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The Universal
This is an original orchestral piece that I’ve composed based on my “1ª Universal”, a solo piano piece from my first album “I speak through my piano”. This Orchestral version was comissioned by...
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Delicatésse
This is a song I composed in 2003, and it is the opening single from my album “I speak through my piano”. It is a most gentle and delicate piece and it represents very well my favourite solo piano...
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Notabilis
This is an orchestral work I’ve done as a birthday gift to Professor Konstantin Luzyanin. I think the outcome is rather attractive and could be easily adapted to a motion picture or a short movie. I’d...
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The Portuguese Way
«Fado (Portuguese: destiny, fate) is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. In popular belief, fado is a form of music characterized by...
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Romantic Theme
This is a Romantic theme sketched to a movie scene. Its purpose is to be used as a cinema cue. You find a musical score here. Filed under: Film Music, Instrumental
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A Portuguese Soul (Fado for string quartet)
In Austin, given the contact with the School of music I developed several experiences in the composition level while also studying the rules of the instrumental music associated with fado. Original...
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A Pleasant day (with Toy Piano)
This is an orchestral instrumental work, with toy piano. I’ve made this as a soundtrack for a pleasant day, a movie, a short, anything you find it could be appropriate. Filed under: Film Music,...
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A slice of Liquor Cake
Illustration @RGBStock/Christine van Dam This is a soundtrack for an imaginary movie in my head. It is a work for Toy Piano, Portuguese Guitar and Orchestra. I really enjoyed composing this and it is...
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Finding one’s voice: assembling and mixing the little bits that ring inside...
There’s the famous theory that everything is a remix, that we are entangled in «webs of significance». Culture, according to the notable anthropologist Clifford Geertz, is «a system of inherited...
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A Escarpa (The Sea Cliff)
This is an original dramatic fado song, with a strong evocative feeling. It can be sung or stand on its own as an instrumental. Filed under: Instrumental
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O fabuloso destino de Amélia Postigo (the fabulous destiny of Amélia Postigo)
This song is the soundtrack of a short-story I wrote on the character of Amélia Postigo, one chapter of my book “O castelo do Louco”. It is a parody on the “Comptine d’été nº2” by Yann Tiersen, which...
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