composer
Ross James Carey is a composer and pianist. Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1969, he has been teaching at universities in Malaysia since 2010. As both a composer ...
related works
Reverie : for guitar / Ross James Carey
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Guitar
Scoring:
gtr
Absorockinlutely : for three guitars / Bob Wander
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Guitar
Scoring:
3g
Variations : for guitar trio, 1979 / Joël Bons
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Guitar
Scoring:
3g
Ode to Scarlett Johansson : for four guitars / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Guitar
Scoring:
4g
composition
Lachlan Moods : Three pieces for guitar / Ross James Carey
Description:
Lachlan Moods – Three Pieces for Guitar (2007/09) emphasises the interplay of melodic lines based on an interweaving of major and minor harmonies. The first piece of the set features a cyclically repeated melody coloured by different harmonies. The second is darker in tone, while the third is a virtuosic study, a brief respite for the guitarist being a quotation from Debussy’s piano piece ‘Jimbo’s Lullaby’ from Children’s Corner, which like my theme is also built around the interval of a Major 2nd.
The first of the set was composed in the town of Forbes in Central New South Wales in 2007, and was originally grouped with three other pieces written at the same time. In a subsequent revision in Melbourne in 2009, I retained only this piece, adding two newly composed ones. The title refers to the Lachlan River, which flows through the town of Forbes.