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• Source: Emperor’s New Clothes Notebook
• Key: Bb Major / G minor
• Measures: 36
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:43 min
• Pages: 3

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“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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ABSURD IMAGES
When morning comes and I wake up, I do not usually know if I dreamt, and I prefer keeping it that way. But when I do know, I’m not interested because I hate dreaming, whether they’re agony or bliss. Dreams are a sinister human condition. The fact that my head plays a variety of absurd images without my consent while I am utterly out, it is a complete transgression, therefore, I prefer to forget the things I dream.

Ever since Sigmund Freud put the...

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• Source: The Wonders of Music Notebook
• Key: D Major / B minor
• Measures: 36
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:57 min
• Pages: 3

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Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates
— Ann Castillo

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FOR THE LOVE OF PETE
I was born and raised in Mexico, but I was spoiled in California and spent the last twenty six years of my life living there. Now that I am back, I didn’t think I was going to experience a cultural shock, or rather, a reverse cultural shock; as it is refer by experts on the subject, however; I was wrong, oh so wrong!.

The elements of surprise, confusion, disorientation, feeling out of place, and believe it or not, language, were all, well, “surprising” to say the least. I didn’t evaluate my expectations before hand, I didn’t think I have to, after all, I’m a...

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• Source: Before The Sun Goes Down Notebook
• Key: F Major / D minor
• Measures: 24
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:54 min
• Pages: 4

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“Fighting for peace, is like fucking for chastity”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

FIGHT BACK
No one needs to experience war to understand the essence of its character, which, in any case, reveals the very core of pure evil, although, there are a lot times when the enemy declares war, and we have to defend ourselves at all cost, disputing what the enemy wants from us, in which event, we do not have a choice but to capitulate or to fight back.

Our victory or our defeat depends on numerous factors, some of which we cannot control, but when it seems everything goes our way, we strike with such force in a desperate intent to defeat the one enemy that can change our world as we see it...

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• Source: California Sessions Notebook
• Key: C Major / A minor
• Measures: 36
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:53 min
• Pages: 4

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“The light was different here in California.”
― Heidi Freestone, Growing Home

A WISE LADY
Compare to a lot of people, traveling has never been a priority in my life, If I have to make an inventory of all the trips I’ve made, I can easily count them with the fingers on my hands. However, I can attest that the entire San Luis Obispo County, is one if not the most elegant and dignify places I had ever visited. Almost everywhere I turned, it seemed, the breathtaking views were like watching a wise lady that knows better not to lose composure or else.

I have to tell you, as a visitor, I only ventured to the destinations available to tourists: The beautiful beaches, Hearst Castle, and the...

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• Source: Before The Sun Goes Down Notebook
• Key: C Major / A minor
• Measures: 36
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:49 min
• Pages: 3

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“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

SORROW AND HAPPINESS
I have experienced sorrow and happiness, neither of which is a permanent notion; my grandmother used to say: “There is no pain that last a hundred years”, but unfortunately, neither does happiness.

Considering the life expectancy for most mortals in reasonable conditions, which is less than a hundred years, it is unlikely that I’d experience neither sorrow nor happiness pass that time. Thus, I feel that it’s up to me to keep a good balance while I am navigating life’s architecture, tolerating one, while embracing the other.

SIMPLE THINGS
The way I see the...

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• Source: California Session Notebook
• Key: C Major / A minor
• Measures: 36
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:58 min
• Pages: 3

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“It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.”
— Oscar Wilde

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IN FOR A TREAT
When I first moved to San Francisco, I really did not know I was in for a treat; everything seemed brand new, bigger, brighter and faster. I was twenty five years old. I did not know what to expect from this remarkably city with such an awful name, but as soon as I step out of the plane, I felt the magic in the air. They said Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, but they are wrong, surely because, perhaps, they have never been in San Francisco before.

San Francisco is a city packed with history, culture, landmarks, and beautiful people. Its development and rapid...

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• Source: The Wonders of Music Notebook
• Key: G Major / E minor
• Measures: 48
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:06 min
• Pages: 3 Pages

“Some may say that I couldn’t sing, but no one can say that I didn’t sing”.
Florence Foster Jenkins

FAMILIAR NOTES
Most of us, can’t explain in plain words, perhaps afraid of being banal, how a handful of organize music notes can create melodies that have the eminent capability of demanding our attention and make, under approval, our entire existence tremble of raw emotion, because, we actively anticipate pleasure upon hearing familiar notes, music can become an important antidote to our live struggles or an enhancement to our joyful days

But, the lyrics of a song are also an important element that could makes us excited or could makes us frown upon their meaning. I know some popular songs that to me...

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• Source: All Year Round Music Notebook
• Key: C Major / A minor
• Measures: 64
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:11 min
• Pages: 4

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Maybe I am being out of line, but witnessing the fullness of June, one has to do it without air conditioning.”

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TIGHT GRIP
The month of June marks the beginning of Summer above the Equator, each year by then, one can tell already if the heat will be unstoppable for the rest of the season. I believe, part of our character in adulthood, is condition in great measure by the kind of climate we grew up in. Clearly, I am not talking about the political climate, I am refering to weather conditions.

In all fairness, the experiences that we happen to be exposed in life, from the moment we are born, untill our very last breath, have a tight grip on us. Everything affects us, from the diet we had...

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• Source: All Year Round Music Notebook
• Key: D Major / B minor
• Measures: 45
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:57 min
• Pages: 5

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“But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.”
― Joanna Franklin Bell, Take a Load Off, Mona Jamborski

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD
When it comes to the weather, there’s more than meets the eye. The energy it releases_ wether is cold or hot, rainy or stormy, or just cloudy _ affects my attitude in ways I have not been able to describe. Certainly, a lot of times is easier to complain than to be inspired by it, or to be depressed rather than to be appreciative. I often surprise myself wishing for...

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• Source: All Year Round Music Notebook
• Key: G Major / E minor
• Measures: 48
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:09 min
• Pages: 4

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“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”
— W.S. Merwin

FULL MOON
I was out for a walk last night, it was only 7 pm and the temperature was dropping fast, there were some clouds in the sky, and as I walk down the street, I could see the mountains in front of me, and from behind these mountains there was a bright light coming out, as I continued walking, the light was getting gradually brighter; and suddenly there it was; the most beautiful full moon I’ve seen in a while.

I stopped on my tracks and I admired the satellite for a few minutes before returning my attention to the road ahead, I finished my walk but I could not stop thinking about the celestial body after I...