Chamber Symphony

Hello,

Just listened to the first and second mouvement of your symphony. First impression: I do not really know what to say.... It seems rather rapsodic. You call it a symphony, yet I was unable to find the main traditional element which make up what a symphony is all about: a sonata form mouvement as the first part. I know that things have evolved since the classical era, but still there are still conventions which are kept, even in contemporary sounding music. As for your score, I will have a look into it during the weekend and will come back to you

Kind regards

WS

12-tone is not use like that

it also the music lack of thematic system

I think you are wrong there, makwingka. 12-tone has nothing to do with the structural use of forms. 12 tone may not use key indications, nor certain notes to start and end, but I am very much afraid that even 12-tone uses a definite lay-out system, established in the past. Hence, what grounds do you have to consider your work a symphony? You could as well call it "apple with honey".
Secondly, "music lack of thematic system" ... I always wonder what people mean with that. Yet, my same remark is valid here: why call it a symphony? Why not call it a Phantasy or Odyssee.... Thematic systems and established forms can be detached from one another. But certain words stand for certain forms which stand for certain pre-defined ways of composing.

WS

This piece doesn't strike to me as an example of 12-note-technique. It's completely atonal, yet has some strong tonal suggestions that come and go. Otherwise I agree with WS in regards to a thematic unity.

Hello everyone, I appreciate any attention given to my piece. I just wanted to say some more things about it. Everyone here who says it is not a real symphony is right. It isn't. I knew that while composing it. It is really just a patchwork of material that I didn't want to go to waste. There was a large amount of reworking and definitely some more composition involved in putting these parts together into something semi-coheriant. I know that the first movement does not meet the sonata-allegro standard. Nor does the last. The last is not a rondo or a any of the traditional forms either. And the middle is just a single theme with some different harmonic backdrops.

As far as the tonality goes, it is not 12 tone. I wasn't trying to use 12 tone. I don't know any better terms for what I was trying to do besides tuneful-dissonance.

haha I was not trying to present some groundbreaking piece that redefined chamber music. I was just left with two fast movements and a slow movement after composing and thought I would call it chamber symphony. It was either that or divertimento. And I thought to myself, "oh some symphonies have three movements, some even have less, and divertimenti usually have a few more than I have here". So it wasn't much of a deep thought process

Anyway, thank you all for posting! This was honestly my first time to use these tonal conventions and was hoping to get some feedback on that.