That's right, I've written some music.
This is my first posting of any music in a looong time indeed. I haven't been writing much (besides exercises) and have been having a few problems with confidence, scrapping things very quickly and losing almost all faith in what little ability I may have.
This took about three weeks maybe from start to finish, and I'm actually quite proud of it. It's my longest composition to date, at 24 bars (
) and is also in my opinion my most sophisticated.
It's in Binary form, the A section being 8 bars, the B section 16. The A section is a simple 'sentence' (following the model outlined in Schoenberg's "Fundamentals of Musical Composition") and the B section develops two motifs from the A section, the rhythmic motif of the melody in the first bar and the bass rhythm during the sequence in bars 5-6.
The style and texture are definitely Baroque inspired, but I'm not trying to be entirely faithful to the idiom - hence the few unresolved 7th and 9ths, and liberal switching between parallel modes.
Your opinions/contructive criticism would be
greatly appreciated.
PDF
MP3 - I apologise for the poor quality of the recording and performance, I was using a webcam mic, and my hands were cold
(My guitar may be a little out of tune aswell I think)
Mark