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"Fuga in Consequenza" for Pipe Organ [Philip Daniel; 2015]

29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

    A fugue composed right at the onset of (or perhaps just prior to) my compositional maturity, in October 2015, containing within it the seeds of my later style as it proceeded to develop over the ensuing years. (Though the term "fuga in consequen...

Photographing Couples

29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments The_Camden

Pictures of two people together offer interesting opportunities and some challenges for photographers. In such pictures, what is often and fundamentally required is that the relationship between the two people is revealed in the photograph. They coul...

Harmonic Timbres, Timbral Harmonies in Anton von Webern's (1883–1945) "Five Pieces" (1909), Opus 5, #4 [PART I]

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...

"Herbstluft" (Album Leaf) [Philip Daniel; 2019]

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...

Kirchenmusik im melopoetischen Stil: II. "Es wird das Scepter von Juda" [Philip Daniel; 2016, revised 2020]

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: I. Jesu, dulcis memoria [Philip Daniel; 2016, revised 2020]

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...

WHAT

26 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments abisai

WHAT - abisai WHAT Was choosen for this illustration practice's title. This is another memory that occurs to me, and I decided to draw. I got not much to say about this one. So, I hope you enjoy it, Cheers! Tools : A4 HVS paper 2B pencil Gel pen Ca...

Interlude "Omnias Vanitas" [Philip Daniel; 2015]

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...

"Canone cromatico primo" [Philip Daniel; 2018]

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...

Sunkissed by fractals | Digital artwork

25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 4 comments thisismylife

Playing around with pictures and fractals Last week I created something using fractals, and I actually liked the idea of using these to practice digital art. I found a picture which I loved and as I have to learn everything still, I was trying out d...