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Burning Sled Music Publishing (ASCAP) represents musical compositions by Daron Hagen and Gilda Lyons. Click on the music thumbnails to view a sample page. (Note that the scores are very high definition, and that the sample page images have been intentionally degraded.) Click on the arrow icon to listen to an excerpt from the work. All of our titles are in print. You may purchase music via immediate PDF download (directly to your computer) or print (sent via US Mail). Payment is processed securely through PayPal. All grand rights inquiries should be made to grandrights @ burningsled.org.

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Three Early Song Cycles NEW ISSUE

“This anthology contains three vocal works: two song cycles for soprano and piano and a petite chamber work for soprano, flute, and piano. Although these are early works in Hagen’s musical output, Echo’s Songs (1982), Love Songs (1988), and Dear Youth (1991) already contain the musical fingerprints of Hagen’s writing for the voice—characteristics that continued to develop and flower in his later song cycles and operas. They represent a revealing early retrospective of one of America’s distinguished composers. Composers of art song are very literate people, and are usually voracious readers. They love words, for those are their stock in trade. Art songs are fueled by poetry and it is a composer’s duty to discover the inner life of the poem he is setting to music. Daron Hagen possesses an uncanny talent along these lines. His poetic choices are diverse but always fascinating, and he sets them to music carefully and with an unerring sense of prosody.” -- Carol Kimball, from the foreword

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Rapture and Regret (score and part) NEW ISSUE

Consisting of two highly lyrical, rapturously romantic settings of Virginia Woolf and Isak Dinesan for soprano, cello, and piano, this 18 minute work was originally commissioned by the Bill Douglas Dancers as the ballet score And the Air. It was premiered under that title at the Merce Cuningham Dance Studio at the Westbeth Center for the Arts, New York, New York, on the evenings of 4-9 December 1987, conducted by the composer. The score was revised, with linking material and music conceived of purely for the dance excised, during the summer of 2005. Learn more>>>

Everything Must Go! for Brass Quintet - Score NEW ISSUE

The first professional performance took place on 15 September 1992 in Bryant Park, New York City. The Brass Ensemble of the Orchestra of St. Luke's performed. Performances at the Aspen Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, and the Spoleto Festival have cemented the work's popularity as a tour de force virtuoso showpiece for brass quintet. Learn more>>>

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Hagen: Amelia, Two Act Opera in Six Scenes - Piano Vocal Score

An exquisite, library-grade limited second edition, 9 x 12, 248 pages, full-color cover 4/0 on 12pt C1S with a gloss laminate, internal pages 60 lb. paper, perfect bound with hindge so that it will open comfortably on a piano rack. Includes synopsis, cast credits, complete score and acknowledgements. This score contains all edits and changes made to the score during the world premiere production.

Commissioned by Seattle Opera for premiere in May 2010. Libretto by Gardner McFall. Story by Stephen Wadsworth. Story: A first time mother-to-be, whose psyche has been scarred by the loss of her pilot-father in Vietnam, must break free from anxiety to embrace healing and renewal for the sake of her husband and child in this original story unfolding over a 30-year period beginning in 1966. Amelia interweaves one woman’s emotional journey, the American experience in Vietnam, and elements of the Daedalus and Icarus myth to explore man’s fascination with flight and the dilemmas that arise when vehicles of flight are used for exploration, adventure, and war. With an intensely personal libretto by American poet Gardner McFall (The Pilot’s Daughter), whose father was a Navy pilot lost during Vietnam, this new American opera moves from loss to recuperation, paralysis to flight, as the protagonist, Amelia, ultimately embraces her life and the creative force of love and family. For an interactive audio-visual presentation on Amelia, click here.

Wind Songs - Score and Parts

trio for oboe, horn and bassoon (1982)

Wind Songs was completed in January of 1982 in Philadelphia for three fellow pupils at the Curtis Institute of Music — Katherine Greenbank, David McGill, and Shelly Showers — who together performed it for the first time on 6 April 1982 in Curtis Hall. The little four movement suite lasts about nine minutes. Read more>>>

Everything Must Go! fo Brass Quintet - Parts

The first professional performance took place on 15 September 1992 in Bryant Park, New York City. The Brass Ensemble of the Orchestra of St. Luke's performed. Performances at the Aspen Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, and the Spoleto Festival have cemented the work's popularity as a tour de force virtuoso showpiece for brass quintet.

Hagen: Suite for Piano (2009) BEST SELLER

Duration: 9 minutes. A finalist in the Van Cliburn Composers Invitational Competition, 2009, this four movement work was premiered 28-31 May 2009 in the Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX during the Semi-Finals of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition by four performers: Mariangela Vacatello, Kyu Yeon Kim, Di Wu, and Michial Lifits. Learn more>>>

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