A midi simulation of a piece for three female vocal lines, which can be soloist or choir ensemble. With accompaniment from piano and string ensemble. The size of the accompanying ensemble should match the size of the vocal grouping.

Song

A stand alone piece for full orchestra, Cornish Soundscape 'An Ancient Land' is also the seminal piece from which all the musical elements of the ‘Ancient Stones of Kernow’ project are derived www.ancientstonesofkernow.co.uk. These include the commentaries that accompany the 'Ancient Stones' tours and the dance theatre piece the ballet Ancient Stones of Kernow 'Mid-Summer Rituals'. Separate videos of some of the parts of the piece can be found on YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ802ijBXqPwqJ8Ze9NCvuw please subscribe. These illustrate the character of landscape that inspired the piece. The music for the 'Ancient Stones of Kernow project is a computer generated orchestral simulation. The scores are written in Sibelius score system and the generated "midi" is manipuled in Logic Pro X, using Vienna Symphonic Library.

Cornish Soundscape 'An Ancient Land'

The theme for this piece was written as incidental music for the stage play 'Merchant of Venice' but remained unused in the final production. Here it is used as the theme for a set of variations with drum set accompaniment; in the the tradition of medieval pipe and tabour.

Flute Dance 'The Merchant's Tune'

The original version of this Quartet was written in the mid-1970's during my final year at the Royal College of Music London. It was give a read through at this time by a group including my professor at the college Edward Walker, who gave the piece its title after a famous beer of the day, and Andrew Findon, who became a leading session flautist. Have recently come across the manuscript, I have extended and revised the piece and produced this midi-simulation.

Flute Quartet

Ancient Stones of Kernow is an arts based project which focuses on the prehistory of the far west of Cornwall, in the very southwest of Great Britain. As a part of the project a body of music was written to highlight the atmosphere of the areas landscape. The seminal musical work of the project The Cornish Soundscape ‘An Ancient Land’ was expanded into this major stage work the ballet ‘Mid-Summer Rituals’. This has the summer solstice practises of the neolithic inhabitants of the Zennor area of west Cornwall at its heart and centres around their ceremonial monument ‘Zennor Quoit’. Which still survives in the landscape today. The work consists of 2 acts each of which is made up of a sequence of atmospheric narrations and theatrical dance episodes.

Ancient Stones of Kernow Ballet 'Mid-Summer Rituals' Act 2

Ancient Stones of Kernow Ballet 'Mid-Summer Rituals' Act 1

Martyn Jackson studied flute, saxophone and piano at the Royal College of Music London and has for over thirty years pursued a career as a performer and music educator. Recently returning to serious composition he has written the music associated with his project 'Ancient Stones of Kernow' which focuses on the prehistory of the far west of Cornwall. He works from his music studio in St. Ives which has recording facilities and is equipped with Logic Pro X and Sibelius software along with Kontakt and Vienna Symphonic sound libuaries, with a full size Oxygen 88 keyboard.

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