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    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Joke in A-flat major

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu · Posted

      Well I’m very used to a Beethovanian Scherzo marked in three in a bar so I just retain that! Henry
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Joke in A-flat major

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu · Posted

      Haha yeah, given how lame the Ab major sections surrounding it! I definitely need more HUMOR in my life, whether it’s the joyous mood or the body fluids lol! Henry
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      PIANO QUARTET IN C MINOR STUDIO RECORDING!

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu · Posted

      Thx for your information! It’s really useful! I guess I won’t have my Sextet performed by them given the cost lol haha. Oh I also just finished a Violin Sonata commissioned by @expert21 and also feature dance rhythm…… 😛 Henry
    • Rich
      PIANO QUARTET IN C MINOR STUDIO RECORDING!

      By Rich · Posted

      Thanks for your comments, Henry--and yes, if you're writing chamber music, nothing compares to a live performance--the strings were so much more detailed and nuanced, emotive.     This is very helpful for me to remember and to write with this in mind.  I was shocked at how much Derek brought out of the piano part!   The Cost?!    A lot!  The musicans were $100/hr.    x4 hours for the recording session.  The studio was $75/hr.    This included the enigneer and access to the glorious Yamaha C-7 (7.5 ft conservatory grand) freshly tuned.    I spent 3 hours in post-production for splicing and mixing.  It was a $2k day.     This is summer vacation money for a family for 5 or 7 days.  This is how I choose to spend my treasure--  I rationalize it by calculating that a composition degree and access to musicans would cost $60k-80k (easily) at university.  I hope to write something substantial each year and go to studio in the late spring /summer--at least untill I have internalized the lessons to be had from working with real musicans and recording.    Next: A violin sonata (violin+ piano) which will be cheaper by almost half!   I want to do a full-on string quartet after that....     The musicans:  They were great! NO  auto-tune here.  A few pitch issues but really very, very good.   All University of MIchigan trained string players.  Master's degreed.  Derek is a fresh graduate of Wayne State University, and has a great career ahead of him.  He prepped this in 7 weeks, where 3 months would be the norm... I just googled for string players.  They gave me the lead on the pianist...  I think I got lucky...     I think I'm going to start the violin sonata and back track and do the last movement of the PQ--  a tarantella tempo piece with a Siciliano B section (my mom was Sicilian).  Up-tempo and a bit more adventerous...     
    • Aw Ke Shen
      Joke in A-flat major

      By Aw Ke Shen · Posted

      Re-hearing the piece I was thinking if you could also use 3/8 at a slower tempo or 4/4 but all the crotchets here are then in triplets - since counting this fast may be challenging and unnatural, then I suddenly realize why you chose 108 per dotted minum, which makes complete sense - but again, just personal notational preferences at the end of the day I guess.
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