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    • murphybridget
      Pearl's Casting - "Should I teach in a public school?"

      By murphybridget · Posted

      Using cards and dice to guide instrumentation is really creative. Choosing the violin as the main solo instrument and the vibraphone for accompaniment based on the suits drawn adds an interesting dimension to the piece.
    • Jackie
      Etude Appassionata

      By Jackie · Posted

      Thank you so much, Peter. Yes, I wrote it as a preparatory Etude for the Revolutiinary.
    • PeterthePapercomPoser
      Etude Appassionata

      By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted

      Hello @Jackie and welcome to the forum! The accompaniment figurations in this sometimes remind me of Chopin's Revolutionary Etude (the retransitition at 1:58 especially).  I personally enjoyed the waltz like middle section the most - your harmony is very romantic and builds tension and emotion beautifully.  The long leading melodic line is also very passionate.  It only lets up into a little sweetness in the middle section which I really love.  Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece!  Great performance as well!
    • PeterthePapercomPoser
      Pearl's Casting - "Should I teach in a public school?"

      By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted

      I have another Muzoracle casting for y'all.  (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.)  This time, Pearl asked the Muzoracle if she should teach in a public school: My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below.  The instrumentation of the piece was guided by the suits of the cards drawn.  Since the card on the left is a Minor 6th of Strings, I chose Violin as the main solo instrument.  Both the card on the middle left and far right are in the suit of Percussion so I chose the Vibraphone to accompany.  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.com/ This short representation of Pearl's Casting is about a minute long.  The piece is in A, since the black 12-sided Musician's Die landed on that tonal center.  I then made harmonic/melodic underdrawings that I used in the composition of the music.  Since the solfege dice landed on Me, Le, Re and Se this corresponded to the tones C, F, B, and Eb.  I then used the interval cards to elaborate on the harmony in the ascending or descending direction according to the casting: In order to give the piece some harmonic and melodic contrast, half way through I transposed these figurations by a Minor 6th down since the casting is descending overall and the first card drawn was a Minor 6th: If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent Pearl's casting.  Comments, suggestions, or critiques are of course, always welcome.
    • mazeth
      Tableau No. 5

      By mazeth · Posted

      Hi @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, Many thanks for having taken the time to give me your feedback, that's very much appreciated, and it will definitely help to improve! Does it give a feeling of "too many things packed in one"? Or on the contrary, is it too repetitive? Yes, I wanted to create an effect of voices answering one-another Maybe you're right, I will give it a think! I played a bit around, and went for A natural, followed by A#. Thanks for the tip Absolutely, I'm not super good at spotting those mistakes -> all corrected 😉 ! Take care, Julien tableau 5.mid
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