Piano Solo | 30 pieces
Difficulty: varied, intermediate, short pieces
2022
Author Archives: sara-garrard
Tell O Shepherds at the Sing Clifton Christmas Concert
Concert day yesterday! I wrote the music for Tell O Shepherds a few years back, inspired by carol singing basically. I wanted something that just felt like one of the traditional carols, four-part, with a nice sop descant in the last verse. There’s a little bit of a nod to ‘Infant Holy Infant Lowly’ with the rising sequence, and think the words might even be related/from the same source originally.
You can get the sheet music for Tell O Shepherds here.
PIANOWRIMO 2023: Day 8 already
Unbelievably, already a week in ….
You can follow along the whole playlist for this year here.
And here’s today’s, which is, well, Nyman/Einaudi-adjacent (that’s all I’ll claim, since it was composed nice and speedily!) I’m surprised I haven’t used ‘Restless’ as a title for a piece before; I guess I’ve used it now.
PIANOWRIMO 2023
Day 1:
A cute one, like for those dog videos with cute piano music:)
Follow along on youtube, bandcamp and sheet music will follow after the end of the month.
Getting ready for Pianowrimo 2023
November is nearly upon us which means it’s time for PIANOWRIMO, for, incredibly, the seventh year.
Check out the project page for links to all the previous years, and here’s a video I made showing the development of one of last year’s piano pieces into a track from the FORTUNATA album:
2HAC: Thirteen
A piano and viola piece I wrote for the 2 Hour Album Challenge. The theme was “Thirteen”, which I took very unoriginally as 13/8, and ended up approaching it quite like a pianowrimo piece, and then (after the 2 hours!) wrote it up.
Whole album: here.
FORTUNATA Release
aka project “top secret RPG with rhythm game elements”
This was the “quick” “little” fun project I started working on in February … well, did a bunch in February/March, then moved house and got very busy and picked up again at the end of May. An imaginary game soundtrack using mostly Virtuoso and Proteus 2000 (virtual) instruments. I like old 1990s sounds, as may have been mentioned; and I think they lend themselves to writing tune-y thematic game music, and the non-realism goes well with simpler graphic styles, not to mention retro itself is a thing. This is also available as an asset pack on itch.
36 tracks! phew! Happy late birthday to me again, this is somewhat the successor to last year’s Let’s Adventure.
Protected: top secret new rpg-with-rhythm-game-elements in progress
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Easter Hymns etc
catching up with arrears here; recorded these for Easter!
Him upon the cross I love – A year some back, I think, I returned to the Catherine Winkworth oeuvre … and had a go setting this one in a kind of, um, musical theatre style? I find it rather challenging to sing, but here’s a kind of demo anyway.
From Thy Heavenly Throne, a new recording of one that first appeared here, words again by Winkworth.
God of mercy, God of grace – I recorded this before too, but maybe never shared it. Words by Henry Francis Lyte. unlike the previous two, this is less soloistic, could be definitely sung by a group, more of a … I was going to say “modern” and “hymn”, but what I think I mean is 80s-90s chorus 😄
Wesley: Easter Hymn. I kind of didn’t realise these lyrics were THIS song, without the Allelulias I associate it with. So, here’s another different tune! This one is also envisaged more as a singable group song – one of those joyful marching songs for Easter.
Easter Week by Charles Kingsley. I am enjoying the jubilant melismas and big alto notes here ^_^