Oration XIV (St. Gregory the Theologian)Title: Oration XIV Text: St. Gregory the Theologian Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano Product medium: PDF score Samples:
Abstraction ITitle: Abstraction Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Piano Product medium: PDF score Sample:
The Lord is my Shepherd – Psalm 22 (23)Title: The Lord is my shepherd Text: Psalm 22 (23) Related settings: – I shall live in the house of the Lord (Psalm 22; Greg Smith) – SATB and piano (PDF score) Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano Product medium: PDF score and part Sample:
Everything affects music making‘”…turning 40 and new fatherhood have other effects: ‘It opens things up emotionally’, he says. ‘I find that my whole perspective on life and my whole emotional range generally has changed. I laugh more easily and cry more easily. And that probably has an impact on the music making in one way or another. Everything […]
Bernstein on immersive performanceIt happens because you identify so completely with the composer, you’ve studied him so intently, that it’s as though you’ve written the piece yourself. You completely forget who you are or where you are and you write the piece write there. You just make it up as though you never heard it before. Because you […]
Widerstehe doch der Sünde (J. S. Bach)Title: Widerstehe doch der Sünde (from Cantata BWV 54)Composer: Johann Sebastian BachArranger: Greg SmithInstrumentation: PianoProduct medium: PDF score Sample:
Learning“Learning makes a man fit company for himself.” — La Harpe Day, E. P. (1884) Day’s Collacon: An Encylopaedia of Prose Quotations. International Printing and Publishing Office, p. 498. Digitally archived at: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Qo\_Mhkcu8iAC, accessed 8 September 2021.
Schoenberg’s composition classAn account of Arnold Schoenberg teaching a composition class: Well, first of all there was composition class, in which he analyzed in brief the first sections of several Schubert sonatas. How he adores Schubert! “Many people say,” he remarked, “that Schubert is too long. He is long-yes-but for me he is always too short!” Such […]