Wynn-Anne Rossi
Wynn-Anne Rossi (born February 12, 1956 in Springfield, Illinois), is an American composer. She is known to combine impressionistic flavors with jazz harmonies.[1] She is the author of over 70 music publications.[2] She has written a wide variety of repertoire, including music and text for vocalists and instrumental music.[3] Rossi has a unique approach to teaching young musicians to compose, turning student musical ideas into band[4] and orchestral works.[5]
Selected works
Vocal
- Nature Passion Poems
- Family Farm
- Creature Voices
String orchestra
- One Man's War
- Thunder Dance
- Musical Journals
- Incognito
- Midnight Caravan
- Minor Expressions
- Winds of Time
Full orchestra
- Iceland Fantasy for piano and orchestra
- Spirits of the Earth
- Plenty of Time
Concert band
- Origins of the River
- Call to Aaron
- Nature Awakens
- Facing the Unknown
Published piano works
Books and suites
- Along the Mississippi (2010)
- Outside the Box (2008)[6]
- Intuitive Journeys (2006)[7]
- Surprising Solos, book one and two (2002)
- Day in the Life of a Dog (1998)
- An Alaskan Tour (1997)
- Day in the Life of a Cat (1995)
- Trip Through the Rainforest (1993)
- Grecian Pillars (1994)
- Fourth Seasons (1992)[8][9]
Sheet music
- Rockin' Roller Coaster (2011)
- Pyramid Power (2010)
- Homework Tango (2009)
- Metamorphosis (2006)
- Wind Chimes (2003)
- Memories of Midnight (2000)
- Wild Columbine Waltz (1999)
- Diamonds on the Water (1999)
- Ghost Rider (1996)
- Olympic Fanfare (1994)
- Path to Twilight (1994)
- Open Prairie Toccata (1993)
- Tribute to Romance (1993)[10][11][12]
Educational piano series
- Fun & Games (1999), three book series[13]
- Get Ready for Duets (2003), six book series[14]
- Treasures in Technique (2003), five book series[15]
- Pedal Technique (2007), two book series[16]
- Music by Me (2007), five book series teaching composition[17]
- Creative Composition Toolbox (2011), six book series[18]
Discography
Take Me North (2000)
This CD recording is broken into four distinct sections each representing a different aspect of the American north, for which the album is named.[19]
- Take Me North
- "Take Me North"
- "Lady Slipper"
- "Walleye Pike"
- "Agate"
- "Wild Rice and Morels"
- "Norway Pines"
- Creature Voices
- "Frog Hunt"
- "Dirty Dog Delights"
- "Songbird Solo"
- "Mosquito"
- "Rodent"
- "Owls at Night"
- Nature Passion Poems
- "To the Inland Sea"
- "To Lightning"
- "To Daisy"
- "To the Minnow"
- "To the Oak"
- "To Clouds"
- "To the Common Rock"
- "To Time"
- State Fair Suite
- "Ferris Wheel"
- "World's Biggest Pig and the Piglets"
- "Machinery Hill"
- "Butter Princess"
- "Junk Food Blues"
External links
- Official website
- http://blogs.jwpepper.com/?p=2701
- http://pianoadventures.com/newsletter/2004_pdf/PA5_pg3-4_Composition.pdf
- http://www.alfred.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?q=wynn-anne+rossi&type=All
- http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl?index=429194&query=wynn-anne+rossi&SEARCH=+Search+
References
- ↑ http://www.enotes.com/topic/Wynn-Anne_Rossi
- ↑ http://www.alfred.com/Company/Authors/WynneAnneRossi.aspx
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/composer/wrossi.htm
- ↑ http://www.rossi-music.com/articlesreviews.html#albertlea
- ↑ http://www.rossi-music.com/articlesreviews.html#clavier
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/contemp_int.htm
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/contemp_int.htm
- ↑ http://www.alfred.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?q=wynn-anne+rossi&type=All
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/frossi.htm
- ↑ http://www.alfred.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?q=wynn-anne+rossi&type=All
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/wwrossi.htm
- ↑ http://www.pianoatpepper.com/sheet-music/search
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/activitybooks.htm
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/getready.htm
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/treasures.htm
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/pedal.htm
- ↑ http://www.fjhmusic.com/piano/musicbyme.htm
- ↑ http://www.alfred.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?q=wynn-anne+rossi&type=All
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Take-Me-North-Maria-Jette/dp/B00005LLXW
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