

This site is home to Alea Publishing & Recording, specializing in music for the bass clarinet.
We offer a growing catalog of creative, artistic transcriptions and new works for bass clarinet solo & ensemble.
About the Music
The Liuyang River, a river in Hunan Province in southeastern China, provided the inspiration for the eponymous folk song written by Tang Biguang. This arrangement for bass clarinet and baritone saxophone was created by Henry McNamara for his duo DOOT, and seeks to present the beauty of Chinese classical music and the technical skills of the performers.
Score: 7 pages; parts: 3 pages each. Extended-range instrument required for bass clarinet part.
PDF Edition
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About the Arranger
Hailing from northern California, Henry McNamara is a bass clarinet specialist who seeks to forge new paths and promote new works for the instrument. An avid supporter of all types of modern music, he has commissioned and premiered many new works, most recently working with Luke Mombrea on “Faultline” (2026) for solo bass clarinet and effects pedals and Minoo Dixon on “Stale Sails” (2026) for alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and effects pedals.
Henry is an active performer, regularly playing solo as well as with his duo DOOT, psych-rock band I’m Being Serious, progressive metal band Favored, and the Sheffield Clarinet Ensemble, in addition to appearing with the Sheffield Symphony Orchestra, the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra, and Niki Zohdi’s Tahdig collective, among others. Henry also serves as co-librarian of the Sheffield Clarinet Ensemble and is a cofounder of Hidden Track, a monthly night of contemporary classical music.
Henry is a graduate of the University of Sheffield, earning his Master’s degree in Music Performance Studies under Dr. Sarah Watts. He completed his bachelor’s degrees at Arizona State University, earning a Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Performance under Dr. Robert Spring and Dr. Joshua Gardner, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.
Kim Davenport
President
Alea Publishing & Recording was founded in 1997 by Michael and Kim Davenport, the father-daughter bass clarinet/piano duo. As performers searching for new repertoire and teachers working with students eager to develop as performers, it quickly became clear that there was a need for more repertoire featuring the bass clarinet. Filling this need became the mission of Alea.
The Alea Publishing catalog has now grown to include over 400 titles. We pride ourselves on the accuracy and quality of our sheet music, as well as our ability to reach customers around the world with both hard copy scores and PDF downloads.
We are proud of the diversity of our catalog in terms of the inclusion of works by composers and arrangers from around the world. We are interested in continuing to expand this diversity, representing musical ideas from around the world.
Following Michael's passing in 2019, Kim has taken over solo management of Alea Publishing. In 2020, Alea established the Dolphy Prize, an annual award for Black musicians who are engaged in composing and performing works featuring the bass clarinet.
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