Category Archives: music composition

Prodigious Young Talent

Posted on January 23, 2019 by colonialist

A recent discovery I made last year (about eight years late) that has got me completely enthralled, is of the prodigy Alma Deutscher. Have you come across her? Born 2005, and now a concert pianist and violinist and a composer … Continue reading →

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Anniversary Waltz with Music

Posted on July 26, 2018 by colonialist

The words I posted on the anniversary of when Much Better Half and I met are far better as a tale of romance when accompanied by the music. As I mentioned, that had been lost in the move, and so … Continue reading →

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My Troeteldier Amber met verbeteringe en musiek.

Posted on May 18, 2018 by colonialist

(Sien Mei 11 vir oorspronklike). Ek het ‘n paar verbeteringe gemaak asook om ‘n stuk van my ‘Trio No 2 for Alto Recorder, Piano and Violin’ by te sit. © 18 May Colonialist

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Maybe Late or Early

Posted on January 24, 2017 by colonialist

In May last year I sketched the outline of a melody as a piano piece, and promptly forgot about it.  However something has got me into music mode over the past couple of weeks, starting with rediscovering that wonderful Elgar … Continue reading →

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A Quartet of Trios with Coda

Posted on November 21, 2015 by colonialist

In response to The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge Trio: This trio is banded together, By musical ties you can sever … (Though squeakers they be, Harmoniously, Which is, I suppose, very clever.)   And talking of trios, I wrote … Continue reading →

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Remembrance Day, Delville Wood, and a March.

Posted on November 12, 2015 by colonialist

At the 11th hour of 11th November, 1918, an armistice was signed ending the four years of warfare in World War 1.   Since that time it has been a custom in Commonwealth countries to honour the fallen on that date every … Continue reading →

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A Musical Re-Dusk-covery

Posted on September 6, 2015 by colonialist

Scrabbling through a stash of sheet music in one of our garages, in a box still to be unpacked further, I came across the piano score of ‘Dusk’ by composer Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960).  He was a popular songwriter of … Continue reading →

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