A tonal piece based on an unusual mode inspired by Peter Mennin.
It was more a technical exercise but not being as clever as Mennin I had to reject all but the slow movement (submitted here). It's also more true to the mode.
The atmosphere has a 'lost
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I submitted an earlier version of this quartet some time ago on the earlier forum but it needed trimming down a bit. It comes from a more tonal era (for me).
It's four short impressions of a small tropical town for flute, cor anglais, clar
Read more…This arose one evening at a Dartington summer school when three of us were left with nothing much to do so we decided just to write a two or three part fugue, see how we got on.
This was my effort.
A Little fugue-050612 - 160.mp3
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Recently composed, I've truncated to just on 6 minutes.
It's an impressionist piece (fairly tonal but modern). The story is about a male and female out in a desert region late in the afternoon, gradually admitting a fondness for each other.
The harmon
Read more…It looks like I'm back in business now the VSL problem has been sorted out. Working on a new orchestral piece.
Meanwhile I don't think I submitted this piece. I was thinking of extending it to back a clip of a garden of fountains with the usual terra
Read more…I haven’t been in for a while, initially having to do a revision/update course for work (a boring month if ever). Now VSL has broken down for no apparent reason and I’m still getting help. Lucky my income isn’t relying on it.
“Peggy’s Garden” is o
Read more…Just wondering what others think about this.
For me, producing a useful score - one that could be submitted to professional directors/orchestras - is hard work. I start on paper in short score; then move it into a daw. By then most if not all the orc
Read more…I finished a couple of chamber pieces recently, this one last month. Having given it a tart-up today, rendered it. It'll probably be part of a 3 movement work if I keep it.
The strings are muted throughout.
Large orchestral scores were giving me a hea
Read more…I've had so much trouble and frustration recently attempting an orchestral piece that I gave up. There comes a point where it gets too much. Last time that happened I gave up composing altogether for several years.
So I turned to writing a solo to cle
Read more…I'm putting together two pieces represeting the mood of the sun in the heat of summer and the moon at a similar time. This is the first one. Probably best described as symbolist / fairly tonal; through composed based on a couple of motifs that recur
Read more…Been reworking some items in the pending tray.
This is a bit modern. Duration 6 minutes. I was thinking of it opening a suite of 3 pieces for mezzo / orchestra. I'm stuck on a slow movement at the mo - and this is a "style" I've been trying to break f
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Recently completed. Doesn’t represent much of a stylistic development for me as it reverts to symbolism, something from which I was hoping to move away.
It’s athematic, arrhythm
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I put up an introductory piece the other day. David commented that I'd chosen something that waen't too accessible to introduce myself.
So here's another piece submitted some years ago on the defunct forum. Not my melody, it's a variation on
Read more…Just a way of introducing myself. On the old forum I was known as Dane - my stage name for a long time - times that fade increasingly into the past so I'll use my "real name" here (which means having my user id changing if that's possible.
This short
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