This is the 3rd in my series of Chorale Etudes.  I wrote these for my family members, beginning with my father and mother and including all my siblings, even the one who died at childbirth.  This one is for Tim.  Each of them is based on their favorite Christian hymn tune.  Though this piece has some extreme sounds, bits of the tune are there occasionally.  Sometimes the opening fabric is chromatically inverted, giving it a very different sound.  Eventually the full tune is heard, accompanied with some really wild sounds, even random notes.

By "Chorale Etudes" I'm referring to the concept of taking a hymn tune and surrounding it with an elaborate fabric of music.  J.S. Bach wrote hundreds of Chorales.  These 7 of mine are studies on how to embed the tune so it is virtually hidden.

I Love To Tell The Story

This is the 2nd in my series of Chorale Etudes.  I wrote these for my family members, beginning with my father and mother and including all my siblings, even the one who died at childbirth.  This one is for June, my mother.  Each of them is based on their favorite Christian hymn tune.  This one is a series of canons.  Each voice is usually in Perfect 4ths, a dissonance, but these resolve into Perfect 5ths, a consonance and the texture becomes more tonal.  The first entrance of the tune is chromatically inverted.  Sometimes the voice that answers is in a different tempo, making unusual combinations of rhythms with the standard tempo.

By "Chorale Etudes" I'm referring to the concept of taking a hymn tune and surrounding it with an elaborate fabric of music.  J.S. Bach wrote hundreds of Chorales.  These 7 of mine are studies on how to embed the tune so it is virtually hidden.

O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee

This is the 1st in my series of Chorale Etudes.  I wrote these for my family members, beginning with my father and mother and including all my siblings, even the one who died at childbirth.  This one is for Dick, my father.  Each of them is based on their favorite Christian hymn tune.  This one sets up a fabric of melodic perfect 4ths before the slower entrance of the tune.  The piece ends with a pedal point in the melody before resolving in a very strange, but beautiful and dramatic, way to a Major 9th chord, with the root moving by a tritone.

By "Chorale Etudes" I'm referring to the concept of taking a hymn tune and surrounding it with an elaborate fabric of music.  J.S. Bach wrote hundreds of Chorales.  These 7 of mine are studies on how to embed the tune so it is virtually hidden.

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.  Against such things there is no law" Galatians 5:22-23

While studying music composition in school I had a motorcycle accident and broke my right wrist.  I couldn't do any writing or piano playing for months.  That gave me the idea to compose these pieces for the left hand only.  As a whole, they utilize 3 musical materials: chromaticism; intervals of the perfect fourth; and second inversion major chords.  Not every one of them uses all three.

Love is the 1st in the 9-piece set.

Love

Universalis is an original soundtrack written for Isis Movement Company (NYC), inspired by the cosmos. Each piece is dedicated to a planet, celestial body or event in our solar system.

Composed, recorded & mixed by Aaron Bumpus, mastered by Kia Eshghi December 2013.

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Exile (Pluto)

Oceanus (Neptune)

Chaos - Volatile (Uranus)

Saturnus (Saturn)

Sinking (Jupiter)

Hostile Planet (Mars)

Eros (Earth)

MorningStar (Venus)

DYNAMO (Mercury)

Primordial Scission (BigBang)

NECROCORPSE

It's Been A Long Night

Strings Dissonance In C

I'm an Art Music composer.  I compose music that is usually outside the box.  I try to communicate truths of God through absolute music (a very subjective concept).  I have many more of my works, in awesome videos (much better), on YouTube since it is a free platform.  See my channel "Pseudotonal".

I’m Aaron Bumpus, I make music 🎶
You might like some of it 🤘🏾

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