Michael L. Carroll -- composer/arranger/performerLast Update: Feb 08, 2008Hello and welcome to my website. My name is Mike Carroll and I am a composer, songwriter and musical arranger. If you'd like a custom song or a string quartet written for someone special in your life, you've come to the right place. This website contains samples of my work. I was born in 1951 and studied music and mathematics at the Georg August Universität in Göttingen, Germany, finishing up my mathematics studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979. I studied and taught classical guitar in Germany and attended master guitar classes under Karl Scheit. The primary influences on my compositional style are Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Tschaikovsky, and Hindemith. It is one of my goals to work 20th century American popular jazz idioms into works featuring classical structure such as the sonata form, rondo form, fugue, canon, etc. I also play mandolin and classical guitar. Right now I play with a band in Southern California called Bridge. If you would like to engage me as a composer/arranger or performer for any occasion, please contact me via email: mcarroll_91786@yahoo.com The following links will take you to samples of my music: Instrumental
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Recent Postings02/25/2008: "Let Us Go to the House of the Lord", a very simple gathering song that can be used at the beginning of a liturgical service. For my daughter Josi Carroll and her fiance Yoshi Stone.Violin / Vocal Guitar Accompaniment. 02/19/2008: Santa Ana Conditions, updated with Alto Sax part and an intro + coda suggested by my friend, guitarist Ruth Parry. This is a wave file, since my mp3 converter was turning out inferior quality files. Guitar PDF and Sax PDF. 02/18/2008: Russian Sailor's Dance. This is an arrangement of a popular Russian tune. The arrangement here is for flute, clarinet, violin, alto saxophone, guitar and string bass. The band Bridge plays this with an accordion as well and the mandolin in place of the violin. BTW, Bridge is playing next Sunday evening (2/24/08) as the "featured band" on open mic night at the Claremont Folk Music Center. We will be playing the Russian Sailor Dance. 02/10/2008: Santa Ana Conditions, a guitar piece in AABA form, using jazz chord progressions, but otherwise fairly classical. In Southern California we often get warm, dry windy weather we call Santa Ana conditions. We had such conditions this weekend, so I named this piece accordingly. 02/08/2008: A Fugue for Piano in C Major 01/12/2008: Fugue in D major for solo guitar. Has a Bach-like feel to it. For Dr. Andy Podolsky. Here's an mp3 file that combines both the prelude and the fugue so that you can hear the two together in succession. Both prelude an d fugue require the 6th string to be tuned down to D. 12/29/07: Prelude in D Minor for solo guitar. For Dr. Andy Podolsky. This is the prelude to the fugue above in D major. 12/24/07: Mi Hijo y Yo -- A Guitar Duet (MP3) PDF See the Instrumental page for extraced parts. 12/16/07: The Guadalupe Quintet MP3 This is a quintet for three strings (violin, viola, cello) and two woodwinds (oboe and bassoon). I call it the Guadalupe Quintet because I began writing it last week on December 12, 2007, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. |