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Schumann orchestration (Child Falling Asleep)
Alex Weidmann replied to Alex Weidmann's topic in Orchestral and Large Ensemble
Thanks, I might give that a go! I'm actually doing Ravel's "Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn" next. (In fact it's almost finished.) -
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My First Ensemble Piece Ever Recorded - Any Thoughts?
Mooravioli replied to Mooravioli's topic in Chamber Music
ah, I see your point now, brotha. Since I've tried to emulate a more "jazzy" style, there is probably a lot of improvised-sounding sections. At that time, I wasn't sure how to develop the theme since it doesn't really lend itself to motivic transformation, at least in the classical sense. I just had to, most of the time, repeat it with slight variations and different key schemes throughout the piece. You're actually right about the ostinato being the center of attention from bars 1 - 20; it makes its full appearance at b.21. Now that you've mentioned it, I can't stop unhearing the piano ostinato in the B section, perhaps there are balance issues there too. Thanks for clarifying your thoughts, peter. I am glad you found good things about my piece. -
12 Variationen Über Das Lied "Heidenröslein"
Churchcantor replied to Churchcantor's topic in Piano Music, Solo Keyboard
Danke, Henry! -
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12 Variationen Über Das Lied "Heidenröslein"
Churchcantor replied to Churchcantor's topic in Piano Music, Solo Keyboard
I still think it's the best piano piece I ever wrote, in 38 years. I am 56. When are they going to kick me off this site for not being a "Young Composer?" Young at heart, I guess. -
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Hi all! As the Halloween season creeps closer, I decided to produce a small, ultra-short film rooted in my love of the holiday. A couple years ago I produced a similar short featuring some of these same characters, which I did also share on here. This is a pseudo-sequel to that video as well. I would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and such! I did submit this to a local film festival and will hear back soon on if my submission was accepted. It was fun trying to play with some different things sonically, especially with the introduction of the theremin into the mix. While trying to go from an almost cartoony sound and look at the beginning, to a more sinister one at the end. Hope you enjoy the watch/listen!
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Henry, you may play this piece with the repeats or not, but I do think it is more temporarily balanced WITH the repeats.
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Churchcantor started following Schumann orchestration (Child Falling Asleep) and Exercise in Heavily Modulatory Music
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Schumann orchestration (Child Falling Asleep)
Churchcantor replied to Alex Weidmann's topic in Orchestral and Large Ensemble
...or a better singer! -
Schumann orchestration (Child Falling Asleep)
Churchcantor replied to Alex Weidmann's topic in Orchestral and Large Ensemble
Orchestrate this: -
Schumann orchestration (Child Falling Asleep)
Churchcantor replied to Alex Weidmann's topic in Orchestral and Large Ensemble
Schumann orchestration? Contrary to legend, Schumann was not a bad orchestrator. Workaday, like Brahms. Not a colorist like Mahler, Ravel, let's see...Rimsky -Korsakov? Just keep working, but only when you feel like it. That would be my advice, and it is what I do. Great exercise to orchestrate a Schumann piano piece, and piano music in general is hard to orchestrate. -
Thanks! there are like two mistakes before the bass comes in but it's kinda lowkey.. Yeah maybe it could benefit from a change of rhythm in the bass. I kinda like that it sounds simple in the piano version but surely as an orchestral piece it would be more serious and complex.
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chopin started following Gothic Tarantella for Violin and Clavichord
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Gothic Tarantella for Violin and Clavichord
chopin replied to PeterthePapercomPoser's topic in Chamber Music
This is so unique in such a familiar format. I see see this representing a chaotic character for sure! And I don't think you're using microtones here but for some reason it sounds like you are lol. Very fun to listen to, and great job at keeping it interesting throughout.- 1 reply
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Hi, I don't know about Jewish influences, maybe the phrasing suggests that. This could be related to Finnish 20th century romanticism (such as Oskar Merikanto) or finnish folk songs (unless I'm mistaken).
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@therealAJGS so far i've finished 9 variations, theme, 1 - 5 is the first section, 6 - 9 is the 2nd section (9 is just an orcrhestration of "The Legend"), and after is the finale, which i haven't started anything yet. the whole piece currently sits at 17 minutes. i plan to do 3 - 5 rapid ones after the 2nd section.
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Lovely and simple
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Sounds great at least for as much as what the title suggests. Jewish influence?
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Above The Clouds (inspired by Final Fantasy X)
Alex Weidmann replied to Alex Weidmann's topic in Piano Music, Solo Keyboard
Thanks Peter, I'll give that a try. In the meantime, I've made a few tweaks to the piece, and added some extra material. Hopefully this makes the transitions sound a bit smoother. -
Yeah I really want to emphasize the note repetitions and use the toms again, also the motif at the end with the xylophone is the transition towards the next variation. I'll be using that motif a lot (comes from the first 5 notes of the theme, and is the first 5 notes of "The Legend," whose materials appear a lot in "Dark Sanctuary," makes sense in the context of chapter 4). Dude you've been consistently commenting on my progress and I appreciate every single one of 'em!!!!
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Bagatelle in B major
Vasilis Michael replied to Vasilis Michael's topic in Piano Music, Solo Keyboard
Hello my friend @PeterthePapercomPoser Thank you so much for your attention. You are totally right. Schubert and Schumann are the composers who influences me most. But in general all my compositions my goal is to create my own voice through my influences. Also my sonatas in Binary form is where I think my own voice shine. Inspired from scarlatti sonatas I put also and my other influences. Mozart , schubert etc . So my goal is to write as many I can . Ill try to post some of them today and Ill be glad for you to check it. Yes I play all my compositions . I have pianoteq8 plugin so I record myself through garageband 🙂 Thank you so much again and I'm glad that you like my little bagatelle 🙂 -
PeterthePapercomPoser started following Gothic Tarantella for Violin and Clavichord
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This one was intended as a kind of character piece. Honestly, I was watching the new season of Wednesday Addams and the music from the show inspired this. LoL There's dynamics in this that hopefully a Clavichord would be better able to perform. Thanks to @Alex Weidmann for his input about how to get the Violin to play classic phrasing rather than portamento! I would appreciate any kind of feedback, comment, critique, suggestion or observation that you may have. Thanks for listening and I hope that you enjoy!
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Remainders of the fun we had
therealAJGS replied to shirz's topic in Incidental Music and Soundtracks
wait how is this possible.. I had the same idea but instead of ghosts experimented animals. I'm going to make a horror game out of it. (the same one "this song took me 2 months, here's what happened" and "horror" was from) -
Fantasia in A minor
Churchcantor replied to InterstellerApex's topic in Orchestral and Large Ensemble
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Hi! thanks for the reply. I kind of am but with the two instruments at the start i tried to give the illusion one of the instrument's melody's was different than it actually was.