Tag: harpsichord
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My Goals for 2022
It has shocked me that two months have gone by since the beginning of this new year. I’m sure most of us have resolutions or goals, and while some may be easier to achieve than others, I find it may help to keep a constant list for reference. ‘Once written, twice remembered’ is perhaps a […]
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Practice makes Perfect
“Again.” You look at the keyboard, a small sigh escaping your mouth. This will be the third time that you have played your scales this lesson. And more importantly, it is not a private lesson, but one with other pupils present. Is the purpose of honing musical skills meant to be practice, or humiliation? you […]
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Thoughts on my *Three Keyboard Suites
*three? keyboard suites…three mature and decent-quality keyboard suites… In this post, I discuss three of my suites for keyboard, which were written between the years of 2014 – 2018. Currently a new suite was recently composed but I don’t think I’ll be talking about it here. If you like, in a later post I can […]
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Historical Fiction: The Bothersome Critic
The cello vibrates between your knees as you run the bow across its strings. It would resonate forever if you weren’t cramped between two other bass players as well as the harpsichord. Three violins commence their own tuning while the trumpeter loudly blasts three notes. The singers gather about, talking among themselves. The sun barely […]
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Favorite Baroque Composers
I’d sound like a chicken if I were to ramble on about my number-one favorite composer. Truth be told and without exaggeration, I spent close to a decade enveloped in the works of the bewigged cantor. I heard it all (or as much that has been discovered and recorded), from cantatas to organ works to […]
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A performance of Two Pieces for Keyboard
I would like to share with you this video, which features two of my pieces for harpsichord. Both pieces were written this past year, in 2021, with the allemande being a simple dance for two voices. The ornaments Mr. de la Beaujardière are certainly appropriate for the period, however there are no ornaments written in […]
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Hello, and Welcome!
Welcome to my Website, where you can learn more about me, explore my music, and consider supporting me as an independent musician. I am a composer who has a special interest and passion for the Baroque era. I began pipe organ lessons in 2008, at the age of fourteen, and once I was introduced to […]
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