Well I picked up the Michael Nyman book this afternoon … wanted to do something like this 🙂
Sheet music, please enjoy! Best played with feeling and angst.
Women called poems and women called blades
piano
Easter Night (piano)
A piece I wrote a few years ago, for SSAA choir, which I was recently asked to re arrange it for SATB. But here just played by me on piano!
poem by Alice Meynell (1847 – 1922)
Bandcamp album up
It’s here!! album download on bandcamp here
This is the second year I’ve done PIANOWRIMO – a piece a day every day through the month of November – and the result is another set of 30 short pieces, glimpses into different styles and moods.
There are nods to, among others, Couperin, Telemann and the Penguin Café Orchestra, and a few little literary refs this year, to Tolkien, RL Stevenson, John Drinkwater and Katherine Philips… And overall it’s very me. It might be good music for writing or inspiration; many (though not all!) would be good for relaxing. You can try and spot the references or fit the words of the poems, or you can make up you own stories.
It might be a nice Christmas present etc for … all sorts of people?
And did I mention the price is pay-what-you-want, anything from FREE on up! (And seriously, you are completely welcome to download this for free!)
Last year’s album is also available!
Angels we have heard….
GOTTA WRITE SOME CAROLS/Christmas songs!! #2
It’s upbeat and pentatonic-y!
1. Angels, we have heard your voices,
Sweetly singing o’er the plains;
Mount, and crag and hill replying,
Echo still your joyous strains:
Chorus:
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
2. Shepherds, why this jubilation?
Why this ecstasy of song?
Tell us what may be the tidings
That inspired the heavenly throng? Chorus
3. Come and see in Bethlem’s city
Him whose birth the angels sing;
And, on bended knee, adore him,
Christ the Lord, the new-born King! Chorus
4. See, within a manger lying,
Jesus, Lord of heaven and earth;
Aid us, Mary, aid us, Joseph,
To acclaim our Saviour’s birth Chorus
Words: Traditional French carol, “Les Anges dans nos Campagnes.” Adaptation of the translation by Bishop Chadwick by R. R. Terry again, many thanks to Hymns and Carols of Christmas for organising all these words!!
Recorded on phone, with real-life authentic reverb 😀
Anime Nocturne
This is an “anime” nocturne because it’s the kind of music a character might play in some dramatic moment revealing them to be a thoughtful person… or just, something pretty and fake Chopin.
Waking (sheet music)
Lately I’ve been going through my piano pieces, sorting what to include in my portfolio, and also with an eye to….. I mean i’d really love to publish things just to keep them all organised apart from anything else, I’ve literally over a hundred of these things….!
I’ll certainly let you know if and when that happens, but in the meantime, sneak peak sort of thing– here’s the sheet music for this pretty and Debussy / Yoko Kanno influenced piece from a few years ago 🙂
Roasting Pumpkins
autumn/fall mood
Rest
Perhaps a memory type scene, or even game over loop…. definitely has Final Fantasy influence again 🙂 (specifically Final Fantasy V?)
Dreamy
A flowy part over an exactly repeating/ostinato thing in the left-hand.