You will find my tastes in music similar to my other tastes - not universal but eclectic. My favorite styles are classical, jazz, and new age. My original MIDI compositions located here follow the same mold - a little of everything. They range from MIDI transcriptions of concert band pieces composed while in college to recent works done completely in MIDI. One piece, originally composed for my sister's accordion and later transposed for concert band, even harks back to high school days. You are welcome to download and listen to my efforts, and I would appreciate any comments you may have via E-Mail. To hear these GM/GS MIDI files the way I intended them, you will need at least an AWE-32 Wave Synthesis card with your multi-media control panel settings set to MIDI Mapper with 16 channels of MIDI synthesis.
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DLB-001.ZIP DLB-001.MID |
Fuego Espagnole - originally composed as a light classical accordion solo for my sister while I was in high school. I orchestrated it for concert band a few years later while attending college, and I recently transcribed it to GM MIDI while making a few slight changes. |
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DLB-002.ZIP Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 |
Angkor Suite - a four part classical suite intended to evoke the great jungle city of Angkor Thom and its temple, Angkor Wat, in Cambodia. I had always been fascinated by the discovery of this lost city with its fabulous scupltured facades, which had been totally engulfed by the jungle vegetation and forgotten, along with the Khmer civilization which had constructed it.
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DLB-003.ZIP DLB-003.MID |
HMB March - Composed while I attended college, this march honors the Hagerstown Municipal Band, which played in the city park every summer Sunday after only two short rehearsals of each new program. I was a bit of a prodigy as a clarinet player, being invited to play with the best high school band students in a tri-State Band at Martinsburg, West Virginia, while still in elementary school. By the time I had reached seventh grade, I was able to join the professional Municipal Band of Hagerstown, Maryland. I believe I was the youngest member of the Musician's Union in town. The conductor of the band at that time, Dr. Peter Buys, had played in the Sousa band under John Philip Sousa himself. I felt extremely proud to be linked, even tenuously, to that glorious legacy of American band music. |
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DLB-004.ZIP DLB-004.MID |
Chorale 1 - This is a short chorale for organ with four voices but no words. |
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DLB-005.ZIP DLB-005.MID |
McDonogh March - My high school was McDonogh School in McDonogh, Maryland, near Baltimore. At the time I attended, it was an all-male semi-military academy with daily schedules controlled by bugle calls. The cadet corps included a cavalry troop with about 60 horses and a marching band. The school Alma Mater used the music from Finlandia, by Sibelius, and you will hear it quoted here with trotting sounds in the background. I also quoted a few snippets of High School Cadets by Sousa and a Prussian March, Old Comrades. The drum solo was an actual riff used by our band when marching to meals. The bugle call is, I believe, original, but evokes the buglers who controlled our lives. |
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DLB-006.ZIP Movement 1 Movement 2 Movement 3 Movement 4 |
Eulogy for the Age of Reason - A Sinfonia in 4 Movements - Funereal music with a new-age flavor. This is my first attempt at writing for a symphonic string orchestra.
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DLB-007.ZIP DLB-007.MID |
Reflections - quiet and reflective duet for guitar and recorder. If you can hear background music with your browser and computer, this is the selection you are hearing. |
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DLB-008.ZIP DLB-008.MID |
dboogie - Piano Boogie-Woogie just for fun |
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DLB-009.ZIP DLB-009.MID |
Variations on an Original Theme - Theme and variations for piano |
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DLB-010.ZIP Movement 1 Movement 2 Movement 3 Movement 4 |
Celtic Serenade - My favorite, so far - A four part serenade for Symphony Orchestra with a Celtic Flavor.
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DLB-011.ZIP DLB-011.MID |
Sonatina in F Major - A short piano solo |
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DLB-012.ZIP DLB-012.MID |
March - Star of the East - A short march for concert band that reminds me of the circus parades in the big tent with oriental themes |
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DLB-013.ZIP DLB-013.MID |
Song of the Sullivans - A ballad scored for symphony and synthesizers that pays homage to the Irish portion of my family tree |
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DLB-014.ZIP DLB-014.MID |
Oktoberfest March - A march with a Bavarian flavor for the German branch of my family tree |
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DLB-015.ZIP DLB-015.MID |
Lee's Song - A melancholy ballad for cello and piano written after the death of my friend Lee, who was best man at my wedding |
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DLB-016.ZIP DLB-016.MID |
Beach Bunnies - A short piece with a calypso flavor written in 7/8 time |
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DLB-017.ZIP DLB-017.MID |
Invention 1 - A short piano piece in 3/8 time, written around 1962 as an exercise for a college course, a two part invention ala Bach |
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DLB-018.ZIP DLB-018.MID |
Folk Dance - A short piece written around 1962 as an exercise for a college course, a Folk Dance for dulcimer, brass, and strings |
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DLB-019.ZIP DLB-019.MID |
Woodwind Quartet - A short piece written around 1962 as an exercise for a college course, a quartet for clarinet, oboe, flute, and bassoon |
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DLB-020.ZIP DLB-020.MID |
The Y Files - A short piece written around 1962 as an exercise for a college course, a string piece that sounds like background music for something like the X Files, only weirder |
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DLB-021.ZIP DLB-021.MID |
Chorale 2 - A short organ chorale written for a college composition class circa 1962. |
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DLB-022.ZIP DLB-022.MID |
Prelude and Allegro - A short piece for Concert Band written for a college composition class circa 1962, more to please my professor than me. It is filled with short chromatic intervals. |
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DLB-023.ZIP DLB-023.MID |
Invention 2 - A two part invention for oboe and bass clarinet, started for a college composition class circa 1962 and finished in December of 1997. |
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DLB-024.ZIP DLB-024.MID |
Invention 3 - A two part invention for piano, started for a college composition class circa 1962 and finished in December of 1997. |
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DLB-025.ZIP DLB-025.MID |
Invention 4 - Another two part invention for piano, started for a college composition class circa 1962 and finished in December of 1997. |
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DLB-026.ZIP DLB-026.MID |
Etude for Strings - A short piece for pizzicato and bowed strings, started for a college composition class circa 1962 and finished in December of 1997. |
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DLB-027.ZIP DLB-027.MID |
Cakewalk - A short piece for piano, started for a college composition class circa 1962 and finished in December of 1997. |
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DLB-028.ZIP Movement 1 Movement 2 Movement 3 |
Intersections - A short piece in three movements in which the modern intersects with the medieval, marches through romanticism, and returns to the modern with a spaced-out waltz - finished in January of 1998. |
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DLB-029.ZIP DLB-029.MID |
Andante - A short piece for strings and oboe started for a college composition class circa 1962 and finished in January of 1998. |
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DLB-030.ZIP DLB-030.MID |
Little Spanish Waltz - A short piece using the GS bank-switdhing capability in the newest version of QuickScore to get the castanet sound - will sound strange on GM card or FM synthesis. Completed July 1998. |
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DLB-031.ZIP DLB-031.MID |
Ballad of the White Rose - An attempt at a more popular, less classical style, ballad. Completed July 1998. |
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DLB-032.ZIP DLB-032.MID |
Elegy and Dance - A medieval style slow movement preceding a lively dance - uses mandolins, oboes, and cellos with toms. Completed July 1998. |
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DLB-033.ZIP DLB-033.MID |
An American Fantasy - An Ivesian musical fantasy with snippets of many patriotic American and British tunes merged and metamorphosed. Completed July 1998. |
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