Nico Muhly

Hymns For Private has been beautifully composed by Nico Muhly. This score and parts is the perfect addition to any wind ensembles collection that may be looking for something a little different.Hymns For Private was commissioned by Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall London with the support of André Hoffmann President of the Fondation Hoffmann a Swiss grant-making foundation for the world premiere performances on April 13 14 18 and 19 2012.

Nico Muhly's Step Team for 9 players. Full score.'Stepping is a form of almost militaristic dancing involving the entire body as well as the voice. The routines are highly choreographed and precise but maintain an expressive freedom that comes out of the energy required to pull off the moves. In writing this piece for the Chicago Symphony MusicNOW I wanted to avoid too much delicate pointillistic writing and instead focused on making the nine players function as one team with a singular rhythmic agenda. Whenever the Chicago Symphony comes to New York I am always impressed with the massive steakhouse-style proportions of the brasssound so this score features the Bass Trombone as a guide for the harmonic and lyrical material.At a certain point in the piece the rhythmic unisons begin to break down and individual players or groups of players start slowing down or speeding up against the pulse. The Bass Trombone works as a unifying element here announcing the changes between sections. Some scattered pulses ensue and the brass section continuously shepherds the other instruments back into line. Step Team ends with a duet between the Bass Trombone and the Piano with a series of ornaments from the other players.' - Nico MuhlyInstrumentation: Flute Bassoon Horn in F Tenor Trombone Bass Trombone Piano Violin Viola Cello

For Five Instruments-How About Now is a composition by Nico Muhly for an Ensemble of Flute B Flat Clarinet Electric Guitar Double Bass and Piano. A full performance of this work lasts around 7 minutes this is the score and parts. This piece was composed for the NOW Ensemble as Muhly's challenge to himself an exercise in writing 'idiomatic music for each individual instrument as well as for the ensemble as an organism'. 

Balance Problems by contemporary classical composer Nico Muhly is a work arranged for Chamber Ensemble. This product includes the full score and parts for each instrument that is Flute Clarinet in B Trumpet in C Viola Violin (or Acoustic Guitar) and Violoncello. Balance Problems was commissioned by Linda and Stuart Nelson for yMusic an innovative ensemble that intersects the line between pop and classical music. Their debut album was named the number one classical album of the year by Time Out New York and this new Nico Muhly composition forms one track from their 2014 offering also titled 'BalanceProblems.' This work is in the key of C and lasts around 8 minutes.

Five Landscapes For Orchestra-This is the Full Score for Nico Muhly's Control: Five Landscapes For Orchestra. Commissioned by Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer Music Director the work was first performed at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City in December 2015. According to the composer's note Control is a sequence of five episodes that each offer an aural description of some aspect of Utah's landscape space and environment. From the land to the mountains to technology industry and the striking colours of the state Muhly's work is a unique approach to musical representation.

The sheet music for Nico Muhly's Doublespeak arranged for Chamber Ensemble and composed for the orchestral sextet 'eighth blackbird'. The piece is arranged for Flute (Soprano Recorder) Clarinet in B flat Percussion (Castanets Tenor Drum Pedal Bass Drum) Glockenspiel Piano Violin and Cello. It works for 2-6 players and this item includes the full score as well as the parts. Doublespeak had its debut at the Edlis Neeson Theatre in Chicago performed by the new musical six-piece 'eighth blackbird'. The piece is a slow and repetitive one punctuated bymoments of stark beauty. It is according to Muhly something of a tribute to the great Philip Glass the forefather of minimalist classical music. It takes implicit inspiration from his entire oeuvre but also explicitly incorporates portions of his most famous and valued works interweaving them inside a new composition that captures what 'eighth blackbird' do best.  The Doublespeak sheet music would be ideal for Chamber Ensembles looking to perform or practise minimalist music drawn from the 1960s and 1970s. If you love Philip Glass or Nico Muhly or both this composition is a real treat.

Tv söngur is a composition for large ensemble written by Nico Muhly commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Tv söngur is a specific type of Icelandic two-part singing that can be found in texts as well as oral traditions Muhly?writes. Some of the tradition seems like much early music to stem from an exercise in voice-leading while some other examples are more social impromptu and secular. These arrangements attempt to frame the tradition through orchestration and wildly shifting contexts lighting effects and textures. The piece was composed in 2012 and lastsaround 5 Minutes.

Nico Muhly's It Remains To Be Seen was written in 2006 for for full Orchestra and has a duration of approximately 11 minutes. Composers Note: It Remains to be Seen was written for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s 40th Anniversary Gala in July 2006. The piece begins with a chord identical to the one at the end of Stravinsky’s Firebird suite and proceeds into a series of charged nocturnal episodes. I wanted to treat the feeling of having just heard music and being expected to make one’s own – referencing the experience of leaving a BSO concert at the shed walking back to BUTI on a curvy back road arguing about music in pairs and threes and at the sign of bright headlights from behind reorganizing in single file as a car filled with happy concert-goers speeds by. The piece is a nine-minute navigation of an excited occasionally illuminated dark road filled with arguing cars fragments of remembered music and a constant propulsive pulse. Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly's Clear Loud Bright Forward is a one-act ballet created by Benjamin Millepied for the Paris Opera Ballet premiered at the Palais Garnier Paris on 25th September 2015. Written for Orchestra with a duration of approximately 35 minutes.

Nico Muhly's In As Long As It Takes for Ensemble.Commissioned by Crash Ensemble with funds provided by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaion. The first performance took place on 17 August 2017 at the Kilkenny Arts Festival Kilkenny Ireland.Duration: 1.5 minutes

Nico Muhly's Motion captures the nervous energy of obsessive counting. The piece is made up from small repetitive and expressive pieces which captures this nervous energy perfectly.This piece is scored for Clarinet  String Quartet and Piano.