Crusader of Wrong Note Consonance

Vince

I have been waiting to respond to you until I was ready to let you know when I think Two Ups and a Down was ready for you. Then today I read (finally) how you signed this last post and broke out laughing. I hadn't noticed that before. That made my ego soar.

Thanks man. Just keep in mind that I am your number one fan as well!!!

Matthew

Just ask anyone here and they will tell you my scores are always a mess. Everytime I post a score, my music gets ignored and I get pages of "What a horrible score".

I will look at it now and see if it is at least readable, and if so will post a link to a PDF.

Thanks for the listen and most importantly the comment.

Thanks again guys

Ron

This piece reminds a little of Charles Ives' mix of the familiar and the esoteric. The tubular bells at the start in particular remind me of his New England set. There seems to be a reasonable amount of tertian harmonies and diatonic melodies in your piece to create a general sense of harmonic motion. I dont just mean in the last third where it is most evident but throughout the piece. A lot of the dissonance appears to be generated by polytonality rather than atonality. I don't get a strong sense of melodic or harmonic chromaticism that would destroy the sense of diatonic harmony.

ablyth

I just saw your name in another forum that I just joined today. Since it had the same piece of music that I have already commented on here, I assume it was you. Otherwise there is someone going around with your name and music. Yeah Right.

I agree with you that this is more polytonal than atonal.

Often times, all I do is have an instrument start a note before everyone else is in the same chord and then hold that note until they catch up. You could call it Stacking chords, polytonality or any of a number of things. I just like the effect.

It's funny you would mention Ives. I have had his name come up before with either this piece or another one elsewhere.

Thanks for the comments

Ron