Members' Compositions

[vic-victor]

How come no one has created this topic before? I am sure many of us write our own mandolin music. Why don't we share it?

Here is my five cents.

Victor Speranski - Un Piccolo Concerto - Mandolin.mp3

My apologies for humble playing techinques.

[Jim Garber]

That is a nice piece, Victor. Thanks for posting it. We have quite a few excellent resident composers here who, I am sure, will chime in.

Do you have notation for that piece available?

[Martin Jonas]

Thanks, Victor -- nice tune. For files uploaded to the Cafe, you can also use the MP3 tags for an embedded player. Here is yours:



I'm not a composer, but have greatly enjoyed playing and recording several pieces written by our resident composers whose talents I am in awe of -- here are my attempts at their work:

John Goodin
St Francis and the Birds
St Anthony and the Fishes
Stonehead
Halfway Home (January 22, 2005)

Jim Garber
Tree Of Life

Victor Kioulaphides
Athenian Mandolinata

Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni ("harper" on the Cafe)
Masquerade

Nigel Gatherer
My Beautiful Mandolin Friend

Thanks to all of them for making their compositions so freely available here on the Cafe!

Martin

[Jim Garber]

A few other composers/pieces that Martin has not yet recorded

John Craton - scroll down, there are quite a few pieces for mandolin. prob best to search for that word.

Victor Kioulaphides has a large body of work performed worldwide. You can download some of the pieces here.

[Andy Boden]

Hi Victor

I've recently been writing and arranging music for mandolin (s)

You can hear some of my efforts on my Souncloud page

http://snd.sc/WAK1aB

If there is anything that appeals to you, for which you would like the score, please ask.

Andy

[vic-victor]

Thanks Martin, Jim and Andy. Good to have positive feedback I knew there would be lots of composers in the cafe. Nice pieces, guys. It's great to share music. Otherwise it starting to feel it's all done in vain and no one needs it. I am yet to put the scores together for my piece, but I am working on it. Once ready I'll post it here.

Andy - great stuff. Very well written, thoughtful pieces.

[John Craton]

John Craton - scroll down, there are quite a few pieces for mandolin. prob best to search for that word.


Thanks for posting the link, Jim. Here's a link to a more concise listing of just my works for mandolin, several of which are available as free PDF downloads:

www.craton.net/music/mandolin/mandolinworks.htm

[vic-victor]

I hope you guys don't mind me posting a couple of my guitar pieces here

[Janos]

Nice thread! Here's one of my mandolin tunes: Swing!

Cheers, Janos

[vic-victor]

The score of 'Un Piccolo Concerto'

[Marcus Horatius]

Not an original composition -- but attached is my little arrangement of the classic 18th-century song "Tom Bowling" (the tune is one of those heard in the "Sea Shanties" medley at the Last Night of the Proms). I originally arranged it in G, but then realised I couldn't sing it so moved it up to A -- it seems to work there just fine, and the now the arrangement has some nice moves up and down the neck a bit (I've tried to indicate fingering in the score).

Check out the lyrics and the original melody -- it is a beautiful tune in its own right.

[Alex Timmerman]

Hi all,

Well, if it's not only about music for and with mandolin here at this topic, then I might add this really beautiful piece for guitar composed by ´our own´ Victor Kioulaphides.

Enjoy!

[Jim Garber]

That is a beautiful piece, Alex, and wonderful sensitive playing on your part. Kudos to you and to Victor.

[vkioulaphides]

An absolutely wonderful performance, indeed! Mimose was part of my conscious/subconscious return to the guitar, the first instrument I studied as a child; more, more recent works ensued— more on that, anon. I am currently reviewing/revising some of my earliest works for the guitar, for completeness' sake.

Several mandolin works are also slated to be released soon, such as my Carillon Variations, written for Gertrud Weyhofen about a year ago; premiere rights expire soon. Also Perípatos, a work for plucked ensemble, written for Athens' finest, ATTIKA, is due for release before long. On a smaller scale, Campanelle, a vignette for mandolin quartet, will be circulated as soon as the Japanese label issuing its recording gets the product to the market.

Putting mandolin and guitar together, my Desires are already memories, written for Mauro Squillante for inclusion in a CD on the occasion of 90 years since the birth of Italy's literary giant Italo Calvino, will also be released, as soon as said CD is in circulation.

In short... stay tuned.

Cheers,

Victor

[Simen Kjaersdalen]

Here is one of my pieces, "Maria in tears", composed in 2007. I usually start my church concerts with this one. Here is a simple recording from Korskirken ("The Curch of the cross") in Bergen, March 9.-2009.

https://www.box.com/shared/uotjs8rfye

[Steven C. Antonelli]

So happy to find a thread for this purpose.

Here is a piece I composed in 1988, originally as a guitar duet, titled "Apples and Oranges"
This quartet arrangement is performed at a concert by the New York Mandolin Ensemble on January 13, 2013 in New York City.
Brad Maestas on mandolin
Wayne Fugate on mandola
Rich Robinson and myself on guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csjL...=results_video

Steven Antonelli

[billkilpatrick]

here's one i did a few years ago ... and point out there's a social club for member's compositions:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/group.php?groupid=106

[Alex Timmerman]

Very much so. And Bill you are 'one of a kind' . Very enjoyable!

Best, Alex.

[Alex Timmerman]

Hi all,

To 'up-date' this interesting thread I like to announce that my guitar class is preparing the 'Toccata' by Victor Kioulaphides. It was originally composed as a work for solo guitar and somewhat later set by the composer himself for one solo guitarist accompanied by four tutti guitarists. A truly challenging not so easy to play composition that we hope to perform in the near future with two solo guitarists and a tutti guitar ensemble.


Best regards,

Alex.


Here is a photo of the ensemble:

[vkioulaphides]

How very exciting! I look forward to hearing how this project develops.

Indeed, this piece originated as the third movement of Mimose (whose second movement Alex plays so beautifully, above).

The ensemble version was written at the request of Terry Champlin, Director of the Guitar Ensemble at Mannes College, where I was working at that time.

What fun!

Cheers,

Victor