Crusader of Wrong Note Consonance

Just so you know, I changed where that link to Satiric Dances points to. There's a better recording of it that CB's Senior Band (my high school's band) did at the Music Fest nationals. We're not perfect, but it's better than the YouTube one .

I found this piece to be quite good. The trumpets still sound kinda lame to me, but the overall quality is certainly much better than my general MIDI could do. Certain parts reminded me of Debussy and others of Stravinsky, but if I were you, I would take that as a compliment, not some sort of accusation of regression.

relinquished

Originally Posted by relinquished

Just so you know, I changed where that link to Satiric Dances points to. There's a better recording of it that CB's Senior Band (my high school's band) did at the Music Fest nationals. We're not perfect, but it's better than the YouTube one .

I went to your site and agree with you completely. Much better.

spherenine

Originally Posted by spherenine

I found this piece to be quite good. The trumpets still sound kinda lame to me, but the overall quality is certainly much better than my general MIDI could do. Certain parts reminded me of Debussy and others of Stravinsky, but if I were you, I would take that as a compliment, not some sort of accusation of regression.

A lot of my music has been influenced by Stravinsky and some even by Debussey, so I take this as a compliment. Although my greatest influence comes from Prokofiev.

I am very happy you liked this one.

Thanks guys

Ron

Dear Prokofiev wannabe,

it seems like this thread wont die so my enthusiasm for how great this piece is must not be only within myself i gave it another listen and wow wow wow i love your music Ron

thanks again,
Ron wannabe

Rolifer, this is the first of your works that I've ever heard. I was very pleased by it. Too bad you don't have a score uploaded; I wanted to follow along with it.

Vince

I have been waiting to respond to you until I was ready to let you know when I think Two Ups and a Down was ready for you. Then today I read (finally) how you signed this last post and broke out laughing. I hadn't noticed that before. That made my ego soar.

Thanks man. Just keep in mind that I am your number one fan as well!!!

Matthew

Just ask anyone here and they will tell you my scores are always a mess. Everytime I post a score, my music gets ignored and I get pages of "What a horrible score".

I will look at it now and see if it is at least readable, and if so will post a link to a PDF.

Thanks for the listen and most importantly the comment.

Thanks again guys

Ron

This piece reminds a little of Charles Ives' mix of the familiar and the esoteric. The tubular bells at the start in particular remind me of his New England set. There seems to be a reasonable amount of tertian harmonies and diatonic melodies in your piece to create a general sense of harmonic motion. I dont just mean in the last third where it is most evident but throughout the piece. A lot of the dissonance appears to be generated by polytonality rather than atonality. I don't get a strong sense of melodic or harmonic chromaticism that would destroy the sense of diatonic harmony.

ablyth

I just saw your name in another forum that I just joined today. Since it had the same piece of music that I have already commented on here, I assume it was you. Otherwise there is someone going around with your name and music. Yeah Right.

I agree with you that this is more polytonal than atonal.

Often times, all I do is have an instrument start a note before everyone else is in the same chord and then hold that note until they catch up. You could call it Stacking chords, polytonality or any of a number of things. I just like the effect.

It's funny you would mention Ives. I have had his name come up before with either this piece or another one elsewhere.

Thanks for the comments

Ron