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Works Pelagosmusic Series
4000
by Paul Halley
Paul Halley at the
organ at Spivey Hall, Atlanta and Cathedrale St-Sauveur, Aix-en-Provence
"Just listening to ''Anthem'' from Pianosong and noticed that it was
recorded in 1986.OK, Guess
Im getting old but it doesn't seem that long ago I bought it and heard
it the first time and felt then what I feel now...a deep connection with
the infinite.Your music has
blessed my life now for over 30 years and continues to.Thanks! - Alex"
Keyboard Works A-Z by category of voicing
Our
keyboard works are offered as licensed digital downloads. Digital
files are not for sale to dealers - retail sale only, please. All
keyboard works are composed or arranged by Paul Halley. Titles are in
alphabetical order by instrumental arrangement/voicing.
General pricing
structure: Solo piano - $15. Solo organ - $20. Keyboard duets
and trios - $30.
'The Name
Series' by Paul Halley - $10.00 each Short works for solo piano
with melodies based on names. Read the full story.
Link here for details.
Paul Hallley writes: "This piece comes from my late night drives home following
recording sessions in Litchfield. They always seemed to be misty, foggy
drives with lots of moonlight. I'd pass stone walls and in my tired
state, imagine seeing things. One night as I drove past a graveyard out
of the corner of my eye I saw what looked like an angel sitting on the
stone wall. I was so struck by this image that it has been with me ever
since. - So why is this piece so sad -
why the nostalgia? Maybe because that angel represents a perfect kind of
Love which is unattainable in this life. We get glimpses of it from
time, but the vision I saw on the stone wall spoke of a Love that was
unending, and all-embracing."
NEW!
◙♫
Angel On A Stone Wall
from Angel On A Stone Wall CD
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please.
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PEL4017 Angel On A Stone Wall
Piano Score & Optional Organ Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Piano
score -
5 pgs music
Organ part - 2 pgs music
The original ensemble
version of this work was created for the 1990 Paul Winter
Consort album, 'Earth: Voices of a Planet', to commemorate the
20th anniversary of Earth Day. The album was nominated for a
Grammy Award in 1991. Performed by the Consort on international
concert tours, this work quickly became an audience favorite and
part of the Consort's standard repertoire. More recently, Paul
Halley has used this work in the Easter Jazz Mass program he has
put together for All Saints Cathedral, Halifax and, in a
previous life, at Trinity Episcopal Torrington.
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please.
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PEL4027 And The Earth Spins
Piano Score &Optional Organ Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Piano
score -
9 pgs music
Organ part - 6 pgs music
Piano Perusal - pgs 1,2 of 9
Note: Piano part in this version is
same as
ensemble piano version.)
"And The Earth Spins" by Paul Halley from CD Earth Voices of A Planet
_________________
Anthem
by Paul Halley
330
PDF
$15.00
PEL4002
Solo piano with optional organ
Level:
Moderate
Alternately strong
and reflective, this reverent, uplifting piece is a beautiful
offering in both worship and concert settings. Halley has a
strong sense of melody and harmony, a boundless range of
technique and an irresistibly affirmative point of view. -
Lee Underwood, Tower Records Pulse
The original ensemble
version of this work was intended for release on the 1991 album,
'Angel On A Stone Wall', featuring ten new Paul Halley compositions.
However, Paul Winter needed additonal material for The Paul
Winter Consort recording, 'Earth: Voices of a
Planet',
so the piece premiered on that album instead. In 1992, Paul Halley's "Appalachian
Morning" was licensed for arrangement to John Williams and The
Boston Pops Orchestra (Patrick Williams, arranger) for release
on "The Green Album", and is often played at Boston Pops July
4th celebrations to date.
'Appalachian Morning' is
frequently licensed for arrangement to marching bands and bugle
corps, and is available in a percussion ensemble arrangement at
Tapspace.com. For
Permission to Arrange licensing information, see Pelagosmusic
LICENSING
or go directly to our arrangements administrator,
www.tresonamusic.com.
Says one listener: "I heard
this piece watching Aimachi Winter Guard several years ago...I
thought this was a Pat Metheny composition; it has the movement
I associate with Pat Metheny's music...Finally, I stand
corrected, and finally learned who wrote this beautiful piece."
-oldschooldrumcorps (youtube)
◙♫
Appalachian
Morning
Original version from Earth: Voices of A Planet CD
(Please note: This audio track shows the piece played faster
than the composer intended.)
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please.
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PEL4026 Appalachian Morning
Piano Score &Optional Organ Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Piano
score -
9 pgs music
Organ part - 6 pgs music Keyboard part - 5 pgs music
Piano Perusal - pg
2 of 9
CD Earth Voices of A Planet
_________________
Heaven
Within
by Paul Halley
400
PDF
$15.00
PEL4025
Solo piano with optional organ
Level:
Moderate
Also
available below as the original
PEL7009 version for Piano and Soprano Saxophone with Optional
Organ.
Another of the many
remarkable duets for piano and soprano saxophone that Paul
Halley wrote during his time of collaboration with Paul Winter.
Paul Halley has scored this version as a solo piano work with
optional organ. The original work for piano and sax is from the Sun Singer recording of 1983. A gentle
and lyrical statement - poignant,
transcendant, calming.
PEL4025 Heaven Within
Piano Score &Optional Organ Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Piano
score -
4 pgs music
Organ part - 2 pgs music
Piano Perusal - pg 1 of 4
CD Sun Singer
_________________
Hymn
To The Sun
by Paul Halley
420
PDF
$15.00
PEL4024
Solo piano with optional organ
Level:
Moderate
Also
available below as the original PEL7007
version for Piano and Soprano Saxophone with Optional
Organ.
One of the many
remarkable duets for organ and soprano saxophone that Paul
Halley wrote during his time of collaboration with Paul Winter.
This duet from the Sun Singer recording of 1983.
A mystical melody
unwinds and floats over enveloping depths like a breath of wind
on the water.
A rich interplay of parts, full of
ambience and sustained mood.
"Halley's mellifluous tone and subtle harmonic shifts sent
many in the audience home in a state of musical rapture." - The
Washington Post
PEL4024 Hymn To The Sun
Piano Score &Optional Organ Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Piano
score -
5 pgs music
Organ part - 3 pgs music
Piano Perusal - pg 1 of 5
CD Sun Singer
_________________
Maris Stella
by Paul Halley
4'00
PDF:
$15.00
PEL4016
Piano with optional organ
Level:
Moderate
Star of the Sea. A simple and serene evocation
of starlit skies over a serene sea. A mood of
reflection and contemplation.
"Back in 1990 I was in
Toronto with the Paul Winter Consort and came up with this theme
during a soundcheck. I then developed it into a piece for my
album Angel On A Stone Wall, but decided not to use it since we
had enough ballads on that CD already. Now it has resurfaced
having shed the working title "Toronto Soundcheck". from Paul
Halley's composer notes on Triptych.
NEW!
◙♫
Maris Stella
from Triptych CD No
dealers, please.
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PEL4016 Maris Stella
Piano Score and
Organ Score
Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Piano
score -
4 pgs music Organ
score -
2 pgs music
A lyrical, piano ballad that
builds with mood and atmosphere.
The melodies he [Paul
Halley] wrote for his solo piano/pipe organ LP, Pianosong, are
so tuneful Barry Manilow would become an axe murderer just for
the chance to say I wrote them. -
Cincinnati Enquirer
◙♫
Pianosong
from Pianosong CD No dealers,
please.
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PEL4001 Pianosong
Piano Score &Optional Organ
Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
A
haunting, rolling melody that builds in fervor and urgency, then
calms in reflective passages. Aptly named. A beautiful prayer.
"During a stay in Israel, I was part of a private tour of
Jerusalem by a friend from the Hebrew University. We arrived at
a place (called Dominus Flevit) on the Mount of Olives where we
were given the same view of Jerusalem that Jesus saw when he
came to the city on that first Palm Sunday. He understood in his
heart what that ancient city had been through in her first
thousand years, and what lay ahead, and he wept. This music is a
prayer for the peace of Jerusalem. It is a 3,000 year-old
prayer." - Paul Halley
Paul Halley:
"I improvised the seed of this piece at a sound check for our Carnival
show at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1988. Paul
Winter loved it, and it developed into a short piano solo. This
is the most PIANOSONG-like piece on the album."
Paul Halley: "During
my years as Music Director at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New
York City I was blessed with the opportunity to write several
musicals for the children of the Cathedral School.
The Prince and the
Pauper was one of them and this piece is taken from that
musical. It is the song that the dying King Henry Vlll sang to
his supposed son who was afraid to be crowned King. Not
realizing he is addressing a pauper instead of the Crown Prince,
Henry gives the child some good advice on how to deal with fear
and doubt in one's life. I wanted to write of that quality of
tenderness between a father and son, when each recognizes the
humanity of the other."
NEW!
◙♫
The Prince and The Pauper from Angel On A Stone Wall CD
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please.
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PEL4019 The Prince and The Pauper
Piano Score Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
God In Three Persons
by Paul Halley Fantasia on
'Nicaea'
5'00
PDF:
$20.00
PEL4023
Organ
Level:
Difficult
NEW!
Commissioned in honor of
Bette Mattox to celebrate her fiftieth year as Organist of
Southside Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida
◙♫NOT
YET RECORDED
God In Three Persons
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PEL4023 God In Three Persons
Organ Score
Digital Download (PDF)
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Organ
score -
11 pgs music
Organ Perusal pgs 1,2 of 11
_________________
Offertorium
by Paul Halley Choral Partita on
'Picardy'
7'00
PDF:
$20.00
PEL4021
Organ
Level:
Difficult
Commissioned for Philip
Crozier to celebrate his twenty-fifth year as Music Director of
St James United Church, Montrιal and the restoration of Casavant
opus 1608, 2011-2012.
I "Let all mortal flesh keep silence and stand with fear and
trembling,"
II "And lift itself above all earthly thought."
III "For the King of kings and Lord of lords cometh forth to be
an offering"
IV "And to give to all the faithful His own self for heavenly
food."
V "Before
Him come the choirs of angels with every principality and
power;"
VI
"The Cherubim with countless eyes, the six-winged Seraphim veil
their faces to the presence," VII
"And their voices rise in the hymn: Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia!"
◙♫NOT
YET RECORDED
Offertorium
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Organ Score
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Organ
score -
15 pgs music
Organ Perusal pgs 1,2 of 15
_________________
Outer Hebrides
by Paul Halley A Fantasia On Three
Celtic Melodies
7'00
PDF:
$20.00
PEL4003
Organ
Level:
Difficult
Paul
Halley - notes from Triptych CD (1998) about this piece - "There is a great piper living
here in Connecticut by the name of Mike MacNintch. He must know
hundreds of gorgeous folk tunes from Scotland and Ireland. These
are three that I had previously used in a piece for the Winter
Solstice in New York when Mike was on the stage with the
Consort. I thought an organ improvisation on three Celtic
melodies might be interesting. Most organists don't get to play
Celtic folk tunes very often."
Since many of you
have inquired, we have compiled the names of the three Celtic tunes that Paul Halley weaves
together in this work. The first tune, by Nancy Tunnicliffe, is
called 'Islay Waltz', the second tune, from the border
region of Scotland, is a 9/8 jig called 'Drops of Brandy', and
the
third tune is 'MacCrimmons Lament'.
"Halley
puts the colors, texture, and persuasive power of the pipe organ
into highly pleasurable, easily listenable, emotionally
unfettered contexts. Michael Barone, The American Organist
Magazine
◙♫ Outer Hebrides
from Triptych CD No
dealers, please.
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PEL4003 Outer Hebrides
Organ Score
Digital Download (PDF)
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Toccata Andromeda
by Paul Halley version for solo organ
6'25
PDF $20.00
PEL4004
Organ
Level:
Difficult
A masterful
transcription of the original keyboard trio composition from
Paul Halley's Triptych CD. The varying themes and
textures, originally assigned alternatively to piano, pipe organ, and
harpsichord, are all in evidence here on a variety of organ
stops. A swirling,
spiraling, dynamic piece, named for our nearest neighbor galaxy.
A play on sevens forms this contemporary masterpiece.
Paul Halley: "I can't stop playing with sevens and I wanted
a piece that would feature each individual instrument in an
extended solo. The title came long after the piece was recorded.
Friends and family all agreed that the music had a spinning,
spiraling quality but it took weeks to come up with a suitable
name. At one point I got sufficiently frustrated to suggest that
the piece be called 'Prelude No. 11 in A minor'. Those older
composers had it easy."
Playing
music that is at once vibrant and intricately contrapuntal, he
deploys the instruments with a symphonic sense of coloration. -
Billboard Magazine
◙♫ Toccata
Andromeda
(trio keyboard version)
from Triptych CD
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please. Add to
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PEL4004 Toccata Andromeda
Organ Score
Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Trompette du Trouvere by Paul Halley A Fanfare for solo
trumpet stop
4'00
PDF
$20.00
PEL4015
Organ
Level:
Difficult
A four-minute fanfare
featuring solo trumpet stop and based on a melody original to
the composer. Short and lively with roots in the Provencal
troubadour tradition of Europe's High Middle Ages. A lively and
danceable fanfare with a slightly modal eight-bar melody. Commissioned by and dedicated to Jim Ruth
for the 150th Anniversary of Trinity United Methodist Church,
Denver, Colorado
◙♫NOT
YET RECORDED Trompette du Trouvere
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please.
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PEL4015 Trompette du Trouvere
Organ Score
Digital Download (PDF)
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Evening Song
by Paul Halley Duet for piano and organ
2'45
PDF:
$15.00
PEL4008
Piano and
Organ
Level:
Easy
This
piece was taken from a commissioned work, in this case a song
cycle for mezzo-soprano and baritone, called Evening Songs.
Gerald Finley and Louise Winter asked me to write settings of
seven poems by Max Ehrmann that would actually incoporate such
musical devices as melody and harmony. Church music fanatics
like myself will notice the use of the plain-song melody 'Conditor
Alme Siderum', and organ buffs will detect the (hopefully)
subtle use of the harp stop." - Paul Halley 1999 from
Triptych CD
composer notes
My Ladye Sarabande
by Paul Halley Trio for piano, organ, harpsichord
6'02
PDF $30.00
PEL4007
Piano, Pipe
Organ, Harpsichord
Level:
Difficult
"How could I have
all those hours of playing time on a Dudash harpsichord and not
indulge in a little pseudo-Tudor romp with all the necessary
false relations and English cadences? If the film industry comes
out with another Elizabethan period piece, I hope they will
contact me" - Paul Halley 1999 (Triptych composer notes)
Rejoicing
by Paul Halley Trio for piano, organ, harpsichord
4'25
PDF $30.00
PEL4006
Piano, Pipe
Organ, Harpsichord
Level:
Difficult
A joyful and vibrant keyboard
composition which opens Paul Halley's Triptych CD.
Featuring the piano in a syncopated, uplifting rhythmic theme,
with longer tones from the organ and jazzy, code-like hits from
the harpsichord. A real crowd-pleaser and fun to play.
◙♫ Rejoicing
(trio keyboard version)
from Triptych CD
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PEL4006 Rejoicing
Full Score and Parts for
Piano, Pipe Organ, Harpsichord
Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Full Score - 15 pgs music
Piano - 8 pgs music
Organ - 4 pgs music
Harpsichord -4 pgs music
Requiem For Dmitri
by Paul Halley Trio for piano, organ, harpsichord
8'45
PDF $30.00
PEL4009
Piano, Pipe
Organ, Harpsichord
Level:
Difficult
NEW!
In his
composer notes for the Triptych CD, Paul Halley writes:
"The Winter Solstice of 1996 was tinged with sadness for many of
us since Dmitri Pokrovsky had died at a far too early age that
summer. Nonetheless, the Prokovsky Ensemble still wanted to sing
at the Solstice and I wrote this as a choral work for them in
Dmitri's honor. As to the Triptych CD, I didn't know
whether the music would stand on its own without the
extraordinary timbre of the voices of the ensemble or the
beautiful poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Pushkin. I still don't
know but I wanted to end the album with this piece in honor of
the memory of one of this century's most courageous and generous
musicians."
A Full Score is not necessary for this
work since the Harpsichord and Organ frequently double the Piano
II part.
◙♫ Requiem
for Dmitri
(trio keyboard version)
from Triptych CD
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PEL4009 Requiem For Dmitri
Full Score and Parts for
Piano, Pipe Organ, Harpsichord
Digital Download (PDF)
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Piano I & II - 16 pgs music
Harpsichord (& Piano I) - 7 pgs music
Organ - 7 pgs music
Sands of Time
by Paul Halley Piano duet (four hands) and organ
4'30
PDF $30.00
PEL4010
Piano I & II, Pipe Organ
The choral
version of this piece is titled "United In Song" and can be
found at this link:
UNITED IN SONG
Level:
Moderate
This is
actually a piece for choir that I was commissioned to compose
for a Millenium Festival in Ottawa (UNISONG 2000) through the
good offices of my friend, Barbara Clark. In its choral version
it is considerably more heraldic but the tune remains the same. - Paul Halley
Shores of Ironbound
by Paul Halley Trio for piano, organ, harpsichord
3'00
PDF $30.00
PEL4011
Piano, Pipe
Organ, Harpsichord
Level:
Moderate
Summer would not be
summer without some serious gunk-holing on the South Shore of
Nova Scotia in our catboat. One of our favorite islands is West
Ironbound where we usually see seals in the water and sheep on
the hills, but rarely any humans. When I think of that island I
think of fog, and the sound of surf on the Ironbound Breakers
and Shag Rock. In those conditions the shores of Ironbound seem
not only mysterious but timeless. Lovers of hymnody and English
folk-song will detect the melody Kingsfold in a rare 5/4
treatment within the composition. - Paul Halley
◙♫
Shores of Ironbound
(PEL4011)
(trio keyboard version)
from Triptych CD
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PEL4011 Shores of Ironbound
Full Score and Parts for
Piano, Pipe Organ, Harpsichord
Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Full Score - 8 pgs music
Piano - 5 pgs music
Organ - 3 pgs music
Harpsichord -1 pgs music
The Jig Is Up
by Paul Halley Trio for piano, organ, harpsichord
3'15
PDF $30.00
PEL4013
Piano, Pipe
Organ, Harpsichord
Level:
Moderate
This
delightful trio keyboard composition is from
Paul Halley's Triptych CD. The opening iteration of the
jig theme is heard from the harpsichord, with the piano then
taking things further in a rolling, melodic form, with the organ
adding atmosphere and breadth of space. A second, broader,
almost majestic, theme enters midway in the piano, played
against the original jig in the harpsichord. A joyful, somewhat
cheeky, keyboard tag game, that delights and uplifts.
Toccata Andromeda
by Paul Halley Trio for piano, organ, harpsichord
6'25
PDF $30.00
PEL4005
Piano, Pipe
Organ, Harpsichord
Level:
Difficult
The original
trio version of the keyboard composition from
Paul Halley's Triptych CD. The varying themes, rhythms, and
textures, assigned to piano, pipe organ, and harpsichord,
comprise this swirling,
spiraling, dynamic piece, named for our nearest neighbor galaxy.
A play on sevens form this contemporary masterpiece.
Paul Halley: "I can't stop playing with sevens and I wanted
a piece that would feature each individual instrument in an
extended solo. The title came long after the piece was recorded.
Friends and family all agreed that the music had a spinning,
spiraling quality but it took weeks to come up with a suitable
name. At one point I got sufficiently frustrated to suggest that
the piece be called 'Prelude No. 11 in A minor'. Those older
composers had it easy."
Playing
music that is at once vibrant and intricately contrapuntal, he
deploys the instruments with a symphonic sense of coloration. -
Billboard Magazine
◙♫ Toccata
Andromeda
(PEL4005)
(trio keyboard version)
from Triptych CD
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please. Add to
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PEL4005 Toccata Andromeda
Full Score and Parts for
Piano, Pipe Organ, Harpsichord
Digital Download (PDF)
with License Terms of Use
Full Score - 24 pgs music
Piano - 13 pgs music
Organ - 10 pgs music
Harpsichord - 10 pgs music
