Symphony No. 2

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1st Movement: "In the Womb"

Note: THIS MOVEMENT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!!! IE, NOT DONE YET!
This movement attempts to explore the four pre-natal stages of Stanislav Grof ( see http://www.holotropic.com/about.shtml ) as I understand a friend's description of them. They are: 1) the oceanic experience 2) pressure mounts but the cervix is not dilated and there is "no exit" 3) birth - messy, bloody, noisy, frightening 4) release or freedom.


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2nd Movement: "In the Garden of Innocence"


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Sacred Music of KE Peace

Hodie, Christus Natus Est
anthem for chorus and small orchestra
copyright 2006 KE Peace

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Text:
Hodie, Christus natus est! Oh magnum mysterium! Salvator apparuit! Gloria in excelsis Deo!
(Christ is born! Oh, great mystery! The Savior has appeared! Glory to God in the highest!)

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Psalm 139
anthem for chorus and small orchestra
copyright 2006 KE Peace
For SATB choir, piano, flute, string quartet and glockenspiel.
The string solos represent the SATB parts.


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Lord, you have searched me
Lord, you have known me
You are inside me
And all around me
You discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path
You watch as I lie down
You know all my ways,
know all my ways.

Lord, you have searched me
Lord, you have known me
You are inside me
And all around me
Your hand rests upon my head.

You walk before me,
You walk behind
You watch from above,
lift from below.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

Where can I go where You are not?
Where can my eyes turn,
In what direction?
North, south, here, there,
East, west, near, far,
Length, breadth, depth, height,
That's where You are:

If I ascend to heaven You are there,
there at my side.
If I suffer pain and sorrow
You are by my side.
And if I ride the wings of morning,
You are there.

Alleluia, Alleluia!
Alleluia, Alleluia!

(north south, east, west,
up down all around,
that's where You are,
that's where You are!)

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Raise the Palm Leaves High

A Palm Sunday Anthem for SATB Choir, organ,
with optional handbells and congregation participation.

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Raise the palm leaves high O people of Jerusalem
Raise the cry of your long-awited hope!
On a donkey's back rides the Prince of Love, the Prince of Peace,
Praise His name, sing Alleluia!

Let your joyfyl singing welcome God in human form,
Long-awaited, hope re-kindled, life renewed,
One of us He comes, Man-in-God and God-in-Man
Praise His name, sing Alleluia!

Palms! Palms! We come to You with Palms!
Praise You with instruments and psalms.
Bells ring! New wine flows!
Stones sing, and we'll follow where you go:
Though your path be hard we'll stand by you
Our King and Savior, all You do
is for the cause of righteousness,
renew our land! the people bless
with prosperity and happiness!

(ding dong, ding dong,
Alleluia, alleluia,
Sing Hosanna!)

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Out of His Mouth (Shall Flow the Living Water)
Aria for Soprano and Organ
copyright 2006 KE Peace

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Lo, out of His Mouth
Shall flow the Living Water.
Alleluia!

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A Christmas Medley for String Quartet
copyright 2006 KE Peace

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In the Lion's Mouth
organ, copyright 2006 KE Peace
Dedicated to Edmund Ladouceur, Principal Organist of the First United Methodist Church of Colorado Springs with gratitude for his encouragement and kindness

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Psalm 62
Aria for soprano, flute, and string quartet
copyright 2006 KE Peace
words adapted from Psalm 62

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For God alone my soul waits in silence
He is my Rock; I'll not be moved!
He is my fortress and my salvation.
My Rock, my Hope, my God, my Fortress
And my salvation!

How long will you set upon a man -
To shatter him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, a broken fence?

God has spoken, and I have heard His voice:
Power belongs to Me
Who am endless and timeless,
The Alpha and Omega,
Who am that am.

Oh, beloved ones,
Trust in Him always.
Pour out your heart to Him
As to a tender mother
And in His mighty arms
He will embrace you,
Hide you in his cloak.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Ken's Orchestration

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Ceremonial Music

Royal March
brass sextet and timpani
copyright KE Peace 2007


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Mountaintop Fanfare

Dedicated to Ken and Judy Folsom with deep gratitude
for sharing their musicality and friendship
for orchestra
copyright 2007 KE Peace




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Art Songs

Ice Mountain

Evokes the crystalline wonder of a snow-clad mountain peak. I picture the vista from the top of a 14-er, the unsullied brightness of snow, breathe the thin pure air, and the state of mind all this creates: above all the mundane annoyances of the world below, forgetting even myself in this immensity and grandeur...


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The Lovely Fading Rose

dedicated to Richard Sassoon
who is so very many things to me

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Drifting petals
of the lovely fading rose
float quietly down,
a fragrant whisper drenched in rain.
Adieu, my heart, adieu.

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Laughing
dedicated to Emily Miller
friend, confidant, and fellow composer


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Music for the Christmas Season

A Christmas Medley for String Quartet
copyright 2006 KE Peace


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Hodie, Christus Natus Est
anthem for chorus and small orchestra
copyright 2006 KE Peace

WORK IN PROGRESS

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Text:
Hodie, Christus natus est! Oh magnum mysterium! Salvator apparuit! Gloria in excelsis Deo!
(Christ is born! Oh, great mystery! The Savior has appeared! Glory to God in the highest!)

Music for the Easter Season

Raise the Palm Leaves High

A Palm Sunday Anthem for SATB Choir, organ,
with optional handbells and congregation participation.

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Raise the palm leaves high O people of Jerusalem
Raise the cry of your long-awited hope!
On a donkey's back rides the Prince of Love, the Prince of Peace,
Praise His name, sing Alleluia!

Let your joyfyl singing welcome God in human form,
Long-awaited, hope re-kindled, life renewed,
One of us He comes, Man-in-God and God-in-Man
Praise His name, sing Alleluia!

Palms! Palms! We come to You with Palms!
Praise You with instruments and psalms.
Bells ring! New wine flows!
Stones sing, and we'll follow where you go:
Though your path be hard we'll stand by you
Our King and Savior, all You do
is for the cause of righteousness,
renew our land! the people bless
with prosperity and happiness!

(ding dong, ding dong,
Alleluia, alleluia,
Sing Hosanna!)

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The Last Supper (Work in Progress)
SATB chorus and organ
copyright 2006 KE Peace

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Take this bread, eat this bread;
This is my body, my body
Broken, broken for you.

Take this wine, drink this wine…

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Gethsemane
SATB choir and organ

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"Father if it be Thy will,
Let this cup pass from my lips.
Yet not my will, but Thy will be done"

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Let not your hearts be troubled... (WORK IN PROGRESS)
short piece for
SATB choir and piano with optional cello solo

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Let not your hearts be troubled,
Ye believe in God; belive also in Me.
In my Father's house are many mansions -
If it were not so I would have told it to you.
I go to prepare a place for you and I will come again.
I will come again and receive you to Myself
that where I am you may be also.
And whither I go, ye know, and the way ye know.

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I am the Light
young treble choir and strings

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I am the light, light of the world.
Be still, listen to Me.
I am the light, light of the world.
I am the light of the world.

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Out of His Mouth (Shall Flow the Living Water)
Aria for Soprano and Organ
copyright 2006 KE Peace

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Lo, out of His Mouth
Shall flow the Living Water.
Alleluia!

Ken's Composition Assignments

Assignment ? - write an overture.

I looked up overture in Wikipedia, and got the history of it, and it seems it sort of turned into "symphonic poem" in modern day usage.. so I'm a little confused, yet intrigued by the idea of a symphonic poem (since I write poetry also). This is just a snippet, the beginning of an idea.....


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Assignment 4 - write a waltz using some quartal harmony, with variations.


Notes: theme with retrograde and inversion variations. This is not good music, but I am taking the approach of just letting myself "play" with sounds without worrying about making a finished product yet. However, I did use some of the quartal and other more unusual (modern) harmonies in Raise the Palm Leaves High - in a separate post.

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Assignment 2 - take a well known melody, harmonize, then create variations on it.


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Notes:
Variations on Dona Nobis Pacem by W.A. Mozart

Assignment 1 - Composition assignment: create and melody for a poem or bible verse and harmonize it.


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Notes:
The melody is played, then the first and second parts, then the 1st-3rd parts, and finally all four.

Poem:
I have a letter hidden in my heart -
Set down upon a sheet of whitest silk,
Laid down in script of a still whiter milk -
Of a love from all the others set apart

It nests alone, rolled up for none to see,
and tied with ribbon
tight as lock and chain,
It now chains me.

- poem by KE Peace circa 1979

Psalm 139

This is actually based on Psalm 139; some of the words are altered and some added by me.
For SATB choir, piano, flute, string quartet and glockenspiel.
The string solos represent the SATB parts.


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Lord, you have searched me
Lord, you have known me
You are inside me
And all around me
You discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path
You watch as I lie down
You know all my ways,
know all my ways.

Lord, you have searched me
Lord, you have known me
You are inside me
And all around me
Your hand rests upon my head.

You walk before me,
You walk behind
You watch from above,
lift from below.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

Where can I go where You are not?
Where can my eyes turn,
In what direction?
North, south, here, there,
East, west, near, far,
Length, breadth, depth, height,
That's where You are:

If I ascend to heaven You are there,
there at my side.
If I suffer pain and sorrow
You are by my side.
And if I ride the wings of morning,
You are there.

Alleluia, Alleluia!
Alleluia, Alleluia!

(north south, east, west,
up down all around,
that's where You are,
that's where You are!)

Symphony No. 1 "Richard's Symphony"

dedicated to:
Richard Sassoon
who is the symphony of my life





The Complete Symphony No. 1 Podcast:

Note: the movements [in the podcast] are in reverse order. I cannot figure out yet how to fix this, try as I might.

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Movement 1 "The Leela of Conjunctio"

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Movement 2 "Pure Land"

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Movement 3 "Nigredo"

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Movement 4 "Beloved"

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Movement 5 "Union"

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A Courtly Air

In college, I was in a wonderful Renaissance group called Consortium Artis Musicae (aka "CAM") directed by Dr. Robert White, much beloved by his students. Many years later "Lady Catherine" (at left), aka "Lady (high) C" was born. So here is a little taste of that era...

A Courtly Air
copyright 2006 KE Peace


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Music For a Wedding

Well, I almost humorously called these "Music for a highly improbable and possibly catastrophic event", with regards to me at any rate, but the truth is, I love the pageantry and symbolism of weddings.

There is also a spiritual symbolism to it -- the idea of soul's marriage to the Divine occurs in several traditions: the "Bride of Christ" in the Catholic tradition, Ramakrishna's "handmaiden of the Divine Mother", Mirabai's chaste wifely devotion to her Krishna, the Tibetan tantric union of the absolute quiescent feminine with the active masculine, and the Hindu tantric union of Shiva and Shakti are a few that come to mind.

Music for a Wedding: Bridal Procession
copyright 2006 KE Peace


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Music for a Wedding: Postlude
copyright 2006 KE Peace



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Psalm 62

Aria for soprano, flute, and string quartet
copyright 2006 KE Peace
words adapted from Psalm 62

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For God alone my soul waits in silence
He is my Rock; I'll not be moved!
He is my fortress and my salvation.
My Rock, my Hope, my God, my Fortress
And my salvation!

How long will you set upon a man -
To shatter him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, a broken fence?

God has spoken, and I have heard His voice:
Power belongs to Me
Who am endless and timeless,
The Alpha and Omega,
Who am that am.

Oh, beloved ones,
Trust in Him always.
Pour out your heart to Him
As to a tender mother
And in His mighty arms
He will embrace you,
Hide you in his cloak.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

In the Lion's Mouth

Thinking of the early Christians who were thrown to the lions... I imagine their wrists in ropes as they are marched by Centurions in armor of leather and metal, poker-faced, unmoved. Pulled, pushed - dragged, perhaps- to the coliseum. And there they are, with lions who have been starved just for the occasion. Spectators laugh and cheer: this was, of course, high sport. Something strange happens in the mind and heart when you look death in the face and see his eyes settle... here, on you. I know because I have stood at the precipice. What happens when one jumps, falls, or is pushed over that inscrutable brink?

Dedicated to Edmund Ladouceur, Principal Organist of the First United Methodist Church of Colorado Springs with gratitude for his encouragement and kindness

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In The Lion's Mouth: music for organ copyright 2006 KE Peace

Reverie

Woodwind Quartet copyright 2006 KE Peace

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