Churchcantor

Au revoir.

Ich kann nicht verstehen! Whatever. For me, more about music than discussion!

I will be lazy on this forum, because I think the mods want it to be some kind of academic thesis! Archived! I am 56, with two theory and composition degrees! Too academic and pedantic for me to comment too much! Try this... Three Roads Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight

Interesting; I'll read it later.

IT IS NOT UNRELATED: earlier in the post when I said I would listen to it yesterday and then did not?

By the way, I really DO want to hear this whole piece with the score; who knows, might be today!

He is not a musician, just fascinated by theory/composition, Henry! I don't mean "really" worn out, it's fun! I just mean I will be relaxing more, watching movies, etc.

This is really weird, but a 24-year-old Ukrainian kid stumbled onto one of my old, old YouTube posts, and he has become a sort of pen pal, and it is taking a lot of my time right now, so I'm often too worn out to keep my promises about listening to things, editing things right away. No biggie, but I'm pretty sure I won't write a piece for at least a couple months as well! No offence meant, of course!

This has nothing to do with anything, but the music in this Russian cartoon: МЫШКИ - МАЛЫШКИ. Сказка. СССР.«Киевнаучфильм». Реставрация. is awesome; not the cartoon, it is mediocre. I mean the music! That scraggy be awesome, if I may be permitted to use the colloquial. I can't write that good! Kind of a bit of jazzy Shostakovich in there, but he didn't write it. Might have to "steal" that one!

FWIW, here is one of my own comments I just found and remembered from another piece of mine: Sin boldly is the ancient maxim. If you are going to break that "classical" rule of no parallel fifths, do it deliberately, and do not write them in pure counterpoint! I don't mind first position Rock or Folk chords in the guitar when it is merely accompanying, replete with parallel fifths on the bottom; people are used to that sonority, but when I write a fugue or real counterpoint, of course I avoid them. HOW does your music SOUND?

Didn't listen to it, just glanced over the score! It's really good, just not in a music mood right now. If I listen to anything today, probably something like the Grateful Dead or the Doobie Brothers! I'll get to it eventually; I LOVE clarinet, like C.M.V. Weber! Well, not totally true; I might listen to some of my own stuff yet again. Not "musical masturbation;" I just do it to see if there is anything I might need to change, minor edits.

By the way, here is an example of what classical guitar can be, if one wishes to be so complicated! Villa-lobos was quite the virtuoso on the thing...I have no desire to be so complicated!

Thatguy, some things I won't take your advice on: of course I will correct impossible chords, but fingerings and hand positions essential? Not standard in historical classical guitar music. The dropping of the pedal A because I wanted to; just contrapuntal reasons. I'll see when I feel like editing, which is not now! 😆

Cool! I'll make the corrections eventually. This thing was written pretty fast, and I actually like the folk-like first position chords! I do less of that in the Symphony-Concerto because I really took my time writing that back in 1997-1998, four months or so. Had a manual of all possible chord inversions until my sister's crazy boyfriend borrowed it and didn't give it back! When I write lighter guitar music, I do those first position chords when the guitar is in a merely accompanying role.

Not me; Freddie Mercury quote!