An autographed compact disc of DRIFTING, Volume 3 of the New Lullaby Project. Each one will be numbered 2-40.
Designed by Alex Fedorov and Aaron Larget-Caplan, each disc includes an 8-page booklet with composer notes and biographies, as well as a preface by Aaron.
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Music of the New Lullaby Project, Volume One
Fifteen 21st-century works for solo guitar.
Commissioned, curated, and edited by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Published by the American Composers Alliance in association with ALC Publishing
CONTENTS
3 Francine Trester – my darling’s slumber
6 Agustín Castilla-Ávila – Perseiden
10 Stephanie Ann Boyd – Esperanza
15 Carson Cooman – Unfolding the Gates of Dawn
18 Scott Wheeler – Nachtlied
23 Alan Fletcher – Lullaby in Three Voices
27 Thomas L. Read – The Moon Through The Window Shines Down
31 Patricia Julien – After Many Days Without Rain
34 Barnaby Oliver – The Pillow That You Dream On
36 David Leisner – Disturbed, A Lullaby
41 John McDonald – You Are Alone To Sleep
45 David McMullin – Sleeping Light, Spinning World
48 Vineet Shende – Reva’s Lullaby
52 Eric Schwartz – Song Softly Sung, in Trying Times
54 Demetrius Spaneas – A Child Sings at Thanksgiving
Studio Recordings can be found on Bandcamp:
New Lullaby (2010) – Aaron Larget-Caplan
Nights Transfigured (2020) – Aaron Larget-Caplan
Curator's note (excerpt):
The solos found in this first volume give an introduction to the more than 60 compositions written between 2006-2020 by over 50 composers from nine countries. Volume one contains compositions from Austria, Australia and the USA, and have lullabies inspired by composers’ children, song and the intimacy of singing to another, the end of night, poetry, longing for sleep, our troubled times, and of course, the melding of stars and moonbeams. On a theoretical level there are a variety of musical languages: tonal, 12-tone, contrapuntal, North Indian, First Nation, additive, minimalist, and quasi-improvisational. A few will stand out for their use of extended techniques, only three require scordatura, and harmonics abound!
These compositions assert that the sonic boundaries of the guitar are only limited by the composer’s imagination and physical abilities of the player. Whether a student, amateur, or professional there is a lullaby for you.
60 pages; 9'x12'; includes a composer's bios and notes on the pieces.
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Sheet Music
Music of the New Lullaby Project, Volume Two
Sixteen 21st-century works for solo guitar.
Commissioned, curated, and edited by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Published by the American Composers Alliance In association with ALC Music Publishing.
Page
3 Francine Trester Lullaby for Our Time
5 Anthony R. Green Counting Backwards
9 Charles Turner White Potatoes
12 Stefanie Lubkowski Drifting
17 Garrett Ian Shatzer Lullaby for D---
20 Ken Ueno Ed è Subito Sera
26 Jim Dalton A World of Your Own
30 Jacob Mashak Lulubye
32 John McDonald Upward
34 Martin Max Schreiner A Lullaby in Restless Times
37 Thomas Schuttenhelm Wiegenlied (Cradle Song)
40 Lynn Job The Sixth Night
43 Jonathan Feist No Time & Leaky Roof
47 Nolan Stolz Lullaby for Sam
50 Roger Éon Berceuse
Comments
There are lullabies born from a poem (Dalton/Shatzer/Ueno), a story (Éon), and from a musical (Turner). There is Adam and Eve’s first lullaby (Job), one written during a lecture (McDonald), and another was inspired by a leaky roof (Feist). Some soothe us steadily (Schuttenhelm), while we drift between worlds as our heads nod off (Lubkowski/Green). A couple acknowledge the struggles of our time (Schreiner/Trester), and others offer touches of love and hope (Feist/Stolz). Some lullabies reflect humanity, others testify to a memory and affirmation of a time passed by, while a gorgeous 12-tone lullaby (Mashak) sits quietly to be discovered.
Though they lean tonal, the compositional languages vary greatly. Except for a few pieces, the tuning remains mostly standard, but one does asks that you tune on the fly. There are string pulls and some technical challenges, but don’t worry, harmonics of all types abound. My hope is that you will create your own relationships with the music, so I have not added fingerings. Those that do include fingerings or string directions are by the composer.
For Recordings (all compositions are recorded):
New Lullaby
The Legend of Hagoromo (Ueno)
Nights Transfigured
Drifting
* All issued by Stone Records as of August 6, 2021. Streaming/downloads everywhere. CDs only on Bandcamp at: alcguitar.bandcamp.com ...more
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A LULLABY IN RESTLESS TIMES (2011, rev. 2020) by Martin Max Schreiner
A Lullaby in Restless Times was written to convey a story of unrest and a yearning for peace and stability. I devised a simple lullaby tune and strategically infused it with chromatic stresses to create a sense of being pulled away from a tonal center. Each of the three varied repetitions of the lullaby tune conveys a struggle to return to a stable tonal center. The four-bar introduction, drifts away from establishing the key of C and the tune begins in B minor. There is continuous struggle in the music to lull the tune back to C as restless chromatic challenges are encountered. At the end of the second repetition of the tune, a serene dream-like moment occurs in the sounding of guitar string harmonics—as if restful peace is found. However, it is interrupted until a firm resolution in C is achieved in the final bars. So, it is a story with a happy ending. Although, a lingering incongruence between C major and C minor suggests a lasting impact of the unrest.
• Premiered at the New School of Music, Cambridge, MA on December 10, 2011.
• Score published in Hushed, volume two of the New Lullaby Project by the American Composers Alliance.
Martin Max Schreiner (1950-) began gigging as a clarinetist and saxophonist at age 16 with local jazz groups and small combos. After serving as a bandsman/clarinetist in the U. S. Army 1970-72, he studied music at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He later did graduate studies in composition at the New England Conservatory. As a composer, he has broad-ranging interests in music across genres and cultures. Martin’s collaborations with guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan also includes his Two Japanese Idylls included on Aaron’s album The Legend of Hagoromo, Stone Records 8056, released 2015. www.mmschreiner.instantencore.com
credits
from Drifting,
released June 4, 2021
ALBUM CREDITS
Produced, Edited and Engineered by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
Mixed and Mastered by Steve Hunt at The Kitchen, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA
Recorded 20-23 November 2020 at L’atelier d’artiste Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Publishers: Centerlinemusic Publishing (1); Composers (2,5,6,7,9,11,12,14,15); Frank E. Warren Music Service (3); Norwegian National Library (4); Pantograph Publishing (8); American Composers Alliance (10,13)
Guitar: Olivier Fanton D’Andon, 2009. Strings: Hannabach.
Aaron Larget-Caplan – is an international guitarist, composer, and arranger. He has premiered 110 compositions, and directs
the NEW LULLABY PROJECT and ¡CON FUEGO!
His arrangements and recording of the music of JOHN CAGE are the first to be sanctioned by the estate. He is a Stone Records and Tiger Turn recording artist.
His music has been streamed over 5 million times.
He has 10 solo albums....more