Angel

This week I'm revising my composition Autumnal Dances, commissioned by the Australian guitar quartet Saffire. It's a four-movement piece and I spent a lot of time on the movement Angel today, trying to get the embroidery just right. It's very lyrical, with a bossa nova feel. I'm going to do something a bit radical and have just uploaded the MIDI output from the Sibelius file for this movement. For the uninitiated, this is not a recording of the piece - it's never been played - but simply the output of the notation program I compose in. It will cause your computer to "play" the piece, using the default "guitar" patch on your sound card, which will be quite synthetic, believe me. Despite the lack of human nuance - and the fact that I can't get it to do a rallentando at the end - it represents the melody, harmony, rhythm and contrapuntal texture quite well. To hear it click here at my peril. Comments welcome.