Miscellany III

Pablo Villegas, guitar

from Sketchpad for guitar, op. 4

Recorded New York City
2006

Bolero; op. 4, no. 5

Kristian Banatzianou, primo
Mladen Taskoff, secondo

from Incidental Music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 73

In ternary form.  In the central section I fall back on the traditional hee-haw minor ninth when Puck applies the ass's head mask to poor Bottom the Weaver.  Later in the play, when Puck takes it off, you can hear me inverting the hee-haw into ...haw-hee!

Entrance of the Mechanicals for piano four hands, from op. 73

Nevsky String Trio

Motives from first movement (a slow pavane) get sped up considerably for use in the second (a fast waltz).

Diptych for string trio, op. 27

Gregg Smith Singers
Gregg Smith, conductor

from The Sermon on the Mount, op. 19

Basses sing a pedal E-flat in "Seek, And You Shall Find," then break out into the fugal motive (in that same key) of "Upon A Rock."  Thus do I regard these two numbers together as a prelude and double fugue.

Seek, And You Shall Find & Upon A Rock; op. 19, nos. 6 and 7 (live)

I've started posting a few tracks that feature isolated instruments on previously uploaded songs, just for fun. On this one, I've done a bit of a short remix to highlight the nasty harmonica solo at the end of one of my fave songs I collaborated on with the charming & talented Eclectic Collective gang. It was the first time I'd tried playing that style with the heavy echo/reverb effect, and I was surprised how it turned out. 
Here's a link to the original full song, featuring wicked solo turns by several members of the group:

https://on.soundcloud.com/NcZz44EUFyChiR4LA

More goodies in the "ISOLATED TRACKS" playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/isolated-tracks
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A Brush With Death (BLUES HARP SOLO)

Verse 1
Well he starts the day at sunrise
cause there ain't no other way
wakin' up before the world begins
just to turn for another day
That's the way his father worked
and his father before him
passin' on the things that you need to know
just to grow into a man
Just workin' on the land

Chorus
We're just waitin' for the sunrise
and sittin' in the dark
Singing all about the days we lived
while lookin' to the stars
And with the day we grow a little bit
from what we were before
So he gets down on his knees
and he prays to god for just one more
And the rain begins to pour

Verse 2
And the minutes last for hours
when the time turned back then
and the days turned into years
that we can never see again
But it doesn't really matter
cause the world goes on to spin
and the planets and the stars
will all still be there in the end
so let me say again

Chorus x2

V3.01

Just One More

I wrote this song in Summer 2023. It's a joyful get-up-the-morning and enjoy the day song.
I recorded most of the instruments in a tent at a festival on a very very hot day, where I was storytelling.

Fly with the Day like a runaway Kite

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Èr, Wǔ, Yī

Temperance Fountain

Loop Beat with a Kaospad and Theremin playing solos, also an old piano tune is played twice.

R&N (18.2)

J-No Hell, No Heaven

DEMO written, performed, & produced in Logic by Kate E. Stanton 2/23/25 for FAWM
I recently attended a composer's workshop with the instruction of creating a song based off of specific pitches tied to letters in a name. I chose M-O-L-L-Y (Gb, G#, D#, D#, C#) for my inspiration and created this for my daughter. 

Gold
You came in the dark, where light was so far,
Lost in my loneliness, you are a star.
A dream I’d hoped to see, & hold so tight,
Innocence bold, like purest light.

Heart of gold
My shining stone 
A ray of hope in all I've ever known,
In your eyes, 
I want to be
The very best 
version of me.

No money buys what I have found,
This treasure of gold, she's always around
floating freely in my mind 
freely in my heart like
an inner child 

That’s why I love you.
I love you,
heart of gold.
I want to be the best version of me.

Gold

Voyage intérieur

Ok I Give Up

Guitar meeting sax tenor

You can find this track on the Album : Noise Experiment
https://gommusic2.bandcamp.com/album/noise-experiment

NO NOISE WALTZZZZ collab Henry Koek & Christophe Meulien / GOM

Scores are available for study or performance for the asking, in pdf form or as hard copy.

VFrost2468@gmail.com

Diptych for string trio, op. 27

Victor Frost — composer

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