Selections of compositions composed by Ron when he was a composition student at FAU and UM  BACK

These works were composed between 1971 and 1974. While Ron is known for his jazz compositions, his student studies were in the Theory-composition departments at both FAU and UM. Ron earned a BFA in Theory-composition from FAU, and a MM in Theory-composition from UM. So, these are Ron's 'classical' works. Ron's composition teacher at UM was CLIFTON WILLIAMS. He gave Ron much freedom to choose his projects and in lieu of a large orchestral work, Ron wrote some of his more succesful jazz big band works as Theory-composition projects such as Seventh Sign, Halcyon Days, and Grimpen Mire to name a few. The rest of his Theory-composition projects were what is presented here. Regarding the compositional process, Ron composes his classical works by a line-writing method, meaning that the harmonies are derived from the melodic combination of all the parts, in fact, Ron does not know what the chords are until subsequent analysis. The melodic lines are composed by ear and intuition, then tweaked later.

THE WORKS:  The titles are links to the music files for IOS users.  To read the scores while listening, go here: VIDEOS  If you would like scores and parts. EMAIL RON