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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Busy Spring (Thus Far)
It has been a very busy spring with my regular work and all, but I have managed to find some time to work on some music. I had hoped to have a new music compilation ready and released by this time, but I had to push it off a while (we all have to work to pay the bills...just wish mine job was music related). I have recieved some really nice encouragement and kudos through private e-mail from some really great people. I want to thank you all for giving me a listen. Your kind words really help to "fuel" my desire to do music.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 6:53 PM |
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Friday, November 18th, 2005
CatWalk
Originally composed for a client marketing cd (background music), CatWalk is a 180 degree turn from my regular style. I do these keyboard and "canned" loops every once and a while for fun, especially if I want to put something together fast. Also, this is one of the few tracks were I use my own voice (stacked 16 deep) in the background. I hope you have fun listening to it. Oh, the name??....just think of all those "skinny" models walking down a catwalk.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 8:55 PM |
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Friday, November 18th, 2005
Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria
My arrangement of the song duo made famous in Disney's Fantasia, but arranged quite a bit differently than Stowkaski had done originally. I started this piece in 1997 and finished it in 2004. It has been pretty much "unheard" until now. Enjoy!
Posted By Moonshadow @ 8:54 PM |
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Moonlight Sonata
While going through a life-threatening illness recently, I wanted to do something to convey my emotions and feelings in music. I sat down and tried to write something original, but I experienced a "writers-block", so I just started playing. After a few minutes, I just started playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, just out of the blue. This was the perfect vessel. This was what I wanted to say in music. Nothing said it better. This is the resulting arrangement. Hope you like.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 12:10 PM |
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
Eyes of Sadness
This piece is composed by myself. I got the idea from a phrase I heard once:
"He looked into the mirror and saw the eyes of sadness looking back at himself."
Posted By Moonshadow @ 4:37 PM |
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
Clair de Lune
I call this my "Song of the Glaciers." The idea came to me while watching a show on the Glaciers of Greenland, envisioning the composers original vision exactly 180 degrees. Just goes to show that a single piece of music came be performed to represent many different ideas or images.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 1:47 PM |
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Amazing Grace
I came up with the arrangement of Amazing Grace while watching "Monarch of the Glen." The beauty of the scenery just made my mind wander after watching an episode that I decided to convey my feelings with a soundscape utilizing the old scottish folk song as my base score.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 7:22 PM |
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Modern Classics
A wonderful Listener just asked me if I will post some more modern pieces such as Stravinski's Firebird. Nothing would please me more to do so, but, being a poor musician, I simply can not afford the performance and publishing copyrights. Though I have recorded several modern pieces (including the Firebird finale), all I can post are scores that fall within the public domain. Maybe someday...
Posted By Moonshadow @ 7:17 PM |
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Morning Mood
Originally composed by Edvard Grieg, this is one of my first recorded pieces, "Morning Mood" was arranged and recorded on an analog, 4 track Tascam tape system in 1989 utilizing a Mirage DS and a Boss DS 330 as the sound sources. It was later transferred to digital and enhanced with post digital processing.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 7:16 PM |
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Sirenes
Claude Debussy is probably one of my favorite composers, mainly because the lush musical phrases translate into beautiful soundscape textures. Sirenes, the last movement from Debussy's Nocturnes, is a rarely performed piece requiring a large orchestra with a female choir, utilized as orchestral color.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 3:42 PM |
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Why Classical Music?
I have recieved several e-mails from listeners who ask why I just do classical music in my tracks. Simple answer is my first love is classical, but I do like all music. I guess you can say that I am like a painter who paints a picture, but in the way that the original composer never realized, creating a soundscape from my vision or feelings. I have been arranging synthesized classics since 1987. In fact "Morning Mood" was arranged and recorded on an analog system in 1989 utilizing a Mirage DS and a Boss DS 330.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 3:26 PM |
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Si Bheag Si Mhor
I have a great fondness for Irish and Scottish celt folk songs and like arranging them to sound completely different from the way they were originally written. This one, translated to something like "Big Hill, Little Hill" is about a war between two fairy armies and was written by Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin) who lived from 1670 to 1738.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 1:47 PM |
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
My Own Compositions...
I do like to compose my own music from time to time, but most of it tends to lean toward the ambient, new age, stuff you listen to when you meditate or just want to zone out. I plan to put a couple of my own compositions on this sight in the near future.
Posted By Moonshadow @ 1:36 PM |
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