Two-Part Invention in D Major and other works by Gary Lloyd Noland

DOLDRUMATIC MUMBLE GRUMBLE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DOLDRUMATIC MUMBLE GRUMBLE

Gottes Sohn ist kommen: a Chorale Prelude for piano based on J.S. Bach's Choralgesang B.A.  39, No. 65 (Michael Weisse 1531)Op. 122, No. 1 from Three Incongruisms by Gary Lloyd Noland (originally composed in 1976-77, revised and completed on July 23rd, 2021). This work is planned for publication in the Collected Piano Works of Gary Lloyd Noland, Volume 2, with its planned release date in the Autumn of 2021. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Gottes Sohn ist kommen: a Chorale Prelude for piano Op. 122, No. 1  from 3 Incongruisms

Performed by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra and saxophone department, conducted by Barry Wordsworth

Queer Concerto (There are more of them than us) for 9 Saxophones and Orchestra

Golden Gate Rag was originally composed in 1974-75 when the composer was in high school, only shortly after beginning piano lessons with Goodwin Sammel in Berkeley, CA at age 16 (1973). Although Noland was severely underprivileged insofar as being deprived of early musical training due to his having been raised in an impoverished, semi-dysfunctional broken home (sans piano until he was 11 years old), he had the music of the masters playing in his head since infancy, and so, once the serious musical training commenced at age sixteen, harmony came quite naturally to him. When he entered college at U.C. Berkeley in 1975, he realized he had a more masterful command of harmony than any of his professors, in spite of the spotty musical training (from mostly mediocre teachers) he had received in his formative years. This is a newly revised version of the piece and the first time it has ever been publicly released. The score is due to be made available in Noland's Collected Piano Works Volume 2, which is slated for publication in the autumn of 2021. At the time of this writing (August 11th, 2021) the First Volume (286 pages) of Noland's collected piano works is due out in a matter of weeks. The release of Noland's compositions in large affordable volumes is an ongoing project. Stay tuned! For more information on the composer, please visit his website: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Golden Gate Rag for piano Op. 123

Fantasia from Three Incongruisms for piano (Op. 122, No. 2) was composed by Gary Lloyd Noland. (composed 1977, revised 2021). The score of this piece will be made available in the composer's Collected Piano Works Volume Two in October, 2021. Volume One is currently available from book retailers such as Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Piano-Works-Lloyd-Noland/dp/1732302383/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=collected+piano+noland&qid=1629835731&sr=8-1

For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Fantasia from Three Incongruisms for piano Op. 122, No. 2

Also Sprach Marginman from Three Incongruisms for piano Op. 122, No.3 by Gary Lloyd Noland. The score to this piece will be made available in Noland's Collected Piano Works Volume Two in October, 2021. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Also Sprach Marginman from Three Incongruisms for piano Op. 122, No.3

Belgian/Israeli pianist Nadia Weintraub performs Two-Part Invention in D Minor Op. 70 by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

TWO-PART INVENTION IN D MINOR for piano Op. 70

Allemande in F Major (in memoriam Laurette Goldberg) for harpsichord or piano Op. 76 by Gary Lloyd Noland, performed by Ukrainian pianist Polina Chorna. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ALLEMANDE In F Major (Op. 76) performed by pianist POLINA CHORNA

Ukrainian pianist Polina Chorna performs Two-Part Invention in D Major Op. 81 by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

TWO-PART INVENTION in D Major Op.81 (2006)performed by pianist POLINA CHORNA

Showreel of works by Yanpeng Zhang. For more information please visit the composer's website: yanpeng.me

Fragments in this showreel:

1. Suite in the Style of Light Music
2. Observing a Solemn Giant Sphere
3. Glass Fairy (from 'The Monotone City')
4. Pallbearer's Song

Compiled in Nov 2015.

Showreel 1

I made these recordings on an old YAMAHA upright piano prior to 2008. Apparently, the room acoustics are awful. The quality of playing is just average. But these recordings always bring back nostalgic childhood memories. Now that I have given up a career as a concert pianist, I can finally get up the nerve to post them online without concerns.

F. Liszt - Transcendental Etudes No.2

6 - End Credits

5 - The Mime

4 - What's That Awful Stench

3 - Just Another Chase Scene

2 - The Juggler's Vain Attempt

1 - Opening Theme & Amusement Dances

Three Studies in Uneven Meters were composed in the Spring of 2011. This set of etudes is dedicated to several 20th-century composers, who influenced my music in the past (Bartok, Kagel, Stravinsky, Piazzolla, Scriabin) and whose compositional technique is referenced in these three pieces: 1. BartoKagel (and a little bit of Stravinsky), 2. Canon à la Piazzolla (descending canon with all voices sustained), 3. Scriabinesque (fleeting cycles).
The last study (Scriabinesque, fleeting cycles) explores the harmonic world of Alexander Scriabin, restricted to its own rules of horizontal and vertical sonorities. Even though this study does not reproduce Scriabin's harmonies, it makes use of interval "cycles" (chain of repeated intervals of the same type). Due to the sameness of interval cycles, the harmonic and vertical sonorities in this piece are locked (or "fixed") and thus reference some of Scriabin's etudes.

"Scriabinesque, fleeting cycles" from "Three Studies in Uneven Meters"

Hanns Eisler – Dritte Sonate 1. Satz, Susanne Kessel – Piano

GREMLIN GAMBADOS from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 11 (newly revised version from Feb. 12th, 2021). To learn more about composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

GREMLIN GAMBADOS from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 11

Resides in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Berkeley, CA. Born in Seattle.  PhD, Harvard. “Gary Noland is one of the great composers of the 21st century.”—JACK RUMMEL, KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder CO, “...iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits.”—ROBERT LEVIN, pianist, musicologist, composer, "...a fleet-fingered, ebullient performer ... bright, witty and engaging.”—CHRISTIAN CAREY, SPLENDID MAGAZINE, “...distinctive, inventive ... subversive ... You can hardly be indifferent to Noland’s music and so I would urge you to try it.” —ROGER BLACKBURN, MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, “...set in a dizzying harmonic language that loops uncontrollably through a wide-ranging gamut of possible and impossible tonalities ... The general effect is like watching wet paintings of 19th Century musical memorabilia drip into frazzled 21st Century oblivion...” —ALLEN GIMBEL, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “Mr. Noland writes as a ‘time traveler’ in styles long abandoned by most composers as well as styles so new as to not have been imagined but by him. This he accomplishes naturally, convincingly, with originality and true passion. His command of all musical languages and his ability to traverse musical time is nothing less than remarkable. Listen!”—DONALD MARTINO, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, “...mind-bending spiraling of focus which is truly breathtaking ... spectacular...”—CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN, composer, sound poet & radio producer, “I'm amazed at your harmonic skill. Haven't seen or heard anything like it from any one else—except yours truly—certainly not from your generation. It falls somewhere between Strauss and Mahler. Especially like how you are able to slip in and out from the tonal to the atonal—or near atonal...”—GEORGE ROCHBERG, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “...court jester to the classical establishment...”—PAYTON MACDONALD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...florid and juicy...” —RICHARD BUELL, THE BOSTON GLOBE, “...an incredible aural web ... a great ostinato of American kitsch. Sul pont never sounded so good.”—RUSSELL STEINBERG, composer, conductor of the LOS ANGELES YOUTH ORCHESTRA, “...I am bowled over by the expertise of your music: you use certain elements from the 19th century and from jazz, etc., and just at the moment when I am about to say, OK, what else is new?, you do a number of things, such as speeding up, becoming wildly dissonant, modulating to a distant continent, stopping completely and throwing some kind of total surprise ... you seem to know exactly when to do what and how much. I don’t know anybody else who can do it!” —ANDREW IMBRIE, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “... remarkable stuff...”
—MAX MORATH, American ragtime pianist, composer, actor & author, “...a loony composer from Oregon...” —MAX SHEA, WMUA 91.1FM, Amherst, MA, “Gary Noland is one of those 21st Century composers seeking to forge a new aesthetic based on older models that do not traffic in serialism or minimalism ... Zany waltzes, ragtime riffs, chorales, toccatas, and much else romp and tear through these depictions of superheroes and villains from his ‘chamber novels’; other pieces spoof serial music ... to grand operas ... and Jewish guilt.” —JACK SULLIVAN, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...Paranoid Ravel...”—ALEX DUNN, KZSU FM90.3, Stanford, CA, “...It’s a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else’s, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it’s intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.” —ROCKY LEPLIN, THE BERKELEY VOICE

Two-Part Invention in D Major and other works by Gary Lloyd Noland

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer