MonteCristo

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Wow, how would you conduct multiple meters at once anyways? Or proper multi-measure rests? Or.... -_-

It doesn't sound like it's finished lol.

I'm sorry, I opened the midi file up with finale, and it showed me Bb Minor (5 flats). I have an older version of finale so I can't open the .mus... so I'm just going to assume it's in a more sax friendly key. By the way, your lowest note may be too low? My finale may have messed it up, but what is it by any chance?

I'd still like to here what anything you've got done so far lol :).

Wow, that really helped me. Thanks a lot guys!

I'm an amateur composer, and recently I've set my sights to try to do something beyond mere fugues, sonatas etc. I want to write something for the stage. Sadly... I just don't really know how you combine the two, music and what goes on above the pit... If you were going to write an opera or a musical, how would you combine all of the elements on paper in a way that the singers would sing the right notes at the right time, the actors do the right thing in the right spot in the music, how to tell what props went where, basically... everything?! How do you arrange for the stage? I'm not asking how to write the music, or write the script, but um... how to combine the two, if that makes it any easier to help me. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I want to hear his overture, maybe then we can make a good assessment?

The more people say you can't or you won't, the more you should want to write your music. So what if it may never reach the stage, at least it will have reached your heart... and isn't that the reason for music anyways?

It's nice... but I play the sax and if you showed me the music with that key signature and expected me to play it I'd want to slap you. :)

Oh no you weren't too critical at all icecream, I know I didn't add any slurs or accentuation, thank you for pointing that out. Also I play the sax, so I really didn't know about the comfortable range on the clarinet, you gave me some really helpful pointers there. I see where you both are coming from on needing some contrast. Thanks for the comments guys, 'made my day.

This is the first decent piece that I actually completed. Written for two clarinets and a bass clarinet, I think it's interesting. My only real grip is that it sounds a bit incidental. Thanks for any comments! Clarinet Trio by CDales.pdf Clarinets.MID

It doesn't sound finished?

Haddaway's "What is Love?", from the Night at the Roxbury for Alto Sax.

Well actually all of your staffs constitute into making chords there, and anywhere else too where you've got different notes playing at the same time. For instance, what I meant was that you've got like a dotted quarter note at 21, which (going by memory now) is an A. Likewise in the bass part at the same you've got a G note going on for a while. G and A are essentially constituting a diad in which the interval is a major second (I'm pretty sure it is, or a ninth because of the octave.... I'm just a sophomore in high school though so you will really want to ask one of the more experienced members of the forum because I'm going to probably be corrected on this post lol :D )And to me that just sounds... wrong sort of, like when you push two adjacent keys on a piano and it makes that "erky twang". It's really not that noticeable though, and you've got a great piece on your hands. Oh, and the higher pitched part of the melody sounds... choppy sometimes ;P