“…one of America’s most gifted theater composers”
(The Seattle Weekly)
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composed and produced for the professional theater.
Thousands of pieces in all styles and lengths
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“Jim Ragland creates worlds that capture the imagination”
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Title Length Description Style Instrumentation Feeling Setting / Period
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0:54 Full Jazz band, hot, fairly fast, and swinging Swing-Jazz Stage Band, Synths, Brass Energetic, Cheerful-Positive Story Land
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0:17 Athletic, very much dance music Folk-World Acoustic, Small Ensemble, Violin Energized Eastern European, Exotic
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1:51 Synth marimba and viola Folk-World Acoustic, Small Ensemble, violin Energized Far Eastern
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0:59 Starts with Angel choir, adds brass builds with orchestra an electric guitar, big ending Important-Dramatic Band, Orchestral Synths, Guitar Energized Story Land
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0:07 Zing, bang, boom; short, fast Important-Dramatic Band, Orchestral Synths Enchanted Story Land
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1:08 Syncopated piano with cello melody; Full arrangement, band with electric lead guitar Important-Dramatic Band, Orchestral Synths, Guitar Determined-Relentless Any
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1:29 Full Arrangement of Salt Lake, segueing to full arrangement of Glass Angel 6/8 Narrative-Cinematic Band, Orchestral Synths Warm-Elegant, Determined-Relentless Any
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0:33 Angular, modern, piano, cello violin; ends clean Narrative-Cinematic Small Ensemble, Violin Melancholy-Reflective Any
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0:43 Like Rolling Woodwinds, but saxes instread with saxes instead of winds Swing-Jazz Small Ensemble Warm-Elegant 1920s-1940s
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0:60 Three Ring Circus music, marching band, flutes and marching drums and cymbals Circus-Carny Orchestral Synths Cheerful-Positive 1920s-1940s
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1:24 Similar to Desert Dance A, a bit of a belly dance, but mandolin duet, no flute; can be intercut with A Folk-World Acoustic, Synths Energized, Exotic Exotic
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2:03 Percussion and strings, thick and rich, dramatic, landscape, long ambient improv; "just minor" tuning Important-Dramatic Strings, Percussion Suspenseful-Ominous, Tragic Greece, Middle Eastern, Exotic
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0:52 Viola dance melody over percussion, non-Western intonation Folk-World Strings, Percussion-Drums Ceremonial Greece, Middle Eastern, Exotic
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0:33 Slow 6/8 Blues, strutting, hot guitar solo Blues Stage Band, Guitar Passionate-Romantic Urban, African-American
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1:27 Two acoustic guitars, sad and lonely Blues Acoustic, Guitar Melancholy-Reflective Rural, African-American