Tag: composing
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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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Black Bear Dance, first horns, then clarinets
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Read more: Black Bear Dance, first horns, then clarinetsA couple of years ago, I wrote a piece for horn ensemble and community drumming group called Black Bear Dance. The notes about the piece say: “In Black Bear Dance, I indulge my love of drumming, which really energizes the horn sound. The title comes from a line in the text for my choral piece…
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Storing Old Vellum – Why?
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Read more: Storing Old Vellum – Why?Why do I still have a pile of vellum for music copying? I’ve got sheets with layouts for quintets, quartets, parts, chorus. It’s such old technology. I never want to go back to copying music by hand with pens on transparent vellum, which are then copied using a diazo machine. For those of you who…
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New Year’s Resolutions
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Read more: New Year’s ResolutionsA New Years Resolutions thread at Sequenza 21 reminded me about making New Year’s resolutions. There’s so many needs tugging at me, but all I want to do is make musical plans. I want to remedy my lack of momentum of the past few months. Everyone knows – economic times are tough. They’re tough here…