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French composer Jean-Baptiste Breval (1753-1823) was both a composer and a cellist, and many of his compositions therefore were written for his own instrument. This short two-movement sonata in C Major is well-known among cellists as an excellent performance piece for young players. An extended-range instrument is required if the performer wishes to play the work exactly as written; however, the use of the extended range is minimal, and an experienced performer or young student with assistance of their teacher could easily re-write a few phrases to avoid this range if an extended-range instrument is not available.

Sonata in C Major

Bass Clarinet Solo with Piano

ABOUT THE WORK: Children's Corner is a six-movement suite for solo piano by the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918). The work was dedicated to the composer's daughter, who was three years old at the time. The pieces were not intended to be played by children, however; rather they are meant to be evocative of childhood. In this skillful work by Keith Terrett, four of the six movements - Jimbo's Lullaby, Serenade of the Doll, The Little Shepherd, and Golliwog's Cakewalk - are arranged for clarinet sextet. With no tremendous challenge to any of the six players, this is nonetheless a piece which would provide an excellent project for a student ensemble, with the frequent changes of tempo, mood, and dynamic. Any of the four movements alone, or the piece as a whole, would make a delightful addition to any concert program. This arrangement is for 2 clarinets, alto clarinet, and 3 bass clarinets. ABOUT THE ARRANGER: Keith Terrett (b.1956), is a composer, arranger, conductor, band trainer, instrumental teacher, trumpeter, cornettist, flugelhornist &amp; multi-instrumentalist born in London. He has performed and taught throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, and is currently Director of Music at Pathways World School in India. Keith has studied with, and gained academic musical qualifications from the Royal Military School of Music, Open University, Trinity College of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, London College of Music, and the Bandsman's College of Music in Manchester. Keith is an internationally acclaimed composer/arranger, writing in all genres from full orchestra, brass band, and wind band, to music for string quartet, brass ensemble, saxophone group, clarinet choir, recorder consort, oboe consort, and even for the steel drums, harmonica and accordion! His music is published in the England, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Canada, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, the USA and Norway.

Children's Corner Suite

Clarinet Sextet

Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) was an Italian contemporary of J.S. Bach whose compositions range from vocal music to concertos to sonatas, including this lovely four-movement Sonata in G major for 'cello and piano. In this transcription for bass clarinet and piano, the work makes an excellent choice for contest, audition, or recital. The four short movements are arranged in the slow-fast-slow-fast order common to the baroque period. The work presents no great challenges in range or technique, and would therefore be an excellent performance piece for the young player.

Sonata

Program note courtesy of the composer: Far from being a seasonal event, Spring tides occur twice each lunar month, all year round. Spring Tide Arabesque opens with a gentle motif reflecting the Earth's steady rotation. Immediately following these preparatory measures, a flowing Arabesque figure is introduced by the first bass clarinet. The ornate pattern is not confined to just one voice, but interlaced between the two players. Over the course of the composition, no one player is intended to be more of a tide-generating force than the other, since there is no upper or lower part. The two contending bass clarinets twist and overlap with the elaborate tracery as they are afforded considerable registral freedom. A surge of intertwined pitches reach high tide just before the half way mark and this is followed by a somewhat freer, more agitated central section, where disjointed gestures are presented. The brief episode is not concerned so much with the alignment of the two instruments, but with exploiting the gravitational pull as they reinforce each other. In the last quarter or so of the piece, the activity significantly decreases to reveal what's left behind by the subsiding water. Peace and tranquillity return to the remote shoreline.

Spring Tide Arabesque Bass Clarinet Duet

Bass Clarinet Duet

Gabriel Faur (1845-1924) composed the beautiful Elgie in 1883. Alea Publishing is pleased to make this staple of the 'cello repertoire available in transcription for bass clarinet and piano. This one-movement work would be an excellent selection for contest, audition, or recital. The piece opens with a gorgeous slow melody, allowing the bass clarinetist to exercise breath control and expressive phrasing. The brief middle section provides some rhythmic and technical challenges, before returning to the melodic material of the beginning.

Elegie

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was an Italian composer of the Baroque period who spent much of his life in the service of the Spanish and Portuguese royal families. He composed a large catalog of works in a variety of musical forms, but today is primarily known for his more than 500 keyboard sonatas. While many of these one-movement sonatas are showpieces for keyboard technique, some, such as the Sonata K. 322, are wonderful examples of simple Baroque counterpoint. In this transcription for clarinet and bass clarinet duet, the range of the original work is maintained, with the clarinet taking the lovely melody and the bass clarinet covering the simple bass line. Neither player is presented with any great challenges of technique or range, and an extended range instrument is NOT required for the bass clarinet part. The one-movement sonata, with two repeated sections, has a total duration of approximately 3 minutes. The work would make an excellent ensemble contest selection for young students.

Sonata, K. 322

Clarinet Duet

Alea is pleased to present this fine transcription by clarinetist Erica Manzo, produced as part of her DMA studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Schumann's Quintet Op.44, originally for string quartet and piano, was composed in 1842. Dr. Manzo's artful transcription of the work for clarinet quartet and piano was completed in 2003. The four-movement work is an excellent example of Romantic-era chamber music. This transcription retains the musical value of the original, while making an effective performance piece available to the clarinet quartet. The four-movement work offers a great variety of material: the sonata-allegro form first movement; a funeral march slow movement; a Scherzo; and a sonata-rondo form Finale. The work easily stands on its own as a performance piece for recitals or chamber music concerts and as a learning tool for advanced students.

Piano Quintet

Clarinet Quintet

Daniel Adams composedaVerticesain 2016 as a commissioned work for Richard Nunemaker's ensemble at the University of St. Thomas. Alea is delighted to add the work to our catalog, making it available to more clarinetists! The single-movement piece, which has a duration of just over seven minutes, is scored for 1 E-flat clarinet, 3 B-flat clarinets, 2 E-flat alto clarinets, and 2 B-flat bass clarinets (extended-range not required). The composer has also designed for possible substitution of one alto and/or one tenor saxophone if necessary given the players available.

Vertices Clarinet Ensemble

Clarinet Ensemble

ABOUT THE WORK: Fanfare &amp; Soliloquy is an outstanding choice for a recital or contest piece for an intermediate-level student of the bass clarinet. The rousing Fanfare appears both at the beginning and end of the work, surrounding the lovely Soliloquy. While quite dramatic and featuring a few sections of technical challenge for the soloist, the work is also quite short and accessible - and a clear audience-pleaser! The work does require an extended range instrument for a few dramatic uses of the low C, but otherwise does not place many demands on the soloist's range, never venturing into notes above the treble staff. A skilled accompanist would be most helpful given the mixed meters and frequent tempo changes; however, the work would also be a manageable challenge for a young pianist working on his or her accompanying skills! Overall, the piece helps to fill an important void for the bass clarinet repertoire - that of new, original works for the instrument which are accessible for musician and audience alike. ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Keith Terrett (b.1956), is a composer, arranger, conductor, band trainer, instrumental teacher, trumpeter, cornettist, flugelhornist &amp; multi-instrumentalist born in London. He has performed and taught throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, and is currently Director of Music at Pathways World School in India. Keith has studied with, and gained academic musical qualifications from the Royal Military School of Music, Open University, Trinity College of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, London College of Music, and the Bandsman's College of Music in Manchester. Keith is an internationally acclaimed composer/arranger, writing in all genres from full orchestra, brass band, and wind band, to music for string quartet, brass ensemble, saxophone group, clarinet choir, recorder consort, oboe consort, and even for the steel drums, harmonica and accordion! His music is published in the England, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Canada, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, the USA and Norway.

Fanfare And Soliloquy

Petite Suiteafor clarinet trio (two clarinets, bass clarinet) is a wonderfully engaging and accessible work for clarinet ensemble. In keeping with the title, the work consists of four short movements, each composed in a distinct dance style: Marche, Catavina, Scherzino, and Danse.  With parts of equal difficulty, and no extremes of range or technical expectations, the work would make an excellent selection for contest or recital for students.

Petite Suite 2 Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Trio

Clarinet Trio 2 clarinets and bass clarinet

Nymphasawas originally written in 1995 for a mixed ensemble of 8 players: clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, French horn, vibraphone, piano, viola and double bass. This reworking of the piece for clarinet choir was completed in 2016. The work was inspired by Monet's series paintings of water lilies. The movement in the sixteenth-note septuplets creates harmonic saturation and is intended to suggest an aquatic environment. The structure, punctuated by periodic changes in the bass, takes on an arch-shape, where a melodic element is presented. The single-movement work has a duration of ca. 4 minutes.  The first performance of the original version took place whilst Andrew was studying at the Royal College of Music in July 1995. Later that year, Andrew was awarded the Cobbett &amp; Hurlstone Prize for the piece. In 2006,aNymphasawas recorded for Volume 11 of ERM Media's "Masterworks of the New Era" with players from the Kiev Philharmonic. In 2001, Andrew reworkedaNymphasafor two pianos, for pianist brothers, Peter and Patrik Jablonski. The duo premiered the piece at Royal Palace Stockholm in the Autumn of 2002.

Nympheas

Clarinet Choir

Alea Publishing is delighted to add to our catalog theaPRELUDIO e ALLEGRO for Bass Clarinet and Pianoa(2015) by Brazilian composer Andersen Viana. The work, which Dr. Viana dedicated to ouraDuo Alea, features a wonderful range of rhythmic and expressive challenges for both players, without overwhelming reliance on modern techniques. TheaPRELUDIOafeatures several tempo changes bringing distinct episodes, while theaALLEGROais a tight dance, primarily in 5/8 time. We believe this is an outstanding performance piece which makes an important addition to the duo repertoire.   ABOUT THE COMPOSER:

Preludio e Allegro

KELADOS in D for flute and clarinet was composed in 2012. Kelados (an ancient Greek word) means: noise of rushing waters, loud, screaming, agitation (Aeschylus) and musical sound (Euripides). Also, it means sound, voice of providential laws (Pindar). The work describes all these contrasting emotional tones. The piece is written in one of the 55 multiharmonic, multispectral modes which the composer has devised. The specific modes are based upon new formations of sounds beyond the octave and consist of much smaller intervals of semitones. Simultaneously with the multiharmonic, multispectral mode, there is an ancient greek enharmonic tetrachord which is function as a key figure throughout the whole piece. Ancient Greek music theory distinguished between three genera of tetrachords: diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic. An enharmonic tetrachord is divided (descending) as a ditone (major third) plus two micro-intervals. The work begins with an isocratic on D which is constantly changing and new rhythmic values and timbral techniques are being added. There is a richness of tone colours with contrasting parts which sometimes interchange with thick or dense texture, and other times with transparent or thin textures which give the feeling of relaxation and meditation. Musical sounds, noises, strokes, multiphonics, and the voices of the performers are alternated, as a feast of tones, giving an ancient primitive color. The work is dedicated to the excellent musicians, George Skrivanos and Alexander Michaelides.

Kelados

Flute/Clarinet Duet

ABOUT THE WORK: The Duo Concertante was composed in 1982 as a commission from the Dutch ensemble Duo Contemporaine (Henri Bok and Evert Le Mair). In addition to becoming part of that Duo's repertoire, the piece also intrigued the famous Czech bass clarinetist Josef Hork, Bok's teacher, who immediately after its completion premiered it with Emma Kovrnov (keyboard) in Biberach (Germany), and a year later played it with the marimbaphonist Miroslav Kokoska in Prague. The composer therefore dedicates the work to all of these musicians. The one-movement, extremely concentrated and exacting composition affords both players the opportunity to shine in cadenzas, but also to join in gentle passages, where in certain registers the timbres of the very different instruments almost match or even blend. ABOUT THE COMPOSER: One of the most prominent Czech composers of her generation, Ivana Loudov (1941-) has been a member of the composition faculty of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Prague since 1992. Her early studies in Prague were with Czech composers Miloslav Kabelac and Emil Hlobil, and this was followed by work in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Andre Jolivet. Her vast catalog of compositions includes works for orchestra, various chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and voice.

Duo Concertante

Mixed Duet

Dutch composer Henk Tromp's charming Six Trios are an outstanding addition to the clarinet trio repertoire. They are quite effective in performance, but make minimal demands on range or technical skill, so could be used with a young ensemble. The trios do stand alone, so can be used individually for teaching purposes, but also make an excellent performance piece as a set for recital or ensemble contest. The Trios are titled as follows: On the Beach; Gentle Waves; Diving Dolphins; At the Coral Reef; Memories of a Old Sailor; and Going Home. Mr. Tromp's Learning to Play the Clarinet, a three-book series, is available from Broekmans &amp; Van Poppel, a prominent Dutch publisher.

Six Trios

Clarinet Trio

Format

This single-movement work for bass clarinet and string orchestra was composed in 2017 and dedicated to bass clarinetist Michael Davenport. The piece utilizes the full expressive range of the bass clarinet without requiring use of an extended-range instrument or the altissimo register, making it a reasonably accessible yet still challenging and dramatic performance piece. The publication includes a full score and set of parts.

Invisible Images

String Orchestra Score & Parts with bass clarinet solo

This single-movement work for bass clarinet and piano builds into an intense, dramatic performance piece from a few simple opening motives. Both players are presented with technical challenges, and the full range of the bass clarinet is utilized, but no modern techniques are required.

Temporal Labyrinths

ABOUT THE WORK: Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano was commissioned by virtuoso former Houston Symphony clarinetist Richard Nunemaker, and takes full advantage of his prodigious technique and the instrument's extraordinary range. Although the sonata is traditional in its structure - with three movements whose tempi are ordered as fast, slow, fast - it is highly original in its musical content. The first movement draws upon two rather disparate sources for its material - Dizzy Gillespie's bebop standard "Salt Peanut", and Frank Zappa's art-rock masterpiece "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque", hence the title, Salt Peanut Memorial Barbeque. The second movement uses a technique much, much older, that of the isorhythmic motet. The piano accompaniment has a talea of five rhythmic events serving a color of four pitch events. The clarinet cantillates a monody against this that is comprised primarily of the pitches not displayed in the accompaniment; hence the title Motet - Ancient Incantations. The third movement is a bebob and boogie-woogie tour-de-force for the two instruments, at once paying homage to Eric Dolphy and to one of the great songs of his era, "Green Dolphin Street", and hence the title, Green Dolphy Street Boogie. ABOUT THE COMPOSER: American composer Arthur Gottschalk was born in California, but raised in the Northeastern United States. He attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition, a Master of Arts degree in Music Composition and English Literature, and his Doctorate in Music Composition, studying with William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett. He is currently a Professor at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, where he is Chair of the Department of Music Theory and Composition, and where he directed the university's electronic and computer music laboratories until 2002. In 1986 he co-founded Modern Music Ventures, Inc., a company which held a recording studio complex, a record production division, four publishing firms, and an artist management division, and for whom he produced records for PolyGram and Capitol. In 1998 Gottschalk abandoned these pursuits, in order that he might devote himself more fully to music composition. Gottschalk's teaching specialties include music business and law, film music, music theory, music composition, and counterpoint. As a film and television composer he numbers six feature films, twelve television scores, and numerous industrial films and commercials among his credits. Among other awards, he is a recipient of the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, annual ASCAP Awards since 1980, and has been a Composer-in-Residence at the famed Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center and for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He has been recently honored with Special Recognition by the ASCAP Rudolph Nissim Awards, the First Prize of the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale - Corciano, Italy, and with the First Prize of the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra composition competition. With well over one hundred compositions in his catalog, his music is performed regularly in Europe, Asia, and Australia, is recorded on New Ariel, Crystal, Summit, Capstone, Beauport Classical, ERMMedia, Golden Crest, and AURecordings, and is published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, and Spectrum Press (ASCAP). His book, Functional Hearing, is published by Scarecrow Press.

Dutch composer Henk Tromp's Clarinet Quartet is an outstanding addition to the clarinet quartet repertoire, at once both engaging and quite accessible for the young performer. There are some effective challenges for the intermediate ensemble, but no extreme demands on range; the work would be an effective addition to a recital program, and one or more movements could easily be selected for use in an ensemble competition at the high-school level. The three-movement work (Allegro, Adagio, Rondo) has a duration of approximately 12 minutes. Each movement features mixed meters, outstanding tight ensemble writing, and rhythmic challenges, without requiring virtuosity. There is outstanding use of dissonance, although within a very accessible musical language. For example, the final movement, after a lovely bass clarinet cadenza, ends with a rich major triad. Mr. Tromp's Learning to Play the Clarinet, a three-book series, is available from Broekmans &amp; Van Poppel, a prominent Dutch publisher.

Clarinet Quartet

This collection of five songs by Rachmaninoff make an excellent addition to the recital repertoire for the bass clarinetist. The songs are technically quite accessible for the bass clarinetist, and do not require an extended range instrument. Rachmaninoff often composed songs to be sung by either male or female voice, and these options are noted in the score to allow the bass clarinetist to explore the music in both a lower and higher register. Original keys maintained throughout.

Songs

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