Robert Steadman - Composer: 2012

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Some of my favourite photos...

http://pimpmycadence.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/some-of-my-favourite-photos.html

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Friday, 6 July 2012

Bolt - a fanfare for orchestra

A fanfare for orchestra inspired by the celebrations of the Oympics and, more specifically, the sprinter Usain Bolt!

If you're interested in performing the piece, the score and parts can be downloaded from: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/126303.html

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Square Dance (for solo marimba)

A new piece for solo marimba

The score can be downloaded from here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127752.html

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3 recent videos

Chasing Leaves One Morning in Fall, Central Park, New York

The score can be purchased here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127951.html

Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation

Score and parts are available from: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127853.html

Père Lachaise. Rain

The score can be downloaded from here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127231.html

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Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation

"Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation" was how Buzz Aldrin described the landscape of the moon.

This new work by Robert Steadman, for soprano saxophone and string orchestra, tries to put that quote into musical form.

Score and parts are available from: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127853.html

The piece exists in a number of other versions each with piano accompaniment:

Soprano sax & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127485.html
Bassoon & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127486.html
'Cello & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127487.html
Euphonium & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127488.html
Horn in F & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127489.html
Oboe & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127490.html
Piccolo & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127491.html
Violin & piano: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127492.html

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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Père Lachaise. Rain - solo piano

An atmospheric new piece for solo piano

The score can be downloaded from here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127231.html

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Monday, 2 July 2012

Percussion composition wins award

My composition Talány, for percussion duet, has been awarded 3rd prize in the 2012 Ironworks Percussion Duo Composition competition!

It's an exciting, and highly rhythmic 10-minute duet for multi-percussion.

Each player has their own pair of bongos, a snare drum and a glockenspiel.

The 2 performers face each other and must be in reach of each other so that, at times, they can hit each other's sticks!

All the rhythms in the piece derive from the Morse code of the 2 performers for whom it was written - Rachel and Katy These rhythms are then taken through various transformations - moving their position in the bar, retrograde, etc.

The score can be downloaded by clicking here.

As part of the prize, the piece will performed by Ironworks in a concert in California in Spring 2013.

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Monday, 25 June 2012

Chasing Leaves One Morning in Fall, Central Park, New York

A new composition for piano.

The score can be purchased here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127951.html

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Thursday, 21 June 2012

Has anyone ever told you that you look like Melanie Lynskey?

Has anyone ever told you that you look like Melanie Lynskey? is a short piece for wind quintet written in 2007.

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Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation

As Buzz Aldrin stepped down onto the surface of the moon, the second person ever to do so, he described what he saw: "Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation".

This new instrumental piece is available in a number of different versions, each with piano accompaniment:

Soprano Saxophone

Bassoon

'Cello

Euphonium

Horn

Oboe

Piccolo

Violin

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New Christmas Carols for SAB choir

Here are 5 brand new carols for SAB choir:

In the Bleak Midwinter

Last Night I saw a Single Star

Love Came Down at Christmas

Lull, Lulla, Lullaby

What Sweeter Music

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Tuesday, 12 June 2012

A new piano sonata

Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises is a brand new piano sonata.

The title is a quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will be inscribed on the bell that will be seen at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.

The sheet music can be downloaded, via digital download, from here: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/126960.html

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Sunday, 10 June 2012

Bolt - a 4-minute fanfare for orchestra

Bolt - for orchestra
Available now via digital download:
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/126303.html

A celebratory 4-minute fanfare for orchestra inspired by the pomp and ceremony of the Olympics and, more specifically, the sprinter Usain Bolt!

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Love Came Down at Christmas

A new setting of Christina Rossetti's popular Christmas poem - available for immediate digital download.

Audiences will love this!

Versions for female choir, male voice choir and solo voice and piano.

Love Came Down at Christmas - for SA choir and piano
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127300.html

Love Came Down at Christmas - for TTBB choir and piano
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127306.html

Love Came Down at Christmas - for solo voice and piano
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127359.html

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3 New Piano PIeces

Here's 3 new piano compositions that are now available for digital download through Score Exchange:

Hoe Down
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/126793.html
A fun take on traditional Hoe Down music for solo piano.

On Your Marks...
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127357.html
Fast and flashy. A great encore item.

Tarantella
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/127214.html
A fiery tarantella for solo piano.

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