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Home & Love

This song is a track on my newest CD release, Home & Love. During the time I worked on this song, San Francisco was on COVID lockdown so I could not bring people into my studio to record. I'm posting two versions, each with a different singer.

Abby P

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The Peace of Wild Things

I set this poem by Wendell Berry a number of years ago. The track is on my album In Praise of Poets. Janet Campbell is the mezzo-soprano in this recording.

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Jerry

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How to enhance piano solo volume and make them sound real

Hi, guys,

I am a beginner composer to write some quiet piano solo songs. I am using digital keyboard and connect it to FL studio to record. I use Alice Piano VST for most of my songs via KOMPLETE. 

Even thoug I have already max the volume in Alice keyb

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Chord Progression Lists

Hello all, I've been dabbling with writing music and songs on and off for a long time. I am very amateur as will be apparent from this request. In my song writing moments I can always string along some pleaseing basic chords to generate a verse or pe

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"The World is a Scary Place" for solo piano

Here is a recording of a new piano piece I wrote last week which now functions as the introduction for a larger work I wrote some years ago. It's in the format of a video which also gives information about the larger work which is a musical story for

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"A modest Anthem for the Stars"

My first ever piece to be published on an online community of composers/other music fans.

A  fairly simple calming and intriguing(I hope :P) piano piece in the key of G Minor, inspired by -stars. The intention is to give the listeners an impression o

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Song Variance Comparison

Over the past decade or so, the concept of melody seems to have changed from what it was for Rock or Big Band melodies.  There are songs being written with the traditional concept of melody and I have provided some examples below.  However, the most

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Looking for Poetry to write a Romantic Lied.

Good evening fellow musicians, I'm opening this discussion asking for help, hoping that this is the right subforum to post in.
I am looking for poetry (German) to write a lied to, the problem is, I'm pretty ignorant and my online search attempts didn'

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Playing with different instruments

Hi all, I wrote this short piece for the Two Part Invention contest

         a short while back . It was just sitting around gathering          dust and I decided to try some new sounds.

         Originally writen for piano or harpsichord, this mix s

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Sending your music to A-list vocalists

I'm a composer and singer-songwriter. Although I do perform my own songs, my real dream is to write music to be performed by other amazing artists who I feel would do the song far better justice vocally, and of course production wise.

My questions is

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Rhyme dictionary

english.pdf

This is actually not a real rhyme dictionary. Just a dictionary with all words alphabetized from the end of the word. But it works quite well! Say you want something that rhymes with "lead". The dictionary gives you the following words:

l

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Need composers and songwriters to fill in questionnaire for my uni dissertation

Questions for songwriters and composers - Peter Clough.doc

Hi guys,

I need songwriters and composers to fill in questionnaire to help me with my final dissertation for University.

I am a fellow composer/songwriter and my dissertation is an investi

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