scores | James Creed

SCORES

All of these scores are an open invitation to respond or to not respond however you would like.

They are freely available, though entirely optional nominal payment via the "donate" button (paypal) or small regular donation via Patreon is appreciated, and helps me keep making these things. Alternatively, consider donating to Medical Aid for Palestinians or Youth Music.

Please get in touch if you're interested in playing anything (or have any questions)—you don't need my permission or input in order to play my music, but I'd be glad to know.

PATREON

Tending

Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation

(in progress, score(s) coming soon)

Octet, or, Music for 9+ Musicians: a version of "Tending"

Forty minutes approx., piano, six violins or violas, at least two bass clarinets, local recording devices, 2024

(score to follow first performance)

Double Quintet and Duo: a version of "Tending"

Seventeen minutes approx., 2x (piano, flute, violin, cello, vibraphone/guitar, bass clarinet), 2024

(score to follow first performance)

String Quartet and tines, or, "eddy"

Twenty minutes approx., string quartet, eight or more attack/free decay instruments, 2024

(score to follow first performance)

Duo: a version of "Tending"

Fifteen minutes approx., piano and e. guitar with e-bow, 2024

To Kory Reeder

Music for Three Players

No particular instruments, no particular durations, 2024

Six Lines: after a song by Freda D'Souza

Ten minutes, six middle-register sustaining instruments, 2024

Tending (guitar), or, 2(1+1+1)

Transcribed from an improvised performance in Minneapolis, March 2024

Music for Two

Any two players, flexible duration, 2024

After Mieko Shiomi; to Antoine Beuger

Number Piece(s)

No particular instruments, no particular duration, 2024

For Luke and Nina Martin

Piano 8 Hands

Five minutes approx., 2024

Trio: after a trio by James M. Creed, composer*

Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2024

For flxnflx

Pipe Organ Study 1

Fifteen minutes approx., solo organ, 2024

Trio: after an étude by Hélène de Montgeroult, composer*

Piano, bass clarinet and cello, at least eight minutes, 2023

Composed for Terra Invisus, trio

Piano Study 8: for Kate Ledger

30 mins approx., Piano and smartphones (or similar), 2023

Composed for Kate Ledger, pianist

Cradle Piece

For at least two players, flexible duration, 2022

Published in Prototype 5, anthology, by Prototype publishing

One Guitar

Solo electric guitar with effects, approx 12 minutes, 2022

[untitled guitar piece]

(there's no score for [untitled guitar piece], just some notes here so that somebody could play it if they wanted to)

For Percussion

Solo percussion, 2022, three pieces:

1. Having only seen the score for James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion whilst having never seen the score for Alvin Lucier's Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra

2. Having now seen the score for Alvin Lucier's Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (which I had already heard) whilst having still only seen the score for James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion

3. Having at last heard James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (which I had already read) and also seen the score for Alvin Lucier's Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (which I had already heard)

Piano Study 7, or, the logical extension of both "Piano Study 1" and "Piano Study 6"

Solo piano, 2022

Nomond, or, no more Lomond

Flexible instrumentation, flexible duration, 2022

Two Guitars

Electric guitar duo with effects, 25 minutes, 2022

Towmond

Flexible instrumentation or guitar with effects, flexible duration, 2022

Flute Study 1

Flute, one breath, 2022

Composed for Kathryn Williams's coming up for air

They don't write 'em like they used to