Andy Happel

composer / violinist

Sheet music, transcriptions, and tablature available for purchase

2022/23:

“Division of the Human Mind” - Thanks to Gravity album, lyricist/composer

-Send Up the Signal

-The End of Civility

-In the Beginning

-Any Other Time

-Danke Schlagzeuger

-It Started in the Back of My Head

-The Last Generation

-Garden in the Sun

-Blanket of Stars

-Walk Above the Ground

-The Return

-March of the Wandering Star

“somewhere/elsewhere” - Musical by Kerem Durdag, playwright and lyricist, and Andy Happel, Composer

-Tree of Life

-It is the Story Only I Know

-DIVE

-This Love of Mine

-How Can I Let Go?

-Take Me (Desire)

-One

-Wildflowers

-Give Your Hands to Me

-This Love of Ours

-What I Was Told

-This Hell

-Ocenas

-Raise the Kingdom

-Say My Name

-Refugee

-Heaven

-We Will Find a Way

-Remember

-A Life For All

-Songs Evermore

-Derwish Lament

-This Half-Light

-Love is the Last Light

2021:

“The Three Miracles of the Moon”: Large scale work for violin and orchestra - duration 40min. [unpublished - ETA 2023]

-Origin [approx 13 min.]

-Proximity [approx 12 min.]

-Rotation [approx 14 min.]

2017:

“Simple Gifts”: solo Christmas e.p. with guest Gwen Hill

-Simple Gifts (1848 Joseph Bracket, arr. Happel)

-Carol of the Bells (Ukraine, arr. Happel)

-O Come, O come Emmanuel. (arr.Happel)

-Jesus Refulsit (arr.Happel)

-Christmas Canon - string quintet, Happel

2016:

“Bending Light”: original works for solo violin

-The Blue Lion: for unaccompanied violin

-White’s Landing (string trio)

-The Fiddle Spider (Brown Recluse): for unaccompanied violin

-No.365 (The Calendar Violin): for violin and piano

-Hot Tamale: for unaccompanied violin

-Aria No.2: for violin and guitar

2015:

“Aeterna Trio”: original, improvised works for cello, violin and piano with Ben Birkbeck and Devon Colella

-Overture

-Improv No.1

-Spring

-The Phoenix

-Hot Tamale: for unaccompanied violin

-Eating the Moon

-One Minute Call

-Finale

2012:

Thanks o Gravity Live performance at The Music Hall, Portsmouth NH

-Scorpio Come

-Bobsled

-Eating The Moon

-Sonata Brutalle

-Birthday Suit

-Pachelbels’s Canon

2008:

“On Metal Strings”: solo fiddle/violin album with guests

-The Lark in the Morning: trad arr.Happel

-Back Up and Push: trad arr.Happel

-Pneumonia: Happel

-Blossom Medley: trad arr.Happel

-Orange Blossom Special

-Orange Blossom Spectacular: Happel

-Maggies Medley: trad arr.Happel

-Maggie’s Lullabye: Happel

-On Metal Strings: Happel

-Cotton Medley: trad arr. Happel

-Farewell Suite: trad arr. Happel

-Wandering: Kirkmount arr.Happel

-Dig My Grave: Happel

-Jack Aubrey’s Waltz: Genova arr.Happel

2006:

“Dreaming By the Sea”: “solo” album with Sean Daniels and guests

-I Rise With You

-Dreaming by the Sea

-Down to This

-Until the Light of Day

-By My Love

-Shapeless

-Who Was That Soul

-Trust

-In Times of Need

-Aria

2001:

“Ode to Joy”: “solo” album with Sean Daniels and guests

-Prelude in Dm (J.S.Bach, arr. Happel)

-Thanks to Gravity

-Doyouknowmeyesiloveyou

-Sweet Love Glows

-Hand Grenade

-It All Goes By So Fast

-Bury the Sun

-Lunar Landing

-And I Feel

-Dont Ask Me Who I Am

-Waterproof

-Spiritual

-Excerpts from Symphony No.9

-Ode to Joy

1998:

“START”: Thanks to Gravity album, lyricist/composer

-Phenomenon of Flight

-One Day I Looked

-Start

-Something Deeper

-Birthday Suit

-Perfection Will

-I Never Thought

-Someone Said Your Name

-Get Used To

-Pulsar

1996:

“Slingshot”: Thanks to Gravity album, lyricist/composer

-Isometric Plaything

-Scorpio Come

-Bobsled

-Last Time

-Catching Stars on Paper Plates

-Crowded World

-Top Sheet

-Justify My Love: Kravitz arr.TTG

-Pachelbel’s Canon

-Spoddies and Birits

“Musea”: Large scale work for orchestra - duration 24min. Performed with New Hampshore Philharmonic

-Le Lumière du Matin Triste

-Waltz

-The Cathedral of St. John the Divine

1994:

“Sonata Brutalle”: Thanks to Gravity album, lyricist/composer

-Scorpio Come

-Squatt

-Infinity Christmas

-Fourth Place

-Non-Aspirin Pain Relief

-Truest Song

-Pleas

-Sonata Brutalle

-Leverage

-Top Sheete

-Plato’s 3rd Hell

-Eating the Moon

-Blind

-A Real Eyesoar

1992:

“Avogadro’s Number”: Thanks to Gravity album, lyricist/composer

-The Last Time

-Shade

-American Standard

-Tea Time at the Gorilla Club

-Begin the Turn

-Seven Fingered Woman

-Crowded World

-The Roman’s Are Dancing

-Spiceman

-Crayons

-Already Heard It

-Spoddies and Birits

-Evening Question

1991:

“Thanks to Gravity”: Thanks to Gravity debut e.p., lyricist/composer

-Rebecceth and Angstrom

-Floating Orange Honeymoon

-Bobsled

-Inferno

-Rain on the Hill

-Catching Stars on Paper Plates

Other works include hundreds of incidental pieces, commercial string arrangements, guest artist arrangements and unpublished songs, instrumental, chamber and orchestral music.