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David Maslankas music is a powerful force for good in the world. Through it, we connect with each other and with our own interior awareness. He insisted on finding the core truth of a musical moment. His music reflects more than 50 years of this insistence, expressed in one long meditation.

We have sought to honor his dedication to clarity and honesty through our publishing work. Our music preparation, binding, and finishing are executed with care. Our aim is for the materials in your hands to give you the confidence to perform at your best.

Our overriding goal is to promote the performance of David Maslankas music. To that end, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to get this music. Our prices are moderate and our terms generous. If you buy a PDF file from us, its yours forever. Print as often as you need for your own personal use.

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We hope that you discover new music that you love or find an old favorite.

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Illumination - Overture for Band David Maslanka

979-0-3022-0045-1 Score + Set of Parts Wind Ensemble, Large Group for Wind Ensemble "Illumination lighting up, bringing light. I am especially interested in composing music for young people that allows them a vibrant experience of their own creative energy. A powerful experience of this sort stays in the heart and mind as a channel for creative energy, no matter what the ...

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Duration: 5:00 min
Difficulty: 3+

Composer: David Maslanka
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Ouvertüren / Ouvertures

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On This Bright Morning David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0066-6 Wind Ensemble, Large Group for Wind EnsembleOn this Bright Morning was written for a consortium of Montana high school bands. The focus group was the second band at Missoula's Hellgate High School, the thinking being that this second band in a good music program would represent the technical development of the average high school ba ...

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Duration: 9:00 min
Difficulty: 4

Composer: David Maslanka
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Besonders Empfehlenswerte Ausgaben

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Hymn for World Peace David Maslanka

979-0-3022-0097-0 The title, Hymn for World Peace, came from the simple thought that if we want world peace, we can begin as individuals to ask for it. Music making opens hearts and creates peace in individuals and communities. This is a powerful step as musicians that we can take. David's compassion and his plea for peace and tolerance for all life and cultures we hear in ...

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Duration: 12 min
Difficulty: 4+

Composer: David Maslanka
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Originale Literatur

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The Seeker David Maslanka

Wind Ensemble, Large Group A Symphonic Movement for Wind Ensemble 979-0-3022-0277-6 979-0-3022-0278-3 "The Seeker is subtitled a symphonic movement. It opens with a slow melody that feels like an Appalachian folk song. It transitions suddenly and sharply into the main body of the work, an energetic and exuberant romp at a very speedy tempo. The opening melody returns in ...

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Duration: 10:00 min
Difficulty: 5

Composer: David Maslanka
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Empfehlung für Konzerte

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World Music David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0119-9 Large Group, String for Orchestra World Music was written for the Missoula, Montana Youth Symphony Orchestra. It is a single movement, very open and engaging piece. The title World Music comes from a desire to embrace the whole world with musical sound. This piece is dedicated to my belief that music making can release and alter violence ...

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Duration: 8 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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The Water is Wide Kevin Krumenauer

Score + Set of Parts Wind Ensemble for Wind Ensemble This is a piece for early levels of band. When working on this piece I wanted to use the tools and techniques I was taught by David Maslanka to bring his approach to music to a new audience. I chose the tune "The Water is Wide" because David himself had used it and it had significance for him personally. The piece is const ...

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Duration: 3 min
Difficulty: 1+

Composer: Kevin Krumenauer
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Variants on a Hymn Tune David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0218-9 Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble This music was written for my son, Matthew, when he was an 8th-grade member of the Missoula, Montana All-City Winds. Instrumentation was limited to flutes, oboes, clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, alto and tenor saxophones, horns, and percussion. This ...

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Duration: 5 min
Difficulty: 2+

Composer: David Maslanka
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Unending Stream of Life David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0213-4 Wind Ensemble, Large Group Variations on "All Creatures of Our God and King" for Symphonic Wind Ensemble Unending Stream of Life is a set of seven songs for wind ensemble, each embodying the original tune, or relating to it in some way. The Overture borrows Vaughan Williams' harmonization of this grand old melody, and this is paralleled w ...

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Duration: 25 min
Difficulty: 5

Composer: David Maslanka
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Trio No. 1 David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0264-6 Clarinet, String, Piano for Violin, Clarinet in Bb, and Piano The five movements of this Trio are terse, interior, and enigmatic. They contain the seeds of things that have occupied me over the years since: a preference for tonality and singing melodies, and a way of collecting short movements to tell a larger story. I think my historica ...

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Duration: 24 min
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Tone Studies David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0211-0 Small Group, Solo with Piano, Woodwind, Saxophone for Alto Saxophone and Piano Tone Studies is a set of six pieces which are for the most part slow and quiet. There is no really fast music in the whole piece, and only two fortissimo passages. I chose the title Tone Studies because each movement, and in fact each moment, offers a large number of ...

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Duration: 35 min
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This is the world we know, the world of air and breathing and sun and beating hearts David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0207-3 Piano, Percussion, Small Group for Two Pianos and Two Percussionists This is the World is a set of largely interior tone poems for a two-piano, two-percussion ensemble. The music is spacious and patient, with simple rhythms, slow harmonies, expansive and touching melodies, and moments of ferocity, whimsy, and grandeur. Although old-time ...

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Duration: 50 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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This is Our Joyful Hour Kevin Krumenauer

Score + Set of Parts Wind Ensemble for Wind Ensemble This is Our Joyful Hour came out of a painful and traumatic period that resulted in a difficult divorce. At my lowest and most terrible moment I heard a radio DJ say, "this is our joyful hour." When I heard this I realized: that's the piece. Working on this music became a lifeline for me through one of the darkest periods ...

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Duration: 8.5 min
Difficulty: 5

Composer: Kevin Krumenauer
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Tears David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0203-5 Small Group, String, Woodwind Montana Music No. 5 for Viola, Violoncello, Bassoon, and Piano The viola-cello-bassoon-piano ensemble is unusual, with concentrated emphasis on low and dark tones. Tears is about inner transformation, about groping through darkness to the voice of praise and the heart of love. The groping is expressed by a ki ...

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Duration: 12 min
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Symphony No. 9 David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0198-4 Wind Ensemble, Large Group, Featured Soloist or Group Movement I. Preface: "Secrets" by W.S. Merwin for Wind Ensemble and Narrator This is the first movement of Symphony No. 9, Preface: "Secrets" by W.S. Merwin. Symphony No. 9 can be described as a large collection of instrumental songs which create a continuously moving tapestry of thoug ...

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Duration: 15 min
Difficulty: 7

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String Quartet No. 2 David Maslanka

Score + Set of Parts 979-0-3022-0189-2 String, Small Group for String Quartet My background thinking for this quartet music was the idea of "Living Earth". Ever since moving to western Montana in 1990, I have been pushed by the living force of the land. Something in it asks me to write music. In spite of all the environmental issues we face, not only here but globally, there ...

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Duration: 31 min
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Composer: David Maslanka
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Songs of My Nights David Maslanka

Score + Part 979-0-3022-0187-8 Small Group, Solo with Piano, Woodwind for Flute and Piano Songs of My Nights is a set of brief, interior songs. Each is a revisiting of older music two songs of my own from 1975 ("December 11" Anne Sexton Songs) and 1996 ("I am Smeared with the Tar of Night" Black Dog Songs), and a madrigal from 1605 by Claudio Monteverdi ("T'amo, mia vita") ...

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Duration: 15 min
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