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'The Silence of a Candle' is a solo guitar piece by Ralph Towner. Though this score is a transcription for solo guitar, the piece has been recorded multiple times in the past as an ensemble with Oregon as early as 1972, first appearing on their LP 'Music From Another Present Era.' The solo piano version is featured on Towner's 'Diary.'

This score is 5 pages, and is an instant digital download. The 30 second mp3 sample is performed by Ralph Towner.

'Beneath an Evening Sky' score (PDF format, standard notation, for guitar and melody instrument). 'Duende' is a piece from Ralph Towner's recent collaboration with Wolfgang Muthspiel and Slava Grigoryan, and is the third guitar duet comprising Ralph Towner's Suite for two guitars. Ralph Towner Transcriptions by Kalle Table of Contents Amber Captive 2 Avenue 3 Avenue v2 4 The Bag Man 50 Beneath an Evening Sky 5 Beppo 6-7 Caminata 8 Creeper 9 Distant Hills 10-11 Empty Carousel 12-13 Flutter Step 14 Gaya 15 Green and Golden 16-17 Green Room 18 Hand In Hand 19-20 If 21-22 Krusning 23 Mingusiana 24.

Proceeds from the sale of this score go directly to Distant Hills Music, Ralph Towner's publishing company. This score has been personally transcribed by Ralph Towner.

Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940, Chehalis, Washington) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Towner was born into a musical family in Chehalis, Washington. His mother was a piano teacher and his father a trumpet player. Towner learned to improvise on the piano at the age of three. He began his career as a conservatory-trained classical pianist, attending the University of Oregon from 1958-1963, where he also studied composition with Homer Keller.^[2] He studied classical guitar at the Vienna Academy of Music with Karl Scheit from 1963-64 and 1967-68.

He joined world music pioneer Paul Winter's 'Consort' ensemble in the late 1960s. He first played jazz in New York City in the late 1960s as a pianist and was strongly influenced by the renowned jazz pianist Bill Evans. He began improvising on classical and 12-string guitars in the late 1960s/early 1970s and formed alliances with musicians who had worked with Evans, including flautist Jeremy Steig, bassists Eddie Gómez, Marc Johnson, Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette.^[3][4]

Along with bandmates Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott, Towner left the Winter Consort in 1970 to form the group Oregon, which over the course of the 1970s issued a number of highly influential records mixing folk music, Indian classical forms, and avant-garde jazz-influenced free improvisation. At the same time, Towner began a longstanding relationship with the influential ECM record label, which has released virtually all of his non-Oregon recordings since his 1973 debut as a leader Trios / Solos.

Towner appeared as a sideman on Weather Report's 1972 album I Sing the Body Electric. His 1975 album Solstice which featured a popular track called Nimbus demonstrates his skill and versatility to the full using a 12-string guitar.^[5]

Since the early 1990s, Towner has lived in Italy, first in Palermo and then in Rome.^[6] Luxonix purity vst cracked.

Technique[edit]

Ralph Towner Albums

Towner eschews amplification, using only 6-string nylon-string and 12-string steel-string guitars. As a result, he tends to avoid high-volume musical environments, preferring small groups of mostly acoustic instruments that emphasize dynamics and group interplay. Towner also obtains a percussive effect (e.g., 'Donkey Jamboree' from Slide Show with Gary Burton) from the guitar by weaving a matchbook among the strings at the neck of the instrument.^[7] Both with Oregon and as a solo artist, Towner has made significant use of overdubbing, allowing him to play piano (or synthesizer) and guitar on the same track; his most notable use of the technique came on his 1974 album Diary, in which he plays guitar-piano duets with himself on most of the album's 8 tracks.^[8] In the 1980s, Towner began using the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer extensively^[9] but has since de-emphasized his synthesizer and piano playing in favor of guitar.

Honors[edit]

Two lunar craters were named by the Apollo 15astronauts after two of Towner's compositions, 'Icarus' and 'Ghost Beads.'^[10][11]

Discography[edit]

As leader[edit]

• Trios / Solos (ECM, 1973) with Glen Moore
• Diary (ECM, 1974)
• Matchbook (ECM, 1975) with Gary Burton
• Solstice (ECM, 1975)
• Sargasso Sea (ECM, 1976) with John Abercrombie
• Solstice/Sound and Shadows (ECM, 1977)
• Batik (ECM, 1978)
• Old Friends, New Friends (ECM, 1979)
• Solo Concert (ECM, 1980)
• Five Years Later (ECM, 1982) with John Abercrombie
• Blue Sun (ECM, 1983)
• Slide Show (ECM, 1986) with Gary Burton
• City of Eyes (ECM, 1989)
• Open Letter (ECM, 1992)
• If You Look Far Enough with Arild Andersen, Nana Vasconcelos (ECM, 1993)
• Oracle (ECM, 1994) with Gary Peacock
• Lost and Found (ECM, 1996)
• Ana (ECM, 1997)
• A Closer View (ECM, 1998) with Gary Peacock
• Verso with Maria Pia De Vito (Provocateur, 2000)
• Anthem (ECM, 2001)
• Time Line (ECM, 2006)
• From A Dream (Material Records, 2008) with Wolfgang Muthspiel and Slava Grigoryan
• Chiaroscuro (ECM, 2009) with Paolo Fresu
• Travel Guide with Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan (ECM, 2013)
• My Foolish Heart (ECM, 2017)

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With Atmosphere

• Atmospheres Featuring Clive Stevens & Friends (Capitol, 1974)
• Voyage to Uranus (Capitol, 1974)

With Oregon

• Music of Another Present Era (Vanguard, 1972)
• Distant Hills (Vanguard, 1973)
• Winter Light (Vanguard, 1974)
• In Concert (Vanguard, 1975)
• Together (Vanguard, 1976)
• Friends (Vanguard, 1977)
• Out of the Woods (Elektra, 1978)
• Violin (Vanguard, 1978)
• Roots in the Sky (Elektra, 1979)
• Moon and Mind (Vanguard, 1979)
• In Performance (BGO, 1980)
• Our First Record (Vanguard, 1980)
• Oregon (ECM, 1983)
• Crossing (ECM, 1985)
• Ecotopia (ECM, 1987)
• 45th Parallel (Portrait, 1989)
• Always, Never, and Forever (veraBra, 1991)
• Troika (veraBra, 1994)
• Beyond Words (Chesky, 1995)
• Northwest Passage (ECM, 1997)
• Music for a Midsummer Night's Dream (Oregon Music 1998)
• Oregon in Moscow (ECM, 2000)
• Live at Yoshi's (ECM, 2002)
• Prime (C.A.M. Jazz, 2005)
• 1000 Kilometers (C.A.M. Jazz, 2007)
• In Stride (C.A.M. Jazz, 2010)
• Family Tree (C.A.M. Jazz, 2012)
• Live in New Orleans (Hi Hat, 2016)
• Lantern (C.A.M. Jazz, 2017)

With Paul Winter Consort

• Road (A&M, 1970)
• Icarus (Epic, 1972)
• Earthdance (A&M, 1977)

As sideman or guest[edit]

• Horacee Arnold, Tribe (Columbia, 1973)
• Horacee Arnold, Tales of the Exonerated Flea (Columbia, 1974)
• Azimuth, Depart (ECM, 1979)
• Bill Bruford, If Summer Had Its Ghosts (Discipline Global, 1997)
• Gary Burton, Six Pack (GRP, 1992)
• Larry Coryell, The Restful Mind (Vanguard, 1975)
• Pino Daniele, Che Dio Ti Benedica (CGD 1993)
• Cyrus Faryar, Cyrus (Collectors' Choice Music 2006)
• Robben Ford, Blues Connotation (ITM Pacific, 1997)
• David Friesen, Waterfall Rainbow (Inner City, 1977)
• Jan Garbarek, Dis (ECM, 1977)
• Egberto Gismonti,Sol Do Meio Dia (EMI, 1978)
• Jerry Granelli, Koputai (ITM Pacific, 1990)
• Jerry Granelli, One Day at a Time (ITM Pacific, 1990)
• Gerri Granger, Add a Little Love (United Artists, 1972)
• Trilok Gurtu, Usfret (CMP, 1988)
• Charlie Haden, Helium Tears (NewEdition, 2005)
• Tim Hardin, Bird on a Wire (Columbia, 1971)
• Keith Jarrett, In the Light (ECM, 1974)
• Maria Joao, Fabula (Verve, 1996)
• Joseph LoDuca, Glisten (Cornucopia, 1982)
• Vince Mendoza, Start Here (World Pacific, 1990)
• Vince Mendoza, Instructions Inside (Manhattan, 1991)
• Andy Middleton, Nomad's Notebook (ECM, 1999)
• Maria Pia De Vito, Nel Respiro (Provocateur, 2002)
• Maria Pia De Vito, Moresche e Altre Invenzioni (Parco Della Musica, 2018)
• Duke Pearson, I Don't Care Who Knows It (Blue Note, 1996)
• Terry Plumeri, Ongoing (Airborne, 1978)
• Michel Portal, Musiques De Cinemas (Label Bleu, 1995)
• Weather Report, I Sing the Body Electric (Columbia, 1972)
• Kenny Wheeler, Deer Wan (ECM, 1978)

References[edit]

1. ^'Biography'. 1940-03-01. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
2. ^'Oregon ComposersWatch: Homer Keller'. composerswatch.proscenia.net. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
3. ^Feather, Leonard (2007). The biographical encyclopedia of jazz. Gitler, Ira. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 650. ISBN9780195320008. OCLC123233012.
4. ^'Ralph Towner Biography & History'. AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
5. ^Cline, Nels (2017). 'Focused: An appreciation of the genre-bending guitar work of Ralph Towner'. Fretboard Journal. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
6. ^Jazz, All About. 'Ralph Towner: The Accidental Guitarist'. All About Jazz. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
7. ^Lesson, Dale Turner 2018-03-19T14:53:03Z. 'Ralph Towner's Nylon and 12-String Craftsmanship'. guitarworld. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
8. ^'Diary - Ralph Towner'. ECM Records. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
9. ^Grillo, Tyran (2011-12-20). 'Ralph Towner: Blue Sun (ECM 1250)'. Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
10. ^'The Consort'. Paul Winter. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
11. ^'Now he's over the moon about Icarus'. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2002-11-25. Retrieved 2019-08-11.

Ralph Towner Pdf Sheet

External links[edit]

Ralph Towner Bio

• Ralph Towner on NPR, 2006