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Open Mic Adventures XC: “Balladic Processional”

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Yours portly released a new album earlier this month, Heptadic Structure.  It’s an exploration of pieces in 7/4, 7/8, and 7/16 time.  Each piece is twenty-one written measures, for a total of 147 measures across the seven pieces.  Math is fun!

You can listen to and/or purchase the album at the following links:

This week I’m featuring the third track from the album, “Balladic Processional.”  It’s a tuba solo with harpsichord accompaniment.  I boasted on Facebook that it’s the “best tuba and harpsichord piece ever composed (because it might be the *only* tuba and harpsichord piece ever composed)”; that was incorrect.  There is piece by Mack LaMont called Seven Movements for Harpsichord and Tuba.  It’s worth a listen in and of itself.

Regardless, I really like “Balladic Processional.”  I hope you will, too.

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Open Mic Adventures LXXXVII: “Heptadic Structure”

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My latest album, Heptadic Structure, is out now.  I’m writing this post before the album’s publication date (Sunday, 7 July 2024), so I don’t have all of the links to the album on various streaming platforms, but it’s available on all of them except Spotify.  You can also purchase it for $7 on Bandcamp.

Apple Music listeners can listen here.

For the next few weeks I’ll be featuring YouTube videos of the seven tracks from the album.  Today we’re starting with the title track, “Heptadic Structure“:

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