Composing music by Jim Groeneveld

Last website revision: July, 1st 2020 Last webpage revision: May 11th 2020

Compositions, arrangements Since 1965, when I was 16 years old, I have been composing and arranging music. That always starts with inspiration, but sometimes needs transpiration to finish. My compositions are pieces of music which emerge and sound in my head spontaneously. My arrangements emerge while listening to existing (psalm and hymn) melodies, which, I think, deserve better, more beautiful arrangements then I often hear. I have to write them down to get rid of those melodies, and to make room for new ones. I can't suppress that spontaneously emerging creative urge of beauty, I have to live with it and obey it. My preferred musical styles are baroque, renaissance and medieval. While composing or arranging I still prefer pencil, music paper, eraser and quietness. Thanks to my sense of absolute pitch I am quite well able to score music in silence, without the use of any musical instrument. After finalizing a draft I may enter it into a scoring program on the computer and possibly be able to really hear the music played by the software. I would like to have more time to spend on all this. The list of compositions and arrangements is more or less complete up to now, it includes finalyzed and almost finished pieces, which have been given a code number by me. Sketchy and scratchy snippets of music are not included. The score of various pieces of music is available for download. The number of those is increasing as I process them with scoring software. The score is currently available as (scanned) PDF files or as ZIP files with the PDF files, source code and sound files.