Sheet Music Catalogue

I publish my music in various places around the internet. I'm always happy when my music is performed. So far, I have about 4K downloads on IMSLP. You can find a lot of my music there. You can also find it here. To receive a pdf copy of the music listed below, please e-mail me at 

ellenmschwindt@gmail.com 

I publish for the love of music and for the love of music-making in community. I believe in sharing my music with interested musicians. However, I really appreciate contributions. It takes a long time to write, perform, perfect, publish, and record a piece of music.  Please consider a donation commensurate with your ability to pay and the value you place on my work. Enjoy!

Catalogue

Light Pastorale:  This piece started out as a pastorale meditation which fell out of the sky on Christmas Day in 2016. It's help was needed in a later Christmas Season and it grew these lyrics. I hope it will serve many groups of singers in many places. Scored for Soprano, Alto, and piano. Can be sung by two soloists or a choir of women's voices. 

Lyrics: Light come, light. Light come light. Light come out of dark night. Light comes out of the dark night. Light comes out of night and shines and shines bright on all. Light comes out of the dark, comes out into light and shines on all, and light is within us one and all. Light comes out of the dark, comes out of the night: the light that shines on all. Take my light and let it shine. Let it shine until the whole is light, all light. Let it shine until the whole is light, all light. 

Student Pieces: My students inspire me. These solo piano pieces are dedicated to some of my piano students. I have written them from my heart. They range from intermediate difficulty to more advanced. I've dedicated each piece to a student who might love playing it. I hope many more students try them out and enjoy playing them. 

Three Little Pieces: These are piano pieces that are accessible to intermediate players. You can listen to them on bandcamp here .  The first is called The Beginning is the End, because it is. The second is called Two Part Invention: three part inversion. It is an invention whose structure comes from inverting chords that include extended harmonies. The third is Tryptych. It's a bit longer and a little harder and it takes some of its harmonies from the harmonic series. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Chamber Music Concert

All over our seven-town universe, people are practicing. Amid the flurry of winter sports, plans for town meetings, school activities, and seed-ordering, music is filling homes. These musicians will share their winter's work on Friday, March 13, at Fryeburg New Church.

The acoustics in that church's sanctuary make it an ideal place to listen to chamber music. The room is resonant and the piano is good. Some of the musicians have recently participated in a chamber music class designed to teach students how to be independent musicians. In the program, students work with their peers to perfect duets or trios. Students get the chance to run some rehearsals themselves, learning such skills as how to count in, how to communicate about dynamics, and how to develop an interpretation together.

Daniel Strahler, piano, and Jasper MacDougall, trombonist, are performing a piece by composer and organist John S. Dixon. This piece, an arrangement of a prelude for pipe organ, is aptly titled “Aria” and combines majestic and lyrical phrases with beautiful harmonies. Mr. Dixon graciously shares his compositions with musicians who want to perform them. Sparrow Bickford, pianist, will play the bass part of a piano duet called Judy's Waltz with the program's teacher Ellen Schwindt. Silas Krautman and Tristan Roll will play a piano duet called “Lost in the Wind,” Lilah and Tristan Roll will create some frivolity in their rendition of Bartok's “Frolic.”  Along with the duos, two students will perform chamber music solos. Honora Geier sings the most famouse song of Robert Schumann's “Widmung” or “Dedication” from the cycle “Myrthen.” Theo Gray, pianist, performs the allegro movement of Beethoven's F minor piano sonata.

Some adult players will join the students with selections of their own. Charlotte Gill, Phil Marshall, and Ellen Schwindt perform a Handel trio sonata. Ethan Chalmers, violinist and violin teacher, performs a selection from Prokofiev's 5 melodies for piano and violin. The concert begins at 7 PM on Friday, March 13 at 12 Oxford Street. Admission is free. Fryeburg New Church generously shares the use of its space with many community organizations. Donations to Fryeburg New Church for the upkeep of their building will be gratefully accepted.