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Dear Wadjet - for Saxophone Ensemble and Percussion, by Brandon Schwab.

Dear Wadjet - for Saxophone Ensemble and Percussion

Honestly, I wrote this in 4 hours for my studio at my univeristy. Thought it sounded neat. Thoughts?

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lunecy in small increments

I wrote this piece a few years back, and I haven't been on this site in a long time. I am looking for serious feedback on this piece. I have the score as well, but I thought posting the soundcloud link would be a good start.  Thanks. Matthew Pelandin

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My first upload - Latin Composition

Hi there, 

as I'm new to this forum I just wanted to upload one of my compositions, to introduce myself.

It's called "Una noche en México" and I originally composed this for percussion ensemble, but I'll also upload the version for wind ensemble with

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The Dance of the Yao People (Arranged by August Champlin)

A Chinese friend of mine played The Dance of the Yao People on the guzheng (Chinese zither) for me in 2005, and I was instantly smitten with the piece. When years later Professor Ken Narducci asked me to write a piece for percussion ensemble for a Di

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The Anatomy of an Epic Soundtrack (Spoof)

A friend visited my studio and suggested we compose a send-up of that classic Hollywood staple, the trailer to an epic sci-fi movie. We each added the musical gestures we thought distinguish the genre and posted the results on YouTube as a public ser

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Percussion Extended Techniques

If anyone out there wants to know more about writing extended techniques for percussion, I have been playing contemporary music on percussion for a long time, and have written many pieces for this troublesome group of instruments.  I thought I would

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Andantino in A major Op.1

Andantino in A major Op.1 pdf

 

This is my Classical composition. It is a string quartet with piano. I was inspired by the Romantic era music that iv'e been listening to lately. The piece starts with a relatively thin texture and soon builds to a hug

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Percussion Quartet

Hey,

New recording from a piece performed last night by the Royal Irish Academy of Music's Percussion Ensemble in Dublin. Its called Prevalence. Have a listen here and let me know what you think. Takes a little to load the page though.

Also you can hav

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A musical image of a HP lovecraft story

Hello people, I am a huge Lovecraft fan and from time to time I write music based on his stories. This one is called "under the pyramids" and I am using some ethnic percussion ,strings and xian ciao on it. I hope you like it. Feel free to post feedba

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MIDI Composers: How do you compose your percussion?

Hey all, I've always been a musician/composer rooted in melodic instruments and structure. Yeah, I've sat in on a few drum circles (I'm part dirty hippy), but outside of a little fiddling in Fruity Loops years ago, I've never really done much in the

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March to Glory - Extended Version (Rearranged) - "Marcha para a Glória"

Hello composers, I am new here! First, thanks for listening to my work! =) I rearranged previous work... (In the second video below) EXTENDED (FINAL) VERSION: [Edited December 16, 2009] - OLD VERSION (November 11, 2009): Thanks again! http

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