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29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A bizarre, unstable little sketch for organ. The quasi-programmatic title refers to Arlecchino or Harlequin, a trickster archetype in Commedia dell'arte. You may read through the full engraved score, below: If you enjoyed this, plea...
![Album Leaf "Arlecchino" (SCROLLING SCORE) [Philip Daniel; 2020]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-8550faae6d2ac2d855c32a54916ca817802997934c54a886153aa2b671ebcb0a.png)
28 Oct 2020 7 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
In the first measure of this early Webern masterwork, the first and second violin enter on the second ♩ (quarter-note, or crotchet) beat. Both violinists bow near the bridge of the instrument (what the Germans call am Steg, what the Italians call su...
![Harmonic Timbres, Timbral Harmonies in Anton von Webern's (1883–1945) "Five Pieces" (1909), Opus 5, #4 [PART I]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-d7df0709add4ec70be0302d6017b96e891474faddfd0b1aaea6166331ad23ea2.png)
28 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
An album leaf for clavier (i.e., keyboard), perhaps even constituting a Tondichtung (tone poem) in miniature, written as a gift for a friend, in an idiom of heightened chromaticism and hemitonic voice-leading moderated by relaxed tempo and dynam...
!["Herbstluft" (Album Leaf) [Philip Daniel; 2019]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-061fb2d39aba128cf722713347e4e309de397c06eab9a2597abeb553033c2a05.png)
28 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
An "album leaf" inspired by the expressionistic artwork of Chance Landesman. The score, reproduced below: If you enjoyed this, please consider becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/philipdaniel or https://www.subscribestar.com...
![Hyperchromatic Fragment (Album Leaf) [Philip Daniel; 2020]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-b285d59552cded0514e4ac17c58354a6a2cd13ab68df9f858afa3cd55875c652.png)
27 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
I. "Es wird das Scepter von Juda ..." 0:00 II. "Er wird sein Füllen ..." 2:37 Second of a pair of sacred vocal works, originally composed in 2016 and revised in 2020. A motet for SATB a capella choir, setting in German the text of Genesis 49...
![Kirchenmusik im melopoetischen Stil: II. "Es wird das Scepter von Juda" [Philip Daniel; 2016, revised 2020]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-893a2316078810261c801a178aebc525cf4fae49900856411a16bbc4838f5b1a.png)
27 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
I. "Jesu dulcis memoria ..." 0:00 II. "Jesu, spes paenitentibus ..." 2:51 III. "Sis, Jesu, nostrum gaudium ..." 5:12 First of a pair of sacred vocal works, originally composed in 2016 and revised in 2020. A setting of verses 1, 3, and 5 of t...
![Kirchenmusik im melopoetischen Stil: I. Jesu, dulcis memoria [Philip Daniel; 2016, revised 2020]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-fff7239819714a738a16136878ea27e7ad726ca730e455d18fb5f60ffac3e738.png)
25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A pensive miniature, for pipe organ, from the "back catalog" of my oeuvre, portending my development as a composer in subsequent years. The full engraved score of this album leaf amounts to a single page, albeit one of considerable complexit...
![Interlude "Omnias Vanitas" [Philip Daniel; 2015]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-a3bcbbe88553f85eba662d85d86246b39a6344f2bfdfbdc880e38a27e3ca9674.png)
25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
First in a series of "chromatic" canons, A two-voice canon by inversion at the fourth (or eleventh) on a chromatic subject that could almost pass for a twelve-tone row. The Lutheran hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" intrudes at 2:27. Though the piece pres...
!["Canone cromatico primo" [Philip Daniel; 2018]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-6e269642f02a474169dcb8ca32d04c61b671021998beed2254e7e6088ee1c0e8.png)
25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
Third in a series of "chromatic" canons for varied instrumentation, here scored for violin and viola duet. Note the presence of what the estimable Bernard S. Greenberg calls "the 'call-response' earmarks of 'canons at the subdominant.'" Belo...
!["Canone cromatico terzo" [Philip Daniel; 2018]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-ff04d20e52a917c020825fc1290e3ee93bca10a0a6463d55f5f3a567e6586888.png)
24 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
The second of my "Bottled Leaves" for Pianoforte, composed in 2016. A quaint piece, perhaps; certainly one preceding my musical maturity, though laying the groundwork for it. The full engraved score, for your perusal: Th...
![Two Bottled Leaves for Pianoforte: II. Passacaille [Philip Daniel; 2016]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-312a42ce4877ac1c0c14ba0cc6c205f5565174dcfc5268fff1123b3ba82f2f61.png)
