Yummy No. 1 in C

Hello. Enjoy some yummy in between the sonatas and intermezzi and caprices and whatnot. It's yummy. A change of mood, no doubt. This yummy is called Pizzicato Scene, and can be found here: YUMMY!. No direct linking is possible at this time. Apologies.

Leave a few words if you want to. No obligation.

Extra points if you can identify the time signature.

sounds like it could be 8/9 count, (I doubt it though)

Nope. It's definitely triple meter, but I wrote it to decieve the listener that way. In that groovy way. Anyone else want to hazard a guess before I tell you? It's rather easy if you beat your leg on what you think of as downbeats. You'll be able to tell whether you're right fairly easily.

My mother just told me that my aunt called (she's a music teacher, middle school, I think) and that she's going to use this piece as a part of her composition unit next scholastic year. She asked me to play it, then tell her class some things. I have no idea what I'm going to say. But they'll be impressed, I'm sure. Because I'm awesome. Yep. Pretty awesome. Awesome enough to awesome out some middle schoolers anyway. Yeah.

Well, I d/lded the file thinking "Yummy? Awesome?" Gawd, I disdain self-praise on this scale. So I went in jaundiced. But I admit I liked it - airy, flighty, swift...I loved the quiet pulse of the background. All in all very nice - nice length, everything. A bit short of awsome though. There was a loss of continuity somewhere around 18 secs. Did the pizz track drop out?
And a tiny bit of reverb would add space to the pizz. Just a personal view.

I will not name the time signature as I have some musical experience so let others have a go. The skewed triplets never deceived me. However, it could be in anything, depends how you tie over and group the notes.

Title - it's warm enough to be called Night-Flight or something to do with summer.

M

Is it 6/8?

(that's just a wild guess)

Yep I think it is 6/8 too.

Well about the song, ehm Try to add more instr. and improve the dynamics!

But i like the staccato that comes in

Hahahah! The only way to describe that song would be "funny". Technically chaos, but omg it's great haha I loved it.

Well, I d/lded the file thinking "Yummy? Awesome?" Gawd, I disdain self-praise on this scale. So I went in jaundiced. But I admit I liked it - airy, flighty, swift...I loved the quiet pulse of the background. All in all very nice - nice length, everything. A bit short of awsome though. There was a loss of continuity somewhere around 18 secs. Did the pizz track drop out?
And a tiny bit of reverb would add space to the pizz. Just a personal view.

I will not name the time signature as I have some musical experience so let others have a go. The skewed triplets never deceived me. However, it could be in anything, depends how you tie over and group the notes.

Title - it's warm enough to be called Night-Flight or something to do with summer.

M

Yep I think it is 6/8 too.

Well about the song, ehm Try to add more instr. and improve the dynamics!

But i like the staccato that comes in

Hahahah! The only way to describe that song would be "funny". Technically chaos, but omg it's great haha I loved it.

I'm glad you liked it. I wouldn't call it funny really. Good-humored, maybe. 'Technically chaos'? Nah.

To saiming: You're right, and so is paganini lover. Yay. This piece was conceived with woodwinds and brass, but it did not work, at all. The intimacy of strings is tasty all by itself. Dynamics, yes. Would be good. But volume envelopes and all that crap is not possible with the software I am using. Or maybe it is, but I just don't know how to do it. I will get it going, eventually.

To montpellier: Yeah, my self-image is not seriously so inflated. I was making a caricature of the pompous musicians I have known, in my own way. It's frustrating sometimes to endure them, but maybe their attitude has rubbed off on me too much. I do think the piece is yummy, though. Like a roasted garlic cream sauce, with a bit of leek and fennel. Not quite that yummy, actually. That's pretty high up there.

The track did not drop out. That was a place where I thought the accompaniment could carry the music by itself. It worked a lot better when it was being played on the computer than it does as an mp3. The space, the fullness, and the bass are diminished noticeably. I would try fiddling with the pan and all that, and I will when I inevitably extend or include this in something.

I'm glad you liked the piece, even being momentarily jaundiced.

It's true that this could be in any time signature, using ties. But that would reduce it to gibberish, on the page. One could say the same thing of any piece.


Night Flight could work, though the piece would benefit by some arpeggio-derived passages to bring out that idea, if I were to name it that.

Thanks, you guys, for your ideas.

It's true that this could be in any time signature, using ties. But that would reduce it to gibberish, on the page. One could say the same thing of any piece. [/b]

Okay! It seemed too obvious though the harmonic rhythm suggested a 12/8. Composers do just that though to make the page look complicated and clever! I've met a few of em.

Night Flight could work, though the piece would benefit by some arpeggio-derived passages to bring out that idea, if I were to name it that.[/b]

Nn-nn, don't do anything more - it might lose its translucency. It has a tingling breeziness - don't hurt that.
Just needs that tiny tidy up of that phrase at 18 seconds. If I might be so bold, I reckon you only need remove the very last pizz from the phrase - I think it's a G, the one the treb clef curls round, a beat after the violins cadence with (high) G...C.C.

Then write another one!

cheers,

Composers who try to make their music look good? That's crazy. I think they call that Augenmusik.

I did fiddle about with the last pizzicato in that measure, and it did work. I deleted the second violin note at first, then I just doubled it with the viola, on C. It does make a bit more sense, but with the G there, you get the sense the piece has some more to say. I may end up changing it back or changing the chord there altogether. But I will not mess with the rythmn or anything. It's too cool.

Writing another one like this? I could write another one from the same source, but it would be entirely different, I'm sure. I woke up sort of scat-singing that rythmn a few days ago, and went to the computer to do something with it. Next time that happens, I'll have something.

I was kind of thinking of doing a string quartet. It's probably not a form I could handle, but forms aren't my bag, anyway. I've got tons of little sketches in four parts from way back in the day (two years ago), that could possibly make some kind of ragged little quilt of a quartet. We'll see.

Mmmm....tingling breeziness.

A piece for plucked strings
effervescent and yummy
tingling breeziness.

::bongo riff::