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Three Dirges and Two Dances
Started Dec 27, 2019 0 Replies 0 Likes
Three Dirges and Two Dances An instrumental suite of five traditional…Continue
Irish Dance for Solo French Horn
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jon Corelis Dec 23, 2019. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Irish Dance for Solo French HornThe sound file was generated with software…Continue
Senex Puerum
Started Dec 6, 2019 0 Replies 0 Likes
Just a note for anyone interested that I've revised my composition Senex Puerum taking into…Continue
Veni, veni, Emanuel for SATB Chorus
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jon Corelis Dec 2, 2019. 6 Replies 0 Likes
Image: The Singing Monk by Dezső Czigány Image information and…Continue
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"I find this both impressive and emotionally engaging. I thought the slow, inexorable increase of tension in the middle part especially effective.
I'm not sure though if the quote makes for a good program note. Its relevance to the…"
Three Dirges and Two Dances
Three Dirges and Two Dances An instrumental suite of five traditional Irish melodies: Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill - The dirge of Ossian -
Deirdre's Lament - The Paisteen Fionn - The Merry Old Woman. The piece begins with a brief introduction based on two melodies preserved in Redfern Mason's The Song Lore of Ireland (1911), the first a set of tritones built on a sequence…See More
"If you have a personal web site of any kind, you can usually find code for a contact box somewhere on the internet, which you can put on your web site without necessarily giving your email address with it. The contact link on my member page on…"
"Thanks for the reply, and for liking it."
"Hello Jon,
it sounds sappy, powerful, and I enjoyed listening to it. A fresh impression to hear the horn as solo instrument. It may be underestimated ;)
Kind regards,
Jan"
"Thanks for the comments. I've seen calls for "miniature" scores using various definitions, including maximums of one minute, two minutes, or 100 notes. Usually structure is not specified, but of course in such a short…"
"Hi Jon,
What you describe as miniature sounds like precious stones, gems.
They do not have substructures, they can be perceived as a single unity.
Your use of a single register helps this effect. But French horn has a wide
span... It…"
"Thanks for the reply, and the suggestion. I'll keep it in mind for a future revision.
And I am always revising. What Valery said about poems is also, I think, true of musical compositions: you never finish one, you only abandon…"
"It seemed fine as a typical Irish dance tune. It might be worth trying the horn in a slightly higher transposition to make it feel lighter.
Nice."
"Thanks for the response. I consider this an independent brief composition in itself. Although it may not be an academically recognized genre, there are some performers who call for "miniatures," usually meaning pieces no longer…"
"Hi,
This sounds more like an introduction to a piece of music rather then a stand alone work. Do you plan to develop it?"
Irish Dance for Solo French Horn
Irish Dance for Solo French HornThe sound file was generated with software as as a demo.Sound file available at:SoundCloud Irish Dance for Solo French HornScore and sound file at:…See More
"As of 17 December 2019 there is a revised version of this which takes into account the suggestions made by Claude Werner, for which again thanks. I've edited the links in the orginal posting above to point to the new version."
"Greg, do you mean that singers can't just pull notes out of the air? When I sang in a chorale, I could do that, and it was just an amateur one. I always assumed professionals could do this as a matter of course. I just used reference notes I…"
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Web, Choir, Small Ensemble, Songs
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Classical/folk/medieval
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not at all.
- Where do you live?
- Northeast Wisconsin
- About Me (Must include at least one paragraph of biographical information about you as a composer) - blank or minimal answers on this line will cause your request to be rejected. Include a link to your website if you have one.
- Jon Corelis was born in California and grew up in and around Chicago, where he earned a degree in Classical Languages and Literatures at the College of the University of Chicago. He later took a doctorate in Classics at Stanford, and taught Classics and Humanities at Stanford, the University of California, and the University of Minnesota. After a subsequent career as a software specialist in Silicon Valley, he now lives in Wisconsin. His poetry and other writings have been published in print and on web sites in eight countries, and he has given lectures and readings by invitation in America and Europe.
He more recently has turned to composing songs and instrumental pieces. His music has been featured on the web site The Flexible Persona, has been performed in concert by the Wisconsin ensemble a very small consortium, by the New York State flute quartet Party of Four, and at Denison University's TUTTI 2019 Festival, and has been recorded by flutist Robin Meiksins for her YouTube recording project 365 Days of Flute, and by clarinetist Emily Mehigh for her YouTube recording project The Miniature Month of May.
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Articles from New Music USA
Posted on August 16, 2019 at 11:28am 0 Comments 0 Likes
One of the music sites I look at sometimes is the well-established New Music USA.
In this blog post I'll mention two recent articles from that site which composers may find interesting.
JULIANA HALL: PULLED INTO THE POETS’ WORLD is an extensive interview with one of the most prominent…
ContinueBrief review: A Medieval Songbook: Troubadour & Trouvere
Posted on June 13, 2019 at 4:57pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
A Medieval Songbook: Troubadour & Trouvere by Feltcher Collins, Jr. et al. (University Press of Virginia, 1982) is a valuable resource for performers and listeners of medieval music.
Although the phrase Medieval music is likely to suggest to the general listener Gregorian chant and the church music of such composers as Hildegard von Bingen, there also exists a considerable body of Medieval secular song, most notably by the Minnesingers of the…
ContinueBrief review: Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's The Dancing Master, edited by Jeremy Barlow
Posted on May 27, 2019 at 12:23pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's The Dancing Master, edited by Jeremy Barlow (Faber Music 1986) may be of little interest to most people, but of the highest interest to those interested in its particular subject. Playford's Dancing Master was a collection of traditional songs with basic dance notation which went through numerous editions in the 17th and 18th centuries. It's usually described as a collection of English tunes, but many of them have origins…
ContinueBrief Review: The Great Walz
Posted on April 25, 2019 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The Great Waltz is a classic "Hollywoodization" bio-pic, one which hardly pretends to be accurate, but which uses the life story of a historical character as a basis for atmosphere and entertainment. In this case the subject is "The Waltz King" Johann Strauss II, who was responsible for the craze for the dance that conquered Vienna and much of Europe in the mid 19th…
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