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A new song by composer/poet Nancy Bachmann, suitable for any occasion that could use a moment of peace and comfort.

Nancy Bachmann is a California Woman Composer and an affiliate of Nevada County Composers Cooperative.

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This volume contains five engaging four-hand "Concert Duets", each with a different musical character to expand the players' interpretive experience and please audiences. In addition, every piece focuses on a specific technique or skill that the intermediate pianist needs to master. I composed these pieces to address some of the problems common to intermediate-level piano players. There are special advantages to playing duets at this stage of advancement, beyond encouraging technical and musical progress. Working on duets with another player will inject fresh enthusiasm into music study at a time when some intermediate students may experience a "plateau" in progress. We are, undeniably, social creatures, and making music together has a special joy. However, unlike choral singers and band or orchestral players, the pianist is often left out of the ensemble experience until relatively advanced. Intermediate pianists will truly benefit from the energizing effects of studying a piece of music with one another. Indeed, striving toward the shared goal of an expressive duet performance requires each player to develop the entire spectrum of skills: aural, technical, personal and interpretive that combine to make a complete musician. || "These Concert Duets for Intermediate Pianists are fascinating and attractive pieces, and they will be a valuable contribution to the duet repertory. The highly instructive directions to the players will prepare them to enter the world of duet playing and explore its treasures." —William Corbett-Jones, Concert Pianist, International Award-Winning Recording Artist, SFSU Professor Emeritus || "These are great duets; imaginative and expressive. What a wonderful way tor my intermediate students to learn essential skills!" —Joan Cifarelli, Jazz/Classical Pianist, Pedagogue

Etudes for Two - Concert Duets for Intermediate Pianists

Piano Duet-1 Piano, 4 Hands

This Hanukkah favorite delivers a fresh perspective with a new set of variations for violin duet.

Nancy Bachmann is a California Woman Composer and an affiliate of Nevada County Composers Cooperative.

Eight Variations on "Oh, Hanukkah!"

Violin Duet

Four evocative songs for Soprano and Viola on Edna St. Vincent Millay's mysterious poetry about change and transformation.

This song cycle appears on the commercially released recording "What Shall I Sing Today?" (Angels Share Records, 2024).

Nancy Bachmann is a California Woman Composer and an affiliate of Nevada County Composers Cooperative.

Transient Butterfly

Soprano Duet

This Hanukkah favorite delivers a fresh perspective with a new set of variations for viola and cello.

Nancy Bachmann is a California Woman Composer and an affiliate of Nevada County Composers Cooperative.

Viola, Cello Duet

This lovely four part round illustrates several common musical embellishments.

Nancy Bachmann is a California Woman Composer and an affiliate of Nevada County Composers Cooperative.

The Planets Spin

Four-Part Octavo

Four separate audience-pleasing pieces that pay homage to the style of
  minimalism. Each sets a mood, then evolves by subtly shifting the patterns.

Minimums

Piano Solo

A touching gem of devotion that blends the unique tonal qualities of
  Clarinet and Soprano.

Ave Maria

A taste of Americana, these five stand-alone movements for traditional
  woodwind quintet celebrate the artistic quilts of our foremothers.
  Appropriate for intermediate and advance players. INCLUDED IN PURCHASE: Full
  score and complete set of instrumental parts. NOTES FROM THE COMPOSER:
  "Traditional quilting, like chamber music, is a cooperative, communal
  activity  and the clean crisp lines
  delineating the sewn patterns bring woodwind sonorities to my mind. This
  suite celebrates the remarkable needlecraft of our American foremothers. They
  took scraps, rags and remnants of otherwise worn out garments and
  household fabrics to stitch together useful (often life saving)
  blankets that were also beautiful works of art. These early quilters
  favored certain shapes and designs that I have used for my musical
  inspiration. In these five pieces I have tried to honor the physical
  shapes of the patterns as well as emotions evoked by their use."

American Quilt Sketches

Woodwind Quintet

Seven very singable new songs that range from lighthearted to profound by the composer and lyricist, Nancy Bachmann. 

Recordings of several songs in this volume are featured on the 2024 release "What Shall I Sing Today?" from Angels Share Records, featuring soprano Ann Moss and pianist Ed Broms.

What Shall I Sing Today?

High/Medium Solo Collection

Perfect repertoire for a Halloween recital! **Purchase includes piano score and cello part** Notes From the Composer  "Inspired by an imaginative scarecrow decorating contest held every Halloween in Benicia, CA, these pieces depict a varied selection of straw-stuffed personalities: 1 - Scarecrow sets up the spooky fun with sneaky pizz. and wailing melodic lines; 2 - Ghost-crow haunts us with eerie harmonic glissandos, wide menacing vibratos, and a distorted nursery-rhyme tune; 3 - Skeleton-crow dances on awkward, boney, knocking knees; 4 - Windy leaf-crow depicts dry leaves blowing mysteriously as the cello sings an autumn song. The effect of descending thirds mimic a turkey's gobble; 5 - Zigeuner-crow is a shameless parody of Sarasate's brilliant Zigeunerweisen for virtuoso violin and should be played with the appropriate tongue-in-cheek bravado."

Scarecrows

Cello Solo with Piano

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A charming romantic memory for SATB with piano accompaniment, "Recuerdo" is a lighthearted recollection of the "perfect date." An easy to moderate setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's timeless poem.

Recuerdo

SATB Octavo

From a Pandemic Garden is a collection of songs I wrote while "sheltered in place" during the COVID pandemic. My world was my house and walled garden; each spot a potential for inspiration, sparking ideas for songs to while away the months of waiting. California Rose is a playful portrait of one of my favorite flowers. A group of pine trees created a Wooded Dell, a song exploring the timelessness of romance. An Asian lantern inspired Garden Teahouse, a story told through Haiku. February 2021 links the hope of the early California springtime with the poignant optimism inspired by the availability of the first COVID vaccines.

From a Pandemic Garden

Soprano Vocal Score

This jolly four part round illustrates many combinations of quarter notes, and eighth notes, as well as giving the singer insight into SATB structure.

Nancy Bachmann is a California Woman Composer and an affiliate of Nevada County Composers Cooperative.

Hello, My Friend

The 33 duets in this book were composed, progressively-organized, and
  annotated to improve the players' music reading fluency. 
    
    
    
    An ideal supplemental resource for intermediate piano students, this volume
  is also useful to beginners as a repertoire collection, and for advanced
  students as a sight-reading text. 
    
    
    
    Each duet is a complete, audience-pleasing musical composition suitable for
  recital performance.
    
    
    
    Playing the duets from this book offers many rewards, including:
    
    *Greater Confidence for less performance pressure
    
    *Focused listening for creative response to other musicians
    
    *Preparing for the gratifying work of accompanying singers,
  instrumentalists and choirs, leading groups from the piano, playing in bands
  and chamber ensembles
    
    *Having fun playing together!

Etudes for Two - A Music Reading Journey

This simple, cheerful round teaches basic note values and, once mastered, the Laughing Round is a lot of fun!

Nancy Bachmann is a California Woman Composer and an affiliate of Nevada County Composers Cooperative.

Note Values and Laughing Rounds

Suite Fusion is a fun, three movement romp for an eight part clarinet
  ensemble. It requires advanced players. I. Antiphony, is a good natured
  competition between two quartets of clarinets; II. Dance has a lyrical 7/8
  time swing; III. Stomp plays with mechanical impressions and stomping
  players!

Suite Fusion

Clarinet Octet

A gentle setting of loving words of Jesus, "Let the Children Come to Me" is an easy SATB setting, with piano or organ accompaniment, of Mark 10:14 or Luke 18:16. Appropriate for a Sunday anthem corresponding to any readings about children, or celebrating any child-focused event.

Let the Children Come to Me

*Purchase includes piano score, concert pitch vocal score and clarinet part

"The California Romances for soprano, clarinet and piano grew out of my deep reverence for German Romantic Lieder. I tried to be true to the sense of those remarkable 19th century compositions by using more structured poetic styles; giving the instruments as important a role as the voice in expressing the poem; and celebrating the beauties of Nature."  Nancy Bachmann, composer

The Serenade:
The classical sonnet structure highlights the experience not of the serenade singer but rather of the beloved listener to his wooing. We follow her dreams and drowsy awakening to California's romantic bloom-covered hills and valleys.  
 
Autumn Equinox:
An ancient, mysterious Redwood forest is the setting for this song of longing at the balance time between summer and winter.
 
The Pacific is Playful Today:
A cheerful romp at the seashore with an even happier ending.

California Romances

Soprano Trio

Full of fiery, passionate rhythms and soaring, sensual melodies, each of these show-stopper movements is sure to fascinate. Latin Dances comprises three dances from the 'New World': Rumba from the Caribbean, Tango from Argentina, and Sarabande originally thought to come from Mexico. Total performance time approximately 15 minutes.

Latin Dances

Clarinet Solo with Piano

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