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It is titled "Resolutions" and I composed it the other day when I was thinking about the new year and what I wanted it to be like.
It seems a century ago (though in reality only 30 years) that I graduated from the Conservatory of Music with degrees in guitar performance, music theory, and composition. Over the years, I have done a good deal with the guitar performance part, but very little with theory and composition-that is, until recently.
Over the past couple of years, a steady stream of music thought has come to mind, and I have written it down in various instrumental combinations.
For all my composing, I use Finale 2011 which is created by Make Music, 7615 Golden Triangle Drive, Suite M Eden Prarie, MN 66344, and can be purchased directly from the company. This excellent program allows me input my music directly into the computer on staffs in the scores. I can listen to a playback of the music I compose and then when it is completed, print clear, legible copies of the scores and parts. In addition, I use Garritan Virtual Software Instruments, samples from actual recorded orchestral instruments and percussion. They are available from Garritan.Com Once the score is entered into Finale, I can assign these digital sounds from Garritan to the staffs of my score, a "virtual cello" to the cello part, a "virtual flute" to the flute part, etc. After assigning dynamics and types of attack and other treatments, I can reproduce my composition in a very realistic sounding audio track, and record these onto audio Compact Discs.
For recording, editing and production, I use Pro Tools LE 8.0, available from Avid.
As a result, I have completed eleven CDs and a twelfth is in the works. The first CD I compiled is titled: Back From the Ledge. My sister, Coralie, came up the name when she kindly told me that listening to this CD brought her "back from the ledge" after a stressful day at work. The second, Reflections of the Spirit, is a continuation of the first.
I composed music for the CD: The Broidered Garment of the Soul, in honor of my grandfather, John Neihardt. I created original music and combined it with lyrics recited and recorded by Neihardt in the early seventies. The favorite on this CD seems to be a setting of Black Elk's Prayer, although my personal favorite is the setting of When I Have gone Weird Ways.
Is it classical music? I suppose so, for wont of a better description, I am an American Composer. (I am classically trained and classical music is my love.)
I would enjoy sharing this music with you and I would welcome your comments.
Created on ... July 26, 2007