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Seven Rants, by Peter Van Zandt Lane

Contemporary Composition for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Piano, PDF $0.00

Peter Van Zandt Lane was commissioned to compose this piece for the 67th Composers Conference and Chamber Music Workshop at Wellesley College, which took place in the summer of 2011.   The annual Conference is a wonderful two-week event, which brings together prominent young composers, superb professional musicians, dedicated amateur chamber musicians, and enthusiastic listeners.   The professional musicians premiere the composers' new works and also coach the amateur musicians in chamber ensembles. Concerts are free and open to the public.  For more information on the program, please visit the Composers Conference website.

After the Conference each year, one of the composer fellows is selected to create a new work for the next year's chamber music workshop participants.   That composer returns the following summer to coach two groups of players on the new composition, in preparation for performances in the Saturday evening concerts of Week I and Week II.   Peter Van Zandt Lane's Seven Rants was an enormous success in 2011, absolutely loved by the players and received exceptionally well by the audience.   Written for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano, Seven Rants is a series of seven delightful and diverse movements.  The first and last movements are strict palindromes.  The five middle movements or "rants" are "mini-concertos", each highlighting a different wind instrument.   Great fun to play, and highly accessible.

With permission from both the composer and the Wellesley Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center, Noteworthy Sheet Music is thrilled to offer our customers a free PDF download of Seven Rants by Peter Van Zandt Lane.   And please check out more of this terrific young composer's work, including two other listings in the NSM catalog, Danzas Mecánicas and Transverse Fractures.

Score, 37 pages: Flute part, 10 pages; Oboe part, 9 pages; Clarinet part, 10 pages; Horn part, 9 pages; Bassoon part, 9 pages; Piano part, 15 pages; Total, 103 pages.

Greetings to Hungary, Op.407, by Wilhelm Popp

Flute and Piano

Flute Part and Piano Score, PDF $0.00

Wilhelm Albrecht Otto Popp (1828-1903) was an esteemed German composer, flutist, and pianist. He received his flute training from Caspar Kummer and Louis Drouet, and served as court pianist and flutist at the Ducal Saxon Court Theater in Coburg-Gotha. In 1867 he moved to Hamburg and became first flute of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Popp composed some 600 works, many of which were written for flute and piano; most of his compositions were published in his lifetime and were well-known to musicians of his day.

Wilhelm Popp’s Gruß an Ungarn (Greetings to Hungary) was first published for flute and orchestra in 1890, and an edition for flute and piano was published in 1899. NSM re-notated the flute and piano version, changing only the formatting and adding bar numbers and a new cover page. With a decidedly Hungarian sentiment, this piece is great fun to play and provides an enjoyable, exciting listen for audiences as well.

Click for a free download of our re-typeset edition of Popp’s Gruß an Ungarn.

Piano score, 8 pages; Flute part, 5 pages; Total 16 pages.

Romance, by Alexander Scriabin

Transcribed for Clarinet or Flute or Alto Flute (and Piano) by J. W. Pratt

Parts, PDF $0.00

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), the mystic Russian composer with music to match, wrote nine mind-bending orchestral works and myriad mostly miniature piano pieces. He began as a "Russian Chopin" and ended planning a week-long "Mysterium" to be performed in the Himalayas using "an orchestra, a large mixed choir, an instrument with visual effects, dancers, a procession, incense, and ... mists and lights" (Wikipedia).

The Romance of 1890, his only chamber work except one variation for string quartet, is nearer the Chopin end of that spectrum, though the piano part adds harmonic and rhythmic complexities not evident from the solo part alone.  —John W. Pratt, Jan. 19, 2016

Please click on the links to download your free PDFs:

Transcription for clarinet required no changes of pitch.  Scriabin - Romance - Clarinet

The transcription for flute is raised an octave, except the last five measures.  Scriabin - Romance - Flute

The transcription for alto flute raises MM21-24 and MM36-48 an octave.  Scriabin - Romance - Alto Flute

The piano score is freely available on IMSLP.org.

Scriabin image courtesy of Wikimedia.org, PD-old.

Sing-Along Materials, arranged by John W. Pratt

Piano Scores and Lyrics, Free Downloads

In an ongoing project with John Pratt, we are uploading a variety of free materials for community sing-alongs.  These include large-font lyrics sheets and piano scores with modifications or arrangements by Mr. Pratt.  Just click on the title links or download buttons to access the pdfs, free of charge.

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Netherlands folk song - We Gather Together 
We Gather Together    optional piccolo part

He has also made a version without octaves for two players at one piano.    We Gather Together, 4-hand version without octaves
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Tom Lehrer Songs

Tom Lehrer's satirical, iconoclastic songs are very special to his fans.  Some are suitable for group singing, and John Pratt has provided two free downloadable PDFs: his “Tom Lehrer Lyrics” booklet and his “Melodies and words to too few songs by Tom Lehrer” which includes melody lines as well as lyrics.  See booklet printing advice below, under Christmas Carols and Thanksgiving Songs.

Tom Lehrer Lyrics            Tom Lehrer Melodies

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Christmas Carols and Thanksgiving Songs

Large-font lyrics for Christmas carols and Thanksgiving songs [1] to [42]

Mr. Pratt has also created a booklet format for the large-font lyrics for holiday songs [1] to [42], called The NSM Carol Book, which is handy for group sing-alongs and is easily re-usable.  The booklets should be printed double-sided on 8.5" x 11" paper (or 9" x 12", if available), stapled in the middle and folded to form a 5.5" x 8.5" booklet.  Since printing directions will be different for every printer, we leave it to our visitors to know what settings to use on their own equipment to have all pages come out in order, right-side up, etc.  With my Canon ImageCLASS MF4890 machine, for example, I would do the following: print using fit to page, landscape orientation, 2-sided, flipping on short edge; then staple along the mid-line and fold down the center along the staples so that the Contents are on the front page.  Note that a long-arm stapler (reaching to 5.5") is required for manual stapling, but some institutions may have printer/copiers that can auto-staple along the mid-line.

For some of these traditional Christmas carols and Thanksgiving songs we also provide piano scores - most arranged or modified by John W. Pratt - for accompanists: 
[15] Good King Wenceslas[17] Hark! the herald angels sing   
[18] Here we come a-wassailing 
[19] The holly and the ivy [21] I saw three ships 
[23] Jingle bells 
[24] Lo, how a rose e'er blooming 
26] Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing 
[27] Now thank we all our God 
[30] O Holy Night![37] The twelve days of Christmas[40] We Three Kings of Orient Are
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Large-font Sing-Along Lyrics for Songs [43] to [67]
This single PDF contains lyrics for the following songs; click the link above and print as few or as many pages as you like:
[43]   My Old Kentucky Home
[44]   When you wore a tulip
[45]   Take me out to the Ball Game
[46]   Drink to me only with thine eyes
[47]   Oh, my darling Clementine
[48]   Comin’ thro’ the rye
[49]   Home on the Range
[50]   We are coming, Father Abraam
[51]   Marine’s Hymn
[52]   The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
[53]   Abide with me
[54]   When Irish eyes are smiling
[55]   Arkansas Traveler
[56]   Aura Lee
[57]   The band played on
[58]   Battle Hymn of the Republic
[59]   Skye boat song
[60]   Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
[61]   The bear went over the mountain
[62]   Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
[63]   Bicycle built for two
[64]   Billy Boy
[65]   Go tell Aunt Rhody
[66]   All through the night
[67]   America

Piano Scores, either public domain or arrangements by John W. Pratt, for a subset of Songs [43] to [67].This single PDF contains piano scores for the following songs [43], [44], [45], [50], [51], [52], [57], [60], [63], [64], [65],[66]; print as few or as many pages as you like.
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Large-font Sing-Along Lyrics for Songs [68] to [92]
This single PDF contains lyrics for the following songs; print as few or as many pages as you like:
[68]   Hail! Hail! The gang’s all here
[69]   Loch Lomond
[70]   On top of Old Smoky
[71]   Sweet Adeline
[72]   A Capital Ship
[73]   Beautiful Dreamer
[74]   Camptown races ditty
[75]   O dear, what can the matter be?
[76]   America the beautiful
[77]   The Bluebells Of Scotland
[78]   Go down, Moses
[79]   O Columbia! the gem of the ocean
[80]   Be prepared
[81]   Blow the Man Down
[82]   Blue-tail Fly
[83]   The Caissons go rolling along
[84]   Merry Widow Waltz
[85]   Ethernal Father, strong to save
[86]   Sailing, Sailing
[87]   For me and my gal
[88]   God is my strong salvation
[89]   Danny Boy
[90]   Alouette
[91]   April Showers
[92]   Auld Lang Syne
 
Piano Scores, either public domain or arrangements by John W. Pratt, for a subset of Songs [68] to [92].This single PDF contains piano scores for the following songs [68], [69], [72], [73], [75], [76], [77], [78], [82], [83], [86], [87], [92]; print as few or as many pages as you like.

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Large-font Sing-Along Lyrics for Songs [93] to [113]
This single PDF contains lyrics for the following songs; print as few or as many pages as you like:
[93]   Oh! Susanna
[94]   The foggy, foggy dew
[95]   Down by the old mill stream
[96]   Fair are the meadows
[97]   My Bonnie lies over the ocean
[98]   Anchors aweigh
[99]   Darktown strutters’ ball
[100] Cockles and mussels
[101] The farmer in the dell
[102] Dixie
[103] Flow gently, sweet Afton
[104] Evening Prayer from “Hänsel & Gretel”
[105] She’ll be coming ‘round the mountain
[106] The Major-General’s song
[107] The Irish ballad
[108] Santa Lucia
[109] The old gray mare
[110] Red River valley
[111] Waltzing Matilda
[112] Semper Paratus
[113] Turn back, O man

Piano Scores, either public domain or arrangements by John W. Pratt, for a subset of Songs [93] to [113].This single PDF contains piano scores for the following songs [93], [95], [96], [97], [98], [99], [100], [104], [106], [107], [108],[109], [111], [113]; print as few or as many pages as you like.

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Large-font Sing-Along Lyrics for Songs [114] to [131]
This single PDF contains lyrics for the following songs; print as few or as many pages as you like:
[114] Old Folks at Home
[115] Yankee Doodle
[116] Putting on the style
[117] Things are seldom what they seem
[118] Let me call you sweetheart
[119] Streets of Laredo
[120] Swing low, sweet chariot
[121] Onward, Christian soldiers
[122] Though dark are our sorrows (The Prince’s Day)
[123] Polly Wolly Doodle
[124] I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair
[125] Pack up your troubles
[126] Old Dan Tucker
[127] Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen
[128] Old MacDonald had a farm
[129] Missouri waltz
[130] Mary had a little lamb
[131] Now the Day is Over

Piano Scores, either public domain or arrangements by John W. Pratt, for a subset of Songs [114] to [131].This single PDF contains piano scores for the following songs [114], [115], [116], [117], [118], [119], [121], [122], [123], [124], [125],[126], [127], [128], [129], [131]; print as few or as many pages as you like.

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Large-font Sing-Along Lyrics for Songs [132] to [152]
This single PDF contains lyrics for the following songs; print as few or as many pages as you like:
[132] The old oaken bucket
[133] Greensleeves
[134] Jerusalem
[135] The Wearing of the Green
[136] Shall we gather at the river
[137] Sweet Betsy from Pike
[138] When I was a lad
[139] When Johnny comes marching home again
[140] There’s a long, long trail
[141] Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing
[142] Would God I were the tender apple blossom
[143] Sing a song of sixpence
[144] Swanee
[145] Riddle song
[146] It’s a long way to Tipperary
[147] I had a little nut tree
[148] Old black Joe
[149] I’m called Little Buttercup
[150] The yellow rose of Texas
[151] Funiculì, funiculà
[152] Stars and stripes forever

Piano Scores, either public domain or arrangements by John W. Pratt, for a subset of Songs [132] to [152].This single PDF contains piano scores for the following songs [132], [133], [134], [138], [140], [144], [148], [149], [150], [151]; print as few or as many pages as you like.

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Large-font Sing-Along Lyrics for Songs [153] to [181]
This single PDF contains lyrics for the following songs; print as few or as many pages as you like:
[153] Brahms cradle song
[154] The Campbells are coming
[155] For all the saints
[156] A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go
[157] From Greenland’s icy mountains
[158] Goodnight, Ladies
[159] Gwine to run all night; (De Camptown races)
[160] Here we go round the mulberry bush
[161] Home, sweet home
[162] In heavenly love abiding
[163] I’ve been working on the railroad
[164] Jack and Jill
[165] The jolly miller
[166] John Peel
[167] Joshua fought the Battle Of Jericho
[168] London Bridge is falling down
[169] Mademoiselle from Armentieres
[170] Marine’s Hymn
[171] Men of Harlech!
[172] Over there
[173] Pussy cat, pussy cat
[174] Rock-a-bye baby
[175] Shenandoah
[176] Short’nin’ bread
[177] The sidewalks of New York
[178] Pop! Goes the weasel
[179] There is a Tavern in the Town
[180] Tit willow
[181] Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Git Along Little Dogies

Piano Scores, either public domain or arrangements by John W. Pratt, for a subset of Songs [153] to [181].
This single PDF contains piano scores for the following songs [155], [157], [162], [167], [172], [175], [176], [179]; print as few or as many pages as you like.

Muriel, by Edward G. Vater

Contemporary Ballad for Voice with Piano or Guitar Accompaniment

Edward G. Vater (1923-2018), my dad, was quite a remarkable man.  A lifelong-resident of New Britain, CT, he was an educator by profession, and served many years as a school teacher and later as a college administrator.  But he had numerous, diverse interests and took on many challenges over the years, including raising three children with his loving wife Anne (Mickey) Siton Vater, building a house, studying the Russian language, teaching English to Russian immigrants, working as a tool and die maker summers to support his young family, and serving his community in various roles such as Democratic Town Committee member, Justice of the Peace, and Chairman of the Public Works Department, to name a few.  Displaying a life-long love of music, he was heavily involved in school music programs as a child, and loved to sing and play saxophone and clarinet.  He played alto saxophone in dance bands during his stint in the U.S. Army Aircorps in England during WWII and stateside after returning home, often in groups with his two brothers, Al and Bob.  He sang and played his horn most days, still infusing his music with tenderness and passion, until a couple weeks before his death in April, 2018.

At age 93 and dealing with metastatic melanoma but still independent, Ed moved into an apartment in Arbor Rose, an independent-assisted living facility.  Upon hearing him sing his song Muriel, Denise Lebrocquy, one of the administrators there, arranged to take Ed to a professional music studio* to make a recording of him singing the tune, for which he had written the music and lyrics.  This was a beautiful and uplifting experience for him, and one for which I too am very grateful.  The audio file may be heard by clicking the mp3 link below.  John Pratt, Jerry Gleason, and I entered the melody, chords, and lyrics for Muriel into a music notation software program for publication of the lead sheet on NSM, so we can share my dad’s moving love-song with our website visitors and pay tribute to a wonderful man and a life well-lived.

―Carol A. Vater, December 21, 2016

―revised 4/22/18

Ed Vater passed away on April 18, 2018; he would have turned 95 that June.

 

*Matt Berky, Massive Productions, LLC, Rocky Hill, CT http://massiveproductions.com/

Ed Vater wished to give thanks and dedicate his song Muriel to the Jerome Home/Arbor Rose health complex at 975 Corbin Avenue, New Britain, CT, and to health care providers everywhere.

We're making Muriel (Copyright © 2016 by Edward G. Vater) available free of charge, with the understanding that the song writer will be publicly credited upon any performance or other use of his song, and with the suggestion that donations be made to the Melanoma Research Alliance in support of finding a cure.  Click to download a PDF of the NSM edition of the Muriel lead sheet or to listen to the Muriel audio recording. 

A video of Ed Vater being interviewed and singing Muriel aired in the Hartford area on NBC on January 1, 2017; here's a link to the full news story, and another to just the music video.

Woodwind Duos, by Elizabeth Vercoe

Original Compositions for 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, or 2 Clarinets, $0.00 (free!)

Elizabeth Vercoe's Duos for woodwinds are available as free downloads from the composer's own website at http://www.elizabethvercoe.com/.  Dr. Vercoe kindly offered to allow Noteworthy Sheet Music, LLC to make these duets available from our website as well.

The Duos, in versions for two flutes, two oboes, or two clarinets, are "fun and quite easy. They are suitable for intermediate students."

Photo of Elizabeth Vercoe courtesy of Caroline Alden.

Just click on the links below to download the Duos at no charge; each PDF includes all 5 short duets:

Duos for 2 Flutes
Duos for 2 Oboes
Duos for 2 Clarinets

Duos, by Elizabeth Vercoe

Original Compositions for 2 Flutes, $0.00 (free!)

Elizabeth Vercoe's Duos  for two flutes  are available as free downloads from the composer's own website at http://www.elizabethvercoe.com/.  Dr. Vercoe kindly offered to allow Noteworthy Sheet Music, LLC to make these duets available from our website as well.  The Duos are "fun and quite easy. They are suitable for intermediate students."

Photo of Elizabeth Vercoe courtesy of Caroline Alden.

Just click on the links below to download the Duos at no charge:

Duos 1-5  for 2 flutes