Collection: Balentine, James Scott

Composer by character and performer by temperament, James Scott Balentine (Jim to those who know him) is as complex as his music; that is, moderately enigmatic yet engaging. Jim’s compositions are fun and interesting to play, intriguing to the listener, and crafted in a personal language influenced by ethnic dance, jazz and folk idioms, tonal as well as atonal and serial techniques.
His catalog includes music written for soloists and ensembles from many parts of the United States, Belgium, France, and the UK, all incorporating the personality, technique, and musical character of the performers in some way. Jim’s fondness for wordplay and poetry finds its way into many of his works as phonetic motifs, alliterative program notes, a poetic prologue, or formal musical structures designed around names, prosody, and other linguistic elements that infuse his music with a sense of theater, from dramatic to playful. He is the recipient of awards, commissions and grants from the Barlow Endowment, the American Music Center, the Krost Foundation, the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, Cactus Pear Music Festival, ASCAP, the Opera Guild of San Antonio, the College Band Director's National Association, Musical Offerings, King William Winds, Hemisphere Quartet, Trio Con Brio, Duo Con Fuoco, KUT-FM radio, Claribel Clarinet Choir, soloists Robert Walzel (clarinet), Matthew Dunne (guitar), Ron Wilkins (trombone), Richard Smith (piano), and Roger Steptoe (piano). His music is published by Cimarron Music, Hal Leonard (Southern Music), and Guildhian Music.
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James Scott Balentine
Asking a Shadow to Dance (for Quartet)
Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
$27.50 - $40.50 -
James Scott Balentine
Asking a Shadow to Dance (for Trio)
Clarinet, Viola, and Piano
$25.50 - $37.50 -
James Scott Balentine
Bill's Shadow
Solo Flugelhorn, Jazz Combo, and String Quartet Flugelhorn, Clarinet, Piano, Double Bass, Drum Kit, 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello
$38.00 - $44.00 -
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James Scott Balentine
Dùn Èideann Blogh
Solo Clarinet, Solo Bassoon, and Chamber Orchestra 1111 - 1110 - 2 perc, pno - solo cl, solo bsn - strings
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James Scott Balentine
Ghost of Eric Dolphy
Clarinet Sextet Eb Clarinet, 4 Bb Clarinets, Bass Clarinet
$18.75 - $33.50 -
James Scott Balentine
Il y a des Fleurs
Soprano, Flugelhorn, Clarinet, Jazz Combo, and String Quartet Soprano, Flugelhorn, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Percussion (Drum Set & Bongos), 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
$24.50 - $45.50 -
James Scott Balentine
Invention and Rhapsody II
Flute Quartet (3 C Flutes and 1 Alto Flute)
$20.00 - $49.50 -
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James Scott Balentine
Monk, through a glass darkly
Clarinet Sextet Eb Clarinet, 4 Bb Clarinets, Bass Clarinet
$31.00 - $45.00 -
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James Scott Balentine
Red Poppy & the Yellow Rose
Wind Ensemble picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, Eb cl, 3 Bb cl, bcl, 2 asax, tsax, bar sax, 2 bsn, 4 Bb tpt, 4 hrn, 2 tbn, btbn, euph, tba, 3 perc
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