Stanley M. Hoffman, Ph.D. - Unpublished Works Page

Stanley M. Hoffman, Ph.D.

Composer, Arranger, 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Selected Unpublished Works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 Arrangement

Shtiler, shtiler (Quiet, quiet) - (Holocaust remembrance) - arranged at the request of Richard Friend - (Yiddish and English - Music by Alec Volkoviski), text by Shmerke Kaczerginski) - arranged for SSA chorus, piano and clarinet - arr. 2004 - N. Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound. Also available in a version without clarinet.

Choral Compositions

That time of year (English - text by William Shakespeare) - SATB - 2010 - N. Click here and then click on "Listen" to hear a synthesized performance. The entire score may be viewed as a PDF.

There Is a Name (dedication piece for the New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston) - (English - text by Joseph H. Albeck) - SA chorus & amplified classical guitar - 1995 - Y. Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound. 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, Mark Steighner, conductor) - 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 here and then click on "Listen" to hear this performance. This recording is used with the kind permission of Harold Rosenbaum. The entire score may be viewed as a PDF.

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, 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.

Arrangement for Wind Ensemble

Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Johannes 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.

Composition for Wind Ensemble

Orchestral Arrangements

To a Wild Rose (Edward MacDowell [piano]) arr. for chamber orchestra (ob., cl, str.) - arr. 2009 - N. Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.

Nuages Gris (Franz Liszt, 1881 [piano]) arr. for chamber orchestra (2 fl., ob., bn, 3 tbn., timp., hp., str.) - arr. 2009 - 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.

Orchestral Compositions With or Without Voices

Poem and Lamentations - violin & string orchestra - 1987, arr. 2009 - 12 min. Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.

Fantasypiece for Orchestra - 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. (Click here to view a score for this piece as a PDF.)

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.

Compositions 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 (an ensemble of at least four violas and four violoncellos [preferably for a string orchestra of violas and violoncellos]) - 1985, arr. 1988 - N. 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.

Arrangement for Small Chamber Ensemble

To a Wild Rose (Edward MacDowell [piano]) arr. for oboe and two English horns - arr. 2009 for the Threeds Oboe Trio - N. Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.

Compositions for Small Chamber Ensembles With or Without Voices

Tango for Klezmer Ensemble - 2010 - flute, clarinet, accordion, drum set and bass - N. This score will be available from oysongs.com shortly after it receives its premiere performance by the group to whom it is dedicated, the Casco Bay Tummlers.

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 (commissioned by Carolina Brass) - brass quintet & optional timpani - 2008 - N. Click here to view a score for this piece complete with sound.

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 and then click on "Listen" to hear a performance by the Prism Brass Quintet. The entire score may be viewed as a PDF.

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 at the New England Conservatory of Music 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 hear the film score in MP3 format. Click here to watch the film and hear the film score. This file is in FLV format so you will need a player which supports it. This film is used by permission of Lenny Hoffman. (Disclaimer: The reason my name does not appear in the film credits is that the film score was composed well after the film was created. My cousin, Lenny Hoffman, one of the creators of the film, gave me permission to add the music track and post the film on my Web site. The music is © Copyright 2009 by Stanley M. Hoffman. All rights reserved. As far as I know the film is not copyrighted as it is freely shared by its creators around the Internet.)

Professionally engraved scores for all pieces and cassette tape recordings or CDs for many of those cited above are available upon request.

Editions Contributed to the Choral Public Domain Library

Johannes Brahms - Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz (Create in me, God, a pure heart) - (1st movement only) - SATBB - document name = Brahms-Schaffe.pdf. You can also download this file from my Web site by clicking here to retrieve the PDF.

Henry A. Russotto/Morris Rosenfeld - My America - (unison) voice(s) and piano - document name = My America.pdf. You can also download this file from my Web site by clicking here to retrieve the PDF.

Henry A. Russotto/Morris Rosenfeld - My America - SATB & opt. piano (arrangement by S.M.H.) - document name = My America SATB.pdf. You can also download this file from my Web site by clicking here to retrieve the PDF.