Jonathan Weiss is an emerging professional composer based in New Haven, CT. Welcome to his website!
Praise:
- Jonathan was unfailingly encouraging and engaged in active, supportive collaboration with his vocalist.” – Tina Lu, Head of Pauli Murray College
- The piece… is characterized by clear and focused lyrics, a distinctive harmonic language, and a natural and balanced sense of musical phrase and overall form.” – Beekman Friends of Music Prize
Transcribing and Composing a Modern Arrangement of “Byrd one brere”
The oldest extant English love song remains as faded ink on warped manuscript paper kept in the King’s College Archives. A 14th-century scribe jotted down all the lyrics but did not bother to complete the music, leaving an entire staff blank.
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Dreamed-up Music: The role of dreams in musical creativity from 1740 to the present
Dreaming and musical creativity alike may rely on a shared network of several brain regions, corroborating composers’ anecdotal claims that dreams play a significant role in their creativity.
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Sick of Love: Poor Prospects for Love-Sick Men in Three Subversive Medieval Lyrics
Three medieval love lyrics close to each other in a manuscript known as Harley 2253 seem utterly unrelated to each other, apart from their pessimism and their sheer idiosyncrasy.
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