Mr. Beeps

A setting of a poem by Greek poet Iannis Ritsos, re-arranged as an instrumental because I can't find any singers desperate enough to perform my music. 8>))
It's all fairly standard-issue 2nd Viennese School dodecaphony, but that's so old fashioned that no one is likely to know what it even means.

Triplet (after a poem by Iannis Ritsos)

This composition sounds exactly like it says on the label. If you know any modernist squids, they might enjoy dancing to this, so why not throw a party for them today?

Ballets For Modernist Squids

A 17th Century Lutheran hymn usually sung at Lent, arranged for various instruments by yours truly. Gloomy, guilty lyrics by Paul Gerhardt, if you care to sing along; melody by Wolfgang Dachstein.
Dachstein would murder me if he were to have heard my very unorthodox harmonies.....

A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth

Any pre-teen would love to get a toy for which a soundtrack like this seems appropriate. Although most pre-teens would doubtless prefer less challenging music....

The Marvellous Toy

My impressions of a great Chinese city.
Well, actually, it's the file that resulted when my PC crashed while I was laboriously placing notes into a score-writing program. Things kind of went pear-shaped in terms of the piece I was trying to write, but it sounds like a happy accident to my ears.

The Neon Lights Of Shanghai

A ragtime tune from circa 1900, which I melted into a more interesting shape.
Yes, I did get this idea from Lukas Foss's Phorion. 

Ohio Bandstand In The Rain

I was listening to a lot of French jazz & film music when I came up with this track. It reminded me, slightly, of some of the work of Michel Legrand. Very slightly, sad to say, as his stuff is often really great. *sigh*

Legrandisme

My arrangement of a tune written in the 1550s by Galileo's father, the Tuscan lutenist. The bass line evolved out of some mathematical-musical experiments I was doing a few years ago in an attempt to create a non-tonal rationale for harmonic progressions. I think I should have stuck with it, but not everyone who has heard this track agrees.

Vincenzo Galilei, "Galiarda"

Every so often, I revise this work, which is loosely based on the style of someone I studied with in the 1970s, Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, and some of the earlier work of another Greek composer, Skalkottas. This is my second take on it, not that anyone but me is keeping score of such things.
The trumpet bit at the end was inspired by the end of Honegger's 2nd Symphony. Really, you should be listening to that instead....

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