Today I present my original composition, DANCE FOR MARIYA.  I completed this piece in 1987 and scored it for harpsichord.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the printed score:

I composed this keyboard music for my sister to use in ballet practice.  This very early attempt at score music is rather rough in its construction.  It is a fusion of the various styles and techniques I was studying at the time.  Consequently, the listener may notice some awkwardness in my budding craft.

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DANCE FOR MARIYA, Copyright©1987 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved

Today I present my original composition, SING WITH ME THE EARTH.  I completed this piece in 1992 and scored it for choir and piano.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:

I here pursue my favorite subject—Nature in all her forms.  This composition for full choir and piano, SING WITH ME THE EARTH, is my setting of the first three lines from my father's poem of the same title.

In this piece I imagine myself represented by the piano entering Nature's realm.  As I wander the forest green, I hear the blessed sounds of the Wild calling to me.  As the music unfolds with sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses layering upon each other in fugal fashion, the piano gradually builds in rapturous excitement until it finally runs free in bucolic bliss.

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Today I present my original composition, THE MERRY WREN.  I completed this piece in 2002 and scored it for piccolo.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:

A little rondo for piccolo.

Listen as the wondrous songster is answered by a roaming minstrel who emerges from the deep green, piping praise to an enchanted wood.

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THE MERRY WREN, Copyright©2002 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved

Today I present my original composition, FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE.  I completed this piece in 1989 and scored it for string orchestra.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:

This early trifle for string orchestra represents one of my numerous musings on subjects of personal importance.  There is nothing significant here--just a momentary dream of being on the wing.

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FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE, Copyright©1989 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved

Today I present my original composition, UNDER A MAIDEN'S SPELL.  I completed this piece in 2014 and scored it for piano.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:

'Twas Christmas Eve.  My father, sister, and I were at a local store purchasing culinary delights for our evening festivities.  The mood was merry and the setting glowed in the warmth of the occasion.  Suddenly, while awaiting service, I spied a vision of feminine poetry.  An employee, humble in her white deli frock and unpretentious demeanor, with hair pinned behind her head, looked to me with a disarming and slightly inquisitive expression.  She caught my eye and held it until I was distracted by the business at hand. When I looked back, I found the moment had passed like a fleeting dream.  Regal in appearance and reminiscent of Capucine, her long, wavy chestnut hair was illuminated gold by the oven-fire that crackled behind her.  I was immediately reminded of two images: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer and a lost young woman in Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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UNDER A MAIDEN'S SPELL, Copyright©2014 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved

Today I present my original composition, THE WARBLER.  I completed this song in 1990 and scored it for soprano and guitar.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:

Composed around the same time as THE DOVE, my setting of this Keats poem for soprano and guitar serves as further testament to my love of birds.

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THE WARBLER, Copyright©1990 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved

Today I present my original composition, THE DOVE.  I completed this song in 1989 and scored it for soprano and lute.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:

This setting of a poem by John Keats is one of several I made in the late 1980s.  It deals with two subjects of great importance to me: one being birds--those feathery angels who, throughout the arc of my existence, have so often lifted my gaze along with my spirits towards their ethereal realm; the other being death--that dreaded but obligatory harbinger to new life, whose merciless hand I felt at a young age.  May this song help bring peace to those who suffer and reflection to those who suffer not.

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THE DOVE, Copyright©1989 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved