A composing challenge in which I work through the prompts in Jorge Variego's book Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition.

Exercise 4: Compose a melody for solo bassoon using only 8th notes and rests that uses all available pitches in the given scale for the first 5 measures, then substitutes 1 new note into the scale for the rest of the melody.

Composing With Constraints Ex. 4

A composing challenge in which I work through the prompts in Jorge Variego's book Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition.

Exercise 3: Compose a melody for solo clarinet that uses all available pitches in the given scale for the first 5 measures, then only uses a subset of 4 pitches from that scale.

Composing With Constraints Ex. 3

A composing challenge in which I work through the prompts in Jorge Variego's book Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition. (Please excuse the cheesy MIDI sounds.)

Compose a melody for solo bass clarinet using concatenated triads (major, minor, augmented, or diminished).

Composing With Constraints Ex. 8

Patas De Problemas (Troublepaws)

Jeremy Bearimy

Waving at Copland

Wizardry and Wonder

Rusty's Dream

Before The Bright Leaves

Lisa Franck's Dolphin

Tender Ghost Glimmers

Anxiety Waltz

Getting Away With It

Possibilities

Meet Me in the Fern Room

Centimonk

Meander

On the Green Line

Good Day to Be a Capybara

What´s Next?

A springy little jazz waltz, inspired by blue skies and green budding trees seen around my neighborhood (we really savor spring in Minnesota when it finally comes in May). Right now i have it repeating the first section again, but will probably add a coda of some sort in the future!
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100 Days - Day 14 - 16 + 28 - 29

An updated version of this little Brazilian choro - A and B section mostly done, but just needs a C section!

100 Days - Day 38 - 39, 43, 48

I wrote this tune inspired by and in honor of the 100th birthday of the one and only Thelonious Sphere Monk. I used lots of tritones and half-step clusters - I hope he would approve! 
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From April 4 to July 12, 2017, I wrote 8 measures of music daily, shared it on Instagram (www.instagram.com/rebecca_hass), and recorded each piece (in the playlist 100 Days of Writing Music). I enjoyed it so much that I decided to start another 100 Days on September 17, which will finish around the end of 2017!

Centimonk (Day 22, 24)

Borboleta Azul (Blue Butterfly) is a fun tune that moves back and forth between baião and samba styles. The first draft of this piece, from 2013 or so, was inspired by a drawing by my cousin Nick Howard, but reached its final form after some revisions and an added intro and outro. This song will be on my album Florescer, to be released this October!

Borboleta Azul

My debut album: original music featuring piano and percussion with infectious Brazilian rhythms: samba, choro, baião, and maracatu.

Originally conceived of as solo piano pieces, the songs on Florescer are augmented with percussion by Tim O’Keefe, an expert in many hand-drumming styles from around the world. Also featured are Jenny Klukken, marimba, on the playful maxixe/samba Brincalhão and Gingando, a choro with traditional form and a modern flavor; and Laura Harada, violin on the Brazilian choro serenata Anelante, that has traditional choro form, but also a heavy dose of Debussy.

Florescer

Anelante

Brincalhão

I offer custom wake-up alarm / ringtone / custom short and beautiful songs (about 20-30 seconds long) for $80. I’ll send you a list of adjectives, you pick a few or list your own, and I’ll create something that fits that mood - calming, peppy, whatever you like!

Energizing/Aspirations/Can-Do

Calming/Peaceful/Joyful

Whimsical/Magical/Playful/Joyful/Amusing

Pianist/composer, obsessed with Brazilian music of many types. 
Debut album Florescer (Brazilian original compositions + arrangements) out now: order at rebeccahass.com/store

Rebecca Hass

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