Lani's Fantasy

I wrote this piece last night for a friend of mine's birthday. Happy birthday!
I spent about an hour on it, but again, shorter pieces with fewer instruments don't take me as long to write and I think it turned out very well.

LANI'S FANTASY, written November of 2015 (1m18s)
© 2015 M. Pugh

Tribute

Over the period between Pokemon and this piece, I was working on a composition for band, one that I am nearly but not quite finished with.

Tribute is a song that I composed to honor my grandmother, who was very sick. I knocked it out pretty quickly, but I think the end result was a really beautiful piece of music.

TRIBUTE, written September of 2015 (1m17s)
© 2015 M. Pugh

Pokemon HG+SS Medley

When I was going through my Pokemon phase (I was 12 years old, which maybe was a little late) I listened to the music in the one game I owned, Heartgold. Basically, I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great to make concert band music out of this? This was, I believe, shortly after Cipher and shortly before I began focusing on my Double Cello Concerto, which I still haven't finished.
When I completed this (it took me almost half a year), I attempted to get my school band to play it, and failed miserably. This is not a piece of music that is possible to play unless you have extreme talent, but it sounds nice and was awesome to write.

POKEMON HG+SS MUSIC MEDLEY, arranged late fall, winter, and early spring of 2014-2015. (4m22s)

Cipher

After Out in the Wild, I tried my hand at arranging. Cipher is originally written for synth, by Kevin Macleod. After listening to it a few times, I decided I wanted to arrange it for band as an Alto Sax feature. This piece is not great to actually play in a band, but it was fun to arrange and it sounds all right.

CIPHER, arranged fall of 2014 (3m44s)