Happy Waltz Day!

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Happy National Waltz Day to those who celebrate, and that ought to be all of you. I take this opportunity once again to share with you some of the waltzes I have written throughout the years, and of course you have my permission to play them. Just let me know.

Your author (back to the camera, thanks, dad!) waltzing with the university of georgia period dance group, 1976, in the lincoln portion of “Six Inaugural balls.”

(In other news, I recently re-organized my “general” music page to make it more searchable for those musicians looking for specific types of music.)

Choral/Church Choir

  • I was glad [SAB, piano]: a lilting round, perfect as a call to worship. | score [pdf] | mp3

  • from Frog Songs:

  • Shall We Go?: [SAB, piano] words by Georgiana Craven Salter. | score [pdf] | mp3

Piano Works

Instrumental/Orchestral

  • from Suite from a Children’s Opera

  • from A Christmas Carol

    • Fred’s Waltz | mp3 (score upon request)

  • Variations on Resignation (2010) | score [pdf] | mp3 (3:39) Written for the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra, a youth string ensemble from Newnan’s sister city, Ayr, Scotland.

William Blake’s Inn

  • 5. The Sun and Moon Circus Soothes the Wakeful Guests | score | mp3

  • 9. Two Sunflowers Move into the Yellow Room | score | mp3

  • 10. The Wise Cow Makes Way, Room, and Believe | score | mp3

Let’s finish up with the third movement of my never-to-be-finished Symphony in G, a grand waltz in the sense of the Strauss family. Its subtitle was to have been “What it feels like,” and although I’m not going to talk about the programmatic basis for this music, I can say without reservation that this is what it felt like.