100 for Gunther’s 100th

Chimeric Images (1988)
for large chamber ensemble [fl, cl, bn, tpt, hn, hp, pf(cel), vn, va, vc, db]
Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

Double Quintet for Wind and Brass Quintets (1961) | 12:00

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Games | 10:00 | peruse score

for sinfonietta [1-1-1/1-0-0-0/str(1-1-1-1-1)]

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Grand Concerto for Percussion and Keyboards | Listen

for 8 percussionists, harp, celeste, and piano

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Lines and Contrasts (1960) | 10:00

for 16 horns

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Transformation (1956) | 6:00 | Listen | Video

for large chamber ensemble (fl, cl, tsx, bn, hn, tbn, vib, hp, pf, db, perc, dm)
Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Sandpoint Rag (1986) | 4:00 | Listen

for ragtime ensemble (12 players; also for brass sextet)

Margun Music | Available for sale

Jazz Ensemble

Jumpin’ in the Future (1947) | 4:30 | Listen
for fl, ob, ssx, asx, tsx, 2 hn, tpt, tbn, tba, pf, db, dm

Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Headin’ Out, Movin’ In (1994) | 12:00 | Listen

for jazz saxophone and jazz ensemble (winds, bass, drums)

Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music | see also Wind Ensemble

❖ Lament for M (1994) | 6:00 | Listen
for jazz tenor saxophone with flute, harp, drums, and strings [4-4-3-3-2]
Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music | also listed under Full Orchestra (inc. concerti …)

Night Music (1961) | 4:30 | Listen

for jazz band (feat. b.cl)

MJQ/Hal Leonard | Contact George Schuller*

Teardrop (1966) | 12:00 | Listen
for chamber jazz ensemble [fl, cl (a.sax, b.sax), hn, tpt, tbn, tba, gtr, db, dm]
Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

Contact George Schuller* (Gunther’s son) regarding Gunther’s arrangements for jazz ensembles by various composers. These include charts heard on the albums Jumpin’ In the Future, and Rush Hour On 23rd Street, and more.

Ragtime Arrangements

Scott Joplin, Arranged by Schuller

for ragtime ensemble [fl/pic, cl, tpt, tbn, tba, dms, pf, 2vn, va, vc, db]

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music:

The Cascades

The Chrysanthemum, An Afro-American Intermezzo | Available for sale

The Easy Winners, A Ragtime Two-Step

❖ Maple Leaf Rag

Ragtime Dance

Sugar Cane, A Ragtime Two Step

Sun Flower Slow Drag

Kenneth Laufer and Gunther Schuller | Listen

The Twelve-Note Rag (1977)

1111/1111/dm/gtr[or banjo?].pf/str (1.1.1.1.1)

GunMar Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

Wind Ensemble

❖ Blue Dawn into White Heat (1997) | 7:00 | Listen

for concert band [a ‘jazz oriented’ piece for a full wind ensemble with rhythm section]

Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Headin’ Out, Movin’ In (1994) | 12:00 | Listen

for jazz saxophone and jazz ensemble (winds, bass, drum set)

Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music | see also Jazz Ensemble

Meditation for Concert Band (1963) | 6:00

for concert band (Level 4-5)

AMP | Available for sale

Nature’s Way (2006) | 6:30 | Listen & view score

for concert band (Grade 4.5)

American Composers Forum | Available for sale

On Winged Flight: A Divertimento for Band (1989) | 12:00

for concert band and three celli

AMP | Available for sale

❖ Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (1950) | 18:00
for brass band [4.6.3+bar.2/timp.2perc]

Malcolm Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

Symphony No. 3 “In Praise of Winds” (1981) | 25:00 | Listen: IV. Finale - Rondo

(Symphony for Large Wind Orchestra)

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Tre invenzioni for Chamber Ensembles (1972) | 18:00

for 25 players divided into five groups, without strings

Premiered at Tanglewood for the 20th Anniversary of the Fromm Music Foundation

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Full Orchestra (including concerti & more)

American Triptych [A Study in Textures] (1965) | 14:00

for orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | Score available for sale

And They All Played Ragtime (1992) | 20:00

for orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Bagatelle: With Swing (2010) | 3:30

for orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Concertino da camera (1971) | 16:00

for orchestra

AMP | Available to hire from Wise Music

Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra (1959) | 19:30 | Listen: III.

MJQ Music | Possible availability for hire by Hal Leonard

Concerto Festivo for Brass Quintet and Orchestra (1984)

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Concerto for Alto Saxophone (1983) | 19:00

for solo alto saxophone and orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra [Eine Kleine Fagottmusik] (1985) | 22:00 | Listen: I.

for solo bassoon and orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | see also Small Chamber Ensembles (2-4 players)

Concerto for Contrabassoon (1978) | 23:00 | Listen: II. Scherzo

for solo contrabassoon and orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | piano-4 hands reduction created by GS

Concerto for Flute (Piccolo) and Orchestra (1988) | 16:00 | Listen

for solo flute/piccolo and orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | see also Small Chamber Ensembles (2-4 players)

Concerto for Piano No. 1 (1962) | 22:00 | Listen: I.

for solo piano and orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Concerto Quaternio for Four Solo Instruments and Four Orchestral Groups (1984)
for solo violin, flute, oboe, and trumpet and orchestra (divided into groups)

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Concerto for Trumpet (1979)

for solo trumpet and orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | see also Small Chamber Ensembles (2-4 players)

Concerto for Viola (1985)

for solo viola and orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Dreamscape (2012) | 12:00
for orchestra

Commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center for Tanglewood’s 75th anniversary celebration

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik (1980) | 16:00 | Listen

for solo trombone and orchestra | see also Small Chamber Ensembles (2-4 players)

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | Score available for sale

Farbenspiel [Concerto for Orchestra No. 3] (1985) | 25:00

for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | Score available for sale

Five Bagatelles (1964) | 14:00

for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Four Soundscapes [Hudson Valley Reminiscences] (1975) | 15:00 | Listen: I. A Day on the River

for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Journey into Jazz (1962) | 18:00 | Listen

for narrator, jazz quintet, and chamber orchestra

Text by Net Hentoff
AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Jubilee Music (1984) | 24:00

for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Lament for M (1994) | 6:00 | Listen
for jazz tenor saxophone with flute, harp, drums, and strings [4-4-3-3-2]
Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music | see also Jazz Ensemble

❖ Of Reminiscences and Reflections (1993) | 20:00 | Listen
for large orchestra

Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in Music

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | Score available for sale

The Past is in the Present (1994) | 25:00
for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Ritmica-Melodica-Armonia (1993) | 15:00
for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959) | 23:30 | Listen

for orchestra

Available to hire by Universal Edition | Art and Music article

Six Renaissance Lyrics (1962) | 15:00

for Lyric Tenor and Chamber Orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music | Score available for sale

Symphonic Images (2012) | 16:00 | peruse score | Listen

for orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Symphony (1965) | 22:00 |

for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Variants (1960) | 18:00 | Listen: Variant I
for jazz quartet (vib, pf, db, dm) and orchestra
Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

Vertige d’Eros (1945) | 15:30 | Listen
for large orchestra

Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

❖ Where the Word Ends (2007) | 25:30 | Listen
for large orchestra

Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine, Feb. 2009

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Other Orchestral

Souvenir de Villingen (1974) | 4:00 | Listen

by Stephane Grappelli | Arranged by Gunther Schuller

for violin (partly improvised) and orchestra

Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

Yale-Princeton Football Game (1898)

by Charles Ives | Edited by Gunther Schuller

for large orchestra

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Vocal / Choral

❖ The Black Warrior (1998) | 25:00

for narrator, chorus and orchestra

(Schuller's oratorio is a tribute to civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring text from Dr. King's Letter From Birmingham City Jail [1963].)

AMP | Available to hire by Wise Music

Meditation (1964)

for medium voice and piano

Text by Gertrude Stein

EB Marks | Available for sale

Music for a Celebration (1980) | 6:00
for chorus, audience, orchestra and offstage brass ensemble

(includes American national themes and tunes inc. The Star-Spangled Banner)

Available to hire by Wise Music | Score available for sale

Poems of Time and Eternity (1972) | 13:00

for chorus and chamber ensemble (fl/pic, cl, bn, hn, vn, va, vc, pf)

Margun Music | Available to hire by Wise Music

Six Early Songs (1944) | 18:00
for soprano and orchestra