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Chrome Pieces, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

Chrome Pieces (2009)

I Incisive

II Veiled

III Plaintive

IV Manic

V Elegaic

Program notes: Chrome Pieces is in part an exploration of the coloristic capabilities of the brass quintet. Consisting of mostly fast, relatively concise music, the quintet features solos and duets in the inner movements while emphasizing full, equal ensemble participation in I and V, somewhat suggestive of the arch form. Further symmetry is provided by the use of mutes in II and IV. The opening movement, cast in three sections, is built around a marcato four-note figure yielding to a softer, lyric middle section. The tuba is …

Chicago Profiles, For Clarinet And Trombone, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

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First Waltzes, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

The 36 waltzes comprising Franz Schubert’s “Originaltänze” (First Waltzes) were written in 1816 when the composer was 19 (probably initially conceived as improvised pieces played for his friends at “Schubertiads”) and appeared in 1821 as op. 9. This was the first of several sets of dances for piano solo and the only one whose sequence of movements was specified. This is important in the overall harmonic progression, which begins in the flat keys, moving eventually to conclude in F major, reflecting Schubert’s interest in mediant relationships. While published as piano music they were also used as lead sheets, much like …

Mexico City Blues: Part Vi, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Piano, Bass, Drums, Narrator

Miniature Set, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for John Langfeld

Return Of The Randwulf, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for the New Music Agency flute, clarinet, bassoon, marimba, el. piano, drum set Return of the Randwulf revisits some themes from the controversial 1995 orchestral piece Randwulf, written for the Lincoln Youth orchestra conducted by Brian Moore (which a reviewer described as “Otto Von Bismark getting down and funky”). This version features two of the James Brown-inspired sections connected by softer interludes of featuring the winds then marimba and electric piano, all accompanied by a percussion track.

Second Sonata, For Tenor Saxophone And Piano, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

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The New Patagonian Jazz Express, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for jazz ensemble

Water Music Revisited, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for Fl., Bb Cl., Bn., Mba., Hpschd As the story goes... in 1717 George Frederick Handel, in an attempt to win back the favor of King George arranged to have this music performed on a barge floating along the rivers Thames. This extraordinarily healthy, clean limbed music is a loose collection of some twenty pieces from which various suites of usually three to five movements are performed in concert. In 1965 I arranged three movements for Wind Ensemble in a purist historically (politically?) correct version (including harpsichord). Then, last March, with nothing better to do, I declared a “Handel Month” …