Compositions and Arrangements

by

Truman Harris
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Naxos has released a CD (No. 8.559858) of six of Truman's works with artist performers from the National Symphony Orchestra.  Listen to the CD on Spotify; excerpts on Naxos.  Works listed in RED below are on the CD, which is available for purchase from Amazon and other sites; The CD booklet with program notes and bios of the performers is located here.
 
Naxos Album Cover

 

Original Compositions

Arrangements Listed Below

Title Instrumentation Performance Time Synthesized audio
(some are excerpts)
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Exerpts

NEW
Promenade

1. Parade
2. Serenade
3. Escapade
Six Bassoons
6:25


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Promenade
on YouTube

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Promenade
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Equal Voices

1. Two Ways
2. Candle Light
3. Celebration
Flute, Oboe,
Clarinet, Viola,
Horn, Bassoon

7:51


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Equal Voices
on YouTube

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Equal Voices
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Maple Dances

Four Bassoons
3:54


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Maple Dances
on YouTube

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Maple Dances
January Suite

1. Ice Crystals
2. Moonlight on Snow
3. Winter Merriment
Flute, Oboe,
Clarinet,
Horn, Bassoon

6:21


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January Suite
on YouTube

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January Suite
Five for Six

1. March
2. Mystery
3. Calliope
4. Technominute
5. Meditation
Flute, Oboe,
Clarinet,
Horn, Bassoon, and Harp

6:05


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Five for Six
on YouTube

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Five for Six
Five Inventions
1. Moderato
2. Andantino
3. Allegro
4. Allegro
5. Maestoso; Spirito

Flute, Oboe,
Clarinet,
Horn, Bassoon

5:40


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Five Inventions
on YouTube

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Five Inventions


Quartet in the Woods

1. Leaving the City
2. Campfire Discussions
3. Fireflies
Flute, Oboe,
Clarinet,
Horn

(perfect music in case your bassoonist is stuck in traffic)
6:40


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Quartet in the Woods

Harmonie Suite

1. March
2. Song and Gavotte
3. Minuet
4. Finale
2 Oboes,
2 Clarinets,
2 Horns,
2 Bassoons

8:40


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Harmonie Suite
on YouTube
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Harmonie Suite

Happy Music

1. Cutting a Rug
2. Waltzing Together
3. The Court Jester's March
4. Easy Chair Passacaglia
Flute/Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon
8:15


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Happy Music
Autumn Reflections

1. Overture
2. Soliloquy
3. Ruffles and Flourishes
4.Processional
5. Sun on Camellias
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon
8:15


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Autumn
Reflections
Gnomes
A Fairy Tale in the Forest
1. Once Upon a Time
2. Melodrama
3. March of the Trolls
4. Happily Ever After
2 Bassoons and Contrabassoon
8:15


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Gnomes
Divertimento

1. Cassation
2. Serenata Interrota
3. Scherzo
4. Concerto per Bambini


Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon

10:40


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Divertimento
Timewaves

1. Overture
2. Meditation
3. Finale



Flute, Oboe, Clarinet

5:35


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from
Timewaves
Sonata Breve


Bassoon and Piano

7:30


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from
Sonata Breve
Heliotrope Variations


Flute/Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon

5:28


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from
Heliotrope Variations
Suite for Wind Quintet
1. Overture
2. Waltz
3. Trio
4. One Minute Scherzo
5. Finale
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon

9:40


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Suite for
Wind Quintet
Tiny Fruit Suite
1. Strawberry
2.Blueberry
3. Kumquat
Two Oboes, English Horn

3:10


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Fruit Suite
Three Valentines
1. Stormy and Clearing
2. Serenade
3. Waltz

Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon


6:05


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Three
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Robin Ridge Overture 
2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba


4:08


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from
Robin Ridge Overture
  Three Places in Nova Scotia
1. Point Pleasant Park
2.The Margaree Valley
3. Lunenburg

Oboe, String Quartet, Electric Bass
10:08


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  Songs and Dances
(2018)

1. Allegro energico
2.Andante
3. Allegretto
Bassoon, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
10:08


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  Three Romances
(2018)

1. Allegro
2.Andante
3. Allegretto
Horn, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
10:42


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  Dance Suite
(2017)

1. Overture
2. Allemande
3. Courante a la Follia
4. Sarabande
5. Gavotte
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon
11:00


Listen to Dance Suite on YouTube


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  Sextet
(2017)

1. Blue Light
2.The Clockmaker's Cat
3. Midnight Gigue
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn,  Bassoon, Piano
9:44


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Four Winter Scenes
(2017)

1. Shadow Dancers
2.Light Snow
3. Shivering Song
4. Fireside Conversations

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn,  Bassoon
10:00

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Three Miniatures
(2006-7)

1. Overture
2.Cock O' The Walk
3. Chasing Shadows

Flute, Horn,  Bassoon
5:10

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Three
Miniatures
Rosemoor Suite 
(2015)

1. Fantasia
2. On the Trampoline
3. By the Stream, Late September
4. Charleston
5. Silent Movie
  Naxos CD
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon
12:00
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Excerpts from Rosemoor Suite
Aulos Triptych
(2015)

1. Light and Color
2. Dreams of Fantastic Places
3. A Warm Day in Winter

Naxos CD
4 Flutes, Piano 8:20 Listen to Aulos Triptych on YouTube Email Composer
Character Sketches
(2015)
1. Buskers
2. Monday Morning
3. Wallflower
4. Cheerleaders
5. Lydian Invaders
6. New Year's Eve
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet,  Horn, Bassoon 8:30 Listen to Character Sketches on YouTube

Listen to a performance of Character Sketches by members of Eclipse Chamber Orchestra on YouTube
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As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
Text by Walt Whitman
(2013)
Chamber Choir, Chamber Orchestra
4:01
Synth Audio

(Two other movements available)
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Sonata
(2008)

1. Until Three
2. Moon in the Water
3. Rondo

Naxos CD
Two Bassoons, Piano 13:55 Listen to the Sonata
on YouTube

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Excerpts from Sonata For Two Bassoons And Piano

The Mad Hatter
Based on text by Lewis Carroll
(2004)
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn, Contrabassoon, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Double Bass 7:43 Listen to
The Mad Hatter
on YouTube
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Excerpts
from
The Mad
Hatter
Flowers
(2007)

1. Pansy
2. Clover
3. Tulip
4. Lavender
5. Kudzu
6. Black-eyed Susan
 Washington Post review
Naxos CD
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon 7:36 Listen to
Flowers
on YouTube
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Excerpts
from
Flowers
Ricky-Tick Nightmare
(2007)
Encore Piece
Bassoon, Piano 1:43 Listen to Ricky-tick Nightmare on YouTube  Trevco Music Publishing
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Ricky-Tick
Nightmare

Concertino for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
 
(2003; rev. 2007)
Washington Post review
Naxos CD
Solo Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Strings   First Movement (excerpt) CD track on PrestoMusic  Email composer
Fanfare for the Tenth
(2002; rev. 2007)
2 Flutes, Strings 3:40
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Concertino for Horn and Chamber Orchestra
(2001; rev. 2006)
Naxos CD
Solo Horn, Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Strings

 

  Third movement (excerpt) CD track on PrestoMusic Email composer

Prelude
(1996)

A Fanfare for
Twelve Violas

  Synth audio Email composer  

Sinfonia
(1980)

2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba     Email composer  
On Losing a Friend
(2007)
Horn, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Double Bass 2:41   Email Composer  
Hanukkah Variations on a Theme of Marcello
(1994)
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon       Trevco Music Publishing



 

Arrangements

Composer & Title Instrumentation Published
Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna Overture
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn Trevco Music Publishing
Julius Fučík: Vjezd Gladiátorů
(Entry of the Gladiators)
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing
Sergei Rachmaninoff: итальянская полька
(Polka Italienne)
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing
  H.C.Lumbye: Champagne Galop Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing

Chopin: Les Sylphides (7 piano pieces)

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite:
Death of Åse

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon   Trevco Music Publishing 

Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing

Strauss: Die Fledermaus Overture

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing

Suppé: Banditenstreiche Overture
(The Jolly Robbers)

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Email composer

Suppé: Dichter Und Bauer Overture
(Poet and Peasant)

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing

Suppé: Light Cavalry Overture

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Email composer

Tchaikovsky: Dances from
The
Nutcracker

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing

Verdi: La Forza del Destino Overture

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trevco Music Publishing
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, with optional 2nd Clarinet Trevco Music Publishing
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever   Flute, Horn, Bassoon  Trevco Music Publishing




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