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There is no charge for downloading this. - It sounds best with headphones. Usual line-up for symphony orchestra including piccolo, 4 trumpets, and 3 percussion players. The 2nd oboe plays cor anglais (English Horn). The bass trombone can be played by tuba if desired.
Part one - INFANCY
To understand this, you may prefer to download the score to see the bar numbers (written to the left of bars).
Bars 1-14 - heavily pregnant woman. Bars 15 - 16 (the loudest chord) - the birth. Bars 17 -18 heart beats.
Bars 19 - 32 - initial impressions of the outside world by the baby. Bars 33 - 48 - things beginning to make more sense with some response (timpani beats).
Bars 49 - 55 passage of time. Bars 56-57 baby cries (had a lot of problems with this). Bars 58 - 61 - mother comforts the baby and the crying eases.
Bars 62 - 65, the first steps. Bar 66 - 67 - baby falls. Bars 68 - 71 - baby starts to walk again. Bars 72-73 baby falls again.
Bars 74 - 77 baby walks again (third time lucky) and doesn't fall so builds up confidence. Bars 78 - 80 - successful walking.
Bars 81 - 82 - baby walks faster but it tires him/her out, so bars 83 -85 baby falls asleep. Bars 86 -88 sweet dreams.
Incidentally, the trombone bits in the walking stages suggest that toilet training has not begun yet, to put it delicately! I don't believe in pretentiousness, even if this is close to classical music.
Part two - CHILDHOOD
You may like to download the score to make sense of the following.
It starts off with just clarinet (although I've used 2 staggered clarinets to enable the players to breathe). The clarinet represents the young child, playing by him/herself until joined gradually by others. At letter E everyone is having fun playing together, although there is no structure to what they are doing. Playing together is very important in learning social skills. At letter F this changes when the child acts as the leader (for 2 bars) and then everyone joins in for the next 2 bars - this is then repeated (call and answer sort of thing.) At letter G, it is more organised like a sport's match. At letter H the brass represents authority, whether it is a school master or parents and they take charge for a while. At I, other children go away leaving the child alone at letter I from bar 3 onwards.
Coming soon - Teenagers
I've been trying in vain to write a pop song for the Teenagers section, but found it really difficult. Each time I try writing something I end up putting in richer chords, even major sevenths, which immediately destroys the pop feel which relies heavily on basic triads. Once a jazz man, always a jazz man. I guess I'll just have to rely on minor pentatonic scales to suggest pop music.
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