Showing posts with label composition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label composition. Show all posts

Friday, 6 July 2012

Square Dance

A new piece for solo marimba



The score can be downloaded from here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127752.html

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Monday, 25 June 2012

Chasing Leaves One Morning in Fall, Central Park, New York

A new composition for piano.



The score can be purchased here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127951.html

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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Dies Irae

Yesterday, when I was sending around my Pie Jesu, one soprano replied saying that she was looking for something more rock/opera in style.

So, this morning I wrote this: (TURN IT UP LOUD!!)

THIS IS A NEW VERSION - with the addition of an electric guitar!



A setting of the Dies Irae in a crossover rock/opera style for solo soprano with "orchestra".

The Dies Irae is a Latin poem all about the Day of Judgement and the end of the world!

The solo soprano part is played on an oboe on this instrumental version. The soprano sax part that provides the "echoes" could easily be a second voice and the piece used as a duet.

If you'd like to see the score: Click here

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Lento - a new piece for string orchestra

Lento is a piece for 9-part string orchestra and piano written on 7th and 8th March 2012.

It's in 3 sections, all slow, and lasts about 25 minutes
-The opening is sad but somehow optimistic
-The middle section is rather intense and emotional
-The final section is a release from the trauma that has gone before and a resolution

This is a demo of the piece played through Sibelius notation software.

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Tuesday, 25 October 2011

MUSIC: On St. Crispin's Day

Today, October 25th, is St. Crispin's Day - the day immortalised in Shakespeare's Henry V with his inspirational pre-battle speech at Agincourt in 1415.

A couple of years ago I wrote On St. Crispin's Day for actor and orchestra using Shakespeare's words.

It incorporates the traditional Agincourt Song.

This video is a performance of the piece by Lady Manners School Orchestra in Budapest in summer 2010. The sound quality isn't great but gives a general idea of the piece.



St. Crispin was actually two saints Crispin and Crispinian, twins who were martyred in the year 286.