Adventures in Music

Sheet Music Sample Gallery

Arrangements:

Reflections of Andrew Lloyd Webber - This full-chorus arrangement includes some of the best ALW music ever written. A good example of the fresh and creative perspective that can be achieved through excellent arranging.
Mr. Sandman - This customer wanted this song arranged for three voices but only had the quartet version. After some careful arranging, this trio preserves all the distinctive harmonies of this "era" piece, while still working with the original accompaniment.

Transcriptions:

Collene's Song - This transcription was taken from a recording of a piano soloist. The customer wanted to give it to her boyfriend (the pianist) as a gift.
Anything For Christmas - This country gospel song was performed be "The Greens." This customer wished to have the music so it could be performed at his church.

Compositions:

IM (Instant Messenger) - This duet was written to lyrics by Steve Kreffman. This song was originally concieved to be included in a musical theater production.
An American Chorale - This original SATB work was composed for the Kalamazoo Singers and performed as an encore to at their 25th Anniversary Gala Concert.

Transpositions:

I'll Begin Again (Bb) / I'll Begin Again (G) - This song, from the musical Scrooge, was transposed for a Bass to allow the 2-octave range to be highlighted. Click on each title to see before and after the transposition.
God Help the Outcasts (C) / God Bless the Outcasts (D) - A Soprano friend of mine wished to sing this song in a bit higher key. She had only the choral arrangement and it also set precariously on her break. After a re-arrangement and a step higher key, it was a beautiful and comfortable soprano solo.

Reproductions:

St. Mattew Passion - This reproduction was completed for St Thomas Moore Chapel at Yale University in 2007. The full score was a full chorus, with continuo, recitatives and string section (all on 8 1/2 X 11) and in German. There were no individual string parts and the chorus had pages and pages of recitative to flip through. After the original work was translated into English (by Richard Gard) our company then reset the whole 40 movement piece into a more readable format with the English text. Parts were created for each individual string player, the chorus and continuo (sans recit.), a recit only part for the soloists to rehearse and sing from, plus a full conductor's score (shown here).