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Christ Our Passover (Pascha Nostrum), Anthony Elia
Christ Our Passover (Pascha Nostrum), Anthony Elia
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Work was originally written for the Congregation of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer (Irving, TX) in 2021, but not completed till 2023. Given in honor of Canon Victoria Heard's Distinguished Service and Retirement in Spring 2023. (9 pages). [Based off of texts from 1 Corinthians and Romans].
Scores Of Nature (Volume 2), Anthony Elia
Scores Of Nature (Volume 2), Anthony Elia
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Scores of Nature (Volume 2) is a collection of experimental notation and scores, which are created through serial, unplanned, and partially planned musical sequences overlaid onto natural scenes, spaces, or objects that the composer has taken photographs of in different places. This sequence is of five sets of images, many of them with curvature or lines that can be redesigned within an imaginative or manipulated musical staff with parallel or intersecting lines, clefs, time signatures, and other elements of a traditional score. In some cases the composer has offered a possible interpretation of the experimental score and notation through traditional …
Scores Of Nature (Volume 1), Anthony Elia
Scores Of Nature (Volume 1), Anthony Elia
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1. Bone & Stone Sonata;
2. Jellyfish & Seaweed Suite;
3. Bonfire Bay Sonata;
Three works of experimental music and notation are included in Scores of Nature (Volume 1), which include pieces written on beaches with fishbone and pebbles, a bonfire and bay in Sointula, and a piece recommended for solo 'cello, where the score is an image of a beached jellyfish in a bedding of seaweed, in which the musician needs to react to the image and play what they are imagining from that image. From the description provided in the score text: "In this piece, Jellyfish & …
Sound Chapel, Anthony Elia
Sound Chapel, Anthony Elia
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The idea of "Sound Chapel" liturgies, in the manner of matins or vespers, is that a chapel space is darkened with only the light of a single or several candles available. The organ shall play sustaining notes in various, slow, elongated and sustained ways, at the discretion of the organist. The piece shall create a meditative space with the music being of "piano" (p/pp/ppp) or quieter levels. Various "liturgies" are suggested by the composer below, but may be altered and done ad lib by the performer(s) as the tone or mood of the early morning or early evening "sound chapel" …
Cereal Variations, Anthony Elia
Cereal Variations, Anthony Elia
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The “Cereal Variations” are short works of experimental notation using different types of cereal or other grains (rice, wheat, bran, and “Honey O’s”), in order to expand the notions of the score. Each piece is very short (10 or fewer measures) and written in C—but this should not restrict performers from transposing or trying pieces in other keys. No tempo or instrumentation is given either, so that performers may use whatever instruments they want. It is encouraged that musicians use anything from percussion to strings and even attempt slow versions of multiple voice choruses. Performers may also want to try …
52 Nanotone Symphonies, Anthony Elia
52 Nanotone Symphonies, Anthony Elia
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The 52 Nanotone Symphonies is a work of expanding and contracting nature, which reflects the paradox of size, length, speed, and tone of a work: a symphony is traditionally a massive orchestral work with many interactive parts, while a tone is an elemental form of sound, at the foundational level of music. This work distorts and challenges those categories, allowing for each measure (in 12 + 4 time) to constitute an entire "symphony" of sound in miniature: using a single piano (keyboard or organ) instead of orchestra. Performers are encouraged to play each as slow or fast as they wish. …
Atdheu ("Homeland"), Anthony Elia
Atdheu ("Homeland"), Anthony Elia
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Work written for musical friends Etleva Shemai and Will Kanute. Text written by composer in Albanian.
Straubgetzeichnet: Organ Fantasy, Anthony Elia
Straubgetzeichnet: Organ Fantasy, Anthony Elia
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Organ fantasy written for Christopher Anderson in honor of the publication of his biography of Karl Straube. The title is a portmanteau of the words "Straube" and "Ausgezeichnet" ("excellent") in German, referring to Dr. Anderson's achievement in completing such an extensive work after nearly 15 years of labors.
Voyages D'Hiver ("Winter Travels"), Anthony Elia
Voyages D'Hiver ("Winter Travels"), Anthony Elia
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Between mid-January and late March 2022, these twenty-four preludes for solo piano were written as an exercise to portray the various changes in the seasons and the world, which is constantly in flux. They reflect travels by the composer, as well as reflections on current events and of cultural and arts events hosted at SMU during March ("the Festival of Form"), which provided insight and reconsideration of sound, time, and space. Many of the pieces are studies in contrast, especially the contrast in volume, tonality, and harmony. The preludes are also inspired by and written for the wonderful community of …
Broken Chair Chaconne, Anthony Elia
Broken Chair Chaconne, Anthony Elia
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In March 2022, I was working at my computer when this increasingly rickety chair collapsed beneath me! It was time to get back to responsible eating and get a new chair. But amid the intensive planning and production of The Festival of Form: John Cage and the Infinite Human events, it occurred to me that I could play around with the ideas of music, sound, noise, and silence, and particularly the unconventional experiments of notation and scoring. Shortly after this chair broke, I took a sharpie pen to it and began to notate it like a score, along with some …
ÉTude De Canosa, Anthony Elia
ÉTude De Canosa, Anthony Elia
Bridwell Library Research
Étude written for friend of composer, pianist Raúl Canosa.
Bulkomito Fantasy, Anthony Elia
Bulkomito Fantasy, Anthony Elia
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Work for piano four-hands, or two pianos (two pianists). Written for friends of the composer, Anna Bulkina and Francesco Comito, thus the combined title name: "Bulkomito."
Amen: A Liturgical Prayer Of Thanksgiving For All The Year, Anthony Elia
Amen: A Liturgical Prayer Of Thanksgiving For All The Year, Anthony Elia
Bridwell Library Research
A short choral work for religious congregations or groups for SATB configuration. A piano reduction accompanies for conductors.
Sonata Divina Commedia (Part I: Inferno), Anthony Elia
Sonata Divina Commedia (Part I: Inferno), Anthony Elia
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Part 1 of planned 3-part violin and piano sonata modeled after Dante's "Divina Commedia." Part 1 "Inferno" is a wild modernist adventure for violin and piano, echoing the terrors of inferno. As the piece is incredibly virtuosic, the composer allows for variation, adaptation, and some minor changes if necessary for performers to execute the piece, as faithfully as they can. The work was written in honor of two superb musicians, who by random chance, the composer met or had connections with separately, before realizing the violinist (Mr. Kerr) and the pianist (Mr. Wallace) actually met and went to school together …