The Colonel's Music

Sheet Music

Some pieces are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

You will find some sheet music from video games at my video game site, Crude ASCII Maps.

  • Maple Leaf Rag, by Scott Joplin. The one and only. (The notation is copied from the original edition so it may look old-fashioned.)
  • The Blackbird Game. Equipment required: two cat ears. [PDF]
  • Celery Stalks at Midnight, by George Harris as arranged by Will Bradley. An easy piano reduction of the main theme. (PNG) [/1\|/2\]
  • The Clod & the Pebble [PDF], a setting of William Blake's poem.
  • Corporia: Victory Theme [PDF]
  • Crabesque. A sideways rag.
  • Farewell to the Heath. A flute air in the Irish mode. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Le Furet. An old French song about a ferret. (PNG) [/1\] [PDF]
  • Good Old Dog. A healthy chewing exercise in four-part doggerel (PNG) [/1\]
  • Hi There, What's Your Name. Make up your own lyrics, I don't care! (PNG) [/1\]
  • I Went To London. A fake folk tune. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Irish Interlude. Sixteen bars of harp music for piano. [PDF]
  • The Kat Don't Kare. Inspired by Harold Buchholz's Apathy Kat. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Meat and Potatoes. To the tune of Schubert's Intermezzo from Rosamunde. [PDF]
  • Mr. Fixit. A mechanically challenged swing tune. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Mrs. Gooby. An unsingable song in disco style. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Muppo. A commercial jingle for voice and bass. [PDF]
  • My Cat Is Fat. Haute cuisine with words by B. Kliban (PNG) [/1\]
  • Off Base. A blue bossa nova piece with harmony that goes subtly wrong. [PDF]
  • The Panama Piano. A little dance for two hands. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Peter Piper. If you're not careful you'll end up with a mouthful of pickled peppers. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Step. A snazzy (but pointless) toccata for the right hand. [/1\]
  • Truck Drivin' Man. In the best oral tradition. (PNG) [/1\]
  • Discontinued Bugle Calls.

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  • Beautiful Buffalo. To believe Buffalo winter weather you must experience it. Then you still won't believe it!
  • A modern version of “Le Furet” by Jean Bénédict (music by Pierre de Bréville).
  • A demented English translation of Bénédict's lyrics, by Altavista.
  • Meat and Potatoes.
  • Mrs. Gooby.
  • Wichita Falls One-Shot Blues. A six-line rhapsody in A minor.
  • Unauthorized Lyrics. Words that the composers would have repudiated.

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    Acknowledgment

    Thanks to Neddie Burne-Jones and Billy Morris for the pretty picture of musicians.
    Col. George Sicherman [ HOME | MAIL ]