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Composer Alex Shapiro's Paper Cut is reminiscent of a movie soundtrack to which musicians can imagine their own dramatic scene. Paper Cut is written to make the players themselves part of the action with choreographed maneuvers that look as compelling as they sound. In fact, the band members don't even play their instruments until halfway into the work... instead they "play" paper along with a prerecorded track (available as an mp3)! The unusual element of paper and the myriad sounds that can emerge from something so simple offers a fresh view of what music-making can be and opens everyone's ears to the sonic possibilities found among everyday objects. The paper techniques and the skill of playing against a prerecorded track are interesting for all ages.

Paper Cut

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A highly atmospheric unaccompanied solo for timpani, percussion, and pre-recorded audio. Relaxed and syncopated, but never abrasive. A thoroughly enjoyable addition to your recital!

Kettle Brew

Timpani Solo with Pre-Recorded Audio

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A celebration of music and friendship for SATB or SSA choir and piano.

Celebrate!

SATB Octavo

Remembrance is a pensive eulogy and tribute. We grieve, and reluctantly accept, the passing of those who have profoundly touched our hearts. We cannot clutch the elusive, or possess the scent of memory that defies capture. The only thoughts about this music that matter, are those which privately unfold for the listener.

Remembrance

String Orchestra Score & Parts

Like any exciting trip, this piece journeys from calm beginnings to something unexpected. For clarinet, bassoon piano. First printing. In one movement. With program and biographical notes. Duration: ca. 10'. Score, 16 p. and parts.

Desert Story

Clarinet, Bassoon Duet with Piano

What happens when a composer who loves the pop music of the '80s and '90s hangs out in dance clubs blasting Euro-disco house music in the 2010s? OFF THE EDGE for concert wind band and prerecorded soundscape offers a 140 bpm-thumping, EDM-jumping clue!
Duration 3:20. To perform the piece, you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the score.

Off The Edge

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Re:pair, available for multiple combinations of wind instruments, refers to a duo that begins sweetly paired, musically deconstructs, and finally joins together again. High energy, rhythmic lyricism gives way to a pensive midsection, eventually returning to an exciting and harmonious conclusion.

Re:pair

Flute Duet

Slippery for flute and guitar, a reworking of Shapiro’s Slip for violin and harpsichord, allows the guitar to become a chameleon, transforming into a host of different instruments, including dulcimer, koto, mandolin, rock n' roll keyboards, and bouzouki. Throw in some Cuban montuno rhythms for a little variety, and this piece is a whimsical, rollicking, giddy, and dramatic world tour.

Slippery

Flute Solo with Guitar

Like any exciting trip, this piece journeys from calm beginnings to something unexpected. For violin, tenor saxophone and piano.  First Edition.  Duration: ca. 10'.  Score (20 p.) and parts.

Desert Passage

Violin Trio for Violin, Tenor Sax, and Piano

Like any exciting trip, this piece journeys from calm beginnings to something unexpected.

Desert Notes

Oboe Trio with Bassoon & Piano

Arcana is a multi-movement work for solo piano that explores the painfully fragile and often perilous relationship between humans and the secrets of earth's abundant plant life. ca. 23'

Arcana

Piano Solo

For solo piano. First Edition. This is the fourth movement from the larger work, Piano Suite No. 1: The Resonance of Childhood. Duration: ca. 5' 30". Score, 3 p.

For My Father

Of Wood and Touch is a passionate piece for a cello and piano duo, and offers an adventurous cellist a broad range of music to explore within a single movement. This sonata is an adaptation of Shapiro’s bassoon and piano work, Of Breath and Touch. Not all pieces lend themselves to new incarnations, but this one seems to be particularly well suited to the intensities of a bow in lieu of a bassoonist's bocal.

Of Wood and Touch

Cello Solo with Piano

Spark for solo piano was written to commemorate the life, love, energy, and heart of Dale Mara Bershad, a gifted musician who used her talents to share the joy and wonder of musical expression with young children. The piece reflects the spark of a life filled with passion and delight, burning brightly, intensely, and without end.

Spark

Introspection adds the embrace of the low tones of a double bass to its string quartet predecessor, Introspect. Beginning in relative stillness, the piece unfolds with a solemn mood that leads to lyrical interchanges between grief, melancholy, and shades of promise.
First printing. One movement work. Premiered on August 10, 2016. Includes program and biographical notes. Duration: ca. 7'. Score, 7 p. and parts.

Introspection

String Quintet

Perpetual Spark for flute/piccolo, violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano was first composed for solo piano, titled, Spark. The piece was written to commemorate the life, love, energy, and heart of Dale Mara Bershad, a gifted musician who used her talents to share the joy of musical expression and wonder with young children. This is not a slow elegiac piece, but instead reflects her spark of a life filled with passion and delight, burning brightly, intensely, and without end.

Perpetual Spark

String Quartet with Flute/Piccolo & Piano

POP MUSIC for concert wind band and prerecorded soundscape creates a circus-like atmosphere with clownish silliness and hilariously rude sound effects. As for the title? It's an ironic nod to all our unmet expectations: the piece isn't pop music, nor does a single balloon explode. At least, not intentionally! Duration 4:17. To perform the piece, you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the score.

Pop Music

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Alex Shapiro first brought electroacoustic music – paired with using an everyday object as an instrument – to middle school bands with her 2010 piece, PAPER CUT. Now comes ROCK MUSIC, possibly the very first geo-electroacoustic minimalist band piece, largely devoid of melody, and of rhythm. Conceptual and atmospheric, the music features compelling textures from instruments, voices, and rocks that weave a wind band into a piece of sonic fabric stretched across linear time. As the notes slowly crawl, melt, and scrape over a sonic landscape in random, irregular ways, we're connected to the ancient glaciers which carved the world we know, and which we strive to protect. Like PAPER CUT, ROCK MUSIC can be equally appreciated by mature bands and their audiences, as well. To perform ROCK MUSIC, you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece.

Rock Music

Concert Band Score & Parts Pre-recorded Soundscape is available through the publisher via email.

An audience-wowing excursion into a new realm of opto-electro-acoustic band repertoire that uses exhilarating visual and physical elements. This stunning work plunges the audience into darkness, then surrounds them with glowing LEDs and glowsticks. A powerful display of sound and light.

Lights Out

Concert Band Score & Parts with Downloadable Pre-recorded Soundscape

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut, Alex Shapiro, this unique, high-energy work could be described by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Mancini, and Charlie Parker walking into a dance club in Havana, and staying for three minutes. Tight Squeeze ventures into new territory as it explores chromaticism and syncopation against a prerecorded percussion groove. The result is the repertoire's first electroacoustic twelve-tone techno Latin bebop band piece! Okay, maybe Schoenberg did all that first, but it never sounded quite like this!
To perform the piece, you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece.

Tight Squeeze

Concert Band Score & Parts with Prerecorded Audio Track

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