This music was written to accompany informal performances of (mostly Shakespeare) plays by friends. It has also let me reacquaint myself with computer music recording and production.
These three are best described as "ambient".
Banquo's ghost (1) (1.55),
Banquo's ghost (2) (1.20),
Lady Macbeth (3.46).
These tracks are experiments with collaging vocal noises and
applying effects. Yes, I like reverb a bit too much. Note the first
is constructed entirely from a single sample of me speaking the
infamous witches' refrain, processed into oblivion.
Double, double toil and trouble (1.52)
Black Spirits (0.30),
Come away (0.21)
Other predictably witchy music, with distorted woodwinds and folk drums.
Witch 1.3 (1.39),
Dance 4.1 (0.25).
Fanfares, alarums, sennets and the like, of varying interestingness.
Alarum 1.2 (0.14),
Flourish 1.4 (0.11),
Hautboys 1.6,(0.14),
Hautboys 1.7 (0.12),
Act 1-2 interlude (0.25),
Act 2-3 interlude (0.16),
Sennet 3.1 (0.07),
Colours 5.2 (0.10),
Colours 5.4,(0.14),
Colours 5.5 (0.10),
Colours 5.6 (0.11),
Colours 5.9 (0.16),
Flourish 5.9 (0.12).
Incidental battle music, intended to be more interesting than
synthetic fanfares. Pitch-shift is a useful tool for adding spice to
plain brass sounds.
"Your leafy screens throw down..." (0.57),
Scene 5.7 (2.00),
Macbeth and Macduff (1.52) (much darker!),
Alarums 5.8 (0.58).
Macbeth: Finale (5.22). This is shamelessly intended to be in the style of film end credits.
Come unto these yellow sands -
For tenor or soprano solo and four-part chorus.
PDF.
Full fathom five - For tenor or soprano solo and four-part chorus.
PDF.
Where the bee sucks - For tenor or soprano solo, unaccompanied.
PDF.
Honour, riches, marriage-blessing - For two soprano solos and four-part chorus PDF
Dance of Nymphs and Reapers - Melody and chords for folk instrumentalists. PDF, MP3 of piano rendition.
Incidental music - for electronics and orchestral samples: Banquet, Harpy, Banquet (exit), Prospero's Destiny (extract from Destiny)
Incidental music - for electronics and orchestral samples: Vision of Diana
Incidental music - for electronics and orchestral samples: Main Theme, Bacon conjures, Bacon silences Bungay, Golden tree and dragon, The Brazen Head is destroyed.
Incidental music - for electronics and orchestral samples: The heavenly throne descends, Hell is discovered
Come away - for mezzo solo and four other voices. PDF
Black spirits - for mezzo solo and four other voices. PDF
Roses, Their Sharp Spines Being Gone - for tenor solo and piano. PDF.
The bride this night can catch no cold - folk song for two voices and instrument. PDF.
Death of Fidele (1.34), Posthumus's Vision (2.57).
The Cuckoo and the Owl - duet for soprano and alto. PDF
Come, thou monarch of the vine - simple drinking song for mixed chorus. PDF
Christopher Jackson
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