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Originally Posted by goodridge_winners
scorch is annoying...but the piece is not. I personally have very little taste for march's...however, yours i like. you are a beast of a composer. Sounds like you really know what you are doing and have a fantastic ability to orchestrate.
Training? Where?
Very nice piece.
Its cute...makes me giggle.
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As my personality is woven into every piece I write, I guess it makes sense. I'm loud, bombastic, and have a great sense of humor. Humor is easy to write into music, but to do it well is very difficult because it can be interpreted many different ways by different people. This is an art that can only be learned through experience. But I digress...
Training? My own eys and ears. I haven't
really had formal training in composition at all. Studying scores is monumentally more helpful than a lame teacher telling you what to do and then not leting you try whatever you want. (Generalization there. I know not all teachers are like that.) Study some Mahler and you find out what's really going on in his head. I am going to Mannes next year for composition so I should improve in the "formal learning" department.
My orchestration chops were learned early (lucky me) due to my dad buying me Adler's book when I was 13. I have read it cover to cover and disceted much of what he says. Yes, I do have my own criticisms about what his orchestrational techniques are. I almost always compose directly to the full score because orchestration is just as important, if not
more important than counterpoint or harmonic intrest or voice leading and all that other junk that makes Music Theory complicated. Now I love all that stuff, but if you're writing for a large ensemble and you can't orchestrate, your finished!
Sorry for the puesdo-rant. It comforts me that I can share these opinions around with people who understand what I'm saying.