Musical Moments

Songs, Easy Listening, Contemporary chamber and orchestral music. Music composed by N A Esmen and other living composers

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Falling in Love at a Village Festival Op. 49: This tone poem describes a raucous village festival with marching bands, crowds, clowns, and young and old falling in love for the first time or once again. It is a highly approachable piece with its roots in the post romantic tradition. It is meant to be celebratory and fun. The picture of the late David Hays, who liked nothing better than a rural village festival, was taken by the composer. Technical note: This piece is in A minor with cyclic modulation A minor - A major – F# minor –{D# major / C minor (enharmonic Eb)} – C major - A minor and the cycle repeats until the last 10 bars which are in A minor. This cycle provides a feeling of atonality and ambiguity (as it would be in a festival), even though, the piece is by and large a tonal composition. The A minor key is fully established at the end. .

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Alderbere Suite for Woodwind Quartet, Op. 43: Swan of Alderbere – Royal Mail – Morning Walk - Tea in the Afternoon – Exeter-St. Davids to Paddington Alderbere (EX6 8EX) was a cottage near Kenton in Devon, UK where family and friends gathered often to enjoy the hospitality of a cousin, exchange news of each other that were already known by all and in general enjoy life. Somehow the topic of each conversation did not matter. Few who travelled from London, Canada or The States stayed at the cottage, the rest drove in from all near and not so near places. The suite is five movements of tone painting. MVT I. The swan (big boy) introduced by the flute dominates the movement just as he was sovereign at Alderbere. MVT II. “Royal Mail” is a leisurely mail lorry trundling along narrow roads along the fields and orchards and occasionally stopping to let another car go by or to say good morning to an early walker. MVT III. "Morning Walk" was a ritual often observed alone soon after arrival to note the recent changes in Alderbere and to watch the graceful swan. MVT IV. “Tea in the Afternoon” was also a ritual in which each person deliberated to choose the same kind of biscuit each time over the years. The final movement is parting when one did not want to do anything except resent the time that went by so quickly before taking the late train from Exeter-St. Davids to Paddington. I don't know who lives there now besides our shadows taking the morning walk. November 2005 Photo: By the composer 2003. Scored for flute, Oboe (English Horn) Bb Clarinet and Bassoon

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enjoy!!! https://soundcloud.com/naesmen/sets/mood-colours-op-44-2010-rev

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Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso n.2 (1981/1982) This is an absolutely wonderful piece...

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River as a metaphor Opus 80b: A river is a flowing body of water, but it also exists as music in moments in time. We like to interpret this aesthetically as well as philosophically. Thus, any river can be used as a metaphor for many abstract concepts. This piece for was written originally for a string quartet (A River Op. 80) slightly shorter with simpler harmony. The technique I used ("Locally tonal" for lack of better word) is based on not establishing tonality until the end and if then. I move it along by modulating tonality constantly only occasionally introducing unstable or dissonant chords which rapidly resolve to one thing or another. It is scored for 2 flutes, oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets and 2 bassoons.

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Love Letters from the Wind Op 75: The title of this piece comes from a poem (*) by Japanese poet and Zen master Ikkyu. The meditative and playful nature of the music, as well as the slight sarcasm are suggested by the poem. It is written for a flute trio (FFAltoF). (*)In: Wild Ways: Zen Poems of Ikkyu Trans: John Stevens, White Pine Press (2003) p. 26