Piano, 2020
Sleep thou in the bosom
Bliss Carman, ‘Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics’
Of the tender comrade,
While the living water
Whispers in the well-run,
And the oleanders
Glimmer in the moonlight.
Piano, 2020
Sleep thou in the bosom
Bliss Carman, ‘Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics’
Of the tender comrade,
While the living water
Whispers in the well-run,
And the oleanders
Glimmer in the moonlight.
I took November 28th’s piano piece:
…and arranged it out for a few more instruments
The original inspiration was pretty much Takeharu Ishimoto’s Crisis Core sound and we continue with that idea here… (Not exactly similar, and I’m not sure the string quartet was ever combined with the rock band there, but here ’tis.)
I historically haven’t been very into “developing” or “revising” my older pieces, tending to just think of them as done and move on to the next thing, but lately I’ve been doing a few things like like this… I think it’s because of arranging a lot of beloved vgm pieces this year, and that’s made me approach my old stuff (okay, in this instance it’s not at all old, but there’s others) not in terms of developing or revising but doing a different, new arrangement.
Last year I did a bit of an arrangement/restyle of Jessie’s Theme by Masashi Hamauzu from FFVII Remake:
Lately I recorded this in a live piano and oboe version:
30 pieces 30 days… Pianowrimo 2021 week 1 here we go.
The finished book of 30 pieces can now be downloaded:

The first week of daily piano pieces this year featured 2 different pianos 😀
A real mix of slow/pretty and fast and upbeat these, I just realised.
The time has flown! Here we are up to 3/4s of the way through November…. Pianowrimos 2020 17 – 21
Have another bit of sheet music, for day 17. This one had the working title “slushy wind quintet” because it slightly reminded me of… some sort of mood like that. Not sure if French or English.

We’re over half way through the month now!
The full book of 30 pieces including this piece is now available: Flower Moon
Inspired by violin tunes, Ashokan Farewell and Neil Gow’s famous lament …

