Name: Dusty Miller by Alan Hamilton in Daily Drops
Duration: 6 min 9 s
Description: 'Dusty Miller' a mixed genre track and just as the mood took me.

Great track. Awersome melodies and arrangement. Bravo!

Always a pleasure to hear you play Alan👍

What a treat, just what my ears needed. Marvelous musicianship, composing and production my friend🔥✌️🔥

Absolute amazing! This is a world-class stuff. You are fantastic composer!

A beautiful mood you have created here with sweet guitar and awesome key transition! A pleasure Alan! 👍👍

Sublime piano soloing as ever....superb piece!

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“Second Passacaglia for String Orchestra” was completed in July, 2022 in Fairview, TX. 

From the composer's publisher Creative Spirit OnLine: "Brooks’s Second Passacaglia unfolds broodingly over a 17-bar, slowly moving bass line in cellos and basses, while the variations above increase in movement and intensity until finally arriving at a subdued and haunting final cadence."

The work is in one movement. Performance time is about 10 minutes. 
Printed and electronic scores and parts are available from www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com
A virtual recording of this work is posted on www.soundcloud.com/robert-john-brooks.

Performance notes:
•	Tempo, expression, and dynamic markings should be strictly observed.
•	There is no key signature. Accidentals apply to the end of the measure or to the note or notes tied over the measure, and only to notes of the same pitch class, in the same octave.
•	Hairpin pairs (e.g.: mp <>, mf ><) indicate a temporary volume change of one dynamic level.
•	Passages marked  fff  or ppp  indicate playing as loudly and as quietly as possible, respectively.
•	Double-bass “C-extension” is required.

Contact information: 
Email: robtjbrooks@yahoo.com 
Web: www.soundcloud.com/robert-john-brooks
Web: www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com

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Second Passacaglia for String Orchestra

modern day

photos are memories I keep within my mind
stored in the basement in a crate I’ll never find
songs are the stories and the places I have been
authored before this mental knot I’m tangled in

modern day is here to stay
and all that was will fade away
heavens rain and hell will pay
our eyes are wet with tears

poets and prophets weave our words into their art
read in dramatic mien and spoken from their heart  
unseal the parchment let the words escape their cage
left with a book with seven hundred empty page

styles we made are old and frayed 
where all the past is filed away
a quill, a pen I’ll write the end
the sky is wet with ink

modern day is here to stay
and all that was will fade away
heavens rain and hell will pay
our eyes are wet with tears
modern day is bland and beige
remembrance of the golden age
a quill, a pen I’ll write the end
my heart is black as ink

Modern Day

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Art Expressed in Music – El Greco's Passion
February 2024
Duration: 3:00
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: View of Toledo 
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos (October 1, 1541 –  April 7, 1614) most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek”), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.  El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete).  In 1570, he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of of the Venetian Renaissanbce.  In 1577, he moved to Toledo Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings, such as “View of Toledo”.  At the time, Toledo was the religious capital of Spain and a populous city.  In Toledo, he was the tenant of a complex consisting of three apartments and twenty-four rooms.  It was in these apartments, which also served as his workshop, that he spent the rest of his life, painting and studying. He lived in considerable style, sometimes employing musicians to play whilst he dined.  During the course of the execution of a commission, El Greco fell seriously ill, and died on  April 7th, 1614 at the age of 73.  El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries, but finally found appreciation in the 20th century.  El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism; his works were a source of inspiration for painters like Picasso.  He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical paintings.  El Greco discarded classicist criteria such as measure and proportion. He believed that grace is the supreme quest of art.  El Greco regarded color as the most important and the most ungovernable element of painting, and declared that color had primacy over form.
For strings, piano, trumpet, skiddaw stones, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed In Music - El Greco's Passion

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The year is 500 B.C. in the glorious Persian Empire. A grand royal feast has been going on for around 6 months, but now for a week it opens to the public in the capital of Shushan. The reigning king is King Xerxes or more faithfully in Persian, King Khashayar. The servants sing about how lavish the feast is but the king isn't impressed yet.

SERVANT 1:
Cm G
Welcome all people to the feast!
Cm G
From all the greatest to the least!
Ab G
The banquet's open now to all Shushan
Ab G
For 7 days, you’ll feel just oh sooooooo grand...

[musical interlude]
Cm - G - Cm - G
Ab - G - Ab - G
G - Fm - G

SERVANT 2:
G
Long live King Khashayar, (a.k.a. King Xerxes)
Ab Fm G
The mighty Persian Empire!

S3
G
See the splendour of his reign
Ab Fm G
and majesty we admire!

S4
G
Persia and Media
Ab Fm G
How radiant is your glory

S5
G
A hundred twenty-seven states
Ab Fm G
so great with wonders and stories

[repeat with ensemble]

S6
G
A hundred twenty-seven states
Ab Fm G
so great with wonders and stories

[musical interlude]
G - Fm - G - Ab - G - Fm - G

S7
Cm G
Come drink the neverending wine,
Cm G
In cups of gold with own designs!

G1
Ab G
(what?) I didn't know your cup's not the same as mine!
Ab G
Show it to me... Gasp wow! One of a kind!

SERVANTS:
Ab G
The greatest feast on earth we shall provide
Ab G
Come let us serve you till you're satisfied

Cm G
Behold the royal garden view!
Cm G
With curtains cotton white and blue!
Ab G
They’re fastened to fine linen purple cords
Ab G
To silver rings on marble-made supports!

Cm G
Recline on gold and silver beds
Cm G
On pavement blue, white, black..... and red!

Ab G
Praise to the royal throne in great Shushan
Ab G
And to the rulers of our many lands

S8
G
Long live King Khashayar,
Ab Fm G
A king we truly admire.

S9 & S8
G
3 fine years he’s ruled and reigned
Ab Fm G
his big and noble empire!

S10 & S9
G
Persia and Media
Ab Fm G
Come join in our celebration

S8, S9, S10
G
From Ind(ia) to Eth(io)pia,
Ab Fm G
How vast and valiant our nation!

[repeat with ensemble]

[musical interlude]
G - Fm - G - Ab - G - Fm - G

S1:
Cm G
Today's the last day of our feast
Cm G
My king I trust that you are pleased!

SERVANTS
Ab G
This feast cannot get better; no siree!
Ab G
Thanks to your royal throne and majesty

KING KHASHAYAR:
G
Did you mean you’ve shown the best
of our wealth and elegance?

SERVANTS:
Cm G
No, your majesty!

KING KHASHAYAR:
G
So there’s one part they’ve yet to see:
The beauty of my Queen Vashti

SERVANTS:
Cm G
Beautiful is she!

The Feast - Act 1 Opener

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AI is not an option I use or intend to in the future. All of my music is composed, played and produced using the following equipment:
Cubase 14 Pro on Windows PC
Arturia instruments (full suite) some FX
Native Instruments - Instruments and FX
Toontracks -Superior Drummer 3 and Percussion
Korg Triton Synyh
Roland RD800 Piano
Native Instruments - Komplete Control S49 and S61 keyborads
Icon Mixing desk
Yamaha & KRK active monitors
Congas and various  LA percussion instruments.
Various String libraries including: Spitfire/ IK Multimedia/labs/Orchestral Tools-Berlin Free Orchestra
Orange Tree Samples - Guitars and Flute
Musiclabs Guitars
Spectrasonics Trilian Basses
Soundpaint: Strings/Brass/Wind/Guitars/Percussion/ and a multitude of other things.
Various FX from a multitude of companies.
Various Programs from the Spitfire Original range
My trusted "Drum Stool"
Fridge (for Guinness)!!!!



Now retired from a life 'on the road' as a freelance keyboard player, I compose and record in my home studio, situated in the Carrick Hills in Southern Scotland. My music is mainly instrumental in nature and is a reflection of my life experience, sometimes real and sometimes imagined.
My influences are many and I have quite probably been shaped by listening to the very many "giants" of music, both players and composers. From classical to contemporary jazz and everything in between. My main instrument is the keyboard, whether that be piano, organ or synth. But I also play banjo, flute and percussion. I have a special relationship'with bass, whether upright or electric and use virtual and synth basses from numerous sources, but mainly Trilian by Spectrasonics.


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