Original Compositions Compilation

A.M.D.G. Written and composed in 2012. Transcribed 2022. Live audio recorded on September 18, 2022. I remember the time when I was very young, I would miss my mother very much when she left home every weekday for work in the morning. Eventually, times changed and she stayed home educating and homeschooling me as well as my other siblings. I wrote and dedicated this piece, as well as the rather short and child-like melody to her to remind me of how she always cared for me and my family. I don't have the full original lyrics, neither an early recording of the melody; but I still remember the first 2 sentences and the melody which goes along with it. Hopefully someday, I will find the full original lyrics... Note: "Nanay" from Tagalog translates to "mother" in English.

AMDG Imagine a dark warm glow surrounding deep inside the dimly lit redwood and conifer forest, where slowly, then suddenly, the glow is struck by the morning rays of the rising sun, and the entire forest shines warm and bright in the morning light. MuseScore: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/9223844/s/0VNEzo?share=copy_link SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/karolcpmusic/sunraysimprov Instrumentation: Keyboard Synth Strings. Timestamps: I. A: 0:00 II. B: 0:17 III. A Variation: 0:34 IV: B Variation: 0:54 V: A Variation II: 1:16 VI: A Variation: 1:24 VII: A Variation III: 1:48 VIII: Closing: 2:23 End: 2:31 Other Notes: Recording Date: May 28, 2017 Live improvision based on an original theme by Karol C.P.M. Image by Karol C.P.M. Copyright © 2017, 2022. Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved

AMDG Moonlight shines through the tips of conifer trees quiet still in the night breeze. "Moonlight" Variations In D Minor by Karol C.P.M. MuseScore: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/9223844/s/0VNEzo?share=copy_link SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/karolcpmusic/moonlightvariations Instrumentation: Keyboard Synth Piano. Timestamps: I. Intro: 0:01 II. A: 0:05 III. B: 0:13 IV: A variation I: 0:25 V: B variation: I: 0:32 VI: A variation: II: 0:44 VII: B variation: II: 0:58 VIII: A variation: III: 1:11 IX: B variation: III: 1:25 X: A variation: IV: 1:43 XI: Interlude: 2:01 XII: A variation: V: 2:10 XIII: B variation: IV: 2:21 XIV: A variation: VI: 2:39 XV: B variation: V: 3:10 XVI: B variation: 3:36 XVII: A variation: 3:48 End: 3:54 PS: Variations A. V and B. IV (2:16-2:29) are cheesy. Other Notes: Recording Date: July 6, 2017 Live improvision based on an original theme by Karol C.P.M. Image by Karol C.P.M. Copyright © 2017, 2022. Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved

Part 2 sounds better than this: https://rumble.com/v23tadu Short Piece For Quintet Part 1 (2019) AMDG Literally the first piece I wrote in MuseScore! This started off with setting up a set of string instruments and randomly placing notes. :) More details here: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/9387838/s/lmUyyF?share=copy_link

Short Piece For Quintet Part 2 (2019) AMDG Composed: December of 2019. After writing the first piece in MuseScore, I tried to make another short piece with a melody. More details here: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/9387841/s/QJ0x3s?share=copy_link

AMDG Lost And Found Child is my first big musical project completed in notation. Enjoy! Inspired by Eggers, Debussy, Bizet, and Stravinsky. SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/Gi7gP MuseScore: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/9426847/s/pQ6Ee7?share=copy_link Composition Date: December 2019 Copyright © 2019 Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved

ADMG The Lullaby paints a child’s picture of bedtime. The main theme introduces itself at a pacing tempo before settling at a relaxed pace, as would be the eager excitement of a child before a bedtime story. Stories unwind, past memories are recalled, prayers are said,… Towards the end, the continuous duet-like harmony express a mother’s and father’s love and care, which gently lay the child to peaceful sleep for the night. I wrote this Lullaby for my newborn cousin who was born the same week, and had the wonderful opportunity to premiere with our entire extended family later that year. I hope he enjoyed. 💗 MuseScore: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/15488365?share=copy_link SoundCloud Audio: https://soundcloud.com/karolcpmusic/lullaby Rumble Video: https://rumble.com/v4pl4ff This work was particularly inspired by pieces from Johannes Brahms, Alma Deutscher, Kylie (Locke), and Hudson Holland. Chopin also gave left-hand ideas. Some passages were also based off of some ideas from a future symphony work in progress. It will be a very long while before I will have more word of progress with that project though. ;) On the related compositional aspect, I realized that it may take me a while to catchup with publishing all my scores worth sharing from 2020 and onwards; so I carefully developed this piano solo as a debut work in the meantime. I also wanted to try out recording a live piano for the first time with fairly good audio equipment for a near-professional sound. I’m also performing live in the video, so let me know what you think below about this format! I would say that the challenging areas with this project were revising the score for accuracy to how I would personally perform the piece, setting up the mics for the best sound, the mastering process, and the video edit. As for performance, performing on a keyboard is entirely different from performing on a live piano. I went through a few recording sessions to have a good take (despite a week's worth of practicing on the keyboard and months in between sessions), though I'm fairly satisfied with this particular take. Even then, it took considerable time with adjusting the audio to satisfaction. Special thanks to Elijah Hemingway who helped to transcribe an early recording into notation. I have my other cousin to thank for the keyboard, which I used to develop the Lullaby before sending the midi visualizer recording. Also special thanks to the local pastor and admin assistant for generously allowing use of the piano and microphones to record this piece. Other Information: Sent for score transcription on June 11, 2023 Score finalized April 13, 2024 Live Performance by Karol C.P.M. on April 11, 2024 Cover art image commissioned by Karol C.P.M. Copyright © 2024. Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved Checkout these other related composers! Elijah Hemingway: https://musescore.com/elijahhemingway Locke01: https://rumble.com/user/MMLocke Hudson Holland: https://musescore.com/hudson_holland

AMDG Prelude to An Operatic Flute (PTAOF) imagines the last hours of a dying family member. It is divided in these three short scenes, and takes place in a room inside a castle fort, built of grey bricks and stone, all in a distant medieval forest land. MuseScore: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/18122383/s/gNXiSy?share=copy_link SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/karolcpmusic/ptaof2020r24 Below is the story which I have always had in mind when composing. ~ Begin Program ~ Mark A (0:04) Foggy Forest -Misty and sad theme anxious of death. -Frightening thought of death. Mark B (0:51) Thunderstorm -Uneasy: Last times on earth, the Last Rites are administered. -Reassurance: Of the others. -Request of the member not present. Mark C (1:27) : Sunrise through the nighttime fog. -Spread of joy, relief. -Reminded. -Doors open, and enters the relative. Mark A (0:04): At the opening, the strings accompanied by a pair of winds and horns announce a misty sad theme. The orchestra re-echoes the theme as the distant orchestral flute rises high until trumpets resolve. We are presented a scene of a dying loved one on her deathbed, surrounded by dear family members. All were anxious of the hour that was near, and the sudden frightening thought of death. Mark B (0:51): It is no doubt these were her final times and therefore, the Last Rites are administered. A reverence passes over to those present. After the rites, the dying one makes a last request to the priest to see a relative not present. The thoughts of death and grief reach a climax as the relatives grow in worry, until she gently reassures them. A calm follows for a brief time. Mark C (1:27): Now confident that her wish will be granted, along with preparation for the rewards of eternal joy, she expresses a joy and relief which spreads to all those present. Expressed as the orchestra re-echoes the opening theme. This time, the theme is carried by the trumpet and flute in the background in an overpowering hopeful tone, almost forgetting the first sudden fright and worry the opening. The flute and bassoons distantly recall that this will be the last time to see her family members in that life. As the muted brass sound the doors opening, the music comes to a brief transition into a close, marking the start of their conversation. ~ End Program ~ This originally began as a flute concerto project, hence the empty staff of the flute before I later decided to make this a standalone work. The single flute playing in the score is not the soloist, but in the woodwinds section. I had inspirations from Dvorak, Mahler, Stravinsky, Alma Deutscher (for musical storytelling), and also some from Thomas Newman, Kevin Kiner, and Michael Giacchino. This also features some of my earliest orchestrations from about four years ago, and I am well aware of some the awkward use of instruments. At the time of composition, I was using the piano roll feature with MuseScore 3 in an attempt to fill every sound space possible with detail, which I will later find out is a bad idea. I am also aware of the awkward meter changes which should have been 3/4, 2/4, 4/4, 2/4, (not 3/4, 4/4, 3/4). In addition, I decided to upload the original score with the custom audio for historical reasons. Numerous dynamics and articulation marks were applied for the best possible playback with MuseScore 4, though no notation were changed to retain my original intentions. The only change made to the original score is page formatting, and rehearsal marks for your convenience. If you are curious to know how the piece originally sounded, simply switch to the score audio (not the custom audio). Overall, I am happy with how this turned out in) with Muse Sounds, and I hope you enjoy as much as I do. P.S. The MuseScore 4 score is in the video links. About the cover art: In brief, the forest image is from an early Blender graphics project, which was made around the same time PTAOF was composed. It is the scene that closely comes to mind at the opening. Originally composed in 2020, remastered with MuseScore 4 Muse Sounds, and mixed with Audacity in 2024. Score marked complete on June 22, 2020 Forest Cover Art: Copyright © 2020 Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved Copyright © 2020, 2024 Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved

AMDG Headphones or a good set of speakers are suggested. :) MuseScore: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/20147239?share=copy_link SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/karolcpmusic/rffbat Romantic Fanfare for Timpani and Brass was inspired by the sound of the Romantic and Modern Eras, Anton Bruckner and Gustav Holst in particular. It was during the night of March 21st of 2024 when I experimented with the recording feature in the Synthesia piano program and came up with this idea, which came to mind and took a about few hours to record and arrange. This was my first time working in a "DAW" like workflow, which I observed from a recent visit at recording studio (for a band). If anything, I would record an improv on piano or notate sheet music in my composition work flow. Would I try this workflow again with the Synthesia program? No, I would not! The available features are too limited in my opinion for a realistic workflow. Recording parts for a single instrument or layers of left and right hands for learning piano (although I personally wouldn't recommend it) is one thing, but layering several I used Audacity to apply panning, EQ (sounds equalizers), StaffPad Hall Reverb, for remastering the audio into stereo. The mono audio was unsatisfactory so I made adjustments to take advantage of a wide and balanced stereo field. And as an additional bonus, I attempted a brief remaster with MuseScore Studio as I was curious to know how the playback would sound with Muse Sounds, and I'll add that it sounded better than anticipated. I then applied panning, EQ, the StaffPad Hall reverb, and several edits to the score for a semi-realistic playback. Other Information: Finalized on March 21, 2024 Produced with Synthesia: www.synthesiagame.com Copyright © 2024. Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved This video is not affiliated with Synthesia LLC of the Synthesia program.

AMDG Headphones or good speakers highly recommended! “One night, where the lightly ash scented air leaked through the cracks of the home, where the dark sky was clouded with ash, it was late August in 2020 during the California wildfires and I had just laid my baby brother to sleep. Having laid him down, I turned my thoughts to music for a bit. I thought about what was happening the past week. And then I thought of hope. From there I began writing into the program the piece which would become “Hope in the Smoke. A piece which attempts to capture my thoughts of that time. I’ve managed to complete half of the piece at night, and the rest in the morning. The inspiration was strong to the point that the individual arrangements of the piece itself were very close to how I imagined it. A rather short piece, less than 2 minutes in length and marked “complete: in less than a day; though I’ll say it does well in presenting the atmosphere of the state of my mind on “Hope, in the smoke” –Program speech made for presentations on June 15, 2022 MuseScore: https://musescore.com/user/52508498/scores/20246512?share=copy_link SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/karolcpmusic/hits I hope you enjoy! Inspiration for the piece include: Howard-Harper Barnes, Ethan Kennedy, and Adriel Fair. Composed on August 20, 2020. Remastered with MuseScore 4 Muse Sounds, and mixed with Audacity August 14, 2024. Score video (only) generated with MuseScore.com Panned Smoke Animation designed in Blender and rendered with SheepIt Renderfarm Video with effects edited by Karol C.P.M. Cover art image produced by Karol C.P.M. Copyright © 2020, 2024 Karol C.P.M. All Rights Reserved