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New Music I'm an amateur composer with some training from Open College of the Arts and the CoMA composers course at St Hilda's Oxford. The works showcased here were mainly written for Contemporary Music for All in the East Midlands or Sheffield. read more Small instrumental ensembles Mostly works written for specific CoMA ensembles Flexible ensemble Pieces written for amateur performance with a range of possible instruments, often using acrostic harmonic sequences (see 'Innovations' ) Choral So far, just the one movement, 'Daffodils' written for SATB and piano, for 'Incanto' Nottingham Voice and instruments 'Violets' a short sad song for Soprano, Cor anglais and viola

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< Back Bach Art of Fugue completion Thomas Daniel J S Bach/ Daniel Contrapunctus XIV, the unfinished quadruple fugue, completed by Thomas Daniel. The completed fugues are in the Werner Icking collection. Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Score as pdf 'Cello Bach Art of Fugue completion by Thomas Daniel Previous Next

List of Arrangements for String Quartet (more soon!) Bach Art of Fugue completion Jan Trede J S Bach / Jan Trede A basic synth rendition. See details for any ad hoc recordings of this arrangement Details and downloads Bach Art of Fugue completion Thomas Daniel J S Bach/ Daniel A basic synth rendition. See details for any ad hoc recordings of this arrangement Details and downloads Froberger Hexachord Fantasia Johann Jacob Froberger A basic synth rendition. See details for any ad hoc recordings of this arrangement Details and downloads Froberger Ricercar VII Johann Jacob Froberger A basic synth rendition. See details for any ad hoc recordings of this arrangement Details and downloads Byrd Fantasia 1 William Byrd A basic synth rendition. See details for any ad hoc recordings of this arrangement Details and downloads Senfl Lust for Music Ludwig Senfl A basic synth rendition. See details for any ad hoc recordings of this arrangement Details and downloads

< Back Bach Art of Fugue completion Jan Trede J S Bach / Jan Trede Contrapunctus XIV, the unfinished quadruple fugue, completed by Yngwe Jan Trede. The completed fugues are in the Werner Icking collection. Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Score as pdf 'Cello Bach Art of Fugue completion Jan Trede Previous Next

< Back Froberger Ricercar VII Johann Jacob Froberger Froberger moved between Cologne, Italy and Vienna and is credited as the originator of the dance suite in the early baroque period. Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Score as pdf 'Cello Ricercar VII Previous Next

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Future Music Innovations Here I will talk about some of my innovations and discoveries in 19-Equal Temperament and in extending the application of the Tonnetz of Euler, Kepler and Hugo Riemann 19-ET Why stick to 12 notes to the octave? OK, 12 factorises by 2, 4 and 3 giving you a 6-note whole-tone scale, a diminished seventh with minor thirds that can continue indefinitely, and strings of major thirds that give you augmented sixth chords. You don't get any of these with a prime number of chromatic intervals in the octave. On the other hand, the major third in 12-ET (12-note equal temperament) is so out of tune from just intervals (a 5/4 frequency ratio) that it was rejected as a discord for many centuries, And the minor third is not much better. 19-ET gives you an amazingly pure minor third. Suspend your disbelief and listen to some of the creations in 19-ET from composers such as Sevish , Gabriel Torre and others - or, at a time when keyboard design was in flux, Guillaume Costeley around the year 1570, as shown here by Roger Wibberley. Even Gesualdo sounds richer in this temperament! The Tonnetz I have built a visualisation that works in both 12-ET and 19-ET and, among other features, helps turn arbitrary letter sequences into harmonic progressions. This applies the 'honeycomb' geometric visualisation invented by Euler and extends the letter coding of Hugo Riemann which helps explain the set of all possible triad transitions - in Brahms' and later composers' journey away from functional harmony. This user guide gives much more detail. Within the honeycomb are five video recordings of the tool in action (spot the 'Ode to Cheese!) . Linked also is a recent, polished web-friendly parallel in 12-ET from University of Strasbourg. Their rectilinear layout does not however show the enharmonic 'folding' from right to left and top to bottom - the true geometry is a torus. A#=Bb in 12ET or Bbb in 19ET. Tonnetz demos 12M Play Video 12min Play Video 19M Play Video 19min Play Video Tonnetz videos Watch Now Share Whole Channel This Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied Share Channel Info Close Bayesian Harmonisation In an ambitious 2021 experiment for CoMA, which still has the legs for further development, I applied the Bayesian network tool Netica from Norsys to make a probabilistic harmoniser that can set up to five chords in sequence, optionally fitting a given melodic sequence and/or bass line. Opposite is the basic layout of one transition between chords, showing some of the options available - and the size of the whole network. You can set a 'target chord' or cadence and the network will infer - appling inverted probabilities - the best fit of chords to lead to it. The CoMA composers' group was very interested in looking at the extent to which this could replicate, at the micro level, aspects of a given composer's style, for example a characteristic transition of Vaughan Williams. The tool, christened 'RoboCoMA', was able to satisfy a number of requests from members for examples [sound files to follow] The full network was as much as Netica could handle. As well as basic functional harmony (dominant, subdominant regions - Riemann again!) there is avaiable, for detailed tailoring, a table of transition probabilities from all chord variants to any other variant. No doubt this concept has been overtaken since ! More weird and wonderful games and animations During lockdown, musicians trying to play together over Zoom were struggling to keep in time due to latency on the overloaded networks. This 'Entrain' prototype was an attempt to give them visual feedback on the overall rhythm within any particular pitch range. In the user window it creates bubbles stretching upwards according to the detected pitch, which change to a brighter colour and start to move at right angles once a rhythmic pattern is established. At first a fixed tempo is selected as the reference for rhythm detection, but there is the option smoothly to 'entrain' that tempo, pulling it toward the speed of the players. It has created quite quirky results, but is now (like me) retired....

< Back Froberger Hexachord Fantasia Johann Jacob Froberger Originally written for keyboard, this fantasia is based on the first six notes of the major scale, which can be played by way of introduction. Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Score as pdf 'Cello Fantasia on the Hexachord Previous Next

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