A Picture of You

Each new day with new promises
Remembering the old,
I see you now.
And here we stand.
A couple of seasons passed
Flickering moments gone by
Dreams lost, they come and go
And at the end of the day, here we stand.
I’ve seen you before
And I see you now.
Today we live
The future calls
A picture of beauty
I see in you.

No need to run

No need to hide
I’ve seen you before
And I see you now.

Guitar Chords
A A D E
A A D E
D E D E
D E D E
(repeat)

Be comforted

Music is honest. It is anonymous. It makes you vulnerable and comes from a place of sincere intentions. Finding beauty and solace in the keys of my piano is a blessing.

A simple melody over a few chord progressions can say a lot…. It can mean one thing to me. It can mean something else to you. A song lasts just for a moment, fleeting in the scheme of things, then it ends. Played once, it can never be played exactly the same way again.

…

For all the people who’ve left a comment, said something to me directly and/or taken the time to listen. Thank you. You are very kind.

Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

In my search for Bach’s Minuet in G major, I came across its story… and it is a beautiful one so I would like to share :)

Minuet in G major. Google it. When you hear it, I’m sure you’ll recognize it instantly. It’s a well-known and much-loved piece of
music, especially for early grade piano students… ;)

This minuet features in Bach’s 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Bach wrote two notebooks, both for his second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach, a talented singer who Bach met after being widowed by his first wife. She regularly helped Bach transcribe his music and there’s a theory going around that she too was a possible composer…

French suites, minuets, rondeaux, chorales, sonatas, preludes, musettes, marches, gavottes and polonaises, songs and arias make up most of the notebooks. The 1722 notebook consists of pieces composed by Bach himself. The 1725 notebook comprises works by Bach and other composers of the Baroque era.

Minuet in G major was not written in Bach’s or Anna’s handwriting and it has been since accepted that the piece was composed by and now attributed to Christian Petzold.

This playful tune also has a friend… Minuet in G minor.

Baby Classical CD

Last night I spent some time compiling a baby classical CD for the new mums and mums-to-be in my group of friends.

There are quite a few of them ;)

I enjoyed this process very much. The only problem was that at times I knew the melody but I didn’t know the title of it or who composed it. It got a little frustrating at times :)

Thank goodness for YouTube ;)

I listen to these classical pieces and smile…. I have a long way to go in this composing journey of mine but it is something to look forward to.

In the end, here’s what I’ve chosen for the CD:

1. Canon in D maj (Pachelbel)
2. Minuet in G maj (Bach/Petzold)
3. Minuet in G maj (Beethoven)
4. Minuet in G min (Bach/Petzold)
5. Waltz in G# minor (Brahms)
6. Piano Sonata in C maj (Mozart)
7. Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven
8. Clementine

Epilogue

This blog is quite strange. There’s no fluidity in its entries. It starts. It stops. It starts and then it stops again.

And isn’t life like that? It starts. It stops. It starts and stops again… and all the while you are living.

It’s an early Saturday morning and I can hear the birds chirping. It’s looking like we’re going to have a nice, sunny Saturday morning. I’ve just finished writing a piece of music and I’m just getting it uploaded now. Last night I improvised a new theme and further developed it this morning. It is the latter version I am uploading. I have a recording of it as it was last night too – imperfect, uneven notes, wobbly timing, raw … but I don’t care. It’s important to have that version as I played it last night recorded somewhere… So I can always remember how I felt last night.

I’ve named the theme ‘Epilogue’.

I think I might go cycling with some old friends later today.