Name: Pick and Choose (snippet 1) by rbstansfield
Duration: 30 s
Description: Part of my #Novembeat solo album in a month.

Acoustic/ambient rock track from my former band Disarm, recorded by Reuben Rusk at the Spleen.

Captain's Calling

Warm Sound

The title Wide sea, changeful heaven is drawn from a passage in Mary Shelley’s 1823 novel Valperga: “’The earth is a wide sea…and we its passing bubbles; it is a changeful heaven, and we its smallest and swiftest driven vapors; all changes, all passes—nothing is stable, nothing for one moment the same.”  

For those interested in such matters, the piece falls into five large sections arranged in a cyclical rotation of slow-fast-slow-fast-slow.  Beyond these contrasts of tempo, other juxtapositions, such as dark and light harmonies and instrumentation or high and low register, also imply cyclical patterns.  Despite these contrasts, the basic musical materials (in other words, the chords, the scales, and melodies) in all sections are generally closely related and undergo a constant transformation or transmigration across the piece.  My goal was a dramatic and narrative large-scale musical form capable of encompassing a wide variety of colors and textures in a structure that is hopefully clear but not entirely predictable in its unfolding.   

The piece was written from May to August 2012 for Donald Schleicher and the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra, who premiered it on 22 September 2012 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.


Wide Sea, Changeful Heaven (2012)

Part of my #Novembeat solo album in a month.

Pick and Choose (snippet 1)

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Hungarian Latin - Latin queen (live)

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Brent Stansfield is a singer-songwriter with a day job.  He likes awkward time signatures and lots of dissonant vocal harmonies.  He submits to SongFight! under the pen name Hostess Mostess, and believes strongly that Creative Commons will usher in a new musical Renaissance.  Contact him if you're interested in performing or deriving any of the tracks posted here.

Pick and Choose (snippet 1)

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