recitative and aria. The third follows the same pattern but contains both elements in the single movement. The finale is an energetic romp that gives a nod to two of my favorite composers: Poulenc and Shostakovich. The music is light-hearte ...

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Duration: 20:00 min
Difficulty: 4

Composer: David Maslanka
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Originale Literatur

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Sonata David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0254-7 Saxophone, Small Group, Solo with Piano for Alto Saxophone and Piano The sonata is in three large movements. The first is lyrical and reflective, with sudden energetic bursts. The song-like and soulful second movement is a broad soliloquy with its roots in the expressive madrigal style of the sixteenth century. The third is a large rondo that is ...

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Duration: 32 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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A Solemn Music David Maslanka

Performing Score 979-0-3022-0000-0 Percussion, Solo Performer for Marimba The three songs in this set are studies in deep moods of contemplation. There are no stories being told, but the patient laying out of line shapes with pauses, and the simple beauty of the marimba tone allow a quiet opening for personal reflection. My own sense of this music is the release and clearing ...

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Duration: 25 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Shadowlight Kevin Krumenauer

Score + Set of Parts Wind Ensemble for Wind Ensemble

Find program notes and more information at davidmaslanka.com. AD

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Duration: 19.5 min
Difficulty: 6

Composer: Kevin Krumenauer
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Seven Lyrics from Sappho David Maslanka

Performing Score 979-0-3022-0081-9 Chorus, Voice, Large Group, Small Group for SATB Chorus These seven pieces can be performed in order as a set. Since the texts are so brief, it will enhance the performance to have each one read aloud by a single voice before the text is heard in its choral setting. Singing should follow reading without significant pause, and the whole perfo ...

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Duration: 10 min
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Saint Francis David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0102-1 Wind Ensemble, Large Group Two Studies for Wind Ensemble Some years ago I had a dream of St. Francis. It began with me being in the presence of a metal object that looked vaguely human in form, but was thousands of degrees hot. Touching it would be fatal ... I touched it! It changed into the figure of St. Francis dressed as a Chinese peas ...

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Duration: 18 min
Difficulty: 6

Composer: David Maslanka
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Recitation Book David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0074-1 Saxophone, Small Group, Woodwind for Saxophone QuartetA "recitation book" is a collection of writings, often of a sacred nature, used for readings by a community. The music of this piece draws on old sources for each movement Bach Chorales, a Gesualdo madrigal, Gregorian Chant. A number of old variation techniques are employed throug ...

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Duration: 20 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Musik für die Kirche

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Pray for Tender Voices in the Darkness David Maslanka

Set of Performing Scores String, Small Group, Solo with Piano for Harp and Piano I want to offer music to young people that will let them know that it is possible and also necessary to create a powerful and loving life in our difficult time.Find program notes and more information at davidmaslanka.com. AD ...

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Duration: 5 min
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Peace David Maslanka

Set of Performing Scores 979-0-3022-0072-7 Saxophone, Small Group, Woodwind for Saxophone Quartet Peace was made as an encore for the 2012 Tokyo Masato Kumoi Sax Quartet premiere concert of my Songs for the Coming Day, and my transcription of the Bach Goldberg Variations. The music for Peace is a slight recomposition of the song that ends the first movement of my Concerto for ...

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Duration: 2 min
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Out of This World David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0070-3 Saxophone, String, Small Group, Woodwind for Alto Saxophone, Violoncello, and Piano The composition of Out of this World arose from my reading of the brief poem of the same name by the Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. He describes his experience of communion in a Catholic Mass. He has the experience of the mystery, and of time stopping. For al ...

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Duration: 9.5 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Orpheus David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0068-0 Small Group, Woodwind, Percussion for Two Bassoons and Marimba Orpheus is a musical retelling of the tale of Orpheus who was so torn by the death of his beloved Eurydice that he descended to the underworld in an attempt to bring her back to life. His tragic failure dooms them to an eternity apart. The fruit of tragedy is beautiful music! ...

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Duration: 12 min
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O Earth, O Stars David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0064-2 Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group, String, Woodwind for Flute, Violoncello, and Wind Ensemble O Earth, O Stars is a double concerto for flute and cello. The music can stand on its own without any programmatic references, but I am strongly drawn to certain images and depths that are touched when the music relates to th ...

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Duration: 40 min
Difficulty: 6

Composer: David Maslanka
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Nocturne David Maslanka / Arr. David Maslanka

Score + Part Small Group, Solo with Piano, Clarinet, Woodwind for Clarinet in Bb and Piano Nocturne is a musical meditation on a text from the book Silence and the Gift by the poet Richard Beale. The text reads in part: Teach me the path Of forgiving love I would let go Of resentment and remorse The music is open and uncomplicated, but asks for a deep understanding. This ...

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Duration: 4 min
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The Nameless Fear; David Maslanka

Full Score Chorus, Voice, Large Group, Small Group, Percussion or: The Unanswered Question Put Yet Another Way for SATB Chorus, Male Narrator, Female Narrator, Flute, Bassoon, Guitars, Percussion The poetry for this small cantata comes from a dark time of the 20th century the Vietnam era, the Cold War at its height, the prospect of nuclear winter. The feelings expressed are ...

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Duration: 19 min
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