William Bolcom Books

(E.B. Marks). Includes the cycles Briefly It Enters (High Voice edition only), I Will Breathe a Mountain, Let Evening Come (High Voice edition only), Three Donald Hall Songs, Tillinghast Duo, individual songs and selections from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Medium/Low Voice edition only). With notes on the songs and composer comments. Includes several first editions and first-time transpositions. There are different songlists for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice editions.

(E.B. Marks). Conceived for a French-style harpsichord with two manuals. With detailed performance notes. In nine movements.

(E.B. Marks). The first major comprehensive collection of William Bolcom's piano music. Contents: Bird Spirits * Conversations with Andre * Estela: Rag Latino * The Garden of Eden * A Little Night Fughetta * Lost Lady Rag * New York Lights * Night Meditations * Nine Bagatelles * Nine New Bagatelles * Romantic Pieces * Seabiscuits * a 60-Second Ballet * Spring Dances * Three Dance Portraits * Three Ghost Rags

(E.B. Marks). William Bolcom composed both words and music for these "urban madrigals," written for The Western Wind a cappella group in 1970. Each madrigal depicts a slice of New York City life in the early 1970s, by turns comic, theatrical, bittersweet, haunting, and satirical. The Movie Queue, The Maternity Ward, Late, Late Show, The Funeral-Marriage, The Secret of the Universe, The University, and The Subway Beggar. For SSATBar or SSACtBar a cappella. Advanced Level.

(E.B. Marks). A revival of interest in four-hand music seems long overdue! Primer reviews the ensemble in a series of short studies, involving unusual hand displacement, rhythmic counterpoint, and the like. "Primer," the first study, is choreographic in nature; "Whirligig," a pitting together of musical wheels; "Wild Horses," a study in coordination; "Mr. S's Magic Dice," interlocking of hands between players. "A Gray Day in Venice" begins a series of stylistic adventures, here an evocation of a Mendelssohnian gondola, where "Action-painting" invokes the carefully scattered drips in Jackson Pollock. "La Sarabande de l'Infini" is one of two wreaths laid at the tombs of two French masters of piano music for four hands, here Debussy; and for a finale "Hommage a Satie, le Divo de l'Empire," recalling the Velvet Gentleman's cabaret career. Also includes the first publications of Chabrieriana a compact tribute to the Romantic French composer, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Sentimental Waltz, a dedicatory piece to a friend. The previously-published Dedicace is also included.

(E.B. Marks). Presented in five movements, Bolcom's Suite No. 1 in C Minor for solo violoncello is adapted from the score for the Arthur Miller play Broken Glass , used in part in the Long Wharf (New Haven, CT) and Booth (New York City) Theaters, in the Spring of 1994. Duration ca: 17 minutes.

O tempora o mores; Scherzo tenebroso; Andantino pastorale; Marches funeraires et dansantes. Commissioned by the Big 10 Band Directors Foundation. An impressive work for large concert band.

(E.B. Marks). Includes the cycles Briefly It Enters (High Voice edition only), I Will Breathe a Mountain, Let Evening Come (High Voice edition only), Three Donald Hall Songs, Tillinghast Duo, individual songs, and selections from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Medium/Low Voice edition only). With notes on the songs and composer comments. Includes several first editions and first-time transpositions. There are different songlists for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice editions.

(E.B. Marks). Includes the cycles Chestnuts, From the Diary of Sally Hemings, Laura Sonnets, Old Addresses, selections from The Hawthorn Tree, and individual songs. With notes on the songs and composer comments. Includes several first editions and first-time transpositions. There are different songlists for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice editions.