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Even though he was one of music's great conservatives, it is often (and rightly) remarked that J.S. Bach was a great cosmopolitan—in his music the north countries meet southern Germany, France, and Italy in striking ways previously almost unknown. In the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, Bach joins together elements from distinct nations and traditions in ways that may be heard very close to the musical surface indeed.
Composed for Bruce Curlette’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Tangled is an attempt to present two separate melodic lines simultaneously, in a tango style.
Composed for the Bateira Trio’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Composed for Jenny Greene’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame
This text is from Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act I, scene 5 of Macbeth, in which she is preparing to help here husband murder Duncan, the king.
ro•sa•ry – a series of prayers counted on a string of beads, usually consisting of five or fifteen decades of Aves
A•ve – Ave Maria
This piece was submitted to, but not selected for, Beth Griffith’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame.
Composed for Zentripedal’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Infused with spicy rhythms and the finest harmonic sophistication, this caffeinated composition packs quite a kick.
Composed for Shiau-uen Ding’s Liszt Bicentennial Bash
One of my favorite movies is still “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” There’s that great scene in the burlesque house where Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 is rendered by the dueling pianos of Daffy Duck and Donald Duck, one of many cartoons to pilfer Liszt’s classic. “You’re Despicable” pays tribute to that heritage.
The inspiration for these miniature pieces came from Twitter and its 140 character format. Each movement is composed using text from tweets posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010, that included the word “goodmorning”. These songs are simple and to-the-point, almost incomplete in their brevity, very much in the spirit of Twitter.
A silly title for this, my second ever composition completed while studying music formally. It's a typical student work, but everyone begins somewhere.
There are three movements:
1) Flourish
2) Soliloquy
3) "Vaults"*
* it's in 3/4 time, because one really stupid pun wasn't enough...
This is the first piece I ever composed while formally studying music. (I had composed a bunch of other things before this, but the official history begins here.) The theme is extrapolated from something I had composed for piano in high school. The variations are simple exercises in stylistic explorations.
