Dialogues for Horn and Orchestra is an antiphonal piece for horns and orchestra with the two forces 
responding to each other in a slow and stately procession of musical figures until interrupted by a stormy disagreement. When the storm subsides as quickly as it began the statement and response structure resumes in reverse order.
The horn is heard sounding throughout the piece. It provides the melodic elements of the music that unify the antiphhonal structure.

Dialogues for Horn and Orchestra (eMastered May 30 2022)

"Song with Fanfare" is a short orchestral piece in song form which moves forward into a joyous fanfare ending.
It draws heavily on music of the Post-Romantic period

Song with Fanfare 10 November  2021

This is a second remix of my track "Journey out of Darkness" using the BBCSO orchestral library.

Journey Out Of Darkness Second REMIXscore January 2022

A gentle lullaby with the rythm of a small boat rocking to and fro in the ocean swell. (Originally uploaded 2 years ago under the title '20 Jamuary 2020 Toccata REMIX II')

Boat Song 2 April 2022 Remix III (Mastered)

This music began its life as a six or seven bar fragment and developed spontaneously into a coherent allegro.  It is somewhat experimental in style.
The forces used are a section of 6 horns playing in unison, orchestral strings and a percussion section consisting of two bass drums, timpani and tam tam.

Fragments: an Allegro (Remix V)May 2022

In this music fragments of sound, musical ideas, are all pulling in different directions in a state of chaotic flux, 
As the music progresses the tension builds until a violent climax is reached when the tension suddenly dissolves releasing a new state in which the disparate elements are in a state of calm and peaceful coexistence. 
A puzzling dissonance resolves into a logical harmonious and orderly progression. 
This music is a reworking of my piece 'Prelude-Storm-Postlude  which can be found here as it originally sounded: 
https://soundcloud.com/julian-cafarella/theme-22-august-2021-12-00pm-54bpm-with-ntprfmr-cubase-mix
The original was composed in Sibelius and I exported it into into Dorico and reworked it for the current piece

Transition from Chaos:  a Puzzle Unscrambled (Mastered) May 2022

Chorale Etude: an Experiment in Structure

An experiment in structure formed by a 34 bar chorale harmonised mainly by major chords organised into sequences obeying fibonacci and lucas series in duration time. The structure is tripartite consisting of fragments of the chorale theme with repetition and variation followed by a statemant of the full chorale theme and finishing with a return to the first section fragmentation with a short coda.

Chorale Etude: an Experiment in Structure 13 May 2022

Woodland Skirmish is a suite of three short pieces for triple woodwind ensemble. 

Following in traditional fashion the sequence Fast-Slow-fast the movements are:

1 Fugato 2' 56": 4/4 A piece in free fugal style

2 Sicilienne  7' 17" 6/8: Theme and variations

3 Allegro molto vivace 3' 46" 4/4: Concluding movement
 
The mastering on this track is by Emastered.com.

Woodwind Skirmish 25 July 2022 Remix August 20

Night of Golden Stars
A neo-classical  piece for (virtual) Orchestra featuring French Horn.

Revised 30 December 2022.

Produced and mastered by John Cafarella

This version uses the East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra sample library and features the French Horn samples.

Night of Golden Stars (Remix and Revision EWQLSO 30 December 2022)

Miniature: an invitation to and an adventure in atonal melody for chamber orchestra
This revised track is now mastered by 'emastered' online Mastering service.

Atonal Piece for Chamber Ensemble (Remix 4 October 2022)

On Approaching an Oasis during a Storm

This piece explores my emotional response to climate change, something which is very much part of the historical moment of the world into which I was born.
The music is dissonant, the harmonies all being derived from the chord of the augmented eleventh familiar to many as a jazz chord also used in blues. The modification of an idea at the end of a fast rising octaphonic scale, inverting its first appearance (descending), is intended to convey the important message of spirited hope coming from practical activists such as Greta Tunberg who work to alter the balance of power between institutional inertia and ecological necessity.

I am dedicating this piece to her and to all fellow climate change activists both old and young.

Production and mastering by John Cafarella. This track uses the East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Library.

Cafarella

On Approaching an Oasis During a Storm(Revised 30 December 2022)

On Approaching an Oasis during a Storm

This piece explores my emotional response to climate change, something which is very much part of the historical moment of the world into which I was born.
The music is dissonant, the harmonies all being derived from the chord of the augmented eleventh familiar to many as a jazz chord also used in blues. The modification of an idea at the end of a fast rising octaphonic scale, inverting its first appearance (descending), is intended to convey the important message of spirited hope coming from practical activists such as Greta Tunberg who work to alter the balance of power between institutional inertia and ecological necessity.

I am dedicating this piece to her and to all fellow climate change activists both old and young.

Production and mastering by John Cafarella. 

This track uses the East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Library.

On approaching an Oasis During a storm (Revised 30 December 2022)

My 'Adagio for Expanded Chamber Orchestra' draws heavily on the music of the late romantic composers Bruckner Wagner and Mahler but does its (acknowledged)borrowing in a uniquely improvisational and individualistic style style for which I make no apology.
The music in this piece is sometimes dramatic, and as the piece unfolds, its structure in terms of the golden section durations it employs become evident and I hope pleasing to the listener
This track was mastered by John Cafarella.

Adagio For Orchestra An Exercise in Late-Romantic Harmony (Remix 24 February 2023)

'Walking music': Tempo revised upward to 110bpm
 from tempo of the original  August 2021 which was far too slow. Then revised  the tempo downward to 102bpm to let iit breathe a bit but still leaving it a true tune for walking.  Mastered by Soundcloud mastering service this version uses a different sample set to the original

Walking Tune (Revision 22 March 2023 BBCSO + Note Performer)

Chordal Mixtures

This piece features harmony made by superimposing tonally related triads and explores many different textures in a fairly experimental style/
This track is mastered by the Soundcloud mastering service.

Chordal Mxtures 21 June 2023

A fairly uninhibited venture into traditional tonal Melodic-Harmonic territory in which the object of the exercise was to please the senses with completely recognisable tonal stimuli, this track is a reworking of f,,,Mmm,m,mmmm a piece I composed originally in 2019. In the current revision I could not resist the impulse to make several 'daring' modulations which may place more of a burden on the listener than was my original intention
I made use in this case of the eMastered online mastering service.

Recapitulations 1 August

This piece is a remix of my piece 'Rondo'  using a wide range of samples and along with the software Noteperformer to get a very different outcome whose divergence from the original astonishes me
Rondo follows fairly closely a classical ABACACABA form, but far from traditional rondos in its harmonic and rhythmic character Rondo uses augmented triads and whole tone scales in an unusual percussive way
The two interspersed episodes (B and C in the pattern I referred to above) are more melodic although still quite dissonant These passages are repeated exactly when they recur but the A section which is easily recognisable by being carried by the strings is subject to development throughout.
This Remix has been mastered by John Cafarella

Rondo Remix 16 August 2023

I was preparing the solo horn instrument in EW-Hollywood Brass Orchestral library for use in the Dorico notation program  when this tune started to coalesce around various great sounding horn samples and this Solo came into being almost accidentally.

For Solo Horn

This is a fairly complete revision of the original upload of August 2022. It is a jubilant piece that needs to be taken in its own  terms. The musical vocabulary in this piece is very conservartive and it obeys conventional structural norms.
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Night of Golden Stars Revision EWQLSO version 25 September 2023

This is a fairly complete revision of the original upload of August 2022. It is a jubilant piece that needs to be taken in its own terms. The musical vocabulary in this piece is very conservative and it obeys conventional structural norms. This version was mixed down using Noteperformer Sample library interacting with Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition and is being subjected to ongoing revision.
This track is mastered by John Cafarella.

Night of Golden Stars NotePerformer version (2 October 2023)

A short venture into atonality after a long sojourn in the tonal sphere. Instrumentation: Harpsichord Celeste Horn Tubular Bells and oboe and Base Clarinet

Atonal Tune

'Sonata Allegro' is made up of  the 3rd and 4th movements of 'Suite for Small Orchestra and Percussion'; I originally uploaded  the 3rd movement to soundcloud in April 2022 under the title 'Fragments; an Allegro' The fourth movement of the current suite is a brief Epilogue

Sonata Allegro and Epilogue (3rd and 4th movements of my Suite for Piano Percussion and Orhestra)

The second movement of my Suite for Small Orchestra and Percussion remixed from my upload to Soundcloud 'Introduction and Allegro Moderato for Piano, Percussion and Small Orchestra' in March 2022

II Adagio (2nd movement of Suite for Orchestra Piano and Percussion)

A treatment for Strings only of a single idea; an ostinato that edgily underlies and threads a melodic stream  running through the strings. 
Originally uploaded in March2020 as Edge Ostinato; a short but intense piece for strings only at a moderate to fast tempo

I Edge Ostinato (1st movement of Suite for Piano Percussion and Orchestra)

A suite of four movements for Small Orchestra and Percussion compiled from revisions of earlier uploads: 1: Ostinato (March 2020)
                                               2: Adagio   (April 2022)
                                               3: Allegro   (May 2022)
                                               4: Epilogue (October 2023)
Suite for Small Orchestra and Percusson was mastered by John Cafarella

Suite For Small Orchestra And Percussion (Remix 12 November 2023)

A revision of Chordal Mixtures a piece originally uploaded in June this year.

Chordal Mixtures

Chordal Mixtures Remix 5 Nov 2023

Adagio responding to international events suggests to me the question; 'Is catharsis a valid aim in music today'
This piece was mastered by John Cafarella

Adagio for Our Times (Remix VIII 3 December 2023)

This is a variation of a sort on a musical fragment which appears in the theme music for the TV series 'All Creatures great and Small' and also in the first movement of my Tripartite Fantasy and is constructed as a free flowing set of improvisations on a simple basic idea This simple idea is treated in a linear polyphonic way resulting in a texture which moves between consonant and dissonant harmony ending on a C major chord.
This is an updated revision of the original track using different samples.
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Dr M Sort Of A TV Theme (Revised 5 December 2023)

A short allegro movement in neo-classical style.
There will be an extended version available later this week
This version was mastered by John Cafarella.

Allegro Modeato for Orchestra

Allegro Presto Assai (23 December 2023)

This track is a new revision of my Dance Sketch originally posted on 1 July 2022.

Dance Sketch is an upbeat downtown piece in a rather conservative tonal style

which exhibits a certain amount of fizz and sparkle whilst staying

strictly within the confines of common time.

This track is mastered by the emastered mastering service

Dabce Sketch

Dance Sketch Modern Orchestral Revised 12 December 2023

Modelled on a movement of the Danish composer Carl Neilsen's  4th Symphony this short piece unfolds in a series of terse dramatic interludes.
My heartfelt thanks go out to John Cafarella for his sensitive mastering of this piece
.

Allegro Moderato (After Carl Nielsen) Remixed 15  December 2023

An extended and modified version of 'Allegro Presto Assai' now For Brass Choir and Orchestra originally uploaded to Soundcloud on December 6 2023 as a for Orchestra alone piece. 
Parts of this piece have been rewritten and I provide a new ending.
This upload has been mastered by John Cafarella.

Allgro Presto Assai

Allegro Presto Assai (Extended Version) 11 January 2024

A short prelude on the opening theme of the Prelude in D sharp Minor from book II of the well Tempered clavier by Bach (JS)

ui@gmail.com

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks