Music Since 1995

In 1995, I moved to Seattle. I wanted to start fresh on a lot of levels, including musically. Up until then the music I wrote was more or less in the manner of classical forms that I wanted to understand (but developing my own harmonic and melodic idiom). After 1995, I was done with that.

So the music below is characteristic of what I'm doing now. Also, I produced all my CDs after 1995, so this list only represents music that isn't available on CD (yet?).

Title Time Full Mp3 20-second Mp3 Sample Pdfs The Seventy-Two Names of God 7:59 mp3 mp3 pdf "Pastorale" - Recorder Consort and Glass Armonica 3:19 mp3 mp3 pdf "A Heart Strangely Warmed" - Organ Solo 6:00 mp3 mp3 pdf "Soliloquy" - Armonica, Lute, String Orchestra, French Horn 7:38 mp3 mp3 pdf A "trance-music" experiment 3:48 mp3 mp3

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Music Before 1995

In this music I'm deliberately composing more-or-less in classical forms like 'fugues' and 'sonatas'. In it I figure it's OK to bend the rules here and there, but I really wanted to understand the craft.

Jack Reynolds—my first music teacher—encouraged me to make 'reference recordings' along the way—recording quality only as high as was easy (otherwise it doesn't get done). That's what many of these recordings are: I had a big cassette recorder with built-in microphones (that seemed to sound better than the other available choices) but many of these recordings are far from recording studio quality. I've done noise-reduction and what tweaking I can to make them better, but there's only so much one can do. The music still definitely comes through.

Title Time Full Mp3 20-second Mp3 Sample Pdfs Phantasy No. 1 - Piano Solo 4:48 mp3 mp3 pdf Phantasy No. 2 - Piano Solo 3:23 mp3 mp3 pdf Phantasy No. 3: "If Only I could Kiss It and Make It Better" - Piano Solo 6:17 mp3 mp3   Phantasy No. 8 - Piano Solo 3:20 mp3 mp3 pdf Romance No. 1 - Viola & Piano 3:52 mp3 mp3 pdf Romance No. 2 - Viola & Piano 3:33 mp3 mp3 pdf "Alleluia" - SATB chorus 4:36 mp3 mp3 pdf Three Sacred Songs: 1) "Thy Lovingkindness in the Morning" - Voice & Piano 4:47 mp3 mp3 pdf Three Sacred Songs: 2) "Thy Judgement As The Noonday" - Voice & Piano 3:11 mp3 mp3 pdf Three Sacred Songs: 3) "As the Evening Sacrifice" - Voice & Piano 3:14 mp3 mp3 pdf "In the Lithium Mode" - Violin, Cello & Piano 3:49 mp3 mp3   "The Chameleon's Cotillion" - Chamber Ensemble 10:46 mp3 mp3 pdf Piano Sonata - Mv. 1 7:27 mp3 mp3 pdf Piano Sonata - Mv. 2 7:03 mp3 mp3 pdf Piano Sonata - Mv. 3 3:05 mp3 mp3 pdf Piano Sonata - Mv. 4 14:31 mp3 mp3 pdf "Gates of Atlantis" (1975) - Organ 7:24 mp3 mp3 pdf Passacaglia No. 1 (1973) - Organ 7:07 mp3 mp3

Payment for MP3s and PDFs is on the 'honor system'. If you like something, 'set your own price'. MP3s are CD quality with no copy protection or DRM. Here is information on How to Play and Save MP3s