"Doug did all of the engraving for the score and parts to my concerto for toy piano and wind ensemble, Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. It's nearly impossible to exaggerate the difficultly that this project entailed: cutaways, unmetered music for large ensemble, copious extended techniques, etc. The work Doug did was visually beautiful and meticulous. Not only that, but he was incredibly responsive and responsible in getting things to me in a timely fashion. Tl;dr: HIRE HIM! You won't regret it."
— David Smooke, Composer
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All scores are delivered electronically as PDFs with a digital license to duplicate the number of copies purchased. Files are typically delivered within 2 business days.
As a performing musician, composer, and teacher, Douglas brings a keen artistic eye and a strong sense of musicality to the scores he edits and publishes.
Please inquire if you are interested in hiring engraving services, and feel free to peruse the Score Samples provided below.
“Buchanan has a knack for summoning massive sonic blows, reminiscent in impact of the kind John Corigliano can unleash. The hammering passages in the taut score are filled with terrific orchestral color and wieght, not to mention feeling”
—Tim Smith, Review of Malleus, The Baltimore Sun
Large Ensemble
Variations on a Shape-Note Hymn ("And when from death I'free, I'll sing on") (2019)
Duration: ca. 8'
Score $15
Parts $20
…and the madness of crowds… (2018)
Duration: ca. 7'
Score $15
Parts $50
Altus Prosator (2018)
Keyboard reduction available
Duration: ca. 60'
Score $50
Parts $50
Piano Reduction $10
Malleus (2010)
Also available for: 2 Fl / 2 Ob / 2 Cl in B-flat / 2 Bsn / 4 Hn in F / 2 Tpt in C / 1 B Tbn / Timp / 2 Perc / Harp / Pno
Duration: ca. 12'
To be released, Presser Publications
Frank Gulino: Capriccio (200 Miles to Arnstadt Publications)
Score $20
Parts $150
Piano Reduction $20
Opera
Bessie and Ma (2018)
Libretto by Caitlin Vincent
Duration: ca. 60'
Score $50
Parts $50
Piano Reduction $10
Ariel's Tempest: An opera for Young Audiences (2011)
Libretto by Roger Brunyate
Duration: ca. 50'
Score $15
Goblin Market (2011)
Poetry by Christina Rossetti
Duration: ca. 30'
Score $15
Lux et Tenebrae (2011)
Libretto by Douglas Buchanan and Caitlin Vincent
Duration: ca. 30'
Score $15
Parts $6
Choral
Resurrection, Imperfect (2019)
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $2/Per Copy
The Long Night (2018)
Text: Anonymous Scottish
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $2/Per Copy
Altus Prosator (2018)
Duration: ca. 60'
Score $10/Per Copy
In the Golden Afternoon: Three Songs of Lewis Carroll (2018)
Text by Lewis Caroll
Duration: ca. 10'
Score $5/Per Copy
The Dream of the Rood (2018)
Text: Anonymous Middle English
Duration: ca. 12'
Score $5/Per Copy
I Will Sing of Mercy and of Justice (2017)
Also available for SATB chorus, SATB soloists, piano + string quartet
Text: Excerpts from various Psalms, King James translation
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $2/Per Copy
I Will Sing of Mercy and of Justice (2017)
Text: Excerpts from various Psalms, King James translation
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $4/Per Copy
Parts $6
Piano Reduction $2
I Saw Three Ships (2017)
Text: Traditional English carol
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Hear the Voice of the Bard (2017)
Text: William Blake
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Benedicite omnia opera (Oh all ye works of the Lord) (2017)
Text in English from the canticle of the same title, translation from the Book of Common Prayer (1662)
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $2/Per Copy
Rorate coeli (Drop Down) (2016)
Text: Excerpt from the Advent Prose, translation into English by the Composer
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $2/Per Copy
The Green Fields of Amerikay (2016)
Text: Traditional Irish
Duration: ca. 10'
Score $2/Per Copy
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (2016)
Text: The Song of Mary and the Song of Simeon
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Ride on, King Jesus (2016)
Text: African-American Spiritual
(All proceeds from Spiritual arrangements benefit the SPLC)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (2016)
Text: Traditional German carol
(All proceeds from Spiritual arrangements benefit the SPLC)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Blessed be that Maid Mairie (2015)
Text: traditional English carol
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Shepherd of Souls (2015)
Text: Anonymous, with additions by James Montgomery
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Ubi Caritas (2014)
Text: Traditional prayer
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $2/Per Copy
Create in Me a Clean Heart (2014)
Text: Psalm 51, v. 10-12, King James translation
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (2014)
Text: Psalm 121, King James translation
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Psalm 148 (2013)
Text: Psalm 148, King James translation
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow (2013)
Text: African-American Spiritual
(All proceeds from Spiritual arrangements benefit the SPLC)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (2012)
Text: Traditional American carol
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Two Songs of Hope (2012)
Text: Traditional Irish, adapted by Mary Byrne and Eleanor Hull;
and Robert Robinson and Martin Madan
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $2/Per Copy
I Wonder as I Wander (2011)
Text: Traditional American carol
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
De Profundis (2010)
Text: Psalm 130, in Latin
Duration: ca. 8'
Score $2/Per Copy
The Tyger (2009)
Text by William Blake
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
…of Sound and Light… (2008)
Text by Douglas Buchanan
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $2/Per Copy
Oh Light and Universal Song (2008)
Text by Douglas Buchanan
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Vocal
Sound and Sense (Fuaim is Seagh) (2016)
Text: Traditional Gaelic
Duration: ca. 7'
Score $10
Parts $6
The Green Fields of Amerikay (2016)
Text: Traditional Irish
Duration: ca. 10'
Score $2
Cancioncilla Sevillana (2016)
Text by Frederico Garcia Lorca
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $6
Parts $4
Prospero Variations (2015)
Text by William Shakespeare, adapted by Douglas Buchanan
Duration: ca. 30'
Score $15
Parts $30
Batter my heart, three-person'd God (2015)
Text by John Donne
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $5
Scots and Waters (2014)
Text: Traditonal Scottish
Duration: ca. 12'
Score $3
Orkney Fragments (2013)
Text by Gill Andrews and Patty Robinson
Duration: ca. 7'
Score $5
Eingang (2012)
Text by Albert Giraud
Duration: ca. 12'
Score $10
Parts $20
Two Songs of Heaven and Earth (2012)
Text: Anonymous Middle English
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $3
Die Stille (2011)
Text by Rainer Maria Rilker
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $5
Parts $2
Midwestern Trilogy (2011)
Text by Jamie Smith
Duration: ca. 10'
Score $10
Even if your are swimming alone (2010)
Text by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $3
Ave Maria (2010)
Text: Traditional prayer
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1
Worldes Blisse (2009)
Text: Anonymous Middle English
Duration: ca. 10'
Score $10
Parts $15
The Idea of a Whale (2008)
Text by Douglas Buchanan
Duration: ca. 7'
Score $5
Chamber Music
Sea and Stone (2018)
Duration: ca. 7'
Score $10
Parts $20
Mandala of the Dark Waves (2016)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $4
Parts $6
Ri Marannan (2017)
Duration: ca. 7'
Score $10
Parts $10
Requiem for a Little World (2013)
Duration: ca. 10'
Score $10
Parts $6
Memento Mei: To the Memory of Nicholas Maw (2012)
Duration: ca. 12'
Score $10
Parts $6
Contrapunctus (2009)
Duration: ca. 20'
Score $15
Parts $4
Exsultate Deo (2009)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $5
Parts $10
Hymn and Fuguing Tune (2008)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $4
Parts $6
Solo Instrumental
Variations on a Shape-Note Hymn ("And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on") (2019)
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $3
Contrapunctus XIV: Completion, after J.S. Bach (2019)
Duration: ca. 8'
Score $1.50
Welkinharmonie (2015)
Duration: ca. 70'
Score $15
Between the Stones are Peace and Space (2014)
Duration: ca. 10'
Score $3
Colonnades (2009)
Duration: ca. 100'
Score $15
Soliloquy (2009)
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $1.50
Liturgical: Choral and Vocal
Adam lay Bounden (2010)
Text: Anonymous 15th-century Middle English
Duration: ca. 1'
Score $1/Per Copy
The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (2013)
Text: Paraphrased by S. Baring-Gould
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
Ave Maria (2010)
Text: Traditional prayer
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
Benedicite omnia opera (Oh all ye works of the Lord) (2017)
Text in English from the canticle of the same title, translation from the Book of Common Prayer (1662)
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $2/Per Copy
Blessed be that Maid Mairie (2015)
Also available for SSAA with organ or piano accompaniment
Text: traditional English carol
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Blessed be that Maid Mairie (2015)
Also available for SSATTB, organ or piano
Text: traditional English carol
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $1/Per Copy
Cantate Domino (2008)
Text: Psalm 98, v. 1a, in Latin
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $1/Per Copy
Come, Holy Spirit, Come (San Marco) (2012)
Text: Veni, Sancte Spiritus, translated and adapted by Douglas Buchanan
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $1/Per Copy
Create in Me a Clean Heart (2014)
Text: Psalm 51, v. 10-12, King James translation
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
De Profundis (2010)
Text: Psalm 130, in Latin
Duration: ca. 8'
Score $2/Per Copy
The Dream of the Rood (2018)
Text: Anonymous Middle English
Duration: ca. 12'
Score $5/Per Copy
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (2016)
Text: Traditional German carol
(All proceeds from Spiritual arrangements benefit the SPLC)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Fantasy on Christmas Carols (2010)
Text: Traditional English carols
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
A God, and yet a Man (2012)
Anonymous Text
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
A Great and Mighty Wonder (2015)
Text: J.M. Neale, after St. Germanus
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
Hear the Voice of the Bard (2017)
Text: William Blake
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
How can I keep from singing? (2015)
Text: Robert Lowry
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
How great thou art (2009)
Text by Carl Boberg, translated by Stuart K. Hine
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
In the Bleak Midwinter (2010)
Text by Christina Rossetti
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
I Saw Three Ships (2017)
Text: Traditional English carol
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (2014)
Text: Psalm 121, King James translation
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
I Will Sing of Mercy and of Justice (2017)
Also available for SATB chorus, SATB soloists, piano + string quartet
Text: Excerpts from various Psalms, King James translation
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $2/Per Copy
I Will Sing of Mercy and of Justice (2017)
Text: Excerpts from various Psalms, King James translation
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $4/Per Copy
Parts $6
Piano Reduction $2
I Wonder as I Wander (2011)
Text: Traditional American carol
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Lonesome Valley (2009)
Text: Tradition American hymn
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
The Long Night (2018)
Text: Anonymous Scottish
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $2/Per Copy
The Lord at First did Adam Make (2017)
Text: Traditional English carol
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
Lux Aeterna (2009)
Text: Requiem mass excerpt
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (2016)
Text: The Song of Mary and the Song of Simeon
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
My Lord, what a Morning (2008)
Text: African-American Spiritual
(All proceeds from Spiritual arrangements benefit the SPLC)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
Now the Green Blade Riseth (2009)
Text by John Crum
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $1/Per Copy
…of Sound and Light… (2008)
Text by Douglas Buchanan
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $2/Per Copy
Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (2012)
Text: Traditional American carol
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Oh Light and Universal Song (2008)
Text by Douglas Buchanan
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
The Passion According to John (Plainsong, with Choral Interjections) (2014)
Text from the Gospel of John
Duration: ca. 30'
Score $3/Per Copy
Praise to the Lord (Lobe den Herren) (2014)
Text by Joachim Neander, translated by Catherine Winkworth
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Parts $4
Psalm 148 (2013)
Text: Psalm 148, King James translation
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Resurrection, Imperfect (2019)
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $2/Per Copy
Ride on, King Jesus (2016)
Text: African-American Spiritual
(All proceeds from Spiritual arrangements benefit the SPLC)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow (2013)
Text: African-American Spiritual
(All proceeds from Spiritual arrangements benefit the SPLC)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Rorate coeli (Drop Down) (2016)
Text: Excerpt from the Advent Prose, translation into English by the Composer
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $2/Per Copy
Shepherd of Souls (2015)
Text: Anonymous, with additions by James Montgomery
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Two Songs of Hope (2012)
Text: Traditional Irish, adapted by Mary Byrne and Eleanor Hull;
and Robert Robinson and Martin Madan
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $2/Per Copy
The Tyger (2009)
Text by William Blake
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2/Per Copy
Ubi Caritas (2014)
Text: Traditional prayer
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $2/Per Copy
Ut queant laxis (2017)
Anonymous text (possibly Guido of Arezzo)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2/Per Copy
Liturgical: Organ
Antiphon: Euouae (2015)
Duration: ca. 5'
Score $3
Double canon on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (2006)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $3
Double canon on In dulci jubilo (2015)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $3
Fugue on Salzburg (2016)
Score $3
Fugue on St. Kevin (2014)
Score $3
Prelude on Ich dank dir schon durch deinen Sonn (2006)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $3
Variations on a Shape-Note Hymn ("And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on") (2019)
Duration: ca. 9'
Score $3
Liturgical: Instrumental
Exsultate Deo (2009)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $5
Parts $10
Fanfare on Adeste Fidelis (2013)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $4
Parts $6
Fugue on Nettleton (2011)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $2.50
Hymn and Fuguing Tune (2008)
Duration: ca. 4'
Score $4
Parts $6
In the Bleak Midwinter (2010)
Duration: ca. 3'
Score $2
Parts $3
Nocturne Fragments (2009)
Duration: ca. 7'
Score $4
Parts $6
St. Patrick's Breastplate (2013)
Duration: ca. 6'
Score $3
Parts $5
Liturgical: Hymns, Descants, and Service Music
(Unlimited reproductions per parish)
Hymn: Come, Holy Spirit, Come (San Marco)
Score $3
Hymn and Descant: God of Body, Mind, and Spirit (Hyfrydol)
Score $3
Hymn and Descant: God of Body, Mind, and Spirit (Abbot's Leigh)
Score $3
Sanctus (service music)
Score $2
Trisagion (service music)
Score $2
Descant: Abbot's Leigh (God is love)
Score $1
Descant: Bereden väg för Herren (Prepare the way, O Zion)
Score $1
Descant: Besançon (People look East)
Score $1
Descant: Bourbon (Take up your cross)
Score $1
Descant: Cwm Rhondda (God of grace, and God of glory)
Score $1
Descant: Cwm Rhodda (Guide me, O thou great Jehovah)
Score $1
Descant: Dix (As with gladness men of old)
Score $1
Descant: Dix (For the beauty of the earth)
Score $1
Descant: Duke Street (Jesus shall reign where'er the sun)
Score $1
Descant: Easter Hymn (Jesus Christ is risen today)
Score $1
Descant: Es flog ein kleins Waldvögelein (Hail to the Lord's annointed)
Score $1
Descant: Eventide (Abide with me)
Score $1
Descant: Festal Song (Rise up, ye saints of God)
Score $1
Descant and Reharmonization: Finnian (Sing ye faithful, sing with gladness)
Score $1
Descant: Foundation (How firm a foundation)
Score $1
Descant: Helmsley (Lo, He comes with clouds descending)
Score $1
Descant: Hyfrydol (Alleluia, sing to Jesus)
Score $1
Descant: Hyfrydol (Love divine, all loves excelling)
Score $1
Descant: Hymn to Joy (Joyful, joyful, we adore thee)
Score $1
Descant: In Babilone (Hail thou once despised Jesus)
Score $1
Descant and Reharmonization: Irby (Once in royal David's city)
Score $1
Descant: Judas Maccabeus (Thine is the Glory)
Score $1
Descant: Kingsfold (Music only)
Score $1
Descant: Land of Rest (Jerusalem, my happy home)
Score $1
Descant: Llanfair (Hail the day that sees him rise)
Score $1
Descant: Lasst uns erfreuen (All creatures of our God and King)
Score $1
Descant: Lasst uns erfreuen (Ye watchers and ye holy ones)
Score $1
Descant: Rustington (Music only)
Score $1
Descant: Middlebury (Come away to the skies)
Score $1
Descant: Nicaea (Holy, holy, holy)
Score $1
Descant: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Savior of the Nations, come)
Score $1
Descant: Psalm 42 (Comfort, comfort ye my people)
Score $1
Descant: Repton (Dear Lord and father of mankind)
Score $1
Descant: Salzburg (Songs of thankfulness and praise)
Score $1
Descant: Sine Nomine (For all the saints)
Score $1
Descant: Slane (Be thou my vision)
Score $1
Descant: Slane (Lord of all hopefulness)
Score $1
Descant: St. Anne (O God our help in ages past)
Score $1
Descant: St Kevin (Come ye faithful, raise the strain)
Score $1
Descant: Unser Herrscher (He is risen)
Score $1
Descant: Veni, veni Emmanuel (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)
Score $1
Engraving Service
200 Miles to Arnstadt Publications
As a performing musician, composer, and teacher, Douglas brings a keen artistic eye and a strong sense of musicality to the scores he edits and publishes. Please inquire if you are interested in hiring engraving services, and feel free to peruse the Score Samples provided below:
"Doug has published my Capriccio for trombone and wind ensemble for a number of years, and I can't say enough about the quality of his work. A skilled engraver, Doug thoughtfully and sensibly added cues and rehearsal letters, edited parts for page turns, and ultimately arrived at a final product that is clean and professional whether you order the piece in digital PDF or traditional hard copy. Doug's talents as an engraver and publisher have allowed me to allocate more of my energy to the creative side of the process, and that has been extremely satisfying for me. I would highly recommend working with him."
— Frank Gulino, composer