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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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Hear My Prayer, O Lord David Maslanka

Performing Score Chorus, Voice, Large Group, Small Group for Two-Part Chorus and Piano This small piece marks the transition from my early angular and dissonant writing to music of an openly tonal and melodic character. The setting is energetic and direct. The vocal lines are simple, while the piano writing is a bit of a challenge. The text is from Psalm 102.Find program not ...

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Duration: 4 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Aria with 30 Variations (Goldberg Variations) Johann Sebastian Bach / Arr. David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0012-3 Saxophone, Small Group, Woodwind (Goldberg Variations) arr. for Saxophone Quartet I have done a straight transcription of the entire Goldberg Variations following the keyboard edition of Hans Bischoff (Kalmus). All ornamentation has been carefully written out, and I have raised the key to A-flat from the original G to make more congenial ...

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Duration: 70 min
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranger: David Maslanka

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First Light David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0270-7 Wind Ensemble, Large Group for Wind Ensemble First Light has two characters. They are marked in the musical score as unforgettable wounds darkness, and perseverance first light. It has been my long personal experience that no real change, no transformation, occurs without crisis. We don't move if we don't have to. This is as true on the ...

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Duration: 8:00 min
Difficulty: 4

Composer: David Maslanka
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Evening Song David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0036-9 Small Group, Solo with Piano, Brass for Horn in F and Piano Evening Song is an arrangement of the first movement (At This Time) of my saxophone quartet, Songs for the Coming Day. The music appears to be utterly simple, yet requires a very mature and patient control of tempo, dynamics and breathing. There is a deep relaxation and sweetness in thi ...

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Duration: 5 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Eternal Garden David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0034-5 Small Group, Solo with Piano, Clarinet, Woodwind for Clarinet in Bb and Piano Eternal Garden was commissioned by a consortium headed by Seattle clarinetist Peggy Dees. The four movements are Lamentation, On Chestnut Hill, Elegy: August 6, 1945, and Eternal Garden. The movements become progressively longer, the last being more than half the lengt ...

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Duration: 27 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Duo David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0032-1 Small Group, Solo with Piano, Woodwind for Flute and Piano The Duo is in six episodes, played continuously. The episodes are entitled: A mystery An interlude A sore point, or a touchy question, or the unanswered question put yet another way A mystery A fanfare A mystery The opening and closing mysteries are coloristic/impressionistic in charac ...

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Duration: 20 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Concerto David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0030-7 Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group, Brass for Trombone and Wind Ensemble The Trombone Concerto is composed for an ensemble of 21 wind and brass instruments, double bass, piano, and a substantial percussion group. It is in three large movements, each of a very intense song-like nature. In addition to the solo trombone t ...

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Duration: 36 min
Difficulty: 6

Composer: David Maslanka
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Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0028-4 Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group, Saxophone, Woodwind for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble The Concerto is in three movements, with a duration of approximately 33 minutes. It is for a one-on-a-part ensemble of 24 winds and brass, plus double bass, piano, timpani, and four percussionists. The first two movements a ...

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Duration: 33 min
Difficulty: 6

Composer: David Maslanka
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Concerto David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0141-0 Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group, Clarinet, Woodwind for Clarinet in Bb and Wind Ensemble The Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble grows out of my life-long association with the clarinet. It was my beginning instrument over sixty years ago, and has stayed with me all through the years. I have written many pieces f ...

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Duration: 25 min
Difficulty: 6

Composer: David Maslanka
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Cello Songs David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0022-2 Small Group, Solo with Piano, String for Violoncello and Piano 'Cello Songs' is one of the first of my sonata length works for solo instrument and piano. The three movements become progressively more interior. The first movement is powerfully aggressive for more than half its length, arriving at a bravura C-major climax area before finding and e ...

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Duration: 26 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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A Carl Sandburg Reader David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0020-8 Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group, Voice for Wind Ensemble with Baritone Narrator/Singer and Female Folk Song Singer I remember seeing Carl Sandburg being interviewed on the Today program sometime in the 1950's. He was an old man, still physically alert, with a keen mind and a ready sense of humor. It must have been a ...

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Duration: 41 min
Difficulty: 6

Composer: David Maslanka
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California David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0087-1 Wind Ensemble, Large Group for Wind Ensemble Music is wonderful. It lets us tell ourselves things we can't speak out in words. It opens the dream space and lets us dream together. It lets us imagine the world as it really is, a place of vitality, power, and possibility. We live in fear of destruction, from climate change, nuclear bombs, ...

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Duration: 10 min
Difficulty: 5

Composer: David Maslanka
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C-minor Variations David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0018-5 Clarinet, Woodwind, Solo with Piano, Small Group for Clarinet in Bb and Piano This small piece illustrates basic variation processes in Classical style. A simple theme appears in numerous guises changes of tempo, dynamics, mode and texture.Find program notes and more information at davidmaslanka.com. AD ...

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Duration: 5 min
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Blue Mountain Meadow, Missoula, Montana David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0016-1 Small Group, Woodwind for Woodwind Quintet and Piano Blue Mountain Meadow was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, and given its premiere performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC by members of the NSO. Blue Mountain is my favorite nature-walk place in the Missoula, Montana area where I live. It is noted for is won ...

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Duration: 10 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Black Dog Songs David Maslanka

Performing Score 979-0-3022-0015-4 Small Group, Voice, Solo with Piano for Male Voice and Piano The poems selected for Black Dog Songs are from the collection If My Black Dog Returns by Richard Beale. An understanding of melancholia is very old in Western culture. It has been called the blues, or simply the beast. Winston Churchill, in a letter, mentioned a doctor famous for ...

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Duration: 15 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Beloved David Maslanka

Performing Score 979-0-3022-0014-7 Solo Performer, Piano for Piano Beloved grows out of my current mode of remembrance pieces. These include Requiem for wind ensemble, A Solemn Music for solo marimba, and Remember Me for cello and 19 players. Each of these pieces has the quality of resolution of deep issues of past trauma or grief, both my own, and some element of huge world ...

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Duration: 5 min
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