Psalm 96

An improvisatory work for oboe accompanied by piano, strings, or concert band. The oboe part is identical in all three versions. Technical issues, besides some range demands, are only moderately difficult.

The Holst setting of Christina Rossetti's poem In the Bleak Midwinter is the basis for this moody work for clarinet and piano, largely inspired by the poem's first verse that speaks of the cold

This romantic work lends itself to creative interpretation on the part of both soloist and accompanist. It has a singing, pastoral quality that feels almost like a spiritual. The piano often becomes the

The melody of Beach Spring is pentatonic, as were many tunes of the shaped-note tradition. It was composed by Benjamin Franklin White who, starting in 1844, produced several editions of The

Solemn Thought is a nineteenth-century American tune using only the tones of the pentatonic scale. This practice is frequently observed in tunes of the shaped-note tradition. The solo instrument