Contemporary Carol
Some songs just happen...I'm on the way home from the recording studio, (perhaps 2003) its December, about 2am, there's no traffic and I'm waiting for a short eternity at a traffic light watching the snow fall through the street lights, and by the time the light turned green, the song was basically written.

Winter Song

Horizons

Composer: DANIELYAN ASHOT MAKICHEVICH (IPI NAME 00855552512), UNITED STATES BMI.

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Ancient Road

THANK ME

Ashot Danielyan - Ancient Road

Un pequeño 'jam' de musica autóctona puertorriqueña en un Seis Milonga 

Instrumentos- 
Cuatro Puertorriqueño
Tiple Puertorriqueño
Guitarra 
Güiro
Bongó

Seis Milonga - instrumental

Taking someone's name as a starting point, I turn the letters of their name into musical notes. We already have A thru G assigned in both music and alphabet. The rest of the alphabet is assigned by making H thru N a repeat of A thru G.

A B C D E  F G
H  I J  K L M N etc

Using this method, my name STEVE becomes the notes E F E A E

Accidental sharps and flats are added as I try and find a way to let the notes find their way to their 'home' key. My name wanted to go D major when the F was sharpened.

This piece was inspired by Claudia S' name which made the notes C E A D B A; D S A G G D E A

This is your song and your story. x

Claudia S

For more about Steve Morrall and his workshops to facilitate collaborative music composition, see: http://www.tango.uk.com/createatango/

The mix is optimised for headphone playback.....

Is it possible to write tango music by committee?

In January 2016 at a Tango UK musicality class at Bramshaw, the subject was an invitation to students to compose their own tango.

The class content is the result of 5 years development of a teaching process to guide dancers who are not musicians to a better, deeper understanding of Argentine tango music. There is nothing like a sense of ownership to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of a 'treasure'. What greater treasure could there be for dance students than to dance to a piece of music that they have created.

The process was facilitated by Steve Morrall, a life long musician, tango dancer and teacher. He 'orchestrated' the production of a tango in a "lego brick" component process. The class was split into groups of rhythm makers and melody makers. Each group brainstormed tango-esque beats and melodies and then listened as Steve auditioned the ideas on the piano before testing the 'danceablility' of their ideas as dancers.

In this way the group produced an A theme and a B theme. The initial ideas were notated for solo piano and then orchestrated for piano, bandoneon, violin, cello and double bass using Logic Pro.  Some time in the future we hope to get a community tango orchestra to perform it.

Here is the final mix (with synthesised orchestration).

With thanks to and acknowledging the help of Debbie Morrall and the input and enthusiasm of the class: 
Peter Barker, Sue Bishop, Dudley Masters, Kathleen Prowse, David and Louise Tonks, Bill and Carol Huxley, Jan Foskett, Greg Gilcrest, David Prime, Michelle Leonard, Tony Lambert, Glenn Gordon, Anna Luzio, Beatrice Hook, Elizabeth McDonnell, Pat Cowell, Colin Wilson.

The melody of our hearts (orchestral version)

Brothel Tango

Narcotango en Vivo

El Aire en Mis Manos (En Vivo)

Otra composicion... una Milonguita..... chiquitica... pero muy sabrosita jajaja espero les guste :) 

La Milonga del Gato y el Ratón

Kathleen

Published composer in the UK, (PRS CAE 590277726) and lifelong musician, playing piano, guitar, bandoneon, double bass.