RPM Challenge 2016 - New Tunes

I didn't have as much time to spend on the RMP Challenge this year, but I still managed to make some tunes. I ended up leaning on MIDI to get it done. Some of the tunes are not too bad!

Tags: music, rpm challenge, midi, original

Chanson Chicago

Chanson Chicago picture

Sheet music download (PDF).

Alto recorder solo with midi accompaniment. This tune was composed around and about a visit to Chicago to see family. The sheet music was prepared using EasyABC.


Chanson Chicago

Tags: alto recorder, treble recorder, blockflute, sheet music, accompaniment, original, folk, flauta doce, blockflote, Recorder (Musical Instrument)

Summer Again - Alto Recorder Solo

Summer Again - Alto Recorder Solo picture

Sheet music download (PDF).

Alto recorder solo with midi accompaniment.


Summer Again

Tags: alto recorder, treble recorder, blockflute, sheet music, accompaniment, original, folk, flauta doce, blockflote, waltz

Swan Boat - Alto Recorder Solo

Alto recorder solo. An original tune in a pentatonic scale.


Swan Boat

Tags: alto recorder, treble recorder, blockflute, sheet music, accompaniment, original, folk, flauta doce, blockflote, pentatonic, Recorder (Musical Instrument)

Spotted Pony - Alto Recorder Solo

Spotted Pony - Alto Recorder Solo picture

Sheet music download (PDF).

Spotted Pony Accompaniment (WAV file)

Alto recorder solo with midi accompaniment. The sheet music was prepared using EasyABC. The accompaniment file is also available in the link below.


Spotted Pony (listen)

Tags: music, alto recorder, sheet music, accompaniment

Daisy

Daisy picture

Melody with 1960s style chord changes. Alto recorder solo.

I imagine it should have lyrics, something like this:
Daisy, I would go anywhere
Oh, Daisy, for the love that we share
Oh, Daisy, I'm in love with you,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...


Daisy

Tags: music, alto recorder, recorder, pop

May Waltz

A tune in 3/4 time. Yahama alto recorder solo with midi accompaniment.


May Waltz

Tags: alto recorder, treble recorder, sheet music, original

Callisto Waltz

Callisto Waltz picture

Sheet music download (PDF).

A melody in waltz time. Alto recorder solo with midi accompaniment.


Callisto

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A traditional hymn tune.

Tags: music, recorder, alto recorder

Cosmos - Alto Recorder Solo

Cosmos - Alto Recorder Solo picture

Sheet music download (PDF).

A simple tune in a pentatonic scale with simple accompaniment. Alto recorder solo.


Cosmos

Tags: music, pentatonic, recorder, alto recorder

White Tulip - Alto Recorder

White Tulip - Alto Recorder picture

Tags: music, alto recorder, rpm challenge, recorder

RPM Challenge Achieved

This year's RMP Challenge was a terrific experience! The recordings are a little rough, but I'm really pleased with some of the tunes, and I learned a lot.

These recordings feature alto recorder solos with midi accompaniment.

Tags: music, recorder, rpm challenge

Bonnie Dune - Audio File

Bonnie Dune - Audio File picture

Folk tune, played on a Yamaha YRA-302B Alto Recorder. Below are the lyrics, by the great poet Robert Burns:

The Banks O' Doon

Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon
How ye can bloom so fresh and fair
How can ye chant ye little birds
And I sae weary fu' o' care

Ye'll break my heart ye warbling birds
That wantons thro' the flowering thorn
Ye mind me o' departed joys
Departed never to return

Oft hae I rov'd by bonnie Doon
To see the rose and woodbine twine
And ilka bird sang o' its love
And fondly sae did I o' mine

Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Fu' sweet upon its thorny tree
But my false lover stole my rose
But ah! She left the thorn wi' me

Tags: music, celtic, recorder

Home I Go - Sheet Music

Home I Go - Sheet Music picture

Lyrics:

There is a sorry sun arising above a land that's bare and mean.
That I have lingered is surprising, but home I go, to land that's green.

But home I go, by roads unravelling; but home I go, by mountain crest.
I won't be weary from the travelling, for home I go, where I'll be blessed.

The dream that to this desert drew me, it was a false and foolish waste.
I said farewell to those that knew me, but home I go, to be embraced.

But home I go, from desperation; but home I go, by longing pressed.
My thoughts are on my destination, for home I go, where I'll be blessed.

Written for the RPM Challenge in 2011. I like to think that maybe this could be the song of the Prodigal Son.

Played in 3/4 time, it's also a sweet Celtic-sounding tune.

Tags: music, song, sheet music

A Thousand Little Crowns - Sheet Music

A Thousand Little Crowns - Sheet Music picture

Lyrics:

The rain falls down, making little crowns,and each a jewel rare.
The rain brings down a thousand little crowns no king or queen can wear,
no king or queen can wear,
no king or queen can wear.
The rain brings down a thousand little crowns no king or queen can wear.

And you'd devise clever little lies the while you were untrue.
Oh you'd devise a thousand little lies while she was true to you
while she was true to you
while she was true to you
Oh you'd devise a thousand little lies while she was true to you

The tears fall down, making little crowns, and each a jewel rare.
The tears bring down a thousand little crowns no king or queen can wear,
no king or queen can wear,
no king or queen can wear.
The tears bring down a thousand little crowns no king or queen can wear.

I wrote this piece in 2010 for the RPM Challenge. I think the first verse by itself works well as a kind of nursery rhyme.

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