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'Layer Cake' by yours truly. Opening section of the 'Layer Cake Suite'. Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Comments welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

The 'doodle of the day' was created by playing with the possibilities afforded by six B7 chords: B7, Bmaj7, Bdim7, and so on. Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Comments welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

This 'doodle of the day' is composed entirely for brass, which is rare for me. Comments welcome. Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

This 'doodle of the day' is composed entirely for brass, which is rare for me. Comments welcome. Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

Welcome to the 'doodle of the day', which I whipped up in an hour or so this afternoon. Some of the chord progressions are a little... unexpected shall we say, but it is what it is. Mockup with MuseScore 4.6.x. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

Today's compositional 'doodle of the day' is cool jazz...Mockup with MuseScore 4.6.x. Comments welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

This quartet sounds like it's going up and up (or down and down), but it never quite seems to arrive...Mockup with MuseScore 4.6.x. Comments welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Comments welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

This 'doodle of the day' was inspired in equal measure by a random walk through Schoenberg's Chart of the Regions and the notion of people who are fated to at best nod at each other in acknowledgment. Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Comments welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

I imagine today's 'doodle' as an excerpt from a contemporary Western mass. But instead of hoping for eternal rest in pure light, we are asking for rest in dappled sunlight. The kind of fleeting and animated light you might find in a cemetery as the afternoon sun is filtered through the autumn leaves. Comments welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

'The Impossible Waltz' by yours truly. Comments welcome as always. Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

The doodle of the day is a very horizontal, counterpoint-driven bagatelle called 'Filigree'. Comments welcome as always. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

The 'doodle of the day' is called 'Letter from a Friend'. Comments are welcome as always. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

'Reading Backwards' by your truly. Comments welcome as always. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

'Three Tries' by yours truly. Comments welcome as always. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

A look back with fresh eyes and a bigger toolkit at a very old doodle of the day. In the revisions, I changed the violin line to brass and dialed up the chromaticism, creating what I think of as a Romantic halo around what is essentially a Classical piece. Mockup is with MuseScore 4.6.x. Comments Welcome. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.

I hope you enjoy the 'doodle of the day', a piece for flute violin(s) and piano. It is inspired by some of the stylistic elements of ancient music. Parkinson's sucks. Help find a cure.