Sonic Crossroads

SOLO PIANO WORKS:

(Several individual pieces are featured in the Anthology of Turkish Piano Music - see above)

Ten Piano Pieces by Necil Kazim Akses

Eight Piano Pieces by Hasan Ferit Alnar - Listen to audio samples here or in the audio player

Turkish Dance Suite by Hasan Ferit Alnar 

Three Abstract Dances by Ilhan Baran 

Three Bagatelles by Ilhan Baran (coming soon!)

Two-voice Sonatinas by Ilhan Baran (coming soon!)

Little Suite by Ilhan Baran (Select pieces can be heard in the audio player)

Children's Pieces by Ilhan Baran (Listen to audio of each piece here)

Children's Pieces (four-hand arrangement) by Ilhan Baran

Black and White by Ilhan Baran (Listen to audio samples here)

Summer in the World by Ivan Bozicevic (harpsichord or piano)

Five Drops by Ulvi Cemal Erkin (Listen to audio samples here or in the audio player)

Impressions by Ulvi Cemal Erkin (Listen to samples in the audio player)

Piano Sonata (1946) by Ulvi Cemal Erkin

Diary of a Madman by Pavel Kopecky

Dialects No. 1 by Gyimah Labi

Dialects No. 2 by Gyimah Labi

Dialects No. 3 by Gyimah Labi

Dialects No. 4 by Gyimah Labi 

Dialects No. 5 by Gyimah Labi 

Parvaneh (Butterfly) by E. Melik-Aslanian (This title is currently unavailable for sale. SheetMusicPlus is very helpful in arranging international copyrights. However, for this title it was not possible. We provide the link so that those interested know that the piece exists.)

22 Pieces (for right hand alone) by Ilhan Mimarolgu 

Bagatelles by Ilhan Mimaroglu

From the Other Diary by Ilhan Mimaroglu

Monologue IV (for right hand alone) by Ilhan Mimaroglu

Rosa by Ilhan Mimaroglu

Three Piano Pieces by Ilhan Mimaroglu

Turkish Scenes by Cemal Resit Rey

Ten Turkish Folk Songs by Cemal Resit Rey

Inci's Book, Op. 10 by A. Adnan Saygun (The complete set can be heard in the audio player)

Theme and Variations by A. Adnan Saygun (Listen to a performance here)

Three Short Piano Pieces by Alan Sentman

Seven Poems by Kosaku Yamada (Listen to audio samples here or in the audio player - currently unavailable for sale)

Victory March by Leyla Saz (piano version; also included in the Anthology, Vol. II - see above)

Royal Portraits by Kathryn Woodard (Four pieces based on historical figures for the advanced intermediate player)

Ancient Omens by Kathryn Woodard (Three intermediate-level pieces)

Creepy Suite by Kathryn Woodard (Six short pieces for elementary to intermediate level students)

WORKS FOR SOLO VOICE/INSTRUMENT AND PIANO:

Sonata for Flute and Piano by Necil Kazim Akses

Canto de la ave rapiega (for cello and piano) by Ivan Bozicevic

Die Rose von Stambul by Leo Fall (operetta vocal score)

Sivas Düz Halayi (Turkish folk song for Baritone and Piano) by A. Adnan Saygun

Victory March (for solo treble instrument) by Leyla Saz

Three Sonatinas for Clarinet and Piano by Ilhan Usmanbas

Budapest 1919 (Three songs for high voice, B-flat tpt or cl, piano) by Kathryn Woodard

The Francis Hopkinson Songbook 

10 songs with realized keyboard accompaniment and optional instrumental solos for violin, flute or oboe. In addition to "My Days" (above) other song titles include "Come, Fair Rosina," "Beneath a Weeping Willow's Shade," "See Down, Maria's Blushing Cheek" "Traveler Beknighted," "My Love is Gone to Sea," and "The Toast to General George Washington" (34 pages) - $14.95 for the digital download

The following links are for the Songbook transposed to appropriate keys for different instruments:

The Francis Hopkinson Songbook - with solos for cello, bassoon, trombone or euphonium 

The Francis Hopkinson Songbook - with solos for viola 

The Francis Hopkinson Songbook - with solos for B-flat instruments

"My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" from the Songbook is also available as an individual title for French horn, alto sax, tenor sax, tuba and double bass

Video of two of the keyboard arrangements is available on our main page. Also check out the short biographical essay on Hopkinson on our research page.