The book Mallet Jam is available for purchase with scores and loads of great ideas for step-by-step improvisation tasks and other creative activities. Contact the composer at www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

'Out Into This World' from Mallet Jam!

From Recorder Songs (Book 1) - a collection of 8 concert recorder pieces for beginners with piano accompaniments. This piece only uses the top left hand, super simpler for beginner recorder players to improve staccato playing. With a beautiful piano accompaniment to make them sound amazing!

Recorder Songs (Book 1)available for purchase. Contact the composer via www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

'Running Away' from Recorder Songs (Book 1)

Emu - Kanagroo a 2 part vocal song based on the imagery and symbolism of the Australian coat of arms, with the emu and the kangaroo.

Emu - Kangaroo

A selection of pieces from Mallet Jam! Book 2 by James Madsen. A collection of new and original pieces for classroom percussion with a focus on improvisation, arranging and composition. Each piece has a simple score plus teacher notes for further activities to explore each piece of music.

Apocalypse Rock

Tracey's Gift (solo piano)

Composed by James Madsen (1998)

Conducted by James Madsen
Violin I - Dimitri Calligeros
Violin II - Thomas Talmacs
Viola - Dora Maria
Cello - Jessica Quarmby

Perspective (String Quartet)

Composed by James Madsen (2005)

Conducted by James Madsen
Violin I - Dimitri Calligeros
Violin II - Thomas Talmacs
Viola - Dora Maria
Cello - Jessica Quarmby

Processional (String Quartet)

Composed by James Madsen
Score available at www.JamesMadsen.com.au

Piano - Kimberley Steele
Violin - Anna Murakawa
Cello - Anneliese McGee-Collett

A Quiet Fanfare (Piano Trio)

The Bogey Hole - from The Coastal Path a suite for beginner cello with piano.

Cello - Yoshiro Oshiro
Piano - Reomi Mito

Score available at www.JamesMadsen.com.au

The Coastal Path - 1 The Bogey Hole (Cello Solo)

Cemetery By The Sea - from The Coastal Path a suite for beginner cello with piano.

Cello - Yoshiro Oshiro
Piano - Reomi Mito

Score available at www.JamesMadsen.com.au

The Coastal Path - 2 Cemetery By The Sea (Cello Solo)

Composed by James Madsen (2013)
For piano and chamber strings

Conducted by James Madsen
Madsen String Ensemble
Piano solo by Zubin Kanga

Shop digital score at www.JamesMadsen.com.au

Infectious Light (for Piano & Chamber Strings)

A New Day Is Dawning - FULL Backing Track

A New Day Is Dawning - PIANO ONLY Backing Track

A lyrical piece for choir (SA voices) composed after a trip through Kakadu National Park in the 'Top End' of Australia. 

Words and music by James Madsen (2015). Score available by contacting the composer at www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

Country Is Calling

A lyrical two-part piece for choir describing the joys of escaping for summer holidays to a place where the mountains meet the sea.

Words and music by James Madsen. Score available by contacting the composer at www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

Where the Mountains Meet The Sea

A two-part choir piece ideal for younger voices.

Words and music by James Madsen. Score available by contacting the composer at www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

A New Day Is Dawning

The words from this piece came about after a trip to Nepal trekking in the Himalayas where the coloured prayer flags are strung up on the mountain tops in the hope the prayers will be carried by the winds to places where they are needed. In returning home to Australia the song was composed from the idea of prayers needing to be carried by the winds of the seas to lands far away.

Words and music by James Madsen. Score available by contacting the composer at www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

Sea Winds Blow

Words and music by James Madsen. This version is for soprano, alto and bass voices with four hands at the piano. Also available in original SA arrangement. Scores available by contacting the composer at www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

Terra Australis (SAB Version)

Words and music by James Madsen. Score available by contacting the composer at www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

The Silent Blue

'Choose Your Own Adventure' from Mallet Jam!

Sydney-based composer and music educator. 
All scores available from the composer via www.JamesMadsen.com.au.

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