JRB MUSIC PUBLISHING

Original Music and Arrangements  by 

Jeffrey Reid Baker

Original Music

Piano Solos

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This "tip-of-the-hat" was written for my Franz Liszt CD.  

It  pays tribute to the many of the composers 

who were influenced by him.   

This was specifically composed to put a smaller piece between the American in Paris and The Concerto in  F on the CD.   

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I composed this for my father's funeral service in 1997.  Recorded here 

on the Organteq .

When I ran into my best piano teacher ever in 1999, I told her I was going to  compose a piece for HER! This is it. She liked it!

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I composed this rag even before I studied with Rudy Schramm. I played it for a class at C. W. Post and got a standing O. That's when I moved on from the Ivory Halls never to return.

I composed this piece for keyboards and  it 

appears on my Concrete Jungle album. I made 

this piano arrangement due to many student requests.

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When I produced my Joplin CD for Musicland, I added 

one of my own rags which people  thought sounded 

just like Joplin. That was compliment enough.

Organ Solos

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I composed this for my father's funeral service in 1997.  Recorded on the Organteq .

I composed this for my grandmother's funeral service in 1999.  Recorded on the Organteq .

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Chamber Music

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This was one of the first pieces I composed while studying with Rudy that he said, "I believe you have become a composer."

Chamber Set No. 1, Op. 3 (1989) Unpublished

This was written for an album that never happened. 

I needed to write something for  flute, so I added another flute, piano and bass.  I like it.

Student Piano Solos

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A ternary form Grade 1 piano solo. A swashbuckling adventure in the Dorian Mode. which grows in intensity as the story unfolds.

A NYSSMA Grade 1 piano solo. Written in a Chopin-esque Nocturne  type style. It demands attention to both tempo and pedalling.

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A Grade 1 piano solo featuring the Alberti bass line playing back and forth with  right hand melody. It's in Lydian mode for added color.  

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A perpetual motion left hand rotation under a syncopated right hand melody. A-B-A with a Coda in form with simple I-vi-IV-ii-V harmony. 

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A piece modeled after Liszt's Un Sospiro Etude but for smaller hands. Also featuring the unusual time signature of 10/8 time.

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The famous Shaker melody with 3 unique variations reminiscent of Aaron Copland. From repeated 

notes to full chord treatment .

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A Grade 4 piano solo literally composed during a lesson with Lia. A simple melody with an accompaniment that keeps getting busier and busier.

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