I can’t play a note on anything more complicated than a kazoo but I wanted this anyway, and I’ll bet you do too. It’s “Firefly: Music from the Original Television Soundtrack,” a folio of 12 arrangements for piano from show composer Greg Edmonson. 40 pages, no extras or intro, unfortunately. But you get 11 of his playful, haunting compositions in the combinations he created for the official soundtrack CD, scored for piano solo, along with Joss’ theme song:

– Firefly Main Title
– Cows/New Dress/My Crew
– Dying Ship/Naked Mal
– The Funeral
– Inara’s Suite
– Inside the Tam House
– Leaving/Caper/Spaceball
– Out of Gas/Empty Derelict
– River Tricks Early
– River’s Dance
– River’s Perception/Saffron
– Tears/River’s Eyes

There’s a great interview with Greg Edmonson at TrackSounds from a few years back, by the way. And a new one with Firefly Talk that mentions the sheet music, along with the Backup Bash and more.

Order it at Amazon or bug your local music store to get it. Request it for your school’s band class!

This week The Signal podcast went all-music and, like the utterly cool people they are, they’re offering free downloads of all the songs for all you lucky Browncoats. Head to the show notes for the episode and just gaze at all the ways you can get the tunes. You can download the entire podcast, or get the songs as a podcast feed, or download them all individually. Whichever one you pick, you’ll enjoy this.

The Ballad. Instrumental pieces. Reworked songs from the show, and songs inspired by the ‘verse. Adam’s “Hero of Canton” put to music. Some of these you’ve heard, whether during previous podcasts or elsewhere on the cortex. Some of them have never been released before. And they’ve included PDFs of CD cover art, should you be so inclined to burn copies.

Big thanks to The Signal for doing this!

The Bedlam Bards were already a hard filkin’, fun lovin’ Celtic group when they discovered Firefly and wrote an anthem. “The Ballad of Joss” swept through the Browncoat community like wildfire and was sung lustily (if offkey) during the entire summer of 2005 as fans thronged the advance screenings and waited impatiently for the movie premiere. The Bards followed it up with “Big Damn Trilogy,” traveled around the country playing conventions and shindigs, and have since compiled their Firefly/Serenity inspired work into a new album, “On the Drift,” which went on sale February 16 and sold out in minutes.

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After two years of impassioned requests by browncoats, the original soundtrack by Greg Edmondson was finally released. Edmondson mixed different bits of music from here and there to create suites that capture the haunting and playful music he wrote for Firefly.

Instruments from around the world can be heard here, to fit the ‘Verse’s eclectic nature, and the theme song written by Joss Whedon and sung by Sonny Rhodes is guaranteed to get into your head.

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David Newman took this little western comedy science fiction action thriller and made it epic with a soaring, exciting soundtrack. Personal favorites: the Serenity theme and “Going for a Ride.”

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