*The Ecstacy
At last with this publication of THE ECSTACY all five of the quartets in the
Salome Dances for Peace string quartet cycle are available from
Sri Moonshine Music. THE ECSTACY is most possibly Terry's greatest quartet,
most certainly ranking up there with the other Salome Dances for Peace quartets
and Requiem for Adam.
$65.00 score and parts.
$40.00 score only
$35.00 parts only
*The Gift
Now all 5 quartets of the epic cycle SALOME DANCES FOR PEACE are finally
available with the re copying of THE GIFT.
This quartet is the 3rd in the cycle and opens with the canonic Echos of
Primordial Time, sonic waves of melismatic patterns built on eastern scales. It
also contains the well know 11 beat composition MONGOLIAN WINDS which closes the
movement.
$65.00 Score and Parts
$40.00 Score only
$35.00 Parts only
*Conquest of the
War Demons
This great quartet, the second in the five quartet cycle, SALOME DANCES FOR
PEACE. The longest and most complex quartet in the Salome cycle is a powerfully
driving work strongly colored with the melodic and rhythmic inflections of
India, written almost 20 years ago. It still remains one of the greatest
achievements among the 13 string quartets so far written by Riley.
Score and Parts $75.00
Parts only $40.00
*Mandala
Miniatures
15 miniature (and not so miniature) pieces for saxophone quartet written in
1999. While on tour in Europe I was trying to write one miniature a day. The
idea was to create spontaneously with as little editorial interference as
possible. They were written at the instigation of saxophonist Susan
Fancher.
Score $30.00
Score and Parts $55.00
*String Quartet
1960
Written while Terry was a Grad Student as UC Berkeley and creating
Fluxus type concerts with fellow "enfante terrible" La Monte Young and
influenced by Young's "Stasis" theories.....This is an early misty work that
works only in the soft dynamic range. It is inspired by the sounds of 1950's fog
horns drifting up from San Francisco Bay to Terry and Ann's Potrero Hill home.
This quartet tries to capture the seemingly random interaction these foghorns
produced.
Each cover is individually lettered and signed by Terry.
$49.00 for the Score (It is performed from the score)
*String Trio
(1961)
This was Terry's Graduate Thesis and was very much infected by the tape loop
studies he was doing as part of the music created for Anna Halprin's Dance
Company. Although definitely a forerunner of what was to become the repetitive
style launched by IN C, it merges this incongruously with some post serialist
textures.
An example of a composer on the tracks leading to his own distinctive voice.
Each cover is individually lettered and signed by Terry.
$39.00
*Rainbow In
Curved Air Calligraphies (1968)
6 pages of calligraphic scores created in 1968 right after the historic
recording of that work for CBS records. This is the only form that this
composition is available in.
Printed on card stock and each cover lettered and signed by the composer.
Although it is conceivable that a performance could be manifested from these
pages, the intention was more to capture visually the sound of the music.
$48.00
String Quartets
G-song ...................The first quartet
written for Kronos and one of Riley's most lyrical and popular works. It can be heard on
their Gramavision CD and the 25th anniversary Nonesuch recording..........
Score and Parts $45.00
Score only: $25.00
Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.........A
high energy and lyrical modal quartet composed of 14 beat modules which allows the players
to make some important structural decisions..........Played from the score:
$25.00
The Wheel/Mythic Birds Waltz.......Recorded
by Kronos on Gramavision records this is a quartet that contains both a beautiful ballad
(the Wheel) and the pulsing rhythms of India in the contrapuntal Mythic Birds
Waltz.........
Score and Parts: $54.00
Score only: $30.00
Cadenza on the Night Plain............Recorded
by Kronos on Gramavision and also re-recorded for their 25th anniversary Nonesuch release,
this epic quartet features cadenzas for each player that are subsequently elaborated on by
the ensemble. This work was written as a tribute honoring Native American
culture............
Score and Parts $59.00
Score only $35.00
Salome Dances For Peace (part 1) Riley's
largest work for string quartet can be found on Nonesuch records as recorded by Kronos.
Part one starts with the Anthem of the Great Spirit and ends with the section
"Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight.
Score and Parts: $75.00
Parts only: $40.00
Salome Dances for Peace (Good Medicine) The
last Quartet of the 5 quartet group.
Score and Parts: $45.00
Score only: $25.00
String Quartet and Orchestra
The Sands..........Commissioned by the
Salzburg Festival this is a four movement concerto written for Kronos and has had numerous
performances in addition to the Salzburg Premiere. It is written for a small orchestra of
about 50-60 players.
Score and Parts: $175.00
Score Only: $50.00
Chamber Music
El Hombre
String Quartet and Piano was Commissioned by the city of Zurich for Werner
Bartcshi and the Amati String Quartet. It is in one movement with themes of Spanish flavor
and powerful rhythmic sequences.
Score and Parts $54.00
Score only: $30.00
Chanting the Light of Foresight
Saxophone Quartet commissioned and written for Rova. Recorded by Rova on New Albion, it
features an opening section in Just intonation. There are 5 movements the 3rd was written
by Rova. Score and Parts: $59.00
Score only: $35.00
Ritmos and Melos
Piano, Violin and Percussion was Commissioned by and written for Abel Steinberg Winant
Trio. Two movements. A rhythmically driving first movement and a highly lyrical
second...............
Score and Parts $49.00
Score only: $30.00
Four Woelfli Portraits
Commissioned and written for the California E.A.R. unit These are concert versions of
pieces from The Saint Adolf Ring, a chambre opera based on the work of the great outsider
artist Adolf Woelfli. It is in four Movements and scored for Flute,Clarinets/Saxophone,
Violin, Cello, Piano and Two Percussion plus narrator.
Score and Parts: $75.00
Score only: $40.00
Cinco de Mayo
Piano 4-hands written for Sarah Cahill and Joseph Kubera this is a work in one movement
with infectious swirling latin melodies and rhythms.
Score $25.00
The Heaven Ladder Book 7
Five works for Piano recorded by Gloria Cheng on Telarc, This is Riley's only through
notated solo piano music.
Score $25.00
The Walrus in Memorium
Written for Aki Takahashi and recorded by her on her EMI Beatles series, this works is
based on John Lennon's I am the Walrus with a Tatum-esque slant.
Score $15.00
Works for Guitar
THE BOOK OF ABBEYOZZUD
This is a large work in progress that at it's completion will have a total of 26
pieces
for guitar, that, for the most part, bear a distinct Spanish flavor. There are
also works for guitar duo, multiple guitars and guitar in ensemble with other
instruments. Originally the series was planned to include a piece for every
letter of the Spanish alphabet but since the title of the series is a made up
word signifying A to Z, I have taken the liberty to include
other made up words for titles.
Ascencion
Terry's first guitar work, written for David Tanenbaum and recorded on New Albion by the
artist. Ascencion is based on some of the themes of Mythic Birds Waltz with a totally new
viewpoint. This is the first of 26 pieces for guitar and guitar ensemble contained in The
book of Abbeyozzud. This score is published together with Barabas. (below)
Barabas
Also written for Tanenbaum and recorded by him on New Albion. A craggy contrapuntal work
with moments of soaring lyricism is also from the book of Abbeyozzud.
Both Scores: $25.00
Zamorra
For 2 guitars, written For the legendary Assad duo. It has been performed often by them on
the 1998 season. It is recorded by David Tanenbaum and Gyan Riley on New Albion.
Score: $25.00
Dias de Los Muertos
Two pieces for Guitar and Percussion which soulfully contemplate the themes of death,
recorded by David Tanenbaum and Willy Winant on New Albion.
Score and Parts $35,00
Score only: $20.00
CANTOS
DESIERTOS for Flute and Guitar or Violin and Guitar. Five
pieces which are part of the larger work, THE BOOK OF ABBEYOZZUD Can be heard in the version for Vla/Vln and Guitar on New Albion Records
on the CD titled, THE BOOK OF ABBEYOZZUD. Please
specify Flute and Guitar or Violin and Guitar
Score only, $25.00 Score and parts $35.00
Y BOLANZERO for guitar ensemble
Y Bolanzero is is for a large guitar ensemble ( written in 7 parts and for an
ensemble of 28 or more guitars) and is part of the Book of Abbeyozzud series.
Y Bolanzero is almost entirely written in the repetitive sequence of 6+5 beats
and only at the end it shifts to a stretto in 7 beats.
The entire material, the Oriental sounding melodies as well as the floating
harmonies which
do not seem to want to settle on a single center are derived from the scale
(ascending A-Bb-C#-E=F-G-A and descending A-G-F-E-C#-C natural Bb-A-Cl)
This has a scalic relationship to the North Indian Raga, Madhuvanti.
Y Bolanzero is written for guitars and electric guitar and electric bass guitar.
Score only: $30.00 Parts only $35.00. Score and Parts: $60.00
PIEDAD for solo guitar
Piedad written in 1995 as an 18th birthday present for Terry's son, guitarist
Gyan Riley,
is a haunting solo work with harmonic, polyphonic and melodic relationships
evoking Piazolla and Bach.
Score $18.00
Works for String Orchestra
DeepChandi
for String Orchestra Dancer and Pre-recorded taped exotic percussion was commissioned by
the Manca festival in Nice France.
$30.00. The Score, Parts and CD with the percussion backing track are $54.00.
Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight
A String Orchestra arrangement of the closing section of Part 1 from Salome Dances for
Peace. Score alone: $25
Score and Parts: $55.00
Orchestral Works
JUNE BUDDHAS (1991) for Orchestra and Chorus, commissioned by the Koussevitsky Music
Foundation.
A setting of four choruses from THE MEXICO CITY BLUES of Jack Kerouac. Score only $50.00
"Terry Riley's June Buddha’s comes from the same deep mind-heart as the
choruses of Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues. Together, the complimentary match is Dharma."-Poet Michael McClure
JADE
PALACE AKA JADE PALACE ORCHESTRAL
DANCES for large orchestra and synthesizers, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 100th
Anniversary season. Seven Movements
, approximately 50 minutes duration.
Score only $95.00
Miscellaneous
In C
The composition that launched the Minimalist movement "In C", with performing
directions, in Terry's own manuscript and autographed for $16.50.
Tread on the Trail for any number and
kinds of instruments played preferably by musicians with some Jazz experience. This one
page score contains for lines out of which the performers construct a performance.
Score and instructiions $7.50
Olson 111 for any number of voices and
instruments. A one page score with 30 patterns constructed on a cyclic poem. Was
originally composed for a high school choir and orchestra..
Score and instructions $7.50
Keyboard Studies One and Two ...... seminal
works from the 1960's which defined the style of minamalism in keyboard playing.
Score and Instructions $7.50
DORIAN REEDS for solo soprano saxophone with
digital delays
This work appeared on Terry's first ever LP recording in 1966 on the Mass Art
label and
released later on the Organ of Corti label's Terry Riley Archive.
Dorian Reeds is a predecessor of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band. It grew out
of early experiments that Terry had begun in 1963 with long looping tape delays
that
Terry dubbed, THE TIME LAG ACCUMULATOR.
The score was reconstructed by Ulrich Krieger from the Mass Art LP and is
offered here with permission by Mr. Krieger. A historical monument from the era
of Psychedellia.
Score $15.00
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