Robert G. Patterson
About
Robert G. Patterson resides in Memphis, Tennessee. His music is infused with the popular rhythms and melodic fragments around him, and these provide source material for his personal voice. A student of George Crumb and Don Freund, he is a resident composer with the Luna Nova Ensemble and recent accomplishments include commissions from the International Horn Society, the One Coin Concert series in Osaka, Japan, and First Prize in the NATS Art Song Composition Award. In addition to his musical activities, Patterson also has been a professional software developer, and his interest in computers led him to become an expert in musical engraving using a computer. His Patterson Plug-Ins Collection for Finale software is a staple of composers and copyists worldwide.
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Sheet Music
Life Signs: Six Songs on Texts by Emily Dickinson
2. I Years had been from Home
3. The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea
4. A little Snow was here and there
5. I’m Nobody! Who are you?
6. I should not dare to leave my friend
Songs from ‘As You Like It’
2. Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
3. It Was a Lover and His Lass
4. What Shall He Have That Killed the Deer
5. Wedding Is Great Juno's Crown
Songs of Death and Digestion
2. Geddondillo
3. The Screen with the Face with the Voice
Tanka Modern and Ancient
2. Moonlight (Dorothy McLaughlin, U.S.)
3. Her Sharp Knife (Carol Purington, U.S.)
4. No. 3430 (Collection of Ten-Thousand Leaves, 8th Century Japan)
5. Traveling the Path (Edward J. Reilly, probably U.S. but not sure)
6. Field After Field (David Rice, probably U.S.)
7. No. 2538 (Collection of Ten-Thousand Leaves, 8th Century Japan) / I Tasted Him (Renee Gregorio, U.S.)
Way of the River
2. Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce)
3. Psalm 65:9-12 (Douay-Rheims)
4. from “The Elephant's Child” (Kipling)
5. The Ballad of Poor Susan (Wordsworth) Interlude
6. The River/Deep River (Teasdale/Anonymous)