AlaskanHarmony

Welcome to AlaskanHarmony! This blog is not for profit and will primarily include audio clips, each including a brief description of the song, as well as copyrights and other fun details. This blog is a musical journey and diary of my life! I sing and play French horn and piano and will be posting tracks that feature performances of these (though, only of myself, as I do not want to break any copyright laws). Tracks will include a cappella, French horn ensembles, and combos of all the above plus a few (I may even bring in a guest artist or two!). If you have any questions or comments, please submit them below. I will try my very best to answer them in as timely a manner as possible! Constructive critiques are welcomed.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I’m working with Tumblr so that hopefully, I can post the actual songs onto the site instead of using an external link...but that will come in time. Oddly, I keep getting the message “Please select an audio file to upload” when I select the file- anyone else having that issue with their mp3 files? Anyway-! This is the Harry Potter Quartet I arranged a bit ago~ I’ve multi-tracked the parts (all of those are me-!) and I hope to have a more final version out later but...y’all have been so patient. I wanted to at least upload the draft for you all. Big projects coming up in the next few months- hope you all are well! PS: the music belongs to John Williams, but the arrangement is mine. Please do not use this recording without permission!

PSS: link does not seem to be working. Let’s hope Tumblr gets back in touch soon to fix this whole upload problem...? ._.

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Band-ism of the day: Director- "Wind players, be sure to breath between the end of your fermata and your next entrance." Tuba player- "No." Boy oh boy, so busy these days! Band, symphony, a musical, a few boards...it's not life unless you're overextending yourself. XD Never fear! I have not stopped my multi-tracking arrangements, but I have yet to find time to record them. Two new mash-ups are in the works and I'm working on revising some old pieces as well. Stay tuned for a Halloween release! No video yet- January is the date for when I finally show my face to the world. Hope you all are well! I'll try to post at least some mini updates from here on out (various band- and symphony- and choir-isms). It's time to make this an active blog again! <3

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Phew

Hello all! It's been a while, eh? New content is coming soon! I have my AlaskanHarmony business license finally so I'm looking forward to bringing you some new music and even some video. Behind-the-scenes content will be posted here and at my Patreon when I finish setting up my account there. Some things to look forward to: -A new horn quintet -Several new a cappella arrangements, including a 'Prince of Egypt' medley -a digital premiere of my 'Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone' horn quartet arrangement -links to where you can buy my arrangements (should you wish to perform them yourself!) -collabs with other Alaskan artists, such as Alaska's Kit The fun begins late next month! Much love, ~Venette <3

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I figured I'd post this one as a bit of an update as to how our a cappella group is doing. :) This is a small contingent of singers from Alaskapella, the University of Alaska Southeast's a cappella club that I proudly founded approximately a year and a half ago! This is an excerpt from the first concert of the semester (last Saturday) with our new group (which seems to change each semester, due to people leaving town, etc) and I'm proud to say that I'm actually the soloist on this one! The group arranged this song together- I'm hoping to tweak it a bit at some point to add some bass and tenor parts to it...but, for now, enjoy!!!

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This is a version of "Walking in the Air" that I put together this past December as a Christmas present for my family. I'm pretty proud of it (not counting the background hum of the computer and the one timing hiccup in the beginning- oops!), mostly due to the fact that I arranged this piece without writing the entire piece out- I sang the parts based on the song's chordal structure!

"Walking in the Air" is written by Howard Blake- I do not own the song, only my own recording of the song.

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Oh boy...I've been meaning to post this for FOREVER! I apologize for the Christmas songs- however, I owe it to my family to finally post these! :) Enjoy.

The original sheet music is not my own- this is "Santa Baby" as arranged by Mark Brymer.

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First post!

This is an a cappella performance (draft version) of "I've Got the Music in Me", with words and music by Bias Boshell and arranged by Deke Sharon, © 1974 (renewed) EMI Songs Ltd. and Rocket Music Ltd. For this track, I re-wrote the tenor and bass lines for the part up the octave in some parts. I am performing all parts (hurray for multi-tracking!), including all of the SATB back-up and solo line.

Hope you enjoy!