New Music Appetizer Week #7 and BEDA Day 13: Generations

Generations (score link working now)
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Can you believe it? I've been so busy with BEDA (among other non-blog tasks, of course) that this is only Week #7 of my New Music Appetizer!

Hopefully this morsel will be worth the wait.

Here, finally, is my MIDI mock-up of Generations, a 5-minute string orchestra piece written in honor of Charles Darwin, born February 12, 1809 - that's 200 years ago this past February!

Perhaps I'll self-analyze the piece in some detail in tomorrow's post. Suffice it to say that the work combined minimalism and a 12-pitch tone row, though not subjected to any row permutations. Enjoy, and let me know what you think! It's sort of a stylistic detour for me.

Note: Thanks to the wonders of MIDI, some dynamics and articulations are naturally not represented, but this does the trick... for an Appetizer at least.

New Music Appetizer Week #1 - Duchess of Malfi Court Music

Court Music 1
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A bit delayed, but there it is: Week #1 of New Music Appetizer, my new weekly post of my works-in-progress.

First up is Court Music 1, my first draft of a 16th-century motet meant to serve as court background music for John Webster's play Duchess of Malfi. (Webster was a contemporary of Shakespeare.)

The play is going up February 12-15 at CUA's Hartke Theater, and is directed by Ryan Whinnem. Check it out!

More to come. Now... let the comments commence! (That means you.)