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24 September 2012
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Better notation
I have replaced my older scores of "January Morning" (for high or low voice) and "Evening Dress" with more readable notation. The music in these art songs illustrates the words of Rachel Oliver's poems. Both are colorful descriptions of the foothills south of Yosemite National Park.
21 August 2012
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My own website
At http://www.barbaraulman.com you can see a photo of my newly released CD and information on how to buy it. The cover photo was taken in the dramatic Palisades in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. This is where I got the "download from out there" which sent me to music school and to the life of a composer. The other photo is of Tenaya Lake and the surrounding white granite mountains, in Yosemite National Park, where I love to hike. Being in the ...
02 August 2012
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Educational music
Some of my compositions were written to help students learn some aspects of music that were challenging for them. For voice majors, a requirement at CSUFresno is to sing whole-tone and chromatic scales. I wrote a chromatic section in "maggie and milly and molly and may" and several whole-tone passages in "one winter afternoon" in order to give a friend some practice in those scales. "Reverie" is all in the Phrygian mode, and can help musicians identify the sound of that ancient mode. ...
02 August 2012
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High Mountain Visions
History of Joy, Praise, Hope: Psalm/Mantra Music: In the summer of 1976, I went backpacking in a dramatic range of 14,000-foot mountains in California. One day, I sat to meditate, gazing at the rocky peaks of the Palisades, with snow in their crevices; everything around me was gray and white except for the intense blue of the sky. In the total silence of that vast, pristine landscape, a powerful message came into my consciousness: “Write music combining four Psalms with ...
06 March 2012
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