had this playing this morning with my cup of coffee, my soul says "thank you"

Hey Robert, the first draft of my framework for 'patch based' orchestra is complete. It includes emulation of how a generic 'patch based' orchestra would respond.

Wondrous...compelling. Paradoxically, in it's moments of profoundest complexity, the piece may seem to offer the listener 'answers' which the ostensibly less complex parts of the piece refuse to offer. Wonderful paradoxes in play. Magnificent piece.

3:50 et seq really hit the cortex esp 4:30 et seq. Extraordinary piece

It sounds so clear and spaced out. Mysterious. Alive. Intense. Progressive. Contemporary. Stravinskyesque.

Love the playful clarinet and dancing piano

The burning eternal question - do you love me?
Do you love me, you love me?
Well so do people who sell ice-cream
They'll say anything, they think I'd like to hear

Do yo love me like they do?

Hey girl, you better watch out
cos people care not for what you may
Though it's written on their faces
They hide behind sweet words

Anybody for ice-cream (or tennis)?
(a nod to @nic_nic_nic: Nic for tennis suggestion)

Live Studio recording, engineered by Darren Flynn
Drums Steve O'Keeffe (The Pale/BluesConfidential  www.bluesconfidential.com
https://soundcloud.com/bluesconfidential) 
Bernard Byrne (The Pale)
Lead vocals, BV, guitar, art by Suzanne Ledwith

Change of Address

Hey Ho

Performance Notes and Information

“Double Sonata No. 2” was completed in September, 2021 in Fairview, TX. 

The work is in one movement. Performance time is about 15 minutes. 

Mastered by eMastered.com. Click eMastered.com/profile/robtjbrooks to access the composer's library on eMastered.com

If you or your organization is interested in premiering this work please contact the composer. To view or order printed music please go to www.creativespiritonline.com/product/pi…brillante/.

Printed and electronic copies of the score and clarinet part are available from www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com,   Just click on the "View/Purchase" link above.

Performance notes:
•	Tempo, expression, and dynamic markings should be strictly observed.
•	Required pedaling is marked in the score but additional pedaling may be applied as needed.
•	There is no key signature. Accidentals apply to the end of the measure or to the note tied over the measure, and only to notes of the same pitch class, in the same octave.
•	Hairpin pairs (e.g.: <>, >< ) indicate a temporary volume change of one dynamic level
•	Passages marked fff and ppp indicate playing as loudly and as quietly as possible, respectively.

Contact information: 
Email: robtjbrooks@yahoo.com, 
Web: www.soundcloud.com/robert-john-brooks
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Double Sonata No. 2 for Bb Clarinet and Piano (mastered by eMastered.com)

Room 237

"Up in the Gallery" (German: "Auf der Galerie") is a short piece of fiction written by Franz Kafka. It was created between November 1916 and February 1917 and published in the collection „Ein Landarzt“ (A Country Doctor) in 1919. The story offers two versions of a scene in which a young man watches a circus ringmaster and a woman on horseback. (Wikipedia)

The picture shows a section of: At The Circus Fernando, The Rider
by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1888)

Public domain translation by Ian Johnston (November 2003)                     


Up in the Gallery

If some frail tubercular lady circus rider 
were to be driven in circles around and around 
the arena for months and months 
without interruption 
in front of a tireless public 
on a swaying horse 
by a merciless whip-wielding 
master of ceremonies, 
spinning on the horse, 
throwing kisses and swaying at the waist, 
and if this performance, 
amid the incessant roar 
of the orchestra and the ventilators, 
were to continue into 
the ever-expanding, gray future, 
accompanied by applause, 
which died down and then swelled up again, 
from hands which were really steam hammers, 
perhaps then a young visitor to the gallery 
might rush down the long stair case 
through all the levels, 
burst into the ring, and cry “Stop!” 
through the fanfares 
of the constantly adjusting orchestra.


But since things are not like that,
(Since things are not like that…rep.)         

since a beautiful woman, in white and red, 
flies in through curtains 
which proud men in livery open in front of her, 
since the director, 
devotedly seeking her eyes, 
breathes in her direction, 
behaving like an animal, and, as a precaution, 
lifts her up on the dapple-gray horse, 
as if she were his grand daughter, 
the one he loved more 
than anything else,
as she starts a dangerous journey, 
but he cannot decide to give the signal with his whip 
and finally, 
controlling himself, gives it a crack, 
runs right beside the horse with his mouth open, 
follows the rider's leaps with a sharp gaze, 
hardly capable of comprehending her skill, 
tries to warn her by calling out in English, 
furiously castigating the grooms holding hoops, 
telling them to pay the most scrupulous attention, 
and begs the orchestra, with upraised arms,
to be quiet before the great jump, 
finally lifts the small woman down from the trembling horse, 
kisses her on both cheeks, 
considers no public tribute adequate, 
while she herself, leaning on him, 
high on the tips of her toes, 
with dust swirling around her, 
arms outstretched and head thrown back, 
wants to share her luck with the entire circus—
since this is how things are, 
the visitor to the gallery puts his face on the railing and, 
sinking into the final march as if into a difficult dream, weeps, 
without realizing it.  (rep.)

Up In The Gallery (Kafka, 1919)

Heart - Shaped Hippy

Reefs of Vibrating Chaos

Towards The Purple Disillusions Of Dawn

DODO Lé LA 29722 II Vox Remix

Original music by : FPMORINSTUDIO/François Pierre Morin musician composer

4/4 And 7/8 Bass And Beat

Listen

Written/Produced by: R.J. Dobben (RoTen)
Released on: 12/31/2022


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Thimbles

2 ème remix du titre original Morning Râga: la face cachée du rêve de Titalee par The FURICO Music Team.
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https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/morning-raga-la-face-cachee-du-reve.html

La face cachée du rêve/ Remix 2 FURICO Music team

Thanks for visiting. 
Scores and parts for many of my works are available from my publisher Creative Spirit Music Publications. Go to  https://www.creativespiritonline.com and select on "Robert John Brooks." There, you can also follow the score while listening to a recording.

My music is fully notated and is intended for live performance by live musicians.

After completing my doctorate in composition in 1979 from UNT, I took 30 years off from composing to join the computer software revolution as a software engineer.  In 2010 I began composing again and have not stopped. So, I find myself beginning (restarting?) a composition career rather late in life...but that's OK.  Most of the works posted here were written since 2010. 

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Double Sonata No. 2 for Bb Clarinet and Piano (mastered by eMastered.com)

Robert John Brooks, Composer

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