Argenta Music
Sheila was the Elliot Carter Distinguished Resident Composer at the American Academy in Rome in Spring 2020.

Scores For Purchase

Sheila Silver’s works are sold by three publishers, Argenta Music, Keiser Southern Music Publishing, and Mostly Marimba. If there is a composition or opera from Silver’s Works/Listen list that you would like to peruse or purchase and you don’t see it on any of the three lists below, please contact us at Argenta@sheilasilver.com. We will be happy to help you. To hear excerpts from Silver’s music, go to the Works/Listen list.  For most of the Argenta Music titles you have two choices when purchasing:  an immediate digital download or a beautifully printed and bound score from LULU, usually reaching you by mail within a week or two.

The following compositions are available from ARGENTA MUSIC for purchase on this site at this time.

Argenta Music

Chamber and Instrumental

Chant (contrabass and piano)

Fantasy on an Imaginary folk Song (flute and harp)

Lullaby (bassoon or bass clarinet and piano)

Moon Prayer (string sextet)

Music Vision: As the Earth Turns (high and low woodwind – several combinations+ video with audio track

Music Vision: Subway Sunset (Ob, Bsn, or Clarinet plus piano + video)

Twilight’s Last Gleaming (2 pianos and 2 percussion)

Vocal

Transcending (baritone or bass-baritone and piano)

Beauty Intolerable, (songs for all women’s voice types — soprano, mezzo, contralto — and piano)

On Loving (soprano and piano)

Solo Instrumental

Resilient Earth, Seven Preludes for piano            

Resilient Earth, Four Caprices for solo violin

Six Beads on a String (violin solo)

Nocturne (piano solo)

Lauren Keiser/Southern Music Publishing

Chariessa – FS (soprano and orchestra)

Chariessa: A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho – Sc/Pts

Chariessa: A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho – VS

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra – Sc/Pts

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra – FS

Dance Converging for Viola, Horn, Piano and Percussion – Sc/Pts

Dance Converging for Viola, Horn, Piano and Percussion – FS

Dance of Wild Angels – Sc/Pts

Dance of Wild Angels – FS

Dynamis – Solo (for solo horn)

Fantasy Quasi Theme and Variations – Solo piano

Four Etudes and a Fantasy: String Quartet No. 2 – FS

From Darkness Emerging for String Quartet and Harp – Sc/Pts

From Darkness Emerging for String Quartet and Harp – FS

Shirat Sarah: Song of Sarah – Sc/Pts

Shirat Sarah: Song of Sarah – FS (string orchestra)

Six Preludes for Piano on Poems of Baudelaire (New Edition) – Solo

Sonata for Cello – Solo/Pno

Three Preludes for Orchestra – Sc/Pts

Three Preludes for Orchestra – FS

To the Spirit Unconquered – FS (trio for violin, cello, piano)

To the Spirit Unconquered – Sc/Pts

Mostly Marimba (Hal Leonard)

G Whiz for 2 violins and Marimba

Theme and Variations for Bowed Vibraphone

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