Long Post! This is for anyone curious about my setting the Psalms in Classical Music journey: Kindness
What kind of technical success feeds our community as a studio?
Consider how you can love and spur one another on to good deeds–not knowing where things are leads to frustration and anger and impatience navigate us away from kindness. Updating technology makes me groan inwardly but it must be done.
I am trying to get organized as the daughters spread their wings and the homeschooling/parenting duties change. I thought piercing my ears might simplify my quest for daily beauty; I thought a new laptop and going to campus early might alleviate some of the trials of updating and expanding my teaching at UTC school of music. They did help a little. Now I want to kindly pass my 10 year old laptop on to my daughters without losing access to all the notes I wrote.
This music may be dusty composed in 2014-2023 but I want pdfs at least but if I can still have access to arranging without re-wrting the notes that would be best.
Well, maybe I want music that will help their kids learn and something that goes along with my cv.
Copy and paste: we need to know what is where for the compositions, if we put it in the Doran Music Studio google drive I can open it with the new musescore program on my new macbook air.
So, Ai can I see what I did self-publish? And What about all the Psalms that came to me while I homeschooled and taught humanities online and moved back and forth and struggled with Crohns disease and multiple covid recoveries?
It says “Certainly! Here is the updated list of Nicole Doran’s compositions on ArrangeMe, now numbered for easier reference.
Sacred & Psalm-Based Works
Psalm Two (Voice and Piano)
Psalm Three (Voice and Piano)
Psalm Four (Voice and Piano)
Psalm Five (Voice and Piano)
Psalm Six (Voice and Piano)
Psalm 45: Joy and Gladness (Instrumental Duet: Flute and Bassoon)
Psalm 59: My Strength (Piano and Vocal)
Psalm 63: You, God, are my God (Piano Solo / Lead Sheet)
Out of the Depths: Psalm 130 (Instrumental Duet)
The Steadfast Heart: Psalms 1-4 (Easy Piano cycle)
The Steadfast Heart: Psalms 5-8 (Piano Vocal)
Four Psalms for Bassoon and Cello (Woodwind/String Ensemble)
Two Psalms for Bassoon and Cello (Instrumental Duet)
Blessed are the Poor in Spirit (Vocal Solo)
Ezekiel (Piano and Vocal)
Instrumental Compositions & Duets
April Dreams (Voice and Bassoon)
In Six Days (Sketches for Clarinet and Bassoon)
Psalm Seven (Voice, Flute, and Bassoon)
Arrangements of Existing Works
Pachelbel Canon Duo (Arranged for Violin and Bassoon – with Grace Doran)
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (Easy Piano arrangement)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Quiet Christmas for Flute and Piano)
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (Flute Solo)
Here is what Claude says about the work: A Quick Note on Style
Doran’s work is particularly noted for its unconventional woodwind pairings. If you are a bassoonist or flutist, her catalog is a goldmine for niche ensemble repertoire that isn’t typically found in standard publishing houses.
Would you like me to look up the specific instrumentation details or price points for any of these numbered items?” Ai says very helpfully.
But the journey continues in my mind…..
So I can find Psalm 19 in Pepper and even up to Psalm 7 that was performed at NSF with Lauren Kennedy. So I need to find 8-18, 20-35, 36 went with the kids learning Bach on the Piano and Earth Day, 42 was one leaving to college and the new house and my discovery of the Kanneh-Mason family, 51-2 went to Madrid with us for the Jaki Conference.
So where is 37-41 and 42-51? I know what happened to 60…Grace was going to do it as solo violin and then changed track with lesson disruptions and I used the hymn tune Fairest Lord Jesus. 61 honored Eliza’s wedding and our love for Pachelbel, so that gets us up to date with some idea of which Psalms are missing. Many of our friends and musical associates did the best they could on the shifting sands of life circumstance and economy/artistic opportunity.
Kindness means staying in my lane and being content with what I can do this Saturday. I am not indulging in the desire to see how the Psalms Project of Greg Scheer is going or the other people who seem more gifted and organized than me. I want to give lots of things to my students and daughters and figuring out what to give and how to give it is kindness for this week! I am thankful for these gifts and the community of people who have invested in this journey. I hope you subscribe and visit the work on Ko-Fi to see me get up to Psalm 150! (Of course I will kindly throw in to that Ko-Fi sight any arrangements or resources I think would help me or you) What kind of kindness helps your music thrive?
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