Printed Music

I get many requests for the sheet music for the songs from my albums. 24 of the most popular of these songs are now published in the series ‘8 Lyrical Pieces for Oboe, Volumes 1-3’ (published by TrevCo Music), ‘8 Lyrical Pieces for Bassoon and Piano, Volumes 1-3’ (published by TrevCo Music), and ‘8 Lyrical Pieces for Flute and Piano, Volumes 1-3’ (available from me at billdouglas@comcast.net). The arrangements for oboe and flute may also be played by other treble clef instruments such as violin, and the arrangements for bassoon may be played by other bass clef instruments such as cello. All of these arrangements are shorter than the versions on my CDs.

Volume 1 contains the music for Begin Sweet World, Lullaby, Sweet Rain, Return to Inishmore, Infant Dreams, The Hills of Glencar, Morning Song, and Karuna.

Volume 2 contains the music for Hymn, Angelico, Elegy, Forest Hymn, Song for Catherine, Lady of the Lake, Folk Song, and In Lovely Blue.

Volume 3 contains the music for The Rose of Kildare, Spectrum of Violet, Homeland, The Secret Rose, Earth Prayer, Intermezzo, Innisfree, and Under the Moon.

In addition to this, Luyben Music publishes a collection called ‘6 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano’ which contains the music for Feast, Begin Sweet World, Infant Dreams, Morning Song, Open Sky and Lullaby. They also publish a collection called ‘8 Lyrical Pieces for Clarinet and Piano’ which contains the music for In Lovely Blue, Sweet Rain, Return to Inishmore, Song for Catherine, Folk Song, The Hills of Glencar, Forest Hymn and Angelico.

See below for links to these companies.

Choral Music

The music for my choral pieces ‘Deep Peace’ (SATB and SSAA), ‘Heaven in a Wild Flower’,’The Cloud’, ‘Willow Song’, ‘Earth Prayer’, ‘I Shall Not Live in Vain’, ‘In Memoriam (September 11, 2001)’, ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘My Love is Like a Red, Red, Rose’, ‘Rise Up My Love’,  ‘Wind of the Western Sea’, ‘Irish Lullaby’, ‘O Earth, O Earth Return’, ‘Flow Gently, Sweet Afton’, ‘A Place Called Morning’,’The Voices of Children’, ‘Red Rose, Sad Rose’, and ‘Piping Down the Valleys Wild’ is now available for digital download at www.musicnotes.com.

If you would like to obtain copies of other choral pieces of mine please contact me by e-mail at billdouglas@comcast.net.

Solo Piano Music

The piano music for ‘Autumn Song’, ‘Azure’, ‘Elegy’, ‘Into the Twilight’, and ‘Prelude’ is now available for digital download at www.musicnotes.com. These versions are a little shorter than the versions on my CDs. The printed music for all the pieces on my new solo piano album ‘Quiet Moon’ is also now available from www.musicnotes.com. The printed music is for the complete pieces. Every note on the album is written out, even though some sections sound as though they are being improvised.

Vocal Rhythm Etudes

 My 12 Vocal Rhythm Etudes (formerly known as ‘Rock Etudes’) are now sold by me at billdouglas@comcast.net. Each set includes a CD with slow and fast versions of the etudes. These are advanced rhythm studies used in many universities to teach complex contemporary rhythms influenced by jazz, rock, Indian, African, Brazilian and contemporary classical music. A sample is given below (click on the link to open a pdf of the file). Several of these etudes can be heard on YouTube.

Example of Vocal Rhythm Etude

Instrumental Compositions

The following pieces of mine are available from sheetmusicplus.com. All of these may be heard on YouTube.

  • Feast for Percussion Ensemble
  • Celtic Spirit for Flute Quartet
  • Celtic Reflections for Flute Quartet
  • Waltz Cantando for Clarinet and Bass Marimba
  • Diamond Dance for Clarinet and Bass Marimba
  • Feast for Clarinet and Bass Marimba
  • Tunisia for Clarinet and Bass Marimba

The following pieces of mine are available from me at billdouglas@comcast.net:

  • 8  Lyrical Pieces for Flute and Piano (Volume 1)
  • 8  Lyrical Pieces for Flute and Piano (Volume 2)
  • 8  Lyrical Pieces for Flute and Piano (Volume 3)
  • Mikarimba for Solo Bass Marimba
  • Earth Dance for Bass Marimba and Piano
  • Innisfree for Clarinet and Bass Marimba
  • 12 Vocal Rhythm Etudes
  • Waltz Cantando for Bass Marimba

Thirty-three compositions of mine, plus 6 books of my easy lyrical pieces, are available from  TrevCo Music (www.trevcomusic.com):

  • Songs and Dances for Oboe and Strings (string orchestra or quartet)
  • Sonata for Oboe and Piano
  • Sonata #2 for Oboe and Piano
  • Celebration V for Bassoon and Strings (string orchestra or quartet)
  • Partita for Bassoon and Piano
  • Partita #2 for Bassoon and Piano
  • Suite Cantando for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
  • Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
  • Second Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
  • Irish Spirit for Oboe or English Horn and Bass Marimba
  • Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
  • Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Piano
  • Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano
  • 3 Lyrical Pieces for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon or 2 Oboes and Bassoon
  • Suite Cantabile for Woodwind Quintet
  • Eight Easy Lyrical Pieces for Oboe and Piano
  • Eight Easy Lyrical Pieces for Bassoon and Piano
  • Eight Lyrical Pieces for Oboe and Piano, Volume 2
  • Eight Lyrical Pieces for Oboe and Piano, Volume 3
  • Eight Lyrical Pieces for Bassoon and Piano, Volume 2
  • Eight Lyrical Pieces for Bassoon and Piano, Volume 3
  • Divertimento I for two Bassoons (or bassoon and cello)
  • Divertimento II for Bassoon and Oboe (or flute or violin)
  • Songs and Dances for Flute, Bassoon and Piano
  • Celtic Spirit for Bassoon Quartet
  • Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
  • Trio #2 for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
  • Woodwind Quartet
  • Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon
  • Celtic Reflections for Bassoon Quartet
  • Hymn for Bassoon and Strings
  • Feast for 4 Bassoons and Piano
  • Highland for 4 Bassoons and Piano
  • Trio Cantabile for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon
  • Three Pieces for Double Reed Quartet or Double Reed Choir
  • Trio #3 for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
  • Prayer for Peace for Bassoon and Piano
  • Two Atonal Pieces for Solo Bassoon (1972)
  • Partita #3 for Bassoon and Piano
  • 3 pieces for Solo Bassoon
  • 3 Dances for Solo Oboe
  • 3 Earth Songs for Chorus and  Bassoon Quartet
  • 3 Dances for Bassoon Quartet
  • Sonata # 3 for Oboe and Piano

Luyben Music (http://luybenmusic.com/) now publishes and sells the following clarinet pieces of mine:

  • Eight Lyrical Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
  • Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
  • Divertimento I for 2 Clarinets
  • Divertimento II for Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
  • Six Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (including “Begin Sweet World”, “Feast” and four other popular pieces of mine. These are the pieces that used to be in the “Richard Stoltzman Songbook” which is now out of print)
  • Irish Spirit for Clarinet and Bass Marimba
  • Blues Tarantella for Clarinet and Piano