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Compositions
Band/Wind Ensemble | String Orchestra | Orchestra
Chorus | Other Ensembles | Jazz Band
What makes Edly's Musical EdVentures Music Publishing different
You have direct access to the composer and publisher (I'm both). I welcome your feedback, whether positive or negative. I'm also available to come work with your students.Paper and copying rights
I believe that you shouldn't have to buy multiple copies of a piece to get enough parts for your ensemble. When you buy from me, you'll receive one copy of the score and parts, with the understanding that you'll keep the originals and copy as many parts as you need for your ensemble. The parts must be only for your ensemble, not any others, and the title, composer, and copyright must remain unaltered.Digitally transmitted score and parts option
If you'd like, I will e-mail score and parts to you in high quality "pdf" format, and you can print them. You save on postage costs; I save on paper costs. Everyone wins. (To print these, you'll need Acrobat Reader, a free program for both PC and Mac, available from Adobe.)
Included extra parts
A piano reduction part is included with simpler pieces. This enables you to enlist a pianist to flesh out small groups or sections. Also in simpler pieces, chord symbols are included in the score and piano part."Snare senza rudiments" part is included in simpler pieces. If your snare players aren't yet ready for rudiments, give them the included rudimentless snare part.
Do you have tons of alto saxes, but few trumpets? Don't worry: In simpler pieces, the Trumpet 1 & 2 parts are covered by the included (optional) Alto Sax 3 & 4.
The music
I hope these compositions will be as exciting as they are educational. Without sounding experimental or intellectual, my pieces often include dissonance, extended, altered, or cluster chords, as well as modality, world music, and aeleatoric, and other twentieth century elements. (Expand your students' ears while you expand their technique!) Also included is a generous helping of joie de vivre.Different level versions of the same piece
I will be publishing different versions of pieces as time allows. One completed example is "Expanding Space," which comes in two versions--one predominantly quarter-notes with a range of a sixth, and the other predominantly eighth-notes with a range of an octave or so.Pieces that teach
Especially in easier pieces, specific skills are addressed: technique, rhythms, range-extending, chromatic notes, breath control, or hearing unfamiliar chords, etc. I include this in the notes to the conductor. That's you. Hi.Visiting Composer program
Let me know if you're interested in my coming into your school for a day to work with your students. Fees are TBA.Why self-publishing?
1: I want to keep the rights to, and control of, my pieces, so I can do versions of a piece for different levels and ensembles.
2: Traditional publishers take a big cut: 90%, to be exact. (Dealers and distributors take up to 50% of that, but that's another story.) That leaves me, and other traditionally-published composers a paltry 10%. 'nuff said.