these are tracks from a tape i made during my first year of studying music in college, to send friends a sample of what i was doing. it was made with my trusty general electric boombox, and features the sound of its motor running.
this was so early in my studies, and a little embarrassing; please be gentle. the duets are somewhat better than the solos.
all the files are available in one place here.
| composer | title | length size |
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| fernando sor | minuet | 02:04 2mb |
this is one from a collection of thirty minuets by fernando sor which my teacher gave me so i’d have some easy sor that wasn’t as overplayed as the studies. nice harmonics. 🙂 i hope i became less violent with the fortes as time went on. |
| fernando sor | minuet | 01:54 2mb |
another from the thirty minuets. i see in my copy of the score that my teacher was trying to get me to play with rubato; i hope you don’t get seasick. |
| luis milan | pavane 2 | 02:50 3mb |
one of milan’s haunting little pavanes. |
| hector villoud | huaino | 01:41 2mb |
this is from a collection of argentinian music arranged by tomas pomilio. pardon the flubs. |
| pascual quaratino | milonga | 02:01 2mb |
another from the argentinian collection. yikes, this was a little beyond me at the time. i wish i’d had it under my fingers well enough that the rhythm wasn’t so stilted. |
| johann anton logy | partita in a minor, 1. aria | 02:00 2mb |
this was a great time-filler for gigs. playing background music at a party, you’d be amazed how many repeats you could get away with, with just bits of first-year student ornamentation. boy, the flubs and memory mistakes; i must have learned this the week before. |
| johann anton logy | partita in a minor, 2. capriccio | 01:58 2mb |
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| johann anton logy | partita in a minor, 3. sarabande | 02:51 3mb |
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| johann anton logy | partita in a minor, 4. gavotte | 01:39 2mb |
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| johann anton logy | partita in a minor, 5. gigue | 02:05 2mb |
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| erik satie | gymnopedie 1 | 04:10 4mb |
another gig favorite. |
| johann sebastian bach | minuet | 02:17 2mb |
wow, i actually learned enough in the piano proficiency class to struggle through this! |
| john dowland | come again | 02:46 3mb |
now a more fun part; friends! here’s geoff parrish belting out some dowland while i make like a lute.
geoff gets a little shatnerish at the end. just how hot was it? |
| franz schubert | der wanderer | 04:48 4mb |
this may be the best thing i did this year. obscenely great music, and we nailed it as best we could at the time. geoff goes appropriately germanic and borderline psycho, and i actually hit the passages in thirds around 3:00. woohoo! |
| anonymous | drewrie’s accordes | 02:42 2mb |
the rest of these are guitar duets with david ricketts. this is one of the renaissance staples of our bookstore-playing days. my trill’s bigger than your trill. |
| anonymous | la rossignol | 01:42 2mb |
tweet! |
| ferdinando carulli | duet in g | 02:20 2mb |
a nice little tune for your book browsing pleasure. the score’s here. |
| ferdinando carulli | fughetta | 02:14 2mb |
such a cute little fugue, you just want to pinch its cheeks. the score’s here. |
| mauro giuliani | polonaise concertante op. 137, no. 2 | 06:43 6mb |
this was such a nice surprise for me; i’d forgotten all about this fun piece. i didn’t think we were doing anything this good this early. i wish we’d made a second take and gotten the flubs out. |
