Sheet Music (Compositions)

Download sheet music and perform Caleb Hugo’s compositions. Select a genre below for details about the pieces. Select a piece for visual samples and audio demos.

Flute – Ivory Desert

This flute solo offers everything the advanced flutist could want: aggressive passages, sweeping gestures, expressive grace notes, and flutter tonguing.

Flute – Consider the Lilies

Writing this unaccompanied flute solo was the first opportunity I’ve ever had to write something that needed to be played by someone new to an instrument.

Saxophone – Vagrant Contemplation

This saxophone solo very much sticks to traditional capabilities. I would highly recommend this to students who are learning to play out of time.

Saxophone – What Wondrous Love Is This?

My arrangement of “What Wondrous Love Is This?” for solo saxophone opens with an unembellished statement of the melody and quickly develops from there.

Saxophone – What Child is This? (Greensleeves)

This arrangement for solo saxophone is titled “What Child is This?” instead of “Greensleeves” because I had the text of the hymn in mind when writing.

Saxophone – All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name

A fairly simple arrangement of “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.” It is intended to for solo saxophone, but this should not deter other instrumentalists.

Alto Saxophone – Psalm 51

This alto saxophone solo is a musical depiction of Psalm 51; a biblical text describing David’s sorrow over his sin.

Double Bass – Insentience

Insentience is a difficult double bass solo. Its primary challenge is keeping the various intervals in tune while using the entire range of the bass.

Timpani and Piano – Application

In this timpani and piano duet the timpani player needs to play quickly and quietly, change tunings while playing, and listen very carefully to this piano.

Soprano Saxophone and Piano Duet – Hide and Seek

This soprano saxophone and piano duet began while exploring orchestrational possibilities in jazz chords and applying percussion techniques on the keyboard.

Wedding Processional Music – The First Song

“The First Song”, for solo piano, is wedding processional music designed to describe the joy in a man’s heart as his bride walks down the aisle.

Wedding Prelude Music – Oath of Unity

I wrote this wedding music for piano with an accomplished pianist in mind and set out to create a classical piece broadly usable for wedding preludes.

Classical Piano Solo – Tear of Ambiguity

This advanced contemporary classical piano solo creates profoundly rich and powerful sounds while evoking complex emotions from both performer and audience.

Saxophone Duet – O Come, O Come Emmanuel

This arrangement of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” was written for my saxophone playing friend and me to play are our church’s christmas eve service in 2012.

Saxophone and Clarinet Duet – Essence Altered

I originally wrote this saxophone and clarinet duet for Liz and I to play at our wedding. It is, however, well suited for just about any occasion.

Violin and Clarinet Duet – Proclamation

This violin and clarinet duet, while being fairly simple, has a depth to it that nearly every level of performer or listener will get something out of.

Bass Clarinet and Marimba Duet – Underneath the Spreading Tree

This bass clarinet and marimba duet is full of wonderfully rich sounds and textures that you can not produce with any other combination of instruments.

Piano, Violin, and Cello Trio – Discovery

This trio for piano, violin, and cello depicts the process that a child goes through when they “discover” something that they are really not supposed to.

Woodwind Quintet – Song of Creation

This woodwind quintet started as an experiment on what five voices could do. As the motives developed, the sound seemed to grow like an ecosystem.

Brass Quintet – Waltz of the Savage

This work was written for a typical collegiate ensemble and is meant to be very standard, fitting in well with other brass quintet repertoire.

Wind Ensemble – Four Seasons and a Day in Grand Ledge

In memory of Marilyn Smith, the mother of Grand Ledge. This was written for the Grand Ledge Community Band and reflects the capabilities and unpredictable instrumentation of a community band.

Wind Ensemble – Shekinah

This wind ensemble composition can be extremely challenging. The wide spacing of perfect intervals at exposed moments demands an acute sense of intonation.

Wind Ensemble – Stifled Mystery

Stifled Mystery was written in collaboration with a wind ensemble director and educator. It is designed to be a lengthy work for high school wind ensemble.

Alto Saxophone Concerto for Wind Band – Transition

This alto saxophone concerto features an extremely difficult solo part utilizing the instrument’s countless timbres, agility, and altissimo register.

Bassoon Concerto for Orchestra – Against Indifference

This new bassoon concerto in both the piano and orchestral versions has been reviewed by several bassoonists and is a favorite among my audience.

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