Here, for the first time in this weblog, is a brand new composition — one of a set of dances I’m working on right now. This is probably the most innocent piece of music I’ve ever written (thus the title).

Paul Cantrell
Cradle Waltz

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Here’s the score. It’s only two lines long on paper, but those two lines sure took a lot of careful thought!

The set as a whole is still very much in progress, but I’ve finished writing a few of the individual pieces, and they’ll show up here as I learn to play them. Not all of them are this innocent, or this orderly, and I look forward to (I hope) surprising you with the contrasts.