Theme & Variation 8 from Theme and Variations for Strings, Brass, & Harp

Largely neo-romantic in temperment if actual stylistic elements. Also, new material unrelated to the theme appears in each variation and is carried forward, sometime varied, sometimes purely quoted. Some serial techniques are used (for example, variation 4, not part of this, turns linear  "horizontal" presentation of the theme into "vertical" presentations, while variation 5 does the opposite, turning chords in the theme into lines in the variation)
A finale that begins as a tarantella-style dance (not here because not yet complete) concludes the piece.

Theme And Variations 5 Though 8

This has already been posted but in bits and pieces; this is the whole piece in its currently unfinished state. It simply stops as the last variation was just getting interesting. Realized using Apple Logic.

Variations for Strings, Brass, and Harp: Work in Progress as of 10-04-2014

Banana Splits Theme For Choir And Organ

Phil Ochs' classic "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" arranged (and possibly reharmonized) for brass ensemble. It's substantial the same as the version for harp here, but I think I like this one better. Realized with Apple Logic.

Songs For Lounge Liberals

Love Me, Love Me, I'm a Liberal

A few bars of the Intermezzo, written in the most conservative style I'm capable of. I really like this mixture of imitation 19th century and 20th century styles. Having said that, I won't be able to write like it anymore. Oh well.

Fragment of an Intermezzo

A brief piece for flutes, horns, harp, and strings. Written and realized using Apple Logic 8.0
The first tune is a stab at something Mahleresque that gives up after four bars. There is an atonal florish, and then a choral-type passage that has no particular stylistic ambitions and ends reasonably in E major. A flashback to the florish, and the first theme is reprised by the violins alone. There are two bars of slight tonal indecision, and the piece stops on an F major chord, which I don't think has appeared prior, but I'm not keeping track.
I have no particular ambitions for this piece: it originally was meant to accompany the last shot of video I put on youtube (http://youtu.be/XOTopSLBn4g, "Do Mother Hyenas Suckle Cubs Other Than Their Own?"—watch and rate, please! :) ) but I liked it enough to put it up here.
Thanks for listening and reading.

Postlude

For SATB Choir and harp. Realized in Apple's Logic Pro (v. 8)

Chorale #N

I am a lousy traitor to atonality. A short work for string orchestra in A flat major, with a very brief excursion into B minor. It must be all the listening to Warren Zevon I've been doing. That, or the Joni Mitchell.

Prelude for Strings

Phil Ochs' classic "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" arranged (and, I think slightly reharmonized) for harp. Realized with Apple Logic. Since I didn't indulge in any chromatic excesses, it may actually be playable on a real harp. The harpist might want to kick me, but I think it would work.

Bud Quinlan

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