Author: PamelaM
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Two new pieces of music – Resonances and Zoa
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Read more: Two new pieces of music – Resonances and ZoaResonances is a new publication in the Spindrift Music Catalog: for alto sax, trumpet, 2 trombones, 2 percussion. Check out the score preview or listen to the the audio demo: a performance from 1999. I don’t know why it took me so long to make this piece available. I guess there was no urgency; it’s…
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Form in Music and Nature
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Read more: Form in Music and NatureForm in Music was the title of my college music theory textbook. Form gives music its shape. The music is paced in the moment by the tempo, but the larger shape is made by passages that repeat and develop, by the musical events that interject and interrupt and flow into each other, and how the…
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Marketing a new Choral Piece
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Read more: Marketing a new Choral PieceNew choral music for Christmas, arrangements of unusual Christmas songs, seems like an easy sell. Doesn’t every choral director need something fresh for the regular December concert?
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Versions of Pipe Dreams
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Read more: Versions of Pipe DreamsI was searching for an album name for a collection of computer-generated tunes by the Spindrift Virtual Ensemble. They have the feel of fantasy landscapes to me, so I settled on the name Pipe Dreams. Then I thought I’d search to see what else has used that name. Every evocative word has already been used,…
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Vortex debut CD
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Read more: Vortex debut CDTHE VORTEX Series for New and Improvised Music is a fascinating concert series organized by Todd Brunel, clarinetist and improviser. I had the honor of working on the debut CD, doing the mastering and graphic design, and I also play horn on one of the tracks. All the performances are live improvisations from Vortex concerts,…