Name: Aquarelles: XII. l'Automne au Bord de la Rivière (Completed) by R.A. Moulds
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: I finally completed the second book today. 'Autumn Beside the River' is dedicated to my partner, Patric. After I finished it, I remembered that today is the third anniversary of Patric's beloved mother's passing.

it's amazing! who played it? is it a digital work?

Beautiful composition, very expressive! Well done!

Gorgeously painted/played aquarelle..!!! (y) (y)

This performance was relatively unrehearsed, returning to the piece after not playing it for many months. It embodies my take on Beethoven's 'Impassioned Style' as recalled by Czerny.  It also takes account of Czerny's precise instruction that a rit. starts as early as bar 4 (!) and that 'con espressione' is invariably an invitation to play slower, with feeling (Schnabel's edition also bears witness to this in his subtle metronome changes at this point). Not only this but Czerny talks about how emphatic Beethoven's musical rhetoric was, in other pieces pausing on notes in a way that perhaps comes from C.P.E. Bach (there is probably a direct line from there via Czerny to Liszt who was known for this style of rubato).   At the very least this to my mind is a plausible mid-19th-century interpretation.

Beethoven: Op.2 No.1 Allegro

On April 8, 2023 (Saturday), 3/4 of the target number of songs for this project will be achieved. Taking that opportunity, I plan to change the thumbnail for each song on soundcloud. I plan to change it to an image of a Japanese anime woman that I feel is pretty good these days. It has already been used in the music video below. Please take a look if you like.

Today's music video with beautiful anime girl with her face animations here.. 
https://youtu.be/FOCHRt_EoH0

#3381: Mar. 18, 2023: With flushed faces the members of the venus orchestra (this title is from "The Tales of Miyazawa Kenji") 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3381(74.5%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.

######## NEW 23rd SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Golden Light" - the 23rd selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and Free 4K Video with Super Beautiful Motion Graphics of Artgrid
https://youtu.be/3Gc813k8eec

Youtube: Digest of "Golden Light" music video. 12 minutes in 4K
https://youtu.be/GB7oBTB0yOo

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kJ3Xoy0jSjx1AmUNyKu6T

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/golden-light-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-23/1662304120

amazon music
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BRJ258Z7?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

Line Music
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002b2e80a

AWA
https://s.awa.fm/album/948948aecf74cfc9ee19

Other Every music streaming services in the world
https://linkco.re/QebcGtzF?lang=en

With Flushed Faces The Members Of The Venus Orchestra - #3381 By Chair House 03182023

Bus Ride To Hobbiton

Giorgio Colombo Taccani NOX, TELLUS for female voice on fragments from Ovid's Metamorphoses (2004)
dedicated to: Akiko Kozato
EDIZIONI SUVINI ZERBONI - MILANO
Akiko Kozato, voice
More at www.colombotaccani.it/nox.html

"Nox, Tellus" for female voice on fragments from Ovid's Metamorphoses (2004)

The Ladies Of Providence Fair 2024

Dance Of The Scythes

Sentimental (2020)
Music by Dylan May

Sentimental is a short composition for 8-instruments. This piece is reverently dedicated to the memory of Percy Aldridge Grainger. I think it is vital that composers pay homage to the greats! Especially those often overlooked souls who have impacted us most deeply.

Grainger's music—the time of his writing (early 1900's), his choice of instruments, his quirky decisions, and lush harmonies all scream genius to me. "Following no ones light but his own", as his biographer John Bird writes. I could write endlessly of his music, but I will spare you... for now.

This piece is inspired by Grainger's, 'My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone' for "room-music eight-some".

Contact/Scores/Commission: dylanmaymusic@yahoo.com

Sentimental (2020)

Piano Duet No. 1 (Lydia)
Music by Dylan May 

I had the great privilege of studying a few semesters of piano in college with the nicest, most genuine, and talented woman I have ever met, Lydia. My final semester, we studied many piano duets. This really opened my eyes (as a composer) to the wide range of sound possible with two pianos. Especially if one is fortunate to have two concert grands at their disposal.

Anyway, I wanted to write a piece which combined elements of the music I had studied that semester (the intro includes a quote from Brahms - Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2, a piece my teacher enjoyed). I also take great pleasure in writing music as a gift! 

During my final lesson, I brought this sheet music in and we began to sight-read it. This is the recording I took of that. 

The piece has yet to be performed in concert! Contact me for the sheet music.

Contact/Scores/Commission: dylanmaymusic@yahoo.com

Piano Duet No. 1 - “Lydia” (2021)

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,

Love and desire and hate:

I think they have no portion in us after

We pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:

Out of a misty dream

Our path emerges for a while, then closes

Within a dream.
(Ernest Dowson)
On my Substack, I explore this poem's meaning: https://ishmaelwallace.substack.com/p/castalia-271

Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam (Dowson, Wallace)

The older I get, the more I find myself thinking about the concept of ahimsa, which in its simplest sense, means not to inflict harm on others through thought, word or action. An ancient concept, yet one which has not caught on sufficiently in our troubled world. Humankind is not only in endless violent conflict within itself, but by and large we fail to recognize that we are part of all of life on this earth and all that life is a part of us. Thus, we inflict the same violence, if not worse, on the innocent lives of all Earth’s creatures, as we do upon ourselves.

As I thought about it recently, I decided to write music that reflects this basic principle for living, in sections honoring those who, for me, were guiding lights for how to live your life in this way. The words that introduce each movement are meant to be read aloud before the music sounds if or when this music is performed before an audience. It begins with my maternal grandfather, who although I doubt he would have ever run across the word, taught me the same precepts in his own way, sitting around the dinner table in the Bronx. Live your life, pursue your dreams, but never at the expense of others. This introduction is followed by the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and John Lennon – all of whom died while in the pursuit of holding up the candle of ahimsa for all to see. Writing this in 2021, it is hard to think of any who are their match today, but those with their intensity are sorely needed.

AHIMSA

I finally completed the second book today. 'Autumn Beside the River' is dedicated to my partner, Patric. After I finished it, I remembered that today is the third anniversary of Patric's beloved mother's passing.

Aquarelles: XII. l'Automne au Bord de la Rivière (Completed)

R.A. Moulds studied composition with William Presser at the University of Southern Mississippi. His early music exhibited an idiosyncratic, non-dogmatic post-tonal style, which was soon abandoned in favor of a more eclectic manner.

Aquarelles: XII. l'Automne au Bord de la Rivière (Completed)

R.A. Moulds

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