This week’s music is actually a splice of two successive cues from the film Home Room. (Bonus points if you can discern where I made the edit.)

Most of the film is a dialogue between two principal characters, girls from opposite social castes who bond in the aftermath of a school shooting. Correspondingly, most of the music is scored for intimate instrumental combinations – piano, woodwind quartet, solo cello, and so on. We reserved the full string ensemble, such as in today’s piece, for the more significant dramatic moments.

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	Going Home

Keeping in step with the season, this week’s selection is my hyperactive arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Thanks to Wikipedia, I learned all sorts of interesting things about this traditional carol. Did you know that Satan is prominently mentioned in the lyrics? This adds an element of drama which I feel is sorely lacking in most holiday songs.

I can’t post the arrangement directly, since it was commissioned by a music library and I don’t technically own it. But you can hear a chunk of it for free on Amazon via the link below.

No Rest For The Merry

This week’s music is from Red Field Media’s short dramatic film, “Broken”. I wrote two versions of the music to accompany the end credits, both of similar character but differing in details. The music below was used for the DVD menu, with its sibling ending up accompanying the final credit crawl.

Cello solo(s) by Venessa Freebairn-Smith.

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	Broken (alternate)

This is another one of those commercial cues that’s unabashedly cheesy, but really fun to write.

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	Groove Pastiche Two