I’m writing a new piece. It is in a slow 3/4 time, a thoughtful andante, sort-of an homage to my absolute favourite composers: Mendelssohn and Dvorak… more Mendelssohn, perhaps, than Dvorak, although he’s amazing, is Antonin. I’m calling it “To the Breathing of Trees”… one sort-of gets why the name listening to the piece whilst… Read More Au Souffle des Arbres
As I posted on the Musescore page, my first transcription in Musescore was Dvorak’s String Sextet (the Dumka): a piece and a composer I have always found bewitching. This serenade is my humble scribblings attempting to emulate this great artist, particularly the works I was familiar with: the chamber music. Dvorak’s background was bohemian: he… Read More Serenade
Just putting the final touches on a new sketch… Number 5. But first, I’d like to explain, why “sketches”. Why not “impromptu” or “elegy” or, something more meaningful, more elegant, more descriptive of the effort. Clarification: I’m not truly a composer in the classical sense, which means that although I studied music theory at Uni… Read More Music: I Think it was Hovhaness