Hilary Tann (1947-2023)

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Welsh-born composer, Hilary Tann (1947-2023) lived in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, where she was the John Howard Payne Professor of Music at Union College, Schenectady, until her death on February 8th, 2023. You can find her obituary here: https://tinyurl.com/2hjnpdbp.

Tann’s early musical studies were with Alun Hoddinott at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and with J. K. Randall at Princeton University, USA. Her music was influenced by her love of Wales and by her strong identification with the natural world. A deep interest in the traditional music of Japan led to private study of the shakuhachi and guest visits to Japan, Korea, and China.
Numerous organizations have supported her work, including the Welsh Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet The Composer, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Many works are available on CD from North/South Recordings, Channel Classics, Deux Elles, Albany Records, and others. Her music is published by Brichtmark Music, Inc., Rowanberry Music, and Oxford University Press. Ensembles that have commissioned and performed her works include the European Women’s Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, North American Welsh Choir, Tenebrae, Presteigne Festival, American Guild of Organists, North American Saxophone Alliance, Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Women’s Philharmonic, Meininger Trio, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Thai Philharmonic, and KBS Philharmonic in Seoul, Korea.

Shakkei, a diptych for oboe solo and chamber orchestra, was premiered by oboist Jinny Shaw in the Presteigne Festival, August 2007, and has since been recorded (North/South Recordings) and performed with different soloists in Dublin, at the 2008 IAWM Congress in Beijing, in New York City, in Rio de Janeiro, in San Francisco, and at the 15th World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, with Susan Fancher, solo soprano saxophone, July 2009.

Other websites include: ukcatalogue.oup.com, www.deux-elles.co.uk, www.upstatedimsum.com, and www.composersofwales.org.

To gain access to Hilary’s scores and music archives, which are housed in the Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales, you can visit their website: https://www.tycerdd.org/welsh-music-collection.

Melangell Variations (for piano & soloists)

Year: 2018

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: melangell_variations-sopbaripiano-7pgs-secure-5.pdf

Description: Several years ago it was my good fortune to be introduced to the Shrine Church of Saint Melangell, at Pennant Melangell, deep in the Berwyn Mountains of Wales. While there, I purchased a book of poems about St. Melangell, “The Hare That Hides Within,” and was immediately drawn to a set of six poems by former Welsh poet laureate, Gwyneth Lewis.

Melangell Variations (string orch & vocal soloists)

Year: 2018

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string orchestra

Instruments: baritone voice, soprano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: melangell_variations-score-7pgs-secure-5.pdf

Description: Melangell Variations in three linked movements, was commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra with the assistance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and Ty Cerdd. It was first performed at the Beaumaris Festival, May 28, 2018, by the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, c. Anthony Hose, with soloists Karen Coker Merritt and Jeremy Huw Williams. 1. The Story, 2. Her Silence, 3. A Cloud of Witnesses)

In the Theater of Air

Year: 2017

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: flute, piano, violin

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: in_the_theater_of_air-flvcpno-7pgs-secure-5.pdf

Description: In the Theater of Air was commissioned by the Marsyas Trio with funds provided by the Fidelio Charitable Trust and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. It received its premiere, May 25, 2017, at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Seven images of birds in flight underlie the composition.

And the Snow Did Lie

Year: 2014

Duration (in minutes): 23

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string quartet

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: and_the_snow_did_lie-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf

Description: Ten images for string quartet based on André Bergeron's lithographs for
Germaine Guèvremont's French-Canadian classic, Le Survenant.

Embertides

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: Embertides consists of four separate movements that take their inspiration from the roughly equal divisions of the church year – Advent, Lent, Whitsun, Michaelmas. These divisions in turn pay homage to earlier, secular traditions – Winter (seeding), Spring (awakening), Summer (harvesting), Autumn (vintage). The cycle is unified by references to verses from the 11th-century plainsong sequence ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’; in addition, each piece contains hints of hymns appropriate to each season. The work may be performed as a concert suite or individual movements may be used separately within church services.
Duration: whole suite 15 minutes. Advent: 3′20″ Lenten 3′40″, Whit 3′40″, Michaelmas 4′00″.
Embertides will be premiered at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists, 24-7 June 2014, Boston, MA

Seven Poems of Stillness

Year: 2013

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, narrator/speaker

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: seven_poems_of_stillness-pgs7-13_secure-5.pdf

Description: Seven Poems of Stillness for violoncello solo with poems by R. S. Thomas was composed in response to a request from Dr. Rhian Davies, Artistic Director of the Gŵyl Gregynog Festival, to whom the work is dedicated.

Solstice

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: solstice-marimba-pno-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf

Description: Commissioned by the Ricochet Duo to honor Adirondack woodswoman, Anne LaBastille. LaBastille's four woodswomen books are the direct inspiration for the composition. The title, Solstice, comes from book IIII/p.19 ("the sense of full circle").

On Ear and Ear

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, viola

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: on_ear_and_ear-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: On Ear and Ear … takes its cue from the opening few measures of Milton Babbitt’s 1950 Composition for Viola and Piano. Heard in slow motion, there is something so tender about the timbral and registral choices in the first four measures and these become reference points for this hommage. The title is from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sonnet, “The Sea and the Skylark”. The two “ears” become those of the composer and her mentor at Princeton (Milton Babbitt); the two instruments (piano and viola); and the sea (“low lull-off or all roar”) and lark (“his rash-fresh rewinded new-skeinèd score”). On Ear and Ear … was composed in June/July 2011 for the Perspectives of New Music / Open Space memorial tribute to Milton Babbitt. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vla; Annabel Thwaite, pno.)

Between Sunsets

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: between_sunsets-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Between Sunsets was commissioned by the Strempel-Beaudette Duo for inclusion in an all-Cummings CD and was premiered at the 2012 Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival in Rochester NY, March 29. Three poems by E. E. Cummings are set in a continuous cycle and the outer songs use some of the same musical material. The texts echo each other in mentioning sunsets, stars, and skies and are also united by greater senses of love. – HT

Reibo

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: reibo-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Tone poem composed for 25th anniversary of Community Women's Orchestra, Oakland, CA.

Some of the Silence

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: some_of_the_silence-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf

Description: Single slow movement commissioned by Lunar Saxophone Quartet. Based on a haiku: a deep gorge / some of the silence / is me (John Stevenson). (Audio features the Lunar Saxophone Quartet.)

Paradise

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: paradise-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Text by George Herbert. Written for Tenebrae. Accepted by Schola Cantorum on Hudson, Project Encore. (Audio features Harvard University Choir, E Jones, Conductor.)

Shakkei

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: shakkei-mvmt_ii-pgs19-22-secure-5.pdf

Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.

With The Heather And Small Birds

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: percussion, timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-with_the_heather_and_small_birds-pgs1-9_secure-5.pdf

Description: Composed for European Women's Orchestra. "Splendid curtain-raiser" (SF Chronicle). (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Water's Edge - piano duet

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: waters_edge-2_pno-mvts-pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf

Description: Three linked movements. Composed for NYSTMA. (Audio features an excerpt from Movement II - From the Riverbed.)

Through The Echoing Timber

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: through_the_echoing_timber-orch-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Short, dramatic, needs good brass.

Adirondack Light

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 18

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: adirondack_light-narrator_chamb_orch_pgs27-39-secure-5.pdf

Description: Composed for centennial of Adirondack Park.

As Ferns

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: as_ferns_-_string_orch_pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf

Description: Evocative slow movement.

Of Erthe And Air

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, other, percussion, piccolo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-of_erthe_and_air-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf

Description: Strong Japanese influences. Recorded on "Celtic Connections" CD. (Audio features the Concorde Ensemble.) The instrumentation is for three performers, with flute doubling piccolo, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, and frame drums (see score for specific drum options).

Open Field

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: the_open_field-orch-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf

Description: Subtitle: "In memoriam Tienanmen Square, June 1989". Dramatic overture.

Llef

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, other

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-llef-booklet_pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Originally for shakuhachi and cello. Echoes of Welsh hymns.

Arachne

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: musical theater

Instruments: soprano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-arachne-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Theater piece for solo soprano (lyrical but challenging).

Winter Sun, Summer Rain

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: celesta, cello, clarinet, flute, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: winter_sun_summer_rain-chamber-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf

Description: Three interlinked descriptive movements.

Sound Dawn

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-sound_dawn-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Text by composer. Lyrical/challenging.

Duo

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 10:30

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: oboe, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-duo_for_oboe_and_viola-pgs4-5_booklet-secure-5.pdf

Description: Intimate dialogue for the two instruments. (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, oboe; Matthew Jones, viola.)

Water's Edge - for String Orchestra

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: waters_edge-strg_orch-mvt2-secure-5.pdf

Description: String orchestra version of original piano duet. Performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor.

Psalm136 (Luminaria Magna)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-psalm_136-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Anthem of praise. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)

That Jewel-Spirit ...

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: jewel_spirit-ssa-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson). (Audio features Radcliffe Choral Society, Conductor, Jameson Marvin.)

Anecdote

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-anecdote_cellosolo_part-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: One movement soliloquy for solo cello and orchestra. (Audio features the Newark Symphony, Ovidiu Marinescu, Cello, Roman Pawlowski, Conductor.)

Children of Grace

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: children_of_grace-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Sacred anthem with text by George Herbert and Penny Harter

Contemplations 21, 22

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: contemplations-21_22-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with words by Anne Bradstreet. (Audio features the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum & Radcliffe Choral Society.)

Psalm 86 (Incline Thine Ear)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: psalm_86-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Words by George Herbert. Optional trumpet. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm concert set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)

Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-psalm104-satbtptsorg-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Anthem of praise for the North American Welsh Choir. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or combined with Psalms 86 and 136 to make concert set (136-86-104). (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)

Moor

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-the_moor-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Words by R. S. Thomas. May be concert piece or anthem. Original for solo S & MS. Most often performed by female choir.

Wales, Our Land

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-wales_our_land-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with text by Welsh slate miner in exile.

Wellspring

Duration (in minutes): 3:30

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: wellspring-ssa-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Female choir test piece for Llangollen Music Festival. Words by Menna Elfyn.

Songs of the Cotton Grass

Duration (in minutes): 17

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any high voice, any woodwind, oboe, soprano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-9.pdf

Description: Four songs with texts by Menna Elfyn. Three are "reverse lullabies".
"A Girl's Song to Her Mother", "Slave's Song", "Wings of the Grasses", "Vale of Feathers". Multiple CD recordings. The duo is for voice and oboe, or another melody instrument. (Audio is an excerpt of "Vale of Feathers, with Elizabeth Donovan, sop; Matthew Jones, vla.)

Mother and Son

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: cello, Eb clarinet, soprano, viola, violin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: mother_and_son-vocal-chamber-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Text by R. S. Thomas

Sarsen

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra

Instruments: timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-sarsen-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Exciting for younger players. (Audio features the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra, John Clinton, Conductor.)

From the Song of Amergin

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: flute, harp, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: from_the_song_of_amergin-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Recorded by Emily Beynon, Concertgebouw First Chair. (Audio excerpt features Lucy Wakeford,harp; Kathryn Thomas,flute; Matthew Jones,viola.)

Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-gardens_of_anna_maria_luisa_de_medici-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: CD Recording by Meininger Trio. (Audio is an excerpt of 3rd Mvt, performed by the Meininger Trio.)

Nothing Forgotten

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, piano, violin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: nothing_forgotten-pgs3-7_secure-5.pdf

Description: Homage inspired by the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vln, Thomas Carroll, vc, Michael Hampton, pno)

Walls of Morlais Castle

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, oboe, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-walls_of_morlais_castle-chamber_trio-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: CD recording on "Songs of the Cotton Grass" (Deux-Elles). (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, ob; Matthew Jones, vla; Thomas Carroll, vc.)

High Rock Spring

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: high_rock_spring-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Colorful concert piece composed for Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra. (Audio features the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra.)

Here, The Cliffs

Duration (in minutes): 17

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-here_the_cliffs-vnsolo-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: A rhapsody for violin and orchestra inspired by the mountains of Wales. (Audio features Frantisek Novotny, vn, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Fanfare for a River

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-fanfare_for_a_river-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Knoxville Symphony NEA commission. Optionally brass in balcony.

From Afar

Duration (in minutes): 18

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: from_afar-pgs1-11-secure-5.pdf

Description: Large-scale, one-movement work with strong Japanese influences. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

From the Feather to the Mountain

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-from_the_feather_to_the_mountain-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Premiered by Empire State Youth Orchestra. Shows off woodwinds, strings, then brass. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Grey Tide and the Green

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-the_grey_tide_and_the_green-pgs1-10-secure-5.pdf

Description: Premiered by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Welsh Proms. (Audio excerpt features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen.)

In the First, Spinning Place

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: alto saxophone, piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-itfsp-saxpno-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Piano/alto sax transcription of original concerto. Premiered at WSCXV and recorded by Debra Richtmeyer.

Toward Dusk

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: flute, piccolo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-toward_dusk-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Arrangement of last movement of Water's Edge. (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Walls of Morlais Castle - for String Orchestra

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: walls_of_morlais_castle-_strg_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: String orchestra version of chamber music trio. "A handsome piece for string orchestra, with dusky melodies and bracing, rustic rhythms." (Steve Smith, NY Times, March 10, 2010) (Audio features the North-South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, conductor.

Sad Pavan Forbidding Mourning

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: guitar

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-sad_pavan_forbidding_mourning-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Contains excerpts from Thomas Tallis. (Audio features Gerard Cousins, guitar.)

Doppelganger

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: doppelganger-pno-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece. (Audio features Pola Baytelman, piano. Released on "View From The Keyboard," Society Of Composers, Inc.)

First Watch

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-first_watch-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Celebrating the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers in Albany, NY.

Kilvert's Hills

Duration (in minutes): 10:30

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: bassoon

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: kilverts_hills-bassoon-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Extended solo for bassoon. Sometimes performed with dance and/or slides. Recorded on Beauport Classical. (Audio features Kassimir Ivanov, bassoon.)

Light from The Cliffs

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: light_from_the_cliffs-piano-pgs3-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Based on slow movement of violin concerto, "Here, The Cliffs". (Audio features Max Lifchitz, piano.)

Look Little Low Heavens

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo brass instrument, solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: trumpet

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-look_little_low_heavens-pgs1-3_secure-5.pdf

Description: Slow-fast-slow solo for C trumpet.

Pinnae Ventorum

Duration (in minutes): 4:30

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-pinnae_ventorum-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Registrations by Carson Cooman.

Cresset Stone

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-the_cresset_stone_vla-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: A meditation on stone and light. (Audio features the viola version with Matthew Jones, violist.)

Windhover

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-windhover-pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Virtuoso solo. (Audio features Christine Meininger, flute.)

Like Lightnings

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: oboe

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-like_lightnings-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Single movement meditative concert piece

In the First, Spinning Place (for Saxophone, Orchestra)

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-in_the_first_spinning_place_sax_orch-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf

Description: Commissioned by NASA2000, premiered by Debra Richtmeyer. (Audio features Debra Richtmeyer, alto sax, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor.)

Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul) (SATB w Orchestra)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-psalm_104-satb_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Small orchestra version of original organ accompaniment.

That Jewel-Spirit ... (SSA, Fl, String Orchestra)

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: jewel-spirit-w_strg_orch-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson)

Contemplations 8, 9

Duration (in minutes): 5:40

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: contemplations-8-9-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Contemplations (8, 9) was composed for Cappella Clausura’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of Anne Bradstreet’s birth.

Wings Of The Grasses

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any high voice, oboe, soprano, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-wings_of_the_grasses-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The second song in the cycle, Wings of the Grasses was composed for "A Garland for Presteigne” and received its first performance August 25, 2003 by soprano Gillian Keith with Simon Lepper, piano. The duo is for voice and oboe, or alternatively, viola. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, sop, Matthew Jones, vla.)

Shakkei (piano and soloist)

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.

Exultet Terra

Duration (in minutes): 42

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: exultet-i-exultet_terra-pgs27-42-secure-5.pdf

Description: SATB (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet) (5 movements; may be performed independently).
I. Exultet Terra (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
II. Trio of Descent (2 ob, ca)
III. In Santis Eius (SATB; solo oboe)
IV. Trio of Ascent (2 bsn, ca)
V. Iubilate Domino (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
(Audio features Mvt I. Exultet Terra, performed at the Eastman Women in Music Festival.)

Girl’s Song to Her Mother

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: oboe, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-11.pdf

Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The first song, is A Girl’s Song to Her Mother. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, soprano; Matthew Jones, viola.)

Women's Voices

Includes Melangell Variations commissioned by baritone, Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra for baritone, strings, piano.

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: Lorelt

Product ID: LNT143

Buy URL: http://www.lorelt.co.uk/cds/lnt/womens_voices

And the Snow Did Lie

And the Snow Did Lie, ten images for string quartet based on Andre Bergeron's lithographs

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Navona Records, LLC

Product ID: NV6280

Buy URL: https://www.amazon.com/Hilary-Tann-Snow-Did-Lie/dp/B086H768K7/

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Tomorrow's Air

Anecdote (a soliloquy for cello and orchestra) performed by the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Târgu Mure, with conductor, Ovidiu Balan and cellist, Ovidiu Marinescu.

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: Navona Records, LLC

Product ID: NV6108

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In the Theater of Air

In the Theater of Air (fl, vc, pn) performed by the Marsyas Trio

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: NMC Recordings Ltd

Product ID: NMC D248

Buy URL: https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/theatre-air

Only Breath - New choral music from Wales

Paradise (SAATBB)

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales

Product ID: TCR022

Buy URL: https://www.tycerdd.org/only-breath

Kid Stuff

Solstice – for marimba and piano

Composers: Hilary Tann, and others

Label: Ravello Records

Product ID: RR7977

Buy URL: https://www.amazon.com/Kid-Stuff-Barber/dp/B0788BNJRC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515685106&sr=8-1&keywords=kid+stuff+mccormick

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Lotus Pond: Exotic Oboe Sounds

Exotic oboe sounds with piano, harp and percussion featuring an oboe and piano transcription of Shakkei performed Cynthia Green Libby, oboe and Peter Collins, piano.

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: MSR Classics

Product ID: MS1421

Buy URL: https://www.amazon.com/Lotus-Pond-percussion-Premiere-Recordings/dp/B009EDQ0SA

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Exultet Terra - choral music

Exultet Terra (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet)
The Moor (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 8,9 (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 21,22 (a cappella women's choir)

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Navona Records, LLC

Product ID: NV6069

Buy URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQV8H2G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_J2QtybMJA9C1G

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Seven Poems of Stillness

Works for solo cello, performed by Guy Johnson, based on poems by R.S. Thomas
I. “the air / a staircase for silence” (Kneeling)
II. “the great brush has not rested” (The View from the Window)
III. “like some huge moth out of the darkness” (The Empty Church)
IV. “as the interior of a cathedral” (The Moorland)
V. “Bright Field / lit bush” (The Bright Field)
VI. “the possibility of your presence” (Cones)
VII. “nights that are so still” (The Other)

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Poems-Stillness-Thomas-Johnston/dp/B00MYM7S2U

Unto thee I burn: Song Settings of E.E. Cummings

Between Sunsets (sop, pn) performed by Eileen Strempel, soprano; Sylvie Beaudette, piano.

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Centaur Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CRC-3395

Buy URL: http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/crc-3395-unto-thee-i-burn-song-settings-of-e-e-cummings-poetry-by-north-american-women-composers.html

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Images of Eve

Windhover (solo flute) performed by Wendy Rolfe

Composers: Hilary Tann, plus others

Label: CDBaby.com

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CDBaby-WRolfe

Buy URL: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/wendyrolfe

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Of Erthe and Air

Of Erthe and Air: Susan Francher and Friends play Music of Hilary Tann
Windhover for solo soprano saxophone
Of Erthe and Air for flute/piccolo, saxophones and percussion
Songs of the Cotton Grass for mezzo soprano and soprano saxophone
Shôji for flute and soprano saxophone
Some of the Silence for saxophone quartet
Shakkei for soprano saxophone and small orchestra

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Arizona University Recordings (BMI)

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Buy URL: http://arizonarecordings.com/sax/sax1.html

La Voix Nue

Mezzo-soprano Patricia Green performs Hilary Tann's dramatic song cycle Arachne (soprano solo with crotale)
I. A Primer For Those Who Have Dealings with the Gods
II. Arachne’s Boast
III. Athene’s Song
IV. The Spider’s Valediction

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Buy URL: http://www.bluegriffin.com/index.php/Compact-Disks/La-Voix-Nue-Patricia-Green/flypage.tpl.html

Here, the Cliffs

With the Heather and Small Birds (chamber orchestra)
In the First Spinning Place (Concerto for Solo Alto Saxophone and Orchestra)
From the Feather to the Mountain (full orchestra)
Here, the Cliffs (Rhapsody for Solo Violin and Orchestra)
From Afar (full orchestra)

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: North/South Recordings

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: N/S R 1056

Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/Here-The-Cliffs

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Expressions

The Walls of Morlais Castle (for string orchestra) performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: North/South Recordings

Product ID: NSR1054

Buy URL: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=1226979#

Women's Work and Play

Reibo (for full orchestra) performed by the Women's Community Orchestra

Composers: Hilary Tann

Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Work-and-Play/dp/B0043XBYBY

Millennium Overture

Performers: Chai-lun Yueh, Wolfram Koessel, Max Lifchitz, North/South Consonance Ensemble, Deborah Buck
Conductor: Max Lifchitz

Composers: Hilary Tann, Sarah Meneely-Kyder, and others

Label: North/South Recordings

Product ID: N/S R 1027

Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1027

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Shining Place

Janeanne Houston, soprano
Robert Jorgensen, piano
Shannon Spicciati, oboe
For our time, songs by living American composers that are virtuosic, creative, and passionate, that grab the heart and bring it into the light.

Composers: Hilary Tann, Lori Laitman, Paul Moravec, Lee Holby, & others

Label: Elmgrove Productions

Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/Shining-Locklair-Moravec-Laitman-Scearce/dp/B000E6GDII/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1275254577&sr=1-1

Buy URL 2: http://www.northwestartists.org/shining/index.htm

So Much Beauty

Hundley, Lori Laitman, Jorgensen, Locklair, Finzi, Carol Sams, Penhorwood, Burge and Hilary Tann: A Girl's Song to Her Mother and Wings of the Grasses performed by Janeanne Houston (soprano) and Shannon Spicciati (oboe).

Composers: Hilary Tann, others

Label: Elmgrove Productions

Buy URL: http://www.northwestartists.org/beauty/index.htm

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British Women Composers Volume 2

Martinez: Canciones
Weir: Airs from Another Planet
Maxwell: Pibroch
Tann: Winter Sun, Summer Rain
Alberga, Dancing with the Shadow

Composers: Hilary Tann, and others

Label: Lorelt

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: LNT-103

Buy URL: http://www.lorelt.co.uk

Buy URL 2: http://www.amazon.com/British-Women-Composers-Odaline-Martinez/dp/B001GDO72W/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1280451183&sr=1-12

Celtic Connections

Jane O'Leary: Silenzio della Terra
Hilary Tann: Of Erthe and Air
Hilary Tann: The Cresset Stone
Jane O'Leary: Duo for Violin and Cello
Nicola LeFanu: Trio I

Composers: Hilary Tann, Jane O'Leary, Nicola LeFanu

Label: Capstone Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CPS-8640

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American Tapestry

Kraft: L'Unicorno
Tann: Water's Edge
Schiffman: Concertino for Oboe
Alburger: S. # 1, Op. 21 in C

Composers: Hilary Tann, others

Label: North/South Recordings

Product ID: N/S R 1037

Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1037

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World Without Words

Tann: In the first, spinning place
plus nine other composers' works from the 2008-9
University of Illinois Saxophone Studio
Debra Richtmeyer, conductor, performer

Composers: Hilary Tann, others

Label: Mark Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: 8657-MCD

Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/Richtmeyer-University-Illinois-2008-2009-Saxophone/dp/B002ZERM9G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1272841773&sr=1-2

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Metamorphosis

McCloskey: Star Chamber
Martin: Owl and Pussycat
Bradshaw: Elucidate
Carollo: Metamorphosis No. 13
Juusela: Apollo and Daphne
Bahr: Undaunted
Tann: Like Lightnings
Tann: Kilvert's Hills

Composers: Hilary Tann and others

Label: Beauport Classical

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: BC1805

Buy URL: http://www.beauportclassical.com/Beauport_Classical/Collaboration_Series.html

Buy URL 2: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=11901&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=336115

Emily Beynon Flute and Friends

Hilary Tann: From the Song of Amergin
Amy Beach: Theme and Variations
Sally Beamish: Words for my Daughter
Thea Musgrave: Impromptu
Louise Farrenc: Trio Op. 45

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CCS SA 26408

Buy URL: http://www.channelclassics.com

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Songs of the Cotton Grass

The Walls of Morlais Castle
Songs of the Cotton Grass
The Cresset Stone
From the Song of Amergin
Duo
Nothing Forgotten

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Deux-Elles

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: DXL 1132

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Musical Landscapes of Hilary Tann

On Ear and Ear ...
Light from the Cliffs
Kilvert's Hills
Doppleganger
The Cresset Stone
Water's Edge
... slate, blue-gray
Nothing Forgotten

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Centaur Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CRC 3357

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LANDSCAPES for Chamber Orchestra

Binnette Lipper: CIRCLES OF LIGHT
Edward Green: CONCERTINO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
Dinos Constantinides: CHINA II - BEIJING
LANDSCAPE VI - RHAPSODY FOR HARP AND STRINGS
Hilary Tann: SHAKKEI
Mary Jean Van Appledorn: AYRE

Composers: Hilary Tann, Binnette Lipper, others.

Label: North/South Recordings

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: N/S R 1048

Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1048

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Gardens of Medici

Meininger-Trio (flute, cello & piano).
Includes Voces de mi tierra by Elisenda Fábregas; Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, The Cresset Stone, Windhover and Llef by Hilary Tann; and Colours of the Sea by Elena Kats-Chernin.

Composers: Elisenda Fábregas, Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, Hilary Tann, others.

Label: Profil Edition Günter Hänsler

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: PH-05019

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Shakkei (Mvt. I)

Composer: Hilary Tann

Description: Saxophonist, Susan Fancher performs Hilary Tann's Shakkei (Mvt. I). Thailand Philharmonic, directed by Allan McMurray. 2009 World Saxophone Congress.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5L5RhpNqQ

Winter sun, Summer rain

Composer: Hilary Tann

Description: Performed by: Ingrid Culliford, flute; Andrew Sparling, clarinet; Ruth Crouch, violin; Jane Salmon, cello; Shelagh Sutherland, piano; Richard Benjafield, percussion. Ensemble diretto da Odaline de la Martinez.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eChttwAXfw

Contemplation 8, 9

Composer: Hilary Tann

Description: Live performance in Cambridge, Mass by Cappella Clausura, March, 2012.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXsRXcYPepI

BIOGRAPHY
Welsh-born composer, Hilary Tann (1947-2023) lived in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, where she was the John Howard Payne Professor of Music at Union College, Schenectady, until her death on February 8th, 2023. You can find her obituary here: https://tinyurl.com/2hjnpdbp.

Tann's early musical studies were with Alun Hoddinott at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and with J. K. Randall at Princeton University, USA. Her music was influenced by her love of Wales and by her strong identification with the natural world. A deep interest in the traditional music of Japan led to private study of the shakuhachi and guest visits to Japan, Korea, and China.
Numerous organizations have supported her work, including the Welsh Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet The Composer, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Many works are available on CD from North/South Recordings, Channel Classics, Deux Elles, Albany Records, and others. Her music is published by Brichtmark Music, Inc., Rowanberry Music, and Oxford University Press. Ensembles that have commissioned and performed her works include the European Women’s Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, North American Welsh Choir, Tenebrae, Presteigne Festival, American Guild of Organists, North American Saxophone Alliance, Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Women’s Philharmonic, Meininger Trio, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Thai Philharmonic, and KBS Philharmonic in Seoul, Korea.

Shakkei, a diptych for oboe solo and chamber orchestra, was premiered by oboist Jinny Shaw in the Presteigne Festival, August 2007, and has since been recorded (North/South Recordings) and performed with different soloists in Dublin, at the 2008 IAWM Congress in Beijing, in New York City, in Rio de Janeiro, in San Francisco, and at the 15th World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, with Susan Fancher, solo soprano saxophone, July 2009.

Other websites include: ukcatalogue.oup.com, www.deux-elles.co.uk, www.upstatedimsum.com, and www.composersofwales.org.

To gain access to Hilary's scores and music archives, which are housed in the Tŷ Cerdd - Music Centre Wales, you can visit their website: https://www.tycerdd.org/welsh-music-collection.
COMPOSITIONS

Melangell Variations (for piano & soloists)

Year: 2018

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: melangell_variations-sopbaripiano-7pgs-secure-5.pdf

Description: Several years ago it was my good fortune to be introduced to the Shrine Church of Saint Melangell, at Pennant Melangell, deep in the Berwyn Mountains of Wales. While there, I purchased a book of poems about St. Melangell, “The Hare That Hides Within,” and was immediately drawn to a set of six poems by former Welsh poet laureate, Gwyneth Lewis.

Melangell Variations (string orch & vocal soloists)

Year: 2018

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string orchestra

Instruments: baritone voice, soprano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: melangell_variations-score-7pgs-secure-5.pdf

Description: Melangell Variations in three linked movements, was commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra with the assistance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and Ty Cerdd. It was first performed at the Beaumaris Festival, May 28, 2018, by the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, c. Anthony Hose, with soloists Karen Coker Merritt and Jeremy Huw Williams. 1. The Story, 2. Her Silence, 3. A Cloud of Witnesses)

In the Theater of Air

Year: 2017

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: flute, piano, violin

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: in_the_theater_of_air-flvcpno-7pgs-secure-5.pdf

Description: In the Theater of Air was commissioned by the Marsyas Trio with funds provided by the Fidelio Charitable Trust and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. It received its premiere, May 25, 2017, at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Seven images of birds in flight underlie the composition.

And the Snow Did Lie

Year: 2014

Duration (in minutes): 23

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: string quartet

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: and_the_snow_did_lie-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf

Description: Ten images for string quartet based on André Bergeron's lithographs for
Germaine Guèvremont's French-Canadian classic, Le Survenant.

Embertides

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: Embertides consists of four separate movements that take their inspiration from the roughly equal divisions of the church year – Advent, Lent, Whitsun, Michaelmas. These divisions in turn pay homage to earlier, secular traditions – Winter (seeding), Spring (awakening), Summer (harvesting), Autumn (vintage). The cycle is unified by references to verses from the 11th-century plainsong sequence ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’; in addition, each piece contains hints of hymns appropriate to each season. The work may be performed as a concert suite or individual movements may be used separately within church services.
Duration: whole suite 15 minutes. Advent: 3′20″ Lenten 3′40″, Whit 3′40″, Michaelmas 4′00″.
Embertides will be premiered at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists, 24-7 June 2014, Boston, MA

Seven Poems of Stillness

Year: 2013

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, narrator/speaker

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: seven_poems_of_stillness-pgs7-13_secure-5.pdf

Description: Seven Poems of Stillness for violoncello solo with poems by R. S. Thomas was composed in response to a request from Dr. Rhian Davies, Artistic Director of the Gŵyl Gregynog Festival, to whom the work is dedicated.

Solstice

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: solstice-marimba-pno-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf

Description: Commissioned by the Ricochet Duo to honor Adirondack woodswoman, Anne LaBastille. LaBastille's four woodswomen books are the direct inspiration for the composition. The title, Solstice, comes from book IIII/p.19 ("the sense of full circle").

On Ear and Ear

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: piano, viola

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: on_ear_and_ear-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: On Ear and Ear … takes its cue from the opening few measures of Milton Babbitt’s 1950 Composition for Viola and Piano. Heard in slow motion, there is something so tender about the timbral and registral choices in the first four measures and these become reference points for this hommage. The title is from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sonnet, “The Sea and the Skylark”. The two “ears” become those of the composer and her mentor at Princeton (Milton Babbitt); the two instruments (piano and viola); and the sea (“low lull-off or all roar”) and lark (“his rash-fresh rewinded new-skeinèd score”). On Ear and Ear … was composed in June/July 2011 for the Perspectives of New Music / Open Space memorial tribute to Milton Babbitt. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vla; Annabel Thwaite, pno.)

Between Sunsets

Year: 2011

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: between_sunsets-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Between Sunsets was commissioned by the Strempel-Beaudette Duo for inclusion in an all-Cummings CD and was premiered at the 2012 Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival in Rochester NY, March 29. Three poems by E. E. Cummings are set in a continuous cycle and the outer songs use some of the same musical material. The texts echo each other in mentioning sunsets, stars, and skies and are also united by greater senses of love. – HT

Reibo

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: reibo-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Tone poem composed for 25th anniversary of Community Women's Orchestra, Oakland, CA.

Some of the Silence

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: some_of_the_silence-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf

Description: Single slow movement commissioned by Lunar Saxophone Quartet. Based on a haiku: a deep gorge / some of the silence / is me (John Stevenson). (Audio features the Lunar Saxophone Quartet.)

Paradise

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: paradise-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Text by George Herbert. Written for Tenebrae. Accepted by Schola Cantorum on Hudson, Project Encore. (Audio features Harvard University Choir, E Jones, Conductor.)

Shakkei

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: shakkei-mvmt_ii-pgs19-22-secure-5.pdf

Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.

With The Heather And Small Birds

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: percussion, timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-with_the_heather_and_small_birds-pgs1-9_secure-5.pdf

Description: Composed for European Women's Orchestra. "Splendid curtain-raiser" (SF Chronicle). (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Water's Edge - piano duet

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: waters_edge-2_pno-mvts-pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf

Description: Three linked movements. Composed for NYSTMA. (Audio features an excerpt from Movement II - From the Riverbed.)

Through The Echoing Timber

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: through_the_echoing_timber-orch-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Short, dramatic, needs good brass.

Adirondack Light

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 18

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: adirondack_light-narrator_chamb_orch_pgs27-39-secure-5.pdf

Description: Composed for centennial of Adirondack Park.

As Ferns

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: as_ferns_-_string_orch_pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf

Description: Evocative slow movement.

Of Erthe And Air

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): 15

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, other, percussion, piccolo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-of_erthe_and_air-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf

Description: Strong Japanese influences. Recorded on "Celtic Connections" CD. (Audio features the Concorde Ensemble.) The instrumentation is for three performers, with flute doubling piccolo, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, and frame drums (see score for specific drum options).

Open Field

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: the_open_field-orch-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf

Description: Subtitle: "In memoriam Tienanmen Square, June 1989". Dramatic overture.

Llef

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, other

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-llef-booklet_pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Originally for shakuhachi and cello. Echoes of Welsh hymns.

Arachne

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: musical theater

Instruments: soprano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-arachne-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Theater piece for solo soprano (lyrical but challenging).

Winter Sun, Summer Rain

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: celesta, cello, clarinet, flute, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: winter_sun_summer_rain-chamber-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf

Description: Three interlinked descriptive movements.

Sound Dawn

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-sound_dawn-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Text by composer. Lyrical/challenging.

Duo

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 10:30

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: oboe, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-duo_for_oboe_and_viola-pgs4-5_booklet-secure-5.pdf

Description: Intimate dialogue for the two instruments. (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, oboe; Matthew Jones, viola.)

Water's Edge - for String Orchestra

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: waters_edge-strg_orch-mvt2-secure-5.pdf

Description: String orchestra version of original piano duet. Performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor.

Psalm136 (Luminaria Magna)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-psalm_136-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Anthem of praise. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)

That Jewel-Spirit ...

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: jewel_spirit-ssa-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson). (Audio features Radcliffe Choral Society, Conductor, Jameson Marvin.)

Anecdote

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-anecdote_cellosolo_part-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: One movement soliloquy for solo cello and orchestra. (Audio features the Newark Symphony, Ovidiu Marinescu, Cello, Roman Pawlowski, Conductor.)

Children of Grace

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: children_of_grace-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Sacred anthem with text by George Herbert and Penny Harter

Contemplations 21, 22

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: contemplations-21_22-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with words by Anne Bradstreet. (Audio features the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum & Radcliffe Choral Society.)

Psalm 86 (Incline Thine Ear)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: psalm_86-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Words by George Herbert. Optional trumpet. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm concert set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)

Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-psalm104-satbtptsorg-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Anthem of praise for the North American Welsh Choir. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or combined with Psalms 86 and 136 to make concert set (136-86-104). (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)

Moor

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-the_moor-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Words by R. S. Thomas. May be concert piece or anthem. Original for solo S & MS. Most often performed by female choir.

Wales, Our Land

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-wales_our_land-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with text by Welsh slate miner in exile.

Wellspring

Duration (in minutes): 3:30

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: wellspring-ssa-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Female choir test piece for Llangollen Music Festival. Words by Menna Elfyn.

Songs of the Cotton Grass

Duration (in minutes): 17

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any high voice, any woodwind, oboe, soprano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-9.pdf

Description: Four songs with texts by Menna Elfyn. Three are "reverse lullabies".
"A Girl's Song to Her Mother", "Slave's Song", "Wings of the Grasses", "Vale of Feathers". Multiple CD recordings. The duo is for voice and oboe, or another melody instrument. (Audio is an excerpt of "Vale of Feathers, with Elizabeth Donovan, sop; Matthew Jones, vla.)

Mother and Son

Duration (in minutes): 3

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: cello, Eb clarinet, soprano, viola, violin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: mother_and_son-vocal-chamber-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Text by R. S. Thomas

Sarsen

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra

Instruments: timpani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-sarsen-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Exciting for younger players. (Audio features the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra, John Clinton, Conductor.)

From the Song of Amergin

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: flute, harp, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: from_the_song_of_amergin-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Recorded by Emily Beynon, Concertgebouw First Chair. (Audio excerpt features Lucy Wakeford,harp; Kathryn Thomas,flute; Matthew Jones,viola.)

Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici

Duration (in minutes): 13

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, flute, piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-gardens_of_anna_maria_luisa_de_medici-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: CD Recording by Meininger Trio. (Audio is an excerpt of 3rd Mvt, performed by the Meininger Trio.)

Nothing Forgotten

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, piano, violin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: nothing_forgotten-pgs3-7_secure-5.pdf

Description: Homage inspired by the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vln, Thomas Carroll, vc, Michael Hampton, pno)

Walls of Morlais Castle

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: cello, oboe, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-walls_of_morlais_castle-chamber_trio-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: CD recording on "Songs of the Cotton Grass" (Deux-Elles). (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, ob; Matthew Jones, vla; Thomas Carroll, vc.)

High Rock Spring

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: high_rock_spring-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Colorful concert piece composed for Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra. (Audio features the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra.)

Here, The Cliffs

Duration (in minutes): 17

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-here_the_cliffs-vnsolo-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: A rhapsody for violin and orchestra inspired by the mountains of Wales. (Audio features Frantisek Novotny, vn, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Fanfare for a River

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-fanfare_for_a_river-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Knoxville Symphony NEA commission. Optionally brass in balcony.

From Afar

Duration (in minutes): 18

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: from_afar-pgs1-11-secure-5.pdf

Description: Large-scale, one-movement work with strong Japanese influences. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

From the Feather to the Mountain

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-from_the_feather_to_the_mountain-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Premiered by Empire State Youth Orchestra. Shows off woodwinds, strings, then brass. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Grey Tide and the Green

Duration (in minutes): 11

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-the_grey_tide_and_the_green-pgs1-10-secure-5.pdf

Description: Premiered by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Welsh Proms. (Audio excerpt features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen.)

In the First, Spinning Place

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: alto saxophone, piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-itfsp-saxpno-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Piano/alto sax transcription of original concerto. Premiered at WSCXV and recorded by Debra Richtmeyer.

Toward Dusk

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: flute, piccolo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-toward_dusk-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: Arrangement of last movement of Water's Edge. (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)

Walls of Morlais Castle - for String Orchestra

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: walls_of_morlais_castle-_strg_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: String orchestra version of chamber music trio. "A handsome piece for string orchestra, with dusky melodies and bracing, rustic rhythms." (Steve Smith, NY Times, March 10, 2010) (Audio features the North-South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, conductor.

Sad Pavan Forbidding Mourning

Duration (in minutes): 5

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: guitar

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-sad_pavan_forbidding_mourning-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Contains excerpts from Thomas Tallis. (Audio features Gerard Cousins, guitar.)

Doppelganger

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: doppelganger-pno-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece. (Audio features Pola Baytelman, piano. Released on "View From The Keyboard," Society Of Composers, Inc.)

First Watch

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-first_watch-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Celebrating the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers in Albany, NY.

Kilvert's Hills

Duration (in minutes): 10:30

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: bassoon

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: kilverts_hills-bassoon-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Extended solo for bassoon. Sometimes performed with dance and/or slides. Recorded on Beauport Classical. (Audio features Kassimir Ivanov, bassoon.)

Light from The Cliffs

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: light_from_the_cliffs-piano-pgs3-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Based on slow movement of violin concerto, "Here, The Cliffs". (Audio features Max Lifchitz, piano.)

Look Little Low Heavens

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo brass instrument, solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: trumpet

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-look_little_low_heavens-pgs1-3_secure-5.pdf

Description: Slow-fast-slow solo for C trumpet.

Pinnae Ventorum

Duration (in minutes): 4:30

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-pinnae_ventorum-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Registrations by Carson Cooman.

Cresset Stone

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-the_cresset_stone_vla-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: A meditation on stone and light. (Audio features the viola version with Matthew Jones, violist.)

Windhover

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: flute

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-windhover-pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Virtuoso solo. (Audio features Christine Meininger, flute.)

Like Lightnings

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: oboe

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-like_lightnings-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Single movement meditative concert piece

In the First, Spinning Place (for Saxophone, Orchestra)

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: concertos

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-in_the_first_spinning_place_sax_orch-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf

Description: Commissioned by NASA2000, premiered by Debra Richtmeyer. (Audio features Debra Richtmeyer, alto sax, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor.)

Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul) (SATB w Orchestra)

Duration (in minutes): 8

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-psalm_104-satb_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf

Description: Small orchestra version of original organ accompaniment.

That Jewel-Spirit ... (SSA, Fl, String Orchestra)

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Brichtmark Music

Score PDF: jewel-spirit-w_strg_orch-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf

Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson)

Contemplations 8, 9

Duration (in minutes): 5:40

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: contemplations-8-9-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf

Description: Contemplations (8, 9) was composed for Cappella Clausura’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of Anne Bradstreet’s birth.

Wings Of The Grasses

Duration (in minutes): 4

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any high voice, oboe, soprano, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-wings_of_the_grasses-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf

Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The second song in the cycle, Wings of the Grasses was composed for "A Garland for Presteigne” and received its first performance August 25, 2003 by soprano Gillian Keith with Simon Lepper, piano. The duo is for voice and oboe, or alternatively, viola. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, sop, Matthew Jones, vla.)

Shakkei (piano and soloist)

Duration (in minutes): 14

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo instrument with piano

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.

Exultet Terra

Duration (in minutes): 42

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Rowanberry Music

Score PDF: exultet-i-exultet_terra-pgs27-42-secure-5.pdf

Description: SATB (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet) (5 movements; may be performed independently).
I. Exultet Terra (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
II. Trio of Descent (2 ob, ca)
III. In Santis Eius (SATB; solo oboe)
IV. Trio of Ascent (2 bsn, ca)
V. Iubilate Domino (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
(Audio features Mvt I. Exultet Terra, performed at the Eastman Women in Music Festival.)

Girl’s Song to Her Mother

Duration (in minutes): 6

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: oboe, viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-11.pdf

Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The first song, is A Girl’s Song to Her Mother. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, soprano; Matthew Jones, viola.)

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Women's Voices

Includes Melangell Variations commissioned by baritone, Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra for baritone, strings, piano.

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: Lorelt

Product ID: LNT143

And the Snow Did Lie

And the Snow Did Lie, ten images for string quartet based on Andre Bergeron's lithographs

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Navona Records, LLC

Product ID: NV6280

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Tomorrow's Air

Anecdote (a soliloquy for cello and orchestra) performed by the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Târgu Mure, with conductor, Ovidiu Balan and cellist, Ovidiu Marinescu.

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: Navona Records, LLC

Product ID: NV6108

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In the Theater of Air

In the Theater of Air (fl, vc, pn) performed by the Marsyas Trio

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: NMC Recordings Ltd

Product ID: NMC D248

Only Breath - New choral music from Wales

Paradise (SAATBB)

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales

Product ID: TCR022

Kid Stuff

Solstice – for marimba and piano

Composers: Hilary Tann, and others

Label: Ravello Records

Product ID: RR7977

Buy URL 2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kid-stuff/1331546700

Lotus Pond: Exotic Oboe Sounds

Exotic oboe sounds with piano, harp and percussion featuring an oboe and piano transcription of Shakkei performed Cynthia Green Libby, oboe and Peter Collins, piano.

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: MSR Classics

Product ID: MS1421

Buy URL 2: http://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1421

Exultet Terra - choral music

Exultet Terra (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet)
The Moor (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 8,9 (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 21,22 (a cappella women's choir)

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Navona Records, LLC

Product ID: NV6069

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Seven Poems of Stillness

Works for solo cello, performed by Guy Johnson, based on poems by R.S. Thomas
I. “the air / a staircase for silence” (Kneeling)
II. “the great brush has not rested” (The View from the Window)
III. “like some huge moth out of the darkness” (The Empty Church)
IV. “as the interior of a cathedral” (The Moorland)
V. “Bright Field / lit bush” (The Bright Field)
VI. “the possibility of your presence” (Cones)
VII. “nights that are so still” (The Other)

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Unto thee I burn: Song Settings of E.E. Cummings

Between Sunsets (sop, pn) performed by Eileen Strempel, soprano; Sylvie Beaudette, piano.

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Centaur Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CRC-3395

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Images of Eve

Windhover (solo flute) performed by Wendy Rolfe

Composers: Hilary Tann, plus others

Label: CDBaby.com

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CDBaby-WRolfe

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Of Erthe and Air

Of Erthe and Air: Susan Francher and Friends play Music of Hilary Tann
Windhover for solo soprano saxophone
Of Erthe and Air for flute/piccolo, saxophones and percussion
Songs of the Cotton Grass for mezzo soprano and soprano saxophone
Shôji for flute and soprano saxophone
Some of the Silence for saxophone quartet
Shakkei for soprano saxophone and small orchestra

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Arizona University Recordings (BMI)

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

La Voix Nue

Mezzo-soprano Patricia Green performs Hilary Tann's dramatic song cycle Arachne (soprano solo with crotale)
I. A Primer For Those Who Have Dealings with the Gods
II. Arachne’s Boast
III. Athene’s Song
IV. The Spider’s Valediction

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Here, the Cliffs

With the Heather and Small Birds (chamber orchestra)
In the First Spinning Place (Concerto for Solo Alto Saxophone and Orchestra)
From the Feather to the Mountain (full orchestra)
Here, the Cliffs (Rhapsody for Solo Violin and Orchestra)
From Afar (full orchestra)

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: North/South Recordings

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: N/S R 1056

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Expressions

The Walls of Morlais Castle (for string orchestra) performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label: North/South Recordings

Product ID: NSR1054

Women's Work and Play

Reibo (for full orchestra) performed by the Women's Community Orchestra

Composers: Hilary Tann

These Visions

Some of the Silence performed by the Lunar Saxophone Quartet

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Buy URL 2: http://www.signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd233/index.shtml

Millennium Overture

Performers: Chai-lun Yueh, Wolfram Koessel, Max Lifchitz, North/South Consonance Ensemble, Deborah Buck
Conductor: Max Lifchitz

Composers: Hilary Tann, Sarah Meneely-Kyder, and others

Label: North/South Recordings

Product ID: N/S R 1027

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Shining Place

Janeanne Houston, soprano
Robert Jorgensen, piano
Shannon Spicciati, oboe
For our time, songs by living American composers that are virtuosic, creative, and passionate, that grab the heart and bring it into the light.

Composers: Hilary Tann, Lori Laitman, Paul Moravec, Lee Holby, & others

Label: Elmgrove Productions

Buy URL 2: http://www.northwestartists.org/shining/index.htm

So Much Beauty

Hundley, Lori Laitman, Jorgensen, Locklair, Finzi, Carol Sams, Penhorwood, Burge and Hilary Tann: A Girl's Song to Her Mother and Wings of the Grasses performed by Janeanne Houston (soprano) and Shannon Spicciati (oboe).

Composers: Hilary Tann, others

Label: Elmgrove Productions

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British Women Composers Volume 2

Martinez: Canciones
Weir: Airs from Another Planet
Maxwell: Pibroch
Tann: Winter Sun, Summer Rain
Alberga, Dancing with the Shadow

Composers: Hilary Tann, and others

Label: Lorelt

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: LNT-103

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Celtic Connections

Jane O'Leary: Silenzio della Terra
Hilary Tann: Of Erthe and Air
Hilary Tann: The Cresset Stone
Jane O'Leary: Duo for Violin and Cello
Nicola LeFanu: Trio I

Composers: Hilary Tann, Jane O'Leary, Nicola LeFanu

Label: Capstone Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CPS-8640

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American Tapestry

Kraft: L'Unicorno
Tann: Water's Edge
Schiffman: Concertino for Oboe
Alburger: S. # 1, Op. 21 in C

Composers: Hilary Tann, others

Label: North/South Recordings

Product ID: N/S R 1037

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World Without Words

Tann: In the first, spinning place
plus nine other composers' works from the 2008-9
University of Illinois Saxophone Studio
Debra Richtmeyer, conductor, performer

Composers: Hilary Tann, others

Label: Mark Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: 8657-MCD

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Metamorphosis

McCloskey: Star Chamber
Martin: Owl and Pussycat
Bradshaw: Elucidate
Carollo: Metamorphosis No. 13
Juusela: Apollo and Daphne
Bahr: Undaunted
Tann: Like Lightnings
Tann: Kilvert's Hills

Composers: Hilary Tann and others

Label: Beauport Classical

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: BC1805

Buy URL 2: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=11901&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=336115

Endangered

Fennimore: Five Rivers
Lieberson: The Ocean ...
Tann: Light from The Cliffs
Kennedy: Naturali Periclitati
Heitzeg: Sandhill Crane

Composers: Hilary Tann and others

Label: Albany Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: Troy1051

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Emily Beynon Flute and Friends

Hilary Tann: From the Song of Amergin
Amy Beach: Theme and Variations
Sally Beamish: Words for my Daughter
Thea Musgrave: Impromptu
Louise Farrenc: Trio Op. 45

Composers: Hilary Tann, & others

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CCS SA 26408

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Songs of the Cotton Grass

The Walls of Morlais Castle
Songs of the Cotton Grass
The Cresset Stone
From the Song of Amergin
Duo
Nothing Forgotten

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Deux-Elles

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: DXL 1132

Buy URL 2: http://www.deux-elles.co.uk/DXL_1132.html

Musical Landscapes of Hilary Tann

On Ear and Ear ...
Light from the Cliffs
Kilvert's Hills
Doppleganger
The Cresset Stone
Water's Edge
... slate, blue-gray
Nothing Forgotten

Composers: Hilary Tann

Label: Centaur Records

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: CRC 3357

LANDSCAPES for Chamber Orchestra

Binnette Lipper: CIRCLES OF LIGHT
Edward Green: CONCERTINO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
Dinos Constantinides: CHINA II - BEIJING
LANDSCAPE VI - RHAPSODY FOR HARP AND STRINGS
Hilary Tann: SHAKKEI
Mary Jean Van Appledorn: AYRE

Composers: Hilary Tann, Binnette Lipper, others.

Label: North/South Recordings

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: N/S R 1048

Buy URL 2: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=778192

Gardens of Medici

Meininger-Trio (flute, cello & piano).
Includes Voces de mi tierra by Elisenda Fábregas; Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, The Cresset Stone, Windhover and Llef by Hilary Tann; and Colours of the Sea by Elena Kats-Chernin.

Composers: Elisenda Fábregas, Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, Hilary Tann, others.

Label: Profil Edition Günter Hänsler

Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com

Product ID: PH-05019

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VIDEOS

Shakkei (Mvt. I)

Composer: Hilary Tann

Description: Saxophonist, Susan Fancher performs Hilary Tann's Shakkei (Mvt. I). Thailand Philharmonic, directed by Allan McMurray. 2009 World Saxophone Congress.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5L5RhpNqQ

Winter sun, Summer rain

Composer: Hilary Tann

Description: Performed by: Ingrid Culliford, flute; Andrew Sparling, clarinet; Ruth Crouch, violin; Jane Salmon, cello; Shelagh Sutherland, piano; Richard Benjafield, percussion. Ensemble diretto da Odaline de la Martinez.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eChttwAXfw

Contemplation 8, 9

Composer: Hilary Tann

Description: Live performance in Cambridge, Mass by Cappella Clausura, March, 2012.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXsRXcYPepI

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