Anyways, I remembered that Mrs. Gunn set up this website not only to use it as a place for students to post their music and get feedback from their fellow students, but to also let previous students come back and help current students.  I am currently in college and can help anyone that asks.

Also, I noticed that nothing seems to have been done with the site since last year.  Is this site still functioning?

James

Hey, hey, everybody!!! I’ve put together a list of the best songs made by students during the 2007-2008 school year. I hope you enjoy!

I know I got some of the titles wrong and not all the songs tell their composers, so if you could let me know, I’ll fix them. Also, some of the songs may sound different, because I had to convert them all to mp3.

1. Just Music – Quentin Greely

2. The Fight – Ben Easterday

3. Techno Crazy – Brian Bartlett

4. Thug Life – John Bone

5. Arabian Nights – Matt Elza and Mason Boord

6. COOL – John Bone

7. Together (Sibelius Version) – Greg Porch

8. Valentine – Andrew Ainsworth

9. Detour – Andrew Ainsworth

10. Hardstyle – Andrew Clark and Bruce Foote

11. Destruction from Nowhere – Will Lanman and Chris Stull

12. Viellasstowa No Bolacoanda Ola Inocrim Strupinomi Von Filatocron – James Moore

13. Ghandi’s Fight – Will Lanman

14. My Way Back to You (Classical) – Chris Stull

15. Highnoon Skydive – Luis Salamanca

16. Moore Music – James Moore

17. High Nights – T. Credle

18. Campfire Dragon Rider – Ian Hoppe and Josh Christovich

19. Waterway (Not Complete) – James Moore

20. Tomato Garden – Devin Beaman

21. WW – Devin Beaman

22. Watch Yo’ Mouth – Nikki Singletary

23. Electronica – Ben Easterday

24. Something Techno – Carlos Perdomo

25. Raptor – Josh Christovich

26. Crazy Song – Will Lanman

27. Monster – Matt Elza and Mason Boord

28. Trance Experience – Carlos Perdomo

29. Fission Mailed – Andrew Clark and Bruce Foote

30. An Awful Tempest – Mason Boord

31. Buzz – Leslie Steiger

32. Shredding Song – Ryan Moyer and John Bone

33. The Same Prophecy Song (AKA Symbol of Proof) – Ben Easterday and James Moore

34. TTS-1

35. Morning to Night On a School Day – James Moore

36. Launch Zone – Luis Salamanca

37. Fast and High – Ian Hoppe

38. Spicy – Leslie Steiger

40. Double Cheeseburger – Matt Elza and Mason Boord

42. Together (Polyphonics Version) – Greg Porch

A Wild, Wild Party is a song from the play, “A Wild Party”. Mrs. Hearne asked for someone to write the piano piece so the theater class could hear what it should sound like for a show they were putting on, so I volunteered to do it.

If you’d like to hear the song and not just the piano piece, go to this URL

http://www.imeem.com/people/mUMLsA/music/7dtSZJKE/the_wild_party_a_wild_wild_party/

A Wild, Wild Party is copyright of Andrew Lippa

This is the 4th movement of a 6 movement composition that I’m working on.

For information about the whole composition, go to Waterway Movement 1: Pitter-Patter From the Sky.

Here are all the completed movements of my “Waterway” composition in one audio file. I will be updating it when I complete more movements.

The assignment for this piece of music was to make a song in Sonar 7 Studio Edition using the Cakewalk TTS-1 Software Synthesizer. I decided to make a song that ‘told’ of a school day.

Its somewhat hard to hear the sections, but there are sections in this song, just like there are sections in my school day. The sections are 1) Before school, 2) Riding the bus, 3) 1st period, 4) 2nd or 3rd period, 5) Lunch Time, 6) 4th or 5th period, 7) 6th or 7th period, Going home, 9) Doing homework, 10) Afternoon activities, and 11) Evening activities.

The assignment for this piece was to make a composition using the Rapture software synthesizer.

In this piece, I originally designed it to have the same group of measures repeated throughout the piece, with the only variations being what instruments are playing. However, it evolved into what it is now.

Yeah……I’m somewhat embarrassed by this song. I write it for our poetry song assignment, where we chose a peom and wrote music to it. I chose The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.

Edgar Allen Poe is famous for his dark and gloomy poetry, and The Raven is no exception. For some reason, I decided to write very upbeat music to such a downbeat poem.

Since this was early on in the school year, I was writing very repetitive music, and, since The Raven is such a long poem, I only used the first 5 stanzas.

Here are the lyrycs to my The Raven song:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.’
Chorus:

The Raven, he is coming here;
La La La;
Where is he? Where is he?
La Ah La;
La La La La;
The Raven;

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
*Chorus*
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,’
*Chorus*
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,’ said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you’ – here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.
*Chorus*
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!’
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!’
Merely this and nothing more.
The Raven, The Raven;
He has come, oh, he has come for me;
He has come for me.

This song was for a class project. Working with a partner(s), we were to make our own original song. My partner, Ben Easterday, and I decided to compose the song to go with a poem I wrote in English 12 class.

I have to say, I’m happy with the music we wrote, but I wish I had written the poem a bit better. I wrote the poem based off an InuYasha fanfiction story I’ve been writing. If anyone wants to read my story, its called “The Same” by Quicksaver007, and you can find it at both Fanfiction.net and Deviantart.com

Here are the lyrics to the song:

Chorus:

The Soul Protector;
The Demon of Wind;
The Barrier Erector;
The Assistant of the Great One;
The Corpse Defender;
The Sword Guardian;
And The Secret Inheritor;
*Chorus*
If balance, you have found;
To those dangers, you are bound;
Let Ying and Yang meet and flow;
Mix and match, diffuse and glow;
When two are one, with no doubt;
Make haste, and cast it out;
Not quite living, not quite dead:
No body, not even a head;
*Chorus*
Caught in your own personal hell;
Bound together by the spell;
In that small sphere you shall fight;
a battle of dark and light;
if escape be your desire;
be true and not a liar;
follow what I have to say;
and you shall be free and gay;
*Instrument Solos*
*Chorus*
If two, there are, for all to see;
Multiplied the danger be;
To rid evil from the land;
Find the broken heart at hand;
That one alone holds the key;
To make two into none and see;
What he would die for;
And for a moment he would soar;
*Chorus*
*Chorus*

This is the 3rd movement of a 6 movement composition that I’m working on.

For information about the whole composition, go to Waterway Movement 1: Pitter-Patter From the Sky.