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Words from (J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1866) S. M. H., alt. © Copyright 2026 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com This edition may be freely distributed for worship or concert purposes. Publication must be negotiated separately with the composer.

"Molded Clay, Chiseled Rock" (1994) Redone for Soprano Saxophone or B-flat Clarinet and Piano. The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. YouTube video. https://youtu.be/tDv2xHY4ECM

The sounds are all familiar, but the ways in which they come at one are quite unusual and unexpected. I hope you enjoy "Fanfare for Clarinet Choir". © Copyright 2022, 2026 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. This arrangement was created for a call for scores and is currently unavailable, but I do want my audience to know that it exists. Link to a scrolling score music video on YouTube. https://youtu.be/ZOT3AukR6Xo

Years ago, I recall hearing from a composition teacher about one’s music needing “fresh notes.” This is also true for brief works in which the time one can present them is compressed. In MINUTE WALTZ traditional harmonic relationships contrast with very distant ones resulting in the musical language “free tonality.”   © Copyright 2024 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved.   The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sh

I'M IN THE MOOD FOR HUNGARIAN for Flute Solo (2024). I'M IN THE MOOD FOR HUNGARIAN was composed for a call for scores by Lisa Bost-Sanberg/Fifteen Minutes of Fame (Vox Novus). The title is a play on the fact that this piece is composed entirely in the C Hungarian Minor Mode (C, D, E-flat, F-sharp, G, A-flat, B). The music features contrasting non-linear and linear melodic elements throughout. I chose a march-like tempo and mood to continue the play on words of the title, as i

I was drawn to the last name of the performer, “Orr;” my mind went to homophones. “Ohr” means “Light” in Hebrew. The Jewish heroine, Judith, is associated with Chanukah because of the miracle of the Temple’s rededication celebrated by lighting the nine-branched Chanukiah. The words are from Genesis 1:3. Link to a scrolling score music video on YouTube. https://youtu.be/Lk8X1wob6lE

Since violoncellist Eunice Koh states that she is interested in performing world music, especially music reflecting the ethnic background of composers whose music she performs, I decided to compose a HEBRAIC LAMENT for her. No unusual performance practices are required though they were encouraged. Rather, the piece just sings, much as a cantorial soloist would sing during a sacred service. Link to a scrolling score music video on YouTube. https://youtu.be/P7jjkbtdR6I

“The Saxophonist” is a tone portrait of a busy performer. It’s marked “Mercurial” referring to the swift Roman “messenger of the gods.” I led a different sort of life, so I don’t know how performers like Drew Hosler maintain their teaching and performing duties while managing to have a personal life. © Copyright 2024 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Link

DINNER FAVORS was composed for a call for scores by a non-auditioned community chorus called the Questors Choir which is based in West London, England, Paul Ayres, Conductor. This brief composition is a setting of the Public Domain poem DINNER FAVORS by Arthur Macy (1842–1904). The music features a "perpetual mobile" in the piano accompaniment, and easy homophonic writing in the choral parts. The melody, which is mostly in the soprano line, grows organically from the harmonie

Composed for piccolo/flute player Jack Nesser "A Little Morning Music" features a musical language that alternates between modality and tonality. Among other things, the music features arpeggios in the piano, and salient melodies shared by both instruments. © Copyright 2026 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Link to a scrolling score music video on YouTub

Public Domain text by Robert Frost (1874–1963). Music: © Copyright 2026 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Scrolling score music video on YouTube. https://youtu.be/xoI3sO7iuu4

Moonlight (Clair de Lune [a.k.a. Menuet]) - music by Gabriel Faure (1845–1924) composed in 1887 - words by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) - a chanson originally scored for voice and piano, arranged for SATB chorus and piano in 2026. Words and music: Public Domain. Arrangement: © Copyright 2026 by Stanley M. Hoffman.  www.stanleymhoffman.com   All rights reserved. The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Link to scrolling score music v

My composition, MELANCHOLY PRELUDE for organ solo, is being performed by David Bohn tomorrow at Luther Memorial Church located at 1021 University Avenue, in Madison, Wisconsin, along with 29 other one-minute works. Thank you, David Bohn, Fifteen Minutes of Fame/Vox Novus/Robert Voisey. http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/David_Bohn/organ_2026_2/index.htm https://www.luthermem.org/sermon/david-bohn-1-28-26/

Texts from the “Book of Nonsense Limericks” by Edward Lear (1812–1888). Music: © Copyright 2026 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Link to scrolling score YouTube music video. https://youtu.be/K3hL23sI3nI

"Sandburg Songs" represents a different sort of composition for me. It is a pastiche of mostly brand new music, but also some old musical ideas, both from my own oeuvre, and also from the pen of Ottorino Respighi. Pan-diatonicism is contrasted with chromatically rich harmonies and melodies. 1. Fog 2. Flux 3. Under the harvest moon 4. Monotone 5. Young Sea 6. I sang 7. Follies 8. Uplands in May 9. Between two hills Words: from "Chicago Songs;" Public Domain. Music: © Copyright

A reworking of a composition from 1984. Olde English Words by Thomas Campion (1567–1620). The sheet music is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Link to a scrolling score video. https://youtu.be/zu3fHQcVoXU

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AFTERNOON ON A HILL is a brief, uncomplicated, modal setting of the poem of the same name by Edna St. Vincent Millay scored for soprano, violin, and viola. It features the major and minor second as the predominant-sounding interval, more so in the accompaniment, but also in the melodic lines of the voice, and of the two string parts. Those melodic lines are more linear than they are intervallic, intervallic leaps being more so prevalent in the accompaniment. Timing in at 2:25

Being a senior citizen, and having survived a nasty case of malignant cancer this year, I am facing the twilight years of my life as a creator of classical orchestral compositions and arrangements, and am seeking a first-rate choir, and/or a first rate orchestra interested in exploring the possibility of recording and releasing a CD devoted to a selection of my published and/or unpublished titles. If you are unfamiliar with my music and are wondering about my qualifications,

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. —Robert Frost (1874–1963) Words: Public Domain. Music: © Copyright 2025 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. This title is available for licensing from the composer, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus.