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Here are music files I've created over the years, mostly in pdf format. Generally, the title of the work links to the score, with parts listed below the description. Feel free to download the files, share them with your friends, use them for any non-commercial purposes you'd like. Just don't do anything to rob me of the glory I deserve for creating them. And let me know if there's anything you find useful or fun, or something that needs to be fixed. You'll need Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to read the pdf files.

Music, Anonymous-Purcell

  • anonymous
    • medieval
      • eight dances for descant recorder(s), optional drone, and percussion
      • duet for high voice and low voice, "Foweles in the Frith"
    • traditional
      • spiritual, "There is a Balm in Gilead", arranged for 1 or 2 soprano voices and tenor recorder
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian
    • Chorale, "Es ist genug", SATB choir with keyboard reduction. Includes the original German words and an English translation.
  • Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
  • Blow, John
    • Act I Tune from Venus and Adonis for two treble recorders and continuo.
  • Buxtehude, Dietrich
  • Di Venosa, Gesualdo
    • Gagliarde del Principe di Venosa arranged for SATB recorder consort with keyboard reduction and optional guitar continuo.
  • Dowland, John
    • Song, "Flow my Tears", arranged for voice and guitar with optional gamba. This can also be played along with the first of the Lachrimae Pavans.
  • Foster, Stephen
    • Song, "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway!", arranged for high voice with accompaniment of piano, or guitar, or guitar with obbligato instrument
  • Gibbons, Orlando
    • "The Silver Swan", five part madrigal arranged for recorder consorts
      • high consort, SAATB
      • low consort, ATTBG
  • Handel, George Frederick.
    • Sonata A Minor, HWV 362, for treble recorder and continuo, arranged for treble recorder and guitar.
    • Sonata in F Major, HWV 369 for treble recorder and continuo, arranged for treble recorder and guitar.
    • Sonata in D Minor, HWV 366, originally in c-minor for oboe and continuo, arranged in d-minor for descant or tenor recorder and continuo. The continuo part is realized for harpsichord and for guitar.
  • klezmer
  • Long, William F.
    • Rags. For about five years in the early 70's, Dr. Bill played mostly classic piano ragtime. Eventually he wrote some rags of his own. Here's three of them
      • Taco Sauce, a straightforward rag, probably harder to play than it should be.
      • Elizabeth's Rag. This was written right after my daughter was born. It's got those central European harmonies crammed into a ragtime form.
      • Rag Weed, novelty rag. When allergies tickle the pianist's nose, he just might miss a beat.
    • descants for hymns in the 1982 Episcopal Hymnal
    • Wilfurd's Kids. When Dr. Bill's kids were little, he made up stories for them about a bunch of kids and their walrus friend, Wilfurd. These are some little five-finger piano pieces about their adventures.
  • Losy, Antonin
    • Suite in a minor for baroque guitar
  • Machaut, Guillaume de,
    • Song,"Mes Esperis", arranged for three recorders.
  • Matteis, Nicola
    • Examples from The False Consonances of Musick. These show how one 17th century guitarist approached accompaniment from a figured bass.
  • Monteverdi, Claudio
  • Morely, Thomas
    • "Miraculous Love's Wounding", two part song arranged for alto or bass recorders.
  • Praetorius, Michael.
    • Six dances from Terpsichore, arranged for gamba and guitar.
  • Purcell, Henry.
    • "An Evening Hymn"
    • Prelude for unaccompanied recorder along with a realization for recorder duet.
    • Songs from Orpheus Britannicus, a collection published after Purcell's death.
      • "Charon the peacefull Shade invites" for soprano, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
      • "Crown the Altar, Deck the Shrine" for soprano and basso continuo.
      • "For Love ev'ry Creature is form'd" for soprano, bass, and basso continuo.
      • "Hark! each Tree its silence breaks" for counter-tenor (alto), tenor, two alto recorders, two violins, and basso continuo.
      • "Hark! how the songsters of the grove" for two sopranos, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
      • "Hark! the Ecchoing Air a Triumph Sings" for soprano, two soprano recorders (optional), and basso continuo.
      • "Hence! Hence! Hence with your trifling deity" for bass, two alto recorders (or oboes), and basso continuo.
      • "Here the Deities approve" for soprano and basso continuo.
      • "If Musick be the food of Love" for soprano and basso continuo.
      • "In these delightful pleasant Groves" for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass with optional basso continuo.

Music, Purcell(continued)-Zachow

      • "In vain the am'rous Flute" for two sopranos, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
      • "Let all Mankind the Pleasure Share" for soprano, bass, and basso continuo.
      • "Let us Dance, let us Sing" for soprano and basso continuo
      • "Love thou art best of Humane joys" for two sopranos and basso continuo.
      • "Musick for a while" from Oedipus for soprano and basso continuo.
      • "Nymphs and Shepherds come away" for soprano and basso continuo.
      • "O let me weep!" for soprano, alto recorder (or violin), and basso continuo.
      • "Return fond Muse" for alto, two alto recorders, bass recorder, and basso continuo.
      • "Shepherd Leave Decoying" for two sopranos, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
      • "Since the toils and hazards of war" for soprano, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
      • "Sing, sing, ye Druids" for two sopranos, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
      • "Sound Trumpet Sound, beat ev'ry Drum" for soprano and basso continuo.
      • "Strike the Viol" for soprano or alto, basso continuo, and optional recorders.
      • "They Shall Be happy" for two sopranos, bass, and basso continuo.
      • "Thou tun'st this World below" arranged for soprano, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
      • "To Arms,your Ensigns straight Display" for soprano, baritone, and basso continuo.
      • "Turn then Thine Eyes" for two sopranos(tenors), and basso continuo.
      • "What a sad Fate" for soprano(tenor), and basso continuo
      • "What can we poor Females do" for soprano, bass (optional), and basso continuo.
      • "We the Spirits of the Air" for two sopranos and basso continuo.
      • "When the Cock begins to Crow" for two sopranos, bass, and basso continuo.
      • "Why Shou'd Men Quarrel" for soprano, two alto recorders, and basso continuo.
  • Ravenscroft, Thomas.
    • "Remember Thou, O Man" for SATB choir with optional, inauthentic guitar part.
    • Two rounds, "He that will an alehouse keep" and "New oysters" set for "F" recorders and/or low voices.
  • Sacred Harp. The songs below are printed out in round notes, in singable keys, and with the words under the appropriate notes. It takes some of the fun out of Sacred Harp singing, but it's a lot easier for the uninitiated.
  • Schütz, Heinrich
    • Psalm 29: "Bringt her dem Herren". This setting by Schütz is for medium voice and continuo. I've added a realization of the continuo for guitar and written parts for an optional SAB choir.
    • Psalm 34: "Ich will den herren loben allezeit, SWV306". This setting by Schütz is for high voice and continuo. I've added a realization of the continuo for guitar and written parts for an optional SAB choir.
  • Susato, Tielman
    • Eighteen dances from Danserye, arranged for gamba and guitar
  • Telemann, Georg Phillip
    • Carillon à deux Chalameaux from Der getreue Musikmeister. Telemann indicated several possible ways to perform this short piece. This arrangement presents three possibilities: clarinet duet, recorder duet, recorder solo with continuo.
    • Menuet à deux Cornes de Chasse from Der getreue Musikmeister. In addition to Telemann's version for two horns, arrangements for two recorders and for two clarinets are included.
  • von Wolkenstein, Oswald
    • "der May", a virtuoso song that, with all its springtime birdcalls, makes a nice recorder solo.
  • Weelkes, Thomas
    • "Tan Ta Ra Ran Tan Tant", 3 part madrigal arranged for low recorder consorts
      • high consort AAT
      • low consort TBG
  • Wilbye, John
    • "Adew Sweet Amaryllis", 4 part madrigal arranged for recorder consorts
      • high consort, SATB
      • low consort, ATBG
  • Zachow, Wilhelm
    • "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her", a chorale prelude arranged for recorder trio, ATB.

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