Jeff Smallman: Mittelschwere Noten

Dodge City is an exuberant piece, arranged here for interchangeable woodwind ensemble, designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work that will bring to mi...

Composer/arranger Jeff Smallman has reharmonized this Christmas standard. The organ plays a wandering accompaniment and break strains between the verses of the melody. The tune is found in several dif...

The Sighting was written for a short film produced in 1995 in Vancouver but, due to time constraints, was never included in the finished film. This work is the middle in a set of three movements (the...

The Search was written for a short film produced in 1995 in Vancouver, but due to time constraints was never included in the finished film. The Search was composed as background music portraying the c...

The Encounter was written for a short film produced in 1995 in Vancouver but, due to time constraints, was never included in the finished film. This work is the third in a set of three movements (the...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work that will bring to mind stagecoaches and sagebrush, cowboys and cactus, she...

Originally written as a work for solo organ, the composer has expanded this piece to make it suitable for brass. Fanfares at the opening of the work provide an interesting contrast to the stately, the...

The Air is a lovely slow movement that came from Baroquial Suite, a suite in the Baroque style for brass quintet. Reminiscent of the famous Air from J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, Mr. Smallm...

Jeff Smallman's Rondo was originally composed for string quartet. He decided to rescore this work for a woodwind ensemble made up of flute, 2 clarinets and bassoon. The rhythmic drive combined with dy...

Beside the Waters is a transcription, by the composer, of an original solo vocal work. The text for this piece describes water flowing in a stream, clouds floating past, time standing still, and human...

This work is based on the French poem Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur (It Rains in My Heart). As expected from the title, this work has a dark feeling to it. Slow and brooding, the piano sets the feel with t...

This new work by Jeff Smallman is for unaccompanied trumpet. Set in 6 short movements of various moods, this piece demonstrates the colours at the disposal of a trumpet player. Accessible to high scho...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work that will bring to mind stagecoaches and sagebrush, cowboys and cactus, she...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece, arranged here for 13 clarinets, bass clarinet and optional percussion, designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work tha...

At the birth of Prince Henry of Britain, Jeff Smallman prepared a copy of this piece which was presented to, and accepted by, the Prince and Princess of Wales as a gift for their son's birth. Written...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work that will bring to mind stagecoaches and sagebrush, cowboys and cactus, she...

This is a fun and light change of pace in a concert. The Frog and the Crow was originally a choral piece that was so popular, a band version was demanded. It is sub-titled 'A Riverside Hoe-Down' and t...

Stick Dance is reminiscent of Canaries, a solo work for 4 timpani composed by Eliott Carter. Like Canaries, this piece is an example of metric modulation, changing tempo using the rhythms present. Unl...

The title comes from a poem written by Thomas Moore and sets the mood for the opening moments of the piece. Wistful and mournful at times, there is a brief change of atmosphere in the middle of the wo...

Night of Stars (in translation Nuits D'toiles), is an adaptation of a work for soprano and piano. The piece is a setting of a poem of the same name by Thodore de Banville. From the start, the listener...

Beside the Waters is a transcription, by the composer, of an original solo vocal work. The text for this piece describes water flowing in a stream, clouds floating past, time standing still, and human...

This work is based on the French poem Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur (It Rains in My Heart). As expected from the title, this work has a dark feeling to it. Slow and brooding, the piano sets the feel with t...

Sonatina was commissioned by a mother as a birthday gift for her son. Since the composer was unsure of what types of music he liked, he decided to try to write something in the style of Mozart. The pi...

This is another new composition by talented composer Jeff Smallman. This short flute and piano piece is ideal for a high school level player to enter a competition with or perform at a concert or reci...

The title comes from a poem written by Thomas Moore and sets the mood for the opening moments of the piece. Wistful and mournful at times, there is a brief change of atmosphere in the middle of the wo...