cygnusdei

As I feared, apparently moderator(s) on this site are simply incapable of fairness. I love YC, but I have no business hanging around a place where legitimate discourse is thwarted. Goodbye all.

I second this wholeheartedly.

How did I miss all this?

With more stringent policing of the forum (post deletion, thread locking), is it reasonable to expect moderators to be impartial? If a moderator participates in a discussion, is the moderator status relevant?

I enjoyed this piece very much - it shows that you have put much thought into it. Keep up the good work! If I were to evaluate this piece objectively, the one thing that it lacks is economy. What I mean is that you have many thematic materials, which is good, but with each one appearing only once throughout the entire piece, it highlights the absence of structure. I like your treatment of harmony, and the writing is quite idiomatic. I'm not a fan of the ending though. And bars 27, 28, 31, and 53 could benefit from two-voice notation (up and down stems).

Wow instant feedback ... thank you jawood :) This is using the East West Symphonic Choir, loaded directly from Sibelius 5.

Hi guys - here is a little fugue for 4 voices SATB. Using voice samples the rendering is pretty decent I think. I don't have any specific text in mind, although it's probably not hard to retrofit later. Let me know what you think - any feedback is most welcome! :toothygrin: http://www.cygnusdei.com/fuga.mp3 http://www.cygnusdei.com/fuga.pdf

I just went over and read this thread in its entirety and I have to say it made me sad. Condescension, hypocrisy, and utter lack of respect for other people's opinion. In the face of this ugliness the thread subject is irrelevant. If any good came out of this thread, it is to show that some people really don't deserve any respect. Good, because I have gladly lost all respect for certain person(s) on this forum.

Never is a long time.

I seriously hope you didn't mean that Qc. Incidentally the majority here in California voted for Proposition 8.

Like you said, evidence #3 is unambiguous. For evidence #1, imagine you were in the audience. For evidence #2, notice that the word 'premiere' is absent from Gardiner's quote.

Rather than fueling the argument, allow me to offer three pieces of evidence on the nature of music: 1. PYONGYANG, North Korea

- Which piece or pieces of yours would you consider the most important? Well, the most important piece is my silent piece. Conversing with Cage - Google Book Search

"Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived." -Beethoven http://books.google.com/books?id=u5596V_Q9wQC&pg=PA376

Hi Jason - this is a pretty cool piece and it works very well for the piano, despite what you said about never having written for the instrument. I like the percussive character invoked by the repeated, dampened notes. Incidentally though, the performer in the video did not observe the number of notes exactly - I guess taking them ad libitum is acceptable? I think a program suite on Hindu deities is a super excellent idea! Why do you call the piece 'study' though? Also, one would note that this piece does not evoke the war-like character of the deity (god of war). Would you characterize this piece as utilizing functional harmonies? Seventh relationships, even their transpositions seem to be pervasive in this piece.