Music I wrote

Music I wrote

I have been playing cello intermittently since I was very young. I had never thought I would write music. One day I was listening to a recording of Panis Angelicus, and it occurred to me that one could add some jazzy bass and piano parts to it. The jazzy melody came naturally to me and refused to go away. It lingered in my mind for many days, until I decided to find some notation software and wrote it down. I used Noteworthy at first. I bought Sibelius later, when I started to write more music.

Sibelius files

(3/29/2003 - for some reason I can't get FrontPage to convince tripod that Sibelius files are actually binary files. So I am storing them at angelfire)

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Sibelius File	Others	Comment
Chinese Serenade	MIDI (marimba) PDF	(2002) This was written for my father's 60th birthday. It is partially inspired by Tan Dun's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", played by Yo Yo Ma. It is also partially inspired by Yo Yo Ma's Appalachia Waltz album. I can't get string instruments (2 violins and 1 cello) to sound right in MIDI, so I used marimba instead.
Duel (harpsichord) Duel (guitars)	MIDI PDF	(2002) Initially written as a short piece for two string instruments, this piece sounded very good played by guitars or harpsichord, too.
Indecision	MIDI PDF	What instrument is best for this music? Cello? Guitar? No piano accompaniment? Can't the piece be made longer? Richer? (somehow Sibelius to MIDI conversion skips the second last bar)
I Love Bach	MIDI PDF	Variations on 8 bars of music. I can't believe I made it this long.
Whistles and Claps	MIDI PDF	(2002) Experimental body instrument music :)

Noteworthy Composer files

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Noteworthy file	Others	Comment
Variation on Panis Angelicus	MIDI	(2002) Very first piece I wrote. This adds bass and jazzy piano parts to an existing chorus rendition of Panis Angelicus. The piece is not yet finished.
Beach	MIDI	(2002) This is supposed to be a piano piece about waves on a beach. Not sure I re-created such feeling :) It was meant to played by cello (me) and piano (my wife). But she doesn't like it.
Encounter of the Four Parts	MIDI	(2002) You know the main tune of the Close Encounter of the Third Kind? D-E-C-(low)C-G? Imagine a four part canon for string instruments written based on this tune.