Name: Day 5: Sweet Love, A Ditty A Day. by Jenny Mahler
Duration: 2 min 19 s
Description: Ditty a day challenge for the next week! (These are going to be literally whatever I can come up with in an hour or so as I am meant to be working on my dissertation :p )

An energetic piece setting a text full of natural imagery. Mahler's catchy melodies are combined with speech, body percussion, and congas to imitate the contrasting characteristics of rain. Dramatic and expressive - this is the perfect performance piece to get stuck into!

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Snow is Silent - Jenny Mahler

Hello Song

The Compass uses evocative imagery and metaphor to describe how feelings of being lost and adrift can be assuaged by journeying towards self-acceptance and positive change. A characterful four-note motif punctuates the piano part, which provides a steady rhythmic cushion for the stylistically syncopated and catchy melodic lines. This soul-searching piece is brought to a close by an empowering final chorus that celebrates moving forwards on a different path away from difficult times towards somewhere hopeful and new.

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The Compass - Jenny Mahler

In this captivating piece Mahler explores feelings of doubt and insecurity, employing the compelling metaphor of the tide and asking searching questions in a quest for existential meaning. Bewitching piano cascades and rolling broken chords accompany addictive melodies, with strong three-part harmonies in the chorus providing a supportive anchor to the more soloistic verses.

The Tide - Jenny Mahler

With lyrics by the composer, Come Alive explores the scientific notion that energy never dies, but instead transforms into or transfers to something new. The text calls us to renew our connection to nature in order to reawaken our senses and reconnect with a lost loved one. This energetic piece features an appealing combination of textures, from unison melody to four-part counterpoint (with a solo/small-group line), and builds to a full, emphatic climax at the close.

Come Alive - Jenny Mahler

Come All Ye Merry People Come (Mock-up)

Ditty a day challenge for the next week! (These are going to be literally whatever I can come up with in an hour or so as I am meant to be working on my dissertation :p )

Day 5: Sweet Love, A Ditty A Day.

In and out of love - Oh Wonder

Jenny Mahler writes and produces music for choir, TV & Film and is available for commission. 

https://www.jennymahler.co.uk/

The Tide / Twilight o'er Tyne by Jenny Mahler

The Brontë Sisters are brought to the 21st century in a time machine where they re-establish themselves as eco-feminist music activists!

Song 1: The Two Children by Emily Brontë
Emily's beautiful poem is set to a folk melody with rich orchestration.

Song 2: Brockle-HURT by Charlotte Brontë
An angry punk rock song about exploitation, with the hypocritical
Mr Brocklehurst (from Charlotte's book Jane Eyre) as a symbol of the patriarchy.

Song 3: Come Back to Earth by The Brontë Sisters
A combination of Emily and Charlotte's words, in which they tell women to take responsibility for protecting 'mother' nature from the patriarchy, its mass consumption, domination and destruction.

'I am no bird
No net ensnares me
But when the change came
I shouted loudly

I broke my heart with weeping
To come back to Earth

Conventionality
Is not morality
Life is a battle
Fight it well

We are not birds
No net ensnares us
We must be heard
For home to hide

The Earth resplendent, bids women rise up
Forbid the wreckage made by men

Conventionality
Is not morality
Life is a battle
Fight it well.'

Songs of the Brontë Sisters

Original piece for Northumbrian pipes and choir.

Twilight O'er Tyne

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Day 5: Sweet Love, A Ditty A Day.

Jenny Mahler

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