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A selection of Peter Schmedding's shorter compositions, part one.

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Overture to A Great Day

A long night ends with a brilliant red morning sky. People get ready for the day. ChildrenÕs play ends abruptly by two stern commands ushering in the Majesty of a Great Day.

Paraphrase on a theme by a 10 year old boy

Years ago I had a student, then ten years old. Often he would sit at the piano and just improvise whatever came into his head. Sometimes he recorded his musical ideas on a sound tape. So I found this particular descending theme which I used to compose the "Paraphrase on a theme by a ten year old boy".

Silent Moon

This improvised composition is taking us into different directions rather than dealing with one only theme. The Silent Moon allows us to contemplate, maybe, on the loss of a loved one, or the memory of a sunset, the secret triumph we are unable to share with any other person, or the memory of a lonely night. Toward the end, in a major key we are lead back to reality and the world around us.
CAUTION: With over nine minutes in duration it takes over 13 MB to download. Click for Silent Moon.

Etude in A minor

This is one of my collection of really short pieces. It takes only one MB to download.

Improvising on TWO Blind Mice

Click here for Two Blind Mice. This is a shorter version of the original improvisation on 'Thee Blind Mice' which lasts for 11 minutes and may be too long for those folks whose favorite pets are not mice. Consequently I have edited the piece down to only two mice. 'Two Blind Mice' Here is the link. This is only seven minutes long, .

Memory of a Wooden Stop

Winter 1945. I was a radio operator at the Eastern front. During a lull in operations one my comrades came rushing in: There is a church with a real organ inside. Surprise, it worked. After I had improvised for a while the shooting started again and, on the way back, I noticed the church now engulfed in flames. This piece is in memory of a lovely wooden stop - music to my ears before it became fuel for the fire. Two and a half minutes, 3.5 MB.

Peter and Friends

This was the theme for my weekly radio program for children on a local radio station in the early 1980s. This one is short, just 300KB.

Mosquito Serenade

This is a saga put to music. A mosquito prevents him from sleeping. He finally rushes out of bed, wields the fly swat around, then goes confidently back to bed. The only problem, instead of one mosquito, now there are - two. This is 1.7 magabytes. Click here for Mosquito Serenade.

Fantasie in F

It is a wonderful feeling to sit at the console of a grand organ and be in charge of all the dynamics from the tiniest and sweetest solo pipe to the whole power of all the stops. This Fantasie in F goes back to a series of pieces for grand organ I composed in the late 1950s. It takes even more memory, 4.7 Mbyts, and its duration is eight minutes.

Trumpet Theme

This melody became the background music behind a narration in an educational sound project on Child Development. 800 KB to download.

Tears

In many years as a telephone counsellor, one of the saddest calls from a client inspired me to write this piece. I simply called it Tears. This one is over 5 minutes long and takes 3.2 Mbytes to download.

The music has been composed and played by Peter H. Schmedding, Canberra, Australia.
© 2004 Peter Schmedding. All Rights reserved

For the second part of this series please click here.

In the third part of this series you will find also two half-hour recordings: Musical Sleeping Pills. please click here.

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