Name: Ars Longa by Classical Glass
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Description: "Ars longa, vita brevis" translated from the Latin is understood to mean "Art is long, life is short".

Emotionally rooted music that sings the fulfilling beauty of art.  Gorgeous.

music is also the silence between the notes

Great name for your an album Phil. Either your own, possibly Cellar door? Guess all us cloudies will have left something behind on tinternet. Tis a beauty, the way to tell......3.51, over in a flash. I will repeat myself....I will repeat myself ;) Rarely do I hear anything that comes close to your work in the movies that I watch.

The quote brings to mind the great cathedrals of Europe that take generations to complete.  Your lovely composition is one of quiet resignation; that our art may not be fully comprehended in our lifetime.

Voici ma première publication sur SoundCloud avec la Gymnopédie No 1. Les suivantes sont à venir. Merci d’avance pour vos retours, et bonne écoute :-)

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Gymnopédie No 1

Erik Satie – Gymnopédie No 1

"Ars longa, vita brevis" translated from the Latin is understood to mean "Art is long, life is short".

Ars Longa

Unreachable.

I've started this song last autumn.

I wanted to express the repetitive attempt to touch what remains out of reach. Physically. Mentally. Locked from the outside. Locked from the inside.  When the words are missing. When the meaning is nowhere. 
To go on. Try. Again and again.

oxox
Enso

Unreachable

This composition was inspired by the poem "Day is Done" by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).  

Day is Done

The day is done, and the darkness 
Falls from the wings of Night, 
As a feather is wafted downward 
From an eagle in his flight. 

I see the lights of the village 
Gleam through the rain and the mist, 
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me 
That my soul cannot resist: 

A feeling of sadness and longing, 
That is not akin to pain, 
And resembles sorrow only 
As the mist resembles the rain. 

Come, read to me some poem, 
Some simple and heartfelt lay, 
That shall soothe this restless feeling, 
And banish the thoughts of day. 

Not from the grand old masters, 
Not from the bards sublime, 
Whose distant footsteps echo 
Through the corridors of Time. 

For, like strains of martial music, 
Their mighty thoughts suggest 
Life's endless toil and endeavor; 
And to-night I long for rest. 

Read from some humbler poet, 
Whose songs gushed from his heart, 
As showers from the clouds of summer, 
Or tears from the eyelids start; 

Who, through long days of labor, 
And nights devoid of ease, 
Still heard in his soul the music 
Of wonderful melodies. 

Such songs have power to quiet 
The restless pulse of care, 
And come like the benediction 
That follows after prayer. 

Then read from the treasured volume 
The poem of thy choice, 
And lend to the rhyme of the poet 
The beauty of thy voice. 

And the night shall be filled with music 
And the cares, that infest the day, 
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, 
And as silently steal away.

Day is Done

“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

Words and music K Gennery

For my Nan, Emily Adelaide Francis 1903-1972
Mother of 15 
Grandmother to 24
intro voice, my 93 year old Mum, talking about her Mum.....Emily.

While on my own i find myself lost in the past
maybe i should step back and leave well alone
For there you are ready to receive me
feel safe and warm wrapped in the arms of emily

long ago wished i could have told you so
such a long time ago ooh how i loved you so
ooh how i loved you so....emily

you were gone in a blink of an eye
i should have come and whispered goodbye
 i was young but it doesnt ease the hurting
age is not an excuse its all i have

long ago wished i could have told you so
such a long time ago ooh how i loved you so
ooh how i loved you so....emily

emily

Emily

Goodnight

For You Only

Going on a long trip? A journey there and back? Perhaps not to return? Time to contemplate what's what.

From a series I wrote in 2016-7, using only stringed instruments.

(This tune is downloadable.)

I compose in MIDI, using Logic Pro and sound libraries from EastWest. The cello in this piece is from Virharmonic.

© 2023 Rebecca Williams All rights reserved.

Departure Lounge

Inspired by nature. 

I was sitting in our garden early in the morning, listening to the birds and nearby river, filled with gratitude for it all, and this melody welled up in me.

First Light

Composed & produced by: Chivicke 
Home-Studio Productions ©2020

Photo: My father in 1936

This piece is expressly composed to honor my father. He died in 1956 as a consequence of the penalties suffered in the concentration camps after the Spanish civil war. I was six years old. Life didn't give us much time to be together.

Daddy

“A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.” -  Leopold Stokowski

A member of Cellar Door which you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

"The most powerful and magical language is music. The reason for this is that music is the original language. Music is not ornamented poetry, and poetry is not ornamented prose. Poetry is fallen music, and prose is fallen poetry. Prose is not the original language; it is poetry made practical. Even poetry is not the original language; it is music made speakable, it is the words of music separated from their music. In the beginning was music." (Peter Kreeft, Philosophy of Tolkien)

Ars Longa

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