An instrumental adaptation for Alto Flute, Cello, and Harp of a Breton folk song.

The audio file was generated with software as a demo.  

The melody is adapted from Breton Folk Songs by Frances M. Gostling and Liza Lehman (1909). 

Please note that while this composition is based on a traditional melody in the public domain, this
adaptation is an original creative work under copyright. For performance permission, please see:

sites.google.com/view/jon-corelis-permissions

Image: photo of Pointe du Raz in Brittany by S. Moeller
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I Dreamt My Love Was Singing for Alto Flute, Cello, and Harp

Soldier's Joy/ Maid Behind The Bar/ Fairy Dance

Félix Valvert et son Orchestre Antillais - Antilles

for Tenor Saxophone, Cello, and Piano

The audio file was generated with software as a demo.  

Version of 15 January 2024

Copyright 2024 by Jon Corelis. For performance permission, please see:

https://sites.google.com/view/jon-corelis-permissions

Image:  Alphonse Osbert, Soir antique (1908)
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Sunset Meditation for Tenor Saxophone, Cello, and Piano

In a meadow by the hill:  Song for Mezzo-soprano
 
I haven't yet found a singer for this yet, and usually I don't post songs I don't have an actual singer for since I've never heard a vocal simulator which doesn't sound like a mannequin singing.  But some people have said they like the lyrics to this one, so I thought I'd make an exception and post an audio file generated with software using choral ahs for the vocal (even though the vocal is supposed to be a single voice) so anyone interested can get an idea of what it sounds like.  If I ever get it performed and recorded, I'll post that instead.

The instrumentation in this audio file is an example; if it is ever performed it can be sung with this arrangement, or any other instrumentation, or even solo. 

Lyrics copyright 2024 by Jon Corelis.  Image:  Venus of Brassempouy c. 25,000 bce

Image information and licensing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_of_Brassempouy.jpg

The lyrics:


In a meadow by the hill I saw my love lying there; 
in a meadow by the hill, he was there; 
in a meadow by the hill I saw my love lying there, 
Curah crahnah rifi fahlah clee ah tah! 

O my love, never leave me but remain, but remain;   
O my love, never leave me, but remain: 
for if you ever leave me I will never love again, 
Curah crahnah rifi fahlah clee ah tah! 

No, I will never leave you but remain, but remain; 
while the meadow blooms in flowers, I'll remain: 
while the deer is in the forest and the sun burns in the sky,
Curah crahnah rifi fahlah clee ah tah! 

In the meadow by the hill he remains, he remains; 
while the meadow blooms in flowers, he remains: 
while the deer is in the forest and the sun burns in the sky, 
Curah crahnah rifi fahlah clee ah tah! 

Oh I am very pretty with my hair all in a braid, 
with my hair all in a braid, hanging down: 
oh I am very pretty with my hair all in a braid, 
Curah crahnah rifi fahlah clee ah tah!

In a meadow by the hill

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Lurgy Stream - Song

For solo A Clarinet, based on a Serbian folk song.

I've posted other instrumentations of this same melody.

This version was composed for clarinetist Emily Mehigh for her YouTube recording project The Miniature Month of May.  The sound file was generated from her YouTube posting (https://youtu.be/Gap1oI-u72Q) and is posted here with her permission.

For more of my compositions featuring clarinet, please see:


https://soundcloud.com/jon-corelis/sets/clarinet-pieces


Please note that while this composition is based on a traditional song in the public domain, my arrangement of it is an original creative work under copyright. You may feel free to share or link to it by the usual means. Copyright 2021 by Jon Corelis.  For recording and performance permission, please see https://sites.google.com/view/jon-corelis-permissions 

Image: Dawn.
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White Dawn for Solo A Clarinet

Opening of Roots Set during April 2017 tour in Belgium (Antwerpen, Listwaar, Liège).

Live in Belgium 2017

Jesus, Lay Your Head in the Window

Recorded on February in 1938 (Bluebird B-8219)

Mollie Married A Travelin' Man: J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies

My instrumental version for flute, cello, and piano, of an Irish folk melody. 

This is a new version as of 11 July 2025  of a composition which I've posted previously. Any previous versions should be considered obsolete.

The sound file was created with software as a demo


Please note that while this composition is based on a traditional melody in the public domain, this adaptation 
of it is  an original creative work under copyright.

Source:  Adapted from Traditional folk-songs from Galway and Mayo collected and edited by 
Mrs. Costello, The Irish Folk Song Society (1919) 

For performance permission, please see:

sites.google.com/site/jcorelis/music-permissions

Image: A day in June in the woods near Lelling by Carl Frederik Aagaard

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The Summer Will Come

Last February, my flight was taking off at 6am just as the sun was rising over New Orleans.

Hit by a wave of nostalgia over this newly discovered favorite place, this piece was written on the plane ride home.

Performed live on June 14th, 2018
Arete Gallery
Greenpoint, Brooklyn NYC

"Delta Sunrise" for solo viola

Jon Corelis was born in California and grew up in and around Chicago, where he earned a degree in Classical Languages and Literatures at the College of the University of Chicago. He later took a doctorate in Classics at Stanford, and taught Classics and Humanities at Stanford, the University of California, and the University of Minnesota. After a subsequent career as a software specialist in Silicon Valley, he now lives in Wisconsin. His poetry and other writings have been published in print and on web sites in eight countries, and he has given lectures and readings by invitation in America and Europe. 
He more recently has turned to composing songs and instrumental pieces.  His music has been featured on the web site The Flexible Persona, has been performed in concert by the Wisconsin ensemble a very small consortium, by the New York State flute quartet Party of Four, by the Opus Chorale of West Virginia, and at Denison University's TUTTI 2019 Festival, and has been recorded by flutist Robin Meiksins for her YouTube recording project 365 Days of Flute, and by clarinetist Emily Mehigh for her YouTube recording project The Miniature Month of May.

If you are interested in recording or publicly performing his compositions, please see his permissions page.

In a meadow by the hill

Jon Corelis

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