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Edward Green

Composer, Musicologist, Aesthetic Realism Associate

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    • Aesthetic Realism and Music: Technique and Beauty
      • Rhythm Contradicts Contempt: Aesthetic Realism and The Rite of Spring
      • Greatness in Music and Chopin’s Waltz in Ab, Op. 69
      • Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology
      • Sincerity in Music: Sergei Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony
      • Music and the Victorian Mind: The Musical Aesthetics of the Rev. H. R. Haweis
      • The Technique of Chromatic Completion in Haydn’s Late Masses
      • Harmony and the Oneness of Opposites
      • Music From China and the Universal Criterion for Beauty
    • The Lives and Work of Great Musicians
      • How Much Should a Man Care for Besides Himself? On Glenn Gould, Men and Myself
      • “Aesthetic Realism Explains the Beauty of Jazz and of Duke Ellington: A Talk by Edward Green”
      • Berlioz and the Power Men & Women Want Most
      • What Does It Mean to Be a Real Friend?
      • Why Are Men & Women Troubled about Ambition and Importance?
      • What Will Have a Man Really Sure of Himself?
    • Music, Literature & Life
      • Is Good Will Our Greatest Power?, Aesthetic Realism and Samuel Richardson’s ‘Clarissa’
      • The Mind of Adolf Hitler: A Study in the Unconscious Appeal of Contempt
      • Contempt: the Cause of Insanity—Eli Siegel’s Discovery & Two African Short Stories
      • How Can a Man Have True Integrity?
    • Conference Papers

Selected Compositions for Orchestra

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings

Dale Underwood, soloist
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Misha Rachlevsky, conductor
(Arizona University Recordings)

1st mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/edward-green-concerto-for-alto-sax-and-strings-1.mp3

2nd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/edward-green-concerto-for-alto-sax-and-strings-2.mp3

view/download score

Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra

Helen Lin, soloist
The North/South Chamber Orchestra
Max Lifchitz, conductor
(North/South Recordings)

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Piano-Concertino.mp3

view/download score

Concerto in C for Trumpet and Orchestra

Paul Neebe, soloist
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Wiley, conductor
(Albany Records)

1st mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward_Green-Trumpet_Concerto_I_March-Allegro.mp3

2nd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward_Green-Trumpet_Concerto_II_Andante_Cantabile.mp3

3rd mvt.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward_Green-Trumpet_Concerto_III_Rondo-Allegro-Scherzando.mp3

view/download score

Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra

This is a MIDI realization of the score.

Complete recording:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Concertino_for_Piano_and_String_Orchestra_by_Edward_Green.mp3

view/download score

This piece also exists in a version scored for Piano Sextet. Visit the “Selected Compositions for Chamber Ensemble” page.

Overture in G
(rev. 2022)

This is a MIDI realization of the score.

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Overture_in_G_by_Edward_Green.wav

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Symphony in One Movement (2021)

MIDI realization

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Symphony_in_One_Movement-by-Edward_Green-.mp3

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Music for Shakespeare

Love Music

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare1.mp3

Gigue

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare2.mp3

Air

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare3.mp3

Galliard/Pavanne/Rigadoon

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Edward-Green-Music-for-Shakespeare4-5-6.mp3

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Symphony in C

Live Recording by the Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso Nacional del Paraguay, conducted by Diego Sanchez Haase.
The symphony was awarded, in 2017, their “First International Symphonic Composition Prize.”

Complete performance:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Symphony-in-C-by-Edward-Green.mp3

view/download score

Individual movements:

1) The Adventure Begins

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1-The-Adventure-Begins.mp3

2) Surprises along the Way

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2-Surprises-Along-The-Way.mp3

3) The Dark Night

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/3-The-Dark-Night.mp3

4) The Wide World

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4-The-Wide-World.mp3

 

Symphony in Eb for Concert Wind Ensemble

This is a MIDI realization of the score.

Complete recording:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/audio/Symphony_in_Eb_for_Concert_Wind_Ensemble-by_Edward_Green.wav

view/download score

Individual movements:

1st Mvt:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/audio/Symphony_in_Eb_for_Concert_Wind_Ensemble_mvt_1-by_Edward_Green.wav

2nd Mvt:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/audio/Symphony_in_Eb_for_Concert_Wind_Ensemble_mvt_2-by_Edward_Green.wav

3rd Mvt:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/audio/Symphony_in_Eb_for_Concert_Wind_Ensemble_mvt_3-by_Edward_Green.wav

4th Mvt:

https://edgreenmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/audio/Symphony_in_Eb_for_Concert_Wind_Ensemble_mvt_4-by_Edward_Green.wav

Faculty, Aesthetic Realism Foundation

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Professor Emeritus, Manhattan School of Music

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