This forum seems to have gone completely to sleep -- either the participants aren't writing anything (and most members are making no contribution at all) or they don't want to share what they're doing. I have yet to start on a new work but perhaps to
Read more…After getting -- for the time being at any rate -- a computer I can actually do some music on, I decided to write a short piece to use my "Christmas present" -- a curious alto library from Orchestral Tools courtesy of their voucher. It's purely exper
Read more…I present another work from the "Intuitive Factory" to be ignored or listened to as you see fit. This time it's a rather neoclassical string quartet which is officially actually in C major, though this key first appears only in the second subject rec
Read more…Quite a few years ago, I experimented with three short songs to German Romantic poets. Initially I had no software which could sing text so didn't pay that much attention to the text setting but decided to go back to these works and lay the words out
Read more…I've recently completed my magnum opus, a setting of the HC Andersen tale The Little Mermaid. At over 1hr 7 mins, it's the longest thing I've ever written but is perhaps also the best and certainly the most characteristic of the sort of thing I'm mos
Read more…as this forum seems to have died recently, I feel obliged to post something new. Well actually, it isn't really new but my String Serenade has been redone with a new chamber strings library and for the most part, I like the result. The piece is a bit
Read more…I fairly recently completed my latest chamber work. Like with the 12th, this finishes with a consolatory adagio as its heart, though this time it's a bit more complex and starts with a variant of the main motif of the first movement which is highly c
Read more…I've never bothered putting up my limited forays into solo piano music up on the web before as I was never very happy with my endeavours. And piano music is anyway the most commonly posted form by amateurs. But the latest set of four works seems to m
Read more…one of the forms of music least often heard on forums seems to be choral music -- especially of a sacred nature.The situation is not helped by the fact that only one company, EWQL, has actually bothered to create choirs that can sing free text in a s
Read more…my most recently completed work actually came to some extent in two parts -- and with some hesitation as the actual nature of the piece. I was originally inspired by a work about "Rain" by Steve Elcock to write something weather-related and in due co
Read more…It's a New Year and at this time, we're all supposed to look optimistically to the future, difficult though it might seem with all the nonsense that's going on in the world. So I offer this antidote which is among the most tuneful and hopeful of all
Read more…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
Read more…well, I've just completed a new string quartet. The opening movement was marked "dolente" before I even wrote a note, I think and the mood is reflective of the times we live in (as well as one or two personal things), though there is a more lively ce
Read more…A year or so ago, I happened to be looking at old MIDI files and discovered something which went under the cryptic title GIT_NOCT. I have no idea why. Anyway, this turned out to be one of the first things I ever wrote and I put the badly played MIDI
Read more…Against my better judgement, as fairy tales seem to have become an increasingly regular part of my output, I decided to try and draw your attention here to my just completed (well, the first draft) Cinderella setting. Normally it's too much to expec
Read more…As we're on the subject of a wind quintet, I thought I might test out the music tab here to see if it works and indeed it seems as if it does!
I wrote a wind sextet (to be found under the Music tab) following on from the inspiration of Janacek's "Mlad
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