John Adams

Wie eine Art musikalischer Biographie stellt dieses Werk eine Hommage an den Einfluss dar, den die Musik von Charles Ives auf den Komponisten ausgeübt hat.

Delightful small songs, echoing rare moments and places where the voices of birds have been clear. Scored for piccolo(s) and percussion, with optional additional parts included.

Although in its own way an example of 'continuous' music, Shaker Loops differs from most other works of its kind because it sees so much change within a relatively short amount of time. Also it avoids...

John Luther Adams' Qilyaun for four Bass Drums. Composed in 1998. Score and parts. 'Qilyaun' is the Iñupiaq word for the shaman's drum. Translated literally, it means 'device of power'. The drum is t...

John Luther Adams' Dreams Of The Canyon Wren for String Quartet. Player score.

John Luther Adams' Untouched for String Quartet. Player score. Over the years my large ensemble works have sometimes included String Quartet. However, I didn't write my first piece for String Quartet...

John Luther Adams ' Five Yu'pik Dances for solo Harp. Composed in 1991. Duration: 7-8 minutes. ' This set of miniatures is based on traditional dance songs of the Yupik Eskimo people of Western Alaska...

John Luther Adams' The Mathematics Of Resonant Bodies for solo Percussion and processed sounds. The Mathematics Of Resonant Bodies was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, WNYC (New...

John Luther Adams ' Three High Places for solo Violin.

Vokalpartitur - Bariton und Orchester.

For chorus and orchestra. Settings of texts by John Donne and Emily Dickinson.

John Luther Adams' Always Very Soft for Percussion Trio. Player score. 'I began Always Very Soft in the spring of 1973 and completed it more than three decades later. Originally the piece was scored...

John Luther Adams'...And Bells Remembered... for five percussionists playing: Bowed Crotales Orchestra Bells Vibes Chimes Bowed Vibes Commissioned by the University Of Wisconsin - River Falls. Duratio...

John Luther Adams' Five Percussion Quartets From Coyote Builds North America. These pieces are drawn from the music-theater work Coyote Builds North America, a collaboration with writer Barry Lopez b...

John Luther Adams ' Three Drum Quartets from ' Earth And The Great Weather'. ' These three pieces are drawn from 'Earth And The Great Weather', an evening-length 'sonic geography' of the Arctic. Altho...

John Luther Adams' Green Corn Dance for six percussionists. Score and parts. Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds.

Little Cosmic Dust Poem by John Luther Adams for Voice and Piano. This work features a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Fred and Alexandra Peters on the 30th anniversary of their wedding. Out...

John Luther Adams' Poem Of The Forgotten for Voice and Piano. Duration: 5 minutes. This work sets a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Haines on the occasion of his 80th birthday. I came to thi...

Arranged for B-flat Soprano Saxophone and Piano.

John Luther Adams' Among Red Mountains for solo Piano. 'I've always been intimidated by the Piano. As a performer, I never played it very well. And as a composer I've never felt as if I could make th...

John Luther Adams' Nunataks (Solitary Peaks) for solo Piano. Commissioned by Music Northwest. Duration: 7 minutes. 'Nunataks are mountains that rise up out of ice?elds and glaciers. The jagged contou...