Independent music publisher of compositions by Robert C. Lancefield

Recorded works for Talking Drums, a six-to-twelve member Ghanaian/American ensemble:

  • Drummers Talk
    Released on Talking Drums (TDCS 1000), 1985, and Some Day Catch Some Day Down (TDLP 1001), 1987 (reissued on Innova 803, 2011)
    (ISWC T-903.935.943-8; BMI work no. 347355)
  • Nnamfo Papa
    Released on Talking Drums (TDCS 1000), 1985 (reissued as bonus mp3 on Innova 803, 2011); Twi-language title translates as "Good Friends"
    (ISWC T-904.117.283-2; BMI work no. 1068750)
  • Self-Determination
    Released on Talking Drums (TDCS 1000), 1985 (reissued as bonus mp3 on Innova 803, 2011)
    (ISWC T-904.173.237-0; BMI work no. 1309305)
  • Some Day Catch Some Day Down
    Released as title track on Some Day Catch Some Day Down (TDLP 1001), 1987 (reissued on Innova 803, 2011)
    (Incorrect titles on some sites include "Some Day Catch, Some Day Down"; "Someday Catch, Someday Down"; "Same Day Catch, Same Day Down")
    (ISWC T-904.188.344-7; BMI work no. 1371234)

The Enhanced CD reissue of "Some Day Catch Some Day Down" was released July 26, 2011.
Original release history and other information can be found on the Talking Drums page on Facebook.
"Some Day Catch Some Day Down" direct from Innova Recordings
"Some Day Catch Some Day Down" from Amazon

Unrecorded works for Talking Drums:

  • Children of Mamobi
  • For FKD
  • Untitled highlife piece #1

For 16-piece jazz orchestra:

  • Modus Vivendi
    Extended-form, multi-section work, roughly one hour in duration (depending on improvisational sections of flexible duration).
    Composed with the support of an Artist's Project Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

For 13-piece jazz orchestra (“little big band”):

  • In These and Other Times
  • Lives of Peace
  • Umbrae

For four vocal soloists, chorus, and 9-piece jazz orchestra:

  • Through the Light
    In memory of Timothy R. Alcock

For trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, violin, guitar, 'cello, acoustic bass, and drum set:

  • Softly

For three vocalists, ney (Turkish flute), guitar, and mrdangam (South Indian drum):

  • Rhythm of a Life of Time
    In memory of T. Ranganathan

For any combination of instruments:

  • Phrase

For jazz quartet (extended form):

  • Two Moods
    In memory of Bill Barron

For jazz trio, quartet, or quintet (lead sheets):

  • After Air
  • An Other Blues
  • Are Bopping
  • Blues Bounce
  • Circumspection
  • Delusion
  • Dusk
  • Equanimity
  • Fifty-one
  • Gratitude
  • Hesitation
  • Hope
  • Hypothesis
  • In Other Words
  • Question
  • Regret
  • Relinquishment
  • Reminiscence
  • Riff Blues
  • Riff Waltz
  • Slipslide
  • Sphere Blues
  • Stop Tune
  • Three Speeds of Blues
  • Touch
  • Two Bridges
  • Two, Then One
  • Warm Days in Winter

For guitar and drum set:

  • Small Circles

For two guitars, or one guitar and one other “melodic” instrument:

  • Concatenation
  • Pendulum

For two guitars:

  • Channel
  • Solace
  • Space Puppy Blues

For solo guitar:

  • Before
  • Lattice
  • Lullaby Mood
  • Music for Ten Haikus
    For dances choreographed by Paul Lester
  • No Words
  • Tree (Mourning Picture)

For percussion quartet:

  • Untitled percussion piece #1
  • Untitled percussion piece #2

For flute and guitar duet:

  • For Two

For guitar and voice:

  • Peggy et Grégoire

Early works:

  • The Wheel
    Setting of Yeats poem with leads-sheet accompaniment
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    Setting of Yeats poem for voice, guitar, and bass
  • Almost Rock
    Arranged for jazz septet
  • Second Thoughts
    Arranged for jazz quintet
  • More Second Thoughts
    Arranged for jazz quintet
  • Moving Fourth
    Lead sheet for jazz quartet
  • Rebound
    Lead sheet for jazz quartet
  • Schismatism
    Lead sheet for jazz quartet
  • Tide
    Lead sheet for jazz quartet
  • Alternation
    Rondo for two flutes
  • Yollanen-symlissa
    Through-composed piece for flute, guitar, and 'cello; first publicly performed work (1978)

PDF versions of selected works will appear here as time allows. Certain scores are not available at this time.

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Each composition © copyright Robert C. Lancefield / Mamobi Music (BMI) in the year in which it was given fixed form.