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Ted Mann, Composer

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HotFreeLayoutsTed Mann: B.M., M.A., award-winning composer, is on the music faculty at Keene State College in N.H. where he teaches courses in the history of rock and roll, avant rock,counterpoint, analytical techniques, guitar classes, private guitar and lute instruction. He also coaches the guitar ensembles.He has performed in venues from Boston to New York City and across the country as a soloist and with a variety of groups including the Vivaldi Traveling Circus Orchestra of Manhattan and the Nashua Chamber Symphony.Check out my guitar and lute page.....www.myspace/tedmannguitaretcThe Music on the Player
The first three pieces are demos for my new forthcoming cd "Approximately Blue". I hope this project will be completed by the end of May. The next piece," fantasy on Lux Aeterna" is a live performance with a strat, pod and boss looper. It has fragments of the Gregorian chant, "Lux Aeterna" weaving like threads in a tapestry through out. It's the last track on my now, cult, ep with_light.(FEB.2007) The next pieces are two movements from a three-movement work I composed in 2002 entitled "Your Tears are not Forgotten." The instrumentation is for cello and assorted percussion with loopers. This work is dedicated to my sister who disappeared from my life and who I miss very very much. It is also in memory of my father.
Approximately Blue, my new CD, will be released in MAY(WELL, I'm just trying to stay optimistic).

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Music:

Member Since: 2/16/2007
Band Website: tedmann.net
Band Members: Ted Mann, guitars...... several classicals, a strat, a godin, pedals and a computer. Sometimes a lute and vihuela.
Influences: Joe Maneri, Lou Harrison, Oliver Messiaen, John Dowland, Brian Eno, Giullame de Machaut, Josquin Des Pres, Robert Fripp, Arvo Part, Beatles, Brian Wilson, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Thelonious Monk, Vihuela and Lute music, Speculative Theorists and my friends from all over the world!!!
Sounds Like: Come and check it out! Check out my guitaretc. page at www.myspace.com/tedmannguitaretc. (ITs still under cOnstrUCtIOn.)
Record Label: Musica Speculativa
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Words are sometimes like music to me

Words are sometimes like music to me. I've enjoyed the sound of the musical terms recercar and ricercar for a long time now. Sometimes, a word or words have to be heard or seen many times over long pe...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Tue, 06 May 2008 04:19:00 PST

The Crisis

Everything is a crisis these days, isn't it?I see hand wringing everywhere I turn. Now days it seems like anything will make the world come to an end. The college I teach at has a conference or commis...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:35:00 PST

2004 The resurrection of Smile

2004The resurrection of SmileLost to mythology in 1966.Rebuilt and brought alive in 2004.A legend??? A mystery??? The Haydn and Beethoven relationship.McCartney and Wilson. Except&.Which one is Beetho...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:45:00 PST

Some Thoughts on Music and the Digital Age

It’s interesting to note when Elvis did start recording, it was with Sam Phillips an independent recording engineer. Sam Phillips was a little man, along with other recording entrepreneurs with ...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:48:00 PST

The release of Approximately Blue

The release of Approximately Blue should occur in May. To date there are 10 tracks. The goal is to get 10 more done and then pick out 15 or so. The title suggests many things to me. Once you see all t...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:11:00 PST

with_light enters the realm of cult

Copies of with_light are now few and far between. It was a limited printing just to mark a time of my life. I guess it was really a collection of pieces and thoughts from previous years leading up to ...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:25:00 PST

CHRISTMAS and "Lo How a ROSE"

John Fahey's Christmas album is one of my favorites.Many years later I made my own&" Lo How A Rose" check out Silent Night on my guitar page from this cd. There's also another Christmas carol "The Lea...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:43:00 PST

VIDEOS SELECT VIDEO

I am slowly getting some videos of me playing.The first one is on lute of course.It is a great Tocatta by Kapsberger.MORE TO COME
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Fri, 18 May 2007 06:24:00 PST

The Very Famous Ken Topham

The very famous Ken Topham as you have never heard him before!Or maybe don't remember.The top two picture are him playing one of my pieces at Berklee School of Music.The two movements are from "Your t...
Posted by Ted Mann, Composer on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:33:00 PST