This compilation contains delightful settings of songs from the Appalachian folk tradition; balancing simple charm with the composer's fresh imagination; creating a unique collection in the piccolo re...
A songbook for flute; Memory Book includes five sonic poems; each with a strong melodic line; a Schocker signature. Here; Gary muses on: Remembering; Orange Moon; Enter December; That Night and Dragon...
For Flute and Piano
Since their creation nearly 200 years ago, the beautiful woodcut prints of Hokusai have inspired musicians and visual artists across many cultures. The stylized pre-Impressionist elegance of this Japa...
Gary Schocker's Three Dances for Two Flutes has long been a staple of the flute repertoire - in its original voicing with piano, as well as in transcriptions with string orchestra or band accompanimen...
Schocker has added a major work to the bass flute repertory: an 11-minute piece in three movements encompassing neoclassical, jazz, and Latin dance styles. The wide range of moods offers opportunities...
Sonata No. 3 is a memorial work eulogizing Carl Hall; piccoloist of the Atlanta Symphony. A powerful addition to the piccolo recital repertory; Schocker's third sonata is serious without being somber....
As airy and buoyant as its title suggests, Sky's six movements are titled 'Breeze,' 'Storm Clouds,' 'Still,' 'Gentle Zephyr,' 'Still Still,' and 'All Clear.' Sky is equally suitable for the recital ha...
Gary Schockers mittelalterliche Suite 'Over The Moat' ist ein bildreiches Divertimento, dessen Satzfolge eine königliche Hochzeit beschreibt.
With the two movements 'Down and Dirty' and 'Slap That Thang;' the ever-imaginative Gary Schocker provides flute trios with a new 4-minute work; full of gritty blues licks; key slaps; and plenty of op...
Responding to demand from clarinetists, Schocker created this adaptation of his best-loved work, customizing it for the clarinet's richness of contrasting registers. Composed as a recital piece for hi...
The flute world knows Schocker as a challenging composer unafraid to use beautiful melodic lines. In Nightsong for alto saxophone, Schocker offers a singing, sultry line with a touch of jazz in a fres...
The prolific Gary Schocker delights once again with this new work for piccolo and piano. Outside My Window BIRD is a charming, musical sketch inspired by the composer's cat's obsession with pigeons ou...
A foremost standard of the flute repertoire for over two decades, Gary Schocker's Three Dances for Two Flutes has been transcribed for two alto saxes by the young Japanese saxophonist Yo Matsushita, w...
For Flute I, Flute II, Piano, Flute I, Flute II, Piano, Strings, Band. Classical. Score and parts. Composed 1993. 23 pages. Duration 8:00.
For 2 Flutes
Following up his popular flute duets Lovebirds and Dangerous Duets; Gary Schocker delivers the delightful Flutey Tales. Tinged with a renaissance flavor; the three movements entitled 'Courtly Gossip';...
For Flute Quartet
For 2 Flutes (First Doubling Piccolo), Alto Flute and Bass Flute
Falls House Press describes Coffee Break: Well, all starts kind of sleepy, still moving vaguely into what sounds like a sunny morning. Until BAM! The coffee was stronger than I thought... With Schocke...
For Flute, Piano. Classical. Solo part with piano reduction. 24 pages.
For Flute, Piano.
Flute, cello and guitar is an unusual combination. The piece is mysterious and evocative, like early 20th century French music.
Pop is a delightful; purely melodic work. It was written to be played at Gary Schocker's annual summer masterclass. And with that in mind; was created to be played for pleasure; without too many techn...
The difficulty level in Gary Schocker's third book of etudes inspired the composer to title this collection Extreme Sports.. Each etude targets specific techniques; composed by a flutist with the know...
The piccolo repertory has been greatly expanded by Schocker's prolific and elegant imagination, producing a rich variety of suites, unaccompanied works, chamber music, and now a fourth full sonata. So...
For Flute. Part. 6 pages.
Gary Schockers charmante, dreisätzige 'Sonatine' in traditioneller Form und Gestalt liegt nun in einer überarbeiteten Edition hinsichtlich der Phrasierung und Dynamik vor.
Prolific flute composer Gary Schocker gives us a delightful new transcription of Bach's famous Arioso melody for flute and guitar. Schocker has carefully adapted the music to this new instrumentation;...
Gary Schocker komponierte das 'Concertino Italiano' als dreisätzige Hommage an Johann Sebastian Bach. Die Einzelsätze zeigen typische Eigenschaften der Barockzeit vermischt mit Schockers Personalstil...
DC was commissioned by Nan Raphael (Solo Piccolo, US Army Field Band, ret.) who premiered it in an all-Schocker concert at the 2015 NFA convention in Washington DC, with Schocker at the piano. Schocke...
Schocker's flute duets often are inspired by nature, and the composer's love of gardening is reflected in a number of his works. Little Helpers refers to 'nature's little helpers,' those insects who h...
A rarity among Schocker's unaccompanied flute works, MEAD AND MUSH is strongly evocative of Shakespearean times and may also be played on recorder. The four movements are inspired by song and dance of...
This tour-de-force provides the complete Telemann 12 Fantasias for solo flute along with a new original second flute part. Published as a shared duet score; players can easily track each other and swi...
Piccolo Sonata No. 6 by American composer Gary Schocker for Piccolo and Piano is dedicated to Eugenia Cline. In four contrasting movements.
Responding to demand from saxophonists, Schocker created this adaptation of his best-loved work, customizing it for the instrument's colors and registers. Composed as a recital work for his own perfor...
Written for Michael Bowyer and Melvin Lauf; Jr. of the Potomack Flutes quartet; Sonata for a Lost Planet is a welcome addition to the alto flute repertoire from one of the flute world's most revered a...
For Piccolo and Piano
For Piccolo, Piano. Advanced. Duration 6 minutes.
This exciting piece has 3 movements: 1) The Optimist is about someone who is determined to be cheerful. 2) Somewhat Overcast is a moody piece about going for a walk to try and lift your mood and it do...
Mitzvah Bars is for Gabe Fridkis's Bar Mitzvah - a short duet based on the letters of his name.
Falls House Press presents a whimsical duet for two flutes by Gary Schocker entitled Unexpected or under a rock. It starts off playfully, dancing along with a series of trills and subito piano marking...
Remembering Julius Baker - for 2 Flutes and Piano
Out of Doors Duets features two sets: Fountain is a cascading; flowing affair that evokes the spray of waters at different times of the day. Bucolics; a set of three short pieces; closes with the move...
For Two Flutes and Piano.
Another fine performance piece selected for the 'All-Schocker' recital at the 2008 National Flute Association Conference; 2 Flutes in 3 Scenes is the eagerly awaited sequel to Schocker's previously pu...
Gary Schocker's new collection of 13 flute duets runs the complete emotional gamut with pieces such as 'Mercurial;' 'Flippant;' 'Forboding' and of course; 'The End!' Each piece stands alone comfortabl...
Gary Schocker gives us a light-hearted three-movement work with a clever pun of a title. Inspired by the baroque literature; If It Ain't Baroque… contains a common thematic thread throughout the movem...
Meant to suggest a set of logical puzzles; Schocker's Syllogisms add extra intensity to his lyrical and playful style. In three movements; 'Breezes Blow;' 'Flutes Trill;' and 'Caffeine Energizes;' Sch...
Gary Schocker's Spelunking is an expedition for two flutes. The first movement is titled 'Scaling,' and it suggests the upward and downward scaling of caves, along with a surprise or two. The second m...
Continuing his celebrated series of Latin-inspired dance suites for two flutes and piano; Gary Schocker's Accident Prone (Four Dances for Two Flutes and Piano) has all the sizzle and charm of his prev...
Composed for the Dutch piccolo virtuoso Peter Verhoyen; Sonata for Short Attention Spans is a rarity in the repertoire - a concert trio for Piccolo; C Flute; and Piano. The 'short attention spans' in...
For 3 Flutes
For Two Clarinets and Piano
A new duet for flute and bassoon (or cello) by Gary Schocker, humorously titled Flusooning, describes the unlikely courtship of the two instruments in four movements: Lonely Hearts Club, In the Park,...
For Flute and B-Flat Clarinet
Following the success of the classic Airheads for flute and clarinet; Gary Schocker has provided a sequel; sporting the same lyricism; surprises; grace; and wit; teasing us with five cryptically named...
What goes on in the minds of chamber musicians as they express their feelings through music? Here are five imaginary conversations for flute, oboe, and bassoon, using music rather than words. Sometime...
Composed for the unusual combination of Flute and Tuba; Odd Bedfellows may also be performed with Bassoon. Movement 1 is titled 'At the Hippo Watering Hole;' and is full of scenic imagery. The beautif...
For E-flat Alto Saxophone and Piano
Rachel Was was written in remembrance of the life of Rachel Aliene Corrie (1979-2003). Rachel lost her life March 16, 2003 in Gaza. She was 23 years old. Rachel lived her life working for peace and so...
Sonata No. 6 (La Salmonella) was written after the composer's return from the Edinburgh Fringe where he attended a production of his musical Far From the Madding Crowd. The piece has great theatrical...
Schocker's many fans will appreciate this Smorgasflute from this prolific composer. For Friends is noted as a collection of pieces written for special people, and includes works for flute and piano, f...
In Schocker's Sonata No. 5, the piano part is equal to the flute in complexity. Still present are his signature melodic style and beautiful sonorities. This piece describes three times of day, startin...
An inescapable melody and approachable writing brings the best of Schocker to intermediate performers in Such Sweet Sorrow. A short and beautiful new work for recital programming.
Schocker's seventh Sonata features three descriptive movements (Morning, Noon, Night), and was written for flutist/educator Margaret Cornils Luke. The three movements are lyrical, dynamic, and above a...
Schocker was commissioned for a new flute work by Takako Shiraishi, chairperson of the 2007 Biwako International Flute Competition. At her request, Schocker increased both the length of the work, with...
For Solo Flute and Piano. Classical. Solo part with piano reduction. 18 pages. Duration 7:30.
For Flute and Chamber Orchestra (Solo part and piano reduction)
For Flute and Piano Opus 32
