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Originally Posted by Zetetic
I wonder what sort of responses this music would return if posted as a video on an adult website. . . . . I'm sure there are countless innuendi relating to harpsichords!
Maybe not.
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No, I don't think so....
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Originally Posted by PraeludiumUndFuge
This is as of yet unfinished, but here it is, my first foray into a conventional chamber work; already approved by a member of Vox Saeculorum (so spare the plebian remarks). As the title describes it is an allegro movement in the Italian style, arranged for keyboard (alternating solo and tutti accordingly). Needs some corrections in areas, but here it is. It is presented as a video rendition of the keyboard emulator used to play it. Enjoy.
YouTube - Allegro nach Italianisches Art |
Hello PraeludiumUndFuge, I had thought you had left the forum forever; it's good to see you're still making Baroque music. As you know (and I repeat this to everyone far too much), the early Baroque is more of my thing than the late, but nevertheless I liked the overall sound, the theme and the sequences. I can't really criticize; clearly you have grown much as a composer.
I see you've discovered that Czech harpsichord... unlike you I've been unwilling to endure Hauptwerk's chime thing on the unregistered version....
I am using the Blanchet harpsichord which works fine with MyOrgan, but it lacks the 4' stop. My own harpsichord is a 2x8' + 4', so I appreciate how much having three stops increases the possibilities.
Any chance you will be posting a score? I would love to play this myself. And by the way, J. Lee Graham on this forum is also a member of Vox Saeculorum. Are you planning on joining them? It's good to see more people on this forum interested in historical styles.
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Originally Posted by Zetetic
On the downside, I really didn't like the chords being thumped every other bar, particularly when in the lower register. This was just taste - there's nothing stylistically inappropriate, other than in the idiom such crashes would usually be introduced, then hidden until the climax of a very obvious return to the tonic (or perhaps related minor). Use the crashes sparingly is my advice.
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From what I understand this rendition is probably made from a MIDI file or notation program linked to the sampler. I think that of all instruments, the harpsichord suffers the most from the MIDI treatment. Harpsichordists are constantly working with subtle articulations and arpeggiations; these large block chords sound very percussive in MIDI but they become varied and exciting when a real harpsichordist tackles them. And we can't let MIDI or Finale's failings affect our compositions!
But of course you might just not like the block chord approach. It was fairly common in that fringe of very late harpsichord music meant to emulate the sounds of the concerto. It isn't particularly idiomatic to the harpsichord, but like I said, perhaps it's just the MIDI performance that bothers you. You might want to try hearing a very good harpsichordist's interpretations of Scarlatti or Rameau, both very late Baroque composers who wrote the thumping chords.