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The scores on this site were created with the software program Sibelius. To be able to view the score while listening to the piece you will need to have the Sibelius Scorch plug-in installed on your computer. This is a free program which you can download by clicking here. Use the "Web Score" link to view scores online with Scorch.
Twice a year theVermont MIDI Project offers students the opportunity to have their pieces performed by professional musicians. The concerts take place in the fall and the spring. You are invited to listen and view the compositions selected for the Opus 9 concert which was held in April 2004.
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| Since my favorite type of music is jazz or swing, I wanted to write a piece of this type. I had just learned how to write an sfz (and have it work) so I added a few of these. I chose my instruments by basically using the instruments in my school's band. But since I play piano and think that double bass sounds cool, I added those, too. | |||
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| The dance teacher at my high school asked me if I would be interested in composing a piece for the dancers for one of the advanced dance groups to be performed in the concert. I accepted this challenge and this is the result. She did not give me a lot of guidelines, but did say she wanted long developed sections because that is the best for a dance piece so the dancers can also develop these sections. The first section is in A minor, and it develops by having another voice come in every 4 or 8 bars so it also builds naturally with more voices coming in. Then I have a similar style to the first section start in measure 41. I call this the B section. It is similar to A but with a little more variety and as this section builds, it gets a little bit more aggressive as each voice comes in. In measure 63 I have an accelerando with lots of bells and other pitched percussion to lead into the next section, which is more aggressive. Then this section leads into the final section. I have a trumpet leading into this section, which joins in, on the aggressive section prior to the finale where it repeats and then plays on a descending minor scale starting on the dominant to lead into the finale. | |||
| Tele-Tuba© Lance Downing |
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| This is my first time taking any type of music composition class. I was interested in writing for a brass group. I have never studied brass instruments but it is interesting to me. | |||||
| The Olive Branch© Chris Whitman |
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| I was first inspired to write this song with the death of my Grandfather earlier this fall. I wanted to create something that I thought he would have liked if he heard it. | |||
| Peel the Dial© Angie Ciotti |
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| This is a piano piece I just worked on for fun in class, I just wanted to create something without specific guidelines and make something that I really enjoyed working on. | ||||
| Alarum© Philip Trembley |
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An "alarum" is an old-English (~1000 ad)
term for "a call to arms". Trumpets would sound to signify
a battle. After learning this I was inspired to base my brass quintet
on this fact. It starts with no key signature and then modulates into
G minor. |
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| Cram© Katie Coleman |
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| I started writing this song, wanting it to have a different sound to it, but having it still be jazz. Also I wanted to separate my style of music compared to others. The song has mainly two different cultures in it, an Egyptian feel, and an American feel, like heavy metal. | ||||
| Swingin' Something Fierce© Isaac Lichtenstein |
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| This is a jazz brass quartet. I thought it would be nice to add a jazzy variant to the Opus 6 production this year. Since there is no specific jazz opus concert I thought I would try to integrate jazz into this one. | ||||
| The Pugly Duckling© Bob Couture |
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| My midi composition class did this as a project in which we were to depict a fairy tale or fable through music. This song is an attempt to retell the story of the Ugly Duckling. I included the boxed text that explains what's going on at what time. | |||
| Castle Melody© Karey |
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| I started my piece out as an AABA form and then expanded
it. At first it was just a piano piece, but then I decided to add the
flute. This piece had mostly block chords in the original version, but
I arpeggiated many of them as the piece developed. This is my first composition.
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| PH© Sarah Cannon Hazen Union High School |
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I arranged this from a piano piece. In the second section, I put the bass lines in the trumpet parts and added new melodies with the French horn, trombone, and tuba. Later, I wrote the A section based on the French horn of the previous section and ended the piece with something like the beginning. |
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| Flames of Music© Eli Chalmer |
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| I recently joined a jazz combo with two trombones a trumpet and possibly a tenor sax. I wrote this a while ago and we are rehearing it. If this gets recorded, I'll be thinking about submitting it as a second piece for the All State Competition. | |||
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