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Try to remain calm while everything falls apart around you. It's important that. You. Try. To. Remain. Calm. If you like Shostakovich or Prokofiev, you might like this.

Image from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/photos/sand-desert-drought-heiss-dry-2329153/

Wait, how can it be a waltz with five steps instead of three? Well, it's a thing. Tchaikovsky did it. Directions here: https://www.libraryofdance.org/dances/five-step-waltz/

Created for the Composer Club "Chords" Challenge, making a piece with only chords rooted on Ab,C,Db and D. So the piece is in Ab major, with a modulation to D in the B section.

An ingenious gentleman, who fights to the death, against all odds. So ingenious, he invents enemies out of thin air. I haven't read Don Quixote, but if I did, I would imagine music like this.

Chords are all rooted on A, Bb, C, Db for the Composer Challenge group's chord challenge.

Work in progress. Doggerland was a prehistoric dry land area that connected the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe. It was inhabited, probably by Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s now underwater.

This piece imagines that prehistoric landscape, in a two-part form. The first half introduces a string of themes, and the second half repeats and expands on them. The first statement runs to the three chords around 4’40; the restatement is under construction. The music evolves as it goes.

Picture is from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/fire-flame-bonfire-dark-night-2593636/

Otters are cute and playful, and also skilled hunters who are at home on land and water. In folklore around the world, otters are often associated with tricksters. [This is a work in progress.]

Made for a composer challenge: Only chords rooted on A, B, C#, and F. Chords are:

Variation I

A - Bø - A/C# - C# - A - Bo - A - Bø - A - Bo - A - Fo - A - C#7/B - A - C#

Variation II

A - Bø - A/C# - C# - A - Bo - A - Bø - A - Bo - A - Fo - A/E - F7 - C#7 - A - C#7 - A

Variation III

A - Bø - A/C# - C# - A - Bo - A - Bø - A - Bo - A - F7 - A7 - Bo, C#7 - Fo, A7 - Bo, A7/C# - F7 - A - Bo - A - F7

Variation IV

A - Bø - A/C# - C# - A/E - Fmaj7 - A - A+ - Bø - F7 - Fo

Coda

A - Fo/A - A - Fo/A - A7 - Ao - A - Fo/A - A7 - F7/A - A7 - F7/A - A

The painting is by Monet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio_Maggiore_at_Dusk

Score and parts available from http://www.gustholdmusic.com/

Wheels hammer lopsided rhythms down the track, repetitive yet evolving. Nnatural wonders parade by: wandering streams, shocks of birch and aspen, bear and moose under sprawling gray skies. We watch round every bend, as any moment it might peek through, a monstrous wave struck by a magic harpoon, frozen, cresting forever over the lonely tundra: Denali, the ‘Great One.’

Inspired by a train ride in Alaska. Somehow repetitive and exciting at the same time. 11/8 (3/8+3/8+3/8+2/8) time signature. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfBC5i06xxE

The entire piece, both solo and accompaniment use only 6 pitches: (C, D, E, G, Ab, Bb). Why? These are the pitches my wife and I have tattooed on our necks (but transposed down a half step so it doesn't have to be in C#!) Details on why those notes here: https://elievans.music.blog/2020/02/17/we-are-a-matched-set/

Sheet music available on request.

Soloist in this recording is Juan Rosales from Costa Rica. If you want to hire him, you can find his Fiverr profile here: https://www.fiverr.com/juanrosales767/record-an-amazing-oboe-solo

The Unseen Realm (https://faithlifetv.com/the-unseen-realm) is a 2019 documentary film adaptation of the book by the same name. It covers biblical topics from a fresh angle. Parts of this track appear in the original score I wrote for the film. (Main title opening sequence.)

Watch the film at https://faithlifetv.com today.

POSTED BY PERMISSION of the copyright holder, Faithlife Films.

A sad, poignant song. Seems like it would be at home in a requiem. (I was probably thinking of Faure's Requiem some.)

Created for the Composer Challenge: Dice roll melody challenge. Melodic notes are only E, F, G, Ab, and Bb. There isn't a key in this so much as a tonal center around Bb. The scale would be something like sharp 4+flat 7. All the chords are built from stacks of perfect fifths.

Cello is Cinesamles Tina Guo Legato Cello. Soprano is from EastWest's Voices of Opera. The text is just random words. The rest of the orchestra is French Horns and strings, also from EastWest.