Day 23 already!! All the pieces so far are up on youtube; here is today’s:
And the sheet music.
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Sostenuto (after Chopin) [Free]
We’re nearly halfway through November and Pianowrimo this year. You can keep up with all the new pieces on my YouTube, and here’s a sneak preview of the sheet music before the album release next month. Today’s is inspired by a unnamed Chopin albumleaf, also in Eb and in 3.
UPDATE: Listen / download the full album on bandcamp here (also on Spotify etc), and get all 30 pieces of sheet music here.
PIANOWRIMO 2022
AND ALSO, of course, it’s November, which mean it is time to write 30 piano pieces in 30 days.
Follow along on my youtube, or below. After this month as usual I’ll put everything together into an album and publish the sheet music. Can you believe this is the 6th year??? Here’s all about previous ones.
Gacha game music ~
Excited to finally be able to share something I’d been working on over the summer and early autumn: music, and also sound design.
I believe you can actually play this game worldwide … but it is in Chinese so you might not get quite so much out of it if you don’t read Chinese!
I composed the two battle themes and the main/town background music, along with the sound design you’ll hear in the gacha roll part (see 9:41 in this gameplay video.)
And here you can hear a bit of the other battle theme which I think goes with player vs player battles and I haven’t seen in a gameplay video yet, but it’s fairly epic:
Trailer: Facebook has slightly completely destroyed the sound quality, but here is the trailer which contains a new musical theme and sound effects.
Wild Roses (piano)
Sorry no roses in the video… more like a farewell to summer thing. Though the mood is rather more emotional even tragic in the middle there, you can put your own story to it 🙂
There is sheet music for this on the sheet music page. I wanted something pretty easy under the hands. It is kind of Einaudi lite, but just the two pages. I used an old Roland SC88 piano for this sound.
Wild Roses [Free download]
Forest Dance / Symbols Spin
Another little tune made with the same sound set I used for Let’s Adventure.
I’ve been experimenting with Scratch and tried using that to make the animation — couldn’t get it to reliably stay exactly in time and had to finesse it a bit with imovie, but still a fun idea:) The art is by piyapong89 on pixabay.
Songs and Carols for Christmas
I have just updated the sheet music page with a bunch of choral scores, in time for Christmas! ‘Twas in the Moon of the Wintertime / The Huron Carol we have sung several times in Sing Clifton; the rest are new, one getting its first performance this year.
O Night, Restful and Deep (SATB)
[ Buy and download on Sheet Music Plus ]
SATB | 3m30 | Intermediate
O Night, Restful and Deep in a new musical setting by Sara Garrard. A beautiful, peaceful song for Christmas, expanding into warm harmonies over four verses.
We will be singing this in the Sing Clifton Christmas concert 2022.
O Night, restful and deep
The Babe folded in sleep,
In a poor manger dreameth!
Moonlight softly doth shine,
Around melody streameth:
“He is the Babe Divine!
He is the Babe Divine!”O Dawn, rosy and shy,
Greet Him where He doth lie,
At the birds’ call awaking!
As clouds fleeing from sight,
So all shadows are breaking:
”He is the dark World’s Light!
He is the dark World’s Light!”Oh Morn, lovely and blest,
Round Him, guarding His rest,
Angels gently are singing:
”Hail Him! Heavenly Dove!”
Their notes joyfully ringing:
”He is the King of Love!
He is the King of Love!”O Day, glorious the hour,
words from O bienheureuse nuit, a French Noel, English Translation by K. W. Simpson
Jesus mighty in power,
Waketh in lowly manger!
He bids sorrowing cease;
Seek Him ever in danger!
He is the sad World’s Peace.
He is the sad World’s Peace.