rendered demoversion of a work for orchestra from dec 2002 by Maria Ljungdahl

Winter into spring

Winter Into Spring (midi demo)

An arrangement of "Månens sång" (text & melody line from 1839 by C.J.L. Almqvist) (arr by Maritune, Maria Ljungdahl, STIM, Sweden).

Månens sång av C.J.L. Almqvist 1839

Jazz composition (work in progress) by Maria Ljungdahl (STIM), Sweden. Demo with sampled instrument sounds.

Lines for Lina

Lines For Lina

A fake folk song in my series of "Pharology" tunes. This one is dedicated to the Swedish violinist Kristina Ebbersten. Copyright 2011 Maria Ljungdahl (STIM), Sweden. Sheet music at http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/113723.html

Sveduddens fyr

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Sveduddens Fyr

These keyboard pieces by composer Maria Ljungdahl (STIM, Sweden) range from short and simple etudes for piano beginners to works employing somewhat more complex textures and techniques. Of course, ‘keyboard’ means that the chosen instrument can (for many but not all of the pieces) be something other than an acoustic piano. For example, a cembalo (harpsichord) or a church organ, or an electronic keyboard with suitable instrument sounds. The music in the album can be played as a suite of works in a piano recital, or be performed in any order and selection of numbers from the collection, as the player finds necessary, tasteful and enjoyable. The pieces Intransitive mezzo, Lady M pays a visit to a painter, Dancing polar bears, New blue shoes, and Campanula pianoforte, are perhaps best played in that order, as they are from a work that has been called ”Sonata Something”, but are more like a suite than a proper sonata. The title of the nostalgic waltz theme, Katie Maurice, is alluding to a character, an imaginary friend, mentioned in Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The finale piece, Yin & Yang, has been characterized by a fellow composer as written in a ”Bartók-ish music hall” style.

Beyond Good And Atonal

Beyond Good and Atonal (piano album)

This bonus track from the Bandcamp version of the album "Kthxby" is a studio demo version of the song "Through Dark Values" (composed in 2007 by Maria E Ljungdahl, STIM, Sweden), which tells the story of the musician Orpheus and his lost wife.

Kthxby

Through Dark Values (bonus track)

From the album "Kthxby" (released 2019) by Maritune Art & Music. Acousmatic music from the archipelago, composed with found sounds, field recordings, rendered versions of notated music, recorded vocals and clips from improvisations on hardware instruments and soft synths.

Intermission Passage

Girls from a school in London singing (in Swedish!) a Lucia song by Maria Ljungdahl, alternating with the Taizé hymn "Laudate Omnes Gentes", in an arrangement by Bernard Hughes, at a christmas carol service in December 2006.

Ljus som i natten lyser (Lucia song)

The tune is called "Di Mini Shed" and is written by M. E. Ljungdahl, Sweden. Sheet music is available as online printout from https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/39624.html or https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/44247.html This track is a live recording from a concert at the University of Surrey, UK. Ben Donnelly is playing the soprano saxophone. I don't know the names of the other band members.

Di Mini Shed

Di Mini Shed (feat. Ben Donnelly)

Host John Pitman chats with the great Swedish mezzo-soprano, Anne Sofie Von Otter about her performance of a new work by American composer, Caroline Shaw.  Title "Is a Rose", the three-movement song cycle is sung by Von Otter with San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, as Shaw has written the work with Baroque ensembles - and Ms. Von Otter - in mind.  Next, John talks with the composer herself, touching on the song cycle and her first oratorio, The Listeners, which was inspired by the gold record created for the Voyager spacecraft.  Music from Shaw's new works are interwoven with the conversation.

John Pitman Review: Is A Rose, Anne Sofie Von Otter and composer Caroline Shaw

I have been interested in writing my own music since I was very young (5 or 6 years old) and was encouraged by my first piano teacher, Greta Westfelt. I studied musicology at the universities in Gothenburg and in Stockholm, and I also have a background from science, IT and engineering studies. Many of my musical works can be purchased online as printouts of sheet music from a couple of websites. I write, arrange and make demo tracks of classical, modern classical, jazz, folk, electronic and pop music.