Here’s the next selection from the score for Emerald, Texas. Two friends kick the can down a dusty Kansas lane. The music blends American folk influence with the chamber string sound that will recur throughout the score.

For those of you with an ear for detail, I’ll mention that the string harmonies come from playing several notes of the film’s main melody simultaneously. Composers employ sneaky tricks like this to create a sense of subtle familiarity throughout a score.

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	Kick the Can

This blog apologizes, in its most sincere blog voice, for the hiatus in content. Its composer has had a very busy month.

This week’s selection is the opening theme for the film Emerald, Texas (premiering at the Riverside International Film Festival in April). Two girls walk along a dusty Kansas road to that most hated place, high school.

Nylon-string guitar courtesy of Kyle Johnson.

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	Dee and T

Another melancholy cue this week (no reflection of my personal mood), again in an orchestral vein but from a different film. For the opening passage I channeled my inner Kenny G and wrote a soprano sax solo.

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	Alone in the City

This week’s cue is a melancholy and nostalgic piece for piano, strings, and winds.

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	The Cemetery

A companion to last week’s Ice Arena cue, this is an atmospheric and mysterious piece with frigid overtones. (Given Southern California’s record low temperatures this week, this music particularly resonates with me right now.)

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	Icy Confrontation