Musical Compositions – Page 14

New Music

Here are Theme 101 and Theme 102, two parts of a small suite. Hope you like them.

Two New Compositions and a Ballad

The first composition, below, Theme 52, is probably the first “song” I ever wrote, assisted by Bruce Markkula, when I was about 18 years old. A guitar duet, I recreated it with garage band pianos. The second is Theme 74, which I call “Turn Around” because the tiny first line, which recurs, sounds like that.

Two short pieces

If the first is too frenetic for your taste, the second will calm you back down. Theme 116, then Theme 115:

Pure fun

Theme 112 for piano and bass.

Cheerful music and a lullaby

This is Theme 105

And the lullaby, Theme 111 (Set the volume lower to go to sleep).

Another Piano Piece

Have fun!

Theme 103

Still more original music

Ivy League Alma Mater.

Garage Band does pretty good trombones. All we need is words… Anybody? Theme 96

Traditional, but pretty, I think. Theme 98

Well, many years ago, before computers and the internet, I wrote a short story about a man who carried an enormous length of garden hose up a mountain with the goal of starting a siphon to run water from a lake to his cabin below. His only friend, a water attorney (?!?!), warned him that stealing water could get him in a lot of trouble. But, undeterred by this cautionary advice, he proceeded to climb to the lake and start the siphon. Meanwhile, his friend cooked breakfast in the cabin below. By the time the hose was hooked up, his friend had set fire to the kitchen and lost control of his wits. Just when it looked like the cabin would be burned to ashes, the hose began blasting water, and he was able to save the house. This was the first of several short-short stories in a series that I called Mountain Breakfast, in which each tale involved cooking or eating breakfast in the wild. It was all about humans, all about nature, and all about human nature. I’m still at it, still hiking and thinking and writing tales, although they’re longer now, and not about eating breakfast.