The Fandango is an animated Spanish or Spanish-American courtship dance in triple meter performed by a man and a woman playing castanets. Throughout Flute Fandango, the castanets play a repeating two-...
Cliff Palace Ghost Dance' is the first movement from the 'Stone Suite,' arranged for Alto Flute and Piano. The 'Stone Suite' is a four movement work for solo flute and flute choir, commissioned by Dr....
According to ancient tradition, Atlantis was a large island in the Western Ocean, i.e., the ocean to the west of the known world, near the Pillars of Hercules. It is said that the island was engulfed...
The Yellow Saxophone and Other Colors is a five-movement work for soprano voice, alto saxophone and piano. It was commissioned in 2001 by the Kentucky Music Teachers Association and features music by...
As implied by its title, I Lost My Mouthpiece Cap Somewhere in Brazil is a Latin-style work. It is based almost exclusively on a two-chord montuno-a repeated pattern alternating between the supertonic...
A Little More Psychoanalysis and I Should Be Just Fine by Sonny Burnette is a jazz work consisting of five sections in contrasting styles and tempos. Is the piece autobiographical in nature? Maybe yes...
Gershwin... Lost in Tunisia is a jazz-oriented composition that makes use of exotic scale patterns as well as 'Gershwinian' blues motifs. Vacillating between the two genres, the piece attempts to meld...
Three Crotchety Cats is a humorous tale about three felines, Winston, Humphrey and Thurston, who were orphaned at a young age and raised by bullfrogs, cuckoo birds and garden snakes, respectively. Due...
Jazzscapes' by Sonny Burnette is a five movement suite for flute choir. The first movement, I Can't Dance, is an up-tempo jazz waltz based on the mixolydian mode. Extra-musical elements are used in th...
The Night Before Christmas is a familiar ballad written by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863). This setting for flute choir by Sonny Burnette, including narrator and percussion, incorporates occasional...
