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What the heck? The duet itself only has like 30 measures, I honestly don't know what went wrong. As for the Tempo, I set it at 90. Moderato[/b]
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Dunno - could be a problem on my end - in any case, I was unable to read your score.
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So is it a BAD thing that I go from Parallel Harmonies to Parallel Unisons? and what the heck does IMO mean? Well I'm glad at least 1 person listened to it. As for what you meant about rules, What rules?
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No, It isn't neccesarily BAD to do anything in music. But everything should have a reason.
IMO = In my opinion
As for RULES - They serve as valuable GUIDELINES for composers. Basically, we are talking about time honored rules of voiceleading that have been identified by studying the works of the masters.
I'll explain it very breifly: Early musicians started by writing unison lines - everybody singing or playing the same thing. Well, it didn't take too long to figure out that if two musicians played TWO different lines things would get interesting. It was soon discovered that if these two musicians played the same notes in succession at the octaves (parrallel octaves), it was pretty boring. As it turns out, parrallel fifths are also rather staid sounding (although any Power Chord rock musician worth his salt will argue that one).
But it's not all that bad. What DOES work is contrary motion. In other words, one voice goes up while the other goes down. Now that's interesting, even if they arrive at a unison or an octave.
Anyways, there are a number of these RULES that were codified over time and are used as a BENCHMARK by many musicians to identify good writing skills. Do composers break them? Sure. All the time BUT - They are usually broken in such a way that the effect is to provide some sort of interest. Many times, haveing established this effect, they CONSISTENTLY apply it. Good composers are very, very aware of just how and why they are breaking these rules.
Now remember how I mentioned rock musicians always playing parallel fifths? Well, guess what? Parallel fifths are the signature EFFECT of Rock and Roll. Remember how I mention that your peice had a folky quality to it? Well, I was simply relying on my understanding of the way folk musicians break these rules to create a STYLE, which by the way is perfectly ok. Do they know they are breaking the rules? Most don't - but that's ok - they're not trying to write classical or contemporary performance pieces.
Hope this helps.