Free Lead Sheets and Recordings

On this page you will find many lead sheets (as PDF files) for many of my compositions.  Please click on the title to view, download, and print.  There are recordings of some of the tunes-just click on "mp3" or "You Tube"  If you have any questions about the music, please call me at (985)246-9077 or mailto:edwardpetersenmusic@gmail.com

Older Compositions

​​Bing Bing Boing, Bing Bing Boing​
Conjunction
Dan's Idea       mp3
The Dreaded Symphony       mp3     
​​Endless  (Music by Edward Petersen-Words by Kurt Elling)       mp3 (Instrumental)       You Tube (with Kurt Elling)
For Dan       mp3
​The Gift
Irrational Being
Larry Smith       mp3​
Lee Morgan
Man of Few Words       mp3
Mary Grace
Mister Maurice       mp3
Memo from Emmo
The Messenger (Music by Edward Petersen-Words by Kurt Elling)       mp3
The Mill
Milton
The Mission       mp3
Objects In Mirror are Closer than They Appear       mp3
Onus-B        mp3
Poem for the Tortured Spirits       mp3   
Probably       mp3
The Purge       mp3
Roving Bovine       mp3

Simple     mp3
​Son of Lumbriga
​This One's for Wilbur       mp3
​The Test       mp3 
​Twins
Upward Spiral       mp3
The Vocal Tune
Zed
Zoa's Tune

Recent Compositions/Commissions

Music Inspired by Dr. Seuss' Masterpiece, Yertle the Turtle
​Commissioned by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra-Irvin Mayfield-Artistic Director

​I have a bunch of nice recordings of this music, but I am still working on mixing and mastering them.  Please stop by again soon and download some mp3s of performances of this music...Thanks, Ed
On the Far Away Island of Sala-ma-sond   mp3
I'd Be the King of All I Could See  mp3
See 'Most a Mile   mp3
King of a Mule  mp3 
Your Majesty, Please 
200 Turtle Stack
Stepped on the Head of Poor Mack       mp3
Our Shells Will All Crack
Nothing That's Higher than Me
I'll Stack 'em to Heaven
Plunk!     mp3

Music Inspired by the Poetry of Kenn Nesbitt
Commissioned by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra-Irvin Mayfield-Artistic Director

​All My Great Excuses-Part 2
At History I'm Hopeless
Basketball's My Favorite Sport
I Didn't Go Camping
My Brother's Not a Werewolf
My Dog Ate My Homework
My Mother Said to Do My Chores
Today I Had a Rotten Day
Welcome Back to School

Jazz Interpretations of excerpts from Les pêcheurs de perles ​by Georges Bizet
Commissioned by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra-Irvin Mayfield-Artistic Director

1. Prelude
​2. Sur la greve en feu
​3. Amis, interrompez vos danses
​4. Au fond du temple saint
5. Au fond du temple saint Pt. 2
​6. Brahma, divin Brahma
7. Je crois encore entendre
8. O Dieu Brahma!
​9. O Dieu Brahma! Part 2
10. Me voila seule dans la nuit
10B. Me voila Interlude​
11. Leila! Dieu puissant/Ah! revenez a la raison
12. Ah! revenez a la raison Part 2
​13. Qu'ai-je vu?
​14. Je fremis, je chancelle
Non-Commissioned New Stuff
1. Let 'em Have It!
2. Are We OK? (2024)

3. Side Eye (2024)​