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

Chinese Traditional Music #2

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:

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

These three melodies are adapted from traditional Irish tunes taken from 19th and early 20th century folklore sources. The first, The Song Of Oonagh, is described by folklorist Redfern Mason as an example of "fairy music", which he remarks "is music of a perilous fascination for mortals."  He refers to "its delicate aroma," and says that it has also about it "something dreamy and hallucinatory, as though the notes were of ivory or mother-of-pearl."  The second piece, Paisteen Fionn (The Fair-Haired Young Girl), is still well known; the third, usually called The Merry Old Woman, is less known today.  I may not be wholly justified on the basis of their attestations in calling these pieces dances, but whether or not they were ever actually dance tunes, they seem to me to have a dance-like character.

The audio file was created with software as a demo.  Copyright 2025 by Jon Corelis.  Audio file version of 25 March.

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

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Three Irish Dances for Flute, Violin, and Piano

Visit the Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music presented by Boston College Libraries for additional project content: http://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu

S�amus Connolly Collection of

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 1 October 2019  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

Score pdf available at:

https://musescore.com/user/2488/scores/5741700

Please note that while this composition is based on a traditional song in the public domain, my adaptation is an original creative work under copyright. You may feel free to share or link to it by the usual means. For performance permission, please see:

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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.

Three Irish Dances for Flute, Violin, and Piano

Jon Corelis

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