American jazz pianist with CDs which he recently published in 2008. This composer has written "classical" music since ca.... More > 1979. Composed in '86, revised '97
37 pages, 4 movements>
#1. [3+3+2] uptempo, rhythmic - Spanish feel.
#2. Molto Legato: Smooth arpeggios in R.H., an intense romantic melody in minor interpolated
#3. Presto: a fast march
#4. Recap of movement#1's ideas but in new meter - Bach influenced but with jazz harmony. More rhythmic than classical.
Difficulty: moderately advanced (those able to play Bach, American works)
Influence: Jazz, Latin-Spanish composers, FREE mp3/demos are in his Lulu Storefront < Less

American Composer/pianist Michael Guy (b. 1954) also composes chamber and symphonic music with a jazz influence. Try his... More > first quartet subtitled "S.Q. Blue" completed in 2010 in 2 movements with the last long movement (16') in 3 large sections. A very "jazz blues" influence and Celtic flavored music with shades of his Bartok influence in movement #1. For performing groups a score can be made available with parts at cost. Contact the composer from his Lulu storefront.

Digital Demonstration mp3s of SQ BLUE> http://www.lulu.com/product/media-download/string-quartet-%231-%28sq-blue%29-mp3-digital-demos/15700721 < Less

Three impressionistic piano pieces by American composer Michael Guy, of recital caliber, moderate difficulty. The largest... More > piece No.1: Aubade, The Belltower of Deland, contains a mix of classical, jazz and rock evoking images of a quiet Sunday in a small Southern town. No.2 is a November, a Nocturne No. 3 is "September Song" a country/folk tune similar to early George Winston.18 pages. < Less

The lyrics of songs by jazz pianist/songwriter Michael Guy to be followed up by a CD. THIS BOOK IS IN ALL COLOR, TEXT &... More > PHOTOS. These arrangements are in large type including photos on personal and nature themes. Photos show his striking rich collage work in his CD covers published by JzCDz.com. Michael Guy writes of his own personal history as well as songs in American History set as story-songs.
(If you only knew his melodies!) You will when you buy his CDs published under JzCDz.com
He is the sole composer/pianist on the New Age, Jazz CD titled: AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE now available on iTunes and Amazon and here at his Lulu Storefront
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Fiction novel by composer/author Michael A. Guy published in 2006 is available as an e-book abridged paperback. A strange... More > combination of English music history and nautical fiction set in London and the Caribbean ca. 1695 and parallels the end of the life of composer Henry Purcell, who is taken on a no-return hell-ship voyage to the West Indies. He gets involved with some strange Shakespearean characters straight out of 'The Tempest'- An imaginative combination of nautical and cultural history.
2nd edition, 245 pages. < Less

A piano and woodwind ensemble piece (2 flutes, 2 clarinets) composed by American pianist Michael Guy. It musically... More > interprets the twisting moonlight shadows of the beach at night as evoked in Walt Whitman's poem of the same title. An mp3 digital file will be posted at JzCDz.com To hear a computer rendition of this score go to his home page @ http://www.miguy7.webs.com/ < Less

First self-published orchestra suite, composed and orchestrated by American composer Michael Guy who is also a jazz pianist... More > and has recently published CDs. 7 sections with each published alone as they are finished. The first here is I.PRELUDE, a romantically tinged impressionistic melody surrounded with rippling harp, woodwind figures they reveal his influences from Howard Hanson, Ives to Debussy and Stravinsky. This short prelude orchestrated in 2010 is amazingly based on one of his first youthful melodies all the back to 1975! when just a student in community college... < Less

American composer/pianist Michael Guy's second book of compositions for Piano solo & Piano with chamber instruments... More > (Flute/clarinet)on a program of interpreting the months of summer. Beautiful, impressionistic, melodic, music with jazzy episodes.
TITLES: June>"Fire Island Impressions(1975),July>Twilight Song(1983,August>Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking(1983)for piano & Flute, clarinet. 55 pages < Less

First self-published orchestra suite, composed and orchestrated by American composer Michael Guy who is also a jazz pianist... More > and has recently published CDs. 7 sections with each published alone as they are finished. The first here is I.PRELUDE, a romantically tinged impressionistic melody surrounded with rippling harp, woodwind figures they reveal his influences from Howard Hanson, Ives to Debussy and Stravinsky. This short prelude orchestrated in 2010 is amazingly based on one of his first youthful melodies all the back to 1975! when just a student in community college... < Less

American Composer/pianist Michael Guy (b. 1954) also composes chamber and symphonic music with a jazz influence. Try his... More > first quartet subtitled "S.Q. Blue" completed in 2010 in 2 movements with the last long movement (16') in 3 large sections. A very "jazz blues" influence and Celtic flavored music with shades of his Bartok influence in movement #1. For performing groups a score can be made available with parts at cost. Contact the composer from his Lulu storefront.

Digital Demonstration mp3s of SQ BLUE> http://www.lulu.com/product/media-download/string-quartet-%231-%28sq-blue%29-mp3-digital-demos/15700721 < Less