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Could transpose to C Major to avoid one-finger playings between white and black keys, but Noteflight does a bad job of this and I would have to do it note by note; Noteflight has its own ideas as to "enharmonic equivalents!" Anyway, A Major is my favorite key.

As to the above comment and the extremely difficult or unplayable chords, if I had to undergo the horrible ordeal of having to edit a piece like this for public performance or publication, I could leave out a note or two, add an arpeggio mark, or some such thing, and such an edit would make little difference in the sound of the music! Noteflight renditions do have a certain sameness of course, but what a tool to have!

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The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell Are dark and wet as ink, And slow and softly rings their bell, As in the slime you sink. You sink into the slime, who dare To knock upon their door, While down the grinning gargoyles stare And noisome waters pour. Beside the rotting river-strand The drooping willows weep, And gloomily the gorcrows stand Croaking in their sleep. Over the Merlock Mountains a long and weary way, In a mouldy valley where the trees are grey, By a dark pool's borders without wind or tide, Moonless and sunless, the Mewlips hide. The cellars where the Mewlips sit Are deep and dank and cold With single sickly candle lit; And there they count their gold. Their walls are wet, their ceilings drip; Their feet upon the floor Go softly with a squish-flap-flip, As they sidle to the door. They peep out slyly; through a crack Their feeling fingers creep, And when they've finished, in a sack Your bones they take to keep. Beyond the Merlock Mountains, a long and lonely road, Through the spider-shadows and the marsh of Tode, And through the wood of hanging trees and gallows-weed, You go to find the Mewlips - and the Mewlips feed.

This is a song, Tolkien setting, I wrote in 1993 at the age of 24, and recently arranged as a tone poem for string orchestra. It is so dissonant that the music scares the composer! Eb Minor might be considered a weird key to begin with, but even I have trouble telling what key it is in! Not atonal, post-mahlerian perhaps, but it is about swamp monsters that eat you, so... The Mewlips-Tone Poem for String Orchestra Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight The poem is posted in the Noteflight comments, so you can follow the music with the words, if you can stand to listen to it; again, it scares me!

One more thing orchestral I can post, an opera overture from 1995. If I enter any of the opera, probably extract a suite or something if I don't feel like working myself to death! Overture to the Opera Hypochondria Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight

Three Roads Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight I consider it a sort of Tolkien setting, because he liked this Child Ballad, and quoted this fragment of it in an essay.

I have a kind of personal "program" for the first and second movements, that I came up with long after the quartet was written! The first movement is a conversation between me and Dmitri Shostakovich, with Beethoven and Brahms politely listening, and Antonin Dvorak keeps bursting in the door drunk, whistling his latest theme! The second movement, Courante and Fugue, is even funnier: the Courante sounds to me like the barrel organ is out of tune at the carnival, and the fugue sounds as if Beethoven, whilst sketching out a fugal section in his late quartets, was even drunker than usual...

...and our local orchestra, Northern Neck Orchestra, and a local pianist could probably handle it, so there's that...

Yeah; I'm doin' it, and probably would have a greater effect as a piano concerto. As a guitar concerto, would either have to be a very small string orchestra, or guitar amplified!

Only said it offhand, but I am always torturing myself and inadvertently coming up with a pretty major project! Within ten minutes, I am THERE with my piano concerto idea! Concerto in E Minor for Piano and Chamber Orchestra! Lot of work, but the music is there already. Arrange guitar part for piano, wind doubling, and I can already think of what to do with the two horns and trumpet. Add tympani...

Really, I COULD turn this into a piano concerto, with single winds, two horns and trumpet without too much strain, but not now!

Thinking if performed, should be 3 1st, 3 2nd, 2 Vla, 2 vc, 1 db, so guitar could be heard better, but I would be open to full string orchestra, and guitar amplified!

For your consideration, a little chamber concerto I wrote in 1998, and almost forgot I had written until I found it in a closet in 2016! Concerto In E Minor For Guitar And String Orchestra-1 Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Concerto In E Minor For Guitar And String Orchestra-2 Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Concerto In E Minor For Guitar And String Orchestra-3 Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight