“All is Calm” is a fantasia on a single simple motive: the first four notes of “Silent Night.” Originally for solo piano, this orchestration explores the idiomatic colors of the wind ensemble in various combinations. Built on quartal and quintal harmonies, the sense of calm in the piece ranges from the peaceful to the majestic.

All Is Calm

Sea Shanty of Bob the Orc

Asemia Day 11

Asemia Day 12

Asemia Day 13

Kate Tombaugh, mezzo-soprano
Joel Matthys, piano

Rossetti Songs: 2. An End

Rossetti Songs: 1. From Star Rise to Sunset

Butler's JCFACO and the Mean Street Family Singers perform my composition Mean Street

Meanstreet JCFACO Performance 2

Meanstreet JCFACO Performance 1

Arrangement of Midland by Billy Childs for HORNZZ

Midland

Carroll University Fight Song

Dreamy, sort-of-neo-Reimannian harmonies. Text by Christina Rossetti, read by Elizabeth Klett (public domain)

Golden head by golden head

Choral setting of Sr. M Charlita's Advent Antiphons for SATB + 2 pianos, marimba, and glockenspiel.

Advent Antiphons

Shifting harmonies through simple ratios.

"The Pythagorean tradition that persisted throughout the Middle Ages and early Renaissance defined consonance in numerical terms. The intervals that were products of string-length ratios expressible by the number one to four were consonances; the rest were dissonances." - Claude Palisca, "An Italian Renaissance in Music?"

Harmonicity

evaporate

Movement 3 of Physica for womens choir and electronics. Sung by Vox Musica.

Physica 3: The Unicorn

Movement 2 of Physical for womens choir and electronics. Sung by Vox Musica.

Physica 2: The Mole

Movement 1 of Physica for womens choir and electronics. Sung by Vox Musica under the direction of Daniel Paulson.

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