M Ryan Taylor

I mentioned a few weeks back that I have been working on some projects for Halloween. Here are two of them. If you like them, please help by sharing with your friends, leaving a comment on YouTube and adding the video to your favorites. These things really help. Thanks!

"Welcome" said the Spider:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8JhuVo9crs&fmt=18

Five Little Pumpkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_wuD4ZFaDE

For more Halloween Fun visit http://thirteenforhalloween.com

Link: http://ThirteenforHalloween.com

There may be those of you who read my blog that don’t know that I’ve written some silly children’s music apart from all that serious art song, chamber music and opera stuff. Probably the best of this, though I am fond of my Thanksgiving collection as well, is my Halloween book of songs and album: Thirteen for Halloween. I’ve recently been working on building a site around this collection at http://ThirteenforHalloween.com - so if you’re young, know someone who is young, or young at heart, I hope you’ll go over that way and leave a comment or two. Still lots to do, but there is plenty to see and hear already, so enjoy!

The Necromancer

a fugue macabre
for piano or organ:

• The Necromancer.pdf
• The Necromancer.mp3

Printed Edition on Lulu:

The Necromancer
a fugue macabre for piano or organ
includes 3 other bonus works for keyboard

The Necromancer : a fugue macabre went through about five revisions before I was completely done with it, but it easily became my favorite of my own keyboard works. I wrote it in the spirit of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Dukas, and Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens : a little dark, but mostly fun.

A necromancer is a wizard that performs his magic through some kind of converse with the spirits of the dead. For the record, I don’t really believe in that kind of thing, but I love Halloween and all that kind of stuff for the humorous side of it all. If we can’t laugh at death, then we’re doomed to be afraid of it.

Performers!

Send me a recording and I’ll post it here.