Lyric Pieces
Composed during the winter and spring of 2008-2009, these pieces have several inspirations: Max Bruch, Edvard Grieg, Peter Schickele, Rock Music, "New Age" music,
Folk music - particularly British/Celtic, and many others. They are meant to stand alone or as a group, and to be beautiful or cool, but not weighty or "deep."
Please feel free to download the score, parts, and recordings. Please also enjoy the video links, and if you perform any of them, please contact me so you can send me a program.
Thank you.
Sean
Lyric Piece No. 1 - Freely, slowly. - Shorter and contemplative, when performed should always be first in the set - 3:00
Score PDF (all read from score)
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 2 - "Chant." - Gregorian Chant updated, with bells. 'Cello feature - 5:30
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 3 - Bouncy. - Jazz-adjacent. Reminiscent of Philip Aaberg and other NA/Jazz pianists - 5:00
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 4 - Jig. - Starts in Ireland, ends in Turkey. Violin feature - 7:00
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 5 - Freely, with moderately slow motion - Moderately slow. - Beautiful chords open and close, with beautiful counterpoint in the middle - 5:45
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 6 - Moderately slow, flexible. - A plain but beautiful melody, with brooding and building in the middle - 4:00
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 7 - Andante. - Long lines over a babbling brook - 5:30
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 8 - Fast. - Rhythmic ostinato with free melody over top. Clarinet feature - 5:30
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video
Lyric Piece No. 9 - Variation on a theme of Diabelli. - Quiet, lyric, beautiful - 2:45
Score PDF
Clarinet PDF
Violin PDF
'Cello PDF
Recording
Video