Since my retirement in 2001, I have studied music theory and harmony and begun writing songs. You can listen to MIDI instrumental versions by clicking on the song titles. If you install the free NoteWorthy Composer browser plug-in (NWC) (sorry, for Windows only), then you can click on NWC and open a song page to see the notes and the lyrics while the song plays (instrumental only again), and even print out the music and lyrics if you want. (Note for Internet Explorer users.)
"La Valse bleue" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Blues for Kathy" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Bleuâtre" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Sweet Sioux" (MIDI) (NWC)
I have written jazz settings for several of the poems in Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal. Here they are.
"À une passante" (MIDI) (NWC)
"L'Ange, la Muse et la Madone" (MIDI) (NWC)
"La Beauté" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Le Cadre" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Chanson d'après-midi" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Le Chat" (MIDI) (NWC)
"La Cloche félée" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Correspondances" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Enivrez-vous" (MIDI) (NWC)
"La Femme stérile" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Le Flambeau vivant" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Harmonie du soir" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Les Hiboux" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Invitation au voyage" (MIDI) (NWC)
"La Musique" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Parfum exotique" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Recueillement" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Le Serpent qui danse" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Spleen" I (MIDI) (NWC)
"Spleen" II (MIDI) (NWC)
"La Vie antérieure" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Le Vin des amants" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Don't Know the Steps to This New Dance" (MIDI) (NWC) (MP3 - recording by C. C. Couch, vocal, and Teddy Irwin, guitar/arrangement)
"Dreams Are Something You Wake Up From" (MIDI) (NWC)
"The Moonshine in the Garden Club's Iced Tea" (MIDI) (NWC)
"Shadows in My Heart" (MIDI) (NWC)
Dan M. Church
636 Timber Lane
Nashville, TN 37215
(615) 292-4816
E-mail: dan.m.church@vanderbilt.edu