Down By Bomaderry Creek by Damien Gauci Sheet Music for Performance Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Damien Gauci

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Damien Gauci

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 11

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Damien Gauci

Level 2

Product ID 1734711

Genre Folk Country Classical

Instruments Cello Flute Guitar Violin

Product Description

This piece was composed for the Filigree Group for my final project in my second year of composition at the ANU. I decided to write a piece in the style of a Celtic waltz with the use of functional and non-functional harmony to give it a more modern spin. I usually begin a composition for an ensemble by writing out a piano sketch with chords and a melody to outline the scaffolding of the piece and this is the first step that I took. I mainly used triads for the harmony and then used chord extensions in the melody such as the 9th and #11th to add some nice colours to the music. I settled on an ABA structure and in my recent compositions I have been using elements from both the A and B section to compose the final A section. Doing this creates a nice combination of all the elements that have been heard previously, and in this case, I use the melody from the A section and combine it with the chord progression from the B section.

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