Awesome showcase of aural excellence! Thanks again Gavin 💙

Beautiful sheet music of musical instruments, especially the guitar plays very professionally!!!

Try it on is a short psych garage rock track. This track is influenced by the likes Primal Scream And 60's American Psychedelia bands.

Try it On

Try it on

Duration: ca. 20'
Music by Robert Paterson • Lyrics by David Cote

Instrumentation: baritone and chamber ensemble (wind doubler [flute, B-flat clarinet, oboe], violin, cello, percussion, piano)
Performed by American Modern Ensemble, Jorell Williams, Baritone

Purchase Sheet Music: (Version for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble): http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2778

Purchase Sheet Music: (Version for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble): http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2777

For more information:
Version for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-chamber-ensemble
Version for Baritone and Piano: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-piano

In Real Life I for soprano and chamber ensemble and soprano and piano also available. (In Real Life I consists of different songs than In Real Life II.)

PROGRAM NOTE
As a follow-up to our song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble (or piano), Robert and I  agreed the concept of five characters looking for love online should have a male counterpart. Written for baritone and chamber ensemble, In Real Life II looks at five contemporary men clicking their way to second chances and romance. In “No Frog” we meet a prototypical player, a guy who fluffs his profile, but the truth keeps slipping out. The tone shifts with “Sola Fide,” in which a U.S. veteran of the war in Afghanistan explains the tattoo on his chest and the wounds inside. An older gentleman envisions one last fling in the irreverent “Die with Me.” In “Still Vamping,” a gay man muses on his start-and-stop romantic history. Finally, in “Nice-Plus,” an everyday guy reveals a hidden passion. In Real Life II was commissioned by American Modern Ensemble with funding from the Doctorow Family Foundation.

American Modern Ensemble: In Real Life

In Real Life II - III. Die With Me

Welcome to Winter's Embrace 2A - covering a cornucopia of genres and sounds. 

Outrageous Intro 
Lovesick (Instrumental) / Spectoral (plays in background of intro dialogue) 
I'm In / Aha 
I Take It Back / Missy Higgins 
Anew / Amistat 
Seven Nation Army (White Stripes cover) / Opal Ocean 
Paint It Black (Rolling Stones cover) / Malcura 
Heavy Road / Joshua Batten 
Yellowstone / Ernest Aines 
Try To Get It Right, Into The Blue / Avi Kaplan 
Exit Music (For A Film) (Radiohead cover) / Musicology For The Inept
Nostalgia / Elzmyth
Breathe / Julian Lennon 
To The Moon / Olympic White 
See The Light / Weird Wolves 
Don't Pray For Me / Within Temptation 
Hanging By A Thread, Bleed / Megalove 
Crossroads (Jasper J remix - Jazz Version) / Zak Roams 
Lovesick / Spectoral + Tusanxmi + Megadead
Into The Fire, Angels / The Safety Word 
A Thunder Moon / Spectoral 
Done Is Better Than Perfect / Rose Wintergreen (mistakenly announced as Wintergarden) 
Gramaleign / Gary Franks 
Golden Bell / Senor Picante 
Outrageous Outro

Winter's Embrace 2A

My Emergency -Backup Dog is April
Main track by Combstead
Vocals, Lyrics and Guitar licks by Robert Grigg

My wife dressed her like that! LOL

April - Combstead / Robert Grigg

PRE SAVE - gate.fm/l26vo6KBv

"Fénix" A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.” — Rumi

Fénix 🔥

Neurotica

Rise

made it like 2 months ago and I never got to share it, so here it is

I hope this song helps you get through challenges. I love you.

End of the Line

End Of The Line

Decided to try something a bit different, let me know what ya think

besides

Written: 2018-19
Duration: ca. 25'
Commissioned by J.K. Billman
Premiere: Euclid Quartet, Mostly Modern Festival, Arthur Zankel Music Center, June 25, 2019
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com
For more info.: https://robertpaterson.com/string-quartet-no-2

PROGRAM NOTES
In some ways, String Quartet No. 2 is similar to my String Quartet No. 1: the five movements are stylistically diverse, I use a few snippets of pre-existing music, and the music, while idiomatic, is technically demanding. As with my first quartet, this work explores technical and aesthetic ideas I didn’t have a chance to explore in other works.

The first movement, Colored Fields, is inspired by abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, and Barnett Newman, but also pointillist painters such as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. There are textures that emerge and submerge using articulations that gradually shift from soft to loud, or short to long, and there are a few transitions that utilize a technique I call pitch phasing or phase modulation, as opposed to tempo phasing. In these transitions, two or more instruments gradually modulate (raise or lower) notes, motives, or phrases by gradual, very refined, microtonal, non-chromatic increments, settling on new pitch areas that directly reflect the previous areas, just modulated up or town. The movement ends softly with a virtual desaturation of the rhythmic material. I remove notes, one by one, until there’s nothing left.

The second movement, Rigor Mortis, is inspired by a comic strip by David Lynch that newspapers ran for many years. In this strip, Lynch sketched a stressed-out, pitch-black dog, looking very mean and almost buzzing with anger; it looked like it was about to explode. Every strip began with an accompanying paragraph that read, “The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.” This made me envision musicians playing with such ferocity and tension that the music seems to eventually cancel itself out, anger imploding in on itself.

The third movement, Dolente, is sad, lush, and mournful. The only request I had when writing this quartet was to incorporate a Norwegian fiddle tune or theme by Edvard Grieg, so I chose themes from Grieg’s String Quartet No. 1. The form of this movement mimics the form of a song by Edvard Grieg’s entitled Spillemaend (Minstrels, or Fiddlers). The poem that Grieg set in 1876 as the first of Six Ibsen Songs (Op. 25) is based on the Norwegian folktale of the fossegrim, a male water spirit who could teach the art of violin-playing, but often at the price of personal happiness. In some versions of the story, the poor violinist drowns in the end. Like the song, and echoing the second movement, this movement beginning with the protagonist’s longing, his desire for the beloved. Next, he encounters the fossegrim, who promises that becoming a master of music will allow the protagonist to become master of his beloved. In the final stanza, the protagonist becomes a master fiddler, but he is now a cursed, wandering musician deprived of earthly love, so he drowns himself.

The humorous fourth movement, Scherzando, capitalizes on effects that at times, often make the string players sound inebriated. I make use of copious glissandi and tempos that fluctuate between 3/4 and 6/8, giving a sense of unease.

The final movement, Collage, is similar to the first movement in that it is inspired by the visual arts, and specifically, collage painting and works by surrealists. Many themes from the first four movements are brought together in this odd-metered movement.

String Quartet No. 2 commissioned by J. K. Billman and is written for and dedicated to the Euclid Quartet.

The Indianapolis Quartet: Robert Paterson - String Quartets 1-3

String Quartet No. 2 - III. Dolente

Adventures in Music. Let the music do the talking, and take you to another place.

Winter's Embrace 2A

Outrageous!!!

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