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PIANO ENSEMBLE SCORES
Walden Hughes
Dr. Hughes (bio at bottom of page) has written 100 piano ensemble compositions and arrangements for 1 piano 4 hands, 2 pianos 4 hands, 1 piano 6 hands, 2 pianos 8 hands, 2 pianos 12 hands, 4 pianos 16 hands, 4 pianos 8 hands, 4 pianos 24 hands and 8 pianos 16 hands, which have been performed widely by faculty and student ensembles in 58 countries. See below for MIDI files and prices:
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QUARTET (1 piano 8 hands, YES, ONE piano FOUR skinny pianists)
Stars & Stripes MIDI
$7.00 U.S. for the
Performance SCORE NEW
SCORE
Joy to the World MIDI
$7.00 U.S. for the
Performance SCORE
DUET (1 piano 4 hands)
Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity Chorale Theme from Holst's The Planets MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE NEW
Stars & Stripes MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE NEW
Joy to the World MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Stolzel Du Bist Bei Mir from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook (we used to think Bach wrote it) MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Russian Rag MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
RagTime Dance MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Stoptime Rag MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Joplin's Solace (A Mexican Serenade) MIDI $5.00U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Pineapple Rag MIDI (no pineapples required) $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Joplin's Entertainer MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Joplin's Elite Syncopations MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Albeniz Prelude $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE Commissioned by University of Louisiana at Monroe Piano Faculty for the 2004 Louisiana Music Teacher's Convention.
Couperin's Rondeau: Mysterious Barricades $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Prokofiev's Gavotte from the Classical Symphony $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Prokofiev's March from the Love for Three Oranges $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Bach's "Wachet auf " (Sleepers Awake) MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Bartok's "Rumanian Folk Dances"
. . . . . . . . . . "Rumanische Polka" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . . . . . . "Schnell Tanz" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Gershwin's "Clap Yo' Hands" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . "Fascinating Rhythm" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . "I Got Rhythm" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . "Oh Lady Be Good" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . "Rialto Ripples"
(Rag) MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Recorded by the Kipnis-Kushner Piano Duo January 2000 (Parnassus Records - PACD
96030)
Grainger's "Children's March" (short version) MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Commissioned by Igor Kipnis for the Kipnis-Kushner Piano Duo
Grainger's "Children's
March" (virtuosic version) MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Commissioned by Igor Kipnis for the Kipnis-Kushner Piano Duo
Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Gottschalk's "The Banjo" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Haydn's "Surprise"
Symphony MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Commissioned by Paul Ressel, Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett, Germany
Ibert's "Little White Donkey" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Tchaikovsky's "Polonaise" from "Eugene Onegin" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
TRIO (1 piano 6 hands)
Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto Number 6"
Commissioned by Ken Phillips, Hvaler Municipal School of the Arts, Norway.
. . . . . "Allegro ma non tanto" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . "Adagio ma non tanto" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . . . . . . "Allegro" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Ping Pong Polka" MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"It's a Small World" played with as many ping pong balls as available on the
piano strings
Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Commissioned by Ken Phillips, Hvaler Municipal School of the Arts, Norway.
Rossini's "William Tell Overture" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Strauss' "Radetzky March" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Christmas music
for piano trio (or any multiple of 3 pianists at more than one piano)
Commissioned by Linda Kennedy, Arkansas
. . . . . "Adeste Fideles" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . "In Dulce Jubilo" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Joy to the World Quartet for 4 pianos 4 pianists $7.00 for the Performance SCORE
DUO (2 pianos 4 hands)
Albeniz Prelude
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Commissioned by University of Louisiana at Monroe Piano Faculty for the
Louisiana Music Teacher's Convention.
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony
Commissioned by Paul Ressel, Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett, Germany
. . . . "Surprise slow movement" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . . . . . . "Surprise Finale " MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Schubert's "Ave Maria" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Schubert's "Hark Hark the Lark" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
QUARTET (2 pianos 8 hands)
Stars & Stripes MIDI $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE NEW
Joy to the World MIDI
$7.00 U.S. for the
Performance SCORE
Scott Joplin The Entertainer MIDI
$7.00 U.S. for the
Performance SCORE
Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag MIDI
$7.00 U.S. for the
Performance SCORE
Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King MIDI
$7.00 U.S. for the
Performance SCORE
RagTime Dance $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Albeniz Prelude
$7.00 U.S. for the Performance
SCORE
Commissioned by University of Louisiana at Monroe Piano Faculty for the 2004
Louisiana Music Teacher's Convention.
Faure's Berceuse from Dolly Suite $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Beethoven's "Turkish March" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Copland's "Hoe-Down" MIDI $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Dvorak's "Slavonic Dance in C Major" MIDI $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" MIDI $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Liszt's "2nd Hungarian Rhapsody" MIDI $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Milhaud's "Brazileira" MIDI $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Prokofiev's "Troika" MIDI (from the Lieutenant Kiji Suite) $7.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
SEXTET (2 pianos 12 hands)
Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Strauss' "Radetzky March"
MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
Thanks to Albert Frantz, who sent the score from Vienna
OCTET (4 pianos 16 hands)
Milhaud's "Brazileira" MIDI $9.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS (Piano
Solo and Piano Duet)
21st century music
"Barbarian Toccata" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Percussive Fugue" MIDI
(Piano Trio - 1 piano 6 hands)
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
pianists tap on fallboard, lid and soundboard (1 pianist sitting,1
pianist standing, 1 pianist lying underneath the piano)
"Scherzo" MIDI (Piano Duet - 1 piano 4 hands) $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Blues in Fourths" MIDI (Piano Duet) $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Fugues a la Mode" (Piano Duet 4-Voice Fugues using a variety of modes from Dorian to Locrian) "Mixolydian Fugue" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . . . . . "Phrygian Phugue" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Fourth Fugue" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Blues Suite Blues" (Piano Solo) combines the blues scale & harmonic & melodic 4ths
. . . . . . "Blues in Fourths" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . . . . . "Invention Blues" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . . . . "Toccata in Fourths" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
. . . . . . . . . . "Giga Blues" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Scherzo" MIDI (Solo) $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
"Revolutionary Blues Etude" MIDI (Solo) $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
FRUIT BASKET:
"Duet for 4 Green Bananas" MIDI $5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
This piece is performed by 2 duet partners (at 1 piano) and 4 green bananas (not
peeled!)
"Duet
for 4 Grapefruits" MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
This piece is performed by 2 duet partners (at 1 piano) and 4 grapefruits, one
in each hand. Oranges may be substituted in the absence of suitable-sized
grapefruits, or if the players' hands are too small to adequately wield 2
grapefruits. The composer allows a change of title under these circumstances.
Tennis balls and baseballs may also be substituted, with the appropriate title
change. Pomegranates and nectarines are not recommended.
"Duet for 4 Oranges
and a Cantaloupe" MIDI
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
This piece is performed by 2 duet partners (at 1 piano) and 4 oranges, one in
each hand. The secondo player also plays the "cantaloupe" which rests on the
bottom few black notes of the piano (how many depends on the size of the
particular cantaloupe). The secondo player must not only play his/her 2 orange
parts, but must also periodically pick-up and "drop" the cantaloupe (with
sufficient exactitude that the cantaloupe does not fall off the keyboard).
"Orange Etude" MIDI
(Solo)
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
This piece is performed with an orange in the right hand (employs both "rolling"
technique and "squashing" technique).
"Grapefruit Etude" MIDI
(Solo)
$5.00 U.S. for the Performance SCORE
This virtuosic piece is performed with grapefruits in both hands.
As an added bonus, written while recovering from cataract surgery for 4 pianos / 24 hands:
Cage's 4 Minutes 33 Seconds (of Silence)
Dr. Walden Hughes was one of three United States music teachers awarded the 1995 "Master Teacher Certificate" by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). Dr. Hughes has published over 75 articles and reviews in national and international music journals. He holds five degrees in music, including two in piano performance and one each in piano pedagogy, music history and literature, and music theory. Dr. Hughes teaches piano, music history, composition and counterpoint at Northwest Nazarene University, where he has served for the past 34 years. He also founded and arranges music for the NNU Piano Ensembles.
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