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PIANO

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  Annacarla Scenes for Piano
 
 Bird at the Great Kiva: Sonata for Piano
 
 Enchantment: Three Meditations for Two Pianos
  Fiesta de Fe (see under "Choral)
  Fiori Musicali: Five Preludes for Piano
 
 Five Preludes for Synthesizer
 
 Going Forth at Dawn With Power
  Landscapes for Piano, Book I 
  Landscapes for Piano, Book II
 
 Impressions for Synthesizer and Piano
 
 Reflection and Celebration
  The Rock With Wings (see under "Chamber Music")
 
 Senior Pieces: Written for My Students at Their High School Graduation
 Senior Pieces, Book II: Written for My Students at Their High School Graduation
 
 Southwest Scenes for Young Pianists
 
 Outside Images
  Three Dances From Chaco Canyon (see under "Orchestral")
 
 Three Views From Space: Intermediate Piano Solos for My Students
 
 Voices From Chaco(see under "Chamber Music")
 
 Two New Mexico Nocturnes
   
 
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+ANNACARLA SCENES FOR PIANO (premiered by the composer at Annacarla--his composing/teaching retreat in northern New Mexico--on May 2, 2009 for some of his students and their families and local neighbors).

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips)
    1. "Mountain Moon"
    2. "Coyotes"
    3. "Silver Birds (Ravens)"
    4. "Morning Light"
    5. "Evening Light: Pathways"
  • Copyright: 2009
  • Duration: 7:15
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript)
  • Recording: Private recording, Michael Mauldin
  • Program Notes/Reviews: After enjoying Annacarla for four years, I realized that I had written a number of pieces there and had never been "dry" while composing there. But, outside of "The Valley at Annacarla" for the Durango Youth Symphony, I had not written music "about" what I saw and experienced there. These five short scenes may seem like fleeting visions or quixotic journal entries, but they represent brief but eternal moments of connection with the sacred that is all around us, "All That Is."

 

+BIRD AT THE GREAT KIVA: Sonata for Piano (written for the opening concert of the New Mexico Music Teachers Association State Convention on December 4, 1981 at Highlands University in Las Vegas, NM, premiered by the composer).

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "Encounter"
    2. "Song"
    3. "Flight"
  • ASCAP Title Code: 322139575
  • Date Composed: 1981
  • Copyright: (sr) 1981 M Mauldin
  • Duration (MM:SS): 14:30
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript and computer generated)
  • Recording: Edited recording made in Keller Hall, UNM, for the cassette "Visions West", produced by M Mauldin, $10.00 and $3.00 shipping.
  • Program Notes/Reviews: A suggestive rather than descriptive work, "Bird at the Great Kiva" is cast in sonata form, with use of some of the same thematic material in the first and third movements.  The title refers to the great ceremonial room of the historic Pueblo in Chaco Canyon.

"...an adventurous, uplifting work that evokes the power of the earth and the grandeur of its people.  In this sonata, which alludes to a solitary bird's witness of an era long gone, Mauldin has succeeded in capturing the essence of the land."
--ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL 

 

+ENCHANTMENT: Three Meditations for Two Pianos (written for Lawrence Blind to celebrate the birth of twins, Alexandra and William).  Blind and the composer premiered the set at a concert of Mauldin’s piano works held at Washburn Piano Company in Albuquerque on April 21, 2007.

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "With Reverence" (3:34)
    2. "Tenderly" (3:33)
    3. "With Excitement" (2:43)
  • ASCAP Title Code: 351625057
  • Date Composed: 2007
  • Copyright: 2008 M Mauldin
  • Duration (MM:SS): 9:54
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript and computer generated, available for sale)
  • Recording: Studio recording by Lawrence Blind and Michael Mauldin on the CD "Enchantment: Music by Michael Mauldin," produced by M Mauldin, $10.95 plus shipping
  • Program Notes/Reviews: “Larry was my accompanist when I directed the Albuquerque Boy Choir.  When I retired from the choir, his first child was ‘on the way,’ so I wrote ‘Going Forth at Dawn with Power’ to thank him for his years of service to the choir and to celebrate Wesley’s birth.  I chose the title of this new two-piano piece to reflect the enchantment Larry felt with his new twins, and that I felt with nature at ‘Annacarla,’ my composing and teaching retreat in northern New Mexico.

    “Just a quick note to let you know that ‘Enchantment’ was enthusiastically received at our Piano Group. Comments ranged from ‘I’m speechless’ to ‘He certainly captured the spirit of New Mexico!’ For my piano partner and for me, it was one of the most challenging and rewarding pieces we have ever worked on and performed.”
    --Ruth Williamson, Los Alamos, NM

 

+FIORI MUSICALI: Five Preludes for Piano (written for a concert of Mauldin's works at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas on November 15, 1986, where he premiered the work, dedicated to the memory of James Van Slyke, one of Mauldin's beloved music teachers at Washburn University).

  • Movement Titles:
    1. "Mountain Blue"
    2. "Prairie Yellow"
    3. "Window White and Black"
    4. "Garden Purple"
    5. "River Red"
  • ASCAP Title Code: 360249116
  • Date Composed: 1986
  • Copyright: 1988 M Mauldin
  • Duration (MM:SS): 8:50
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript). Printable manuscript downloads of mvts. 1-4 available for purchase from MyScoreStore.com for the following movements: 
  • Recording: Archival
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "His first movement, 'Mountain Blue', was elegant and poignant in neo-Classical fashion.  But the flower-movements that followed, from the racy, barn-dancy 'Prairie Yellow' to the conflicted, turbulent 'River Red', were faster and freer in manner, although they projected a tragic undertone if one listened carefully."
    --ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL

 

+FIVE PRELUDES FOR SYNTHESIZER (written for Mauldin's students).

  • Movement Titles:
    1. "Entrada" (for "trumpet" or "brass")
    2. "Meditation" (for "strings")
    3. "Gentle Breezes" (for "electric piano")
    4. "The King's Dance" (for "harpsichord")
    5. "Jam" (for "guitar")
  • Date Composed: 1989
  • Copyright: 1989 Neil A Kjos Music Co. (c) returned to M Mauldin.
  • Score/Parts: Photocopies of engraved copy available from M Mauldin. Free printable downloads available from MyScoreStore.com:
  • Recording: None
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "These attractive, contemporary-sounding, yet manageable pieces work on a regular piano and contain many pedagogical materials.  For students with keyboards, these pieces add an extra dimension that is almost limitless.  [They] are ideal for giving the keyboard-oriented student endless opportunities for creativity, and for providing the non-keyboard oriented student a painless way to begin the process of experimenting while learning skills that every student of acoustic piano must learn."
    --AMERICAN MUSIC TEACHER

 

+GOING FORTH AT DAWN WITH POWER (written for Lawrence Blind on the occasion of the birth of his son, Wesley). Lawrence Blind premiered the work in November, 2000 in Silver City, NM at a benefit concert.

  • Sound Clip(s) (mp3):
  • ASCAP Title Code: 370409586
  • Date Composed: 2000
  • Copyright: M Mauldin, 2000
  • Duration (MM:SS): 5:50
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript)
  • Recording: Archival CD of the premiere, and one of a performance by Blind in UNM's Keller Hall on October 14, 2001.
  • Program Notes/Reviews: The score bears this inscription from the Pueblo ritual "t'amu xeh piyeh" (Going forth at dawn with power): "Give me wisdom and lead me to the place where the child of man, child of woman is. You male spirits, female spirits who watch over my home, I have placed before you the food of tradition. Make my heart right and guide my thoughts. Take me to where the child of the spirits is."

 

+LANDSCAPES FOR PIANO, BOOK I  (written for Mauldin's piano students).

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "Horses Running Free" (0:38)
    2. "Mountain memory" (0:42)
    3. "The Hunt" (0:35)
    4. "Moonlit Woods" (0:58)
    5. "Santa Fe" (0:39)
    6. "Open Road" (0:42)
  • ASCAP Title Code:
  • Date Composed: 1987
  • Copyright: 1988 Wimbledon Music Inc./Trigram Music Inc. (1801 Century Park East (Suite 2400) Los Angeles, CA 90067-2326. Tel: 310-556-9683 Fax: 310-277-1278 www.wimbtri.com).
  • Score/Parts: Trigram Music Inc. (engraved)
  • Recording: Performed by Michael Mauldin on the CD "Love Without a Name: Music I Wrote For My Students", produced by M Mauldin, $10.95 plus shipping.
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "Rhythmic complexity, though difficult for most older beginners, is one of the elements of the music that they most often hear and want to play.  These pieces, though filled with anticipation-syncopations and cross-rhythms which produce the desired effect at full tempo, are written so as to be easily read by students familiar with half-notes, quarters and eighths.  No dotted rhythms (except dotted half-notes) appear.  Hand-position changes are smoothly reached or allowed ample time.  The pieces are designed to be effective without use of the damper pedal."

 

+LANDSCAPES FOR PIANO, BOOK II (written for Mauldin's piano students).

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "Wild Roses" (0:32)
    2. "Horse and Carriage" (0:52)
    3. "Old Navajo Woman" (1:02)
    4. "Mountain Morning" (1:04)
    5. "Running the River" (0:42)
  • Date Composed: 1990
  • Copyright: 1991 Wimbledon Music Inc./Trigram Music Inc. (1801 Century Park East (Suite 2400) Los Angeles, CA 90067-2326. Tel: 310-556-9683 Fax: 310-277-1278 www.wimbtri.com). 
  • Score/Parts: Trigram Music Inc. (engraved)
  • Recording: Performed by Michael Mauldin on the CD "Love Without a Name: Music I Wrote For My Students", produced by M Mauldin, $10.95 plus shipping.
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "These pieces, like those in Book I, are designed to advanced beginners with the kind of rhythmic vitality that they most often hear and want to play, without complex dotted rhythms. Since Book II is a natural progression from the first book, it does introduce dotted quarters, blocked triads and more rapid hand-position changes.  As with Book I, these pieces are designed to be effective without use of the damper pedal."

 

+IMPRESSIONS FOR SYNTHESIZER AND PIANO (written for Mauldin's students). 

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "Morning Song"
    2. "Travelin'"
    3. "Roses for You"
    4. "Waves"
    5. "I'm Not Any Different"
    6. "Evening Song"
  • Date Composed: 1987
  • Copyright: 1988 Neil A Kjos Music Company (4380 Jutland Drive, San Diego, CA 92117).
  • Score/Parts: Neil A Kjos Music Co (engraved)
  • Recording: None
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "Mauldin's volume of duets for synthesizer and acoustic piano provides a fine introduction to electronic keyboards.  A set of full score and synthesizer parts is included in each volume.  The synthesizer parts are easily accessible to elementary students and require registration that is common to most instruments.  Though the music is written for a five-octave keyboard, it is easily adaptable to smaller ones.  Mauldin has given students and teachers a musically and pedagogically worthwhile introduction to today's new electronic sounds."
    --AMERICAN MUSIC TEACHER

 

+REFLECTION AND CELEBRATION (commissioned for David Jeffery Lawrence by his parents, on the occasion of obtaining his PhD in Physics from Washington University at St. Louis).

  • Sound Clip(s) (mp3):
  • ASCAP Title Code: 480548594
  • Date Composed: 1996
  • Copyright: 1996 M Mauldin.
  • Duration (MM:SS): 1:57
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript)
  • Recording: Performed by Michael Mauldin on the CD "Songs From Our Sixtieth", produced by the Albuquerque Boy Choir, sold out, archival copies only. Also on the CD "Love Without a Name: Music I Wrote for My Students", produced by M Mauldin, $10.95 plus shipping.

 

+SENIOR PIECES: Written for My Students at Their High School Graduation. 

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "Souvenir of a Russian Journey" (for Nick Curro, 1989)
    2. "Fantasia" (for Jennifer Freeman, 1989)
    3. "Mountain Air" (for Jesse Worley, 1990)
    4. "Chanson" (for Brad Legant, 1993)
    5. "Music Mountain" (for Bryan Cook,  1994)
  • Copyright: 1997, M Mauldin
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript and computer generated). Printable downloads available for purchase from MyScoreStore.com for the following movements:
  • Recording: Performed by Michael Mauldin on the CD, "Love Without a Name: Music I Wrote For My Students", produced by M Mauldin, $10.95 plus shipping.
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "Nick Curro, a beloved student for several years and the son of a piano-teacher friend of mine, went to Russia with his senior class, falling in love with everything Russian.  He came home begging to play Rachmaninoff, but as was not quite advanced enough to learn any Rachmaninoff in the remaining three weeks of the semester, I offered to write him a somewhat more 'grateful' imitation, in 'Souvenir of a Russian Journey'.  Thus began my custom of writing pieces for graduating high-school seniors.  The 'senior pieces' all bear the names of those for whom they were written.  Some are quite difficult and were not chosen by the students to be included on their senior recitals."

+SENIOR PIECES, Book II: Written for My Students at Their High School Graduation. 

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "Toccata" (Matthew Dunlap)
    2. "Dancing Ground of Sky" (Jon Michael Schlavin)
    3. "Fanfare" (Zack Kavelman)
    4. "Ballade" (Kian Kermani)
    5. "Canon in F" (Robin Yarbrough)
    6. "Seshukwa: Eagle Dwelling Place" (Isabelle Bounkeua)
    7. "Journey" (Zack Teicher)
    8. "Going Places" (Ryan Ehgartner)
    9. "The Hoodoo Pines" (Blaise Blain)
    10. "Snow" (Hannah Hughes)
    11. "Ek Statis" (Patrick Hooper)
    12. "Dance" (Clinton Justus)
  • Copyright: 2009, M Mauldin
  • Duration: 28:13
  • Score/Parts: Manuscript, from M Mauldin. Printable manuscript downloads available for purchase from MyScoreStore.com for the following movements:
  • Recording: Performed by Michael Mauldin
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "Nick Curro, a beloved student for several years and the son of a piano-teacher friend of mine, went to Russia with his senior class, falling in love with everything Russian.  He came home begging to play Rachmaninoff, but as was not quite advanced enough to learn any Rachmaninoff in the remaining three weeks of the semester, I offered to write him a somewhat more 'grateful' imitation, in 'Souvenir of a Russian Journey'.  Thus began my custom of writing pieces for graduating high-school seniors.  The 'senior pieces' all bear the names of those for whom they were written.  Some are quite difficult and were not chosen by the students to be included on their senior recitals. The 12 pieces in Book 2 were written between the years 2005 and 2009, all at 'Annacarla,' my retreat in northern New Mexico."

 

+SOUTHWEST SCENES FOR YOUNG PIANISTS (written for Mauldin's piano students).

 

+OUTSIDE IMAGES (written for Mauldin's students).

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
    1. "Singing Alone" (1:21)
    2. "A Rose for Thee" (0:53)
    3. "River Crossing" (1:05)
    4. "Long Night's Journey" (1:27)
    5. "Equestrians" (1:22)
  • ASCAP Title Code: 480343966
  • Date Composed: 1987
  • Copyright: 1988 Neil A Kjos Music Co (4380 Jutland Drive, San Diego, California, 92117).
  • Score/Parts: Neil A Kjos (engraved), #GP356. 
  • Recording: Performed by Michael Mauldin on the CD, "Love Without a Name: Music I Wrote For My Students", produced by M Mauldin, $10.95 plus shipping.
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "This music is yours.  Music belongs to the person who is willing to learn and perform it.  I hope these pieces give you a little 'magic' at the keyboard--some personal magic for the performer, and for the listeners, too."

"Mauldin, national chair of MTNA's student composition contests, has provided some agreeable music both for players and listeners.  Although intermediate students of any age might enjoy these pieces, they are likely to be especially inviting to older students who playing abilities are not overly ambitious (the cover has sophisticated appeal).  Mauldin offers performance notes that speak directly to a more adult player.  They are instructive, but chatty.  They offer some freedoms even as they lay out sensible practice advice."
--THE PIANO QUARTERLY

 

+THREE VIEWS FROM SPACE: Intermediate Piano Solos for My Students.

  • Movement Titles (click for mp3 sound clips):
  • Date Composed: 1991
  • Copyright: 1997 M Mauldin
  • Score/Parts: M Mauldin (manuscript and computer generated). Printable downloads available for purchase from MyScoreStore.com:
  • Recording: Performed by Michael Mauldin on the CD, "Love Without a Name: Music I Wrote For My Students", produced by M Mauldin, $10.95 plus shipping.
  • Program Notes/Reviews: "These three impressions were inspired by the statements of astronauts-- from a variety of nations and cultures--about how seeing the earth from space had deepened their love of and concern for the earth.

[Note:  Mauldin arranged the third movement for junior orchestra and included it as the second movement (entitled 'Forest Fire'), with slight changes in the harmonic plan, in 'Wilderness Scenes' (see 'Orchestral')]

 

+TWO NEW MEXICO NOCTURNES (for a concert of works by Mauldin and George Willink on April 18, 1993 at the San Ysidro Church in Corrales, NM, with the composer at the piano).

 

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