The Continental Music Press

Chamber Music

by Samuel Pellman

Fanfare: a Trio for One Trumpet, for solo trumpet and digital delay
An Augural Fanfare, for brass choir
Kyrie, for choir (SATB) and stereo digital sounds
chromatic aberrations, for piano, four-hands
Sagittarius in Transit, for string quartet
Pentacle!, for alto saxophone and tape
Crane Songs, for soprano, flute, Bb clarinet, violin, percussion, and piano
Intermezzo, for two flutes
Trump-it, for solo trumpet (and rubber chicken)
Lament for a Paradise Lost, for solo oboe

For further information about any of these works, contact the composer at the email address given at the bottom of this page


Fanfare: a Trio for One Trumpet, for solo trumpet and digital delay

Free download of the sheet music, in single-paged format. Assembly directions: for best results, print on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11) in "portrait" orientation.

Listen to a MIDI rendition of the piece, if you'd like.

Download a Mac version or a Windows version of a digital delay simulator. For further information about the technical set-up, visit this page.


An Augural Fanfare, for brass choir (6 trumpets, 2 horns, tenor trb., bass trb., tuba, timpani)

Free download of the score and parts, in single-paged format. Assembly directions: for best results, print on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11) in "portrait" orientation.

Listen to a 44 second audio clip (704 K mp3 file), from an April 16, 1998 performance by the Indiana University Brass Choir, Edmund Cord, director, at the 1998 National Conference of the Society of Composers.
Or, listen to a 4 second audio clip (96 K mp3 file)


Kyrie, for choir (SATB) and stereo digital sounds

Free download of the sheet music, in single-paged format. Assembly directions: for best results, print on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11) in "portrait" orientation.

Listen to a reading (7.3 MB mp3 file) of the piece by a small college choir.


chromatic aberrations, for piano, four-hands

Free download of the score. Assembly directions: for best results, print on tabloid-sized paper (11 x 17) in "landscape" orientation. Or, print on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11) in "landscape" orientation at 60% reduction and then enlarge to 11 x 17 paper (2-sided) on a photocopier.

Listen (2.9 MB mp3 file) to an early performance of this piece by Sam and Colleen Pellman.


Sagittarius in Transit, for string quartet

Free download of the score, in single-paged format. Assembly directions: for best results, print on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11) in "portrait" orientation.
And here is a free download of the score with parts (in a zip archive).

Listen to a 73 second audio clip (1139 K mp3 file) of a performance by the Clinton String Quartet, if you'd like.


Pentacle!, for alto saxophone and tape

Free download of the score. Assembly directions: for best results, print on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11) in "portrait" orientation.

And here are mp3 files of the accompanying segments of electronic sounds. Assembly directions: for best results, burn these as four consecutive tracks on an audio CD :

Listen to a 92 second audio clip (1.5 MB mp3 file) of a passage of electronic sounds, if you'd like.


Crane Songs, for soprano, flute, Bb clarinet, violin, percussion, and piano

Free download of the score, in single-paged format. Assembly directions: for best results, print on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11) in "portrait" orientation.
And here is a free download of the score with parts (in a zip archive).

Listen to a 39 second audio clip (640 K mp3 file) from the second song, if you'd like.
Listen to a 9 second audio clip (160 K mp3 file) from the third song, if you'd like.
Listen to a 13 second audio clip (224 K mp3 file) from the third song, if you'd like.
Listen to a 19 second audio clip (320 K mp3 file) from the fourth song, if you'd like.
Listen to a 60 second audio clip (960 K mp3 file) from the fourth song, if you'd like.


Intermezzo, for two flutes

Listen to a 14 second audio clip (256 K mp3 file), if you'd like,
or listen to a 9 second audio clip (160 K mp3 file)

Free download of the sheet music, in single-paged format.


Trump-it, for solo trumpet (and rubber chicken)

Listen to an early performance, by Marice Stith, of the piece, if you'd like.

Free download of the sheet music, in single-paged format.


Lament for a Paradise Lost, for solo oboe

Commissioned by Hamilton College, on the occasion of its bicentennial celebration. The score has been included in a time capsule to be opened during Hamilton's tercentennial celebration, in 2112.

Click here to view a video of a recent performance of this work.

Click here for a free download of the sheet music, in single-paged format.


For further information, contact the composer at this email address: