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A terror story

1 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments MariaOspinaGar1

When I was little, it was normal that we changed houses constantly, many were old, others I did not know, but all were forgettable, all except one. I was nine when my father took us to live in a big house, located in the middle of nowhereIn that hous...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in E Mixolydian ♭6 [Philip Daniel; 2017]

1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

    A four-voice fughetta in the E Mixolydian ♭6 mode. This mode is also known as the Mixolydian ♭13 mode or Aeolian Major mode, and consists of the following intervals in its ascending form: tone, tone, semitone, tone, semitone, tone, tone. A somew...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in G "Genus Chromaticum" [Philip Daniel; 2017]

31 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

    A four-voice fughetta in the G "Genus Chromaticum" mode. This mode, the third mode of Messiaen's 3ʳᵈ Mode of Limited Transposition, is also known as the Messiaen 3ʳᵈ Mode Inverse or the Tcherepnin Scale, and consists of the following intervals i...

dCity: A First Taste of Culture

31 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments CryptozNewb

  It's been two months since I last posted about the goings on in the small town I run in dcity.io I've been sticking with my free-to-play strategy, letting my town's popularity attract Immigrants and Homeless while I run Weed Dispensaries to keep e...

This Blog, This Journey

31 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments J.ArthurBoyd

I consider myself a creative person... yet I often find myself completely unable to be creative. This is the existential problem with the human mind - it's so full of contradictions that it's sometimes hard to even make sense of ourselves. But then a...

Cave

30 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments MariaOspinaGar1

The drops that could be heard in the distance were the second hand that reminded me that my time was running out, I felt my heart beat fast while my eyes continued to see that dark cave, I could not believe that I was about to leave, I did not know h...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in F♯ Ionian [Philip Daniel; 2017]

30 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

    A four-voice fughetta in the F♯ Ionian Augmented ♯2 mode for an atypical chamber ensemble (string trio [violin, viola, violoncello] plus bass guitar). This mode, the sixth mode of the Double Harmonic Major scale, consists of the following interv...

Chorale Harmonization on "Es glänzet der Christen inwendiges Leben" [Philip Daniel; 2019]

30 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

    A setting of the sacred song "Es glänzet der Christen inwendiges Leben" from "Schemelli's Gesang-Buch", for SATB choir with clarinet and pipe organ instrumenti obbligati.     You may find the original hymn melody used in my own setting within th...

Shades

30 Oct 2020 10 minute read 2 comments MariaOspinaGar1

It was the thirties, the great depression had invaded Europe and the hunt for Jews had begun in Germany, when that shadow came to town, many said he was a man, others called him satan, but the only truth was that he would unleash a real hell in that...

"Das melodische Rezitativ" (Intro Music for #JustinMurphy's podcast #TheOtherLife) [Philip Daniel; 2020]

29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

      The philosopher/political scientist/author/blogger/podcaster Justin Murphy commissioned me to compose intro music for his podcast "The Other Life". Within a short period, I composed a sweet tune that nonetheless possesses a certain roiling chr...