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hi, This is a shortened version of folk suite i have recently made. in the music sheets This is for soloist and accompanient. All chords are power chords. Whole suite can be played with two musicians. I have added drums for some parts. Soloist's and accompanients instrument varies. There are no repetitions and each part is between 1 and 2 minutes long. part 1 - overdriven guitar + synth chords + drums - duration 2:09 part 2 - synthetic bass + harpinchord chords - duration 1:49 part 3 - synthetic voice + synthetic keyboard - duration 1:50 part 4 - electric guitar / funk guitar + ??? - duration 1:36 part 5 - synthetic voice + accordion - duration 1:00 "false ending" part 6 - whole orchestra + synth strings - duration 2:09 "recapitulation theme"

Hi all! This is part 1 and part from 6 part folk suite i have made during this summer. This i think is still in the chamber music category. Drums are not obligatory. i added Word "scifi", since some of the parts gives futuristic feeling. I writed melody line and chord structure and some background attempt but i got stuck after that. Trio or quartet could be a good idea. Thought good players could already manage to play on the basis of these notes. Part 1 is somewhere between folk and rock, It reminds music of one instrumental rock band from Finland (Tres nachos experience). It has strong , positive and cheerful melody played by violin. After that the whole piece gets repeated by accordion. After that there is ending with varying tempo. There is drum line, it is slightly strange. but this part could be played without drums also. There is also a music sheet for soloist that could be easier to read. Part 2 is slightly slower. It starts from similar kind of phrase than the first part but it is in different mode and develops differently. I have got inspiration from Crete or Greece. The mode is i think is more common in Greek music. There is a concept called "contemporary modal music" that is used by one musician (Ross Daly). I have listened that music. But I am not sure does this belong under that description. It is played by clarinet. There are no drums. I have added repetitions in that way that the whole theme that is 1-2 minutes long is repeated once. Otherwise both of the parts would be too short. During the second repetition player can make variations.

EDIT: I made second version, i was thinking is it too heavy but maybe it is not after all. No drums Viola playing melody, slowly moving basso, piano and accordion playing chords. oboe playing contra melody in second repetition. tempo 84 duration 2:30 This is quite simple piece. Duration 2 minutes. But there is one trick in it - i avoided writing e or eb most of the time. There is also slight feeling of surprise in the melody although it is logical if you know how it goes. The melody is played twice, first with flute and then with electric guitar. The drum line is just a standard line.

Hi all, This is one fast going progressive background study for one polska that reminds of music of Jethro Tull (the instrument selection is similar also) and maybe heavy metal. The soloist part rythmics reminds of spell singing in scandinavia. Instruments: Trumpet solo, Funk guitar, piano and rock organ playing chords. There are no drums. This piece has two parts - first part is 2 minutes long introduction to the background that would be otherwise hidden behind soloist. And in second part trumpet plays solo with same background. The passages of guitar and piano are really fast but they follow the structure of the piece and have "reference points", therefore they are not confusing (or i least i hope so). It may be that only in the second part the listener starts to see how everything fits together.

Hi all, This is one of my old compositions for piano, written in piano roll editor. It does not have good music sheet. Wistful is a word that describes this. Duration 2:21. It consists of different kind of short parts.

Hi all, this is adagio for trio what i have written some years ago. It has got inspiration from Gorecki's "symphony of sorrowful songs" and Rachmaninov's "isle of the dead" but it is much more ambient and minimalistic than those great compositions that are written for orchestra. It mimics crying and recovering from it. The soundfont for violin is Woodwind choir, it sounds different than violin.

This is a suite consisting some of the small musical pieces i have made during this spring. All of the pieces could be developed more. I have used only quite small amount of time for these pieces. But they all have some ideas that are good. Two players and drums could be a good concept. There is melody, accompanient and in some parts have drums. The duration of each part is from 1 to 2 minutes. The total duration is 9 min 21 s. 1. melody 2. polka 3. arioso 4. polka in seven 5. pop-motive 6. party gig I think the two polkas feel to be "forced" to the time signature The time signature in the sixth part "party gig" theme is 21/8 x 5 + 23/8 which makes 128 beats that is equal to 16 x 8 beats. The signature could be thought alternatively as 7/8 x 15 + 9/8. The 5.th part could be interesting to continue, and slightly modify it.

This is polska that i have been working on. Polska is folk tune type in Scandinavia. example: Trollpolska https://spillefolk.dk/nodesamling/visnode.php?key=po-troll&lang=en) I have done two versions. In first version the bass beat is from the documentary film "The Buffalo" ending text song drumming line. The song has a name "horse stealing song" that was played during the ending text and there was drum and flute. The drum is just continuously repeating 4 beat long rythm. Bass line in this polska version is similar but with changing harmony and has only slight changes. The main melody is quite plain. There are no repetitions. The second version is more traditional. It has time signature 3/4 but some bars are 4 beats long. Melody is more developed. This version has repetitions. EDIT: i edited text shorter here and made better sheets and .mp3 recordings.

Hi all, This is one of my recent compositions. After listening Henry Purcell's "two in one upon a ground" i wanted to compose something similar. This has time signature 3/4 and it is canon form, the second voice plays almost same notes few bars later than first voice but there are some slight changes so the second voice can fit to the harmony of first voice. In A second voice is 4 bars behind and in B it is 8 bars behind. Structure is ABA. The name is "un canone complesso" or "complex canon" (i used translator) )since it does not sound traditional canon that has good harmony but the harmonies are more complex. Two players playing same thing may also make my mind to compare first and second voice - that is something that happens in the mind, not in the music sheet or in the actual music being played. That effect may allow breaks in the harmony also. I was thinking a moment that this is not good piece that there are only two voices repeating same theme without good harmony between them. But then i thought that the relation between voices can be more complex than that and also mind has a role in interpreting the piece. But i might change the second voice to play something different that supports the first line after the introduction. I made two versions: -Duetto version that has some fermatas. Its played by electric piano and piano.Tempo 104 -Pop version that has also third line (harp) in B and guitar line that i made to be more rythmical. There are also electric guitars playing chords some of the time. In B the first and second lines are played by different instruments than in A. The beginning and ending of A and B are slightly different than in duetto version. This version could have slightly faster tempo. It is now 112 (EDIT)

This is a short ethnic sounding piece that i got inspiration from somewhere middle east? It is either for piccolo flute and piano or flute and bass. As a trio piano may play that loudly that bass cannot be heard. Bass/Cello player can play in different octave range. Piano line is messy and some of the passages may be impossible to play exactly as written. I made also bass accordion line but i took it away.

Hi I was thinking how hoplites would organize when they prepare to defend and attack, and i have read from somewhere that they had flute players in the battlefield. The melody is to keep discipline, the first 4 bars, but the second 4 bars is already a background melody. B part is a description of the maneuvers what hoplites do when preparing. The time signature 7/8 helps hoplites to recognise their own maneuvers and signals in the battlefield and that is also difficult for enemy to anticipate. This kind of thoughts were a motivation for this piece. Yes, addition to semi parts or inter parts is possible and good idea in order to have 3-5 minutes long piece. There the 7/8 rythm could change to for example slower 7/8 rythm for a while. maybe 5/8 and 11/8 could be used as well. They are prime numbers, and 12/8 or 9/8 would be too simple for battlefield and easily guessed and anticipated by the opposing party. The piano playing chords is auto-generated by Musescore. I learned only few days ago how to change the instrument from piano to distortion guitar. The power chords are simple, and in the battlefield musical players probably have play only octaves and 5th or 4th as an accompanion. The low note players may have been horns that can play only overtones. Flutes and wind instruments can play certain scale. The phrasing and articulation could be more cultivated especially if i make this a chamber music. But in the music sheet that is for a band - There are no phrasing marks in the notes and the players can add their own phrasing to it. also there is flute, violin and clarinet that have different kind of phrasing techniques. I may first try it out with a small band and after that i make these markings.

This is a heavy rock type composition in 7/8 time that i named as "hoplites" or "attack of the hoplites" The pdf file is transposed and it has only melody and chords. It does not have good ending.

Hi all! This is a small, about one minute long trio that is played by piano, one woodwind instrument and bass. It is sketchy. I named it as "idiosyncratic trio" but it is only a temporary name for it.

Hi all, This is a 4 min piece that reminds music in old antiquity drama films (such as great "jason and the argonauts 1963", which i recall distantly) The structure is violin solo - A1 A2 A3 (in 6/4 and 4/4 time) - clarinet solo - cadence. All the chord markings are silenced and are not correct now. Instruments: piano/organ clar violin bass xyl I invented modal variation after thinking that this improves a lot of the feeling of the piece. I add d# and a# and change them back to a and d some of the time. Here are some other thoughts: I may intent whole piece for one band that has 2-3 soloist, guitars and accordion. Then i may just have only melody, chords and rythmic instrument in the music sheet. Xylophone part is not finished yet. The xylophone part i intent to make more 'semitonal' than other instrument lines in A1 A2 and A3. But it propably will follow a set of some kind of interval series. phrasing and dynamic markings are still missing. The ending cadence is sligtly not good and i propably change it. part A1 A2 A3 may be too short and B part could be good. The solos also propably are better phrased with different alterations in tempo and pauses, when real player plays them. in ending clarinet solo part i give small hint of 2:14 rythm, that is played by xylophone. That rythm is breaken constantly by soloists 1:4 and 1:8 notes. There could be a rythmical background in the alteration of rythms but this is still open thought. But now rapid piano passages goes over this background. EDIT i corrected some mistakes in the modal variation

Hi! this is invention for two instruments. The first voice melody is nice, but second voice could be better. It sounds now confusing.