Yesterday I wrote a miniature instrumental Christmas "carol", to add to the three I've previously written. It's only a minute long, with an intentionally simple arrangement. Any comments would be quite welcome!
Does anyone find the font size quite small to read? Even with my glasses on some of it is tricky to read. Also the white font on the grey background doesn't help.
This is a 33 minute throwback-to-the-19th-Century composition for a full symphony orchestra with extra brass (2 trumpets, 2 horns, and 2 trombones) expected to play from the balcony - an idea that I stole from Respighi (who probably stole it from Mah
I've been on a Shostakovich binge recently, prompted by this video about the second movement of his Eleventh Symphony (a work of his I hadn't known before this year). And yes, it includes a fugato section, Teoh...!
My wife was at a concert which featured a sonata for clarinet and viola and really liked the combination so I decided to try my hand at a trio including the piano. Compared to most works this year which have been often pretty doleful, this, although
Drawing inspiration from the great Conlon Nancarrow, a pioneer in acoustic player piano manipulation well before the era of MIDI and DAWs, I find myself contemplating a unique but surely controversial idea: I wonder, what would be the outcome of cre
I didn't think this topic would become an issue in my composing -- after all, what could be more basic than notating accidentals? -- but recently, while working with a couple of pianists to record my pieces, it came to my attention that my notation i
Hey folks, here's a musical puzzle to solve. Listen to the piano music with the score and see if you can guess the very well known Christmas song that is embedded within. Hint - the tune is not played in a straight forward way. If you figure it out
Hey all, I thought I'd put this up and see if anyone likes it. It's long been finished, recorded and released, so if you *don't* like it then we'll all just have to live with it, but I hope you do.
I once wrote on a forum that male composers tend to create epic music that gradually becomes louder and more intense until it reaches a climax, as a male orgasm translated into music. I expected to be kicked out, but surprisingly, my idea wasn't cons
I haven't been very active on here in the past year; and of course, the whole site was gone there for a little while. But I thought I'd jump back in and post the link to my latest work, my Violin Concerto in C Minor. I wrote it this week a
I listened to your prelude in your playlist, but I didn't like it. So I looked you up and found your website, just to be sure I don't like anything you wrote. I like to be thorough. Then I heard your "Ho Chi Minh City for Ensemble". Now THAT I really
