NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music: Clarinet, Vol. 1

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About the Anthology

Curated by clarinetist Gregory Oakes, this collection of 20 works for clarinet is ideal for active performers looking for exciting new repertoire, teachers searching for fresh contemporary works for their studios, or student performers seeing out unique and culturally-relevant new works to fulfill 21st century repertoire requirements.

These works, 17 of which were composed in the 21st century, represent a broad range of compositional styles from composers living and writing today, and were curated for intermediate through advanced players.

The NewMusicShelf Anthologies of New Music are a bold, new publishing initiative aimed at bringing new and unknown composers and repertoire to student and professional performers alike. With an emphasis on works not found in the traditional publishing ecosystem, each volume is curated by performers who have a reputation for championing new music, with an eye toward selecting works with a range of styles and difficulties that are suitable for concert and recital performance.

With this innovative mode of publishing, NewMusicShelf advocates for self-published composers in a way previously unheard of in the realm of classical music: all self-published composers retain full ownership of their work while earning a generous royalty on every sale. Your support of this project directly benefits these composers, and also helps NewMusicShelf to continue to promote the works of the many excellent composers writing today. We encourage you to explore these composers' catalogs in greater depth, and hope that these songs inspire many fruitful and rewarding collaborations!

Works in this volume

Composer	Work Title	Year Composed
Jean-Patrick Besingrand	Izanagi	2016
Sergio Blardony	Aural: Movement and resonance study for solo clarinet or clarinet & piano	2017
Marti Epstein	Nebraska Impomptu	2012
Jin Han	90 away	2018
Cara Haxo	Shatter	2017
Chia-Yu Hsu	Summer night in a deep Valley	2012
Vera Ivanova	Aura	2011
John M Kennedy	Smoking Mirrors (Symbia IIa)	1995
Pamela Marshall	Summer Into Winter	2007
Lisa Neher	Gulper	2018
Jane O'Leary	murmurs and echoes	2015
Jeremy Rapaport-Stein	New Jersey Water Tower, Blue	2014
Jessica Rudman	Twisted Blue, II	2011, rev. 2014
Jeffrey Ryan	Grace Period	2011
Greg. A Steinke	Don't We	1990
Todd Tarantino	Three Miniatures	1998
Frank Oteri	Spurl	2009/2013
Alan Theisen	Sleep Now O Sleep Now	2016
Dennis Tobenski	Such Gentle Rapture	2017
Evan Williams	the waters wrecked the sky	2012

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A Note on Binding

To adhere to recommendations by the Music Library Association, and to aid in library shelving, the NewMusicShelf Anthologies are perfect bound books. The accompanying instrumental parts use saddle stitch binding. Since perfect binding frequently prevents books from lying flat (which is especially helpful for pianists), you may choose to have the anthologies rebound for use in performance. Most copy shops are able to - quickly and cheaply - shave off the spine of a perfect bound book and rebind it with a coil/spiral. Coil binding is usually preferable to comb binding in this instance because coils preserve the pages better, and turn more quietly, provided that the coil is wide enough to accommodate page turns.