Stanley
M. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Composer,
Music Editor, Conductor, Baritone, Lecturer
Selected Unpublished Works
(arranged in descending order from the most recent to the oldest)
Title of Work (Explanations, if any) - Scoring- Year - Recorded (Y or N) - Duration
All works are 2-5 minutes in duration unless otherwise noted.
You will need to install the free Scorch plug-in from www.sibelius.com to see and listen to scores indicated by the text "Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound."
Disclaimers
The sound in some of the scores has some weird pauses at the ends of bars that could not be fixed. Also, the program does not interpret notated string harmonics correctly.
Choral Compositions and Arrangements
Remember (English - setting of the poem Remember by Christina Rossetti) - SATB divisi - 2009 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Shtiler, shtiler (Quiet, quiet) (Holocaust remembrance) - arranged at the request of Richard Friend - (Yiddish and English - text by Shmerke Kaczerginski, Music by Alec Volkoviski) - arranged for SSA chorus, clarinet and piano - arr. 2004 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.) Also available in a version without clarinet.
There Is a Name (dedication piece for the New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston) - (English - text by Joseph H. Albeck) - SA chorus & amplified classical guitar (or orchestra) - 1995 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound [for the version with guitar].) This piece is for sale exclusively from oySongs.
Lord of the World (English - original setting of the traditional Hebrew Shabbat prayer Adon Olam) (Commissioned by the Hood River Valley High School Choir, Hood River, Oregon.) - SATB divisi - 1994 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Anim Zemiros (A Hymn of Glory) (original setting of a traditional Hebrew Shabbat prayer - Transliteration by S.M.H.) - SATB divisi - 1985 - N. Third place prize winner - 2008 Choral Composition Competition sponsored by The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor. (Click this link to hear their performance in MP3 format; click here to view a score for this piece.)
Compositions for Solo Voice and Other Instruments
And thou shalt love (Deuteronomy 6:5-9, King James version) - sacred folk song for voice(s), keyboard and/or guitar - 2000 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.) This piece is for sale exclusively from oySongs.
Selections From The Song Of Songs (written for the Metropolitan Wind Symphony of Boston, David Martins, conductor) (three interconnected songs for male voice & wind ensemble or piano) I. Kumee Lach (Rise Up) - Hebrew, II. Ich Bin Gekumen In Mein Gorten (I Have Come Into My Garden) - Yiddish, III. Behold, Thou Art Fair, My Love - English - 1997 - Y (first song only) - 15 min. (Click here to view the text for this piece.) (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Of All the Souls That Stand Create (text by Emily Dickinson) - baritone & piano - 1985 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (BMI Award 1984-85, text by Wallace Stevens) - mezzo-soprano & string quartet - 1985 (rev. 1993) -Y (unrevised version) - 15 min. (Click here to view the performance notes for this piece.) (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Works for Wind Ensemble
Selections From The Song Of Songs (written for the Metropolitan Wind Symphony of Boston, David Martins, conductor) (three interconnected songs for male voice & wind ensemble or piano) I. Kumee Lach (Rise Up) - Hebrew, II. Ich Bin Gekumen In Mein Gorten (I Have Come Into My Garden) - Yiddish, III. Behold, Thou Art Fair, My Love - English - 1997 - Y (first song only) - 15 min. (Click here to view the text for this piece.) (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Brahms, Op. 122, No. 8 [organ]) arr. for wind ensemble (fl.,ob., bn., 3 cl., a.cl., b.cl., 2 a.sax., t.sax., b.sax., 3 tpt., 2 hn., 3 tbn., bar., tba., timp.) - 1994 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Orchestral Compositions With or Without Voices
Poem and Lamentations - violin & string orchestra - 1987 (violin and piano) - arranged for violin & string orchestra in 2009 - 12 min. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Fantasypiece for Orchestra (arrangement of Fantasypiece for violoncello & double bass) - 2001 (arr. 2002) - N - 12 minutes. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
There Is a Name (dedication piece for the New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston - English - text by Joseph H. Albeck - originally scored for SA chorus & amplified classical guitar, 1995) - arr. for SA chorus and orchestra - arr. 2000 - N.
Little Sea Nocturne (picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., e. h., 2 cl., b.cl., 2 bn., cbn., 2 hn., 2 tpt., 2 tbn., timp., 3 perc., strings) - 1983 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Romance for Orchestra (Senior Thesis, The Boston Conservatory) (2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 bn., 3 hn., 2 tpt., 2 tbn., timp., 3 perc., strings) - 1982 - N. - 10 min. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Works for Large Chamber Ensembles
Nocturne for Nine Players (Ph.D. dissertation composition, Brandeis University) [2 fl. (a.fl.), ob. (e.hn.), cl. (b.cl.), bn., 2 hn., harp, perc.] - 1992 - Y - 17 min. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Hymn of Glory (Anim Zemiros [a piece for SATB chorus divisi listed above] arr. for an ensemble of at least four violas and four violoncellos [preferably for a string orchestra of violas and violoncellos) - 1988 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Variation 25 (from the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach [Harpsichord]) arr. for solo violin, string orchestra (or quintet) & harpsichord - 1993 - N - 12 min. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Movement for Strings and Piano (string orchestra & piano) - 1981 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Compositions for Small Chamber Ensembles
Meditations and Memories - two alto flutes - 2009 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Fanfare, Tango and Fughetta on Hebrew Themes - brass quintet & optional timpani - 2008 - N. (A score for this piece complete with sound will be posted after the premiere performance in 2010 by Carolina Brass [the group who commissioned it].)
Allegretto (in the Classical Style) - (composed for the Classical Marimba League Composition Competition) - marimba & piano - 2007 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Fantasypiece - violoncello & double bass - 2001 - N - 12 minutes. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
A Lovely Summer Night (composed for saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky) - tenor saxophone & piano - 2000 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Trio In One Movement (commissioned by ALEA III, the contemporary ensemble in residence at Boston University, Theodore Antoniou, Music Director) clarinet, viola & violoncello - 1996 - Y - 9 min. 30 sec. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
A Pacific Prelude - brass quintet (2 C trumpets, horn, trombone & tuba) - 1995 - Y - 7 min. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Moulded Clay - Chiselled Rock - instrument in C (range b4-d6) & piano - 1994 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
String Quartet (1987) (2 violins, viola, violoncello) (performed by the Boston Composers String Quartet in Jordan Hall, Boston, January 29, 1989, and in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, February 12, 1989) - 1987 - Y - 18 min. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Poem and Lamentations - violin & piano - 1987 - Y - 12 min. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (BMI Award 1984-85, text by Wallace Stevens) - mezzo-soprano & string quartet - 1985 (rev. 1993) -Y (unrevised version) - 15 min. (Click here to view the performance notes for this piece.) (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Movement for String Sextet (From a Prison) (2 violins, 2 violas, 2 violoncellos) - 1984 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Rondino - wind quintet - 1983 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Fugue? - string quartet - 1981 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
There Is a Flower - oboe & piano - 1980 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Compositions for Piano
Variations on "Arirang" (2008) - piano solo - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Piano Piece (1986) - piano solo - 1986 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Cycles - piano solo - 1984 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Aubade - piano solo - 1980 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
The Expanses (Intermezzo) - piano solo - 1980 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Canonic Serenade - piano solo - 1980 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Two-Part Invention - piano solo - 1980 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Compositions for Solo Instruments
Bagatelle - bassoon (or bass trombone) solo - 1994 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Poem from "Poem and Lamentations" - transcribed for violin, viola or violoncello solo - 1987 (arr. 2002) - Y (version for violin). (Click here to view a score for the version of this piece for violin complete with sound. Click here to view a score for the version of this piece for viola complete with sound. Click here to view a score for the version of this piece for violoncello complete with sound.)
The Man in the Street - violoncello solo - 1981 - Y. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Brief Technical Studies for Solo Instruments
Brief Etude - flute solo - 1982 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Little Etude - flute solo - 1982 - N. (Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.)
Film Score
Mother's Soup - synthesized string trio - 2009 - Y. Music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach from the second movement of Cello Concerto in A Major (Wq172) freely adapted and arranged by Stanley M. Hoffman. (Click here to listen to an MP3.)
Professionally engraved scores for all pieces and cassette tape recordings or CDs for many of those cited above are available upon request.
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Stanley M. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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