You Are A Priest For Ever (Setting II) – Psalm 109 (110)Title: You are a priest for ever (Setting ii) Text: Psalm 109 (110): 1, 2, 3, 4 Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano Product medium: PDF score and part Sample:
‘Real’ instruments in popular music“We’re seeing a big evolution of production, of recording techniques, and of the actual sounds. Everything’s getting sampled and synthesized…. When we do have an acoustic instrument like a saxophone, it tends to get processed to where [it’s] almost unrecognizable.” Jeff Harrington, saxophonist. Cited in, Kelsey McKinney, “Where Did All the Saxophones Go?”, https://getpocket.com/explore/item/where-did-all-the-saxophones-go?utm_source=pocket-app&utm_medium=share, accessed 29 […]
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Hoffman on techniqueTechnic represents the material side of art, as money represents the material side of life. By all means achieve a fine technic, but do no dream that you will be artistically happy with this alone. There is a technic which liberates and a technic which represents the artistic self. All technic ought to be a […]
Writing music is easier than words"I would rather write 10,000 notes than one letter of the alphabet."' Beethoven. Letter, 28 November 1820. Cited in: Kelly, Henry & Foley, John (1998) Classic FM: Musical Anecdotes. London: Hodder & Stouhgtan, p.68.
I dream …“I dream, therefore I exist.” —August Stringberg, A Madman’s Defence (Le plaidoyer d’un fou)
Kreutzer’s Wanderlieder and SchubertSchubert was familiar with Kreutzer’s Wanderlieder song cycle (written in 1817). Spaun twice told the following anecdote of his friend’s reaction to the Wander-Lieder shortly after their publication: “We once found him playing through Kreutzer’s Wanderlieder, which had just appeared. One of his friends [ Anselm Hüttenbrenner] said ‘Leave that stuff alone and sing us […]
A successful day“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.” Alex Noble, cited at Brainy Quote
The Lord Upholds My Life – Psalm 53 (54)Title: The Lord upholds my life Text: Psalm 53 (54):3-6. 8 Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano (unison verses) Product medium: PDF score and part Sample:
Go Out to All the World – Psalm 116 (117)Title: Go out to all the world Text: Psalm 116 (117). R. Mk 16:15 Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and organ Product medium: PDF score and part SAMPLE:
